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Youths come forward to augment Assamese Wikisource project
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/northeast-now-may-17-2019-youths-come-forward-to-augment-assamese-wikisource-project
<b>Assamese Wikisource is a sister-project of Assamese Wikipedia, where Assamese books with expired copyrights are available.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The blog post was published in <a class="external-link" href="https://nenow.in/north-east-news/youths-come-forward-to-augment-assamese-wikisource-project.html">NE NOW NEWS</a> on May 17, 2019.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">In order to take the <a href="https://nenow.in/north-east-news/assam/assam-cm-welcomes-decision-to-include-assamese-language-in-kvs.html">Assamese</a> Wikisource project forward, few young men and women of the state involving in different fields, recently gathered in Guwahati to attend a workshop.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Assamese Wikisource is a sister-project of Assamese <a href="https://nenow.in/north-east-news/tripura/tripura-cm.html">Wikipedia</a>, where Assamese books with expired copyrights are available. The project owned by Wikimedia Foundation was launched in 2013.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A total of 14 volunteers from across the state participated in the workshop hosted by Centre for Internet and Society-Access to knowledge (CIS-A2K) in a city hotel.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Two experts–Jayanta Nath from Kolkata and Tito Dutta from Bangalore–were present as trainers for the workshop, say organisers.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The two-day event was coordinated by Gitartha Bordoloi, a physician based in Silchar and the administrator of Assamese Wikipedia and Wikisource.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“Wikisource sources hosts books, plays, lyrics, letters etc which are available in open source,” says an organiser.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">PDF or similar files are added to Wikisource which are then converted to unicode form so that every information becomes searchable on the internet.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In addition to books that are hitherto copyright free, new books can also be donated by authors and can be added to the field.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Everyone can access and contribute to this collaborative project. Presently, Assamese Wikisource stands at ninth position out of eleven Indic languages. This can be due to less Wikisource projects and also lack of contributors.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In addition to the basic navigation on Wikisource, the participants learnt searching and uploading public domain works, using OCR to get the texts, correcting errors and creating final product for the readers, he says.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As a part of the workshop, the participants fully digitised three old Assamese books within a few hours. They also discussed the future aims, perspectives and goals of Assamese Wikipedia and Wikisource.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As a result of their persistent efforts, works of <a href="https://nenow.in/north-east-news/assam/satriya-exponent-basistha-dev-sarma-gets-srimanta-sankardev-award.html">Srimanta Sankardev</a> and Madhabdev, <a href="https://nenow.in/north-east-news/assam/assam-renovation-for-assamese-writer-lakshminath-bezbaroas-house-begins.html">Lakshminath Bezbaroa</a>, Jyotiprasad Agarwala, Rajanikanta Bordoloi, Hiteshwar Barbarua and some others are now available on Assamese Wikisource.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">With the target of digitizing the books by an author in every one or two months, the volunteers have mulled to digitize the works of Padmanath Gohain Baruah, a luminary of Assamese literature.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/northeast-now-may-17-2019-youths-come-forward-to-augment-assamese-wikisource-project'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/northeast-now-may-17-2019-youths-come-forward-to-augment-assamese-wikisource-project</a>
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No publisherNE NOW NEWSWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2019-05-21T16:03:43ZNews ItemYou Too Can Write on Wikipedia! — Training workshop
http://editors.cis-india.org/events/you-too-can-write-on-wikipedia-2014-training-workshop
<b>The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team in collaboration with Andhra Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation and National Institute of Tourims and Hospitality Management is organizing a two-days training workshop (December 5-6, 2013) in Gachibowli, Hyderabad.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">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 280 different languages - including 20+ Indian languages. Wikipedia articles are written by ordinary people who volunteer to share their knowledge with the world.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">What will you gain from Wikipedia editing?</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">It improves <b>writing skills</b>. Wikipedia provides students/professionals/researchers 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 a 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'll boost your chances in admissions or scholarships or placements</b>.</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>
