Centre for Internet and Society

Access To Knowledge Work Plan (April 2013 - June 2014)

T Vishnu Vardhan — 2013-06-10T14:20:06Z

This page is created to share CIS-A2K's Annual Work Plan (2013-2014) for Indian language Wikimedia projects. The main objective of this document is to present a detailed plan with projection of outcomes and expected impact of the A2K programme activities. The document has been made in consultation with various stakeholders and keeping in mind the objectives, opportunities and challenges faced by each of the Indian language Wikimedia projects. Feel free to share any feedback.

Language Area Work Plans

Telegu

Odia

Kannada

GOM (Konkani)

Bengali

Overall Support Across Indian Language Communities

Pilot Project - Performing Arts in India

Learning and Evaluation

Introductory note

Context

The Wikimedia Foundation has approved a grant of ₹26,000,000 to the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in Bangalore to expand their Access to Knowledge (A2K) program in India; of this, ₹11,000,000 has been released. The purpose of the grant is to enable the A2K team to work with the Wikimedia community of volunteers in India to expand on Wikimedia’s Indic-language free-knowledge projects. In addition, the grant aims to generate improvements in India-relevant free knowledge in Wikimedia’s English projects, and the wider distribution of Wikimedia’s free knowledge within India.

Objective

The main objective of this document is to present a detailed Annual Work Plan for 2013–14, setting out the expected outcomes and impact of the A2K program activities. The overall objectives of the A2K Team are here.

Methodology

In putting together this Work Plan the A2K team has, over the last two months extensively engaged with various stakeholders. These include a) some Wikimedia India Community members across various Indian-language Wikimedia projects; b) some English-language Wikimedia community members from India; c) Wikimedia India chapter executive committee; d) some potential institutional partners; e) a few like-minded advocates of free knowledge; f) A2K Program Adviser Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana; and g) a few of the Wikimedia Foundation staff.

A draft of each of the language plan will be shared with the particular language community through respective language Wikipedia village pumps, mailing lists; feedback will be collected in finalizing the plan.

A2K’s method of work

A2K principally sees itself as working hand-in-hand with the Indian Wikimedia community and the Wikimedia India chapter, and with all formal and informal groupings within the Wikimedia movement in India. A2K will mostly engage in catalytic kind of work; however, depending on the requirements of each language-area, the A2K team may also undertake the hands-on implementation of some activities that would otherwise be done by the community. The planned A2K program activities are mostly in the south and south-east of India, and it makes better programmatic sense to have the A2K team located in Bangalore. This will not only save the A2K program from relatively larger overhead spending for the project (which could be productively used for programmatic work) but will enable the A2K team to be more in touch with the Wikimedia India community and in proactively undertaking collaborative activities with the community on the ground. Thus the entire A2K team will relocate to Bangalore and work out of the existing CIS office. Please kindly note that the A2K team will hire a new space in Bangalore, once the work plan is finalized, and the intention is that this space will be open to free use by the WM India community and chapter alike.

How to read this Annual Work Plan

This plan is not set in stone and will be periodically (right now quarterly) reviewed and revised. The intention of this Work Plan is to continually ensure better design and better engagement. The broader aspects of the plan have been outlined here. Thus this document is more towards evolving a sense of granularity of the A2K team’s work along with micro level outcome and impact metrics.

We have worked towards developing an Annual Work Plan that is language-specific. The A2K team has not adopted ONE single model, because we believe that each language area has a) specific strengths that we need to build on; b) particular needs for support that we could offer; and c) specific challenges that require localized solutions. Thus there are chances that you might see repetitions in the strategies mentioned across language areas.

Please note that the A2K team has some language area plans worked out in greater detail than others. This is mainly because we intend to prioritize working on five language areas during the coming year. This does not mean that we will not support other language areas/communities, but our engagement will be activity/project-specific, based on requests made to the A2K team by the community. The A2K team will continue its efforts in actively exploring to include a few more language areas, and will share such plans after they reach a certain stage.

Risk and mitigation

The message that comes across, after a cursory glance at Indian-language Wikipedias, is that there is a huge potential to increase the number of editors, especially active editors, along with the expansion of article entries. On one hand, unfortunately there is no fool-proof formula or plan that either the Wikimedia India community, Wikimedia India chapter or A2K can immediately bank on. This does not mean, on the other hand, that there are no ideas, experiences, learnings and failures, that can inform a strategy. An important point is that what we (the community, WMI chapter, WMF and A2K) all are attempting to do is to achieve something that sounds very simple (increase the number of editors, increase the articles, and build article quality) but yet complex to achieve. In addition to this, improving the Indian-language Wikipedias becomes even more complex for some the following reasons:

Lack of reference material available online in Indian languages.
Typing in Indian languages is a major challenge.
Relative dearth of quality content available in digital format.
Relative lack of research/academic standards, which is transferred on to Indian language Wikipedias.
Various technical issues like input, browser compatibility, font display, which deter new users.

Thus it should be noted that we should extend our work beyond Wikipedia, if we are to grow Indian-language Wikipedias. We need to think of a holistic intervention that would also involve enabling, facilitating and forming localized language-based virtual communities. That this has never been done before, and Indian language Wikipedias have a huge potential to do so.[1] This is also the significance of Indian-language Wikipedias, which are a potential (often the only) medium/platform for migrating Indian languages into the digital era. Also Wikipedia can be leveraged to further the much-needed active research culture in India and Indian culture. As a collective, we are doing something cutting edge and have too much of a risk of failure, time and again. This kind of work has failure fore-written. The only mitigation by which we can aim to be successful is by being open to learning, working as a collective, being supportive of each other, picking ourselves up whenever we fall down, and celebrating the little successes.

Language area work plans

As indicated above, the A2K team has prioritized the five languages and developed a detailed plan. We had initially set out to work with a different set of languages. The language set has slightly changed during the past two months.

Telugu
Odia
Kannada
(GOM) Konkani
Bengali

Some of the key factors that determined the selection of languages areas have included:

Networking of institutions and groups. The A2K team has put together a list of knowledge institutions, groups and individuals with whom it has some connections and believes that it can bring them into the Wikimedia movement. These collaborations will not only result in significant quality-content contributions, but will lead to the diversification and increase in that particular language Wikimedia community.
Willingness of that particular language community to interact and engage with the A2K team. Though we tried approaching other language communities, we were given to understand that they would like to consider engaging with us at a later point. We have respected the community's decision and are open to work with a couple of language areas later in time.
Work on one incubation project. During our interaction with Wikimedia India Chapter EC about the A2K plans, they have actively encouraged the A2K team to take up at least one project under incubation. Based on their suggestion we have taken up Konkani as we have some institutional contacts that could be leveraged to build the Konkani Wikipedia. The A2K team has also conducted some outreach work in Goa over the past 3–4 months that could be built on.
Familiarity of the A2K team members with the language. Each of us are editors/can edit in most of the above language Wikipedias. This will give us an insider's perspective of what is happening in that particular language community and the Wikimedia projects.

As mentioned earlier, A2K team's prioritization of working actively with these five language projects does not mean that A2K team will not support other language areas/communities. The A2K team will continue to provide overall support to all Wikipedia Communities in India. Our engagement will be activity/project-specific, based on the requests made to the A2K team by community members.

Overall A2K support to all Wikipedia communities in India

Besides the specific programs mentioned under individual language area plans, A2K team will provide overall support to all Indian-language Wikipedia communities. Please see this page for more details.

Pilot Project – Performing Arts in India

India has a wide range of performing arts. A lot of work is done on performing arts by various individuals and institutions, which offers rich knowledge about the aesthetics, artists, institutions, performance spaces/infrastructure, and policies, across various geographies and languages. This pilot is premised on a theme and seeks to create a multilingual repository of knowledge on Indian performing arts that is interdisciplinary, dynamic and ever evolving. Please go here to read more about the plan.

Learning and evaluation

Based on discussions with the Wikimedia India Chapter EC and with some members of the Community, the A2K team has arrived at some evaluation tools to assess the impact of its work. Please see this page for more details.

Giving feedback

We appreciate your valuable feedback. However, for the sake of structured engagement by everyone, we request you to consider the following before you share your feedback.

For feedback on the overall A2K Work Plan you can write here
For feedback on respective Language area plans, please write on the discussion page of the respective language plan.
- For Telugu plan here.
- For Odia plan here.
- For Kannada plan here.
- For Konkani plan here.
- For Bengali plan here.
For feedback on Pilot Project plan go here.
For feedback on Overall Support Across Indian language Communities you can write here.
Alternatively you could also share your feedback over e-mail at vishnucis-india.org. Please use the subject line Feedback on Work Plan.
Should you feel the need to discuss any aspect of the plan before sharing your feedback, please call +919845207308 from 08:00 to 21:00 hours IST (Indian Standard Time).

List of contributors

[1] Many of the challenges that we see vis-à-vis Indian-language Wikipedias are somewhat akin to the challenges print technology faced during the 19th century in India.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/openness/resources/access-to-knowledge-work-plan

CIS Celebrates 5 Years: A Report in Udayavani

praskrishna — 2013-06-12T11:48:23Z

Udayavani on May 25, 2013, published a report of the evening programme hosted as part of the Centre for Internet and Society's 5 year celebrations in its Bangalore edition.

Dr. Chandrashekhara was the chief guest for the event on May 23, 2013. He gave a talk on Kannada in modern era.


Above is the report published in Udayavani on May 25, 2013

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/news/udayavani-may-25-2013-cis-celebrates-5-years

Telugu Wikipedia Meet-up @ CIS

praskrishna — 2013-08-19T06:53:03Z

The Centre for Internet and Society is hosting a meet-up on June 2, 2013 in its office in Bangalore, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. All are cordially invited.

