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Krishnarajapet Wikipedia Workshop (Coverage in Prajavani)
http://editors.cis-india.org/news/prajavani-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-workshop
<b>Prajavani covered the Kannada Wikipedia workshop organised by the CIS-A2K team and the Kannada Sahitya Parishat of KR Pet., on August 12, 2013. A scanned version of the report is produced below.</b>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/news/prajavani-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-workshop'>http://editors.cis-india.org/news/prajavani-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-workshop</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-09-05T05:50:24ZNews ItemKannada Wikipedia Workshop at SDM
http://editors.cis-india.org/news/kannada-wiki-workshop-sdm
<b>The Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, SDM College, Ujire is holding a wiki workshop on September 15, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja from CIS-A2K team is participating in this workshop.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The workshop is being held to teach post-graduate students studying Journalism and Mass Communication on contributing and editing Wikipedia. The students will be particularly trained to edit Kannada Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">More about SDM College, Ujire <a class="external-link" href="http://www.sdmcujire.in/">here</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/news/kannada-wiki-workshop-sdm'>http://editors.cis-india.org/news/kannada-wiki-workshop-sdm</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-09-12T06:16:36ZNews ItemKonkani Wikipedia makes headway
http://editors.cis-india.org/news/epaperoheraldo-august-24-2013-diana-fernandes-konkani-wikipedia-makes-headway
<b>The first floor of the Krishnadas Central Library has been bustling with activity for the last four days. A closer look reveals the concentration, thought and precision that is put into each letter of the Devnagri script Konkani they type. Still further and you realise it’s a Wikipedia site that final year MA Konkani students of Goa University are busy with.</b>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">This article by Diana Fernandes was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.epaperoheraldo.in/Details.aspx?id=10641&boxid=155915750&uid=&dat=8%2f25%2f2013">published in OHeraldO</a> on August 24, 2013. Nitika Tandon is quoted.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">A follow up to the Konkani Wikipedia workshop that was held earlier last month at St. Xavier’s College, Mapusa and King’s school, Margao, the Centre for Internet and Society ( CIS) in its Access to Knowledge ( A2K) initiative were back to try and bring to life a seven year incubation Konkani Wikipedia page.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The final year MA Konkani students were busy typing away at their screen as I went to pay them a visit. Nitika Tandon, Goa in- charge from the CIS- A2K team says Goan students have shown the most interest so far. Priyadarshini Tadkodkar, Head of Department at Goa University says she’s thrilled for the project as it will not only help students update and reach out to other writers but also help in popularising Goa’s mother tongue.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“ So far there was nothing in Konkani on Wikipedia. There are so many articles about Goa in English but not in Konkani. Those who do not know only to read or develop their Konkani skills can probably use this.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Also for the students it’s an opportunity for them to discuss their thoughts with other editors,” says Tadkodkar.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The last time she was in the state, Tandon says people were more inclined to hear of the English Wikipedia rather than Konkani, but sees this workshop as a definite success story.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Students were visibly interested in not only writing about Goa but to change the way people look at Goa. “ Goa is only seen as beaches, parties and cheap liquor. There is so much more. Like Goa’s unique cuisine or its famous personalities like D D Kosambi,” says Supriya.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“ People say that Konkani will die in another 20 – 25 years. I see this as an opportunity to save it,” says another student John.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Articles written by the students will be assessed by Madhavi Sardesai, editor of Jaan, a Konkani literary journal, after which students will be asked to make the corrections online.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A total of 38 students attended over the span of two days. Each session comprised eight hours of training a day. Topics discussed during the workshop included basics of Wikipedia and the status of Konkani Wikipedia as well as typing in Devnagri script, the sort of articles that are required for the site and using references other than Facebook and how to site them in the article.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“ Forty- two pages of content were generated in two days and have already been put up on the site. The students love it. Students who came in the first batch wanted to join the second one simply because they want to write. Though they don’t get credit for this workshop as part of the syllabus students are indeed interested,” says Tandon.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Though a total of 140 articles on topics ranging from Goa’s heritage, culture, traditions and famous personalities have been uploaded, she says it requires at least five contributors to add to the existing database regularly.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/news/epaperoheraldo-august-24-2013-diana-fernandes-konkani-wikipedia-makes-headway'>http://editors.cis-india.org/news/epaperoheraldo-august-24-2013-diana-fernandes-konkani-wikipedia-makes-headway</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-09-17T06:07:54ZNews ItemWikipedia edit-a-thon in Mangalore to bring Tulu Wikipedia live
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-mangalore-to-bring-tulu-wikipedia-live
<b>A Wikipedia edit-a-thon was organised in Mangalore, Karnataka this 14th to encourage more Tulu-language speakers to contribute to Tulu Wikipedia. Tulu Wikipedia is is currently in the Incubator but the enthusiastic editor community is putting their best effort to bring it live out of Incubator. This edit-a-thon is one of the many activities the Tulu Wikimedia community has organised.</b>
<p>30 Wikipedia editors participated and created about 89 new articles. Interestingly, 12 of these 30 participants crossed more than 10 edits. Some of the new participants faced problems with using the<a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Input_methods#Kannada"> input methods</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wiki_markup">Wiki-markup</a>. It is important to note that because of the lack of addition of Tulu-alphabet code points in the Unicode chart, and the speakers being well conversant in Kannada, they are using Kannada script for Tulu Wikipedia Incubator project. There is a plan to organise a monthly meetup and/or edit-a-thon to continue the momentum these editors have brought in. <a href="http://www.tuluacademy.org/en/">Tulu Sahitya Academy</a> has kindly supported the event.</p>
More details in the <a class="external-link" href="https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/tcy/ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:ಕಜ್ಜಕೊಟ್ಯ-5">event page</a> (in Tulu).
