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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikipedia-stall-at-rajahmundry-book-fair-1">
    <title> Telugu Wikipedia Stall at Rajahmundry Book Fair </title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikipedia-stall-at-rajahmundry-book-fair-1</link>
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        &lt;b&gt;Telugu Wikipedia community put up a stall at the three day Rajahmundry Book Fair from 20 - 23 November 2016. &lt;/b&gt;
        
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The initi&lt;span class="highlightedSearchTerm"&gt;at&lt;/span&gt;ive was supported by &lt;a href="http://cis-india.org/"&gt;The Centre for Internet and Society &lt;/a&gt;and &lt;a href="http://ntrtrust.org/"&gt;NTR Trust&lt;/a&gt;. The &lt;span class="highlightedSearchTerm"&gt;stall&lt;/span&gt; was run by long time community advoc&lt;span class="highlightedSearchTerm"&gt;at&lt;/span&gt;es and editors of &lt;span class="highlightedSearchTerm"&gt;Telugu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="highlightedSearchTerm"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/span&gt;. The volunteers distributed pamphlets and explained to the visitors the basics of editing &lt;span class="highlightedSearchTerm"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/span&gt;. They distributed a survey to understand current topics of interest in order to upd&lt;span class="highlightedSearchTerm"&gt;at&lt;/span&gt;e the &lt;span class="highlightedSearchTerm"&gt;Telugu&lt;/span&gt; wiki pages. Some visitors utilized the expertise of the volunteers and set up &lt;span class="highlightedSearchTerm"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/span&gt; accounts &lt;span class="highlightedSearchTerm"&gt;at&lt;/span&gt; the &lt;span class="highlightedSearchTerm"&gt;stall&lt;/span&gt;s.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The &lt;span class="highlightedSearchTerm"&gt;book&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="highlightedSearchTerm"&gt;fair&lt;/span&gt; in the river side city didn’t see many takers this time round considering the move to &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Indian_banknote_demonetisation"&gt;demonetise&lt;/a&gt; was announced the previous week. The organizers had not made altern&lt;span class="highlightedSearchTerm"&gt;at&lt;/span&gt;ive payment arrangements &lt;span class="highlightedSearchTerm"&gt;at&lt;/span&gt; such short notice. Volunteer &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pranayraj1985"&gt;Pranay Raj&lt;/a&gt; said, “although there were uncontrollable factors &lt;span class="highlightedSearchTerm"&gt;at&lt;/span&gt; play, the city has gre&lt;span class="highlightedSearchTerm"&gt;at&lt;/span&gt; potential and &lt;span class="highlightedSearchTerm"&gt;Telugu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="highlightedSearchTerm"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/span&gt; plans to expand its editor base in the city through institutional partnerships from schools and colleges.”&lt;/p&gt;

        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikipedia-stall-at-rajahmundry-book-fair-1'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikipedia-stall-at-rajahmundry-book-fair-1&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
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    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>manasa@cis-india.org</dc:creator>
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        <dc:subject>CIS-A2K</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Telugu Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Access to Knowledge</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2017-02-06T12:48:36Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Mini Workshop on Tools: Wikipedia Monthly Meetup, Hyderabad</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mini-workshop-on-tools-wikipedia-monthly-meetup-hyderabad</link>
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        &lt;b&gt;Telugu Wikipedia community held its monthly meet-up in Hyderabad on 28 August 2016. &lt;/b&gt;
        
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The event was marked by a presentati&lt;span class="highlightedSearchTerm"&gt;on&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="highlightedSearchTerm"&gt;on&lt;/span&gt; quick tools by &lt;a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Pavan_santhosh.s"&gt;Pavan Santhosh&lt;/a&gt;, Community Advocate and l&lt;span class="highlightedSearchTerm"&gt;on&lt;/span&gt;g time member of the Telugu &lt;span class="highlightedSearchTerm"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/span&gt; community. He dem&lt;span class="highlightedSearchTerm"&gt;on&lt;/span&gt;strated the use of &lt;a href="http://tools.wmflabs.org/magnustools/prepbio.php"&gt;PrepBio&lt;/a&gt;, a tool that helps create infoboxes &lt;span class="highlightedSearchTerm"&gt;on&lt;/span&gt; biographical articles. “This make the process of editing and updating edits easier,” he said. He also spoke about &lt;a href="http://tools.wmflabs.org/wiki-todo/"&gt;Wiki ToDo&lt;/a&gt;, a tool that helps find articles with specific edits or improvements required. “This ensures that even new editors can c&lt;span class="highlightedSearchTerm"&gt;on&lt;/span&gt;tribute to quality improvement &lt;span class="highlightedSearchTerm"&gt;on&lt;/span&gt; wikis,” he pointed out. At the end of the sessi&lt;span class="highlightedSearchTerm"&gt;on&lt;/span&gt;, the community members engaged in an activity that gave them a hands &lt;span class="highlightedSearchTerm"&gt;on&lt;/span&gt; insight into using these tools.&lt;/p&gt;

