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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-training-in-telugu-for-b-r-ambedkar-open-university">
    <title>Wikipedia Training in Telugu for Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-training-in-telugu-for-b-r-ambedkar-open-university</link>
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        &lt;b&gt;CIS-A2K is conducting a Wikipedia training programme in Telugu for the faculty of Dr. B.R.Ambedkar Open University (Dr. BRAOU) in Hyderabad on September 5 and 6, 2013. &lt;/b&gt;
        &lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;This is done as part of the "ICT and eContent" workshop organized by the Centre for Staff Training and Development of Dr. BRAOU for their faculty. T. Vishnu Vardhan Program Director,     CIS-A2K has been invited to teach a module on "Knowledge and     Openness in the Digital Era" as part of which this Wikipedia     training programme was also organized.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Details in &lt;a class="external-link" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B7%E0%B0%A3_%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%82/%E0%B0%B9%E0%B1%88%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%8D/%E0%B0%B9%E0%B1%88%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%8D2"&gt;Telugu originally published in the metapage on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; is reproduced below:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 style="text-align: justify; "&gt;వికీపీడియా:శిక్షణ శిబిరం/హైదరాబాద్/హైదరాబాద్2&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;--&lt;a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AF%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%95:Contributions/14.139.86.130" title="ప్రత్యేక:Contributions/14.139.86.130"&gt;14.139.86.130&lt;/a&gt; 05:32, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)పరాంకుశం వెంకట రమణ==తేదీ - స్థలం== సెప్టెంబరు, 5 2013; &lt;a class="text external" href="http://www.braou.ac.in/%7C" rel="nofollow"&gt;డాక్టర్ బి.ఆర్. అంబేద్కర్ సార్వత్రిక విశ్వవిద్యాలయం&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;సమయం&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;పొ. 10.00 నుండి మ. 1.00 వరకు&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;నిర్వహణ సంస్థ/లు&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;a class="extiw" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge" title="m:India Access To Knowledge"&gt;CISA2K&lt;/a&gt; డాక్టర్ బి.ఆర్. అంబేద్కర్ సార్వత్రిక విశ్వవిద్యాలయం, హైదరబాద్ వారి  సంస్థాగత భాగస్వామ్యంతో. ఈ శిబిరం Centre for Staff Training and  Development (Dr. BRAOU) వారు 10 రోజులపాటు విశ్వవిద్యాలయం యొక్క  ఉపాధ్యాయుల కొరకు నిర్వహించిన ‘ICT and e-Content Development’ Workshop లో  భాగంగా నిర్వహించబడినది.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;నిర్వాహకులు&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&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:Visdaviva" title="వాడుకరి:Visdaviva"&gt;విష్ణు&lt;/a&gt; (&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_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Visdaviva" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Visdaviva"&gt;చర్చ&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--&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:Elkasudharani" title="వాడుకరి:Elkasudharani"&gt;Elkasudharani&lt;/a&gt; (&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_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Elkasudharani" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Elkasudharani"&gt;చర్చ&lt;/a&gt;) 05:37, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)==Dr.BRAOU లోని కార్యక్రమ సంధానకర్తలు==&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghanta_Chakrapani" title="w:Ghanta Chakrapani"&gt;ఘంటా చక్రపాణి&lt;/a&gt; (డైరెక్టర్, Centre for Staff Training and Development, డాక్టర్ బి.ఆర్. అంబేద్కర్ సార్వత్రిక విశ్వవిద్యాలయం)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--&lt;a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AF%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%95:Contributions/14.139.86.130" title="ప్రత్యేక:Contributions/14.139.86.130"&gt;14.139.86.130&lt;/a&gt; 05:35, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;శిక్షణ శిబిరానికి హజరైన సభ్యులు&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--&lt;a class="new" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Pallavisudheer&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1" title="వాడుకరి:Pallavisudheer (పుట లేదు)"&gt;Pallavisudheer&lt;/a&gt; (&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_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Pallavisudheer" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Pallavisudheer"&gt;చర్చ&lt;/a&gt;) 