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-mangalore-to-bring-tulu-wikipedia-live'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-mangalore-to-bring-tulu-wikipedia-live</a>
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No publisherpavanajaWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpennessTulu Wikipedia2015-09-15T09:07:24ZBlog EntryWikiWars - A report
http://editors.cis-india.org/research/conferences/conference-blogs/wwrep
<b>The Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore and the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, hosted WikiWars – an international event that brought together scholars, researchers, academics, artists and practitioners from various disciplines, to discuss the emergence and growth of Wikipedia and what it means for the information societies we inhabit. With participants from 15 countries making presentations about Wikipedia and the knowledge ecology within which it exists, the event saw a vigorous set of debates and discussions as questions about education, pedagogy, language, access, geography, resistance, art and subversion were raised by the presenters. The 2 day event marked the beginning of the process that hopes to produce the first critical reader – Critical Point of View (CPOV) - that collects key resources for research and inquiry around Wikipedia.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The
debates around Wikipedia, the de facto dynamic knowledge production system
online, are very fairly divided into two competing camps. There is a group of
people who swear by Wikipedia – celebrating its democratic processes of
knowledge production, ease of access, and the de-canonisation of knowledge to
produce the ‘WikiWay’; And then there is a group of people who swear at
Wikipedia – raising concerns over authenticity, reliability, vulgarisation of
knowledge and the de-hierarchisation of knowledge systems that Wikipedia seems
to embody. The debates between the two groups are often passionate and situated
in wildly speculative and often personal interests and investments in Wikipedia
and the Web 2.0 Information Revolution that it seems to be a symptom of. The
debates also play out in various international locations, most of them relying
on personal anecdotes, experiences and half hearted data that does not stand
the tests of rigour.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">WikiWars,
then, concentrated on things which are about Wikipedia but also not about Wikipedia.
In many ways, as Geert Lovink, the Director of INC suggested, WikiWars was a
recognition of the fact that Wikipedia has come of age and can now be
systematically and philosophically examined as a work in progress that has
long-term implications about our future. It was the ambition of the Editorial
team (consisting of Geert Lovink, Sabine Nerdeer, Nathaniel Tkacz, Johanna
Niyesito, Sunil Abraham and Nishant Shah) to veer away from the recognised
battle-lines drawn in, around and about Wikipedia, and instead examine the
fault-lines that run under many of our assumptions, prejudices and imaginations
of Wikipedia. And Wikiwars, through careful screening and invested interests,
became one of the first platforms in the world to initiate a critical discourse
on Wikipedia, seeking to engage with its histories, it contemporary
manifestations and practices, and the futures that it seeks to inhabit.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The
different presentations brought in located debates, theoretical and
philosophical concepts and personal experiences to build frameworks that
explain and contextualise Wikipedia as one of the most contested spaces online.
The eight panels across two days dealt with four major thematic areas which
need to be summarised in brief:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst">1. <strong><u>Education, Pedagogy and
Knowledge:</u></strong> At the very basis of Wikipedia (and
other structures like it) is the question of knowledge production, the
possibility of using it as an educational tool and the potentials it has for
introducing new pedagogies and learning practices in and outside of institutionalised
education. Presenters from various disciplines engaged with these questions in
interesting ways.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">Usha
Raman from Teacher Plus in Hyderabad, brought in the question of primary
education, the need for teacher training programmes and the ways by which
infrastructure development needs to be thought through when talking of
Wikipedia and education in the Indian context. The
necessity of locating Wikipedia in a much larger debates on learning were also
echoed by Noopur Rawal and Srikeit Tadepalli, students from Christ University
who brought their experience of Wikipedia and the expectations from classroom
education and learning in their presentation. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">In
the same field, but from a different approach, a panel examined Wikipedia as a site to critique
Western Knowledge production systems. Stian Haklev and Johanna Niyesito
concentrated on the questions of language and knowledge production. Haklev made
an impassioned argument deconstructing the utopian idea of Wikipedia’s
multilingual dreams and instead made a call for recognising the black-holes
when it comes to non-English production and consumption of knowledge on
Wikipedia. He further explored the implications that linguistic imbalance has
on the very governance structure of Wikipedia and its communities. Niyesito
challenged the ‘global’ and ‘cosmopolitan’ image that Wikipedia has built for
itself and posited the idea of Wikipedia as a translingual space where
different languages and cultures negotiate common understandings and processes
of producing knowledge. HanTeng
Liao explored knowledge production through the market economy of key-words to
see how the linguistic biases of search engines that harvest these keywords,
determines the access and visibility of different Wikipedia pages.</p>
<strong><u>Resistance, Diversity
and Representation:</u></strong> While these questions were present as
undercurrents to most of the presentations at WikWars, they were perhaps most
fiercely present in the debates that followed the presentations by Eric Ilya
Lee (Academia Sinica, Taiwan), YiPing Tsou (National Central University,
Taiwan), William Beutler and Eric Zimmerman (IDC, Israel).