        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mini-workshop-on-tools-wikipedia-monthly-meetup-hyderabad'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mini-workshop-on-tools-wikipedia-monthly-meetup-hyderabad&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
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    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>Manasa Rao and Pavan Santhosh</dc:creator>
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        <dc:subject>CIS-A2K</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Telugu Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Access to Knowledge</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2017-02-06T12:49:00Z</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>
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        &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;
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    <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/telugu-wikipedia-stall-at-vijayawada-book-festival">
    <title>Telugu Wikipedia stall at Vijayawada Book Festival</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikipedia-stall-at-vijayawada-book-festival</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;The Telugu Wikipedia community put up a stall at the Vijayawada Book Festival in January, in order to increase reach of the regional language encyclopaedia.&lt;/b&gt;
        
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Last in a series of book stalls set up across the Telugu-speaking region, the Telugu community set up shop at the 27th Vijayawada Book Festival from 3 to 11 January 2017 at the PWD Grounds. The community had previously set up similar book stalls in &lt;a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikipedia-stall-at-rajahmundry-book-fair-1"&gt;Rajahmundry &lt;/a&gt;and &lt;a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikipedia-stall-at-hyderabad-book-fair"&gt;Hyderabad&lt;/a&gt;. Considered one of the largest book festivals in India with deep-rooted cultural significance in the Telugu literary circles, the Telugu community aims to increase the reach and visibility of Telugu Wikipedia through the setting up of this stall.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The book festival, open for the public from 11 am to 11 pm, was inaugurated by Kendra Sahitya Akademi winner&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachapalem_Chandrasekhara_Reddy"&gt;Rachapalem Chandrasekhar Reddy&lt;/a&gt;, with a collection of 235 stalls to browse from. The festival was organised in partnership with the &lt;a class="external-link" href="http://www.ap.gov.in/about-ap/language-culture/"&gt;Andhra Pradesh Department of Language and&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a class="external-link" href="http://www.ap.gov.in/about-ap/language-culture/"&gt;Culture&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a class="external-link" href="http://www.ap.gov.in/about-ap/language-culture/"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;and &lt;a class="external-link" href="http://ntrtrust.org/"&gt;NTR Trust&lt;/a&gt;. The stall was set up by Telugu Wikipedia community members with support from CIS-A2K and NTR Trust.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;More than 150 individuals were engaged through this event. Interested members of public would receive follow-up through "Know-How" videos of Telugu Wikipedia. This provides basic information regarding editing and contributing to Wikipedia and its sister projects. They would also receive invitations to offline events taking place in Vijayawada in the future.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Telugu Wikipedia editor &lt;a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pranayraj1985"&gt;User:Pranayraj1985&lt;/a&gt; said of his experience in talking to the public about Telugu Wikipedia, "I learnt a lot about what people know about Wikipedia and what they didn't know. In general, many of the visitors exclaim when they [come to] know, there is Wikipedia in Telugu language. But, in contrast, here in Vijayawada, we could at least find handful of people who knew there is something called Telugu Wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;The link to the events page on meta can be found &lt;a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/2017/Stall_in_Vijayawada_Book_Festival"&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/telugu-wikipedia-stall-at-vijayawada-book-festival'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/telugu-wikipedia-stall-at-vijayawada-book-festival&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
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    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>Pavan Santhosh</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>Telugu Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Openness</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2017-04-15T16:23:32Z</dc:date>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/google-translated-telugu-articles-prioritisation-exercise-january-iteration">
    <title>Google-translated Telugu articles prioritisation exercise: January iteration</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/google-translated-telugu-articles-prioritisation-exercise-january-iteration</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;The January iteration of the Google-translated Telugu articles prioritisation exercise took place online.&lt;/b&gt;
        
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Google-translated Telugu articles prioritization&amp;nbsp;is an online exercise intended to prioritize and improve over 1,900 machine-translated articles on Telugu Wikipedia. This project began from 2009- 2011 when Google translation project took place on Telugu Wikipedia in several rounds. Jointly organised by the Telugu Wikipedia community and CIS-A2K, this exercise saw the participation of 1 female Wikipedian and 4 male Wikipedians.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;12 machine translated articles were improved and 39 have been deleted due to their poor quality. In addition to this, 42 articles have been prioritised for further improvement. Says Telugu Wikipedian &lt;a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Meena_gayathri.s"&gt;User:Meena gayathri.s&lt;/a&gt;, "people who wanted to improve Google-translated article waited [for a] long time to get a priority list of articles to be improved and in that aspect, this exercise is very useful."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Several such iterations are planned for the coming months. The meta page for the event can be found &lt;a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/2017/Google_translated_Telugu_articles_prioritization"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/google-translated-telugu-articles-prioritisation-exercise-january-iteration'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/google-translated-telugu-articles-prioritisation-exercise-january-iteration&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>Pavan Santhosh</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>Telugu Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Openness</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2017-04-15T17:47:50Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Mini TTT and MWT held in Kolkata</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mini-ttt-and-mwt-held-in-kolkata</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;A regional version of Train The Trainer and MediaWiki Training was recently conducted in Kolkata. &lt;/b&gt;
        
