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    <title>Marathi Wikipedia Workshop at Solapur University</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-workshop-at-solapur-university</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;15 September&lt;/b&gt;
        
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A Marathi Wikipedia Workshop was held at the Department of Mass Communications at Solapur University. The workshop aimed to introduce Wikimedia and its sister projects to the students. The workshop comprised 25 participants with 10 female attendees.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sharing their thoughts after the event, the participants were enthuse. Says&amp;nbsp;Priyanka Lagshetti,&amp;nbsp;"I never imagined that I can contribute to Wikipedia. I worked on various media related articles." Another participant,&amp;nbsp;Ambadas Bhasake added,&amp;nbsp;"This workshop showed us a innovative way to use internet productively and constructively"&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;While 19 new editors joined Wikipedia, participants worked on 60 articles and made around 90 edits. 15 images were added to Commons and into articles.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The meta page of the event can be found &lt;a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Marathi_Wikipedia_Workshop_at_Department_of_Mass_Communication,Solapur_University,Solapur,Maharashtra,India"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-workshop-at-solapur-university'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-workshop-at-solapur-university&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
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    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>Subodh Kulkarni</dc:creator>
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        <dc:subject>CIS-A2K</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Access to Knowledge</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikimedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Marathi Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Openness</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2017-10-24T14:09:24Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Marathi Wikipedia Workshop at MGM Trust's College of Journalism and Mass Communication, Aurangabad</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-workshop-at-mgm-trusts-college-of-journalism-and-mass-communication-aurangabad</link>
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        &lt;b&gt;A Marathi Wikipedia Workshop was recently held at the MGM Trust's College of Journalism and Mass Communication on 11 August 2017.&lt;/b&gt;
        
&lt;p&gt;A Marathi Wikipedia workshop was recently conducted at the MGM Trust's College of Journalism and Mass Communication at Aurangabad. The workshop aimed to introduced Marathi Wikipedia to the students of the college and equip them with the process of editing the same. The workshop was attended by 10 female participants and 15 male participants.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"It was happiest moment for me, when I created new article on Pashmi, [a] species of dog. I added [an] image also." says Shivani Joshi a participant at the workshop. While 21 new editors were introduced to Wikipedia, 60 articles were improved and 15 images added. Another participant, Randhir Patil who added content on water-related articles says, "This content can be used as training material by field workers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The meta page of the event can be found &lt;a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Marathi_Wikipedia_Workshop_at_MGM_Trust%27s_College_of_Journalism_and_Mass_Communication,_Aurangabad,_Maharashtra,_India"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-workshop-at-mgm-trusts-college-of-journalism-and-mass-communication-aurangabad'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-workshop-at-mgm-trusts-college-of-journalism-and-mass-communication-aurangabad&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
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    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>Subodh Kulkarni</dc:creator>
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        <dc:subject>CIS-A2K</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Access to Knowledge</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikimedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Marathi Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Openness</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2017-10-24T13:18:41Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Marathi Wikipedia Workshop &amp; 1lib1ref session at Goa University</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-workshop-1lib1ref-session-at-goa-university</link>
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        &lt;b&gt;Marathi language department of Goa University has initiated the process to document the culture of Goa on Marathi Wikipedia and Commons.&lt;/b&gt;
        &lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;As this was the first exposure to Wikimedia projects, a two day extensive training workshop was planned. In the same event, a three hour session in library as part of 1lib1ref session was also conducted. CIS-A2K has partnered Goa University for conducting the event which attracted a footfall of 36 participants.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Primary objectives&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The following objectives were broadly covered in the sessions held at Goa University campus on 31 January and 1 February 2019:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Awareness about digital knowledge in Marathi, Open knowledge resources and Wikimedia projects.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Explain participants the history of Wiki movement and the pillars of Wikipedia.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Train the participants in basic editing skills in Wikipedia.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Explore the ways to find reliable and verifiable references.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Present the article structure, manual of style, and categorization.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Explain copyright, Commons guidelines and uploading images on Wikipedia.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Discuss follow-up plan and integration with academic activities.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Add reliable references as part of 1lib1ref session in library.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;The Workshop&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;The   practice of Marathi typing in Unicode was carried out through preparing   articles as Word document. The students selected the articles on  history  of Goa, writers and artists of Goa, tourism in Goa and villages  in Goa.  Participants learnt basic editing skills, adding references  and  uploading on Commons. They worked first in sandboxes on their new   articles. The content addition is in progress. The verified content   would be moved to main namespace under the guidance of experienced   editors.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;The   concept of 1lib1ref campaign was shared with Chief Librarian of Goa   University. The response was very positive. As a result, in the last two   sessions of the workshop on 1 February, the participants added   references to the articles. The session was conducted in the library.   The library staff and faculty facilitated the process.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Follow-up&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;The editors are preparing the articles in sandboxes and offline also. It is proposed to conduct another iteration to verify and publish this content in main namespace. The students are also taking the images of issues related to Goan culture. The exclusive session on Commons is also proposed. The librarian has suggested making separate rack of reference books related to Goa culture and heritage for utility. This idea will be explored in the next 1lib1ref iteration in May-June 2019.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For more info see the &lt;a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Marathi_Wikipedia_Workshop_%26_1lib1ref_session_at_Goa_University"&gt;Meta report&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-workshop-1lib1ref-session-at-goa-university'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-workshop-1lib1ref-session-at-goa-university&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
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    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>subodh</dc:creator>
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        <dc:subject>Marathi Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>CIS-A2K</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Access to Knowledge</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2019-03-01T00:35:44Z</dc:date>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/a2k/marathi-wikipedia-symposium-at-gokhale-institute-of-politics-economics">
    <title>Marathi Wikipedia Symposium at Gokhale Institute Of Politics &amp; Economics</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/marathi-wikipedia-symposium-at-gokhale-institute-of-politics-economics</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;A strategic symposium on Marathi Wikipedia and its sister projects was conducted on 29 April, 2017&lt;/b&gt;
        