<p> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">For
Lee and Tsou, the responses to the Chinese language Wikipedia from popular
media and personal experiences, were demonstrative of the fact that the lack of
diverse means of representation and participation lead to a strong resistance
of Wikipedia in Taiwan. Beutler
looked at the heavily contested editorial space and policies of Wikipedia to
make a point about how lack of effective governance systems based on
mutual tolerance and diversity lead to
stressful and often traumatic experiences for users who might not be
represented through the mainstream ideas and
ideologies of an English speaking populace.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">Zimmerman
took a startling position, calling for a regime of attribution and dissolving
the pseudonymous structures of knowledge production in Wikipedia in order to
build designs of trust and verification into the system, thus leading to better
and more credible research tools and representations.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">The
tone of debates was altered with presentations by Mark Graham (Oxford Research
Institute) and the team of artists Nathaniel Stern and Scott Kildal, the team
responsible for the Wikipedia Art Project. Graham
showed the complexity of visualising space and how the production of space (or
physical geography) on Wikipedia often reflects the virtual density of access
and presence online. Showing a nuanced set of images that help mapping these
new geographies for a richer diversity and representation, Graham showed how
systems like Wikipedia ‘cannot know what they cannot know’ despite the reliance
on the wisdom of crowds.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">Stern
and Kildall, in giving an account of their project which used Wikipedia’s
policies to undermine and challenge it, show how the institutionalisation of a
space and its ‘canonisation’ can quickly lead to a new set of problems where
the space becomes the very thing it had set itself against.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">3. <strong><u>Politics of Free, Open
and Exclusion:</u></strong> The rhetoric of free and open have been
built into all popular discourses around Wikipedia. However, the presentations
at WikiWars showed that these need to be taken with at least a pinch of salt
and further examined for what they signify. Alok
Nandi of Architempo made a dramatic and creative revisit of these guiding
principles of Wikipedia. He showed how an inquiry into rituals of
participation, distortion and access on Wikipedia can promote, not merely
looking at the politics of exclusion but also at the politics of inclusion and
the problems therein.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">Dror
Kamir’s evocative narrative of ‘Your side, my side and Wikipedia’ illustrated
how the question of boundaries, of knowledges, of facts and truths get
distorted as language, community, nationality, etc. come into play in recording
and documenting knowledge on Wikipedia. Concentrating on conflict zones in the
Middle East, he talked about the lack and perhaps the impossibility of
producing neutrality the way in which Wikipedia demands of its users. These
ideas resonated with the propositions that ShunLing Chen from Harvard had
floated in the opening panel to explore the ‘boundary work’ of Wikipedia and
how it defines and produces itself in relation to external forces and
controversies. These
discussions on the politics of presence, absence, inclusion and exclusion were
further layered by presentations by Linda Gross, Elad Weider, Heather Ford and
Nathaniel Tkacz who produced a critique of the Free and Open, taking a
cautionary step away from accepting these as inherently good.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">While
Gross explored the structure of egalitarianism that Wikipedia builds for
itself, Ford presented an analysis of the licensing regimes of the knowledge
produced within Wikipedia and the problems they pose to traditional knowledges
and non-mainstream information. Weider,
trained as a lawyer, critiqued the neo-liberal discourse around Wikipedia and
tried to correlate the communities with markets. Tkacz’s historical overview of
Free and Open, resulted in a compelling inquiry into the very structures that
inform the shape and functioning of objects like Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Twitter:
#WikiWars <a href="http://twitter.com/wikiwars">http://twitter.com/wikiwars</a>
and <a href="http://www.twitter.com/jackerhack/wikiwars">www.<strong>twitter</strong>.com/jackerhack/<strong>wikiwars</strong></a><cite></cite></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Flickr:
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/30479432@N03/sets/72157623193288710/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/30479432@N03/sets/72157623193288710/</a></p>
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CPOV blog : <a href="http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/">http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>The videos fom the Wikiwars event are embedded below:</p>
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No publishernishantDigital GovernanceWikipediaFeaturedCyberculturesWorkshopCPOV2010-10-06T11:21:56ZBlog EntryLocating Internets: Histories of the Internet(s) in India — Research Training and Curriculum Workshop: Call for Participation
http://editors.cis-india.org/research/conferences/conference-blogs/workshop
<b>Deadline for submission: 26th July 2011-06-08;
When: 19th - 22nd August, 2011;
Where: Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT) University, Ahmedabad;
Organised by: Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore and CEPT University, Ahmedabad.
Please Note: Travel support is only available for domestic travel within India.</b>
<p>LOCATING INTERNETS is an innovative, multi-disciplinary, workshop that engages with some of the most crucial debates around Internet and Society within academic scholarship, discourse and practice in India. It explores Where, When, How and What has changed with the emergence of Internet and Digital Technologies in the country. The Internet is not a singular monolithic entity but is articulated in various forms – sometimes materially, through accessing the web; at others, through our experiences; and yet others through imaginations of policy and law. Internets have become a part of our everyday practice, from museums and archives, to school and university programmes, living rooms and public spaces, relationships and our bodily lived realities. It becomes necessary to reconfigure our existing concepts, frameworks and ideas to make sense of the rapidly digitising world around us. The Internet is no longer contained in niche disciplines or specialised everyday practices. LOCATING INTERNETS invites scholars, teachers, researchers, advanced research students and educationalists from any discipline to learn and discuss how to ask new questions and design innovative curricula in their discipline by introducing concepts and ideas from path-breaking research in India.</p>
<p>Comprised of training, public lectures, open discussion spaces, and hands-on curriculum building exercises, this workshop will introduce the participants to contemporary debates, help them articulate concerns and problems from their own research and practice, and build knowledge clusters to develop innovative and open curricula which can be implemented in interdisciplinary undergraduate spaces in the country. It showcases the research outputs produced by the Centre for Internet and Society’s Researchers @ Work Programme, and brings together nine researchers to talk about alternative histories, processes, and bodies of the Internets, and how they can be integrated into mainstream pedagogic practices and teaching environments.</p>
<h3>Knowledge Clusters for the Workshop</h3>
<p>LOCATING INTERNETS is designed innovatively to accommodate for various intellectual and practice based needs of the participants. While the aim is to introduce the participants to a wide interdisciplinary range of scholarship, we also hope to address particular disciplinary and scholarly concerns of the participants. The workshop is further divided into three knowledge clusters which help the participants to focus their energies and ideas in the course of the four days.</p>