&lt;p id="docs-internal-guid-fa2d46e6-35a0-b1dd-62cb-7fc6971e4853" dir="ltr"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
CIS-A2K’s widely well-regarded flagship skill building program was conducted in Kolkata between 7- 8 January 2017, in partnership with the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group. The two-day event was held at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences. There were 20 participants at the event, of which 18 were male and only two female.
&lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center" dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/49HTMkmS0v-CH-6pEwhlzC2YT_trE80gtHppMVPyp-tIrqPAIdGCOiNVXcrR77rV_-jIjrdlATgNdu17hU4ZHX8l9F18tqcy21bhEzDdfI5YJwV6W69SOe15J33suH-q-S-KDzU" alt="Mini_Train_the_Trainer_and_MediaWiki_Training_Proramme_-_Kolkata_2017-01-07_2458-2461.tif.jpg" height="321" width="602" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;There were three thematic sessions, each broadly dealing with: Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource. The participants were taught article enrichment and how to upgrade articles into good category articles on Wikipedia. The participants learnt reference resources in detail in addition to discussing the different types of syntax required to apply the references meaningfully. The participants were also exposed to advanced search techniques on Google in order to gather relevant references.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;During the Commons session, the participants were taught the basics of creating categories and subcategories in order to help narrow down searches and hence, image utility on Commons. Facilitating easy identification of an image helps enrich articles in need of descriptive photos. Additionally, participants were encouraged to give specific file names to their images along with a detailed description of the same. This was followed by a technical session on the following popular tools and gadgets that help frequent uploaders on Commons:&lt;br class="kix-line-break" /&gt;&lt;br class="kix-line-break" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li style="list-style-type: disc;" dir="ltr"&gt;
&lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-Cat-a-lot.js"&gt;Cat-a-lot&lt;/a&gt; is a JavaScript gadget that helps with moving images (or subcategories) between categories or adding categories to search results&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="list-style-type: disc;" dir="ltr"&gt;
&lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;Google Images tab: On File pages, adds a new tab to easily search for similar images on the Internet using&lt;a href="http://images.google.com"&gt; Google Images&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="list-style-type: disc;" dir="ltr"&gt;
&lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;OTRS is a tool used by the Wikimedia projects, including Commons, to manage and archive email conversations. The main use of OTRS in relation to Commons is to verify and archive&lt;a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Permission"&gt; licensing permissions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="list-style-type: disc;" dir="ltr"&gt;
&lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;a href="https://tools.wmflabs.org/flickr2commons/"&gt;Flickr2Commons&lt;/a&gt; - Tool to easily upload single and multiple files from Flickr to Commons. This tool uses OAuth to upload files to Commons.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In addition to these on-wiki discussions, a broader discussion took place on photography tips such as the &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thirds"&gt;rule of thirds&lt;/a&gt; which helps enhance the effect and purpose of the image.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;The final thematic session was on Wikisource. Participants had a hands on lesson in proofreading methodology in addition to learning about image formatting, formatting table of contents, &lt;a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Help:Page_breaks#Tables_across_page_breakshttps://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Help:Page_breaks#Tables_across_page_breaks"&gt;table access page break&lt;/a&gt;, text divider, and &lt;a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Tools_and_scripts"&gt;tools and script of Wikisource&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center" dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/61UzSTUADNgRVk0uuw9_Qks9xbayum2eg9kd0XmfrxwG9uSql9YX1-PcVoro0ng7ZJUDHghZZUFsPahZroTJs6Aw9BqmWiPzFCy4mbraZ9CGkbWN6nm7ZC_kz4PBk3eoK6Q7o0I" alt="MiniTTTKolkata2017_-_Celebration_by_Participants_09.jpg" height="401" width="602" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mini-ttt-and-mwt-held-in-kolkata'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mini-ttt-and-mwt-held-in-kolkata&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>tito</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>Openness</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2017-06-28T09:53:55Z</dc:date>
   <dc:type>Blog Entry</dc:type>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/adikavi-nannaya-university-telugu-wikipedia-workshop-1">
    <title>Adikavi Nannaya University Telugu Wikipedia Workshop</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/adikavi-nannaya-university-telugu-wikipedia-workshop-1</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;A Telugu Wikipedia introductory workshop was conducted for the students of Adikavi Nannaya University, Rajahmundry between 6- 7 January, 2017. &lt;/b&gt;
        