Click to read the full details on Wikipedia

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/news/telugu-wikipedia-meetup-at-cis

CIS Celebrates 5 Years: A Report in Prajavani

praskrishna — 2013-06-12T11:46:48Z

Prajavani published a report on the Centre for Internet and Society's 5 year celebrations organised in Bangalore on the final day, May 23, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja gave a talk on Kannada and IT.


Given below is the report published in Prajavani on May 24, 2013:

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/news/prajavani-may-24-2013-report-on-cis-celebrates-5-years

Access to Knowledge Work Plan: Synopsis of Feedback by Wikipedians

nitika — 2013-06-05T05:39:31Z

The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team shared its annual work plan with the larger Wikipedia community. Over the last one month, Access to Knowledge team members were involved in receiving feedback from community members over mailing lists, private emails, Wikimedia Meta, IRC, and one-on-one conversations. In this post, we are sharing a brief summary of the feedback received.

Odia

by Arjun Rao C.
Village/Block/District project in Telugu Wikipedia was not useful for growing Wikipedia, as even five years after stubs were created using a bot, large percentage of articles never grew into regular articles. It is better to take the top down approach of district articles and then based on that experience, expanding to include Block/Village articles.

Kannada

by Arjun Rao C.
Recently we had a press- Wikimedia panel discussion as part of Telugu Wikipedia Celebration in April 2013 at Hyderabad. I also made attempts to do wiki academies for Jouranlists in the past few years in Telugu and Kannada. Based on what I understand, journalists are always pressed for time and while it will be useful for them to know about Wikipedia, they may not turn out to be editors. At best they will be able to provide a good coverage for Wikipedia events. It is better to target journalism training schools and incorporate Wikipedia during their course, as a way to hone their skills while helping Wikipedia. Also my experience with engineering colleges is not that great for promoting Non English Wikipedia’s. Engineering colleges provide is good computing infrastructure. If we can get the non-engineering students to utilize that infrastructure or provide alternate computing infrastructure that can be very helpful.

by Sharihareswara (WMF)
One additional institution to perhaps partner with: the Mysore Folklore Museum.

Konkani

by Frederick Noronha

There is definite interest in a Konkani Wikipedia, but we seem to have hit an air pocket due to lack of interest.
There is a need to build two communities (i) the literary community, who has the content (ii) the tech guys, who can sort out keyboard and other issues -- or popularise available solutions being used by other same-script groups. As of now, there is no bridge between the two.
Volunteering needs some priming. Maybe we should work with a handful of volunteers who are willing to convert the basic strings needed to set up a Wikipedia. I've already been working (at the personal level) with Isidore Dantas, urging him to help with it... and he has been doing a good job (Romi-script Konkani).
Instead of getting caught up with contentious issues like which script is official or the most suited, in my view it would be helpful to build Wikipedia for at least the main three scripts (Kannada, Roman and Devanagari) and let all coexist. The dialectical differences that exist between different scrips makes for difficulties in machine translation and differing comfort levels to use scripts which one is not used to.
Some institutions have been approached too by various quarters (Goa Konkani Academy, Dalgado Konkani Academy in Panjim, Goa University staff) but unless we get something actually going to show, it would be hard to convince people to start volunteering. For a number of reasons, I'd think that Konkani writers are often less computer-savvy than writers of other Indian languages... It's now changing, but still...

Konkani

by Outofindia
Please add St Aloysius College Managlore as an institution where we could consider having workshops like we did at the Nirmala Institute in Goa. I will help set it up. As Frederick suggests, we could have all the three script tracks (Kannada, Roman and Devanagari)and working together in a physical space will probably be helpful.

Bangla

by Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
<http://tagoreweb.in/>, SNLTR's hosted instance and <http://sarat-rachanabali.becs.ac.in/> are limited in their utility that they provide no means of using the text as a corpus or, trainer. These are efforts worthy of appreciation. However, providing the means for others to re-use the content as opposed to passive browser based viewing is equally important.

I hope your assessment included that fact. Plus, I am always wary when I read statements like "SNLTR has established that Unicode 5.0 and above as the standard that can be adopted for different e-governance applications and is also in parity with the international practice and standard". In my limited understanding of how standardization does happen, this is not the case.

by Ragib Hasan
That's a nice plan. One thing I'd recommend is to get media involved (perhaps you already have that in the plan, sorry if I'm just repeating it). In particular, you need to get the local Bengali language media (newspaper, TV) involved so that they publish news reports on Wikipedia.

In Bangladesh, it was not easy at the start to get people interested. It took a good media campaign in Bengali language newspapers to get people interested. Also, you should get in touch with the Bengali language blogging community in India (if there is one) and try to get them involved.

By the way, the number of native speakers cited at the start of the article is vastly underestimated .... Bangladesh alone has 160 million native speakers, plus at least half of that in West Bengal.

by Dwaipayan Chakraborti
As Ragib mentioned, local media is important. Do we have any plan on this already? Anyone in touch with media? Or knows anybody? Jayanta nath may be of help.

by Jayanta Nath
English news media had already reported about Bengali Wikipedia few times. But Local Bengali news media (Anandabazar, Bartaman, Eisomy, Pratidin, Ajkaal,) no response at all and no interest about Bengali Wikipedia. I had tried with my personal level of contact. All Bengali news print media want business from Wikipedia, then only they can report about Bengali Wikipedia. Anyone in this mailing list in touch with Bengali media for fresh contact?

Overall Languages

by Abhinavgarule
Concept of Wikipedia Student Partners:- Wiki Student Partners are students from colleges who will help students in solving their queries and keeping follow ups of “How to edit on Wikipedia?” Can we start this wiki student partner concept?? In this pilot project??

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/access-to-knowledge-work-plan-synopsis-of-feedback-by-wikipedians

Odia Wikipedia: Needs Assessment

subha — 2013-07-17T06:35:15Z

This blog encompasses the status of Odia Wikipedia and assessment of the needs for growth of the community.

This blog is part of the annual work plan for Odia Wikipedia which was updated on Odia Wikipedia and Meta Wiki.

Odia is one of the official languages of India. It is the official language of Odisha and the second official language of Jharkhand. Odia is also spoken in parts of West Bengal, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh. By 2011 census there are 3.6 crore Odia speakers across the world. Literacy rate of Odisha is 73.45 per cent (82.4 per cent male, 64.36 per cent female).

Majority of the computer users in Odisha were on Microsoft Windows platforms. Windows did not have a stable Odia language support until the release of Windows Vista. This would have forced majority of the computer users prefer English on Odia for internet communication. As per the 2011 census only 5.1 per cent of the 9,661,085 households of Odisha had computers and 1.4 per cent (357,460 households) of the households had access to internet. Odia Wikipedia has only 13 active contributors[1] who are based both in and out of Odisha and contributed to 3715 articles.[2]

Low computer/internet penetration, lack of promotion/outreach of Odia Wikipedia are some of the major factors which resulted in low Wikipedia participation. Odia Wikipedia celebrated its 9th anniversary on January 29, 2013 which is marked to be the date of its first edit in 2004.[3] The project was inactive for about 8 years until February 2011.[4]

Community building process slowly started by February-March 2011 by some of the active wikipedians in Bengaluru and gradually in six other cities in and out of Odisha.[5]The community so far has organized 18 meet-ups, 10 workshops and worked on a major media donation project on Wikimedia Commons.[6] Six on-wiki projects on various subjects[7] and rolled a Wikipedia education program.[8]

Fact Sheet

Wikimedia projects	No. of Editors/Contributors (2011-12)	No. of Editors (2012-13)	No. of Active editors (2011-12)	No. of Active editors (2012-13)	No. of Articles/ entries (2011-12)	No. of Articles/ entries (2012-13)	No. of Page views per months
Wikipedia	29	64	19	14	1951	3209	330161
Wiktionary	6	14	1	2	98	155	30618

Identified Needs

This section gives a broad idea of the challenges for community/wikipedia growth for which there is a need of programatic and technical intervention.

Lack of awareness

Lack of media presence: Mainstream Odia language media is still unaware of the presence and importance of Odia Wikipedia. There is a need for wider media coverage about Odia Wikipedia.
Lack of focussed meetups/outreach events due to dispersed community: Outreach events and meetups have not been customized for the target audience and have been done in a low scale because of the small community dispersed in six different cities. Physical meetups often have been more on technical issues and not much focus on designing strategies for growing content and community. Experienced wikipedians conducting outreach need to be trained properly to conduct productive outreach events.
More city centric communities: Majority of community members are located in three major cities; Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Nalconagar. This has resulted in outreach events being more delimited to these three cities only. There is a need for taking Odia Wikipedia to more cities.
Target age group for outreach: Till date the targeted audience for outreach are mostly engineering/other students based in cities where English is predominantly the language of communication in terms of written/computer communication and partly verbal communication. Many of the elderly masses are unaware of even the existence of Odia Wikipedia. More of young professionals, elderly and retired professionals need to be involved in the outreach.

Accessibility issues

Technical hindrance

Lack of Unicode usage: Printing industry professionals still use non-Unicode fonts for typing. There are at least three major different typing schemes and font categories used across the industry (includes book/magazine/newspaper publishers, print/digital media). Font converter tools of high accuracy are needed for easy conversion of such available content and using them as primary resources.
Lack of support in typing schemes: Those who are experienced in typing schemes other than the ones used on Odia Wikipedia (InScript, Transliteration, Phonetic) often fail to adapt the typing schemes of Odia Wikipedia. There is a need of new typing schema for simplifying typing in Odia.

Content

Lack of Open-Source culture: There is very little presence of the open source methodology across academia, media industry and public and private sector organization. A lot of resources produced are either not digitized and distributed or copyrighted. This has been a road block to the Wikipedia community to make use of any kind of archived and digitized resource. Wikipedians need to be connected to more open source communities, exchange ideas/information and spreading words across other communities.
Lack of resource dissemination because of support: Some of the digitized resources are not being distributed because of shortage of manpower and resource. A book digitization project initiated by Srujanika faced many hindrances during distribution including copyright issues, hosting and manpower for support. Such resources need to be gathered and distributed for community use.