<ul><li><strong>Bridging the Gap</strong>: This workshop seeks to break away from the utopian public discourse of the Internets as a-historical and completely dis-attached from existing technology ecologies in the country. This knowledge cluster intends to produce frameworks that help us contextualize the contemporary internet policy, discourse and practice within larger geo-political and socio-historical flows and continuities in Modern India. The first cluster chartsdifferent pre-histories of the Internets, mapping the continuities and ruptures through philosophy of techno-science, archiving practices, and electronifcation of governments,to develop new technology-society perspectives.</li><li><strong>Paradigms of Practice</strong>:One of the biggest concerns about Internet studies in India and other similar developed contexts is the object oriented approach that looks largely at specific usages, access, infrastructure, etc. However, it is necessary to understand that the Internet is not merely a tool or a gadget. The growth of Internets produces systemic changes at the level of process and thought. The technologies often get appropriated for governance both by the state and the civil society, producing new processes and dissonances which need to be charted. The second cluster looks at certain contemporary processes that the digital and Internet technologies change drastically in order to recalibrate the relationship between the state, the market and the citizen.</li><li><strong>Feet on the Ground</strong>: The third cluster looks at contemporary practices of the Internet to understand the recent histories of movements, activism and cultural practices online. It offers an innovative way of understanding the physical objects and bodies that undergo dramatic transitions as digital technologies become pervasive, persuasive and ubiquitous. It draws upon historical discourse, everyday practices and cultural performances to form new ways of formulating and articulating the shapes and forms of social and cultural structures.</li></ul>
<h3>Workshop Outcomes</h3>
<p>The participants are expected to engage with issue of Internet and it various systemic processes through their own disciplinary interests. Apart from lectures and orientation sessions, the participants will actively work on their own project ideas during the period in groups and will be guided by experts. The final outcome of the workshops would be curriculum for undergraduate and graduate teaching space of various disciplines in the country.</p>
<h3>Participation Guidelines</h3>
<p>LOCATING INTERNETS is now accepting submissions from interested participants in the following format:</p>
<ol><li>Name:</li><li>Institutional affiliation and title:</li><li>Address:</li><li>Email address:</li><li>Phone number:</li><li>A brief resume of work experience (max. 350 words)</li><li>Statement of interest (max. 350 words)</li><li>Key concerns you want to address in the Internet and Society field (max. 350 words)</li><li>Identification with one Knowledge-cluster of the workshop and a proposal for integrating it in your research/teaching practice (max. 500 words)</li><li>Current interface with technologies in your pedagogic practices (max. 350 words)</li><li>Additional information or relevant hyperlinks you might want to add (Max. 10 lines)<br /></li></ol>
<pre>Notes:</pre>
<ul><li>Submissions will be accepted only from participants in India, as attachments in .doc, .docx or .odt formats at <a class="external-link" href="mailto:locatinginternets@cis-india.org">locatingInternets@cis-india.org</a></li><li>Submissions made beyond 26th July 2011 may not be considered for participation. <br /></li><li>Submissions will be scrutinized by the organisers and selected participants will be informed by the 30th July 2011, about their participation.</li><li>Selected participants will be required to make their own travel arrangements to the workshop. A 2nd A.C. train return fare will be reimbursed to the participants. Shared accommodation and selected meals will be provided at the workshop.</li><li>A limited number of air-fare reimbursements will be available to participants in extraordinary circumstances. All travel support is only available for domestic travel in the country.<br /></li></ul>
<p><strong>Chairs</strong>: Nishant Shah, Director-Research, Centre for Internet and Society Bangalore;</p>
<p>Pratyush Shankar, Associate Professor & Head of Undergraduate Program, Faculty of Architecture, CEPT University</p>
<p><strong>Supported by</strong>: Kusuma Foundation, Hyderabad</p>
<p><strong>Experts</strong>:Anja Kovacs, Arun Menon, Asha Achuthan, Ashish Rajadhykasha, Aparna Balachandran, Namita Malhotra, Nithin Manayath, Nithya Vasudevan, Pratyush Shankar, Rochelle Pinto and Zainab Bawa</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/research/conferences/conference-blogs/workshop'>http://editors.cis-india.org/research/conferences/conference-blogs/workshop</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaDevelopmentGamingDigital ActivismDigital GovernanceResearchCISRAWFeaturedCyberculturesarchivesNew PedagogiesWorkshopIT Cities2011-07-21T06:00:39ZBlog EntryTrain the Trainer — Four-day long Residential Training Workshop in Bangalore
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/train-the-trainer
<b>Train the Trainer is a four-day long residential training workshop to enable Indian Wikipedia community members conduct outreach sessions effectively and independently. It is being conducted by the CIS-A2K team in Bangalore in the first week of October.</b>
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<p>See the event on the <a class="external-link" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program">Wikipedia page here</a>. <i>Please note that the exact dates for this event hasn't been finalized. We will let you know once it is done</i>. See the Snippets from Wikimedia Train the Trainer <a class="external-link" href="https://storify.com/CISA2K/wikimedia-train-the-trainer-2015">here</a>.</p>
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<h3>Why CIS-A2K is conducting this Program?</h3>
<p>Based on an internal needs assessment exercise undertaken by CIS-A2K, it has been realized that:</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">bulk of the Indian population does not know about the existence of Indic Wikipedias and sister projects.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">there is a lot of potential to do outreach in India but it is hampered by community member's lack of time, lack of availability of support material and/or ability to do outreach.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">though many Indic Wikipedia community members have desire to undertake offline outreach they seldom receive support and guidance.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">there is a need to further build the capacity of interested community members to conduct effective outreach sessions.</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Thus through this program, the CIS-A2K programme wants to support and enable community members who are interested to conduct Wikipedia outreach sessions in their own cities/languages and to spread the word about the Indic Wikipedias.</p>
<h3>Overview of the programme</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K is organising a 4 day Train the Trainer Program in Bangalore. The program will include:</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">3 day sessions with interactive training run by professional consultants on how to conduct outreach in an effective manner – training on presentation skills, audience engagement, public speaking etc. It will include mock presentations, with video recording for feedback.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">4th day will be a field trip aiming to train the participants on how to organise an effective photothon; in addition, participants will also add pictures from the field trip to Wikimedia Commons for enhancing and improving articles on Indian language Wikipedias.</li>