&lt;p&gt;The Marathi Wikipedia community held a symposium at the Gokhale 
Instititute of Politics and Economics on 29 April, 2017. This was an 
attempt to bring together various stakeholders for developing a 
strategic plan for Marathi language wiki projects such as Wikipedia, and
 especially Marathi Wikisource and Wiktionary. Over 70 persons were 
involved in the strategic planning efforts to take Wikisource and 
Wiktionary to existing Marathi Wikipedians and the general public at 
large. Eminent ecologist, Prof. Madhav Gadgil served as a resource 
persons for this event. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="external gmail-text" href="http://www.gipe.ac.in/index.php" rel="nofollow"&gt;Gokhale Institute Of Politics &amp;amp; Economics&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a class="external gmail-text" href="http://rawatacademy.in/" rel="nofollow"&gt;Rawat's Nature Academy&lt;/a&gt;
 took lead in organising this symposium. CIS-A2K facilitated the 
process. A total of 50 eminent personalities from various fields such as
 literature, 
linguistics, journalism, science forums, publishers, librarians, State 
Language &amp;amp; Culture Department honchos, active citizen forums working
 
on different issues etc. took active part in the proceedings. They aim 
to act as anchors in future. According to the needs of Wikimedia 
projects, 
12 Action Groups have been formed. Planning further sessions for May and
 June has begun
 over a common email thread.&lt;/p&gt;

        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/marathi-wikipedia-symposium-at-gokhale-institute-of-politics-economics'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/marathi-wikipedia-symposium-at-gokhale-institute-of-politics-economics&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>Subodh Kulkarni</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights></dc:rights>

    
        <dc:subject>CIS-A2K</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Access to Knowledge</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikimedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Marathi Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Openness</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Marathi Wikisource</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2017-06-07T08:45:18Z</dc:date>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-kolhapur">
    <title>Marathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon in Kolhapur</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-kolhapur</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;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.&lt;/b&gt;
        &lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/MarathiEditathonModified.png" alt="Marathi Editathon" class="image-inline" title="Marathi Editathon" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;The workshop was conducted at the Political Science Department of Shivaji University for post graduate and research students and professors. The Head of the Political Science Department, Dr. Prakash Pawar actively took part in all the process. In all 22 new editors began their contribution on Wikipedia. The effort is the first step towards building long term institutional partnership with Shivaji University where many courses are run in Marathi language.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;The Department of Mass Communication and the Department of Environment and Science have also evinced interest for conducting edit-a-thons for their students.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Overall the primary goals of the project include:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;To introduce Wikipedia as an encyclopedia for research and a concept to new editors.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;To Promote Marathi Wikipedia Community &amp;amp; promote the use of regional languages in Wikipedia.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;To have an open interaction within the editors, existing as well as new.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;To spread the awareness of Wikipedia as a powerful tool.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;For more info, read the &lt;a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Marathi_Wikipedia_Edit-a-thon_at_Shivaji_University,_Kolhapur_on_15th_December_2016"&gt;meta page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-kolhapur'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-kolhapur&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>subodh</dc:creator>
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        <dc:subject>Marathi Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>CIS-A2K</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Access to Knowledge</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2016-12-16T23:34:10Z</dc:date>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-shivaji-university-kolhapur">
    <title>Marathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at Shivaji University, Kolhapur </title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-shivaji-university-kolhapur</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;A Marathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon was held at Shivaji University, Kolhapur on 19 January, 2017&lt;/b&gt;
        