<ul>
<li>What exactly is Wikipedia and how does it work?</li>
<li>Who edits Wikipedia?</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>
</ul>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Schedule</h2>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">December 5, 2013</span> (Day 1)</p>
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<th>Timing</th><th>Activity</th>
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<td>09.30 to 10.00 a.m.</td>
<td>Welcome and Introduction</td>
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<td>10.00 to 11.15 a.m.</td>
<td>Building Knowledge Bases and Platforms via Mass Collaboration on the Internet</td>
</tr>
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<td>11.15 to 11.30 a.m.</td>
<td>Tea/Coffee Break</td>
</tr>
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<td>11.30 to 01.00 p.m.</td>
<td>Wikipedia demonstration + Basics of Wikipedia Editing (hands on activity)</td>
</tr>
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<td>01.00 to 02.00 p.m.</td>
<td>Lunch Break</td>
</tr>
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<td>02.00 to 02.15 p.m.</td>
<td>Energizer</td>
</tr>
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<td>02.15 to 03.45 p.m.</td>
<td>Basics of Wikipedia Editing (Hands on activity)</td>
</tr>
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<td>03.45 to 04.00 p.m.</td>
<td>Tea/Coffee Break</td>
</tr>
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<td>04.00 to 05.30 p.m.</td>
<td>NPOV on Wikipedia (Spectrogram activity)</td>
</tr>
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<td>05.30 to 05.45 p.m.</td>
<td>Look back on what has worked and what has not</td>
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</tbody>
</table>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">December 6, 2013</span> (Day 2)</p>
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<th>Timing</th><th>Activity</th>
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<td>09.30 to 11.15 a.m.</td>
<td>Advanced Wikipedia Editing (Hands on activity)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>11.15 to 11.30 a.m.</td>
<td>Tea/Coffee Break<br /></td>
</tr>
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<td>11.30 to 01.00 p.m.</td>
<td>On Wiki activity</td>
</tr>
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<td>01.00 to 02.00 p.m.</td>
<td>Lunch Break<br /></td>
</tr>
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<td>02.00 to 02.15 p.m.</td>
<td>Energizer</td>
</tr>
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<td>02.15 to 03.45 p.m.</td>
<td>Wikimedia projects and Tourism</td>
</tr>
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<td>03.45 to 04.00 p.m.</td>
<td>Tea/Coffee Break<br /></td>
</tr>
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<td>04.00 to 05.30 p.m.</td>
<td>Group Activity – Wiki projects on Tourism</td>
</tr>
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<td>05.30 to 05.45 p.m.</td>
<td>Feedback and Closing session</td>
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</tbody>
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<ul>
<li>For map of the venue: click this link: <a class="external-link" href="http://sh.st/r90j">http://sh.st/r90j</a></li>
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<li>For venue: click this link: <a class="external-link" href="http://sh.st/r889">http://sh.st/r889</a></li>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/events/you-too-can-write-on-wikipedia-2014-training-workshop'>http://editors.cis-india.org/events/you-too-can-write-on-wikipedia-2014-training-workshop</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessEvent2013-12-06T07:55:38ZEventWriting skills improve with Wikipedia editing
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/eenadu-december-3-2016-writing-skills-improve-with-wikipedia-editing
<b>Pavan Santhosh said that contributing to Wikipedia and working in Wikimedia community improves our leadership qualities and writing skills. In an awareness session conducted about "You can edit Wikipedia" in JKC college, Guntur, Santhosh explained how to create and improve articles about Wikipedia in this program. Principal I.Nageswara Rao presided over this meeting.</b>
<p><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/WikipediaawarenesssessioninJKCcollegeGuntur.jpg/@@images/5b616c90-c0d5-482c-988a-650d3fbd4083.jpeg" alt="Writing Skills with Wikipedia" class="image-inline" title="Writing Skills with Wikipedia" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/eenadu-december-3-2016-writing-skills-improve-with-wikipedia-editing'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/eenadu-december-3-2016-writing-skills-improve-with-wikipedia-editing</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaWikimediaCIS-A2KWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-12-15T02:21:23ZNews ItemWorld Book Day (Coverage in Vijayavani)