Community

Role of experienced wikipedians: There is a need of more experienced wikipedians coming forward to take the lead of projects along with their primary contribution for articles. Wikipedia could be a platform for them to reach out to more people who are in the domain of knowledge dissemination and language resource building.

[1]. Wikimedia stats. January 2013

[2].https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics

[3].http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriya_Wikipedia

[4].http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Tinucherian_and_Shijualex/Wiki_Community_development_in_India_and_newsletter/Report#Bhubaneshwar

[5].http://shijualex.in/indic-language-wikipedias-statistical-report-2011/

[6].https://or.wikipedia.org/s/ay

[7].https://or.wikipedia.org/s/jf

[8]. https://or.wikipedia.org/s/cgj

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/odia-wikipedia-needs-assessment

ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನ/೧೦

praskrishna — 2013-06-11T06:21:31Z

This was organised by the Wikipedia community on May 7, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in this.

ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನ/೧೦

ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಕನ್ನಡದ ಸದಸ್ಯರ ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನ ಈ ತಿಂಗಳು ಐ.‌ಆರ್.ಸಿ ಯಲ್ಲಿ

ಸಮಯ

ಮೇ ೭, ೨೦೧೩ , ರಾತ್ರಿ ೯:೩೦ ರಿಂದ ೧೧:೩೦

ಐ.‌ಆರ್.ಸಿ ಚಾನೆಲ್

IRC channel on freenode: #wikipedia-kn
ಐ.‌ಆರ್.ಸಿಯನ್ನು ಇದುವರೆಗೆ ಬಳಸಿ ಅಭ್ಯಾಸವಿಲ್ಲದವರು ಈ ಕೆಳಗಿನ ವೆಬ್‌ಚಾಟ್ ಲಿಂಕ್ ಬಳಸಬಹುದು.

ವೆಬ್‌ಚಾಟ್ - ಫ್ರೀನೋಡ್ - ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಕನ್ನಡ ಚಾನಲ್

ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನದ ಉದ್ದೇಶ'

ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಸುತ್ತ ನಾವು ಕೈಗೊಳ್ಳಬಹುದಾದ ಕೆಲಸಗಳು
ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಇಂದಿನ ಸ್ಥಿತಿಗತಿ
ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಸುತ್ತಲಿನ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮಗಳು
ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದ ಹತ್ತನೆಯ ವಾರ್ಷಿಕೋತ್ಸವಕ್ಕೆ ತಯಾರಿ

ಭಾಗವಹಿಸುವವರು

ಯು. ಬಿ. ಪವನಜ --Pavanaja (talk) ೦೫:೦೬, ೭ ಮೇ ೨೦೧೩ (UTC)
-- ತೇಜಸ್ ^{/ ಚರ್ಚೆ/}
~ ಹರೀಶ ^{/ ಚರ್ಚೆ / ಕಾಣಿಕೆಗಳು} ೦೪:೩೭, ೭ ಮೇ ೨೦೧೩ (UTC)
-- ಕಿರಣ್^{/ಕಾಣಿಕೆಗಳು} ೧೬:೦೬, ೭ ಮೇ ೨೦೧೩ (UTC)
ಓಂಶಿವಪ್ರಕಾಶ್

ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನದ ಸಾರಾಂಶ

[20:48:59] * Topic set by techfiz on 2012-03-06 04:07:36 UTC

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[21:11:58] <cvg-89> hi

[21:14:30] <shankar> hi

[21:15:07] <cvg-89> You all experience ppl in Wiki; I am newbie

[21:15:10] <cvg-89> ?

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[21:16:47] <cvg-89> Can you tell me how to contribute to wikibooks?

[21:17:58] <shankar> I too haven't contributed any thing to wiki yet

[21:19:17] <kiranravikumar> @cvg-89: May be this 'll help you - http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Help:Contributing

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[21:20:45] <cvg-89> @kiranravikumar; Thanks for the info. But I have already gone through that page.

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[21:21:34] <cvg-89> I can type out the scanned pages of the copyleft books and help in contributing to wikibooks

[21:23:06] <kiranravikumar> Oh ok, may be someone with proper knowledge can help this out. Anyone?

[21:29:22] <Pavanaja> ನನ್ನ ಅಂತರಜಾಲ ಸಂಪರ್ಕ ಅಷ್ಟು ಚೆನ್ನಾಗಿಲ್ಲ. ಮಧ್ಯೆ ಮಧ್ಯೆ ಸಂಪರ್ಕ ಕಡಿಯುತ್ತದೆ

[21:29:31] <techfiz> ನಮಸ್ತೆ ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ

[21:29:40] <Pavanaja> ನಮಸ್ತೆ ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ

[21:30:35] <shankar> ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ!

[21:30:36] <techfiz> cvg-89: ನಿಮ್ಮ ಹೆಸರು

[21:30:54] <techfiz> ನಾನು ಓಂಶಿವಪ್ರಕಾಶ್ ವಿಕಿ ಬಳಕೆದಾರ : Omshivaprakash

[21:32:18] <techfiz> ನನ್ನ ಉತ್ತರ ನಿಧಾನವಾಗಿ ಬಂದರೆ ಕ್ಷಮಿಸಿ... ಕೆಲಸದ ನಡುವಿನಲ್ಲಿದ್ದೇನೆ

[21:32:50] <cvg-89> Nanu Chaitanya

[21:33:00] <kiranravikumar> ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ , ನಾನು ಕಿರಣ್ ಸದಸ್ಯ: kiranravikumar

[21:34:01] <shankar> ನಾನು ಶಂಕರ ಪ್ರಸಾದ್: ಇನ್ನೊಬ್ಬ ವಿಕಿ ಬಳಸುವವ, ಸದ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ ಖಾತೆಯನ್ನು ತೆರೆದಿದ್ದೇನೆ

[21:34:15] <kiranravikumar> ಇಂದಿನ agenda ಎನು?

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[21:35:52] <Pavanaja> ನನ್ನ ಅಂತರಜಾಲ ಸಂಪರ್ಕ ಅಷ್ಟು ಚೆನ್ನಾಗಿಲ್ಲ. ಮಧ್ಯೆ ಮಧ್ಯೆ ಸಂಪರ್ಕ ಕಡಿಯುತ್ತದೆ

[21:36:20] <techfiz> http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%80%E0%B2%A1%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AF:%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%AE%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AE%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B2%E0%B2%A8/%E0%B3%A7%E0%B3%A6

[21:36:34] <techfiz> ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನದ ಉದ್ದೇಶ'

[21:36:34] <techfiz> ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಸುತ್ತ ನಾವು ಕೈಗೊಳ್ಳಬಹುದಾದ ಕೆಲಸಗಳು

[21:36:34] <techfiz> ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಇಂದಿನ ಸ್ಥಿತಿಗತಿ

[21:36:34] <techfiz> ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಸುತ್ತಲಿನ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮಗಳು

[21:36:34] <techfiz> ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದ ಹತ್ತನೆಯ ವಾರ್ಷಿಕೋತ್ಸವಕ್ಕೆ ತಯಾರಿ

[21:36:34] <techfiz> [ಬದಲಾಯಿಸಿ]

[21:39:17] <techfiz> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryKN.htm ಮಾರ್ಚ್ ವರೆಗಿನ ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಬಳಕೆಯ ದತ್ತಾಂಶ ಇಲ್ಲಿದೆ

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[21:39:41] <techfiz> ನಿಧಾನವಾಗಿ ಹೊಸ ಲೇಖನಗಳ ಸೃಷ್ಟಿಯ ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಹೊಸ ಸದಸ್ಯರ ಸಂಖ್ಯೆ ಹೆಚ್ಚುತ್ತಿದೆ

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[21:40:33] <techfiz> ಒಂದರ ನಂತರ ಒಂದರಂತೆ ನೆಡೆಯುತ್ತಿರುವ ಕಾರ್ಯಾಗಾರ/ಕಮ್ಮಟಗಳು ಬಳಕೆದಾರರ ಸಂಖ್ಯೆ ಹೆಚ್ಚುವುದಕ್ಕೆ ಕಾರಣವಾಗುತ್ತಿವೆ

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[21:41:02] <techfiz> ಇವರನ್ನು ವಿಕಿ ಸಂಪಾದನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರವೀಣರನ್ನಾಗಿ ಮಾಡುವ ಕೆಲಸ ಬಾಕಿ ಇದೆ

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[21:41:19] <cvg-89> Congratulations to the editors. What an awesome accomplishment

[21:41:35] <techfiz> 14,255 ಸಧ್ಯದ ಲೇಖನಗಳ ಸಂಖ್ಯೆ

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[21:42:13] <mgharish> ಪ್ರಸ್ತುತ ಕನ್ನಡ ಆವೃತ್ತಿಯು ೧೨,೯೯೩ ವಿಷಯಗಳ ಕುರಿತಾದ ಪುಟಗಳನ್ನು ಹೊಂದಿದೆ

[21:42:31] <techfiz> ಕಳೆದ ವರ್ಷಕ್ಕೆ ಹೋಲಿಸಿದಂತೆ ಈ ವರ್ಷದ ಬದಲಾವಣೆ ಶೇ ೧೮ ರಷ್ಟು

[21:42:31] <Pavanaja> ಅದನ್ನು ಬದಲಿಸಬೇಕು. ಹೇಗೆ?

[21:42:51] <techfiz> mgharish: ಅದು ತಾನಾಗೇ ಬದಲಾಗಬೇಕು ಅಲ್ವೇ?

[21:43:04] <mgharish> ಆಗುತ್ತೆ

[21:43:13] <mgharish> ನಿಮಗೆ ೧೪,೨೫೫ ಎಲ್ಲಿಂದ ಸಿಕ್ತು?

