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Research Studies on Indian Language Wikimedia Projects 2019-21
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<b>This is a compilation of the final reports from a series of short-term studies undertaken by the CIS-A2K team in 2019-2021, on an array of topics related to Indian language Wikimedia projects. The projects were undertaken by Subodh Kulkarni, Bodhisattwa Mandal, Bhuvana Meenakshi Koteeswaran, Ananth Subray, Satpal Dandiwal and Nitesh Gill, with research oversight and editorial support by Puthiya Purayil Sneha, and internal review by Sumandro Chattapadhyay and Ambika Tandon.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify;">See the full report on Wikimedia Commons <a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Research_Studies_on_Indian_Language_Wikimedia_Projects.pdf&page=1">here</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Click to download the full report <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/research-studies-on-indian-language-wikimedia-projects" class="internal-link">here</a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Wikipedia and its many sister projects have been rich sites of study for researchers across the world for many years now. The online encyclopedia presents a microcosm of the real world in terms of the dynamics of knowledge production and use, including content and infrastructure, and community interaction among many other things. Research about Wikimedia projects and platforms has been undertaken in various languages, and from multidisciplinary perspectives, as illustrated by the research index on Wikimedia Meta-Wiki, and several important publications over the last several years. Research on Indian languageWikimedia projects and platforms, and on topics related to the sub-continent have also emerged significantly over the last several years.However, as understood in the course of the studies in this compilation as well, awareness about such research within the communities itself remains limited. While there is a lot of important work being undertaken on topics relevant to Indian Wikimedia projects, often by researchers who are Wikimedians themselves, factors such as dissemination beyond academic spaces, and accessibility in terms of language and context seem to also affect their availability to the larger communities, and in terms of implementation of learnings and recommendations.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The six short-term research studies undertaken by the Access to Knowledge team over 2019–2021 were therefore initiated as a pilot, an initial foray into the space of research on Wikimedia projects in India. Based on the recommendations of the Wikimedia Foundation, this work was undertaken primarily to tap into new areas of work, while also drawing upon existing expertise at CIS, and in order to build the capacity of the team. With these broader motivations in mind, the research was structured with the following objectives to:</p>
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<li>Identify knowledge gaps, challenges, and opportunities in different aspects of content creation and participation in Indian language Wikimedia projects.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Develop a better understanding of systemic issues such as gender bias in Indian language communities, access to and reuse of cultural content, open learning in multilingual classrooms, and specific experiences of content creation within Wikimedia communities in India and associated initiatives.</li>
<li>Develop recommendations and best practices towards addressing existing challenges and optimising available resources for the larger free knowledge movement.</li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The studies in this compilation therefore examine different aspects of Wikimedia platforms and projects in India, in close alignment with existing work in the programme. These include the gender gap in Indian Wikimedia communities, creating multilingual and open educational platforms and resources, focus on specific projects such as GLAM and Wikidata, and efforts and challenges with content creation, access and outreach in specific language communities.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Working on these studies has been a learning experience, especially given the diverse contexts in which the projects are located, and the capacities and interests of the researchers themselves. The design of the studies was also therefore developed and modified to build on existing capacities within the team, and its learnings from previous years of working with various language communities. Capacity-building for team members on research design, methods, fieldwork and documentation was mostly done through close individual supervision and collaborative work. The methods used were largely qualitative, and ranged from interviews, literature reviews, data visualisations, focused group discussions and comparative analyses. The effort was also to try and capture the scale and diversity of the nature of work being undertaken in different Indian language communities through these projects. There were several challenges as well, beginning with framing the research questions and project design in a way that they were accessible to a wider community of people who would be engaged in contributing their inputs towards the work. Process-related challenges, such as translation of interview questionnaires into Indian languages revealed several interesting gaps, such as the lack of technical terms related to digitization or open access in these languages. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 led to restrictions on field visits, thus effectively hampering in person conversations and easier access to community members.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">There have been several learnings in the course of working on these studies, key among them being questions of awareness, relevance and impact. The lack of existing and easily accessible research (including those outside academic work) on several areas of Wikimedia in the Indian context has been a limitation in many ways, offering little in terms of available knowledge and best practices to work with. The limited awareness about, and imagined relevance of research in the regular work of communities has also been an impediment. As illustrated by learnings from a short research needs assessment carried out earlier this year, few community members were aware of research on Wikimedia projects being undertaken in India, and on a global scale. More importantly, there needs to be a conversation on its relevance to their own work, and to the larger movement. An effective communication strategy for research work, in different Indian languages, would perhaps address some of these gaps. A closely related question is also that of impact. The studies in this collection largely focus on short-term impact, through best practices and recommendations that may be developed through the research studies. While this is definitely a pragmatic approach, often the interest in a problem-solution design may look at research purely from an instrumental lens to identify quick solutions and their implementation, without a critical take on exploring and understanding larger, systemic or structural gaps that may be contributing to the problems itself. Going forward, it would be imperative therefore to identify areas of research, and build processes of research design that may address these challenges. Given the dynamic nature of Wikimedia, its platforms and communities, it is important to identify immediate gaps and possible solutions, but also to speak precisely to this aspect of long-term impact and relevance, to both current areas of work and the growth of the larger movement. We hope the studies in this compilation offer some insights towards these, and many more interesting questions related to research on Wikimedia and the free knowledge movement in India.</p>
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No publishersnehaCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaA2K Research2022-10-21T12:59:55ZBlog EntryProject Tiger 2.0 utilisation certificate
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No publisherA2KWikimediaWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeProject Tiger2020-09-23T23:40:44ZFileProject Tiger 2.0
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<b>If you think that Indian languages are as important as international languages, like English, then, you are on the same page with this article. If not, then, let me explain, why it is a significant and much bigger issue than you think.</b>
<p><span>The blog post by Suswetha Kolluru and Nitesh Gill is in multiple languages: English, Punjabi, Hindi and Telugu.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">భారతీయ భాషలు కూడా ఆంగ్లం వంటి అంతర్జాతీయ భాషలతో సమానంగా ముఖ్యమైనవి అని మీరు అనుకుంటే ఈ వ్యాసం మీరు తప్పకుండ చదవాలి. ఒక వేళా మీకు అలా అనిపించకపోతే, ఈ విషయం ఎంత ముఖ్యమైనది మరియు పెద్దది అని చెప్తాను చూడండి. ప్రతి రోజు లక్షల మంది వినియోగదారులు అంతర్జాలం నుండి సమాచారాన్ని పొందడానికి ప్రయత్నిస్తుంటారు. భారతదేశంలో, మాతృభాషలో సమాచారాన్ని పొందడానికి ప్రయత్నించే వినియోగదారుల సంఖ్య అధికంగా ఉంది. 2021వ సంవత్సరం నాటికీ, హిందీ వినియోగదారుల సంఖ్య ఆంగ్ల వినియోగదారుల సంఖ్యను అధిగమిస్తుందని మరియు మరికొన్ని భారతీయ భాషలు అంతర్జాలంలో 30% వినియోగదారులను కలిగి ఉంటాయని అధ్యయనం చెబుతుంది. 68% అంతర్జాల వినియోగదారులు ఆంగ్ల భాష సమాచారం కంటే స్థానిక భాషా సమాచారం నమ్మదగినదిగా భావిస్త్తున్నారని పరిశోధన పేర్కొనింది.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">ఈ వాస్తవాలు అన్నీ ఉన్నప్పటికీ, భారతీయ భాషలలోని సమాచారాన్ని పొందకుండా వినియోగదారులను పరిమితం చేసే ఒక ప్రధాన కారణం, ఆన్లైన్లో కనిపించే భారీ జ్ఞాన అంతరం. గూగుల్ యొక్క పరిశోధనా బృందం భారతీయ భాషలలో అంతర్జాలంలో ఎక్కువగా శోధించిన మరియు తప్పిపోయిన అంశాల ఫలితాలను విశ్లేషించినప్పుడు, వారు వికీమీడియా ఫౌండేషన్తో భాగస్వామ్యం కావాలని నిర్ణయించుకున్నారు మరియు ప్రాజెక్ట్ టైగర్ అనే పైలట్ ప్రోగ్రామ్ను ప్రారంభించారు. దీనిని 2017లో, సెంటర్ ఫర్ ఇంటర్నెట్ అండ్ సొసైటీ - యాక్సిస్ టు నాలెడ్జ్ వారి సహకారంతో భారతీయ వికీమీడియన్లను తమ స్థానిక భాషలో నాణ్యత గల సమాచారమును అభివృద్ధి చేయటంలో ప్రోత్సహించడానికి ప్రారంభించారు.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">ప్రాజెక్ట్ టైగర్ అనేది భారత దేశంలో పులులను రక్షించడం కోసం ప్రారంభించిన పర్యావరణ ప్రాజెక్ట్. దానిని స్ఫూర్తిగా తీసుకోని వికీపీడియా యొక్క ప్రాజెక్ట్ టైగర్ భారత దేశపు స్థానిక భాషలను సంరక్షించుకుంటూ స్థానిక భాషా వికీపీడియాలలో నాణ్యమైన సమాచారమును అభివృద్ధి చేయటమే లక్ష్యంగా పెట్టుకుంది. ఈ ప్రాజెక్ట్ రెండు దశల్లో జరుగుతుంది: ప్రాజెక్ట్ టైగర్ 2018 లో భాగంగా గూగుల్, వ్యాసాల రచనలను పెంచడానికి సాంకేతిక సహకారం అవసరమయ్యే అనుభవజ్ఞులైన వికీమీడియన్లకు మరియు ఆశాజనక వికీమీడియన్లకు 50 క్రోమ్బుక్లు మరియు 100 ఇంటర్నెట్ స్టైపెండ్లను అందచేయడం జరిగింది. పంపిణీ పూర్తయిన తర్వాత, కమ్యూనిటీలు గూగుల్ అందించిన జాబితా నుండి కథనాలను సృష్టించడం ప్రారంభించాయి.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">2018 లో జరిగిన ప్రాజెక్ట్ టైగర్ యొక్క మొదటి పునరావృతంలో, 12 భారతీయ కమ్యూనిటీలు మార్చి నుండి మేల వరకు 3 నెలలు జరిగిన వ్యాస రచన పోటీలో పాల్గొని, మొత్తం 1,65,774 పేజీ వీక్షణలతో 4,466 వ్యాసాలను సృష్టించాయి! ప్రతి వ్యాసాన్ని సంబంధిత భాషా జ్యూరీ సభ్యుడు పారామితుల ప్రకారం సమీక్షిస్తారు. ఒక వ్యాసం అన్ని ప్రమాణాలకు అనుగుణంగా ఉంటేనే అది అంగీకరించబడుతుంది. ఈ పోటీలో పంజాబీ కమ్యూనిటీ 1320 వ్యాసాలతో విజయం సాధించింది, తమిళ కమ్యూనిటీ 1241 వ్యాసాలతో రెండవ స్థానంలో ఉంది.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">ప్రతి కమ్యూనిటీ నుండి మొదటి మూడు స్థానాలలోవచ్చినవిజేతలకు ఇచ్చే నెలవారీ బహుమతులతో పాటు, గెలిచిన మరియు రన్నరప్ కమ్యూనిటీలు పంజాబ్లోని అమృత్సర్లో 3 రోజుల శిక్షణను పొందారు. ఈ ట్రైనింగ్సెషన్కు యూజర్: అసఫ్ (WMF) నాయకత్వం వహించారు, అక్కడ అతను ఎన్సైక్లోపెడిక్ విలువతో వ్యాసాలు రాయడం గురించి పాల్గొనేవారికి నేర్పించాడు మరియు వికీడేటా మరియు అందులో ఉపయోగించిన సాధనాలను కూడా పరిచయం చేశాడు.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">2018 లో ప్రాజెక్ట్ టైగర్ యొక్క భారీ విజయాన్ని చూసిన తరువాత, రెండవ పునరుక్తిని ప్రాజెక్ట్ టైగర్ 2.0 లేదా గ్లో (వికీపీడియాలో పెరుగుతున్న స్థానిక భాషా కంటెంట్) అని ప్రారంభించారు. భారతదేశంతో పాటు మరో రెండు దేశాల్లో ఇది మొదటిసారి నడుస్తోంది. ఇంతకుముందు పాల్గొన్న 12 భాషా సంఘాలతో పాటు, సంతాలి మరియు సంస్కృతం కూడా ఈ సంవత్సరం పోటీలో పాల్గొనడానికి అంగీకరించాయి. కమ్యూనిటీలు వ్రాయడానికి వారి స్వంత కథనాల సమితితో పాటు గూగుల్ ఇచ్చిన జాబితాతో వస్తున్నాయి. ఈ సంవత్సరం, ఈ ప్రాజెక్ట్ అధిక నాణ్యత కలిగిన కథనాలను లక్ష్యంగా పెట్టుకుంది. మరియు అన్నీ కమ్యూనిటీల వారు కూడా అదే విధంగా చేయటానికి కట్టుబడి ఉన్నాయి.</p>