http://editors.cis-india.org/news/vijayavani-april-23-2014-world-book-day
<b>Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the event as a speaker. A scanned version of the report is below:</b>
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<p>
For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/news/vijayavani-april-23-2014-world-book-day'>http://editors.cis-india.org/news/vijayavani-april-23-2014-world-book-day</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2014-05-05T09:40:16ZNews ItemWorld Book Day
http://editors.cis-india.org/news/world-book-day
<b>Dr. U.B.Pavanaja was one of the speakers on the program arranged on account of World Book Day by Karnataka Publishers’ Association at the Indian Institute of World Culture, Basavanagudi.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">He spoke about the importance of giving info about Kannada books in Kannada Wikipedia, about digitization of books, ebooks and audio books.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Click to read the media coverage in <a class="external-link" href="http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/international-book-day/article5932673.ece">the Hindu</a>.</p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/news/world-book-day'>http://editors.cis-india.org/news/world-book-day</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2014-05-05T09:33:11ZNews ItemWorkshop on e-Content Development
http://editors.cis-india.org/news/workshop-on-e-content-development
<b>T. Vishnu Vardhan, A2K Programme Director at CIS will be teaching at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad from September 4 to 6, 2013.</b>
<p>Vishnu Vardhan will give guest lecture for the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>Open Source to Open Knowledge</li>
<li>Building Knowledge Bases and Platforms via Mass Collaboration on the Internet</li>
<li>e-Content in Indian languages – History, Challenges and Opportunities</li>
<li>Wikipedia Users to Wikipedia Authors – Exploring Wikipedia as an OER Tool</li>
<li>e-Content, e-Student, e-Faculty – Reimagining classroom in the digital Age</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/e-content-development" class="internal-link">Click to download the programme brochure</a></p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/news/workshop-on-e-content-development'>http://editors.cis-india.org/news/workshop-on-e-content-development</a>
</p>
No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2013-09-04T05:56:16ZNews ItemWorkshop on digital collaborations in Tamil-language, Tamil Virtual University, Chennai
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/workshop-on-digital-collaborations-in-tamil-language-tamil-virtual-university-chennai
<b>A two-day workshop on digital collaborations in Tamil-language has been organised by Tamil Virtual University, Anna University Campus, Chennai. I have been invited to participate in this event on behalf of the CIS-A2K programme.</b>
<p>The discussions are going to be in four major topics:</p>
<ol id="docs-internal-guid-331156a9-cb12-ecf3-00ac-68e737218172"><li style="list-style-type: decimal;" dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr">Digitization:</p>
</li>
<ol><li style="list-style-type: lower-alpha;" dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr">Books and Digital Library</p>
</li><li style="list-style-type: lower-alpha;" dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr">Manuscripts, Inscriptions, Documents, Paintings and Archival of documents</p>
</li></ol>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal;" dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr">Research and Development:</p>
</li>
<ol><li style="list-style-type: lower-alpha;" dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr">Natural Language Process</p>
</li><li style="list-style-type: lower-alpha;" dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr">Video / Speech synthesizer, Spell checker</p>
</li><li style="list-style-type: lower-alpha;" dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr">Corpus and Lexicon</p>
</li></ol>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal;" dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr">E-learning:</p>
</li>
<ol><li style="list-style-type: lower-alpha;" dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr">Developing appropriate and region specific syllabus</p>
</li><li style="list-style-type: lower-alpha;" dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr">Mobile computing and applications development</p>
</li></ol>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal;" dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr">Open source and Outreach:</p>
</li>
<ol><li style="list-style-type: lower-alpha;" dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr">Tamil computing organisations and Wikipedia</p>
</li><li style="list-style-type: lower-alpha;" dir="ltr">Policy of Open source software</li></ol>
</ol>