05:31, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;సరోజ --&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:Drgsaroja" title="వాడుకరి:Drgsaroja"&gt;Drgsaroja&lt;/a&gt; (&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_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Drgsaroja" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Drgsaroja"&gt;చర్చ&lt;/a&gt;) 05:27, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;--&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:Rajani_nellutla" title="వాడుకరి:Rajani nellutla"&gt;Rajani nellutla&lt;/a&gt; (&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_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Rajani_nellutla" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Rajani nellutla"&gt;చర్చ&lt;/a&gt;) 05:29, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;--&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:Kiranmayi.ys" title="వాడుకరి:Kiranmayi.ys"&gt;Kiranmayi.ys&lt;/a&gt; (&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_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Kiranmayi.ys" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Kiranmayi.ys"&gt;చర్చ&lt;/a&gt;) 05:30, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;--&lt;a class="new" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Vasuvaddanam&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1" title="వాడుకరి:Vasuvaddanam (పుట లేదు)"&gt;Vasuvaddanam&lt;/a&gt; (&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_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Vasuvaddanam" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Vasuvaddanam"&gt;చర్చ&lt;/a&gt;) 05:31, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--&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:Gpushpa" title="వాడుకరి:Gpushpa"&gt;Gpushpa&lt;/a&gt; (&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_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Gpushpa" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Gpushpa"&gt;చర్చ&lt;/a&gt;) 05:32, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC) --&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:Drgsaroja" title="వాడుకరి:Drgsaroja"&gt;Drgsaroja&lt;/a&gt; (&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_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Drgsaroja" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Drgsaroja"&gt;చర్చ&lt;/a&gt;) 05:34, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;--&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:Boju_srinivas" title="వాడుకరి:Boju srinivas"&gt;Boju srinivas&lt;/a&gt; (&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_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Boju_srinivas" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Boju srinivas"&gt;చర్చ&lt;/a&gt;) 05:36, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;--&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:Shridhevie" title="వాడుకరి:Shridhevie"&gt;Shridhevie&lt;/a&gt; (&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_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Shridhevie" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Shridhevie"&gt;చర్చ&lt;/a&gt;) 05:37, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;పై వరసలో పేరు చేర్చండి లేక సంతకం చేయండి&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;--[[--&lt;a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AF%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%95:Contributions/14.139.86.130" title="ప్రత్యేక:Contributions/14.139.86.130"&gt;14.139.86.130&lt;/a&gt; 05:35, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)]]&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;--&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:Elkasudharani" title="వాడుకరి:Elkasudharani"&gt;Elkasudharani&lt;/a&gt; (&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_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Elkasudharani" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Elkasudharani"&gt;చర్చ&lt;/a&gt;) 05:37, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;--&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:Pvramana24" title="వాడుకరి:Pvramana24"&gt;Pvramana24&lt;/a&gt; (&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_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Pvramana24" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Pvramana24"&gt;చర్చ&lt;/a&gt;) 05:37, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;నివేదిక&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;చిత్రమాలిక&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-training-in-telugu-for-b-r-ambedkar-open-university'&gt;https://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-training-in-telugu-for-b-r-ambedkar-open-university&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