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A two-day Telugu Wikipedia workshop was conducted for the
students of &lt;a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adikavi_Nannaya_University"&gt;Adikavi Nannaya University&lt;/a&gt; in Rajahmundry between 6- 7 January,
2017. The participants were post-graduate students of the Telugu Department of
the University with a notable gender ratio of 13 male and 21 female
participants.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The aim of the workshop was to introduce students to
Wikipedia and contributing to Wikipedia projects. They were taught basic
Wikipedia editing and the usage of Google's advanced tools. This would also
help them create tertiary sources
using primary and secondary sources. The students improved articles about their villages using references available on the
Internet. The workshop,
conducted jointly by CIS-A2K and Telugu Wikipedia community members, was key to
increasing the base of Telugu Wikipedia across the Telugu-speaking region, to cities
like Rajahmundry. Says&amp;nbsp;User:విశ్వనాధ్.బి.కె.,&amp;nbsp;"from initial days, Wikipedia offline activities
development is Hyderabad-centric and Wikipedia activities should be done in all
areas (of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh). As this event in Adikavi Nannaya
University helps in that aspect, I would like to offer all of my effort to
these kind of events."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Overall, the event saw the creation 32 new pages on Telugu
Wikipedia by 33 newly registered users with 99118 bytes being deleted/ added.&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/CIS-A2K/Events/2017/Adikavi_Nannaya_University_Telugu_Wikipedia_Workshop"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/adikavi-nannaya-university-telugu-wikipedia-workshop-1'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/adikavi-nannaya-university-telugu-wikipedia-workshop-1&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>Pavan Santhosh</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>Telugu Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Openness</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2017-04-16T08:57:21Z</dc:date>
   <dc:type>Blog Entry</dc:type>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/orientation-training-session-of-jalbiradari-activists">
    <title>Orientation &amp; Training session of Jalbiradari Activists </title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/orientation-training-session-of-jalbiradari-activists</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;An Orientation &amp; Training session of Jalbiradari Activists was held on 4 January, 2017&lt;/b&gt;
        
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: justify;"&gt;A Marathi Wikipedia orientation and training session was conducted for Jalbirdari activists on 4 January, 2017 at the Kokale District, Sangli, Cooperative Society Hall. The event was keeping in line with CIS-A2K's attempts at engaging with communities of interest. The Jalbiradari water conservationists were introduced to Wikipedia and its projects. They were given an orientation on Marathi Wikipedia as a knowledge resource and encouraged to write about their village, water and environmental issues on Marathi Wikipedia.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The participants were involved in an open interaction with the community on local issues and cultivation and preservation of local knowledge. With 30 members taking part in the three-hour-long event, four articles were created and edited on Marathi Wikipedia.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The meta page for the event can be found &lt;a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Orientation_%26_Training_session_of_Jalbiradari_Activists_on_4th_January_2017"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/orientation-training-session-of-jalbiradari-activists'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/orientation-training-session-of-jalbiradari-activists&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>2017-04-16T11:30:24Z</dc:date>
   <dc:type>Blog Entry</dc:type>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/ongoing-proof-reading-effort-by-alc-student-wikimedians-in-telugu-wikisource">
    <title>Ongoing Proof-reading Effort by ALC Student Wikimedians in Telugu Wikisource</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/ongoing-proof-reading-effort-by-alc-student-wikimedians-in-telugu-wikisource</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;Student Wikimedians at Andhra Loyola College, Vijayawada formatted and proof-read more than 1,900 folios in Telugu Wikisource during the last few weeks of November (2016). Each day, a group of twenty students uses the lab facility provided by the college after regular classes  to make necessary formatting changes and fix spelling mistakes in the folios of books  available in Telugu Wikisource. Till date, the student Wikipedians have proofread eight books.&lt;/b&gt;
        