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A Marathi Wikipedia edit-a-thon was conducted by CIS-A2K in collaboration with&amp;nbsp;Rajya Marathi Vikas Sanstha at Shivaji Univeristy, Kolhapur on 19 January, 2017. This was similar in nature to the Wikipedia &lt;a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-sangli-maharashtra"&gt;edit-a-thon conducted at&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-sangli-maharashtra"&gt;Willingdon College in Sangli&lt;/a&gt;. The aim of the edit-a-thon was to introduce Wikipedia to the research and post-graduate students of the University.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The three-hour-long edit-a-thon conducted at the University's Marathi Language Computer Lab also focused on building resources in the field of linguistics on Marathi Wikipedia. In addition to equipping the participants with editing and categorisation skills, the workshop encouraged them to contribute to linguistics-related articles and biography articles of Marathi authors and&amp;nbsp;litterateurs. With 50 participants overall, the event increased the reach of Marathi Wikipedia, introducing it to those previously unaware of its existence.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The link to event page on meta can be found &lt;a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Edit-a-thon_with_expert_at_Shivaji_University,Kolhapur_on_19th_January_2017"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-shivaji-university-kolhapur'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-shivaji-university-kolhapur&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>Subodh Kulkarni</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights></dc:rights>

    
        <dc:subject>CIS-A2K</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Access to Knowledge</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikimedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Marathi Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Openness</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2017-04-16T13:47:44Z</dc:date>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-savitribai-phule-mahila-ekatma-samaj-mandal-aurangabad">
    <title>Marathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at Savitribai Phule Mahila Ekatma Samaj Mandal, Aurangabad</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-savitribai-phule-mahila-ekatma-samaj-mandal-aurangabad</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;A Marathi Wikipedia edit-a-thon was conducted at Savitribai Phule Mahila Ekatma Samaj Mandal in Aurangabad&lt;/b&gt;
        
&lt;p&gt;Savitribai Phule Mahila Ekatma Samaj Mandal, a social work organisation working with underprivileged&amp;nbsp;sections of society in Aurangabad partnered with CIS-A2K to conduct a Marathi Wikipedia edit-a-thon on 13 April, 2017.&amp;nbsp;The aim of the workshop was to introduce Wikipedia to the participants and enable them to contribute to Wiki projects.&amp;nbsp;The theme of the edit-a-thon was to build resources on topics related to&amp;nbsp;rural development and women's empowerment.&amp;nbsp;The four hour edit-a-thon was attended by 30 participants who made a total of 300 edits.&amp;nbsp;15 new articles were created and 60 images were uploaded to Commons.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The link to the event page on meta can be found &lt;a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Thematic_Edit-a-thon_at_Savitribai_Phule_Mahila_Ekatma_Samaj_Mandal,_Aurangabad"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-savitribai-phule-mahila-ekatma-samaj-mandal-aurangabad'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-savitribai-phule-mahila-ekatma-samaj-mandal-aurangabad&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
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    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>Subodh Kulkarni</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights></dc:rights>

    
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        <dc:subject>Access to Knowledge</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikimedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Marathi Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Openness</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2017-04-19T11:44:41Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Marathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at Sangli, Maharashtra</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-sangli-maharashtra</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;A Marathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon was conducted at Willingdon College, Sangli on 18 January, 2017&lt;/b&gt;
        