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    <dc:creator>praskrishna</dc:creator>
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        <dc:subject>Access to Knowledge</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikimedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Workshop</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Openness</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Event</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2013-09-06T05:51:49Z</dc:date>
   <dc:type>Event</dc:type>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-march-24-2014-wikipedia-taps-students-for-kannada-content">
    <title>Wikipedia taps students for Kannada content</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-march-24-2014-wikipedia-taps-students-for-kannada-content</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;Conducts workshops in Ujire, Moodbidri for training in vernacular editing.&lt;/b&gt;
        &lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;The article by Renuka Phadnis was &lt;a class="external-link" href="http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/wikipedia-taps-students-for-kannada-content/article5824580.ece"&gt;published in the Hindu&lt;/a&gt; on March 24, 2014. Dr. U.B.Pavanaja is quoted.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Wikipedia is tapping college students in tier II and III cities in India to increase vernacular content on the web-based encyclopaedia.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;U.B. Pavanaja, Programme Officer – Indian Language, Access to Knowledge, Centre for Internet Studies (CIS), Bangalore, says there is adequate content on Kannada, Kannadiga, Karnataka on Kannada Wikipedia but on science and technology, the content is a little less.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;To fill this gap, he is conducting workshops to teach students to turn volunteers for Wikipedia in far-flung places like Ujire and Moodbidri.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;On Sunday, 47 students attended a workshop at Shri Dharmasthala Manunatheshwara (SDM) College in Ujire. And most of them immediately donned the volunteer’s cap. “More people who write Kannada should contribute to Wikipedia in Kannada,” says Shalini, a student of M.A. in Mass Communication and Journalism (MCJ) at SDM College, after the workshop.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Murali Krishna, also a journalism student of SDM College, says typing in the language was “a bit difficult” but some practice will make it simpler. “I had no idea about (editing) Kannada Wikipedia,” he says.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;On Saturday Mr. Pavanaja — who has been editing the Kannada Wikipedia for the past 10 years — conducted a similar workshop for 30 students at Alva’s College, Moodbidri.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Mr. Pavanaja says contributions peaked in between 2006 and 2008, then declined “due to many reasons” and “picked up last year”. There was a significant increase in the number of editors after 500 students of Christ University, Bangalore, were trained in editing at a workshop held in January this year.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;He says Kannada Wikipedia has very few women editors. Of the 557 editors of Kannada Wikipedia, who have contributed 16,670 articles till now, 226 are active editors and, of them, five men and three women editors are “very active”.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Bhaskar Hegde, Head of the Department, MCJ, SDM College, said he got the workshops organised at the college after hearing about them from friend Niranjan Vanalli (Chairman, Department of MCJ, Mysore University). He said, “This is the second workshop here. The students are enthusiastic and it sharpens their writing skills.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Mangalore will host a workshop to get people to contribute to Tulu Wikipedia. U.B. Pavanaja, Programme Officer – Indian Language, Access to Knowledge, Centre for Internet Studies (CIS), Bangalore, said a workshop will be held in Theosophical College, Balmatta, on April 6.&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-march-24-2014-wikipedia-taps-students-for-kannada-content'&gt;https://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-march-24-2014-wikipedia-taps-students-for-kannada-content&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>praskrishna</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights></dc:rights>