<p dir="ltr">మీరు పోటీలో చేరడానికి ఆసక్తి కలిగి ఉంటే, దయచేసి ఈ లింకును సందర్శించండి</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Growing_Local_Language_Content_on_Wikipedia_(Project_Tiger_2.0)">https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Growing_Local_Language_Content_on_Wikipedia_(Project_Tiger_2.0)</a></p>
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No publisherSuswetha Kolluru and Nitesh GillWikimediaCIS-A2KWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2019-11-24T09:17:42ZBlog EntryProject Tiger 2.0
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/project-tiger-2-hindi
<b>If you think that Indian languages are as important as international languages, like English, then, you are on the same page with this article. If not, then, let me explain, why it is a significant and much bigger issue than you think.</b>
<p>The blog post by Suswetha Kolluru and Nitesh Gill is in multiple languages: English, Punjabi, Hindi and Telugu.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">अगर आप सोचते हैं कि मूल भाषाएँ भी अंग्रेजी जैसी अंतरराष्ट्रीय भाषाओं जितनी ही महत्वपूर्ण है, तो इस पोस्ट को ज़रूर पढ़िए। यदि आपको ऐसा नही लगता, तो आइए आपको संक्षेप में बताएँ कि यह एक जरूरी और बड़ा मुद्दा है। हर दिन, लाखों उपभोगकर्ता इंटरनेट से जानकारी प्राप्त करने की कोशिश करते हैं। भारत में, बहु-गिनती अपनी मूल भाषा में जानकारी प्राप्त करने वालों की है। आंकड़े बताते हैं कि साल 2021 तक, हिन्दी उपभोगकर्ताओं की गिनती अंग्रेजी उपभोगकर्ताओं की गिनती को पार कर देगी और कुछ ओर भारती भाषाएँ मिलकर भारती भाषा के इंटरनेट उपभोग-कर्ता आधार का 30% बनती है। खोज अनुसार 68% इंटरनेट उपभोगकर्ता स्थानीय सामग्री को अंग्रेजी से ज्यादा भरोसेमंद मानता है।</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">इन सब तथ्यों के बावजूद, भारतीय भाषा के इंटरनेट उपभोगकर्ताओं के लिए जानकारी प्राप्त करने का दायरा बहुत सीमित है जिस का मुख्य कारण ऑनलाइन मौजूदा ज्ञान की कमी है। इस समस्या का समाधान करने के लिए, गूगल ने विकीमीडिया फ़ाउंडेशन के साथ मिलकर काम का फैसला लिया। गूगल और विकीमीडिया ने मिलकर एक पायलट प्रोजेक्ट शुरू किया जिस का नाम प्राजैकट टाइगर रखा रखा। इस प्रोजेक्ट को भारतीय भाषाओं के विकिपीडियाओं का समर्थन (Supporting Indian language Wikipedias) के नाम से भी जाना जाता है। 2017 में सैंटर फार इंटरनेट एंड सोसाइटी- एक्सिस टू नॉलेज के माध्यम से भारती विकीमिडीअनस के सहयोग के साथ स्थानीय भाषाओं के विकीपीडिया पर उच्च गुणवत्ता की सामग्री को तैयार करना शुरू किया गया।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">प्रोजेक्ट टाइगर का नाम भारत में शुरू किए गए 'Save Tiger' प्रोजेक्ट से प्रेरित है। Save Tiger परियोजना का उद्देश्य टाइगर की रक्षा करना था और प्रोजेक्ट टाइगर का लक्ष्य भारतीय भाषाओं को संरक्षित करना और स्थानीय विकिपीडिया पर मूल भाषा में सामग्री तैयार करना है। इस परियोजना को दो चरणों में विभाजित किया गया है। पहले चरण में, गूगल ने 2018 में अनुभवी और सक्रिय विकीमीडिया को 50 क्रामबुक और 100 इंटरनेट सुविधाएँ प्रदान की थी। चयनित विकिमेडियनों को प्रौद्योगिकी सुविधाएँ प्रदान करने के बाद, प्रतियोगिता के लिए गूगल द्वारा उपलब्ध कराए गए लेखों की सूची से और समुदाय द्वारा उत्पादित स्थानीय लेखों की सूची से लेख बनाना शुरू किया।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">प्रोजेक्ट टाइगर पहली बार 2018 में आयोजित किया गया था, जिसमें 12 भारतीय समुदाय शामिल थे। इन समुदायों ने मार्च से मई तक 3 महीने के लेख लेखन प्रतियोगिता में अपना योगदान दिया और 4,466 नए लेख बनाए। प्रत्येक समुदाय द्वारा अपनी स्वयं की जूरी चुनी गई थी, जिन्होंने मानदंडों के अनुसार बनाए गए लेखों की समीक्षा की थी। यदि कोई लेख सभी मापदंडों को पूरा करता है, तो उसे स्वीकार किया गया और एक अंक दिया गया। इस प्रतियोगिता में पंजाबी समुदाय ने कुल 1,320 लेखों के साथ प्रतियोगिता में जीत हासिल की, जबकि तमिल समुदाय 1,241 लेखों के साथ दूसरे स्थान पर रहा।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">प्रत्येक समुदाय के प्रथम तीन प्रतिभागियों को मासिक पुरस्कार देने के अलावा, विजेता और उप-विजेता समुदायों को अमृतसर, पंजाब में तीन दिन का विकी प्रशिक्षण दिया गया था। इसका नेतृत्व User: Asaf (WMF) द्वारा किया गया जहां उन्होने प्रतिभागियों को लेख लिखने के लिए नियमों से परिचित कराया और विकीडाटा के बारे में बताने के साथ-साथ इसमें इस्तेमाल किए गए टूलों का उपयोग करना भी सिखाया गया।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">2018 में प्रोजेक्ट टाइगर की उत्कृष्ट सफलता को देखने के बाद, दूसरी बार प्रोजेक्ट टाइगर का आयोजन किया जा रहा है, जिसका नाम प्रोजेक्ट टाइगर 2.0 या GLOW (GLOW-Growing Local Language Content on Wikipedia) है। यह भारत के अलावा पहली बार दो ओर देशों में आयोजित किया जा रहा है। पिछली बार 12 भाषाई समुदायों ने इसमें भाग लिया था। इसके अलावा, इस वर्ष संथाली और संस्कृत भी इस प्रतियोगिता में भाग लेने के लिए सहमत हो गए हैं। समुदाय, जल्द ही, गूगल द्वारा उपलब्ध कराए गए लेखों की सूची और उनके द्वारा बनाई गई स्थानीय सूचियों से लेख बनाना शुरू करेंगे। इस वर्ष, इस परियोजना का उद्देश्य उच्च गुणवत्ता वाले लेख हैं और समुदाय ऐसा करने के लिए प्रतिबद्ध हैं।</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/project-tiger-2-hindi'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/project-tiger-2-hindi</a>
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No publisherSuswetha Kolluru and Nitesh GillWikimediaCIS-A2KWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2019-11-24T09:15:06ZBlog EntryProject Tiger 2.0
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/project-tiger-2-punjabi
<b>If you think that Indian languages are as important as international languages, like English, then, you are on the same page with this article. If not, then, let me explain, why it is a significant and much bigger issue than you think.</b>
<p>The blog post by Suswetha Kolluru and Nitesh Gill is in multiple languages: English, Punjabi, Hindi and Telugu.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">ਜੇਕਰ ਤੁਸੀਂ ਸੋਚਦੇ ਹੋ ਕਿ ਮੂਲ ਭਾਸ਼ਾਵਾਂ ਵੀ ਅੰਗਰੇਜ਼ੀ ਵਰਗੀਆਂ ਅੰਤਰਰਾਸ਼ਟਰੀ ਭਾਸ਼ਾਵਾਂ ਜਿੰਨੀਆਂ ਮਹੱਤਵਪੂਰਣ ਹਨ, ਤਾਂ ਤੁਸੀਂ ਇਸ ਪੋਸਟ ਨੂੰ ਜ਼ਰੂਰ ਪੜ੍ਹੋ। ਜੇ ਤੁਹਾਨੂੰ ਇਸ ਤਰ੍ਹਾਂ ਨਹੀਂ ਲੱਗਦਾ ਹੈ, ਤਾਂ ਤੁਹਾਨੂੰ ਸੰਖੇਪ ਵਿਚ ਦੱਸ ਦਈਏ ਕਿ ਇਹ ਇੱਕ ਮਹੱਤਵਪੂਰਣ ਅਤੇ ਵੱਡਾ ਮੁੱਦਾ ਕਿਉਂ ਹੈ। ਹਰ ਰੋਜ਼, ਲੱਖਾਂ ਉਪਭੋਗਤਾ ਇੰਟਰਨੈਟ ਤੋਂ ਜਾਣਕਾਰੀ ਪ੍ਰਾਪਤ ਕਰਨ ਦੀ ਕੋਸ਼ਿਸ਼ ਕਰਦੇ ਹਨ। ਭਾਰਤ ਵਿੱਚ, ਆਪਣੀ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ (ਮੂਲ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ) ਵਿੱਚ ਜਾਣਕਾਰੀ ਪ੍ਰਾਪਤ ਕਰਨ ਦੀ ਕੋਸ਼ਿਸ਼ ਕਰਨ ਵਾਲਿਆਂ ਦੀ ਬਹੁਤਾਤ ਹੈ। ਅੰਕੜੇ ਕਹਿੰਦੇ ਹਨ ਕਿ ਸਾਲ 2021 ਤੱਕ, ਹਿੰਦੀ ਉਪਭੋਗਤਾਵਾਂ ਦੀ ਗਿਣਤੀ ਅੰਗਰੇਜ਼ੀ ਉਪਭੋਗਤਾਵਾਂ ਦੀ ਗਿਣਤੀ ਨੂੰ ਪਾਰ ਕਰ ਦੇਵੇਗੀ ਅਤੇ ਕੁਝ ਹੋਰ ਭਾਰਤੀ ਭਾਸ਼ਾਵਾਂ ਮਿਲਕੇ ਭਾਰਤੀ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ ਦੇ ਇੰਟਰਨੈਟ ਉਪਭੋਗਤਾ ਅਧਾਰ ਦਾ 30% ਬਣਦੀਆਂ ਹਨ। ਖੋਜ ਇਹ ਵੀ ਕਹਿੰਦੀ ਹੈ ਕਿ 68% ਇੰਟਰਨੈਟ ਉਪਭੋਗਤਾ ਸਥਾਨਕ ਸਮੱਗਰੀ ਨੂੰ ਅੰਗਰੇਜ਼ੀ ਸਮੱਗਰੀ ਨਾਲੋਂ ਵਧੇਰੇ ਭਰੋਸੇਮੰਦ ਮੰਨਦੇ ਹਨ।</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">ਇਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਸਾਰੇ ਤੱਥਾਂ ਦੇ ਬਾਵਜੂਦ, ਭਾਰਤੀ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ ਦੇ ਇੰਟਰਨੈਟ ਉਪਭੋਗਤਾਵਾਂ ਲਈ ਜਾਣਕਾਰੀ ਤੱਕ ਪਹੁੰਚ ਕਰਨ ਦਾ ਦਾਇਰਾ ਭੂਤ ਸੀਮਤ ਹੈ ਜਿਸ ਦਾ ਮੁੱਖ ਕਾਰਨ ਆਨਲਾਈਨ ਮੌਜੂਦਾ ਗਿਆਨ ਦਾ ਵੱਡਾ ਪਾੜਾ ਹੈ। ਇਸ ਸਮੱਸਿਆ ਨੂੰ ਪਛਾਣਦਿਆਂ, ਗੂਗਲ ਨੇ ਪਾਇਆ ਕਿ ਸਥਾਨਕ ਭਾਸ਼ਾਵਾਂ ਵਿਚ ਸਮਗਰੀ ਨੂੰ ਉਪਲਬਧ ਕਰਵਾਉਣਾ ਜ਼ਰੂਰੀ ਹੈ ਤਾਂ ਗੂਗਲ ਨੇ ਵਿਕੀਮੀਡੀਆ ਨਾਲ ਮਿਲ ਕੇ ਕੰਮ ਕਰਨ ਦਾ ਫੈਸਲਾ ਕੀਤਾ। ਗੂਗਲ ਅਤੇ ਵਿਕੀਮੀਡੀਆ ਫਾਉਂਡੇਸ਼ਨ ਨੇ ਪ੍ਰਾਜੈਕਟ ਟਾਈਗਰ ਨਾਮਕ ਇੱਕ ਪਾਇਲਟ ਪ੍ਰੋਗਰਾਮ ਸ਼ੁਰੂ ਕੀਤਾ। ਇਸ ਨੂੰ, ਭਾਰਤੀ ਭਾਸ਼ਾਵਾਂ ਦੇ ਵਿਕੀਪੀਡੀਆ ਦਾ ਸਮਰਥਨ (Supporting Indian language Wikipedias) ਵਜੋਂ ਵੀ ਜਾਣਿਆ ਜਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ, 2017 ਵਿਚ ਸੈਂਟਰ ਫਾਰ ਇੰਟਰਨੈਟ ਐਂਡ ਸੁਸਾਇਟੀ - ਐਕਸੈਸ ਟੂ ਨੋਲਜ ਦੇ ਮਾਧਿਅਮ ਰਾਹੀਂ ਭਾਰਤੀ ਵਿਕੀਮੀਡੀਅਨਜ਼ ਦੇ ਸਹਿਯੋਗ ਨਾਲ ਸਥਾਨਕ ਭਾਸ਼ਾਵਾਂ ਦੇ ਵਿਕੀਪੀਡੀਆ 'ਤੇ ਉੱਚ ਪੱਧਰੀ ਸਮੱਗਰੀ ਨੂੰ ਤਿਆਰ ਕਰਨਾ ਸ਼ੁਰੂ ਕੀਤਾ।<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Supporting_Indian_Language_Wikipedias_Program">https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Supporting_Indian_Language_Wikipedias_Program</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ਪ੍ਰਾਜੈਕਟ ਟਾਈਗਰ ਦਾ ਨਾਂ, ਭਾਰਤ ਦੇ ਵਿਚ ਸ਼ੁਰੂ ਹੋਏ 'Save Tiger' ਪ੍ਰਾਜੈਕਟ ਤੋਂ ਪ੍ਰੇਰਿਤ ਹੋ ਕੇ ਰੱਖਿਆ ਗਿਆ ਹੈ। ਇਸ ਪ੍ਰਾਜੈਕਟ ਦਾ ਮਕਸਦ ਚਿੱਤਿਆਂ ਨੂੰ ਬਚਾਉਣਾ ਸੀ ਅਤੇ ਪ੍ਰਾਜੈਕਟ ਟਾਈਗਰ ਦਾ ਉਦੇਸ਼ ਭਾਰਤੀ ਭਾਸ਼ਾਵਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਬਚਾਉਣਾ ਤੇ ਸਥਾਨਕ ਵਿਕੀਪੀਡੀਆ 'ਤੇ ਸਥਾਨਕ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ 'ਚ ਸਮੱਗਰੀ ਨੂੰ ਤਿਆਰ ਕਰਨਾ ਹੈ। ਇਸ ਪ੍ਰੋਜੈਕਟ ਨੂੰ ਦੋ ਪੜਾਵਾਂ ਵਿੱਚ ਵਿਭਾਜਿਤ ਕੀਤਾ ਗਿਆ ਹੈ। ਪਹਿਲੇ ਪੜਾਅ ਵਿਚ 2018 ਵਿਚ ਗੂਗਲ ਦੁਆਰਾ ਅਨੁਭਵੀ ਅਤੇ ਸਰਗਰਮ ਵਿਕੀਮੀਡੀਅਨਾਂ ਨੂੰ 50 ਕ੍ਰਾਮਬੁੱਕ ਅਤੇ 100 ਇੰਟਰਨੈਟ ਸੁਵਿਧਾਵਾਂ ਪ੍ਰਦਾਨ ਕੀਤੀਆਂ ਜਾਂਦੀਆਂ ਹਨ। ਜਦੋਂ ਇੱਕ ਵਾਰ ਚੁਨਿੰਦਾ ਵਿਕੀਮੀਡੀਅਨਜ਼ ਨੂੰ ਤਕਨਾਲੋਜੀ ਸੰਬੰਧੀ ਸੁਵਿਧਾਵਾਂ ਪ੍ਰਦਾਨ ਕਰ ਦਿੱਤੀਆਂ ਜਾਂਦੀਆਂ ਹਨ ਤਾਂ ਇਸ ਮੁਕਾਬਲੇ ਦੇ ਭਾਗੀਦਾਰ ਭਾਈਚਾਰੇ ਗੂਗਲ ਦੁਆਰਾ ਪ੍ਰਦਾਨ ਕੀਤੀ ਲੇਖਾਂ ਦੀ ਸੂਚੀ ਅਤੇ ਭਾਈਚਾਰੇ ਦੁਆਰਾ ਬਣਾਈ ਸਥਾਨਕ ਲੇਖਾਂ ਦੀ ਸੂਚੀ ਵਿਚੋਂ ਲੇਖ ਬਣਾਉਣੇ ਸ਼ੁਰੂ ਕੀਤੇ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ਪ੍ਰਾਜੈਕਟ ਟਾਈਗਰ ਨੂੰ ਪਹਿਲੀ ਵਾਰ 2018 ਵਿੱਚ ਆਯੋਜਿਤ ਕੀਤਾ ਗਿਆ ਸੀ ਜਿਸ ਵਿਚ 12 ਭਾਰਤੀ ਭਾਈਚਾਰਿਆਂ ਨੇ ਭਾਗ ਲਿਆ ਸੀ। ਇਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਭਾਈਚਾਰਿਆਂ ਨੇ ਮਾਰਚ ਤੋਂ ਮਈ ਦੇ ਦੌਰਾਨ 3 ਮਹੀਨੇ ਦੇ ਲੇਖ ਲਿਖਣ ਮੁਕਾਬਲੇ ਵਿੱਚ ਆਪਣਾ ਯੋਗਦਾਨ ਪਾਇਆ ਅਤੇ 4,466 ਨਵੇਂ ਲੇਖਾਂ ਦਾ ਵਾਧਾ ਕੀਤਾ। ਹਰੇਕ ਭਾਈਚਾਰੇ ਦੀ ਆਪਣੀ ਜਿਊਰੀ ਚੁਣੀ ਗਈ ਸੀ ਜਿਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਨੇ ਲੇਖਾਂ ਦੀ ਮਾਪਦੰਡਾਂ ਅਨੁਸਾਰ ਸਮੀਖਿਆ ਕੀਤੀ। ਜੇਕਰ ਕੋਈ ਲੇਖ ਸਾਰੇ ਮਾਪਦੰਡਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਪੂਰਾ ਕਰਦਾ ਸੀ, ਤਾਂ ਉਸ ਨੂੰ ਸਵੀਕਾਰ ਕਰ ਇੱਕ ਪੁਆਇੰਟ ਦਿੱਤਾ ਜਾਂਦਾ ਸੀ। ਇਸ ਮੁਕਾਬਲੇ ਵਿਚ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਭਾਈਚਾਰੇ ਨੇ ਕੁਲ 1320 ਲੇਖਾਂ ਨਾਲ ਮੁਕਾਬਲਾ ਜਿੱਤਿਆ, ਜਦਕਿ ਤਾਮਿਲ ਭਾਈਚਾਰੇ ਨੇ 1241 ਲੇਖਾਂ ਨਾਲ ਦੂਜਾ ਸਥਾਨ ਹਾਸਿਲ ਕੀਤਾ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ਹਰੇਕ ਭਾਈਚਾਰੇ ਵਿਚੋਂ ਚੋਟੀ ਦੇ ਤਿੰਨ ਭਾਗੀਦਾਰਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਮਾਸਿਕ ਇਨਾਮ ਦੇਣ ਤੋਂ ਇਲਾਵਾ, ਜੇਤੂ ਅਤੇ ਉਪ-ਜੇਤੂ ਭਾਈਚਾਰਿਆਂ ਨੂੰ ਇਨਾਮ ਵਜੋਂ 3 ਦਿਨਾਂ ਦੀ ਵਿਕੀ ਸੰਬੰਧੀ ਸਿਖਲਾਈ ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤਸਰ, ਪੰਜਾਬ ਵਿਖੇ ਦਿੱਤੀ ਗਈ। ਇਸ ਦੀ ਅਗਵਾਈ User:Asaf (WMF) ਦੁਆਰਾ ਕੀਤੀ ਗਈ ਜਿੱਥੇ ਉਸਨੇ ਭਾਗੀਦਾਰਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਲੇਖ ਲਿਖਣ ਦੇ ਨਿਯਮਾਂ ਤੋਂ ਜਾਣੂ ਕਰਵਾਇਆ ਅਤੇ ਵਿਕੀਡਾਟਾ ਬਾਰੇ ਤੇ ਇਸ ਵਿੱਚ ਵਰਤੇ ਜਾਣ ਵਾਲੇ ਟੂਲਾਂ ਦੀ ਵਰਤੋਂ ਕਰਨੀ ਆਦਿ ਦੀ ਸਿਖਲਾਈ ਦਿੱਤੀ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">2018 ਵਿੱਚ ਪ੍ਰੋਜੈਕਟ ਟਾਈਗਰ ਦੀ ਬੇਮਿਸਾਲ ਸਫਲਤਾ ਵੇਖਣ ਤੋਂ ਬਾਅਦ, ਦੂਸਰੀ ਵਾਰ ਵੀ ਪ੍ਰਾਜੈਕਟ ਟਾਈਗਰ ਆਯੋਜਿਤ ਕੀਤਾ ਜਾ ਰਿਹਾ ਹੈ ਜਿਸ ਨੂੰ ਪ੍ਰੋਜੈਕਟ ਟਾਈਗਰ 2.0 ਜਾਂ ਗਲੋਅ (GLOW -Growing Local Language Content on Wikipedia) ਦਾ ਨਾਂ ਦਿੱਤਾ ਗਿਆ ਹੈ। ਇਹ ਪਹਿਲੀ ਵਾਰ ਭਾਰਤ ਤੋਂ ਇਲਾਵਾ ਦੋ ਹੋਰ ਦੇਸ਼ਾਂ ਵਿੱਚ ਆਯੋਜਿਤ ਕੀਤਾ ਜਾ ਰਿਹਾ ਹੈ। ਇਸ ਵਿਚ ਪਿਛਲੀ ਵਾਰ 12 ਭਾਸ਼ਾਈ ਭਾਈਚਾਰਿਆਂ ਨੇ ਭਾਗ ਲਿਆ ਸੀ, ਇਸ ਤੋਂ ਇਲਾਵਾ, ਇਸ ਸਾਲ ਸੰਥਾਲੀ ਅਤੇ ਸੰਸਕ੍ਰਿਤ ਵੀ ਇਸ ਮੁਕਾਬਲੇ ਵਿਚ ਸ਼ਾਮਲ ਹੋਣ ਲਈ ਰਜ਼ਾਮੰਦ ਹੋਏ ਹਨ। ਭਾਈਚਾਰੇ ਗੂਗਲ ਦੁਆਰਾ ਪ੍ਰਦਾਨ ਕੀਤੀ ਲੇਖਾਂ ਦੀ ਸੂਚੀ ਅਤੇ ਆਪਣੇ ਦੁਆਰਾ ਬਣਾਈ ਸਥਾਨਕ ਸੂਚੀ ਵਿਚੋਂ ਲੇਖ ਬਣਾਉਣਾ ਸ਼ੁਰੂ ਕਰਣਗੇ। ਇਸ ਸਾਲ, ਪ੍ਰਾਜੈਕਟ ਦਾ ਉਦੇਸ਼ ਉੱਚ ਗੁਣਵੱਤਾ ਵਾਲੇ ਲੇਖ ਹਨ ਅਤੇ ਭਾਈਚਾਰੇ ਵੀ ਅਜਿਹਾ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ ਵਚਨਬੱਧ ਹਨ।</p>