&lt;p&gt;A Marathi Wikipedia edit-a-thon was conducted in collaboration with&amp;nbsp;Rajya Marathi Vikas Sanstha at Willingdon College on 18 January, 2017.&amp;nbsp;The goal of the workshop was to begin the building of resources in the field of linguistics on Marathi Wikipedia. To begin with, the edit-a-thon introduced the participants to editing Wikipedia and contributing to Wiki projects.&amp;nbsp;With about 50 participants(of which around 6 were female), the three-hour-long edit-a-thon involved the post-graduate and research students of the Willingdon College. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The edit-a-thon conducted at the Marathi Language Computer Lab of the College also focused on&amp;nbsp;creating/editing Wikipedia pages related to Marathi literature and language.&amp;nbsp;Extensive discussion on these issues was also conducted to develop the concept and&amp;nbsp;theme of the edit-a-thon. While participants were taught basic Wikipedia editing, they were also trained in&amp;nbsp;searching for relevant articles, categorisation and translation from other language Wikipedias.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The workshop received local media coverage by Sakal, a Marathi daily. You can read the article &lt;a class="external-link" href="http://beta1.esakal.com/paschim-maharashtra/marathi-content-significantly-less-wikipedia-26894"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Link to event page on meta can be found &lt;a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Edit-a-thon_with_expert_at_Willingdon_College,_Sangli_on_18th_January_2017"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-sangli-maharashtra'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-sangli-maharashtra&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>Subodh Kulkarni</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights></dc:rights>

    
        <dc:subject>CIS-A2K</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Access to Knowledge</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikimedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Marathi Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Openness</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2017-04-16T13:22:39Z</dc:date>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-rajarshi-chhatrapati-shahu-college-kolhapur">
    <title>Marathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at Rajarshi Chhatrapati Shahu College, Kolhapur</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-rajarshi-chhatrapati-shahu-college-kolhapur</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;A Marathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon was conducted at Rajarshi Chhatrapati Shahu College, Kolhapur on 23 January, 2017.&lt;/b&gt;
        
&lt;p&gt;A Marathi Wikipedia edit-a-thon was conducted at Shivaji's University's affiliate&amp;nbsp;Rajarshi Chhatrapati Shahu College&amp;nbsp;in Kolhapur on 23 January, 2017. The edit-a-thon aimed to introduce Wikipedia to the students of the College and teach them basic editing skills. The students were trained in categorisation and translation from other language Wikipedias. In addition, the students were taught smart editing on their mobile phones using the Wikipedia app.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The theme of the edit-a-thon was to build resources on Marathi Wikipedia in the field of commerce, so as to keep it relevant to the students who study related subjects at the college. The three-hour-long edit-a-thon conducted at the Computer Lab of the college, involved 50 participants, a mix of male and female students.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The link to the event page on meta can be found &lt;a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Edit-a-thon_at_Rajarshee_Shahu_College,Kolhapur_on_23rd_January_2017"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-rajarshi-chhatrapati-shahu-college-kolhapur'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-rajarshi-chhatrapati-shahu-college-kolhapur&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>Subodh Kulkarni</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights></dc:rights>

    
        <dc:subject>CIS-A2K</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Access to Knowledge</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikimedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Marathi Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Openness</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2017-04-16T14:15:43Z</dc:date>
   <dc:type>Blog Entry</dc:type>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-dalit-mahila-vikas-mandal-satara">
    <title>Marathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at Dalit Mahila Vikas Mandal, Satara</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-dalit-mahila-vikas-mandal-satara</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;
        
&lt;p&gt;A Marathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon was conducted at the Dalit Mahila Vikas Mandal in Satara on 4 August 2017. The organisation, working on issues of women's rights, gender, justice and violence against women, was given an introduction to editing on Wikipedia.&amp;nbsp;Voluntary organisation Dalit Mahila Vikas Mandal is eager to implement innovative projects for the students and field activists. It has decided to integrate Wikimedia Projects and training modules for capacity building of students and movement volunteers. To get the overall introduction of Wikimedia Projects and basic skills, this workshop was organised for faculty and selected students. The edit-a-thon was attended by 10 female and 5 male participants.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sana Patel, a participant emphasises, "I realised the need to contribute gender related content. It is very important to write about women's issues and laws'.&amp;nbsp;The edit-a-thon resulted in 13 new editors discovering Wikipedia for the first time. 20 articles were improved and five images were uploaded. A follow-up workshop on building content on women-related issues has been planned with the Dalit Mahila Vikas Mandal as well as other like-minded organisations in Satara.&amp;nbsp;Onkar Tapase, a participant opines, "as a journalist, I see a great potential to contribute"&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The meta page of the event can be found &lt;a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Marathi_Wikipedia_Edit-a-thon_at_Muktangan_Naw_Vichar_Prerana_Kendra,Satara"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-dalit-mahila-vikas-mandal-satara'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-dalit-mahila-vikas-mandal-satara&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>Subodh Kulkarni</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights></dc:rights>