<p> </p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/workshop-on-digital-collaborations-in-tamil-language-tamil-virtual-university-chennai'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/events/workshop-on-digital-collaborations-in-tamil-language-tamil-virtual-university-chennai</a>
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No publisherpavanajaWikipedia2016-06-18T18:13:56ZEventWorkshop of River activists for building Jal Bodh - Knowledge resource on Water
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/workshop-of-river-activists-for-building-jal-bodh-knowledge-resource-on-water
<b>To build knowledge resource on rivers in Pune district, CIS-A2K team organized a workshop in Pune on July 25, 2018.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">After the <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Exploring_Wikimedia_platforms_in_Dialogue_on_the_Urban_Rivers_of_Maharashtra" title="Exploring Wikimedia platforms in Dialogue on the Urban Rivers of Maharashtra">River Dialogue</a>, Jeevit nadi organisation has taken initiative to train their team of activists in open knowledge and Wikimedia Projects. Activists and researchers from <a class="text external" href="http://www.jeevitnadi.org/" rel="nofollow">Jeevit Nadi</a>, <a class="text external" href="http://ecouniv.in/" rel="nofollow">EcoUniv</a>, Jal Biradari, <a class="text external" href="https://www.ecological-society.org/" rel="nofollow">Ecological Society</a>, <a class="text external" href="http://sagarmitra.org/" rel="nofollow">Sagarmitra</a> organisations participated in the workshop. The groups presented their work, the database and the resources with them. These include photographs, videos, training material and data collected on site. Extensive discussion was made for evolving methodology to integrate in Wikimedia Projects. This was the first iteration in the series of workshops.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The second iteration of building content on rivers in Pune district was organised on 25th July by Jeevit Nadi organisation. In this 4 hour session, 5 participants worked on category tree and structure of article on river. The editing skills for this were imparted. The images and videos available in the repository were analysed for uploading. The categorisation of media was also planned. The issues like maps of rivers and heritage places on the banks were also discussed. This team will prepare the database and organise the media files available for uploading in respective categories. The next iteration is planned in September.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Read the full details on <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Workshop_of_River_activists_for_building_Jal_Bodh_-_Knowledge_resource_on_Water">Wikimedia Blog</a></p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/workshop-of-river-activists-for-building-jal-bodh-knowledge-resource-on-water'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/workshop-of-river-activists-for-building-jal-bodh-knowledge-resource-on-water</a>
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No publisherAdminWikimediaCIS-A2KWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2018-08-11T01:45:18ZBlog EntryWorkshop of Publishers and Writers on Unicode, Open Source and Wikimedia Projects
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/workshop-of-publishers-and-writers-on-unicode-open-source-and-wikimedia-projects
<b>CIS-A2K team organized a workshop on unicode, open source and wikimedia projects at Pune on July 25, 2018.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K has started dialogue with the publishers for the last 6 months regarding FOSS, Open knowledge and content donation to Wikimedia Projects. As a result, various publishers and writers associated with social sector have taken initiative to organise workshops. Parisar, NGO working on environmental issues organised this orientation session for 4 activists, 5 publishers and 6 writers.</p>
<p>The following issues were discussed with demonstrations -</p>
<ol>
<li>Adoption of Unicode and open source softwares</li>
<li>Make available old reference books, out of print books on web using new technology</li>
<li>Strengthening of Marathi Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wiktionary etc.</li>
<li>Social marketing of literary books</li>
<li>Explore the new medium of e books</li>
<li>To establish a company on lines of Amazon for e-selling of marathi books</li>
</ol>
<p>Read the event details on <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Workshop_of_Publishers_and_Writers_on_Unicode,_Open_Source_and_Wikimedia_Projects">Wikimedia Blog</a></p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/workshop-of-publishers-and-writers-on-unicode-open-source-and-wikimedia-projects'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/workshop-of-publishers-and-writers-on-unicode-open-source-and-wikimedia-projects</a>
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No publisherAdminWikimediaCIS-A2KWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2018-08-11T02:08:53ZBlog EntryWomen's History Month, India-2015