&lt;p style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr"&gt;The work was initiated and supported by CIS-A2K members who organized a proofreading workshop of the &lt;a href="https://te.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%82%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95:Bible_Bhashya_Samputavali_Volume_02_Bible_Bodhanalu_P_Jojayya_2003_280_P.pdf"&gt;Bible Bhashya Samputavali Volume 06&lt;/a&gt; on Telugu Wikisource in Andhra Loyola College during 18 to 20 November 2016. During the workshop, Telugu Wikimedian Gullapalli Nageswara Rao (&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nrgullapalli"&gt;User:Nrgullapalli&lt;/a&gt;), along with CIS-A2K community advocate Pavan Santhosh helped students to learn about the process of digitizing book in Telugu Wikisource and other formatting aspects involved. In this event, nearly twenty students picked up the skills required to proof-read a book as well as the formatting techniques in Telugu Wikisource. Some students had also started to proof-read three other books that are currently available in Telugu Wikisource.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;img src="https://cis-india.org/ALC_Wikisource_workshop_November_2016.jpg/image_preview" alt="ALC Wikisource Workshop" class="image-inline image-inline" title="ALC Wikisource Workshop" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;span id="docs-internal-guid-876383aa-4f4a-6ed7-5efb-e440c9687414"&gt;This event also marked great effort and accomplishment of promoting gender balance and diversity in local community events — as the organizers and institution successfully assured a minimum 50% female participation rate throughout the three days. CIS-A2K member Ting-Yi Chang also gave a short introduction to the participants about the issue in Wikipedia (media) Gender Gap. Students who had previous Wikipedia editing experience at the ALC were also invited to the session, rendering around thirty female audience. The presentation included small brainstorm activities for students to discuss reasons behind the gender asymmetry online and on Wikipedia/media projects, as well as how we as community members can make a difference to help women feel more welcomed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr"&gt;A follow-up Wikisource session was conducted on 25 and 26 November 2016 for students to learn about the remaining steps in digitization and the OCR tool. Thanks to encouragement and motivation given by Principal Rev. Fr., Dr. Peter Kishore, staff members Prof. Siva Kumari, and Dr. K. Sekhar, the student Wikipedians had started to contribute to Wikisource after class for at least a couple of hours every day. These events and accomplishments show remarkable efforts and dedication from both student Wikimedians and the institutional partner.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: right;" dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;img src="https://cis-india.org/Gender_gap_awareness_session_in_ALC_3.jpg/image_mini" alt="Gender Gap Awareness session in ALC" class="image-inline" title="Gender Gap Awareness session in ALC" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/ongoing-proof-reading-effort-by-alc-student-wikimedians-in-telugu-wikisource'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/ongoing-proof-reading-effort-by-alc-student-wikimedians-in-telugu-wikisource&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>Pavan Santosh &amp; Ting-Yi Chang</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights></dc:rights>

    
        <dc:subject>Telugu Wikisource</dc:subject>
    
    
        <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>Wikipedia gender gap</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Workshop</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Telugu Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2016-12-30T11:00:09Z</dc:date>
   <dc:type>Blog Entry</dc:type>
   </item>


    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/vijaya-karnataka-december-18-2016-wikipedia-event-in-mangalore">
    <title>Wikipedia Event in Mangalore</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/vijaya-karnataka-december-18-2016-wikipedia-event-in-mangalore</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;The article was published by Vijaya Karnataka on December 18, 2016.&lt;/b&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/copy_of_VijayaKarnataka.png/@@images/cdd03817-c94d-4aa9-90aa-8de08db72573.png" alt="Vijaya Karnataka" class="image-inline" title="Vijaya Karnataka" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/vijaya-karnataka-december-18-2016-wikipedia-event-in-mangalore'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/vijaya-karnataka-december-18-2016-wikipedia-event-in-mangalore&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>praskrishna</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights></dc:rights>

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

   <dc:date>2016-12-20T16:43:30Z</dc:date>
   <dc:type>News Item</dc:type>
   </item>