    
        <dc:subject>CIS-A2K</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Access to Knowledge</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikimedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Marathi Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Workshop</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Marathi Wikisource</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2017-10-24T11:52:24Z</dc:date>
   <dc:type>Blog Entry</dc:type>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-swa-roopwardhinee-pune">
    <title>Marathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at 'Swa'-Roopwardhinee, Pune </title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-swa-roopwardhinee-pune</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;A Marathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon was held at 'Swa'-Roopwardhinee, Pune on 7th February 2017&lt;/b&gt;
        
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;A Marathi Wikipedia edit-a-thon conducted by CIS-A2K in partnership with&amp;nbsp;'Swa'-Roopwardhinee, an organisation working in the field of education and social work was held on 7 February, 2017. The aim of the workshop was to train participants from&amp;nbsp;'Swa'-Roopwardhinee on the basics of Wikipedia editing. The theme of the edit-a-thon was to build resources on education and community development on Marathi Wikipedia. Six participants took part in the three hour workshop conducted at the 'Swa'-Roopwardhinee premises.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This edit-a-thon is part of CIS-A2K's ongoing effort to engage communities of interest to partner and collaborate on contributing to Wikipedia so as to utilize their domain knowledge on the free encyclopaedia. Five articles were created and edited by participants.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The link to event page on meta can be found &lt;a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Marathi_Wikipedia_Edit-a-thon_at_%27Swa%27-Roopwardhinee,_Pune_on_7th_February_2017"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-swa-roopwardhinee-pune'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-swa-roopwardhinee-pune&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>Subodh Kulkarni</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights></dc:rights>

    
        <dc:subject>CIS-A2K</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Access to Knowledge</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikimedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Marathi Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Openness</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2017-04-16T14:31:46Z</dc:date>
   <dc:type>Blog Entry</dc:type>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-february-5-2017-in-pune">
    <title>Marathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-february-5-2017-in-pune</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;A Marathi Wikipedia edit-a-thon was conducted by the Centre for Internet &amp; Society (CIS-A2K) on February 5, 2017 at Vigyan Ashram, Pabal in Pune.&lt;/b&gt;
        &lt;table class="plain"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;th&gt;&lt;img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/MarathiWikiEdit1.jpg/@@images/393ec2b7-9f7f-43f8-9238-017398315503.jpeg" alt="Marathi Wikipedia in Pune" class="image-inline" title="Marathi Wikipedia in Pune" /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th&gt;&lt;img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/MarathiWikiEdit2.jpg/@@images/d1f42734-721b-479d-b452-fa867a0f3269.jpeg" alt="Marathi Wikipedia in Pune" class="image-inline" title="Marathi Wikipedia in Pune" /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Discussion on themes&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hand holding&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;CIS-A2K aims to build resources in the field of appropriate rural technologies on Marathi Wikipedia and encourage the participants to contribute and enrich Marathi language on Wikipedia. The workshop besides encouraging participants to develop village articles also focused on:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Introducing Wikipedia as an encyclopaedia for research.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Promoting Marathi Wikipedia community and use of Marathi on Wikipedia.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Open interactions within the editors, new as well as old.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Spreading awareness of Wikipedia as a power digital tool of knowledge.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Developing articles on gender and environment related issues.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;The workshop was highly interactive and participants were able to discuss specific problems in content creation and seek appropriate guidance from the trainer conducting the edit-a-thon. Seven articles were created at the workshop:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;विकिपीडिया:मराठी विकिपीडिया संपादन कार्यशाळा - विज्ञान आश्रम,पाबळ &lt;a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/s/306z"&gt;https://mr.wikipedia.org/s/306z&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;विज्ञान आश्रम &lt;a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/s/307h"&gt;https://mr.wikipedia.org/s/307h&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;पाबळ &lt;a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/s/300s"&gt;https://mr.wikipedia.org/s/300s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;कन्हेरसर &lt;a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/s/306p"&gt;https://mr.wikipedia.org/s/306p&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;केंदूर &lt;a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/s/3070"&gt;https://mr.wikipedia.org/s/3070&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;भैरवनाथ मंदिर, पाबळ &lt;a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/s/3078"&gt;https://mr.wikipedia.org/s/3078&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;श्री पद्ममानी जैन कॉलेज पाबळ &lt;a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/s/307w"&gt;https://mr.wikipedia.org/s/307w&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For more info see the &lt;a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Marathi_Wikipedia_Edit-a-thon_at_Vigyan_Ashram,Pabal,Dist.Pune_on_5th_February_2017"&gt;Wikimedia Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-february-5-2017-in-pune'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-february-5-2017-in-pune&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>subodh</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights></dc:rights>