<p>ਜੇ ਤੁਸੀਂ ਮੁਕਾਬਲੇ ਵਿੱਚ ਸ਼ਾਮਲ ਹੋਣਾ ਚਾਹੁੰਦੇ ਹੋ, ਤਾਂ ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰਕੇ ਇੱਥੇ <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Growing_Local_Language_Content_on_Wikipedia_(Project_Tiger_2.0)">ਦੇਖੋ</a>।</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/project-tiger-2-punjabi'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/project-tiger-2-punjabi</a>
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No publisherSuswetha Kolluru and Nitesh GillWikimediaCIS-A2KWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2019-11-24T09:13:03ZBlog EntryProject Tiger 2.0
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/suswetha-kolluru-and-nitesh-gill-november-22-2019-project-tiger-2
<b>If you think that Indian languages are as important as international languages, like English, then, you are on the same page with this article. If not, then, let me explain, why it is a significant and much bigger issue than you think.</b>
<p>The blog post by Suswetha Kolluru and Nitesh Gill is in multiple languages: English, Punjabi, Hindi and Telugu.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">Every day, millions of users try to access information from the internet. In India, the number of users who try to access information in their own language (native/Indic language) is mind-boggling. Study says that by the year 2021, the number of Hindi users will surpass that of the English users and a few other indic languages which together form 30% of the Indian languages internet user base. Research also says that 68% of internet users consider local language content to be more reliable than English content.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">Despite all these facts, one major reason that is limiting users from accessing information in Indian Languages, is the huge knowledge gap that is found online. When Google’s research team analyzed the results of most searched yet missing topics on the internet in Indian Languages, they decided to partner with the Wikimedia Foundation and started a pilot program called Project Tiger, also known as Supporting Indian language Wikipedias in collaboration with the Centre for Internet and Society - Access to Knowledge in 2017 to support Indic Wikimedians in generating high quality content in their local language Wikipedias. <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Supporting_Indian_Language_Wikipedias_Program">Read More</a>.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">Project Tiger, as the name suggests, is inspired by, and named after, an environmental project in India, to save tigers. Similarly, Wikipedia’s project Tiger, aims at nurturing locally relevant content on Indic language Wikipedias. This project happens in two phases:The first phase during early 2018 is when Google provided 50 Acer Laptops and 100 Internet stipends to experienced and promising Wikimedians, who needed infrastructure support to increase contributions. Once the distribution is done, communities start creating articles from the list provided by Google. <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_Tiger_Editathon_2018">Read More</a></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">In the first iteration of Project Tiger held in 2018, 12 Indic communities came forward and took part in the 3 month article writing contest during March-May and created over 4,466 articles with total page views of 1,65,774! Every article is reviewed by the corresponding language jury member against several parameters. Only if an article meets all the criteria, it gets accepted. The Punjabi community won the contest with a whopping 1320 articles followed by the Tamil community with 1241 articles. <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_Tiger_Editathon_2018/Report">Read More</a></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">Besides the monthly prizes given to the top three contributors from each community, the winner and the runner up communities had a 3-day training session at Amritsar, Punjab. This session was lead by User:Asaf (WMF) where he taught the participants on writing articles with encyclopedic value and also introduced Wikidata and tools used in it. <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_Tiger_Training_2018">Read More</a></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">After witnessing the humongous success of Project Tiger in 2018, the second iteration has been rolled out which is called Project Tiger 2.0 or GLOW (Growing Local Language Content on Wikipedia). This is being run in four more countries apart from India for the first time. In addition to the 12 language communities that participated previously, Santali, Punjabi(Shanmukhi script) and Sanskrit also have agreed to join the contest this year. Communities have also come up with their own set of articles to write on, along with the list given by Google. This year, the project aims at articles with high quality and communities are committed to doing the same.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">If you are interested in joining, please <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Growing_Local_Language_Content_on_Wikipedia_(Project_Tiger_2.0)">visit this page</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/suswetha-kolluru-and-nitesh-gill-november-22-2019-project-tiger-2'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/suswetha-kolluru-and-nitesh-gill-november-22-2019-project-tiger-2</a>
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No publisherSuswetha Kolluru and Nitesh GillWikimediaCIS-A2KWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2019-11-24T09:18:00ZBlog EntryBhuvana Meenakshi elected Mozilla Rep for July 2019
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/bhuvana-meenakshi-elected-mozilla-rep-for-july-2019-1
<b>Bhuvana Meenakshi was selected as a Rep of the Month (July 2019) by Mozilla for my active contributions.</b>
<p>Reps are community coordinators interested in:</p>
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<li>finding and connecting new talent with Mozilla projects they are contributing to</li>
<li>developing communities on a functional or local level</li>
<li>supporting local communities and Mozilla to have an effective and decentralized environment for contribution</li>
<li>creating collaborations with adjacent communities to spread Mozilla’s mission and expand Mozilla’s outreach in the open source ecosystem</li>
<li>collecting local knowledge from Mozilla communities to inform and inspire Mozilla’s strategy, activities and priorities</li>
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<p><b>How is the Rep of the Month nominated?</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Every Rep can be nominated by any Reps Mentor to receive this recognition. Therefore it's possible to nominate other Reps, not just the mentor's mentees. This nomination is meant as a recognition for outstanding contributions to Mozilla through the Reps program. Mentors are encouraged to nominate any Reps that have stood out in the past month.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">For more <a class="external-link" href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Reps/Rep_of_the_Month">see here</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/bhuvana-meenakshi-elected-mozilla-rep-for-july-2019-1'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/news/bhuvana-meenakshi-elected-mozilla-rep-for-july-2019-1</a>
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No publisherAdminWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2019-09-25T16:33:55ZNews Item Call for joining the Free Knowledge movement #Wikipedia #Wikimedia
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/call-for-joining-the-free-knowledge-movement-wikipedia-wikimedia
<b>Every little drop makes a Mighty ocean! Join us in this Free Knowledge movement where your contributions will be used world-wide. </b>
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<div><a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K">Access to Knowledge</a> team of the <a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/">Centre for Internet and Society</a> is the partner of the Wikimedia Foundations and the Wikimedia movement. Our work is to support Wikipedia/ Wikimedia projects in India. We conduct and support a series of skill building initiative such as workshops, meetups, photo walks, contest, edit-a-thon etc. We also attend to build sustainable partnerships with institutions, organizations, groups and communities which support the Wikimedia communities to build and improve the content in Wikipedia and other projects. </div>
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<p><span style="text-align: justify;">Are you an individual or do you represent any organisation, institution, groups or enterprises? You can actually help the ‘Free Knowledge’ movement by donating photos, media, content or archives. Let us tell you how.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">Wikipedia is a widely read website in the current world. According to Alexa’s rating, Wikipedia is the 5th most highly rated in the world. Also certainly we can say that after searching your query on Google (or any other search engine you use) you should have found Wikipedia as a preferable suggestion or result. We find it astonishing that all content of Wikipedia and its sister projects are created, modified and maintained by volunteers, here we need your support. There are many articles on Wikipedia which are being read by thousands of people but do not have relevant images. The problem is simple there is not any free image available. On Wikimedia/Wikipedia we take copyright very seriously and cannot use any content unless it is on public domain/ under free license/ copyright owner donates it under free license.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">For example, there is an article on<a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Kerala_floods"> 2019 Kerala floods</a> which is read by 2000 unique readers at this moment but we do not have sufficient photo coverage. Similarly, we have an article on a famous writer say, <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruskin_Bond">Ruskin Bond</a> here also we do not have many photos on him or his works.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">Wikimedia community is an independent community. Community decides by itself the content, its style including the media files to be included after detailed instructions. Although we cannot instruct the community we can provide resources which will definitely be of help for the free knowledge movement.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">This article is an open call to “YOU” to support the free knowledge movement and Wikimedia movement by donating useful content. The content might be video, useful photos, database and audio. The content you are donating must be under Creative Commons Share-like content. You must have the copyright of the content under <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_license">CC licenses</a>,<em>a CC license is used when an author wants to give other people the right to share, use, and build upon the work that they (the author) have created</em>. Attributions will be given under every file details.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">Think of a world where your content can also be part of the larger free knowledge movement?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">This is the overall idea in a nutshell. We are eager to discuss every aspect of the process and your questions in detail. Please feel free to contact <strong>Tito Dutta(tito@cis-india.org)</strong>. Let's schedule a call or meet in person.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">[Currently the A2K is conducting a content donation drive and awareness campaign. This blog post was written as a part of this initiative ]</p>