    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/namaste-telangana-december-11-2016-article-on-wikipedia">
    <title>విజ్ఞాన నిధి వికీపీడియా..</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/namaste-telangana-december-11-2016-article-on-wikipedia</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;The article about Telugu Wikipedia appeared in Namaste Telangana on December 11, 2016.&lt;/b&gt;
        &lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="i-boxlist-Home" id="ContentPlaceHolder1_dlNews"&gt;&lt;span&gt;సిటీబ్యూరో:ప్రాపంచిక  విషయాలను, చారిత్రక ఘట్టాలను, శాస్త్రీయ విషయాలను ప్రపంచానికి చేరువ  చేస్తున్న విజ్ఞాన నిధి వికీపీడియా. ఆధునిక సాంకేతిక పద్ధతుల ఆధారంగా  ఆన్‌లైన్‌తో ప్రపంచంలోని పలు ఆసక్తికరమైన విషయాలన్నింటనీ ప్రజలందరికీ చేరువ  చేసే నేస్తం ఇది. అందరికీ ప్రవేశం, అందరికీ ఉచితంగా అందుబాటులో ఉండే ఈ  ఎన్‌సైక్లోపెడియాలో మన చరిత్ర, మన సంస్కృతి మరెన్నో విషయాలను జోడించేందుకు  సమాచార సైనికులతో వికీపీడియా డేను పురస్కరించుకొని  గోల్డెన్ త్రెషోల్డ్‌లో  శనివారం  ఓ కార్యశాలను నిర్వహించింది. విజ్ఞాన సమాచారం,భౌగోళిక, చారిత్రక  అంశాలు, సాంస్కృతిక విషయాలను వికీపీడియాలో చొప్పించేందుకు చేపట్టాల్సిన  కార్యక్రమాలను ఈ కార్యశాలలో చర్చించారు. వికీపీడియాలో అందరూ తమకు తెలిసిన  ఆసక్తికరమైన అంశాలపై వ్యాసాలు రాయవచ్చని, ప్రపంచానికి కొత్త విషయాలను  పరిచయం చేయవచ్చని ఆంగ్ల వికీపీడియన్ టిటో దత్తా అన్నారు. వికీ ట్రైనర్,  ట్రైనర్ ద ట్రైనర్ కార్యక్రమంలో వికీపీడీయన్లు కశ్యప్, ప్రణయ్ పలు సాంకేతిక  అంశాలను తెలుగు వికిపీడియన్లకు వివరించారు. చరిత్రకారుడు, కవి కట్టా  శ్రీనివాస్ మాట్లాడుతూ గోల్కొండ వంటి పలు చారిత్రక ప్రదేశాల్లో ప్రజలకు  తెలియని చారిత్రక, సాంకేతిక ప్రదేశాలు, ఆసక్తికరమైన అంశాలు ఉన్నాయని  వాటన్నింటినీ సేకరించి, ప్రపంచానికి చేరవేయాల్సిన అవసరం ఉందన్నారు. ఈ  కార్యక్రమాన్ని వికీపీడియన్లు చేపట్టి విజయవంతం చేయాలన్నారు. సీనియర్  జర్నలిస్ట్ బీవీ ప్రసాద్, మౌర్య, మీనా గాయత్రి పాల్గొన్నారు. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="i-boxlist-Home"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Link to the original in &lt;a class="external-link" href="http://www.namasthetelangaana.com/district/hyderabad/article.aspx?contentid=650572"&gt;Namaste Telangana &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/namaste-telangana-december-11-2016-article-on-wikipedia'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/namaste-telangana-december-11-2016-article-on-wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>praskrishna</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights></dc:rights>