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

   <dc:date>2014-04-03T10:01:27Z</dc:date>
   <dc:type>News Item</dc:type>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/news/wiki-session-for-prajavani-journalists">
    <title>Wikipedia Session for Trainee Journos of Prajavani</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/news/wiki-session-for-prajavani-journalists</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;Dr. U.B.Pavanaja took a session for the trainee journalists of Prajavani Kannada daily on Wikipedia, Kannada Wikipedia for the media persons.&lt;/b&gt;
        &lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Dr. Pavanaja explained how  they can use Wikipedia in their daily work for reference. He also  explained the necessity to add content to Kannada Wikipedia, correct the  articles if they find any factual errors, enhance the existing  articles, especially stubs, etc.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;The event was organized by Prajavani on April 28, 2014.&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/news/wiki-session-for-prajavani-journalists'&gt;https://cis-india.org/news/wiki-session-for-prajavani-journalists&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>praskrishna</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights></dc:rights>

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

   <dc:date>2014-05-06T07:50:44Z</dc:date>
   <dc:type>News Item</dc:type>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-classrooms-hyderabad">
    <title>Wikipedia reaches Classrooms in Hyderabad</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-classrooms-hyderabad</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Hyderabad organised a one-day workshop on editing Wikipedia in Indian languages. It was attended by participants who formed a small but proactive group of students who eagerly tried to register the first edits on four different Indian language wikipedias.&lt;/b&gt;
        &lt;h3 style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;A Mela for a Mélange of Learners&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;As a run-up to the TISS Indian Languages Mela (scheduled for September 20 – 21, 2013), the Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education on August 24 conducted a workshop in Hyderabad. CIS-A2K in collaboration with the Wikipedia Hyderabad community had organized this workshop. The objective of the workshop was to inform and educate students on creating articles in any of the Indian languages on Wikipedia. Participants were encouraged to edit in Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi, and Marathi, Kannada or any other language of their choice.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;A Weekend for the Cause of Knowledge&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;A total of 20 participants came over for the weekend workshop. Nine participants had Malayalam as their native language. Five people had Telugu as their mother tongue. Four participants were Maharashtrians, and the remaining two were Kannadigas.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;Two Sessions&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;The workshop was divided in two sessions. In the introductory session, participants were introduced to Wikipedia and its unique nature as an editable online encyclopaedia. Participants learnt about adding, modifying and deleting content on the Wikipedia, the various styles of formatting the content including creation of the heading level, sub-headings, etc.  In the hands-on-session the participants were exposed to a hands-on practice about the editing features of Wikipedia, Wikimedia syntax, quality articles, new article creation, and Wikipedia’s transliteration tools for Indian languages.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;End of the Day Gains&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;The students got a first-hand exposure to Indian languages wiki editing. Many students were thrilled at the novelty of the universal licensing system application and how it could switch between English and Indian languages. The use of shift key and multiple keys for certain consonants, diphthongs and special characters were particularly quite exciting for students. Students were eager to explore more about creating headings, sub-headings, bold, italics, underlining, bullet formats on Wikipedia. They also tested the online appearance of the Wikipedia code.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;The participants were all thrilled on attending this workshop. Anand Kumar said that he was happy to get exposure about Wikipedia. Manomi Nair said that she was glad to be part of this workshop. Haseeb said it was very educative, and finally to sum up in the words of Dheeraj Kumar, an enthusiastic participant from the workshop, “this was an exciting way to explore a new world of knowledge.”&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-classrooms-hyderabad'&gt;https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-classrooms-hyderabad&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>syed</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights></dc:rights>

    
        <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>2013-09-20T07:20:54Z</dc:date>
   <dc:type>Blog Entry</dc:type>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/wikipedia-orientation-programme-for-second-language-students">
    <title>Wikipedia Orientation Programme for the Second Language Students of Christ University</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/wikipedia-orientation-programme-for-second-language-students</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team will organize an Orientation Workshop entitled on Wikipedia for the undergraduate language students of the Christ University, Bangalore on November 16, 2013.  &lt;/b&gt;
        &lt;h3&gt;Trainers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Visdaviva" title="User:Visdaviva"&gt;T. Vishnu Vardhan&lt;/a&gt;, Programme Director, &lt;a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Programme_Plan" title="India Access To Knowledge/Programme Plan"&gt;Access to Knowledge&lt;/a&gt;, Centre for Internet Society&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hindustanilanguage" title="User:Hindustanilanguage"&gt;Syed Muzammiluddin&lt;/a&gt;, Programme Officer, &lt;a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Programme_Plan" title="India Access To Knowledge/Programme Plan"&gt;Access to Knowledge&lt;/a&gt;, Centre for Internet Society&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pavanaja" title="User:Pavanaja"&gt;Dr Pavanaja&lt;/a&gt;,Programme Officer, &lt;a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Programme_Plan" title="India Access To Knowledge/Programme Plan"&gt;Access to Knowledge&lt;/a&gt;, Centre for Internet Society&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Interested Participants&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;The three days of the orientation programme will cover 1200 second language students of the Christ University, Bangalore.&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/wikipedia-orientation-programme-for-second-language-students'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/wikipedia-orientation-programme-for-second-language-students&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>praskrishna</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights></dc:rights>

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

   <dc:date>2013-11-14T05:16:07Z</dc:date>
   <dc:type>Event</dc:type>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikipedia-orientation-program-at-rotary-club-of-salem">
    <title>Wikipedia Orientation Program at Rotary Club of Salem</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikipedia-orientation-program-at-rotary-club-of-salem</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;CIS-A2K in conjunction with the Rotary Club of Salem, Tamil Nadu conducted a two-day Wikipedia orientation workshop for student members of the club.&lt;/b&gt;
        