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<h3>Selection Criterion</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K will conduct this program for approximately 20-25 interested community members from different Indian language communities. We want to make sure that there is equal participation from each language community. The CIS-A2K will use below mentioned parameters for selecting candidates.</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K's evaluation of <a class="text external" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1le9y8P4ojQTLvOm-L2vikfYUnpF_pfLhOTquPAnK7tU/viewform" rel="nofollow">Train the Trainer Program Application Form</a>.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Motivation of the candidate to be a part of the program.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">The applicant should have made minimum 200 edits on their respective Indian language Wikipedia.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">The applicant should have created at least 5 new articles of start class (as defined by their language community) on their respective Indian language Wikipedia.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">The applicant should have conducted at least 1 outreach session before the end of application date and shared the report with the community (via mailing list, village pump, event page, etc.)</li>
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<h3>Candidates' Deliverable</h3>
<p>There are certain deliverables that CIS-A2K expects out of selected candidates. These are:</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">Take lead in translating outreach documents (including presentations, banners, FAQs, handouts) in their respective language and share it with their respective communities.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Organise at least 2 outreach sessions per month in their respective cities, for a minimum of 6 continuous months and share the report with the community (via mailing list, village pump, event page, etc.).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Take lead in organising at least 1 community meet up in their respective cities, where they would give a small talk/presentation about their experience in the Train the Trainer Program and share ideas and tips they picked from the program with their language community members.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Write a 1500-word report sharing their Train the Trainer Program experience with large emphasis on their learnings and take-aways to be shared with all Indian communities.</li>
</ol>
<h3>What's in it for you?</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">Get general training and presentation skills which you can apply not only during Wikipedia workshops, but also during delivering personal and professional talks.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Receive detailed feedback about your presentation and training skills from professional consultants.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Help design a training program that serves Wikimedia community in the long term.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Share your skills with others.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Meet fellow Wikimedia editors and have fun.</li>
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<th>Dates</th><th>Number of days</th><th>Details</th>
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<td style="text-align: justify; ">30th August to 13th September 2013</td>
<td>14 Days</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K accepts applications.</td>
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<td style="text-align: justify; ">13th September to 16th September 2013</td>
<td>3 Days</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K evaluates the applications and shares details of selected candidates.</td>
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<td style="text-align: justify; ">16th September to 23th September 2013</td>
<td>7 Days</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K co-ordinates with selected candidates to finalize their travel plans, make reservations etc.</td>
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<td style="text-align: justify; ">1st week of October 2013</td>
<td>4 Days</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K organises Train the trainer Program.</td>
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<h3>Call for Participation</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K is calling for applications for it's Train the Trainer Program. If you'd like to be part of this program please make sure that you meet the <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nitika.t/TTT#Selection_Criterion" title="User:Nitika.t/TTT">selection criterion</a> and fill in the <a class="text external" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1le9y8P4ojQTLvOm-L2vikfYUnpF_pfLhOTquPAnK7tU/viewform" rel="nofollow">Train the Trainer Program Application Form</a> by 13th September, 2013.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">FAQ</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>What is train the trainer program?</b><br /> Train the trainer is a 4 day program organised by CIS-A2K to build capacity and enable community members to conduct outreach sessions independently or with minimal support to introduce Wikipedia to prospective editors in their respective Indian languages. Participants will be trained on various aspects such as presenting with impact, engaging with the audience, significance of body language, outreach follow ups etc. Program will also include groups discussions on ideas, learnings, challenges faced during outreach sessions.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>When will train the trainer program run?</b><br /> Train the trainer program will take place in Bangalore for 4 continuous days in the 1st week of October 2013. Exact details of dates and venue will be communicated shortly.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>Who can take part in the program?</b><br /> The event is open to all Wikimedia volunteers from India who can and want to support outreach events in the coming year.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>How can I apply?</b><br /> Please fill in <a class="text external" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1le9y8P4ojQTLvOm-L2vikfYUnpF_pfLhOTquPAnK7tU/viewform" rel="nofollow">Train the Trainer Program Application Form</a>.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>Who will take care of my travel and accommodation?</b><br /> CIS-A2K has a budget for Community Development and the team will be able to cover your travel and accommodation.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>What will be the timings each day?</b><br /> The timings of the program will be 9.00am to 7.30pm everyday with sufficient time for lunch, dinner, tea breaks and fun sessions.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>Where will I eat?</b><br /> Light breakfast and lunch will be provided; together with social dinner. Arrangements will also be made for tea and coffee.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>What is expected out of me?</b></li>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">Each selected candidate will be given some pre-work. You're expected to come with completed pre-work.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Take lead in translating outreach documents (including presentations, banners, FAQs, handouts) in their respective language and share it with their respective communities.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Post the program, organize at least 2 outreach sessions per month in your respective cities, for a minimum of 6 continuous months and share the report with the community (via mailing list, village pump, event page, etc.).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Post the program, take lead in organising at least 1 community meet up in your respective cities, where you would give a small talk/presentation about your experience in the Train the Trainer Program and share ideas and tips you picked from the program with your language community members.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Write a 1500-word report sharing your Train the Trainer Program experience with large emphasis on learnings and take-aways to be shared with all Indian communities.</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Contact</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">For any further queries please mail at <a class="mail-link" href="mailto:a2k@cis-india.org">a2k@cis-india.org</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/train-the-trainer'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/train-the-trainer</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpennessEvent2015-09-27T09:59:00ZEventWikipedia Training in Telugu for Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-training-in-telugu-for-b-r-ambedkar-open-university
