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Call for joining the Free Knowledge movement #Wikipedia #Wikimedia
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<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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No publisherbhuvanaWikimediaWikipediaWikidataAccess to Knowledge2019-08-20T07:15:30ZBlog EntryWikidata workshop (South India) conducted in Bangalore
http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikidata-workshop-south-india-conducted-in-bangalore
<b>Wikidata workshop (South India) has been conducted in Bangalore on 10 and 11 June 2017. 11 Wikimedians from 6 Indic Wikimedia communities participated in the workshop. Here is a report.</b>
<p>Wikidata (<a class="external-link" href="https://www.wikidata.org">https://www.wikidata.org</a>) is a free, collaborative, multilingual, secondary database that collects structured data to provide support for Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, the other wikis of the Wikimedia movement, and to anyone in the world.<sup>1</sup> In India, in the recent years, we have seen increased enthusiasm about the project. CIS-A2K received several requests from different communities to conduct Wikidata workshops. In response to the requests, CIS-A2K organised a Wikidata workshop on 10 and 11 June 2017 at Bangalore. The workshop was a regional one, and participants were invited from 5 South Indian states: a) Andhra Pradesh, b) Karnataka, c) Kerala, d) Tamil Nadu, and e) Telangana. 11 community members from 5 Indic Wikimedia communities (Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu) participated in the workshop, 3 of the participants were women.</p>
<p>The workshop was a general orientation. On the first day, the following topics were discussed:</p>
<ol><li>Introduction to Wikidata and its importance<br /></li><li>Wikidata items<br /></li><li>Wikidata labels, descriptions</li><li>Property and statement</li><li>Hands' on activity: Label-a-thon<br /></li></ol>
<p>On the second day these topics were discussed:</p>
<ol><li>Complete structure of a Wikidata item</li><li>Wikidata references</li><li>Using Wikidata in Wikipedia, using statement, property</li><li>Wikidata gadgets</li><li>A couple of Wikimedia labs tools (note: a few tools such as Wikidata game was in the planned topics, but could not be shown as we faced server error almost all day long)</li><li>Hands' on activity by group: Label-a-thon, adding references</li></ol>
<p>This was CIS-A2K's first attempt to conduct a Wikidata workshop in India. To keep it cost-effective, we made it a regional one (eg. no air travel was needed for any participant). This was a fledgling attempt to test the waters before we take this forward to other regions in India. This was an effort to see if the participants felt the need for such a workshop as much as we did for conducting it. It enabled us also to understand the modules and sessions to include in a manner that is tailored for teaching Wikidata</p>
<p>Tamil Wikimedian User:Info-farmer, who participated in the workshop gave his feedback after the event:</p>
<blockquote><span class="author-a-gz78zz71z0z86ztz83zz87zz82zz88zz70zz71zz78zz71zz78zp">I was waiting for a theme-specific workshop for a long one & I liked this one. Please encourage such theme-specific workshops special interest groups. <br /></span></blockquote>
<p>Following this event, and based on the need-assessment CIS-A2K may conduct such workshops in other regions of India.</p>
<p>An event dashboard is available <a class="external-link" href="https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/CIS-A2K/Wikidata_India_Workshop">here</a>. The event page on Meta Wiki may be seen <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Wikidata_Workshop:_South_India">here</a>.</p>
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<ul><li><a class="external-link">Introduction to Wikidata</a><br /></li></ul>
<h2>Acknowledgement</h2>
<ul><li>Manasa Rao, for help to improve this blog post</li></ul>
<h2>Image credit</h2>
<ul><li><a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Workshop_South_India_Logo.png">File:Wikidata Workshop South India Logo.png</a> from Wikimedia Commons, author: Saumyaa Naidu, License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International<br /></li></ul>
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No publishertitoWikidataWikidata workshop2017-06-28T09:48:30ZBlog Entry