Centre for Internet and Society

Knowledge and Openness in the Digital Era

praskrishna — 2014-07-04T11:28:34Z

Andhra Loyola College and the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team invite you to a two-day national workshop on knowledge and openness in the digital era.

Instructions for Participants

Each participant attending the Workshop should register themselves on Wikipedia. Please note that once you register on a Wikipedia project, you can use that 'Username' (i.e. same log-in details) across all Wikipedias and Wikimedia platforms. This should be done by June 22, 2014. Please note that you will not be able to register more than 5 Usernames from a single IP address within 24 hours (a security feature of Wikipedia). This tutorial will help you with Registration on Wikipedia http://sh.st/r9zc (click on this link).
Once registered the participants must enroll here http://bit.ly/U4Zxhp using an on-line registration form.
All the participants are expected to do take part in production sprints on Wikipedia. We will choose Telugu Language Wikipedia as a site to do some editing.

For this workshop each participant should come with three full-fledged articles (at least of 1200 words each) in Telugu. This should be typed and be available in a soft copy form and could be carried in a thumb drive or any other storage media which should be easily accessible to them during the training programme. Please check www.te.wikipedia.org to see if an article already exists on the topic that you are planning to write. You can even choose the expand the existing article on Telugu Wikipedia with your knowledge.

Suggested topics: a) Concepts/topics that you teach often; b) A famous theorist/thinker in your discipline; c) Any other notable topic that you feel should be in your language Wikipedia.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/openness/events/knowledge-and-openness-in-digital-era

KIIT University to lead building free knowledge repository initiative

praskrishna — 2014-02-03T09:57:50Z

Centre for Internet and Society is a Bangalore based Non profit organization which works primarily in the broader domains ofinternet and policy research, accessibility, open knowledge and open education.

The blog post was published by India Education Diary.com on January 20, 2014.

Its Access To Knowledge program is funded by the Wikimedia Foundation and works in fostering the volunteer Wikimedia community that contributes in enhancing Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Its primary mandate is upbringing Wikipedia editors by outreach, creating primary resources for sources of reference in multiple ways that lead to enrich Wikipedia.

From a technical institution, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology has grown to a multidisciplinary world class University. KIIT University is a world class university spread over 25 sq. km. of land accommodating 20 sprawling wi-fi campuses with 10 million sq.ft. built up area. The university has 25 constituent schools offering more than 100 programmes. Being accredited by NAAC of UGC and NBA of AICTE, KIIT has 20,000 students pursuing under graduate and post graduate studies in the fields of Engineering, Computer Application, Management, Rural Management, Law, Biotechnology, MBBS, M.D., BDS, Nursing, Fashion Technology, Cinema & Media Studies and Languages. KIIT stands out as one of the finest universities in India declared under section 3 of the UGC Act of 1956. KIIT educational conglomerate is unique in offering a wide spectrum of academic programmes from kindergarten to postgraduate level, earning it a place in the Limca Book of Records.

Wikipedia has a critical stand in academia when it comes to peer academic research. But on the other side students ofter access and use Wikipedia for their assignment work despite of the non acceptance of Wikipedia content by the teacher community. The primary reason of Wikipedia's factual errors in many Indic related articles being Wikipedia's low contribution from the global south needs more contribution. Academicians and subject experts who are in charge of building the infrastructure of providing free knowledge to everyone often were stuck because of this setback.

This led to an conjugation of subject experts and Wikimedia contributor communities to set up a system called Wikipedia Education Program (WEP) where editing, correcting and enhancing Wikipedia articles become part of the curriculum.

To begin with the students in different schools at KIIT University the local Wikipedia community with the support from CIS-A2K is going to conduct classroom Wikipedia workshops to pilot Wikipedia contribution. KIIT University would be one of world's few universities to pilot student Wikipedia contribution as part oftheir curricula in any regional language.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/news/india-education-diary-january-20-2014-kiit-university-to-lead-building-free-knowledge-repository-initiative

Kannada Wikipedia Workshop, Mysore — Coverage in Prajavani

praskrishna — 2013-03-25T08:49:20Z

A Kannada Wikipedia workshop was organized by the Centre for Internet and Society in Mysore on March 24, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the event. Prajavani has published a report of the event on March 25, 2013.


Prajavani published a report of the Kannada Wikipedia workshop held at Mysore on March 25, 2013.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-report-in-prajavani

Kannada Wikipedia workshop at Shree Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara (SDM) College Ujire, Karnataka

pavanaja — 2016-06-18T18:12:41Z

A Kannada Wikipedia workshop is being planned to be organised in Shree Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara (SDM) College Ujire on the 13th August 2015. This is going to be part of the several outreach programmes in the institution.