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

   <dc:date>2016-12-20T16:38:48Z</dc:date>
   <dc:type>News Item</dc:type>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/andhra-bhoomi-december-11-2016-article-on-wikipedia">
    <title>వికీపీడియాతో విజ్ఞాన విప్లవం</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/andhra-bhoomi-december-11-2016-article-on-wikipedia</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;The article appeared in Andhra Bhoomi on December 11, 2016.&lt;/b&gt;
        &lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;హైదరాబాద్, డిసెంబర్ 10: అన్ని భారతీయ భాషల్లో వికీపీడియాను అభివృద్ధి  చేసేందుకు అవసరమైన శిక్షణ అందిస్తున్నామని వికీ ట్రైనర్, ఆంగ్ల వికీపీడియన్  టిటో దత్తా పేర్కొన్నారు. వికీపీడియాను అభివృద్ధి చేసేందుకు వివిధ  కార్యక్రమాల నిర్వహణకు అవసరమైన నాయకత్వ శిక్షణ, వికీపీడియాలో పనికొచ్చే  ఉపకరణాల గురించి రెండు రోజుల శిక్షణ కార్యక్రమాన్ని ఆయన శనివారం  ప్రారంభించారు. తెలుగు వికీపీడియాను అభివృద్ధి చేయడం ద్వారా తెలుగు  భాషాభివృద్ధితో పాటు ప్రపంచవ్యాప్తంగా ఉన్న తెలుగు వారికి తెలుగు విశేషాలు  అందించిన వారమవుతామని, దీంతో సరికొత్త విజ్ఞాన విప్లవం వస్తుందని ఆయన  పేర్కొన్నారు. వికీపీడియాను అభివృద్ధి చేయడానికి కాలేజీల్లో కార్యశాల,  ఫోటోవాక్, ఎడిట్ ఆ థాన్ తదితర కార్యక్రమాలను నిర్వహించవచ్చని చెప్పారు.  చరిత్రకారుడు, రచయిత, తెలుగు వికీపీడియన్ కట్టా శ్రీనివాసరావు మాట్లాడుతూ  గోల్కొండ వంటి ప్రదేశాల్లో కూడా ప్రజలకు తెలియని చారిత్రక, సాంకేతిక  ప్రదేశాలు అంశాలు ఉంటాయని అన్నారు. వాటి ఫోటోలు తీసి వికీమీడియా కామన్స్‌లో  చేర్చవచ్చని తెలిపారు. ఈ కార్యక్రమాన్ని సిఐఎస్-ఎ2కె ప్రతినిధి పవన్  సంతోష్, వికీపీడియన్ ప్రణయ్ రాజ్ వంగరి నిర్వహించారు. కార్యక్రమంలో తెలుగు  వికీపీడియన్లు కశ్యప్, నాగేశ్వరరావు, మీనా గాయత్రీ, వౌర్య వంటి వారితో పాటు  కొత్తగా వికీపీడియాలో చేరిన వారు కూడా పాల్గొన్నారు.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Read the &lt;a class="external-link" href="http://andhrabhoomi.net/content/state-5330"&gt;original published by Andhra Bhoomi&lt;/a&gt; on December 11, 2016&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/andhra-bhoomi-december-11-2016-article-on-wikipedia'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/andhra-bhoomi-december-11-2016-article-on-wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
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    <dc:creator>praskrishna</dc:creator>
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        <dc:subject>CIS-A2K</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Telugu Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Access to Knowledge</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2016-12-20T16:36:06Z</dc:date>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/story-weaver-december-1-2016-pooja-saxena-changing-the-typographic-landscape-of-a-country">
    <title>Changing the typographic landscape of a country: one letter at a time</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/story-weaver-december-1-2016-pooja-saxena-changing-the-typographic-landscape-of-a-country</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;My interest in designing typefaces in Indian scripts grew out of years of disappointment with the way most Hindi books I came across looked. Apart from a few exceptions, they looked like poor cousins of English books. Whether it was a children’s story book or a novel or magazine, there was usually the same drab typeface. &lt;/b&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;The blog post by Pooja Saxena was &lt;a class="external-link" href="https://storyweaver.org.in/blog_posts/95-changing-the-typographic-landscape-of-a-country-one-letter-at-a-time"&gt;published in Storyweaver&lt;/a&gt; on December 1, 2016.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Some letters didn’t look like what we were taught in school, on others the matras (vowel marks) didn’t arch at the right places. Overall, the books and the letters inside them had an air of neglect. They looked old and completely unexciting. When I first learned that designing typefaces was a real job, I thought here was the opportunity to change all that.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/story-weaver-e2e-production/ckeditor_assets/pictures/254/content/cambay.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cambay, Devanagari typeface designed by Pooja Saxena for Google Fonts &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Changing the typographic landscape of a country as diverse as India  is not a one-woman job, but every now and then a project comes by that  has the potential to make a small difference. Two years ago, as a result  of a conversation with &lt;a href="http://psubhashish.com/"&gt;Subhashish Panigrahi&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k"&gt;Access to Knowledge&lt;/a&gt; programme at the &lt;a href="http://cis-india.org"&gt;Centre for Internet and Society&lt;/a&gt; commissioned a Ol Chiki typeface family. The Ol Chiki script, about  which I knew precious little at the time, is used to write the language  Santali, which is spoken by over six million people in India and its  neighbouring countries. At the time that we started working on this  project, there was no Unicode compliant typeface available in the  script, making it impossible for it to be used on computers and  cellphones, and online in a consistent and future-proof way. We hoped to  change that by designing a small, but useful typeface family (it comes  in regular, bold and italics) along with input methods and keyboard  layouts that would allow a person to type Ol Chiki text easily.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/story-weaver-e2e-production/ckeditor_assets/pictures/256/content/gurugomke.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Guru Gomke, Ol Chiki typeface designed by Pooja Saxena with research inputs from Shubhashish Panigrahi,for the A2K Programme at the Centre for Internet and Society. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;This project was especially challenging because not only was Ol Chiki a completely unfamiliar script to me and Subhashish, but there was limited material available for us to consult. While designing a typeface in a script one reads and/or writes, or is at least familiar with, one’s experience with those letters can act as a guide. By writing them and seeing them printed in different fonts, in many people’s handwriting — some good, some bad — and on hand painted signs, one develops an instinct for identifying which parts of a letter make it recognisable. That way we know what parts of the letter can be exaggerated, and what others can be played down without compromising legibility. For an unfamiliar script, this visual vocabulary and the traditionally correct way of writing letters must be learned. Manuscripts, printed documents, handwriting manuals and samples, metal type, linguistic information about the script, feedback from native readers — all form parts of a puzzle that needs to be put together to design a competent typeface.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;The story of Ol Chiki script is fascinating. The script is less than a  century old, and was devised by Pandit Raghunath Murmu, who wanted to  create a script that could accommodate all the features of the Santali  language — something that the scripts used to write Santali so far had  failed to do. Legend has it that he based the design of the letters on  objects commonly found in the everyday environment of the Santals. Even  though the script was created between 1920 – 1940, the Santal community  has many myths about how it was created. One says that the script came  to be at the time when the Earth itself was created, another says that  the script was given as a divine gift to a learned man, Pandit Raghunath  Murmu. It is after Pandit Raghunath Murmu, who is reverentially called  Guru Gomke, that the Ol Chiki typeface that I designed was named. You  can find out more about the Ol Chiki typeface and input methods project &lt;a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project_Ol_chiki"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/story-weaver-e2e-production/ckeditor_assets/pictures/255/content/coovumartfestival.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Custom lettering for the Tamil branding of the Coovum Art Festival, designed by Pooja Saxena &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;If you’re interested in Indian type design and le ering, consider  following the work of these exceptional designers — Noopur Datye, one of  the co-founders of type design collective, &lt;a href="https://ektype.in"&gt;Ek Type&lt;/a&gt;, who has designed custom typefaces TV channels like LifeOK; &lt;a href="https://kimyagandhi.wordpress.com/"&gt;Kimya Gandhi&lt;/a&gt;, who is partner at Mota Italic, and recently designed an inventive Devanagari handwriting font; or &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/lipopsicle"&gt;Lipi Raval&lt;/a&gt;, whose flamboyant Gujarati typeface &lt;a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Mogra?sort=date"&gt;Mogra&lt;/a&gt; is a complete head-turner.&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/story-weaver-december-1-2016-pooja-saxena-changing-the-typographic-landscape-of-a-country'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/story-weaver-december-1-2016-pooja-saxena-changing-the-typographic-landscape-of-a-country&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
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    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>praskrishna</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights></dc:rights>