    
        <dc:subject>Marathi Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>CIS-A2K</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Access to Knowledge</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Marathi Wikisource</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2017-03-05T01:31:31Z</dc:date>
   <dc:type>Blog Entry</dc:type>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-vishwakosh-workshop-for-science-writers-in-iucaa-pune">
    <title>Marathi Wikipedia - Vishwakosh Workshop for Science writers in IUCAA, Pune</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-vishwakosh-workshop-for-science-writers-in-iucaa-pune</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;
        
&lt;p&gt;A day-long workshop was organised for science writers at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-University_Centre_for_Astronomy_and_Astrophysics Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics], Pune on 7 October, 2017. Eminent astrophysicist-mathematician couple 
  
  
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      en:Jayant Narlikar|Jayant&lt;sup&gt;[+]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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      en:Mangala Narlikar|Mangala Narlikar&lt;sup&gt;[+]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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, and renowned ecologist 
  
  
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      en:Madhav Gadgil|Madhav Gadgil&lt;sup&gt;[+]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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 were among the dignitaries present at the event.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The workshop was planned in three sessions. Presentations and discussions were conducted in first session, while second session was focused on actual editing demonstrations on Wikipedia. In the same session the new websites based on different subjects developed by Marathi Vishwakosh were presented. The process of content contribution in text, images, audio and video forms was explained in this session. The third session was to explore networking with Dyanmandals formed by 
  
  
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. Insisting the expertise of invited authors to contribute the articles in their own chosen fields in a well-structured format, this session will not only train the authors in content generation but also make them understand the expectations of laymen and common readers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The mete page of the event is &lt;a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Marathi_Wikipedia_-_Vishwakosh_Workshop_for_Science_writers_in_IUCAA,_Pune"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-vishwakosh-workshop-for-science-writers-in-iucaa-pune'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-vishwakosh-workshop-for-science-writers-in-iucaa-pune&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>manasarao</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights></dc:rights>