<b>CIS-A2K is conducting a Wikipedia training programme in Telugu for the faculty of Dr. B.R.Ambedkar Open University (Dr. BRAOU) in Hyderabad on September 5 and 6, 2013. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This is done as part of the "ICT and eContent" workshop organized by the Centre for Staff Training and Development of Dr. BRAOU for their faculty. T. Vishnu Vardhan Program Director, CIS-A2K has been invited to teach a module on "Knowledge and Openness in the Digital Era" as part of which this Wikipedia training programme was also organized.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Details in <a class="external-link" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B7%E0%B0%A3_%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%82/%E0%B0%B9%E0%B1%88%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%8D/%E0%B0%B9%E0%B1%88%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%8D2">Telugu originally published in the metapage on Wikipedia</a> is reproduced below:</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">వికీపీడియా:శిక్షణ శిబిరం/హైదరాబాద్/హైదరాబాద్2</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">--<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AF%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%95:Contributions/14.139.86.130" title="ప్రత్యేక:Contributions/14.139.86.130">14.139.86.130</a> 05:32, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)పరాంకుశం వెంకట రమణ==తేదీ - స్థలం== సెప్టెంబరు, 5 2013; <a class="text external" href="http://www.braou.ac.in/%7C" rel="nofollow">డాక్టర్ బి.ఆర్. అంబేద్కర్ సార్వత్రిక విశ్వవిద్యాలయం</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>సమయం<br /></b>పొ. 10.00 నుండి మ. 1.00 వరకు</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">నిర్వహణ సంస్థ/లు</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a class="extiw" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge" title="m:India Access To Knowledge">CISA2K</a> డాక్టర్ బి.ఆర్. అంబేద్కర్ సార్వత్రిక విశ్వవిద్యాలయం, హైదరబాద్ వారి సంస్థాగత భాగస్వామ్యంతో. ఈ శిబిరం Centre for Staff Training and Development (Dr. BRAOU) వారు 10 రోజులపాటు విశ్వవిద్యాలయం యొక్క ఉపాధ్యాయుల కొరకు నిర్వహించిన ‘ICT and e-Content Development’ Workshop లో భాగంగా నిర్వహించబడినది.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">నిర్వాహకులు</p>
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<li><a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Visdaviva" title="వాడుకరి:Visdaviva">విష్ణు</a> (<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Visdaviva" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Visdaviva">చర్చ</a>)</li>
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<p>--<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Elkasudharani" title="వాడుకరి:Elkasudharani">Elkasudharani</a> (<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Elkasudharani" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Elkasudharani">చర్చ</a>) 05:37, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)==Dr.BRAOU లోని కార్యక్రమ సంధానకర్తలు==</p>
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<li><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghanta_Chakrapani" title="w:Ghanta Chakrapani">ఘంటా చక్రపాణి</a> (డైరెక్టర్, Centre for Staff Training and Development, డాక్టర్ బి.ఆర్. అంబేద్కర్ సార్వత్రిక విశ్వవిద్యాలయం)</li>
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<p>--<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AF%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%95:Contributions/14.139.86.130" title="ప్రత్యేక:Contributions/14.139.86.130">14.139.86.130</a> 05:35, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)</p>
<p>శిక్షణ శిబిరానికి హజరైన సభ్యులు</p>
<p>--<a class="new" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Pallavisudheer&action=edit&redlink=1" title="వాడుకరి:Pallavisudheer (పుట లేదు)">Pallavisudheer</a> (<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Pallavisudheer" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Pallavisudheer">చర్చ</a>) 05:31, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)</p>
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<li>సరోజ --<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Drgsaroja" title="వాడుకరి:Drgsaroja">Drgsaroja</a> (<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Drgsaroja" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Drgsaroja">చర్చ</a>) 05:27, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)</li>
<li>--<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Rajani_nellutla" title="వాడుకరి:Rajani nellutla">Rajani nellutla</a> (<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Rajani_nellutla" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Rajani nellutla">చర్చ</a>) 05:29, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)</li>
<li>--<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Kiranmayi.ys" title="వాడుకరి:Kiranmayi.ys">Kiranmayi.ys</a> (<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Kiranmayi.ys" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Kiranmayi.ys">చర్చ</a>) 05:30, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)</li>
<li>--<a class="new" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Vasuvaddanam&action=edit&redlink=1" title="వాడుకరి:Vasuvaddanam (పుట లేదు)">Vasuvaddanam</a> (<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Vasuvaddanam" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Vasuvaddanam">చర్చ</a>) 05:31, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)</li>
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<p>--<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Gpushpa" title="వాడుకరి:Gpushpa">Gpushpa</a> (<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Gpushpa" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Gpushpa">చర్చ</a>) 05:32, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC) --<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Drgsaroja" title="వాడుకరి:Drgsaroja">Drgsaroja</a> (<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Drgsaroja" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Drgsaroja">చర్చ</a>) 05:34, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)</p>
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<li>--<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Boju_srinivas" title="వాడుకరి:Boju srinivas">Boju srinivas</a> (<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Boju_srinivas" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Boju srinivas">చర్చ</a>) 05:36, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)</li>
<li>--<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Shridhevie" title="వాడుకరి:Shridhevie">Shridhevie</a> (<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Shridhevie" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Shridhevie">చర్చ</a>) 05:37, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)</li>
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<p>పై వరసలో పేరు చేర్చండి లేక సంతకం చేయండి></p>
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<li>--[[--<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AF%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%95:Contributions/14.139.86.130" title="ప్రత్యేక:Contributions/14.139.86.130">14.139.86.130</a> 05:35, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)]]</li>
<li>--<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Elkasudharani" title="వాడుకరి:Elkasudharani">Elkasudharani</a> (<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Elkasudharani" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Elkasudharani">చర్చ</a>) 05:37, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)</li>
<li>--<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Pvramana24" title="వాడుకరి:Pvramana24">Pvramana24</a> (<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Pvramana24" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Pvramana24">చర్చ</a>) 05:37, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">నివేదిక</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">చిత్రమాలిక</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-training-in-telugu-for-b-r-ambedkar-open-university'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-training-in-telugu-for-b-r-ambedkar-open-university</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpennessEvent2013-09-06T05:51:49ZEventDigital Resources in Telugu: A Workshop for Research Scholars
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/digital-resources-in-telugu
