CIS-A2K

The key mandate of the Access to Knowledge project at CIS (CIS-A2K) is to work towards catalysing the growth of the open knowledge movement in south Asia and in Indic languages. From September 2012, CIS has been actively involved in growing the open knowledge movement in India through a grant received from the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF). The current focus of the CIS-A2K team spans over 5 language areas (Kannada, Konkani, Marathi, Odia, and Telugu), 2 community strengthening initiatives, and 6 stand-alone Wikimedia projects.

Mission

The mission of CIS-A2K is to catalyze the growth of open knowledge movement in South Asia and in Indic languages. Within the Wikimedia universe CIS-A2K specifically strives to further grow the Indic and English Wikimedia projects and communities by:

supporting and serving the Indian Wikimedia communities in all possible ways;
building institutional partnerships;
bringing more content under free license;
designing and executing projects with community participation;
strengthening the Wikimedia volunteers; and
fostering and enabling an appropriate legal and technological ecosystem.

Work Plans

Work plans and other programme documents can be accessed here:

Activities and Feedback

If you have a general proposal/suggestion for Access to Knowledge team you can write on the requests page. If you have appreciations or feedback on our work, please share it on feedback page.

Recent Posts

Marathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon in Kolhapur — by Subodh Kulkarni — last modified Dec 16, 2016 11:34 PM: On behalf of CIS-A2K team Subodh Kulkarni conducted a Marathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at Shivaji University in Kolhapur on 15 December 2016. The goal of the Wikipedia edit-a-thon was to build resources in the field of Political Science on Marathi Wikipedia and equip its participants with the process of contributing to Wikipedia, and to introduce it as a concept to them.
Writing skills improve with Wikipedia editing — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 15, 2016 02:21 AM: Pavan Santhosh said that contributing to Wikipedia and working in Wikimedia community improves our leadership qualities and writing skills. In an awareness session conducted about "You can edit Wikipedia" in JKC college, Guntur, Santhosh explained how to create and improve articles about Wikipedia in this program. Principal I.Nageswara Rao presided over this meeting.
Odia Wikipedia: Sambalpur University Workshop — by Sailesh Patnaik — last modified Apr 17, 2017 06:44 AM: An Odia Wikipedia orientation-cum-workshop program was organised for the students of Sambalpur University on 27 November, 2016.
Using Kannada in technology made easier with smartphones — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 01, 2016 05:19 AM: With the IT revolution, many believed that the younger generation would prefer to type and communicate in English than Kannada.
Kannada Wikipedia Education Program at Christ university: Work so far — by Ananth Subray — last modified Nov 18, 2016 02:45 AM: As you know we are working closely with Christ university in Bengaluru for the Education Programs in Kannada Wikipedia and Kannada Wikisource, we worked on redesigning the programme for this academic year 2016-17 based on the lessons learned from the earlier intervention.
How Open Access Content helps Fuel Growth in Indian-language Wikipedias — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Oct 25, 2016 01:39 AM: Mobile Internet connectivity is growing rapidly in rural India, and because most Internet users are more comfortable in their native languages, websites producing content in Indian languages are going to drive this growth. In a country like India in which only a handful of journals are available in Indian languages, open access to research and educational resources is hugely important for populating content for the various Indian language Wikipedias.
What Indian Language Wikipedias can do for Greater Open Access in India — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Oct 22, 2016 04:12 AM: The number of internet users in India was expected to reach 460 million by 2015, as the growth in the previous year was 49 percent. The total number of users for Hindi content alone reached about 60 million last year.
Querying Wikipedia Data — by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified Oct 21, 2016 02:51 PM: Recently I wrote a blog about the stub article length of Wikipedia articles. I mentioned the difference in actual number of characters and the number of bytes used to define stub articles between English and Indian language Wikipedias. One can open any language Wikipedia, type Special:ShortPages in the search box to get the list of articles which have less than 2048 bytes.
UTF-8, Indic and Stub Length Article in Wikipedia — by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified Oct 20, 2016 02:26 AM: One of the activities conducted as part of Wiki Conference India 2016 was the Punjab Editathon. It was about adding articles related to Punjab to Indian language Wikipedias and English Wikipedia. There was also an announcement made about some award for highest contribution.
Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015 round2/The Centre for Internet and Society/Impact report form — by Tanveer Hasan — last modified Oct 09, 2016 02:40 PM: This form is for organizations receiving Annual Plan Grants to report on their results to date. For progress reports, the time period for this report will the first 6 months of each grant (e.g. 1 January - 30 June of the current year). For impact reports, the time period for this report will be the full 12 months of this grant, including the period already reported on in the progress report (e.g. 1 January - 31 December of the current year).

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