[21:43:35] <mgharish> https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B6%E0%B3%87%E0%B2%B7:Statistics

[21:44:12] <techfiz> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryKN.htm

[21:44:13] <Pavanaja> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryKN.htm

[21:44:42] <mgharish> ಓಕೆ.

[21:45:09] <Pavanaja> ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ಎಷ್ಟು ಜನ admins ಇದ್ದಾರೆ?

[21:45:57] <mgharish> https://kn.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B6%E0%B3%87%E0%B2%B7:ListUsers&group=sysop

[21:48:21] <kiranravikumar> @pavanaja sir: https://kn.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B6%E0%B3%87%E0%B2%B7:ListUsers&group=sysop

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[21:50:43] <techfiz> shankar: namaste

[21:50:54] <shreekant> ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ

[21:51:11] <Pavanaja> Shreekant: ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ

[21:51:27] <shreekant> ನೀವು ಸಿಕ್ಕಿದ್ದು ಸಂತೋಷ :)

[21:51:28] <Pavanaja> ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದ ಹತ್ತನೆ ವಾರ್ಷಿಕೋತ್ಸವಕ್ಕೆ ಏನೇನು ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮ ಹಮ್ಮಿಕೊಳ್ಳಬಹುದು?

[21:51:53] <techfiz> ಇದುವರೆಗೆ ವಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದ ಸುತ್ತ ಮಾಡಬಹುದಾದ ಕೆಲಸಗಳ ಯೋಜನಾ ಪಟ್ಟಿಗಳು ಇಲ್ಲಿವೆ.

[21:51:54] <techfiz> https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%80%E0%B2%A1%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AF:%E0%B2%AF%E0%B3%8B%E0%B2%9C%E0%B2%A8%E0%B3%86

[21:52:10] <techfiz> ಇದರ ಸುತ್ತ ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡುವವರ ಸಂಖ್ಯೆ ಹೆಚ್ಚ ಬೇಕು

[21:52:38] <techfiz> ವಾರ್ಷಿಕೋತ್ಸವದ ಆಚರಣೆ ಸರಳವಾಗಿ ಯಾವುದಾದರೂ ಒಂದು ಗುರಿಮುಟ್ಟುವ ಕೆಲಸವಾದರೆ ಸಮುದಾಯಕ್ಕೆ ಉತ್ತಮ

[21:52:44] <shreekant> ನಾನು ಆಗಾಗ ಇಂಗ್ಲೀಷಿನಿಂದ ಅನುವಾದಿಸುತ್ತೀನಿ ಅಷ್ಟೇ

[21:53:10] <shreekant> ಅದೂ ಸುಲಭ / ಸರಳ ಇರುವಂತಹ ಬರಹಗಳು

[21:53:20] <techfiz> ಒಂದು ದಿನ ಆಚರಣೆಗೆ ಬದಲು ತಿಂಗಳು ಪೂರ ಒಂದಲ್ಲಾ ಒಂದು ರೀತಿಯ ಸಂಪಾದನೆಯ ಮೂಲಕ ಆಚರಣೆಗೆ ಹೊಸ ಅರ್ಥ ನೀಡಬೇಕು

[21:53:35] <shreekant> ಸರಿ

[21:54:01] <techfiz> ಆ ತಿಂಗಳು ಎಲ್ಲ ಪತ್ರಿಕೆ, ವಾರ ಪತ್ರಿಕೆ, ಮಾಸಿಕಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಬಳಸುವ, ಸಂಪಾದಿಸುವ ತರಬೇತಿಯನ್ನು ಎಲ್ಲ ಕನ್ನಡಿಗರಿಗೆ ನೀಡುವಂತಾಗಬೇಕು

[21:54:45] <techfiz> ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ಉತ್ತಮ ಸಂಪಾದನೆಗೆ ತೊಡಗಿರುವವರಿಗೆ ಹೆಚ್ಚಿನ ಜವಾಬ್ದಾರಿ ಹೊರಿಸಲು ಮೀಡಿಯವಿಕಿ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದ ತರಬೇತಿಯನ್ನು ನೀಡಬೇಕು

[21:55:00] <techfiz> ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಮಾಹಿತಿ ವಿವರಿಸುವ ಪುಟಗಳ ಬದಲಾವಣೆಯಾಗಬೇಕು

[21:55:28] <Pavanaja> ನಾನು ಅದನ್ನೇ ಹೇಳಿದ್ದು -advanced user training ಎಂದು

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[21:56:00] <Pavanaja> ಒಂದು ಟ್ಯುಟೋರಿಯಲ್ ಕೈಪಿಡಿ ಮಾಡಿದರೆ ಹೇಗೆ?

[21:56:02] <techfiz> ಸಮುದಾಯ ಪುಟದಲ್ಲಿ ಕಾಣದಿರುವ ಅನೇಕ ಮುರಿದ ಕೊಂಡಿಗಳನ್ನು ಸರಿಪಡಿಸಬೇಕು

[21:56:17] <kiranravikumar> Registered users: ೧೪,೯೪೮, ಅದರ ಶೇಕಡ ೧೦ ಸಂಪಾದಿಸಿದರೆ ಸಾಕು, ನಮ್ಮ ಗುರಿ ಮುಟ್ಟ ಬಹುದು.

[21:56:33] <techfiz> ಕೈಪಿಡಿ ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ಇಂಗ್ಲೀಷ್ನಲ್ಲಿ ಲಭ್ಯವಿದೆ... ಆದರೆ ಸ್ವತ: ಉಪಯೋಗಿಸದ ವಿನ: ಅದರ ಪ್ರಯೋಜನವಿಲ್ಲ

[21:57:18] <Pavanaja> ಇಂಗ್ಲಿಶ್ ಕೈಪಿಡಿಯನ್ನೆ ಅಲ್ಪ ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಬದಲಾಯಿಸಿ ಕನ್ನಡೀಕರಿಸಬಹುದು

[21:57:28] <Pavanaja> ಒಂದು ಟ್ಯುಟೋರಿಯಲ್ ವೀಡಿಯೋ ಕೂಡ ಮಾಡಬಹುದು

[21:57:52] <techfiz> kiranravikumar: ಸಂಖ್ಯೆಗಳ ಬೆನ್ನ ಹಿಂದೆ ಓಡುವುದು ಅಷ್ಟೇನೂ ಸಮಂಜಸವಲ್ಲ...

[21:58:21] <techfiz> ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ಸಂಪಾದನೆಗೆ ತೊಡಗಿರುವವರನ್ನು ಮಾತನಾಡಿಸಿ ಸಮುದಾಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಅವರು ನೆಲೆಯೂರುವಂತೆ ಮಾಡಲು ಬೇಕಾದಷ್ಟು ಸಮಯ ವ್ಯಯಿಸಬೇಕಿದೆ

[22:00:11] <kiranravikumar> ಖಂಡಿತ ...

[22:00:44] <techfiz> ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಅನುಭವೀ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯನ್ನ ಸಂಖ್ಯೆ ಬಹಳ ಕಡಿಮೆ ಇರುವುದರಿಂದ ಎಲ್ಲರನ್ನೂ ಒಟ್ಟುಗೂಡಿಸಿ ಎಡಿಟಥಾನ್ ಮಾಡಿದರೆ ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ಒಬ್ಬರನ್ನೊಬ್ಬರು ಅರಿಯುವ ತಂಡ ಕಟ್ಟುವ ಕೆಲಸವೂ ಸಾಧ್ಯವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ

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[22:02:09] <techfiz> ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದ ಲೇಖನಗಳಿಗೆ ಬೇಕಿರುವ ಭೂಪಟಗಳನ್ನು ಪಡೆಯುವುದು ಹೇಗೆ, ಓಪನ್‌ಸ್ಟ್ರೀಟ್ ಮ್ಯಾಪ್ ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡುವ ಬಗೆ ಕೂಡ ಅರಿತು ಅದನ್ನು ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಬಳಸಬಹುದು

[22:02:24] <Pavanaja> editathon ಯಾವ ವಿಷಯದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ?

[22:03:17] <techfiz> editathon ಗೆ ವಿಷಯಕ್ಕಿಂತಲೂ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಉತ್ತಮ ಸಂಪಾದನೆ ಹೇಗೆ ಎನ್ನುವುದನ್ನು ವಿಚಾರವಾಗಿಟ್ಟುಕೊಳ್ಳಬಹುದು

[22:03:25] <techfiz> ಮೇಲೆ ಹೇಳಿದ ವಿಷಯಗಳನ್ನೂ ಸೇರಿಸಿ

[22:03:34] <techfiz> ಹ್ಯಾಕಥಾನ್ ಅಥವಾ ಎಡಿಟಥಾನ್

[22:03:40] <techfiz> ಏನಾದರೂ ಕರೆಯಿರಿ

[22:03:55] <Pavanaja> ವಿಕಿಥಾನ್ :-)

[22:04:02] <techfiz> ಮೀಡಿಯವಿಕಿ ಪ್ಲಗಿನ್‌ಗಳು (hotcat ಇತ್ಯಾದಿ)

[22:04:14] <techfiz> ಇತರರೂ ಈ ವಿಷಯಗಳ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ತಮ್ಮ ತಮ್ಮ ಅನಿಸಿಕೆ ತಿಳಿಸಿ :)

[22:04:24] <techfiz> ವಾರ್ಷಿಕೋತ್ಸವ ಎಲ್ಲರದ್ದೂ,

[22:04:37] <techfiz> ನನಗೆ ಅನಿಸಿದ ವಿಚಾರಗಳನ್ನು ಹೇಳುತ್ತಿದ್ದೇನಷ್ಟೇ

[22:04:37] <Pavanaja> ಅದೆಲ್ಲ ನಾನು ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ತಿಳಿಸಿದ advanced trainingನಲ್ಲಿ ಸೇರಿಸಬಹುದು

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[22:05:57] <Pavanaja> ಅಂದ ಹಾಗೆ ಕೆಲವು ಪಾಲಿಸಿಗಳನ್ನು ತೀರ್ಮಾನ ಮಾಡಲೂ ಒಂದು ಐಆರ್‌ಸಿ ಸಭೆ ಮಾಡೋಣವೇ?