    
        <dc:subject>CIS-A2K</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Access to Knowledge</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikimedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Marathi Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Openness</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2017-12-20T02:42:39Z</dc:date>
   <dc:type>Blog Entry</dc:type>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-language-day-events-by-cis-a2k-in-february-2018">
    <title>Marathi Language Day events by CIS-A2K in February 2018</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-language-day-events-by-cis-a2k-in-february-2018</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;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.&lt;/b&gt;
        &lt;h3&gt;Online Workshops&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;These were conducted at Jeevan Jyoti Women empowerment centre,Velhe ; Garware College of Commerce, Pune and Dayanand college in Solapur. Proof reading of marathi book on Wikisource was completed by the students of Garware college on this day.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Media&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul style="text-align: justify; "&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="text external" href="http://www.esakal.com/sampadakiya/subodh-kulkarni-write-unicode-sahitya-sammelan-marathi-editorial-97085" rel="nofollow"&gt;Guest editorial&lt;/a&gt; in leading newspaper &lt;b&gt;Sakal&lt;/b&gt; was published on 10th Feb. The gist is - Everyone speaks, discusses about status of marathi on the occasion of language day on 27th feb and Yearly Litfest. If we want to make marathi, a global language for knowledge sharing and connecting to world lang' communities, it is necessary to adopt unicode and open source softwares in writing, publishing,printing etc. The collaborative works also need unicode as it is a universal bridge. The Wikipedias in 288 lang's is a great success story because it is based on Unicode &amp;amp; open source. The editorial also gives future action plan to achieve this, viz. upgradation of academic courses related to language business, writers/publishers workshops, Indic lang computing centre, digitisation/OCR and content donation in Wikisource, Wiktionary etc., Copyright free/relicense movement among writers or copyright holders, Appeal to social and educational magazines to upload their old issues on Wikisource as reference material.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;ul style="text-align: justify; "&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Radio Interview on Tomato FM 94.3 Kolhapur on 27th Feb. The promotion was made through &lt;a class="text external" href="https://www.facebook.com/94.3TomatoFM/photos/a.1903314286648700.1073741830.1836859603294169/1998389990474462/?type=3" rel="nofollow"&gt;Facebook post&lt;/a&gt; and ads on Radio. The interview received good response from 2 districts.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Event in Sangli&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;A special event was arranged by '&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Janswasthya&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt; organisation on 28th Feb. Nearly 80 prominent personalities from Sangli district gathered together to discuss about growth of marathi language. Alongwith Subodh Kulkarni, writer Ramdas Phutane also participated.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span&gt;Media Coverage&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;News in &lt;a class="text external" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Marathi_Language_Day_events_by_CIS-A2K_in_February_2018"&gt;Pudhari&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;News in &lt;a class="text external" href="http://epaperlokmat.in/sub-editions/Hello+Aurangabad/2018-02-28/2#Article/LOK_HABD_20180228_2_7/148px" rel="nofollow"&gt;Lokmat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;News in &lt;a class="text external" href="http://epaper.saamana.com/imageview_8061_193747978_4_73.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;Samana&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-language-day-events-by-cis-a2k-in-february-2018'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-language-day-events-by-cis-a2k-in-february-2018&lt;/a&gt;
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    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>subodh</dc:creator>
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        <dc:subject>CIS-A2K</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Access to Knowledge</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikimedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Marathi Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2018-03-17T08:58:44Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Mapping Content on Gender and Sexuality in Indian Languages</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/research-mapping-content-on-gender-and-sexuality-in-indian-languages</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;This research study explores content production processes on gender and sexuality in Indian languages, its digital documentation and factors that affect its availability and use on open access platforms. The research was undertaken by Yashashwini Srinivas, with editorial inputs by Puthiya Purayil Sneha, and Torsha Sarkar. This research was part of short-term studies undertaken at the CIS-A2K programme 2021-22.&lt;/b&gt;
        