http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/womens-history-month-india-2015
<b>CIS-A2K is supporting the Indian Wikimedia volunteers organize Wikipedia Women's History Month, India- 2015. </b>
<p>See the event <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_History_Month,_India-2015">meta page here</a></p>
<hr />
<p style="text-align: justify; ">8th March is <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:International_Women%27s_Day" title="w:en:International Women's Day">International Women's Day</a> and to celebrate, women in India are organizing edit-a-thons and meetups to create and expand articles of importance to women in Wikipedia in English and various Indian languages. The goal of the month-long event is to encourage more women and transwomen to contribute to Wikipedia and increase the quality of articles related to women in Wikipedia. The event aims at creating new articles, expanding the existing stubs and translating English articles to various <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Indo-Aryan_languages" title="w:en:Indo-Aryan languages">Indic languages</a>. Everyone is welcome to <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_History_Month,_India-2015/Participants" title="Women's History Month, India-2015/Participants">join the event</a> as enthusiasts, editors, translators, bloggers or event managers. Anyone who identify themselves as women are particularly encouraged to participate.</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><b>Events: <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_History_Month,_India-2015/Events" title="Women's History Month, India-2015/Events">Click here to see the list of online and offline events</a></b>.</li>
<li><b>Participants: <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_History_Month,_India-2015/Participants" title="Women's History Month, India-2015/Participants">Sign up as a participant!</a></b></li>
<li><b>List of articles : <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_History_Month,_India-2015/To_do_list" title="Women's History Month, India-2015/To do list">Click here to see the list of languages and articles</a></b>.</li>
<li><b>Resources: <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_History_Month,_India-2015/Resources" title="Women's History Month, India-2015/Resources">Organize an event!</a></b></li>
</ul>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/womens-history-month-india-2015'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/womens-history-month-india-2015</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaWikimedia2015-03-08T09:18:19ZNews ItemWomen's Day Edit-a-thon at Jnana Prabodhini
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/womens-day-edit-a-thon-at-jnana-prabodhini
<b>A Marathi Wikipedia Women's Day edit-a-thon was conducted in collaboration with Jnana Prabodhini to commemorate the celebration of International Women's Day.</b>
<p>A Marathi
Wikipedia Women's Day edit-a-thon was conducted in collaboration with Jnana
Prabodhini in Pune on 9 March, 2017 to commemorate the celebration of
International Women's Day. Jnana Prabodhini is an organisation that is active
in the field of social work. The organisation enabled the bringing together of women working
in the culture and Indology sectors for this edit-a-thon.</p>
<p>The aim of
the two-hour-long edit-a-thon was to help build resources in the field of Culture, Indology and women
empowerment on Marathi Wikipedia. The edit-a-thon also introduced the
participants to editing Wikipedia and contributing to Wiki projects. In
addition to this, the workshop attempted to add references to existing articles
in order to improve their credibility.</p>
<p>The all-women event was attended by
seven women from different walks of life. The participants edited five articles
on women related to culture and Indology. Dr. Aaryaa Joshi, research scholar at
Jnana Prabodhini was one of the expert trainers at the event.</p>
<p>Link to event page on meta can be found <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Day_Edit-a-thon_at_Jnana_Prabodhini,_Pune_on_9th_March_2017">here</a>.</p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/womens-day-edit-a-thon-at-jnana-prabodhini'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/womens-day-edit-a-thon-at-jnana-prabodhini</a>
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No publisherSubodh KulkarniCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaMarathi WikipediaOpenness2017-04-15T07:31:38ZBlog EntryWomen's Day Edit-a-thon at Jeewan Jyoti Women's Empowerment Centre, Pune
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<b>Sterlite Tech Foundation and Jnana Prabodhini joined hands with the Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team to hold a Wikipedia edit-a-thon at Jeewan Jyoti Women's Empowerment Centre, Ambawane in Pune on March 10, 2017. Subodh Kulkarni was one of the trainers. The edit-a-thon was attended by 28 students.</b>