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<ul><li><em>A shortcut to Freedom</em>, an essay we wrote a year ago or so: <span id="docs-internal-guid-e72112b7-7fff-c6c5-45ce-e374cb3da7db">
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr"><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/a-shortcut-to-freedom">https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/a-shortcut-to-freedom</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/call-for-joining-the-free-knowledge-movement-wikipedia-wikimedia'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/call-for-joining-the-free-knowledge-movement-wikipedia-wikimedia</a>
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No publisherbhuvanaWikimediaWikipediaWikidataAccess to Knowledge2019-08-20T07:15:30ZBlog EntryThe Knowledge Base is Liberated
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/loksatta-august-3-2019-subodh-kulkarni-and-madhav-gadgil-the-knowledge-base-is-liberated
<b>The article published in Sunday supplement of Loksatta newspaper of Express group, written jointly by Madhav Gadgil & Subodh Kulkarni summarises - the status of searchable open knowledge available on web, eagerness of youth generation across the social strata to access knowledge on new gadgets and the approaches to build resources in Marathi on web harnessing potential of Wikimedia projects. It also elaborates major three breakthroughs – Free & open source software movement, Unicode revolution and development of collaborative knowledge building and sharing free platforms like Wikimedia projects easily accessible to people in their own languages.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The article by Subodh Kulkarni and Madhav Gadgil titled ज्ञानभांडार मुक्त झाले.. in Marathi was <a class="external-link" href="https://www.loksatta.com/lokrang-news/wikipedia-the-free-encyclopedia-mpg-94-1943476/">published by Loksatta</a> on August 3, 2019.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">In 2020, Maharashtra state is celebrating its 60th anniversary, it is also 100th death anniversary of Lokmanya Tilak while the state has recently celebrated 100th birth anniversaries of Lokkavi Annabhau Sathe and Lokshahir Amar Shekh. These three social reformers and prolific writers had shaped the socio-political history of Maharashtra. On this occasion, appeal is made to the Marathi community for bringing the complete works of these three reformers in Wikimedia projects in searchable & freely accessible form. It is also mentioned that these efforts are being facilitated by Centre for Internet & Society and other like-minded organisations. The aim is to complete this project before Marathi language day in February 2020.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/loksatta-august-3-2019-subodh-kulkarni-and-madhav-gadgil-the-knowledge-base-is-liberated'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/loksatta-august-3-2019-subodh-kulkarni-and-madhav-gadgil-the-knowledge-base-is-liberated</a>
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No publisherSubodh Kulkarni and Madhav GadgilCIS-A2KWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2019-08-05T23:04:33ZBlog EntryRe-licensing Sessions with Authors and Organisations
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/subodh-kulkarni-july-31-2019-re-licensing-sessions-with-authors-and-organisations
<b>In collaboration with Marathi community, CIS-A2K is getting connected with various authors and organisations willing to re-license their content under CC-By-SA. A2K is facilitating the OTRS process Commons for re-licensing as well as digitisation of the content. The team of trained Wikimedians at Vigyan Ashram, Pabal, District Pune has taken the responsibility of digitising the books and further uploads in Wikimedia projects.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">See the information posted on <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Re-licensing_sessions_with_authors_and_organisations">Wikipedia page here</a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">In July, CIS-A2K facilitated the OTRS process of two organisations. <a class="text external" href="https://www.jnanaprabodhini.org/" rel="nofollow">Jnana Prabodhini</a> and <a class="text external" href="http://maharashtranayak.in/" rel="nofollow">Saptahik Vivek Hindustan Prakashan Sanstha</a> have released their 6 books and 8 volumes of encyclopedias respectively in CC-By-SA. As the organisations have solely published these books by sponsoring the writers, editors and designers, the authorised signatory of the organisation has to complete the OTRS process. The simple 'How to do' step by step manual was developed to facilitate this process. This process will be replicated by other organisations in near future. These books are valuable & reliable references in Marathi literature.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K conducted three sessions with authors also. In the field of rural development in Maharashtra, thoughts of Late <a class="text external" href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/s/pvk">S. G. Majgaonkar</a> are highly regarded. His son Dhananjay Majgaonkar who holds the copyright for his books, completed the OTRS process and released 3 books in CC-By-SA. The books are now on Commons as well as Wikisource project.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Content donation sessions were conducted with Ila Dalwai, daughter of social reformer & writer Late <a class="text external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamid_Dalwai">Hamid Dalwai</a>, thinker & writer <a class="text external" href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/s/b3w">Hari Narake</a> and grand daughter of Marathi thinker & writer Late <a class="text external" href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/s/7g9">Narahar Kurundkar</a>. These persons handed over the books to CIS-A2K for further process. The digitisation of the books has been started at Vigyan Ashram, Pabal.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The links of books uploaded on Commons are given below.</p>
<ul>
<li><a class="text external" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Books_by_S._G._Majgaonkar">Books by S. G. Majgaonkar</a></li>
<li><a class="text external" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Books_published_by_Jnana_Prabodhini,_India">Books published by Jnana Prabodhini, India</a></li>
<li><a class="text external" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Books_published_by_Saptahik_Vivek,_Hindustan_Prakashan_Sanstha">Books published by Saptahik Vivek, Hindustan Prakashan Sanstha</a></li>
</ul>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/subodh-kulkarni-july-31-2019-re-licensing-sessions-with-authors-and-organisations'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/subodh-kulkarni-july-31-2019-re-licensing-sessions-with-authors-and-organisations</a>
</p>
No publishersubodhWikimediaCIS-A2KWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2019-08-05T16:12:42ZBlog EntryWikimedia Workshop on Rivers under Project Jalbodh
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/subodh-kulkarni-july-30-2019-wikimedia-workshop-on-rivers-under-project-jalbodh
<b>The Indian National Trust for Art & Heritage Pune Chapter is working with various organisations to preserve the natural heritage places like rivers in Pune district of Maharashtra, India. After the presentation of 'Project Jalbodh' by CIS-A2K in River Dialogue organised by INTACH in April 2018, several organisations shown keen interest in collaboration.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Open knowledge creation workshops were organised at four places by different organisations working on river issues. To sustain these efforts and mobilise the larger community to build knowledge on rivers, INTACH has decided to collaborate with CIS-A2K to develop long-term plan. This was the first workshop to develop structure of the project, decide the stakeholders and follow-up action plan for the future. The two day workshop was conducted on 29 & 30 July at INTACH office in Pune. Total 20 participants from seven organisations actively contributed to Wikimedia projects.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Background</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As the water crisis and state of rivers is worsening day by day, the citizen's initiatives are taking more efforts to spread knowledge about it. Centre for Internet & Society representative actively participated in the River Dialogue organised by INTACH (Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage) and SANDRP (South Asian Network of Dams, Rivers and People) on 20–21 April 2018 to introduce the potential of Wikimedia projects to organisations working across Maharashtra state. After this orientation, a follow-up plan is prepared with Prof. Madhav Gadgil in which various groups have expressed their readiness to start content building on water & rivers. Jeevit Nadi organisation took <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Workshop_of_River_activists_for_building_Jal_Bodh_-_Knowledge_resource_on_Water" title="Workshop of River activists for building Jal Bodh - Knowledge resource on Water">first initiative</a> on 28 May 2018 to train team of activists in open knowledge and Wikimedia Projects. Total 15 activists and researchers from Jeevit Nadi, EcoUniv, Jal Biradari (Tarun Bharat Sangh), Ecological Society, Sagarmitra organisations participated in this workshop.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Workshop_of_River_activists_for_building_Jal_Bodh_-_Knowledge_resource_on_Water" title="Workshop of River activists for building Jal Bodh - Knowledge resource on Water">second iteration</a> on 25 July 2018, five participants presented their work, the database and the resources with them. These include photographs, videos, training material and data collected on site. They also worked on category tree and structure of article on river. The media available in the repository were sorted and analysed for uploading. This team has started preparing the database of local issues, maps of rivers and heritage places on the banks for uploading in respective categories.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Workshop_of_Agrani_River_activists,_Dist._Sangli" title="Workshop of Agrani River activists, Dist. Sangli">third iteration</a> for building content on rivers in Sangli district was organised on 7 December 2018 by Jal Biradari & Tarun Bharat Sangh organisation. In this one day workshop, 11 activists working in Agrani river basin participated. They were trained in basics of Wikipedia editing and uploading on Commons. They worked on category tree of Agrani river basin and structure of articles on water related structures.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Workshop_of_river_activists_at_Tarun_Bharat_Sangh,_Bhikampura,_Rajasthan" title="Workshop of river activists at Tarun Bharat Sangh, Bhikampura, Rajasthan">fourth national level iteration</a> was conducted between 22–25 December 2018 at Tarun Bharat Sangh, Bhikampura, Alwar district, Rajasthan for activists of Jal Jan Jodo Abhiyan from eight states. The 30 participants were trained in this four day workshop. They started contributing in various languages.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In collaboration with CIS-A2K, <a class="text external" href="http://www.intachpune.org/" rel="nofollow">INTACH Pune Chapter</a> has taken initiative to organise two day workshop to build knowledge on rivers in Pune district with various organisations.</p>
