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Community Toolkit for Greater Diversity: by Admin — published Oct 30, 2018 — filed under: Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
P.P. Sneha participated in a 3 day programme organized by Wikipedia community in Mandrem, Goa from October 5 - 7, 2018. The event was a peer training programmeto strengthen the work in the direction of building greater diversity and inclusion in the Wikimedia community.
Located in Access to Knowledge / News & Media
South India Copyright Workshop: by Subodh Kulkarni — published Oct 21, 2018 — last modified Nov 06, 2018 01:25 AM — filed under: Wikimedia, CIS-A2K, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
A workshop on Copyright was organized by CIS-A2K at Hotel Bhagini Icon in Bengaluru from 19th to 21st October 2018. Seventeen members from 5 language communities (Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Tulu) participated in the workshop. Yann Forget was the master trainer for the workshop.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Van Bodh Workshop for content development on Forest Resources at Gadchiroli: by Admin — published Nov 06, 2018 — filed under: CIS-A2K, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Event
CIS-A2K has collaborated with Tribal Research and Training Institute (TRTI) to facilitate development of Open knowledge resources on Community Forest Resource and content development in Wikimedia projects with community participation. These contents will become a part of "Van Bodh Knowledge repository".
Located in Access to Knowledge / Events
Odia Wikipedia workshop in Puri, Odisha sparks creation of informal Wikipedia group WikiTungi: by Sailesh Patnaik — published Dec 30, 2015 — last modified Jan 12, 2016 05:28 AM — filed under: Wikipedia, CIS-A2K, Odia Wikipedia, WikipedianSpeak
The first ever Odia Wikipedia workshop in Odisha's historic town of Puri finally shaped in on this December 20. With 25 participants contributing to Odia Wikipedia this day, more Wikipedia outreach in the city were planned.
Located in Openness
Will domain dot भारत spur the growth of Indian languages on the internet?: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 29, 2014 — last modified Sep 08, 2014 05:50 AM — filed under: Wikipedia, Internet Governance, Access to Knowledge
Modi's effort to promote the use of Hindi and e-governance has given hope to those who want to see more vernacular content online, but many challenges have to be overcome.
Located in Openness / News & Media
CIS-A2K Signs MoU with Andhra Loyola College in Vijayawada: Coverage in Eenadu: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 15, 2014 — last modified Sep 09, 2014 09:22 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Openness
This article was published in Enadu on August 15, 2014.
Located in Openness / News & Media
Marathi Language Day events by CIS-A2K in February 2018: by Subodh Kulkarni — published Feb 27, 2018 — last modified Mar 17, 2018 08:58 AM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia
Marathi Language day is celebrated all over world on 27th February. Dnyanpeeth award winning writer V.V.Shirwadkar alias Kusumagraj was born on this date. Various events and activities were conducted in collaboration with community, institutions and government departments.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Chromebook for the Project Tiger- How it is helping me to contribute actively on Wikimedia projects!: by Sangram Keshari Senapati — published Mar 26, 2018 — last modified Apr 20, 2018 06:21 AM — filed under: Wikipedia, Odia Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
Project Tiger is a collaboration project of Wikimedia Foundation with Centre for Internet and Society, Wikimedia India and other affiliates of India to improve and create high-quality content in Indic languages like Odia, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi etc.This project helps the active and experienced Wikipedia editors by supporting them with Internet charges for 6 months and Laptops to 50 volunteers to address existing Wikipedia content gaps.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
ಬೆಳ್ತಂಗಡಿ:ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಕಾಲಕ್ಕೂ ಲಭ್ಯ ಇರುವ ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರ ಹಾಗೂ ಮುಕ್ತ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಾ-ಪವನಜ: by U.B.Pavanaja — published Aug 14, 2015 — last modified Sep 06, 2015 12:09 PM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Openness, Kannada Wikipedia
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS-A2K) has ongoing partnership with SDM College, Ujire. Students of Masters in Communication and Journalism will be writing articles in Kannada Wikipedia. This academic year’s programme was inaugurated on August 12. It was followed by hands-on workshop. SahilOnline has reported this on August 14, 2015.
Located in Openness / News & Media
Wikipedia Workshop in the Theme of "Sau Dhuni Teen" in Pune University: by Abhinav Garule — published Aug 19, 2015 — last modified Jun 18, 2016 06:10 PM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia, Event
A Wikipedia workshop is being planned to be organised in the Srimati Savitribai Phule Pune University on the 20th August 2015. Under the scope of “Sau Dhuni Teen” project, the workshop is focused on building resources in Indian languages for women's studies on Wikipedia and equip its participants with the rudiments of contributing to Wikipedia, and to introduce it as a concept to them.
Located in Openness / Events

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