<b>The Department of Cultural Studies, English and Foreign Languages University and the CIS-A2K invite you to a workshop for research scholars on September 13, 2013. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Note to Participant:</b><br />As you may know, Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia, and is the 5th most-visited website in the world! It's completely free to use and re-use, it has no advertising, and is available in more than 286 different languages - including 20+ Indian languages. Wikipedia articles are written by ordinary people who volunteer to share their knowledge with the world.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>What students gain from Wikipedia editing</b>:<br />It improves <b>writing skills</b>. Wikipedia provides students a platform to hone their writing skills. Writing on Wikipedia enhances <b>critical thinking</b> and the ability<b> to </b>see all sides of a story. Students will find this incredibility useful in both their personal and professional lives while evaluating the pros and cons of different situations, projects, assignments etc. Wikipedia editing also strengthens <b>research skills</b>. A Wikipedia editor has to provide credible references by looking up books, journals and online materials. Writing on Wikipedia is good practice for those who will also work on a thesis or a research project.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Your articles will be read by thousands of people across the globe</b>. If you edit a Wikipedia article, it is there *forever* and the audience can be any number from the 500 million who read Wikipedia every month!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>It teaches students how to collaborate!</b> Editing Wikipedia is magical. You add some content and someone from some other part of the class or school or town or country or somewhere else in the world adds a little bit more and makes the contribution that much better. Wikipedia helps one learn how to work productively with other people, even those you don’t know and may never actually meet.</p>
<p>The workshop will cover the following:</p>
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<li>Essential Information Literacy for Researcher in Digital Era</li>
<li>Changing trends in knowledge production post digital turn</li>
<li>What exactly is Wikipedia and how does it work?</li>
<li>How do I edit Wikipedia? </li>
<li>What can I edit?</li>
<li>How can I input text in Indian languages?</li>
<li>How do I insert images?</li>
<li>How do I find and add references?</li>
<li>Do’s and Don’ts</li>
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<p><b>Schedule</b>:<br />10 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. (Discussion and demonstration) <br />2.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m. (Practical session)</p>
<h3>Important Instructions for Interested Participants</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">Each student attending the workshop should register themselves on Wikipedia. Please note that once you register on a Wikipedia project, you can use that 'Username' (i.e. same log-in details) across all Wikipedias and Wikimedia platforms. <b>This should be done by September 12, 2013 (before the workshop commences).</b> Please note that you will not be able to register more than 5 Usernames from a single IP address within 24 hours (a security feature of Wikipedia). This tutorial will help you with Registration on Wikipedia <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial/Registration">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial/Registration</a></li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Once registered the students must furnish their details on the google doc. I have already entered my data just as sample. Please circulate this link to all the students at the earliest. <b>This should be done by September 12, 2013 before the commencement of the Workshop </b><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AshSF7ZKRBR5dEY0N0tlZTcxRDktSHdaOERWeGhuRUE&usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AshSF7ZKRBR5dEY0N0tlZTcxRDktSHdaOERWeGhuRUE&usp=sharing</a></li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">All the students are expected to do editing on Wikipedia. We will choose Telugu Wikipedia as a site to do some editing. Please be assured that we will also show how to use English Wikipedia. For this workshop each student should come up with one article at least in <b>Telugu</b>. This should be typed and be available in a soft copy form and could be carried in a thumb drive or any other storage media which should be easily accessible to them during the training programme. <b>If you are not able to type, please bring the write-up in your note book.</b> Check if the topic you are writing on is already available on Telugu Wikipedia (www.te.wikipedia.org).<b><br /><br />Suggested topics:</b> a) About a key Theorist in your field of research; b) About a critical concept that you use in your Research; c) Your Research Object; d) Any other notable topic that you feel should be in your language Wikipedia.</li>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/digital-resources-in-telugu'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/digital-resources-in-telugu</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-09-12T10:30:45ZEventA Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Sagara
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wiki-workshop-at-sagara
<b>On Sunday, July 28, 2013, a day-long Kannada Wikipedia workshop was conducted at Sagara, Shimoga Dist, Karnataka by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team. In this post, I share with you the happenings from the workshop.</b>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Some months ago, I got a phone call from <a class="external-link" href="http://www.chinmayamrao.com/">Chinmaya M Rao</a> from <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagara,_Shimoga_district">Sagara, Shimoga District</a> requesting me to conduct a Kannada Wikipedia workshop at Sagara. He informed me that there are quite a good number of writers in that area who are interested in adding content to Kannada Wikipedia but don't know how to. Many telephonic discussions followed, many dates were considered, changed, iterated and finally the workshop was organised on Sunday, July 28, 2013. The programme was inaugurated by <a class="external-link" href="http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%97%E0%B3%8B%E0%B2%A1%E0%B3%81_%E0%B2%A4%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AE%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AE%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AA">Shri Kagodu Thimmappa</a>, Speaker of the current <a class="external-link" href="http://kla.kar.nic.in/">Legislative Assembly of Karnataka</a>. Famous Kannada writer <a class="external-link" href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%A8%E0%B2%BE_%E0%B2%A1%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8B%E0%B2%9C">Naa D'Souza</a> was the chief guest. Shri G.T. Shridhar Sharma, President of <a class="external-link" href="http://www.kannadatimes.com/kannada-times-media-world-r">Kannada Times Media World</a>, presided over the function. The programme was jointly organised by CIS and <a class="external-link" href="http://www.kannadatimes.com/">Kannada Times Media World</a>, Sagara.</p>
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<td style="text-align: justify; ">Speaking after inaugurating the workshop, Shri Kagodu Thimmappa said "the basic knowledge of technology has become important as one could get ample, accurate information on various topics, and current affairs of the world in a minute all languages, including Kannada. It is the onus of the people of the sate to preserve and promote the use of Kannada language." (Deccan Herald, Shimaga edition, July 30, 2013). Naa D'Souza mentioned how earlier knowledge was the monopoly of some particular sections of the society and how technology has transformed knowledge into an asset of all the people irrespective of caste, race, religion, region and financial status.</td>