[22:06:33] <kiranravikumar> ಏನು edit ಮಾಡುವುದು ಅಂತ ಹೇಳುವುದಕಿಂತ, ಏನನ್ನು - ಏತಕ್ಕೆ ಅಂತ ತಿಳಿಸಬೇಕು ...

[22:08:26] <kiranravikumar> ವಾರ್ಷಿಕೋತ್ಸವ ಎಂದು? ಯಾವ ದಿನಾಂಕ?

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[22:11:50] <techfiz> June 12

[22:12:11] <kiranravikumar> ok

[22:13:15] <techfiz> mgharish:

[22:13:19] <shankar> ಎಲ್ಲಿ?

[22:13:32] <mgharish> ?

[22:14:27] <techfiz> shankar: ಇನ್ನೂ ಏನನ್ನೂ ನಿರ್ಧರಿಸಿಲ್ಲ... ಅದಕ್ಕೇ ಮೇಲೆ ಏನೆಲ್ಲಾ ಮಾಡಬಹುದು ಎಂದು ಪಟ್ಟಿ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಿದ್ದೆ

[22:14:28] <techfiz> :)

[22:14:46] <techfiz> mgharish: ನಿಮ್ಮ ದನಿ ಕೇಳುತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ.. ಕಾಣುತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ ಕೂಡ :)

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[22:15:16] <mgharish> ನಿಮ್ಮೆಲ್ಲರ ಮಾತು ನೋಡ್ತಾ ಇದೀನಿ.. ಹೇಳೋದೇನೂ ಇಲ್ಲ ಅನ್ನಿಸ್ತು.. ಸುಮ್ನಿದ್ದೆ :)

[22:15:53] <techfiz> :)

[22:16:21] <techfiz> mgharish: ವಿಕಿಸೋರ್ಸ್, ವಿಕಿಕೋಟ್ಸ್‌ನಲ್ಲಿ ಹಾಟ್‌ಕ್ಯಾಟ್ ಇತ್ಯಾದಿ ಬೇಕಿತ್ತು

[22:16:29] <techfiz> ಸರಿಪಡಿಸುವಿರ?

[22:16:50] <mgharish> ಅದಕ್ಕೆ ಅಡ್ಮಿನ್ ರೈಟ್ಸ್ ಬೇಕು

[22:16:55] <techfiz> ಹೌದು

[22:17:03] <mgharish> ನಿಮಗೆ ಕೊಡೋದಕ್ಕೆ ನನ್ನ ಸಮ್ಮತಿ ಇದೆ ಅಂತ ಹಾಕಿದ್ನಲ್ಲ..

[22:17:16] <techfiz> ಓ ನೋಡ್ಲಿಲ್ಲ್... ಚೆಕ್ ಮಾಡ್ತೀನಿ

[22:17:17] <mgharish> ನನಗೆ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾತ್ರ ಅಡ್ಮಿನ್ ರೈಟ್ ಇದೆ..

[22:17:37] --> Pavanaja (~chatzilla@117.237.179.214) has joined #wikipedia-kn

[22:18:04] <techfiz> ವಿಕಿಬುಕ್ಸ್ ಪ್ರಾಜೆಕ್ಟ್‌ ಮತ್ತೆ ಕಾರ್ಯನಿರ್ವಹಿಸುವಂತೆ ಮಾಡಲು ಅದರ ಮೀಡಿಯವಿಕಿ ಅನುವಾದ ಕಾರ್ಯ ಪೂರ್ಣಗೊಳ್ಳಬೇಕಿದೆ.. ಇದಕ್ಕೆ ಸಹಕರಿಸುವವರು ಯಾರಾದರೂ ಇದ್ದಲ್ಲಿ ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಸಂಪರ್ಕಿಸಿ

[22:18:26] <techfiz> http://toolserver.org/~robin/?tool=codelookup&code=kn

[22:19:28] <techfiz> ೧೨೦೦ ಸಾಲುಗಳು ಇನ್ನೂ ಕನ್ನಡೀಕರಣ ಗೊಳ್ಳಬೇಕಿದೆ ಮೀಡಿಯ ವಿಕಿಯಲ್ಲಿ...

[22:19:41] <techfiz> translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate?task=untranslated&limit=2000&language=kn&group=core

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[22:22:32] <mgharish> ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ಬಳಸಿದ್ದೇ ವಿಕಿಬುಕ್ಸಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಕೂಡ ಉಪಯೋಗ ಆಗುತ್ತೆ ಅಲ್ವಾ?

[22:23:37] <techfiz> ಹೌದು

[22:23:48] <techfiz> ಆದರೆ ಕೆಲವೊಂದು ಇನ್ನೂ ಅನುವಾದಗೊಂಡಿಲ್ಲ

[22:24:13] <techfiz> ಆದ್ದರಿಂದ ಆ ೧೧೫೦ ಮುಖ್ಯ ಸಾಲುಗಳು ಅನುವಾದ ಗೊಳ್ಳಬೇಕಿದೆ

[22:24:29] <techfiz> ನಂತರ ನಾನು ವಿಕಿಪುಸ್ತಕ ದ ಮರುಸ್ಥಾಪನೆಗೆ ಕೇಳಿಕೊಳ್ಳಬಹುದು

[22:25:39] <Pavanaja> ವಾರ್ಷಿಕೋತ್ಸವ ಬಗ್ಗೆ .... ಏನೇನು ಮಾಡಬಹುದು?

[22:29:21] <mgharish> ಪ್ರಚಾರ

[22:38:31] <shankar> ಮುಂದೆ?

[22:38:49] <mgharish> ಇವತ್ತು ಯಾಕೋ ಚರ್ಚೆ ಪೂರ್ತಿ ಡಲ್ ಆಗಿದೆ..

[22:38:54] <mgharish> ನಿದ್ದೆ ಬರ್ತಾ ಇದೆ!

[22:39:03] <shankar> :)

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[22:41:07] <mgharish> techfiz: ಮುಂದೇನು?

[22:46:14] <techfiz> Zzzzz :)

[22:47:04] <techfiz> shreekant: ನಿಮ್ಮ ದಶಕಗಳ ಪಟ್ಟಿ ಚೆನ್ನಾಗಿದೆ

[22:47:13] <techfiz> ಅದನ್ನು ಪೂರ್ಣಗೊಳಿಸಬೇಕು

[22:47:31] <shreekant> ಟ್ಯುಟೋರಿಯಲ್ ಅಂದಿರಲ್ಲ .. ಅಂದರೇನು ಅಂತ ಇಂಗ್ಲೀಷಿನ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ನೋಡಿ /ಟ್ಯುಟೊರಿಯಲ್ ಪುಟ ಸೇರಿಸಿದ್ಎ ಇದೇ ಈಗ!

[22:48:02] <shreekant> ದಶಕಗಳ ಪಟ್ಟಿ - ಪೂರ್ಣಗೊಳಿಸಬೇಕು --- ಅಂದರೇನು ? ಹೇಗೆ?

[22:48:20] <techfiz> ಟ್ಯುಟೋರಿಯ ಇದೆ ಅನ್ಸುತ್ತೆ ಈಗಾಗ್ಲೇ

[22:48:30] <shreekant> ನನಗೆ ಸಿಗಲಿಲ್ಲ

[22:48:34] <shreekant> ಸೇರಿಸ್ದೆ

[22:48:54] <techfiz> http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%B6%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%97%E0%B2%B3_%E0%B2%AA%E0%B2%9F%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%9F%E0%B2%BF

[22:49:51] <techfiz> http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%B9%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%AF:%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%82%E0%B2%AA%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%A8%E0%B3%86 - ಇಂತಹದ್ದೊಂದು ಪುಟವನ್ನು ನುರಿತ ಸಂಪಾದಕರಿಗೆ ಅನ್ವಯಿಸುವಂತೆ ಸಿದ್ದಪಡಿಸ್ಬೇಕು ಎಂದದ್ದು

[22:49:57] <shreekant> ದಶಕಗಳ ಪಟ್ಟಿ - ಇನ್ನೂ ಏನಾಗಬೇಕು?

[22:50:35] <techfiz> ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಎಲ್ಲ ಕೊಂಡಿಗಳೂ ಮುರಿದಿವೆ.. ಜೊತೆಗೆ, ಪ್ರತಿ ದಶಕಕ್ಕೂ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದ ವಿಕಿಪುಟಗಳ ಪಟ್ಟಿ ಅದರಲ್ಲಿ ಸಿಗುವಂತಾದರೆ ಚೆನ್ನ

[22:50:48] <techfiz> ವರ್ಗಗಳಿಗೆ ಈ ಪ್ರತಿ ಪುಟವನ್ನು ರೀಡೈರೆಕ್ಟ್ ಮಾಡಬಹುದು

[22:50:52] <techfiz> mgharish: ಏನಂತೀರಿ

[22:51:46] <shreekant> ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಟ್ಯೂತೋರಿಯಲ್ ಸೇರಿಸಬೇಕು ನಿಜ ... ಆದರೆ ಟ್ಯುಟೋರಿಯಲ್ ಅಂದರೆ ಏನು ? ಬೇಕಲ್ಲವೇ? ಅದನ್ನು ಸೇರಿಸಿದ್ದೇನೆ http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%9F%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%9F%E0%B3%8A%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AF%E0%B2%B2%E0%B3%8D

[22:52:22] <shreekant> ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಟ್ಯುಟೋರಿಯಲ್ ಪ್ರಯ್ಸ್ತ್ನಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ

[22:53:18] <shreekant> ಸರಿಯಾಗಿ ತಿಳಿಯಲಿಲ್ಲ . ಬೇರೆ ಯಾರಾದರೂ ಅದನ್ನು ಮಾಡಲಿ

[22:53:45] <techfiz> shreekant: ವಾರಾಂತ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಕಾಲ್ ಮಾಡ್ತೇನೆ.. ಬಹಳ ದಿನ ಆಯ್ತು ನಿಮ್ಮೊಂದಿಗೆ ಮಾತನಾಡಿ

[22:53:47] <techfiz> :)

[22:53:54] <shreekant> ನೀವು ಹೇಳಿದ "ದಶಕಗಳ ಪಟ್ಟಿ - ಇನ್ನೂ ಏನಾಗಬೇಕು?" ಗೆ ನನ್ನ ಉತ್ತರ . ಓಕೆ

[22:54:02] <shreekant> ಗುಡ್ ನೈಟ್

[22:54:32] <techfiz> ಶುಭರಾತ್ರಿ

[22:58:04] <kiranravikumar> GN

[23:03:42] <shreekant> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial ಇದರ ಕನ್ನಡ ಅನುವಾದ ಬೇಕಿದೆಯೇ ?

