[Wikimediaindia-l] *Volunteers required for translating the Paris OER Declaration*
Hiya, Bala and I received a request a few days ago from Tim Seal of the Open University (UK), with whom we have been in touch in the last few months regarding open licensing of content and donation to Wikisource etc. among other matters. Tim requested us if we could help with translation of the Paris OER declaration, which is currently not available in any Indian Language. Would appreciate if community members could take this up. In case your interested, please contact Bala or myself offlist. Excerpt from email: -cut Volunteers for translating the Paris OER Declaration The Paris OER Declaration, adopted in 2012 during the World OER Congress, is now available in 10 languages: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-knowledge/open-educational-resources/what-is-the-paris-oer-declaration/ In order to make the document accessible to the largest number, we are looking for volunteers to translate it into other languages. They are all accepted, so if you want to translate it into your language that would be a great opportunity to contribute to the awareness of OER. -cut ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] *Use of Images from India Office Records on Wikipedia*
Hiya, As some of you may be aware, I was in London for GLAM-Wiki which was held at the British Library a couple of months ago. This gave me the chance to interact with several members/trustees etc at Wikimedia UK. One of the discussions we had was getting images from the India Office Records onto Wikimedia Commons. These images are rare insights into our country in the 19th and 20th century. Andrew Gray, formerly Wikipedian in Residence at the British Library agreed to help. Andrew has managed to get a few collections onto Commons in the last couple of months. A couple of days ago he emailed me, suggesting it may be easier for him to push for further collections to be shared (there are thousands of images, the process would take years to get everything) should we showcase use of images already donated on various Wikis. Requesting community members to share this far and wide and to help add the images onto relevant articles. Excerpt from Andrew's email: --cut-- One thing that would be good is being able to show the material we've got so far is reaching a new audience - not just in en.wp, but in hi.wp, bn.wp, etc. Any chance you could see if we can get some more of these used on Indic-language projects? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:British_Library_Photo_24_(Girdwood_Collection) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:British_Library_Photo_429_(Jinnah_Exhibition_copy_prints) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Art_of_India_in_the_British_Library -cut--- ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] GLAM and archaeological dept
Yesterday, I met Mr. Sridaran, Retd Archaeologist, TN govt in a tamil books digitation workshop in chennai. I discussed with him about GLAM projects. He is interested in providing contacts with govt departments. Do we have any GLAM activity in chennai? How can we make him help to GLAM activities? -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Announcement: A2K's MoU with TISS
Dear All, Institutional partnerships (especially in the higher education context) is a cross-cutting activity across A2K's various language plans and also the pilot project. A2K Team is happy to share with you an important outcome on this front. CIS-A2K has signed an MoU with TISS as part of which we will collaboratively work towards building Digital Knowledge Partnerships with select higher education institutions. The objective is to enhance digital literacy in the Indian languages and facilitate collaborative knowledge production and free dissemination. A2K along with TISS will co-design and jointly implement relevant training programmes to achieve this. Further, within TISS campuses we will endeavour to bring teaching-learning processes onto free and open digital platforms, including Indian language Wikipedias. The A2K team would like to acknowledge the pivotal role played by our Adviser Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana in buildig this collaboration. We'll keep you posted as and when new developments shape up and would like to actively involve Mumbai Wikipedians in planning, designing and rolling out Wikipedia training programmes. Thanks Nitika Tandon Program Manager Access to Knowledge The Centre for Internet Society___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcement: A2K's MoU with TISS
CIS-A2K has signed an MoU with TISS as part of which we will collaboratively work towards building Digital Knowledge Partnerships with select higher education institutions. The objective is to enhance digital literacy in the Indian languages and facilitate collaborative knowledge production and free dissemination. A2K along with TISS will co-design and jointly implement relevant training programmes to achieve this. Further, within TISS campuses we will endeavour to bring teaching-learning processes onto free and open digital platforms, including Indian language Wikipedias. The A2K team would like to acknowledge the pivotal role played by our Adviser Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana in buildig this collaboration. Hi, Wanted to know the specifics of facilitate collaborative knowledge production and free dissemination , facilitate collaborative knowledge production and free dissemination basically the MOU itself since it will be helpful for others to pitch in or pitch to other universities and have programmes like these in various other institutions too. -Satya Satyaakam.net http://satyaakam.net/ | fossevents.in | fossacademy.org ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