<h3>Objectives</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Many organisations and communities are working for more than 10 years in water sector in an organised way. They have built cumulative knowledge through action and research with an objective to disseminate it to the masses. Hence the 'Project Jalbodh' is being evolved to integrate this approach with the Wikimedia projects for mutually beneficial impact.Knowledge is to be presented in different forms, aspects and in appealing way. The interests and attention of the seeker should be taken into account. Therefore in many areas, the text is to be blended with media, data, graphs, maps etc to give holistic sense of knowledge. The Wikimedia projects can be explored to get this integration.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Facilitators</h3>
<ul>
<li>Supriya Goturkar-Mahabaleshwarkar, Co-convenor & Coordinator, INTACH PUNE CHAPTER</li>
<li>Marathi Wikimedians - Aaryaa Joshi, Kalyani Kotkar</li>
</ul>
<h3>Event Details</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Date :</strong> 29 & 30 July 2019</li>
<li><strong>Time :</strong> 9.30 am to 5.30 pm</li>
<li><strong>Place :</strong> Pune, Maharashtra, India</li>
<li><strong>Venue :</strong> INTACH Pune office, Kirloskar compound, Erandwane, Pune</li>
<li><strong>Participants :</strong>20</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Day 1</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Day one started with introductions by members of organisations - Jeevitnadi (Living River Foundation), Sajag Nagrik Manch, Parisar, Centre for Environment & Education, Jnana Prabodhini, Ecological Society and INTACH. Then workshop conveners Supriya & Subodh explained the background and objectives of the workshop. The concept of 'Project Jalbodh' was elaborated. The keynote address was given by Prof. Madhav Gadgil. He delivered upon the genesis of knowledge in human evolution and need of open knowledge for healthy development of the society. He also discussed the integration of citizen science and Wikimedia projects. The brainstorming on mobilisation of community was done after this address with valuable inputs from Prof. Gadgil.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Introduction to major Wikimedia projects was given in next session. The examples of river and water related content were taken for understanding the context. The agenda for the workshop and the details were finalised through discussion on needs. The participants then started with opening accounts on Wiki followed by basic editing skills and rules of Wikipedia & Commons. They searched for various articles, infoboxes, categories and media related to river available in Wiki projects. The extensive interaction on status of the existing content happened to arrive at gap finding and listing the same. From this thought process, the importance of developing structure for river articles was realised. Then various members with their vast experience collaboratively evolved the structure of article on river in Marathi Wikipedia. According to local context, relevant sections and sub-sections were designed. Separate <a class="text external" href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/s/4dff">project page defining this structure</a> was created on Marathi Wikipedia under the Wiki Project Jalbodh. This was the crucial activity for the project. After this session, the organisations conducted the analysis of the content developed by them which is to be contributed in Wikimedia projects. The planning of next day was done in the last session.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Day 2</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">On the second day, the activity started with uploading images on Commons. Along with this, the encyclopedic content available with the organisations was discussed for giving references. The articles were created in the sandboxes by groups on similar themes. The content was created as per the manual of style. Various skills like advanced search options for finding online references, archiving of url's on Wayback machine of Internet Archive were also acquired by the participants. The relevant media repositories were also explored. The category tree for the rivers was also designed. The detailed discussions on building databases, maps and media with community involvement was conducted. In the final session, the roadmap for future activities was prepared. Three model articles on rivers - Mula, Mutha & Pavana - will be completed in the next two months. Follow-up workshops will be conducted bi-monthly which will be hosted by different organisations. The discussion on campaign - Wiki Loves River - developed enthusiasm among the members. The meeting on this theme will be organised in September to plan the campaign.</p>
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<p>Read the full report on <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Wikimedia_Workshop_on_Rivers_under_Project_Jalbodh">Wikipedia page</a></p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/subodh-kulkarni-july-30-2019-wikimedia-workshop-on-rivers-under-project-jalbodh'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/subodh-kulkarni-july-30-2019-wikimedia-workshop-on-rivers-under-project-jalbodh</a>
</p>
No publishersubodhCIS-A2KWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2019-08-05T15:28:41ZBlog EntryOrientation programme, Wikipedia workshop & Action Plan meeting in PAH Solapur University
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/subodh-kulkarni-july-19-orientation-programme-wikipedia-workshop-and-action-plan-meeting-in-pah-solapur-university
<b>CIS-A2K representatives visited PAH Solapur University, Solapur (PAHSUS) to finalise the action plan and MoU for the year 2019-20.</b>
<p>The collaborative project was launched with orientation programme and Wikipedia workshop for the selected students and faculty on 18 & 19 July 2019. The detailed discussions with Vice Chancellor, Registrar, Head of the departments, faculty and administrative staff were held to finalise the terms of collaboration, operational framework and action plan for the academic year. The deliberations are given in the following sections.</p>
<h3>Collaborative open knowledge creation by PAHSUS and CIS-A2K</h3>
<p>The MoU was done because CIS and PAHSUS have found common cause in free and open knowledge generation and dissemination. This MoU stipulates the scope of collaboration between these two entities and terms and conditions of conducting the collaborative activities.</p>
<p><strong>Terms of Collaboration</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>To promote content generation in Indian language, especially Marathi Wikimedia projects (projects such as Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata etc. <a class="free external" href="https://www.wikimedia.org/">https://www.wikimedia.org/</a>) among the institutions under University affiliation.</li>
<li>To organise awareness programs and training workshops to achieve this. For consistent and dedicated efforts, mechanism of subject experts and coordinators will be developed.</li>
<li>To integrate the academic assignments, projects etc. with knowledge building in Wikimedia projects e.g. Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons.</li>
<li>To facilitate content donation in the form of published thesis, University publications to free library - Wikisource. To write well referenced articles based on these research work.</li>
<li>To develop platform in University for outreach programs on Digital knowledge, Language & technologies, FOSS, Unicode etc. To involve other stakeholders in knowledge business like publishers, writers, printers, designers in these programs.</li>
<li>To take lead in accommodating open knowledge concepts, locally relevant content generation practices while designing the courses.</li>
</ol>
<p>Operational Framework</p>
<ol>
<li>A core team shall be constituted by representatives of this MoU for realization of the objectives of this MoU.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">The core team shall prepare an action plan with specific goals for achieving the objectives of the proposal and the MoU. They shall take into consideration the academic, commercial and legal aspects of this co-operation. The action plan or work plan may be modified or improved during the academic year according to the needs-assessment of the students, and the core team’s analysis.</li>
<li>The proposed action plan shall be reviewed and approved by representatives of both parties.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">The core team shall be supported and authorised by the University Administration to take all necessary actions to implement the action plan in an effective, speedy and dynamic manner.</li>
<li>Program expense sharing shall be decided on a case to case basis by the core team.</li>
</ol>
<p>Some highlights of proposed action plan</p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Each department of PAHSUS will facilitate creation of 10 Wikipedia articles related to their course by the students. This activity will be taken up in first semester. The articles will be created on user sandbox or on Google Docs. After review, the articles will be moved to Wikipedia mainspace.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">The projects on museum, library and archives will be taken up in the second semester by the groups of students. The photos and other media will be uploaded on Wikimedia Commons and other sister projects after analysing encyclopedic quality of these content.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">PAHSUS will issue a circular for selected affiliated colleges in Maharashtra to participate actively in free knowledge creation and the Wikimedia movement. The technical support will be arranged by both the parties.</li>
