Dear Wikimedians,
Please find below CIS-A2K's newsletter for the month of February,
2015. The newsletter contains details of all the activities
conducted and organised by CIS-A2K team during February, 2015.
Regards,
Students of physics, statistics and Telugu departments of Andhra
Loyola College spent 5 days of their Christmas vacation of 2014 to
edit and enrich Telugu Wikipedia and Wikisource. They worked on
their respective subject areas and came up with more than 100 new
articles on Telugu Wikipedia and about 300 pages of
Veeresalingam's works were typed on Telugu Wikisource.
CIS-A2K has signed an MoU
with Andhra Loyola College
to make available free knowledge in Telugu to all Telugus across
the globe. In this approoach, a two month camp was organised in
the college campus. In continuation to the two month camp, 5 days
of students' Christmas vacation were marked as Wiki Winter Camp at
Andhra Loyola College. 5 students from each of Physics, Statistics
and Telugu showed interest to attend the camp. By the time, camp
began, there were not 15 but 41 students from various disciplines
who attended the camp.
Op-ed
Our
Endangered Languages (Subhashish Panigrahi; February 21,
2015)
Blog Entries
- A
Wikipedia Presentation at BITS, Goa (Radhakrishna
Arvapally; February 9, 2015). Arvapally was a guest blogger.
- Developing
Open Knowledge Digital Resources in Indian Languages
(Tejaswini Niranjana; February 20, 2015).
- Telugu
Wikipedia Winter Camp at Andhra Loyola College
(Rahmanuddin Shaik; February 26, 2015).
Event
Organised
- Train the Trainer (Organized
by CIS-A2K; CEO Centre, Dodda Gubbi, Bangalore; February 26 –
March 1, 2015).
Events
Supported
- Tewiki11 at
Tirupati
- Hindi sammelan at Delhi
- Sanskrit Workshop for University
VCs, professors
Media
Coverage
- More
online free content in Telugu Wikipedia soon
(A.D.Rangarajan; Hindu, February 16, 2015).
- Cultural
knowledge needs to be more open (Jen Wike Huger;
OpenSource.com; February 18, 2015).
- Online
Free Content in Telugu Wikipedia (Andhra Jyothy; February
19, 2015).
Participation
in Events
- Hindi
Wiki Community Baithak (Organized by Wikipedia Community;
February 14 – 15, 2015). Subhashish Panigrahi attended the
event.
- An
International Conclave of Odia Language (Organized by the
Intellects; February 20 – 21, 2015; Constitutional Club, Rafi
Marg, New Delhi). Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the
event.
Announcement
- 2015
Opensource.com Community Awards: Every year,
Opensource.com awards people from our community who have
excelled in contributing and sharing stories about open source.
Subhashish Panigrahi from the CIS-A2K team won the award under
the category ‘People's Choice Awards’.
- CIS-A2K team also published the Telugu
Wikipedia Stats tables. Most metrics have been collected
from a partial dump (aka stub dump), which contains all
revisions of every article, meta data, but no page content.
The Access to Knowledge Team
- Wikimedia Foundation has funded A2K to anchor the growth of
the Wikimedia movement in India. The A2K team consists of five
members, all of them being based in Bangalore: T. Vishnu
Vardhan, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja, Subhashish Panigrahi, Rahmanuddin
Shaik and Tanveer. We also have one Advisor, Dr. Tejaswini
Niranjana working with us.
- Archives of our newsletters can be accessed here.
Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach
programmes, technical bugs, logistics-merchandise and media,
public relations and communications here.
About CIS
The Centre for Internet and Society is a non-profit research
organisation that works on policy issues relating to freedom of
_expression_, privacy, accessibility for persons with disabilities,
access to knowledge and IPR reform, and openness (including open
government, FOSS, open standards, etc), and engages in academic
research on digital natives and digital humanities.
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Request
for collaboration
We invite researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both
organisationally and as individuals, to collaboratively engage
with Internet and society and improve our understanding of this
new field. To discuss research collaborations, write to Sunil
Abraham, Executive Director, at [email protected] or Nishant
Shah, Director – Research, at [email protected]. To discuss
collaborations on Indic language Wikipedia, write to T. Vishnu
Vardhan, Programme Director, A2K, at [email protected].
CIS is grateful to its primary donor, Kusuma Trust founded by
Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin
for its core funding and support for most of its projects. CIS is
also grateful to its other donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford
Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation, MacArthur
Foundation, and IDRC for funding its various projects.
This bulletin is also available on Meta-wiki at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Reports/Newsletter/February_2015
Thank you all for your kind support and collaboration,
Regards,
Tanveer Hasan
Programme Officer
Access to Knowledge
The Centre for Internet and Society
Bangalore
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