[23:05:13] <shreekant> http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%80%E0%B2%A1%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AF:%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%95%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%82%E0%B2%9A%E0%B2%BF ಇದು ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ಇದೆಯಲ್ಲ್?

[23:05:30] -*- shankar clicks

[23:06:14] <shankar> ಹೌದು.. ಇದರ ಅನುವಾದ ಹೊಸಬರಿಗೆ ನೆರವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ

[23:06:39] <shreekant> ಇದು ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ಇದೆಯಲ್ಲ ?

[23:07:17] <shreekant> ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:ದಿಕ್ಸೂಚಿ ಹೆಸರಿನಲ್ಲಿ

[23:07:44] <shankar> ಓಹ್.. ಹೌದು.. ಇದರ ಜೊತೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದು ವೀಡಿಯೊ ಸೇರಿಸಿದರೆ ಇನ್ನೂ ಉತ್ತಮ

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[23:12:46] -*- shankar ತೆರಳುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾನೆ... ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ಶುಭರಾತ್ರಿ

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[23:24:48] <mgharish> techfiz: ದಶಕಗಳ ಪಟ್ಟಿ

[23:24:55] <mgharish> bot run ಮಾಡಿ ಮಾಡ್ಬಹುದು

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/news/kannada-irc-meet-may-7-2013

Access to Knowledge Bulletin — May 2013

praskrishna — 2013-07-04T04:17:49Z

In this issue of our newsletter for 2013, we are pleased to bring you updates about the open exhibition held at our office for celebrating five years of our existence, Access to Knowledge work plan (2013-14), and the revised budget (September 2012 - February 2013).

Wikimedia Foundation, beginning from September 1, 2012, awarded the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) a two-year grant of INR 26,000,000 to support and develop free knowledge in India. Consequently, Wikimedia Foundation’s India Program became the Access to Knowledge (A2K) program of CIS. In this newsletter, we are pleased to bring you updates about the recently concluded exhibition organised in our offices in Bangalore and Delhi and share with you the feedback to the Access to Knowledge work plan from the wikipedia community.

The A2K team consists of three members based in Bangalore: T. Vishnu Vardhan, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja and Subhashish Panigrahi and one member Nitika Tandon in Delhi. Noopur Raval, Programme Officer left the organisation on April 24, 2013. Archives of our newsletters are here.

Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications at http://bit.ly/TOcXId.

Celebrating 5 Years of CIS
CIS is now 5 years old and we recently celebrated this by holding an open exhibition in our offices in Bangalore and Delhi from May 20 to 23, showcasing our work and accomplishments over the five year period. We had about 170 visitors coming in to our office. Renowned artists like Tara Kelton, Kiran Subbaiah, Navin Thomas, Abhishek Hazra and Sharath Chandra Ram exhibited their work. The four-day event attracted press coverage: Bangalore Mirror (May 18, 2013), DNA (May 19, 2013), Hindu (May 22, 2013), Prajavani (May 23, 2013), Udayavani (May 25, 2013) and Bangalore Mirror (May 31, 2013). Download all the posters that were part of the exhibition here.

Announcements

Access to Knowledge Work Plan (April 2013 - June 2014): CIS has announced its detailed plan with projection of outcomes and expected impact of the A2K programme activities. The document has been made in consultation with various stakeholders and keeping in mind the objectives, opportunities and challenges faced by each of the Indian language Wikimedia projects. Feel free to share any feedback.
WMF-A2K Revised Budget (draft) and Utilization (September 2012 - February 2013): In our effort to increase transparency with the working of CIS-A2K programme, we are sharing with you the A2K Programme Budget along with the utilization for the above period. The proposed revisions to the budget along with some notes are here.
CIS Signs MOU with TISS: has signed a MoU with TISS as part of which we will collaboratively work towards building Digital Knowledge Partnerships with select higher education institutions.
India Access to Knowledge IRC can be accessed here: May 13, 2013 (All Language Discussion) and May 26, 2013 (Odia Language Discussion).

Blog Entries

Odia Wikipedia: Needs Assessment (by Subhashish Panigrahi, May 11, 2013).
Access to Knowledge Work Plan: Synopsis of Feedback by Wikipedians (by Nitika Tandon, May 20, 2013).
Wikipedia Introductory Session organized for Data and India portal consultants (by Subhashish Panigrahi, May 30, 2013).
My First Wikipedia Training Workshop – Theatre Outreach Unit, University of Hyderabad (by T. Vishnu Vardhan, June 19, 2013).

Events Organised

Kannada Wikipedia Workshop (April 29, 2013, Govinda Pai Research Centre, MGM College Udupi). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja led the workshop and gave a talk on Kannada Wikipedia

Event Participated

Kannada IRC Meet (organised by the Wikipedia Community, May 7, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in this.

Upcoming Event

Digital Humanities for Indian Higher Education (co-organised in collaboration with HEIRA-CSCS, Tumkur University, CILHE-TISS and CCS (IISc), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, July 13, 2013).

Press Coverage

Report on CIS 5 Years Celebration (Prajavani, May 23, 2013). Prajavani published a report of Dr. U.B. Pavanja’s talk “From Palm Leaf to Tablet – Journey of Kannada”.
Report on CIS 5 Years Celebration (Udayavani, May 25, 2013). Udayavani published a report of the evening programme hosted as part of the Centre for Internet and Society's 5 year celebrations in its Bangalore edition.
A Feature on Wikipedia and Telegu Wikipedians (HMTV, May 30 – 31, 2013). T. Vishnu Vardhan is quoted in this half an hour feature on Wikipedia and Telugu Wikipedians.
Wikipedia Live Phone-in Programme (HMTV, June 1, 2013). T. Vishnu Vardhan speaks about Telegu Wikipedia in the discussion that was telecasted live.

About CIS

CIS was registered as a society in Bangalore in 2008. As an independent, non-profit research organisation, it runs different policy research programmes such as Accessibility, Access to Knowledge, Openness, Internet Governance, and Telecom. The policy research programmes have resulted in outputs such as the e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilities with ITU and G3ict, and Digital Alternatives with a Cause?, Thinkathon Position Papers and the Digital Natives with a Cause? Report with Hivos, etc. We have conducted policy research for the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, etc., on WIPO Treaties, Copyright Bill, NIA Bill, etc.

CIS is accredited as an observer at WIPO. CIS staff participates in the Standing Committee for Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) meetings regularly held in Geneva, and participate in the discussions and comments on them from a public interest perspective. Our Policy Director, Nirmita Narasimhan won the National Award for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities from the Government of India and also received the NIVH Excellence Award.

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Request for Collaboration
We invite researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to collaboratively engage with Internet and society and improve our understanding of this new field. To discuss the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at sunil@cis-india.org or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at nishant@cis-india.org

CIS is grateful to its donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation and the Kusuma Trust which was founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin, for its core funding and support for most of its projects.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-bulletin-may-2013

Analysis of Konkani Wikipedia: Facts & Challenges

nitika — 2013-05-08T02:26:36Z

Nitika Tandon, in this blog post, provides an analysis of the Konkani Wikipedia. She reflects on the challenges faced by Konkani Wikipedia and identifies four possible solutions.

Konkani is a language spoken primarily by people living in Goa and in the neighbouring states on the western coast of India (also known as the Kokan belt) – some pockets in Maharashtra, Karnataka and Kerala. All of these neighbouring states are places where speakers from Goa may have migrated over the past five centuries (Garry, 2001).[1] Each region has a different dialect, pronunciation style, vocabulary, tone and sometimes, significant differences in grammar.

The total number of Konkani speakers seems to have remained remarkably stable for over a century. This is borne out by the census reports over the years. The Census Department of India, 2001 figures put the number of Konkani speakers in India as 2,489,015. Out of these, around 6 lakh were in Goa, 7 lakh in Karnataka, 3 lakh in Maharashtra, 6 lakh in Kerala and rest live outside of India, either as expatriates or citizens of other countries (NRIs).[2]

Goa has a high literacy rate of 87.4 per cent.[3] Goa is also in one of the top three states/union territories with highest computer density. In Goa, about 31.1 per cent of households use computers while 12.7 per cent of households use computers with internet.[4]

Konkani Wikipedia is currently in its incubation stage with very few editors. About 86 articles have been added but much work needs to be done 1) to push it as a live Wikipedia project and 2) to improve quality and quantity of articles. Konkani Wikipedia promotes editing in all scripts (Roman, Devanagari, Kannada) equally.