&lt;p&gt;Read the&amp;nbsp; report on Wikimedia Meta-Wiki &lt;a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Mapping_Content_on_Gender_and_Sexuality_in_Indian_Languages"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h2&gt;Introduction&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Mapping Content on Gender and Sexuality in Indian languages is a research project that studies the content production process on gender and sexuality in Indian languages and challenges it with its digital documentation. It examines the diverse nature of content creation on these topics, processes of its digitalisation and related challenges that contribute to the disparity in its availability and use on open knowledge platforms such as Wikimedia projects, and potential strategies to address the same.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Through conversations with individuals and institutions working on gender, sexuality and allied topics like feminism, with a focus on women, non-binary and LGBTQIA+ related content, the study explores various aspects of content creation across multiple Indian languages, its access and use. Based on analysing this data and drawing on ongoing work within the mainstream discourse on gender and sexuality, the report offers a set of observations on ways to address challenges related to the gender gap in the content creation process on open knowledge platforms.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Context and Methods&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Collaborative knowledge production platforms such as Wikimedia projects have recognised the existence of a&amp;nbsp;&lt;a title="Gender gap" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap"&gt;gender gap and bias&lt;/a&gt; across its projects, understood largely as disparities in participation by and content related to women and, by extension, individuals across diverse gender and sexual identities. As observed in global literature as well as by work done by Indian language communities (with a focus largely on women Wikimedians), the gap is a result of various infrastructural and socio-cultural factors, including limited access to devices and the internet; balancing professional, domestic and volunteer work; lack of technical capacity-building and communication skills; limited presence in leadership positions, and the need for safe and healthy working environments among others. Several efforts have been made globally and in Indian language communities to address these challenges.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The issue of the gender gap, or indeed the challenges identified, are not unique to Wikimedia projects alone but are reflective of gender disparities in the public sphere and across the internet more broadly. Key learning from previous work in this space has been the need to connect these conversations and efforts to bridge the gender gap with the wider public discourse related to content creation on gender and sexuality online and in Indian languages. This study aimed to map such content with perspectives drawn from diverse gender and sexual identities. Importantly, it sought to understand better some of the infrastructural and cultural factors that shape creating such content and making it publicly available in diverse languages.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This study was done across four Indian languages - Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu (while English remained inevitable), focusing on content under two sub-themes– a. Cultural History and b. Feminist Production/Publication. The respondents in the study included organisations and individuals working in the areas of gender, sexuality and allied areas like feminist interventions and publishing, with a focus on writers, translators, artists, and multi-format content creators and curators. The study adopted a qualitative approach and comprised 19 semi-structured interviews (including four focused group discussions with organisations). Owing to the pandemic, all interactions for this study were done through telephonic conversation, email and virtual conferencing. These interactions have helped us understand the process of content creation in these areas. These problems manifest as gendered disparities in engagement with online platforms and potential solutions to address the same.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Key Research Areas&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The three major thematic areas this research study focused on are as follows.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nature of the Knowledge Produced&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Content production on gender and sexuality in Indian languages spans several areas, including education, activism, advocacy and rights and justice, to name a few, given the location of much early writing in this space within the women’s rights and several other social movements in India. Important observations on the nature of this content by respondents include the emergence of a feminist critique across fields and disciplines, active interventions in the public discourse around gender and sexuality and the need for an intersectional approach to the process of content production. The growth of content in Indian languages and their increased availability on online platforms is also an important step towards addressing the predominance of Anglocentric and academic perspectives in these areas of research and work.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Digital Spaces, and movement of Content from Paper to Pixel&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cohort of the participants of this study has pointed out the evolution of the internet and digital tools from a luxury to a necessity but also acknowledged the widespread disparity in their access and use. However, the interesting outcome of this has been the transformation of traditional publishing methods and the emergence of cost-efficient space to produce content in various formats (like on social media) which fosters wider dissemination and engagement. However, increasing digital content production also comes with the need for advancements in digital literacy, resources and infrastructure. Digitalisation and open access to content on gender and sexuality in Indian languages is, therefore, a resource-intensive process, with related challenges such as copyright restrictions and technical limitations to access and use of Indian language content etc.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Indian Languages&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The content creation process on gender and sexuality in Indian languages is complex given the country's diversity. Still, socio-cultural factors continue to determine the growth and use of languages, often resulting from asymmetries of power amongst diverse communities. This includes the marginalisation of certain forms of language use and content production processes that are not seen as within the ambit of dominant languages. Further, the lack of a gender-neutral vocabulary across many Indian languages and the significant challenges in the translation are important issues that emerged in this space. While the translation of content on gender and sexuality into Indian languages from English and other foreign languages is challenging due to the lack of a gender-neutral and conceptual vocabulary, as noted earlier; the lack of reverse translations and limitations within publishing and wider circulation of content are some of the factors that continue to affect work in this space.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Learnings&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The learnings from this study outline the many challenges in content production on gender and sexuality, especially in Indian languages and its availability in digital spaces. These include the need to recognise that gendered disparities result from asymmetries of power, thus calling for a more critical outlook and intersectional approach towards the processes of content production (and related work such as translation, digitisation and archiving). They also offer several strategies and best practices drawn from observations by the respondents to address some of these gaps in content creation and circulation to ensure sustainable knowledge production ecosystems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These include the dire need to bridge technical and infrastructural gaps, facilitate visibility and engagement with content through collaborations with key institutions and individuals in this space, and capacity-building through developing pedagogy and tools. Further, there is a need to diversify the approach towards creating and sourcing content and creating safe working environments by developing redressal mechanisms for marginalised and vulnerable communities. As Wikimedia projects constitute a major part of the digital knowledge ecosystem and have been working towards more diversity and inclusion across their projects, a sustained approach to bridge these gaps may be adopted in the Indian context. This would contribute immensely to efforts to bridge the gender gap across Wikimedia projects and in the larger digital public sphere.&lt;/p&gt;

        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/research-mapping-content-on-gender-and-sexuality-in-indian-languages'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/research-mapping-content-on-gender-and-sexuality-in-indian-languages&lt;/a&gt;
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    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>Yashashwini Srinivas</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights></dc:rights>

    
        <dc:subject>CIS-A2K</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Access to Knowledge</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikimedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>A2K Research</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Open Content</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2022-10-21T13:03:20Z</dc:date>
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