<li>The digitisation of copyright free books in the library will be taken up under ‘Earn & Learn Scheme’. The books will be uploaded in free library - Wikisource.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Orientation Programme</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The orientation programme on Wikimedia projects was conducted on 18 July for faculty and students from 4 departments. The objective was to give perspective of content generation in Wiki projects along with academics. Marathi Wikipedian Arvind Bagale shared his Wiki experiences in this session. Around 50 participants attended this session.</p>
<h3>Wikipedia Workshop</h3>
<p>The Wikipedia workshop for selected students of 3 departments and faculty was organised on 19 July 2019 in the Mass Communication department. Total 15 participants actively contributed to Wikipedia & Commons. Marathi Wikipedian Arvind Bagale facilitated the training process.</p>
<h3>Media Coverage</h3>
<p><a class="external-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190803083038/http://epaperlokmat.in/Archive/epapernew.php?articleid=LOK_HSOL_20190728_2_5&arted=Hello%20Solapur&width=146px">News in Lokmat Newspaper</a></p>
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<p>See the report on <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Orientation_programme,_Wikipedia_workshop_%26_Action_Plan_meeting_in_PAH_Solapur_University">Wikipedia page</a></p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/subodh-kulkarni-july-19-orientation-programme-wikipedia-workshop-and-action-plan-meeting-in-pah-solapur-university'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/subodh-kulkarni-july-19-orientation-programme-wikipedia-workshop-and-action-plan-meeting-in-pah-solapur-university</a>
</p>
No publishersubodhCIS-A2KWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2019-08-05T15:21:16ZBlog EntryWikimedia Education SAARC Conference 2019
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/subodh-kulkarni-june-22-2019-wikimedia-education-saarc-conference-2019
<b>Christ University in association with the Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) organized a conference, from 20 - 22 June 2019, at Christ University, Bengaluru. Forty-nine Wikimedians from four countries (Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, and India) participated in the event.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The meta report published on Wikimedia Blog can be <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference/Report">accessed here</a>.</p>
<hr />
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K is working with various universities and educational institutions to develop content in Wikimedia projects. One such institutional partner, <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_University">Christ</a> (deemed to be university) has taken the initiative to organize Wikimedia Education <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asian_Association_for_Regional_Cooperation">SAARC</a> conference in association with CIS-A2K and <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group">Wikipedia & Education User Group</a>. The participants included one member from Sri Lanka, four members from Nepal, seven members from Bangladesh and 37 members from India. In all 14 language communities were represented.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The broad objectives of the conference were:</p>
<ul>
<li>To know the nature of education programs being conducted.</li>
<li>To share the best practices.</li>
<li>Discuss the challenges like retention and quality.</li>
<li>Explore the methodologies to evaluate & measure the work being done.</li>
<li>Enhancing the community involvement in the education programmes. </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The applications for participation and thematic submissions were invited from Wikimedians of SAARC countries. The selection committee comprised of representatives from Wikimedia Foundation and community conducted the scrutiny. The scholarships were provided to 49 selected participants. In all 12 submissions on diverse topics were received from different language communities. Wikimedia Foundation’s Partnerships & Global reach team member <a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/profile/praveen-das/">Praveen Das</a>, Trust & Safety team member <a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/profile/neha-nair/">Neha Nair</a> and advisor for this conference <a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/profile/tanveer-hasan/">Tanveer Hasan</a> were also present for some of the sessions during the conference.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The following report gives a summary of all the deliberations at the conference.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center; ">Day 1, 20 June 2019</h3>
<p style="text-align: center; "><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/SAARC1.png/@@images/3a0bcab1-68dc-4bec-b6c7-67f95415ea01.png" alt="SAARC 1" class="image-inline" title="SAARC 1" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The inaugural session was graced by chief guest Dr. Ramesh Sharma, an expert in open education and Associate Professor of Instructional Design at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._B.R._Ambedkar_University_Delhi">Ambedkar University Delhi</a> along with Dr. Anil Pinto Registrar of Christ University who was instrumental in launching Wikipedia in education for the students. The other persons on the dais were Tito Dutta, Program Manager CIS-A2K, Dr. Mallika Krishnaswami, Dr. John Joseph Kennedy, and Dr. Sebastian K A.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>In this session the speakers stressed upon the advancement of language, to adopt latest knowledge sharing technologies, innovation in education programmes and collaborations with multifaceted institutions to actualize new ideas. The journey of Christ University regarding the Wikimedia education program during the last six years was also elaborated.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The inaugural session was followed by a session on <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference/CoC">Code of Conduct</a> and Friendly space policies by the Response Team of CIS-A2K. The objectives, diversity statement, general community guidelines, unacceptable behaviour and process of reporting described in CoC were discussed. <span>To explain the motivation and hierarchy of Wikipedia in Education at Wikimedia movement the following sessions were conducted during the conference.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In the keynote address, Dr. Ramesh Sharma revealed many facets of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources">Open Educational Resources</a> (OER) in the field of academic courses, science, mathematics, music, multimedia etc. He shared many experiences of working with <a href="https://oeru.org/">Open Education Resource University (OERU)</a> and appealed for future collaborations. He also deliberated upon some wider topics like Government education policies, licenses and quality improvement framework for OERs. <span>In a remote session with </span><a href="https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:NSaad_(WMF)">Nichole Saad</a><span>, Senior Programme Manager (</span><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program">Wikipedia Education Programme</a><span>) from </span><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation">Wikimedia Foundation</a><span>, she explained the rationale behind the Education in Wikimedia projects and the execution process.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>The session on Wikipedia & Education User Group focused on the global user group that supports the work around Wikimedia and Education in various capacities. One of the Board members of user group, <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:KCVelaga">Krishna Chaitanya Velaga</a> gave an introduction to the user group, its background, vision, and objectives. Later the functioning of the group was also explained including the membership process and the governance. The three focus areas of the group were explained in detail — community, resources, and outreach. Later, the participants were briefed on various ways in which they can get involved with the group. These included joining the newly formed working groups for each focus area, taking up membership, and also attending the monthly open meetings held by the group, and share their stories to the broader community. The session ended with a brief upon areas where community members could seek the support of the group, such as mentorship, securing resources, advocacy, etc.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>The participants were introduced to each other through their work. Session on sharing of various programmes being conducted, it’s learning, challenges and way ahead were very informative and stimulating. The participants from different language communities explained the present status of the education programmes being conducted with institutions. The challenges like lack of initiative, the paucity of resources, trust in Wikipedia and consistency were discussed collectively. New and innovative ideas that were not tried so far were also put forth by the members making it an interesting session. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The last session of the day one was group work on the theme - ' कल आज और कल ' : Past Present Future. The participants were divided into eight groups. Enthusiasm was very high during discussions on the past, present & future of education programmes with the community. The groups collectively worked on the poster presentations.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center; ">Day 2, 21 June 2019</h3>