Challenges faced by Konkani Wikipedia

Konkani Wikipedia has grown meagerly in the past 7 years ever since the inception of the project (in 2006). It is still an extremely small project with barely 86 articles. The project received maximum number of edits in 2007-2008 and since then the level of activity has been gradually decreasing with negligible edits in 2012-2013.
There are handful of volunteers who have ever edited on Konkani Wikipedia and they too seem to have lost interest/inclination to sustain their edits. There are only 16 editors who have total of 10 edits or more on Konkani Wikipedia. In addition, no virtual/physical meeting of any kind has ever been organised by/for the volunteers. No outreach event had also been organised for Konkani Wikipedia until Dec 2012.[5]
Problem of usage of multiple scripts in Konkani Wikipedia aggravates the massive challenges the project currently faces. Konkani does not have a unique script of its own and hence scripts of the other languages native to the regions are used. Konkani speakers are spread across different states and they use multiple scripts like Kannada, Devanagari, Roman and Perso-Arabic scripts. There is no one/common script - Konkani thus has a unique distinction of being written in four scripts.
Multiple script issue ties in with some religious aspects as well. The Goan Hindus use the Devanagari script in their writings while the Goan Christians use the Roman script. The Saraswats of Karnataka use the Devanagari script in North Kanara district and the Kannada script in Udupi and South Kanara. Malayalam script is used in Kerala, but now there is a move to use the Devanagari script.

Because of these reasons and more Konkani Wikipedia has struggled to grow since its inception. It has been in the incubation stage for the past 7 years with an extremely small number of volunteers.

Fact Sheet

Parameters	Number
No. of scripts used in current incubation project	3 (Roman, Devanagari, Kannada)
No. of articles in Devnagri script	52
No. of articles in Roman script	32
No. of articles in Kannada script	2
No. of system messages translated in Devnagari script	126 (including 30 core messages)
No. of system messages translated in Roman script	500
No. of system messages translated in Kannada script	0
No. of editors with more than 10 edits	16
No. of editors with less than 10 edits	32
No. of articles	86
No. of redirects	4
No. of revisions	1113 (including 254 minor edits)

Multiple script issue faced by Konkani Wikipedia

Developing of Konkani Wikipedia faces a problem of usage of multiple scripts. Enabling the users to access and edit all articles in different scripts is the main problem faced by this wiki.

Similar challenge faced by other wikis: Similar problem was faced by Kashmiri Wikipedia which used Pasho, Sharada and Devanagari scripts. Punjabi has the Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi scripts, of which the former is used in India and the latter in Pakistan. Chinese language has two major writing systems; simplified and traditional Chinese. Other Wikipedias that have faced similar challenge are Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Korean Wikipedia, etc.

Possible solutions: Let’s look at what are the possible solutions to this problem of multiple scripts, how some of these language Wikipedias have tackled this in the past, and what might or might not work for Konkani Wikipedia in particular.

Possible Solution 1: Automatic conversion system.

A plug-in could be built into the server end of language Wikipedia to automatically transliterate content from one script into another.
Other Wikis using this solution are Chinese, Serbian, Kazakh, Kurdish Wikipedias. To give an example, Automatic conversion system has been running successfully on Chinese Wikipedia since 2004 and has been well received by the community. In addition to Chinese Wikipedia, Chinese Wiktionary, Wikiquote, and Wikibooks also have the conversion systems.
Automatic transliteration from one script to another might not work for Konkani Wikipedia, as there are dialectical differences and also there is no ready tool available for to convert one script to another. (transliterating between Roman to Devanagari or Roman to Kannada script etc.).

Possible Solution 2: Partial automatic conversion system.

A plug-in could be used that can transliterate one script to at least another; out of all the writing systems used.
Other Wikis using this solution are Tajik, Uzbek, Gan Wikipedia. To give an example, Tajik Wikipedia currently has auto-converting system for two of the writing systems (Cyrillic - Latin) but not into Perso-Arabic.
This could be a possible solution for Konkani Wikipedia if the community decides that they’d like to have transliteration tools installed at least for the Indian scripts.

Possible Solution 3: Multiple writing system

Have multiple articles in different scripts about the same topic. For example, have multiple articles about India in Konkani Wikipedia - one in Devanagari script, another in Roman script and yet another in Kannada script.
Some of the other wikis considering to adopt multiple writing system in the near future are Korean and Javanese Wikipedia.
This could be the short term solution for Konkani Wikipedia. It is something that is currently being used in Konkani Wikipedia in incubation and might also prove to be one of the best solutions for live Konkani Wikipedia project.

Possible Solution 4: Create separate wikis for each script

Create separate wikis for each script, at least those which prove to be active.
Separate wikis were created for Punjabi-Gurmukhi and Punjabi-Shahmukhi.
This could potentially be the long term solution for Konkani Wikipedia i.e. to have different Wikis for each active writing system - Konkani-Roman, Konkani-Devanagari and Konkani-Kannada. If there is an intersted active community to create content for a particular script; we could push that to a new project in due course of time. As things stand, the Roman script has been active in the recent past, followed by Devanagari and Kannada in that order.

Mitigation or consensus building: The community needs to reach consensus on how to deal with this issue. The best short term solution seems to be having multiple writing systems in the same Konkani Wikipedia project. However, in the long run we could evaluate the option of creating separate wikis for each script, at least those which prove to be active.

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For more details visit https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/konkani-wikipedia-analysis

Access to Knowledge Bulletin — April 2013

praskrishna — 2013-05-29T10:57:49Z

In the third issue of our newsletter for 2013, we are pleased to bring you updates from the Indic Wikipedia Visualisation project, reports of events organised in Kolkata, Cuttack and Bhubaneswar.

Wikimedia Foundation, beginning from September 1, 2012, awarded the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) a two-year grant of INR 26,000,000 to support and develop free knowledge in India. Consequently, Wikimedia Foundation’s India Program became the Access to Knowledge (A2K) program of CIS. In the third issue of our newsletter for 2013, we are pleased to bring you updates from the Indic Wikipedia Visualisation project, reports of events organised in Goa, and press coverage of the Kannada Wikipedia Workshop held in Mysore.

The A2K team consists of three members based in Delhi: T. Vishnu Vardhan, Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahi and one member Dr. U.B. Pavanaja who is working from Bangalore office. Noopur Raval, Programme Officer (Access to Knowledge) has resigned. April 24, 2013 was her last working day. Archives of our newsletters are here.

Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications at http://bit.ly/TOcXId.

Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project

Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project #2: Visualising Page Views and Project Pages.

Guest Blog

Indian WikiWomen celebrate Women’s History Month (by Netha Hussain, April 29, 2013).

Event Organised

Kannada Wikipedia Workshop (April 29, 2013, Govinda Pai Research Centre, MGM College Udupi). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja led the workshop and gave a talk on Kannada Wikipedia.

Events Co-organised

The following events were organised in the month of March but reports were written during the month of April. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi held meetings with wikipedians:

Kolkata Wiki Community Meetup (organised by CIS and Kolkata Wiki Community, March 14, 2013).
Odia Wikipedia - Cuttack Community Meetup (organised by CIS and Odia Wiki Community, Cuttack, March 16, 2013).
Odia Wikipedia – Bhubaneswar Community Meetup (organised by CIS and Odia Wiki Community, Bhubaneswar, March 17, 2013).

The following event was organised in the month of April. We will be publishing the report soon:

Telugu Wiki Mahotsavam 2013 (organised by Telugu Wikipedia Community and CIS, Hyderabad, April 9 – 11, 2013). Vishnu Vardhan was one of the trainers at the Wikipedia Academy at Centre for Good Governance on April 9, 2013. Vishnu Vardhan spoke about the Access to Knowledge work in one of the sessions of Wikimedia Meeting with Media Heads on April 10, 2013. Vishnu Vardhan gave a talk on A2K’s plans for the growth of Telegu Wikipedia in 2013-14 at the Telegu Wikipedia general meeting on April 11, 2013. Vishnu Vardhan also gave a talk about Access to Knowledge in the digital era at the Wiki Chaitanya Vedika on April 11, 2013.

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Indian WikiWomen celebrate Women’s History Month

Netha Hussain — 2013-04-29T09:21:45Z

March 2013 was a busy month for women Wikimedians in India, as we conducted various events, such as edit-a-thons and workshops to celebrate the presence of women in Wikimedia projects. The women Wikimedians, members of the Wikimedia India Chapter and the Access to Knowledge Team, brainstormed about the possible events, which we wanted to conduct to encourage women to participate and to increase the quality of articles related to Indian women in Wikipedias in English and the Indian languages.

This is a guest post by Netha Hussain, a Wikipedia contributor from India who regularly contributes to Malayalam Wikipedia, among other projects. The blog post was originally published on the Wikimedia Foundation page.

We decided to conduct the workshops and meetups in various Indian cities, in addition to online edit-a-thons. We created a co-ordination page on English Wikipedia and added suggestions for articles to edit. We invited participants to join the edit-a-thon by spreading the word on mailing lists, social media networks and blogs. The Times of India published a feature about the event, which attracted many newbies to participate in it. We also created separate pages for offline events taking place in parallel, and we added a summary of the events to the main page. The participants of the edit-a-thon signed up on the co-ordination page, where we also added the details and status of Women’s History Month events happening in various Indian language Wikipedias.

The inaugural event took place on International Women’s Day (March 8) at Nirmala Institute of Education, Goa. Out of 100 participants who attended the event, 90 were female. Veteran Wikimedians Rohini and Nitika conducted a basic Wikipedia editing workshop. The event also set off the two-day long online edit-a-thon in which fourteen editors participated. Among those who participated in the program were homemakers, students and professionals. Rohini took charge as the Chairperson of the special interest group (SIG) for Gendergap at the Wikimedia Chapter India on the day of the workshop (March 8). She plans to conduct more workshops for women in the future.