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<h3>Background</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Sterlite Tech Foundation and Jnana Prabodhini are the organisations working for Women's Empowerment in Velhe Block of Pune District Maharashtra. Jeewan Jyoti - Sterlite’s flagship initiative aims to address these issues by empowering the under privileged sections of society, especially rural women with equal learning opportunities and with professional training courses in their formative years; thereby providing them with sustainable income opportunities.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">On the occasion of World Women's Day, Women's Wikipedia edit-a-thon week is arranged across the world. The organisers collaborated with The Centre for Internet & Society-Access to Knowledge Program to conduct this workshop for rural women.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Project Goal</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The goal of this Wikipedia Workshop is to build resources in the field of rural development & women empowerment on Marathi Wikipedia and equip its participants with the process of contributing to Wikipedia, and to introduce it as a concept to them. Another focus of the workshop will be on village articles.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Primary Goals</b></p>
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<li>To introduce Wikipedia as an encyclopedia for research and a concept to new editors.</li>
<li>To Promote Marathi Wikipedia Community & promote the use of regional languages in Wikipedia.</li>
<li>To have an open interaction within the editors, existing as well as new.</li>
<li>To spread the awareness of Wikipedia as a powerful tool.</li>
<li>To develop articles on gender & environment related issues</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Day_Edit-a-thon_at_Jeewan_Jyoti_Women%27s_Empowerment_Centre,_Ambawane,Dist.Pune">More info on Wikimedia Blog</a></p>
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No publishersubodhCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaMarathi WikipediaOpenness2017-04-10T16:04:03ZBlog EntryWinners of the Opensource.com 2015 Community Awards
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<b>Every year, Opensource.com awards people from our community who have excelled in contributing and sharing stories about open source.</b>
<p>These stories are about open source as we use it in our everyday lives as well as how it helps to build a better world and future in technology. This year, we present to you the 2015 Opensource.com Community Awards in the following categories.</p>
<h3>People's Choice Awards</h3>
<p><b><a class="external-link" href="http://opensource.com/users/psubhashish" target="_blank">Subhashish Panigrahi</a></b></p>
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<p>An educator and open source activist, based in Bangalore, India.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: left; "><i>Reader's Choice Awards</i></h2>
<p style="text-align: left; "><i>Recognizes the community's favorite articles from 2014. Voted on by the community.</i></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/opensource-2015-award-winners'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/opensource-2015-award-winners</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaOdia WikipediaWikimedia2015-02-12T01:23:44ZNews ItemWill domain dot भारत spur the growth of Indian languages on the internet?
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<b>Modi's effort to promote the use of Hindi and e-governance has given hope to those who want to see more vernacular content online, but many challenges have to be overcome.</b>
<p>Rohan Venkataramakrishnan's blog post was <a class="external-link" href="http://scroll.in/article/676475/Will-domain-dot-%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A4--spur-the-growth-of-Indian-languages-on-the-internet">published in Scroll.in</a> on August 29, 2014. Sunil Abraham gave his inputs.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">For most of its short history, the internet has been the English speaker’s playground. Though English is the world’s third-most spoken language (after Mandarin and Spanish), it is by far the most commonly used language on the internet. If you wanted to make sense of most of what’s on the World Wide Web, you had to be able to read and write English.<br /><br />This is slowly changing. The <a href="http://www.medianama.com/2014/07/223-bharat-domain-hindi/" target="_blank">launch of Devanagari script web addresses</a> on Sunday, allowing people to use .भारत domain names, was another step in the slow effort to bring about a multilingual Web. Already, Indian languages like Hindi – one of the most commonly-spoken languages on Earth – lag far behind. The move gels well with the new government’s effort to promote the use of Hindi, and its push to increase digital services available to all citizens. The next few years could well see a spurt in vernacular content online.<br /><br />But first many challenges have to be overcome. “At present, not a single Indian language figures in the top 10 languages prevalent on the Internet, though Chinese, Arabic and Russian feature in the list,” said a<a href="http://www.mckinsey.com/%7E/media/mckinsey%20offices/india/pdfs/online_and_upcoming_the_internets_impact_on_india.ashx" target="_blank"> McKinsey report</a> on the internet's impact on India. “The next wave of internet adoption in India will be dominated by local language speakers, which underscores the need for much more content and applications to be offered in local languages.”<br /><br /><b>Vernacular internet</b><br /><a href="http://qz.com/96054/english-is-no-longer-the-language-of-the-web/">Early studies </a>of the internet attempted to quantify how much of the web was in English. A 1997 estimate put the number at 80% of all websites, while the Online Computer Library’s study in 2003 concluded that 72% of all online content was in English. Today that number is much lower.</p>