<p style="text-align: center; "><img src="http://editors.cis-india.org/home-images/SAARC2.png/@@images/a43660cd-a3af-4b26-af74-c5f4d4f03d32.png" alt="SAARC 2" class="image-inline" title="SAARC 2" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The second day started with an interactive session on the topic - The interesting ways of Introducing Wikimedia projects (Wikidata, Wikisource, etc.) into classrooms. The participants shared their experiences with different entry point events other than Wikipedia. Many felt that Wikipedia is complicated to start with. The community also reacted strongly sometimes due to the quality of the articles. This discussion was followed by promoting planned growth process for bridging the gender gap.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The conference submissions on education projects were presented in two parallel tracks. According to interest, the members attended the various sessions. The highlights of the presentations are given below.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference/Submissions/Goals_of_Wikimedia_%252B_Education:_Content,_Retention,_Skills,_etc&sa=D&ust=1562052431065000&usg=AFQjCNFpgNJ-1il11YBcP35HQfrSKzCsUw">Goals of Wikimedia + Education: Content, Retention, Skills</a>:<strong> </strong><span style="text-align: justify; ">The session started off by asking participants about why they do an education programme, and what else can we include as the goals for any EduWiki activity. Different approaches for achieving each of these goals, and how each of these goals affects the rest were discussed. This included a quick brainstorming on how communities should collaborate with the EduWiki activities so that it adds value to its goals. Eventually, the presenter along with the participants realized that retention of users should be prioritized over the other two goals to easily reach all the three goals. Caution points regarding assignments like copyvio, reliable references were also discussed. The scale of the activity and scoping student interest are also an important criterion.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><strong><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference/Submissions/Challenges_of_growing_communities_:_Make_Wikipedia_trustworthy_to_the_educators&sa=D&ust=1562052788058000&usg=AFQjCNFhg4QjQu2bspWs-9FY5lmR5U3zGw">Challenges of growing communities : Make Wikipedia trustworthy to educators</a></strong>: <span>In this session, challenges before Bangla Wikipedia were discussed. There is a need to collaborate with institutions and capacity building of editors to improve the quality of articles. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><strong><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference/Submissions/Non-Conventional_methods_of_knowledge_expansion_by_Education_programs&sa=D&ust=1562055701709000&usg=AFQjCNGNrwgUeDgfA-G2C4U0fMmjse7jJA">Non-Conventional methods of knowledge expansion by programs involving Wikimedia and Education</a>: </strong><span>The formal approaches like giving compulsory tasks for students will not work in the Wikimedia movement. We can expect better outcomes by adopting non-formal methods like digital skills development and team building through collaborative work.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference/Submissions/Wikimedia_Education_Program_Outreach_Mentorship&sa=D&ust=1562055734241000&usg=AFQjCNH5PyQ2FaIgcLcSvagBbl96sbYPMw"><strong>Wikimedia Program Outreach Mentorship</strong></a>: Proper awareness and detailed planning of resources are the key aspects of outreach programmes.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><strong><a class="external-link" href="http://www.schoolwiki.in/">School Wiki</a> in Kerala</strong>: State government education department of Kerala has developed School Wiki with Wikimedians in Kerala. In all 15000 articles of schools have been created with their history, location details, alumni, maps, cultural activities, photos and creative works of students like stories, poems and paintings. The innovative project - Folk encyclopedia is also shaping up. The linkages with Malayalam Wikipedia are being established slowly. As the students are now aware of the Wiki environment, there are chances of getting good editors in future.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><strong>Wikipedia in School</strong>: <a href="http://www.tn.gov.in/">State government of Tamil Nadu</a> took the initiative to organise capacity building programme for teachers through the EDUSAT on a mass scale. This Wikipedia training started in 2016 and till now 40,000 teachers are trained. Due to this, teachers became active on Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><strong><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference/Submissions/Submissions_Retaining_Tulu_Language_and_culture_-_the_ways_and_means">Retaining Tulu Language and </a><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference/Submissions/Submissions_Retaining_Tulu_Language_and_culture_-_the_ways_and_means">culture:</a><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference/Submissions/Submissions_Retaining_Tulu_Language_and_culture_-_the_ways_and_means"> the ways and means</a></strong>: <a href="https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Karavali_Wikimedians">Karavali Wikimedians user group</a> is active in the coastal part of Southern Karnataka and Northern Kerala. It is focusing on the preservation of language and culture. They have started the first physical Wiki library with 650 books. Other innovative activities are ‘<a href="https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Karavali_Wikimedians/Outreach_Program/Karavali_Wikimedians_to_Home,_Mangalore,_November_20,_2018">Karavali Wikimedians to Home</a>’ and Text-Performance-Documentation and Reconstruction of rare Folk Performing art <a href="https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Karavali_Wikimedians/Events/Sidda_Vesha">Sidda Vesha</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference/Submissions/VVIT_WikiConnect:_A_Year_in_Review"><strong>VVIT WikiConnect : A Year in review</strong></a> : The coordinators of Wikiclub presented the activities conducted in the last two years. The focus is on capacity building of active students, leadership development, quality of content and retention. According to the scoping of students’ interest, various events were conducted like Edit-a-thons, Photowalks, Wikidata workshop, 1lib1ref session, Wikimedia Strategy Salon, Mini Media Wiki training, Thematic workshops, etc. The user survey was also done to get the feedback of students.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference/Submissions/Wikipedia_Students_Association_at_Alva%27s"><strong>Wikipedia Student Association at Alva's College Moodubidire</strong></a>: The regular Wiki activities have resulted in active Students’ Association at Alva’s College. The major activities are publishing of wall magazine - Wiki Suddi : Mundu and newspaper - Wiki Samachaara, Wikicamp and internship by Department of Journalism.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/WEP_in_Indian_Languages_at_Christ_University"><strong>Wikipedia in Education at Christ University</strong></a>: The coordinator presented the journey of six years programme at Christ. The process of engaging students from day one to the last day of the second semester was explained. The students learn digital skills, language typing, writing articles on the topic of interest and respective stream. From writing in the sandbox, they even progress up to documenting case study on research related to Wikipedia. The structure of monitoring and evaluation systems within the department was elaborated. The community engagement aspect was also discussed in detail. The challenges and the preparations for the next curve of WEP Christ were presented.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In the last session of the day, groups presented their work through posters visualising ‘Past, Present & Future’ of the education programmes. The interaction and loud thinking provided many ideas to be taken further for implementation.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The second day ended with Cultural programme by Christ University students. The vibrant performances of music and dance were enjoyed by the participants.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Day 3, 22 June 2019</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The day started with early morning ‘<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference/BirdWalk">Bird Walk</a>’ at the university campus with rich biodiversity. Seven enthusiasts joined this walk and captured images of 22 different species of birds which is documented on <a href="https://ebird.org/india/view/checklist/S57612668">eBird portal</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The last day of the conference started with a remote presentation on OER by Wayne Macintosh (Director <a href="http://oerfoundation.org/">OER Foundation</a>, and UNESCO - ICDE Chair in OER). <span>Wayne started with an overview of demand for education vis-a-vis the infrastructure available in the global south. The fundamentals of OERs, OER Foundation and OER University were elaborated. He stressed the need to start at least two OER courses by every Indian University. They can join the OERu network for free to host the courses. The credit system for various micro courses was explained through examples. He also discussed the </span><a href="https://wikieducator.org/Main_Page">WikiEducator</a><span> programme and appealed Wikimedians to join this evolving community as all courses run using media-wiki software. Regulatory issues for universities to adopt OER courses are to be looked into in Indian context. Dr Ramesh Sharma assured to facilitate in this matter. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The next session, ‘Strategy in Wikimedia and Education’ by Pavan Santhosh intended to help participants understand the importance brewing Strategy and figuring out a Big dream in their programs. This session started with demystifying the word strategy. With examples from the Wikimedia movement that participants can relate, the presenter explained how can a Big dream help prioritizing activities and programs. Later in an interactive part of the session, participants came up with ideas to run a strategy process in their programs and communities.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Lively group activity - ‘Revolving cafe’ happened after the strategy session. The activity was planned around five themes - <a href="https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/">Program and Events Dashboard</a>, <a>Wikidata</a>, Communication & Blogging, <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM">GLAM</a> in Education and Support structures (<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Start">WMF grants</a> and <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Requests">CIS Requests page</a>). As the groups were small, the participants utilised this opportunity to clear doubts through one to one dialogue. The session was mutually beneficial for group leaders as well as participants.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">After the cafe activity, <a href="https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Staff">Wikimedia Education Staff</a> member <a href="https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:SPatnaik_(WMF)">Sailesh Patnaik</a> deliberated upon the outreach and communications aspects. He stressed on using social media effectively and give publicity to innovative activities through newsletters. He also explained about upcoming Greenhouse pilot.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The last session, ‘Wikisource in education’ was conducted by <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jayanta_(CIS-A2K)">Jayanta Nath</a>. He explained how Wikisource activity is complementary to the qualitative growth of Wikipedia. The basics of Wikisource like licenses and workflow were discussed in detail. Various ways to combine the education programme with Wikisource were explored in interaction.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The conference closing ceremony was meaningful with spontaneous feedback from the participants.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/subodh-kulkarni-june-22-2019-wikimedia-education-saarc-conference-2019'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/subodh-kulkarni-june-22-2019-wikimedia-education-saarc-conference-2019</a>