Topics to be discussed:

What, Why & How of Wikipedia
Basics of Wikipedia markup
Kannada Wikipedia
Editing Kannada Wikipedia
What can be added to Kannada Wikipedia and how to add articles

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/openness/events/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-at-shree-dharmasthala-manjunatheshwara-sdm-college-ujire-karnataka

Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at SDM

praskrishna — 2013-09-12T06:16:36Z

The Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, SDM College, Ujire is holding a wiki workshop on September 15, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja from CIS-A2K team is participating in this workshop.

The workshop is being held to teach post-graduate students studying Journalism and Mass Communication on contributing and editing Wikipedia. The students will be particularly trained to edit Kannada Wikipedia.

More about SDM College, Ujire here.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wiki-workshop-sdm

Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Hasan (Coverage in Vijaya Karnataka)

praskrishna — 2013-07-02T07:22:57Z

Dr. U.B. Pavanaja conducted a workshop in Hasan on June 4, 2013. Vijaya Karnataka published a report of the workshop on June 5, 2013.


Above is a report of the workshop in Vijaya Karnataka. The workshop was conducted by Dr. U.B.Pavanja on June 4, 2013.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/news/vijaya-karnataka-june-5-2013-report-of-kannada-wikipedia-workshop-in-hasan

Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Hasan (Coverage in Samyukta Karnataka)

praskrishna — 2013-07-02T07:16:11Z

Dr. U.B. Pavanaja conducted a workshop in Hasan on June 4, 2013. Samyukta Karnataka published a report of the workshop on June 5, 2013.


Above is the report in Kannada of the workshop conducted in Hasan on June 4, 2013.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/news/samyukta-karnataka-june-5-2013-kannada-wikipedia-workshop-coverage

Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Hasan (Coverage in Prajavani)

praskrishna — 2013-07-02T07:05:25Z

Dr. U.B. Pavanaja conducted a workshop in Hasan on June 4, 2013. Prajavani carried a report on June 5, 2013.


A Kannada Wikipedia workshop was conducted in Hasan by Dr. U.B. Pavanaja on June 4, 2013. Above is the report published by Prajavani in Kannada.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/news/prajavani-june-5-2013-kannada-wikipedia-workshop-coverage

Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Alvas Vishva Nudisiri Virasat

praskrishna — 2013-12-31T09:48:19Z

The Access to Knowledge team from the Centre for Internet and Society conducted a workshop at Moodabidre from December 19 to 22, 2013.

Dr. U.B. Pavanaja gave a presentation about Kannada Wikipedia and also conducted a workshop on Kannada Wikipedia as a parallel track. He spoke about Kannada and IT in general and also about Kannada Wikipedia. The event was covered by Prajavani (December 22), Hosadigantha (December 22), and Deccan Herald (December 22). Scanned copies of these are reproduced below:


Above: A report published by Prajavani


Above: Article by Guruprasad TN about Kannada Wikipedia, Dr. Pavanaja is quoted.


Above: Article in Hosadigantha. Dr. Pavanaja is quoted.

Also there was a report published by Udayavani on December 24, 2013. This can be accessed here: http://bit.ly/1cjwIyD.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-alvas-vishva-nudisiri-virasat

Kannada Wikipedia Workshop (Coverage in Vijayavani)

praskrishna — 2014-04-11T10:15:45Z

Vijayavani covered the Kannada Wikipedia workshop held in Sagara.

Read the scanned version of the article published in Vijayavani below

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/news/vijayavani-kannada-wiki-workshop-march-3-2014

Kannada Wikipedia Workshop (Coverage in Suvarna Prabha)

praskrishna — 2014-03-05T11:05:23Z

Dr. U.B. Pavanaja conducted a Kannada Wikipedia workshop on March 1, followed a by edit-a-thon on Mar 2, 2014, at Sagara. A report of the inauguration program, appeared in Suvarna Prabha, Sagara on March 1, 2014.

A scanned version of the report is given below. The event was organised by Kannada Times Sagara and co-sponsored by CIS-A2K.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-coverage-suvarna-prabha-march-1-2014

Kannada Wikipedia Workshop

praskrishna — 2013-03-15T09:52:18Z

A Kannada Wikipedia workshop is being organized by the Centre for Internet and Society in Mysore on March 24, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja will be participating in this workshop. The one day workshop will begin at 10 a.m. in the morning and shall end at 5.00 p.m. in the evening.

ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನ/೯

ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ಇನ್ನಷ್ಟು ಮಾಹಿತಿ ಸೇರಿಸುವ ಸಲುವಾಗಿ ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಸಮುದಾಯ ಮಾರ್ಚ್ ೨೪ರಂದು ಮೈಸೂರಿನ ಇನ್ಸ್ಟಿಟ್ಯೂಶನ್ ಆಫ್ ಇಂಜಿನಿಯರ‍್ಸ್ ಸಭಾಂಗಣದಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದೆಡೆ ಸೇರುತ್ತಿದೆ. ಕನ್ನಡದ ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶದ ಸಂಪಾದನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಆಸಕ್ತಿ ಉಳ್ಳವರು, ಬ್ಲಾಗಿಗರು, ಪತ್ರಕರ್ತರು, ಲೇಖಕರು ಎಲ್ಲ ಈ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮದಲ್ಲಿ ಭಾಗವಹಿಸಬಹುದು.

ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನದ ಉದ್ದೇಶ

ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಪರಿಚಯ
ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ಸಂಪಾದಕ ಆಗುವ ವಿಧಾನ
ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ಲೇಖನಗಳನ್ನು ಸೇರಿಸುವ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಪ್ರಾತ್ಯಕ್ಷಿಕೆ
ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ಚಿತ್ರಗಳನ್ನು ಸೇರಿಸುವ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಪ್ರಾತ್ಯಕ್ಷಿಕೆ
ಕನ್ನಡದ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶದಲ್ಲಿ ಇರಲೇ ಬೇಕಾದ ವಿಷಯಗಳ ಪಟ್ಟಿ ತಯಾರಿಸುವುದು
ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ಲೇಖನ ಮತ್ತು ಚಿತ್ರ ಸೇರಿಸುವುದು

ಯಾರು ಭಾಗವಹಿಸಬಹುದು

ಕನ್ನಡದ ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶದ ಸಂಪಾದನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಆಸಕ್ತಿ ಉಳ್ಳವರು, ಬ್ಲಾಗಿಗರು, ಪತ್ರಕರ್ತರು, ಲೇಖಕರು, ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಗರು(ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಾದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಆಸಕ್ತಿ ಉಳ್ಳವರು)

ದಿನಾಂಕ ಮತ್ತು ಸ್ಥಳ

ಇನ್ಸ್ಟಿಟ್ಯೂಶನ್ ಆಫ್ ಇಂಜಿನಿಯರ‍್ಸ್

ಜೆ.ಎಲ್.ಬಿ. ರಸ್ತೆ
ಮೈಸೂರು - ೫೭೦೦೦೫

ದಿನಾಂಕ: ಮಾರ್ಚ್ ೨೪, ೨೦೧೩, ಭಾನುವಾರ (ಇಡೀ ದಿನ)

ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮ ಪಟ್ಟಿ

ಸಮಯ	ಕಾರ್ಯಸೂಚಿ	ಮಾತನಾಡುವವರು	ಟಿಪ್ಪಣಿ, ಉಪಯೋಗ
೯:೫೦ ಬೆಳಗ್ಗೆ	ನೊಂದಣಿ		ನಿಮ್ಮ ಹೆಸರು/ಇ-ಅಂಚೆ/ಮೊಬೈಲ್/ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಬಳಕೆದಾರರ ಹೆಸರು ಜೊತೆಗೆ, ಭಾಗಿಯಾಗುತ್ತಿರುವುದರ ಉದ್ದೇಶವನ್ನು ಸ್ವಾಗತಕಾರರ ಬಳಿ ತಿಳಿಸಿ
೧೦:೦೦	ಸ್ವಾಗತ	ಪವನಜ	ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮದ ಉದ್ದೇಶ ಮತ್ತು ಅದರ ಪ್ರತಿಪಲಾಪೇಕ್ಷೆಗಳ ವಿವರಣೆ
೧೦:೧೫ - ೧೧:೧೫	ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ	ಪವನಜ	ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಎಂದರೆ ಏನು? ಇದನ್ನು ಸಂಪಾದಿಸುವವರು ಯಾರು ಮತ್ತು ಏಕೆ? ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದ ಇತರೆ ಯೋಜನೆಗಳು
೧೧:೧೫ - ೧೧:೩೦	ಚಾ
೧೧:೩೦ - ೧೨:೦೦	ಕ್ರಿಯೇಟಿವ್ ಕಾಮನ್ಸ್	ಕಿರಣ್ ರವಿಕುಮಾರ‍್	ಕ್ರಿಯೆಟೀವ್ ಕಾಮನ್ಸ್ (Creative Commons) ಬಗ್ಗೆ ವಿವರಣೆ.
೧೨:೦೦ - ೧೩:೦೦	ಪ್ರಾತ್ಯಕ್ಷಿಕೆ	ಪವನಜ	ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಸಂಪಾದಕ ಆಗುವುದು ಹೇಗೆ, ಸಂಪಾದಿಸುವುದು ಹೇಗೆ, ಇತ್ಯಾದಿ
೧೩:೦೦ - ೧೪:೦೦	ಊಟ
೧೪:೦೦ - ೧೪:೧೫	ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ೧೦೦೦ ಯೋಜನೆ ಪರಿಚಯ	ಪವನಜ	ಕನ್ನಡ ಮತ್ತು ಕರ್ನಾಟಕಕ್ಕೆ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದ ಪ್ರಮುಖ ಲೇಖನಗಳನ್ನು ಪಟ್ಟಿ ಮಾಡಿ, ಸಮುದಾಯದ ಆಯ್ಕೆಯ ಮೇರೆಗೆ ಲೇಖನಗಳ ಸಂಪಾದನೆ, ಪರಿಷ್ಕರಣೆ ಇತ್ಯಾದಿಗಳ ಅವಶ್ಯಕತೆ, ಭಾಗವಹಿಸುವಿಕೆ
೧೪:೧೫ - ಕೊನೆಯವರೆಗೆ	ಪ್ರಯೋಗ (hands-on)	ಎಲ್ಲರೂ	ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದಲ್ಲಿ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನಕ್ಕೆ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದ ಲೇಖನಗಳನ್ನು ಸೇರಿಸುವ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನ