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<p>W3Techs, which conducts surveys of the internet, now estimates that about 55% of content on the Internet is in English, followed by German, Russian and Japanese. Indian languages don’t crack the top 35.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The analysis is by its nature imprecise. The internet is vast and mostly uncharted. Estimates suggest search engines have indexed only 40% of Web content, leaving much off the mainstream radar. Measuring language becomes even harder because, in the early years, when fonts were harder to render, most non-English content on the internet was spelt out in Roman letters.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Indian Wiki<br />T</b>he rise of multilingual scripts has changed that, and made it easier to evaluate the diversity of the internet. Yet even the best approach relies more on sampling than measurement. There is one section of the Web, however, that does allow for comparisons of absolute numbers.<b></b></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Relative to other tongues, Indian language-articles still comprise a minuscule portion of Wikipedia. English, Spanish and French are perhaps expected, but even languages like Vietnamese have nearly 10 times the number of pages that Hindi does. Waray-Waray, the fifth-most commonly spoken language in the Philippines, appears to be an outlier because of an automated translation method that creates pages in that language.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Hindi content has been growing on the internet encyclopedia, from no pages in 2003 to more than one lakh in 2011, but it still falls far behind the languages that are spoken as commonly as it, like Spanish and Arabic, let alone those with much smaller reach. Of course in many countries English is not spoken at all, so Internet users need web pages in their own language. In India, because of the language-class association, the majority of Internet users are at least conversant in English.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Obstacle Course</b><br />The impediments to further growth are all too apparent. For one, internet infrastructure still <a href="http://www.medianama.com/2014/08/223-namaindic-a-summary/">leaves much to be desired</a>. Though India has the third-largest internet user-base in the world, only 10% of the country is actually online. Even by 2015, when internet access is expected to reach 28% of the population, the equivalent rural figure is likely to be just 9%, according to estimates.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“A lot of the core infrastructure that is necessary for language computing is missing,” said Sunil Abraham, executive director of the Centre for Internet & Society. “There’s no mandate by the government that these languages must be supported, no comprehensive dictionaries, no thesauri, no machine translation capabilities, no optical character recognition capabilities. Because our market is so insignificant for proprietary software makers, they haven’t done enough to develop these. Meanwhile, the free software community is too small and mostly English-speaking.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The government has launched some initiatives in this regard, like a National Translation Mission aimed at machine translating text from English into Indic languages, as well as banks of fonts that are free to use. But Abraham said that while the government is clear this should be a priority area, it underestimates the scale of the problem.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“We need large scale investment by the government into each language,” he said. “We’re looking at maybe even Rs 100 crore per language, to bring each of our traditional languages into the internet age.”</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/scroll-in-rohan-venkataramakrishnan-will-domain-dot-bharat-spur-the-growth-of-Indian-languages-on-the-internet'>http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/news/scroll-in-rohan-venkataramakrishnan-will-domain-dot-bharat-spur-the-growth-of-Indian-languages-on-the-internet</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaWikipediaInternet GovernanceAccess to Knowledge2014-09-08T05:50:11ZNews ItemWikiWars: Programme
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<b>The programme for Wikiwars, 12th, 13th January - MS Office document</b>
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