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

   <dc:date>2016-12-20T16:06:51Z</dc:date>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/pranay-raj-record-in-100-days-100-articles">
    <title>Pranay Raj record in 100 days-100 articles</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/pranay-raj-record-in-100-days-100-articles</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;Telugu Theatre scholar Pranay Raj Vangari from Motkur of Yadadri District, Telangana created record by completing a challenge that is famous worldwide in Wikimedia community - "100 Days-100 Articles". Pranay Raj is a theatre scholar and artist who used to travel length and breadth of Telangana &amp; Andhra Pradesh for research and performances. &lt;/b&gt;
        
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Even in that situations, he started first article in challenge on September 8th and completed 100 articles in December 16th. Telangana State Language &amp;amp; Cultural department director Mamidi Harikrishna felicitated Pranay Raj after completion on completing 100 Wikidays challenge. Pranay said that two other Telugu Wikipedians completed this challenge successfully before him and he told they inspired him to take this up and complete. Pranay agreed that he faced some difficulties in writing articles in places where network is low. He said that he wouldn't stop with 100 wikidays but would continue challenge for whole day by creating 365 days and also said he would create more Telangana related articles.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Pranay100WikidaysAndhraJyothi.jpg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Pranay 100 Wikidays " /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/pranay-raj-record-in-100-days-100-articles'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/pranay-raj-record-in-100-days-100-articles&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>pavan</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>100wikidays</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2016-12-19T18:16:03Z</dc:date>
   <dc:type>Blog Entry</dc:type>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/100-days-100-articles-wikipedian-from-motkur-created-record-in-telugu-wikipedia">
    <title>వంద రోజులు.. వంద వ్యాసాలు - తెలుగు వికీపీడియాలో మోత్కూరు యువకుని రికార్డు (100 Days...100 Articles: Wikipedian from Motkur created record in Telugu Wikipedia)</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/100-days-100-articles-wikipedian-from-motkur-created-record-in-telugu-wikipedia</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;Pranay Raj Vangari of Motkur Padmashali colony created record in Telugu Wikipedia. "100 Days- 100 Articles" is already going on in many languages worldwide and Pranay Raj took challenge in Telugu Wikipedia, completed it successfully. Pranay is theatre scholor. He started first article in this challenge on september 8 and continued to write articles on every day till December 16 to complete 100 articles. Pranay said that two other Telugu Wikipedians (Pavan and Meena) successfully completed the challenge and explained that he inspired from them to complete it. Telangana state language &amp; cultural department director Mamidi Harikrishna felicitated Pranay in His chamber on this occasion and appreciated for his work.&lt;/b&gt;
        &lt;h3&gt;Clipping of the article in Andhra Jyoti:&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Pranay100Wikidays.jpg/@@images/8ff935c1-f19b-4aff-8721-7d70b899ecd8.jpeg" alt="Pranay 100 Wikidays" class="image-inline" title="Pranay 100 Wikidays" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/100-days-100-articles-wikipedian-from-motkur-created-record-in-telugu-wikipedia'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/100-days-100-articles-wikipedian-from-motkur-created-record-in-telugu-wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>pavan</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights></dc:rights>

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

   <dc:date>2016-12-18T15:09:54Z</dc:date>
   <dc:type>Blog Entry</dc:type>
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