ಸ್ವಯಂಸೇವಕರು

Pavanaja (talk) ೦೭:೩೭, ೧೧ ಮಾರ್ಚ್ ೨೦೧೩ (UTC)
ಕಿರಣ್ ರವಿಕುಮಾರ‍್
ನವೀನ್ ಜೋಯಿಸ್

ಭಾಗವಹಿಸಲು ಇಚ್ಛಿಸುವವರು

ನೀವೂ ಭಾಗಿಯಾಗಲು ಇಚ್ಚಿಸುವುದಾದರೆ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಹೆಸರನ್ನು # ಮುಂದೆ ಸೇರಿಸಿ ಅಥವಾ ~ ಅನ್ನು ನಾಲ್ಕು ಭಾರಿ ಟೈಪಿಸಿ ಸಹಿ ಮಾಡಿ.

ಹಾಲತಿ ಸೋಮಶೇಖರ
ಮಾಲಿನಿ ಅಭ್ಯಂಕರ‍್

ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನಕ್ಕೆ ಸಹಾಯ

ಬೆಂಬಲ

ಸೆಂಟರ‍್ ಫಾರ‍್ ಇಂಟರ‍್ ನೆಟ್ ಅಂಡ್ ಸೊಸೈಟಿ, ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು

ಉಪಯುಕ್ತ ಕೊಂಡಿಗಳು
ಸೂಚನೆ ಭಾಗವಹಿಸುವವರು ಲ್ಯಾಪ್‌ಟಾಪ್, ಪವರ್ ಸ್ಟ್ರಿಪ್ (extension switchboard) ಮತ್ತು ಅಂತರಜಾಲ ಸಂಪರ್ಕ ಡಾಂಗಲ್ ತಂದರೆ ಒಳ್ಳೆಯದು.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/openness/events/kannada-wikipedia-workshop

Kannada Wikipedia Presentation for Kannada Science Writers

praskrishna — 2014-08-06T10:15:09Z

The following is the media coverage for the Kannada Wikipedia presentation at the Central University at Gulbarga on July 30,2014, in Gulbarga edition of Prajavani Kannada daily, dated July 31.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-presentation-prajavani-coverage

Kannada Wikipedia Presentation

praskrishna — 2014-08-06T09:57:48Z

The following is a scanned copy of the media coverage for the Kannada Wikipedia presentation at the Kannada Science Writers workshop at Gulbarga on July 29,2014, in Gulbarga edition of Vijayavani Kannada daily, dated July 30.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-presentation-vijayavani-coverage

Kannada Wikipedia Orientation Workshop at IISc, Bengaluru

Gopalakrishna A — 2017-12-19T16:16:29Z

A Kannada Wikipedia orientation workshop was held at the Entrepreneurship Centre, SID, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru on 26 November, 2017. The day long event was aimed at adding content to Kannada Wikimedia projects on topics such as ecology, environment, wildlife and sciences of Karnataka. The event was organised by Gubbi Labs in conjunction with CIS-A2K. Gubbi Labs is a research collective and social collective run by environmental scientists. The event was attended was attended by 8 participants of which one member was female.

The participants created six articles and expanded one article. The impact of this workshop was the fact that participants were made aware of the importance of open access data. It helped initiate another similar workshop in Mysuru. Upon sharing the idea for projects like Wiki Loves Butterfly Idea, a participant was interested in starting a project titled 'Wiki Loves Spiders'. We are hoping to take this project forward on Kannada Wikipedia.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/kannada-wikipedia-orientation-workshop-at-iisc-bengaluru