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No publishersubodhWikimediaWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia Education2019-07-04T02:48:58ZBlog EntryWhat is Wikimedia Education SAARC Conference?
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/what-is-wikimedia-education-saarc-conference-1
<b>The Wikimedia Education SAARC conference is on 20th June 2019. A conference for Wikimedians, Wikimedia education leaders, educators and researchers engaged with Open Education and free knowledge movement.</b>
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<p dir="ltr">The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asian_Association_for_Regional_Cooperation">South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation</a> (SAARC) is the regional union of nations in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asia">South Asia</a>. Wikimedians belonging to these nations share several common challenges and many of them are emerging communities within the Wikimedia movement. The community members to attend the <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference">Wikimedia Education SAARC conference</a> are involved in Indic language Wikimedia projects.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Wikimedia Education SAARC conference will be the first of its kind conference in SAARC countries which will engage Wikimedians, education program leaders, educators and researchers engaged with Open Education and free knowledge movement. We believe that the students of all ages should not only consume the knowledge available on the Internet but also be a part of the larger Open Internet movement, and help in creating open knowledge resources.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The event will be organised in and by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_University">Christ (Deemed to be University)</a> in Bengaluru from 20th June 2019 to 22nd June 2019. CIS-A2K team has <a href="https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Countries/India/Christ_University">been</a> working with the department of languages in this university from <a href="https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Countries/India/Christ_University/CUWEP2013">2013</a>, where students of the university are contributing to multiple Wikimedia projects. Our education activity at this university has inspired us to plan this event. To know more about this university, Please see <a href="https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Countries/India/Christ_University">here</a>.</p>
<p dir="ltr">This conference will allow us to understand the different efforts made by the SAARC communities involved in the Wikimedia Education movement. This will help us to create models, templates and documents that can be replicated in by other institutions or programs.</p>
<p>Conference Goals:</p>
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<p dir="ltr">To know the Wikimedia Education activities happening in South Asia by different community members/Languages.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Sharing the knowledge and best practices of how to build "trust relationship" with new partners/teachers and how to improve trust in Wikimedia projects.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Challenges on student retention and how to engage them in the broader Wikimedia movement.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">The best method to evaluate and measure the quality of the work done by the students.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">To introduce tools like the dashboard, not in your language, and other tools which will be useful for the tracking, assessment, allocation of the topics and others.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">The <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference/Programme">program structure</a> for Wikimedia Education SAARC conference has been developed by keeping the general and specific challenges and opportunities in South Asia, and the submission selected from the participants.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Follow the hashtag #EduWikiSAARC19 for more updates.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/what-is-wikimedia-education-saarc-conference-1'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/what-is-wikimedia-education-saarc-conference-1</a>
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No publishersaileshWikimedia EducationAccess to KnowledgeWikipedia Education ProgramWikimediaWikipediaChrist University2019-06-22T09:37:23ZBlog EntryMoU between PAH Solapur University & CIS-A2K
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<b>CIS-A2K is working in collaboration with PAH Solapur University, Solapur in Maharashtra on Wikimedia projects. The Mass Communication and Journalism departments are involved in content generation on Marathi Wikipedia & Commons. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In 2019, the students completed assignments in the form of Wikipedia articles. Looking at the interest of students and knowledge creation process, other departments also expressed their willingness to adopt this methodology in academics. Vice Chancellor Dr. Mrunalini Fadnavis took initiative to conduct introductory meeting to discuss the larger collaboration with University courses. The department heads agreed on working in Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wikidata, Commons and other Wikimedia projects to enhance the skills of students. As a result, principle level MoU to accommodate Wiki programs in academics as policy for the next academic year was signed between University and Centre for Internet & Society (CIS-A2K) on 15th May at Solapur. On this occasion, Program Manager Tito Dutta was present to sign on behalf of CIS. From University, VC, Registrar, Prof. Ravindra Chincholkar- Coordinator and HoD's of 4 departments were present. The summary of MoU is given below:</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Terms of Collaboration</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">To promote content generation in Wikimedia projects among the institutions under University affiliation. To organise awareness programs and training workshops to achieve this. For consistent and dedicated efforts, mechanism of subject experts and coordinators will be developed. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">To integrate the academic assignments, projects etc. with knowledge building in Wikimedia projects e.g. Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">To facilitate content donation in the form of published thesis, University publications to free library - Wikisource. To write well referenced articles based on these research work. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">To develop platform in University for outreach programs on Digital knowledge, Language & technologies, FOSS, Unicode etc. To involve other stakeholders in knowledge business like publishers, writers, printers, designers in these programs. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">To take lead in accommodating open knowledge concepts, locally relevant content generation practices while designing the courses. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">To promote content generation in Wikimedia projects among the institutions under University affiliation. To organise awareness programs and training workshops to achieve this. For consistent and dedicated efforts, mechanism of subject experts and coordinators will be developed. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">To integrate the academic assignments, projects etc. with knowledge building in Wikimedia projects e.g. Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">To facilitate content donation in the form of published thesis, University publications to free library - Wikisource. To write well referenced articles based on these research work. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">To develop platform in University for outreach programs on Digital knowledge, Language & technologies, FOSS, Unicode etc. To involve other stakeholders in knowledge business like publishers, writers, printers, designers in these programs. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">To take lead in accommodating open knowledge concepts, locally relevant content generation practices while designing the courses.</li>
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<h3>Plan of Execution</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">A core team shall be constituted by representatives of this MoU for realization of the objectives of this MoU. This core team will be constituted by 10 June 2019.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><span>The core team shall prepare an action plan with specific goals for achieving the objectives of MoU. They shall take into consideration the academic, commercial and legal aspects of this co-operation.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><span>The proposed action plan shall be reviewed and approved by representatives of both parties.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><span>The core team shall be supported and authorised to take all necessary actions to implement the action plan in an effective, speedy and dynamic manner.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><span>Revenue sharing shall be decided on case to case basis by core team.</span></li>
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<h3>Media Coverage</h3>
<p>The news of this event was published by major media houses:</p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190522051544/http://epaperlokmat.in/Archive/epapernew.php?articleid=LOK_SOLK_20190516_2_10&arted=Solapur%20Main&width=367px">Lok Mat</a> (22 May 2019).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190522052258/http://newspaper.pudhari.co.in/archive/viewpage.php?edn=Solapur&date=2019-05-16&edid=PUDHARI_SOL&pid=PUDHARI_SOL&pn=5#Page/5/Article/PUDHARI_SOL_20190516_05_5/359px/10EF1A6">Pudhari</a> (22 May 2019).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190522053215/http://124.30.219.86/EpaperData/Sakal/Solapur/2019/05/16/Main/Sakal_Solapur_2019_05_16_Main_DA_005/44_1606_494_2310.jpg">Sakal</a> (22 May 2019).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190522054429/http://www.dainiksurajya.com/2019/05/16/city/page05.jpg">Surajya</a> (22 May 2019).</li>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mou-between-pah-solapur-university-and-cis'>http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mou-between-pah-solapur-university-and-cis</a>
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No publishersubodhCIS-A2KWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2019-06-05T06:21:47ZBlog Entry