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<td colspan="2" style="text-align: center; "><i>Seen above is a picture of Shri Kagodu Thimmappa inagurating the workshop</i><br /></td>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">I then gave a brief introduction to <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page">Wikipedia</a> and <a class="external-link" href="http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%AE%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%96%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF_%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%9F">Kannada Wikipedia</a>. There are many encylopaedias in <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannada_language">Kannada</a> but very few are regularly updated. They are seldom digitised. People who add content to Kannada Wikipedia are in search of authentic information. These are available in many encylopaedias brought in by various academies, associations and universities funded by the Government of Karnataka. People of the state have a right on these content. I requested Shri Kagodu Thimmappa to bring them under the <a class="external-link" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/">Creative Commons License</a> so that the active Kannada Wikipedians can make use of them to add content into Kannada Wikipedia. Shri Kagodu Thimmappa promised to look into this.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">After the inauguration, the actual presentation by me started at a cybercafe run by Istam Computers. It was raining heavily. Participants walked for 5 minutes in heavy rain to reach the venue. The presentation went on till lunch time. The place was very congested. One participant, B. V. Ravindranath, who is a practicing Chartered Accountant at Sagara, offered his place to conduct the hands-on workshop. Hence, all participants went to the new venue which was quite comfortable. Participants did the hands-on editing of Wikipedia till 7.30 p.m. Eleven persons participated in the workshop and edited actively. Some were seen editing Kannada Wikipedia regularly after the workshop.</p>
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<p><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/KannadaWikipediaWorkshopSagaraJuly282013027.jpg/image_preview" alt="Kannada Wikipedia workshop at Sagara" class="image-inline image-inline" title="Kannada Wikipedia workshop at Sagara" /></p>
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<td colspan="2"><i>Dr. U.B. Pavanaja is seen sharing a light moment with participants from the workshop in the above picture</i>.</td>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">An active Kannada Wikipedian, <a class="external-link" href="http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF:Bschandrasgr/%E0%B2%AA%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%9A%E0%B2%AF">B S Chandrashekhar</a> from Sagara, who has more than <a class="external-link" href="http://toolserver.org/~quentinv57/sulinfo/Bschandrasgr">4500 edits on Kannada Wikipedia</a> to his credit was felicitated during the inauguration function. He is 79 years old. Despite his old age, he actively paticipated in the workshop till the end and learnt many intricacies which he was otherwise unaware of.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>In the end, I would like to personally thank Chinmay Rao and G. T. Shridhar Sharma of Kannada Times who toiled a lot in organising the wokrshop. Also thanks to B. V. Ravindranath, CA, who provided the venue for the hands-on workshop</i>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wiki-workshop-at-sagara'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wiki-workshop-at-sagara</a>
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No publisherpavanajaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopVideoOpenness2014-03-25T08:51:36ZBlog EntryIndian Women and Craft Edit-a-thon
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/indian-women-and-craft-edit-a-thon-1
<b>A two-day long edit-a-thon aimed to archive the Women achievers in the field of art and craft on Kannada Wikipedia was held with the help of Srishti Institute and Janastu on 8th March and 25th March 2018.
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<p dir="ltr">On 8th March 2018, The Access to Knowledge program in collaboration with the<a href="http://srishti.ac.in/"> Srishti Institute of Art, design, and technology</a> organised a Kannada Wikipedia workshop at<a href="http://janastu.org/home/index.html#/about-us"> Janastu</a>, Bangalore. Srishti Institute is a Bangalore based non-residential institute which provides art and design education to various individuals, and Jantsu is a Non-profit organisation which provides FOSS support to NGOs and NPOs. The theme of the event was to create articles on Indian women and crafts, Padmini, the course leader for Digital Humanities at Srishti Institute helped the A2K program in preparing a list of articles which can be added into Wikipedia.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Near about 15 staffs of Janastu attended the workshop, as the majority of the participants had Kannada language background the event was conducted in the Kannada language. During the workshop, the participants were introduced to their user sandbox, and after the orientation program, they started creating articles on them. A total number of<a href="https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/janastu"> 7 articles</a> were developed on the same day, we also introduced Wikimedia Commons to the participant, on how to upload images to Commons and how to add images from Commons to Wikipedia articles.</p>
<p dir="ltr">After the workshop at Janastu, a follow-up edit-a-thon was also conducted on 25th March 2018 at The CIS office. Five participants from the previous workshop joined us for the edit-a-thon and eight articles were created or improved as a part of that edit-a-thon, of which <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daroji_Eramma">Daroji Eramma’</a>s article was one among them. Daroji Eramma was a Kannada folk singer and performer of a South Indian folk art called Burrakatha. At the end of the event, a Wikidata training was given to the participants which helped them to translate a few labels on Wikidata.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/indian-women-and-craft-edit-a-thon-1'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/indian-women-and-craft-edit-a-thon-1</a>
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No publisherGopalakrishna A.Edit-a-thonKannada WikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWorkshop2018-07-04T16:30:28ZBlog EntryAccess to Knowledge Workshop @ NMAMIT, Karkala Taluk, Karnataka
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/a2k-workshop-at-nmamit
<b>The Centre for Internet & Society in collaboration with Metawing Technologies (P) Ltd. is organizing a Wikipedia workshop at NMAMIT, Karkala Taluk, Karnataka on December 21, 2012, from 9.30 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Over 100 students are expected to participate in this workshop. The primary aim of the workshop is to educate them about Wikipedia in Indian languages and tell them how they can contribute to Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS is willing to bear the travelling expense for upto two wikipedians to and from Bangalore (or any other place in Karnataka that is close to Karkala).</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/a2k-workshop-at-nmamit'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/a2k-workshop-at-nmamit</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpennessEvent2012-12-19T07:20:31ZEventDigital Natives Santiago Workshop Schedule
http://editors.cis-india.org/digital-natives/publications/workshop-schedule
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/digital-natives/publications/workshop-schedule'>http://editors.cis-india.org/digital-natives/publications/workshop-schedule</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaWorkshop2011-08-23T04:22:59ZFileFacebook Resistance Article
http://editors.cis-india.org/digital-natives/publications/facebook-resistance
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/digital-natives/publications/facebook-resistance'>http://editors.cis-india.org/digital-natives/publications/facebook-resistance</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaWorkshop2011-08-24T08:58:35ZFileCyber fears
http://editors.cis-india.org/digital-natives/publications/Cyber%20fears.pdf
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/digital-natives/publications/Cyber%20fears.pdf'>http://editors.cis-india.org/digital-natives/publications/Cyber%20fears.pdf</a>
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