Organizers subsequently held a series of events at two venues in Bengaluru and one in Ernakulam. Experienced Wikimedians Pavithra and Nikita Belavate led the workshops in Bengaluru. The workshop also served as an occasion for editors living in and around Bengaluru to meet. The Ernakulam event was aimed at increasing the participation of women in Malayalam Wikipedia and was led by Wikimedian Ditty Mathew. Around 40 women participated in the three edit-a-thons. A Wikipedia Academy with 9 participants was conducted in Hyderabad. Led by Anupama Srinivas, the last of all events took place on 30 March, 2012, in Chennai.

Nikita, who led the Bangalore event, said she was filled with happiness watching the exuberance in the eyes of women participants who edited and saved their edits live on Wikipedia. “This year’s Women’s History month makes me once again believe in the power of women and honing it by empowering them, Wikiwomenising them,” said Nikita.


Participants of the Bangalore workshop organized by FSMK

Vishnu Vardhan, the Program Director of the Access to Knowledge team, was with the WikiWomen throughout the editathon, connecting people, planning events and urging them to contribute. He encouraged his mother, wife and female cousins to contribute to Wikipedia.

“I wish more of us took the initiative of involving the women in our life to share their knowledge on Wikipedia and truly make the Wikipedias the sum of all human knowledge,” he said. Harriet, one of the key organizers of the women’s day events, believes that the Indian Wikimedia community has gained momentum in favor of bridging the gender gap because of this event. She urged the Indian community to follow this success and to increase the participation of women in the Wikimedia movement. Though she could not attend the events in person, she ensured her participation in the edit-a-thon by arranging the logistics, monitoring the coordination page and suggesting changes.

The events had good participation from men as well. Among the 14 participants who signed up on English Wikipedia, 5 were men. In Malayalam Wikipedia, 18 out of the 26 participants who signed up for the online edit-a-thon were men. Dileep Unnikrishan, a male participant of the edit-a-thon, and a fan of Wikipedia, participated in the Ernakulam event because he was curious to find out how Wikipedia works. With women participants, he edited three articles and found it exciting to “be a part of the movement that has brought about a knowledge revolution in the world. The best thing I noticed about Wiki is that it has a peer-to-peer way of organization, which makes it warm and welcoming to newbies like me,” said Dileep.

The Indian WikiWomen are planning to conduct similar events in the future to increase the participation of women in Wikipedia and its sister projects. We are hopeful we will bridge the gender gap in the Indian Wikimedia community by conducting outreach programs, increasing awareness about free knowledge programs among women and conducting action-oriented events targeting women.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/indian-wiki-women-history-month

A Kannada Wikipedia Workshop in Udupi

praskrishna — 2013-04-26T06:29:15Z

The Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet and Society is organizing a Kannada wikipedia workshop at the MGM college in Udupi. Govinda Pai Research Centre, MGM College Udupi is sponsoring the event.The workshop will begin at 10.00 a.m. and end by 5.00 p.m. Dr. U.B.Pavanaja will give a talk on Kannada wikipedia.

The workshop will cover the following topics:

What is Wikipedia?
Who edits Wikipedia?
How does Wikipedia work?
HOW TO EDIT?
What can I edit?
Why to contribute to Wikipedia
Kannada specific topics
Brief on Creative Commons
Hands-on

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/openness/events/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-udupi-april-29-2013

Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project #2: Visualising Page Views and Project Pages

Sajjad Anwar and Sumandro Chattapadhyay — 2013-04-22T13:37:08Z

In this blog post, we bring you a visualisation of the page views statistics and the project specific pages that we created last month. The page views indicate the number of unique visits the Wikipedia project concerned has received in one month.

Unlike the basic parameters that we discussed last month, we received the Page Views data only from January 2008 onwards. The project-specific pages allow the user to see all the different variables related to a Indic language Wikipedia project in one page, thus giving a general overview of the activities in that project and their inter-relationships. Instead of comparing multiple projectsn, as in the calendar charts and motion chart discussed in the last post, the project-specific pages focus on understanding one Wikipedia project in detail.

Page Views

The data came in a structure that is useful for human-readability of the data but not so much for visualisation. The first column contained the date value (01/01/2008, 01/02/2008, and so on), followed by a column for each Indic Wikipedia project (Assamese, Bhojpuri, and so on) and one for the total Page Views across projects for the month concerned. The original data file can be accessed here. We re-formatted this data to the following column structure: the first column gives the date value, the second column gives the language of the Wikipedia project, and the third column gives the Page Views value. Further, the Page Views file contained data for 2013 that are not available for any other variables (like Total Articles, Total Editors etc.). So we decided to remove the 2013 values from the Page Views file for easier comparison with other variables. The data file that we finally used for the visualisation can be accessed here.

Calendar (Heatmap) Chart

The first chart that we created was the calendar (heatmap) chart discussed in detail in the last post. For the Page View variable we only had data form 2008. We plotted it as calendar-like heatmap to allow quick cross-project comparisons of trends in readership. The chart can be accessed here.

Project Pages

So far, we have been visualising the data from an overall perspective, constantly asking the question: "How does project A compare to project B?". The Project pages sheds light from a different angle: "How did project A get to this point?". Each of the projects are visualised in isolation around the basic parameters to understand how they have changed/evolved over the years. We wanted to keep this as simple as possible and decided to use straight forward line charts. This also ensures that the patterns are clearly evident. On the right corner of the navigation bar is the project selector. You can search or pick a project and the page will load the charts specific to that project. Each project has a different page, this makes it easier for you to share the project that you are interested in. The chart employs filtering and dynamic scales. Dynamic scales are important because not all the projects have the same rate of growth.

Readership Dashboard

We were not satisfied with creating only the calendar heatmap chart for Page Views. Being a very important variable for anybody trying to understand activities on Indic Wikipedia projects, we wanted to create a more detailed visualisation for the variable. While the project-specific pages do allow for comparing Page Views for a certain Indic Wikipedia with its other variables (such as Total Articles), we wanted to make that comparison even easier. Hence we decided to make a chart combining a line graph showing the movement of Page View for a project across the years and bar graphs showing a separate variable for the same project. Thus we created the Readership Dashboard. The dashboard has two controls: project selector and the parameter selector buttons. Selecting a project from the dropdown will update the line chart showing the movement of page views. Hover over the line graph points to see the date of observation and the corresponding value. The bars behind the line represent the selected parameters. Click on the parameter buttons to load different parameters as the background bar graph. Hover over the bars to see the date and the value. The bar graph is carefully aligned to the line chart such that the visualisation reflects the relation in movement of both. However, please note that the vertical scale of the line graph and the bar graphs are not the same.

Sajjad Anwar is a programmer based in Bangalore. Sumandro Chattapadhyay is a researcher based in Delhi. They often work together.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/indic-wikipedia-visualisation-project-visualising-page-views-and-project-pages

Kolkata Wiki Community Meetup

subha — 2013-10-30T10:51:57Z

Recently Centre for Internet and Society's Access To Knowledge Programme members T. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi met wikipedians in Kolkata. The event was co-organized by the Access to Knowledge team from the Centre for Internet and Society and the Wikipedian community of Kolkata.

The Wikimedia community in the city of joy gathered near Salt lake during Recently Centre for Internet and Society's Access To Knowledge Programme team's visit. Four Wikipedians from Kolkata, Wikimedia Foundation's mobile Developer Yuvaraj Pandian and OPW intern Sucheta Ghoshal joined A2K's Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi for this meetup. Vishnu addressed the wikipedians and gave a brief introduction about the programme's objectives and plans. Bengali Wikipedians Jayanta Nath and Kalyan Sarkar shared the success stories and activities in Bengali Wikipedia community. They also discussed about the challenges Indian Bengali wikipedians are facing. Wikipedians discussed few of the technical aspects of Bengali Wikipedia over lunch. Vishnu and Subhashish discussed about the opportunities that could be explored to bring more good quality content relevant to West Bengal and Bengali language over lunch.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/news/wiki-meet-up-kolkata

Wikipedia Workshop in Mangalore — Report in Kannada Prabha

praskrishna — 2013-04-16T04:11:11Z

A workshop was conducted for students of Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management, Mangalore by Dr. U.B.Pavanaja on April 9, 2013. Kannada Prabha published a report about this on the following day, April 10, 2013.

Below is a scanned version of the report published in Kannada Prabha on April 10, 2013:

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/news/kannada-prabha-april-10-2013-mangalore-wikipedia-workshop-report

Centre for Internet and Society

Access To Knowledge Work Plan (April 2013 - June 2014)

Language Area Work Plans

Introductory note

Context

Objective

Methodology

A2K’s method of work

How to read this Annual Work Plan

Risk and mitigation

Language area work plans

Overall A2K support to all Wikipedia communities in India

Pilot Project – Performing Arts in India

Learning and evaluation

Giving feedback

List of contributors

CIS Celebrates 5 Years: A Report in Udayavani

Telugu Wikipedia Meet-up @ CIS

CIS Celebrates 5 Years: A Report in Prajavani

Access to Knowledge Work Plan: Synopsis of Feedback by Wikipedians

Odia

Kannada

Konkani

Konkani

Bangla

Overall Languages

Odia Wikipedia: Needs Assessment

Fact Sheet

﻿Identified Needs

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Access to Knowledge Bulletin — May 2013

About CIS

Analysis of Konkani Wikipedia: Facts & Challenges

Challenges faced by Konkani Wikipedia

Fact Sheet

Multiple script issue faced by Konkani Wikipedia

Access to Knowledge Bulletin — April 2013

About CIS

Indian WikiWomen celebrate Women’s History Month

A Kannada Wikipedia Workshop in Udupi

Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project #2: Visualising Page Views and Project Pages

Page Views

Calendar (Heatmap) Chart

Project Pages

Readership Dashboard

Kolkata Wiki Community Meetup

Wikipedia Workshop in Mangalore — Report in Kannada Prabha

Identified Needs