&lt;p&gt;Over the December 9- 10 weekend, CIS-A2K, in conjunction with the Rotary Club of Salem, Tamil Nadu conducted a two-day Wikipedia orientation workshop. This workshop focussed on teaching the basics of Wikipedia to all the student members of the club. The overwhelming participation of women volunteers was the highlight of the event. The workshop was organised by the Rotary Club while Salem Tamil Sangam also lent its support to the program. The President of the Rotary Club of Salem implored the students to contribute to the Tamil language by involving themselves more deeply with the Wikimedia projects.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;With 13 female participants and 10 male participants, the participants were upbeat throughout both days. Veteran Tamil Wikipedian, Tamil Parithi acted as resource person along with CIS-A2K. Mr. Parithi explained the philosophy and history of the free knowledge movement which he felt was essential to the understanding of the wider Wikimedia movement. Usha Sanghamitra, a participant, reflects, "I previously thought some company was doing this but I am glad to note that it is people like you and me that are editing this information and creating such knowledge resources. I will surely take this up and continue to engage with Wikipedia."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A follow-up workshop is on the cards in December 2017.&lt;/p&gt;

        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikipedia-orientation-program-at-rotary-club-of-salem'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikipedia-orientation-program-at-rotary-club-of-salem&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>manasarao</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights></dc:rights>

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

   <dc:date>2017-12-11T15:52:12Z</dc:date>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-workshop-mangalore-coverage-prajavani-february-27-2014">
    <title>Wikipedia Mangalore Workshop (Coverage in Prajavani)</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-workshop-mangalore-coverage-prajavani-february-27-2014</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;Dr. U.B.Pavanaja gave a presentation on Wikipedia with a special focus on students and women at Roshini Nilaya, Mangalore on February 26, 2014. An event report was published in Prajavani the following day.&lt;/b&gt;
        &lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Scanned version of the report published by Prajavani on February 27 is below. The event was organised by Roshini Nilaya and co-sponsored by CS-A2K.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;table class="plain"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;th&gt;&lt;img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/copy2_of_Prajavani.png" alt="Prajavani" class="image-inline" title="Prajavani" /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-workshop-mangalore-coverage-prajavani-february-27-2014'&gt;https://cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-workshop-mangalore-coverage-prajavani-february-27-2014&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>praskrishna</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights></dc:rights>

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

   <dc:date>2014-03-05T11:04:24Z</dc:date>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-live-phone-in-programme">
    <title>Wikipedia Live Phone-in Programme on HMTV</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-live-phone-in-programme</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;Vishnu Vardhan took part in a one hour live phone-in programme on Wikipedia. This was telecasted in HMTV on June 1, 2013.&lt;/b&gt;
        &lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Dr. Rajasekar, Administrator on Telugu Wikipedia; Malladi       Kameshwararao, Journalist and Telugu Wikipedian;  Rahimanuddin       Shaik, Telugu SIG, Wikimedia India Chapter; and T. Vishnu Vardhan       Programme Director, CIS-A2K  participated in a one-hour live       phone-in programme on Telugu Wikipedia broadcast by HMTV (a Telugu       News Channel) on June 1, 2013. This is probably for the first time       a television news channel in India has done a live phone-in       programme on Wikipedia. HMTV had also done a half-an-hour feature       on Wikipedia which was broadcast on May 30 and May 31, 2013.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Videos&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Part 1&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/oVNJtsURl2A" width="320"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Part 2&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/mr1Tk82EdKE" width="320"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-live-phone-in-programme'&gt;https://cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-live-phone-in-programme&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>praskrishna</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights></dc:rights>

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

   <dc:date>2013-06-18T05:54:01Z</dc:date>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/times-of-india-january-27-2016-wikipedia-initiative">
    <title>Wikipedia initiative - Celebrating legacy of Bangalore Blue grapes online</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/times-of-india-january-27-2016-wikipedia-initiative</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;Black is beautiful, and it can go places if it is well researched. When HL Omshivaprakash wrote a Wikipedia article about Karnataka's bidriware, the metal handicraft where gleaming black bowls and hookahs are dotted with delicate silver strips, he didn't expect it to be picked up by the French and Swedes.&lt;/b&gt;
        &lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Read the article &lt;a class="external-link" href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/Wikipedia-initiative-Celebrating-legacy-of-Bangalore-Blue-grapes-online/articleshow/50739468.cms"&gt;published in the Times of India here&lt;/a&gt;. Subhashish Panigrahi gave inputs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;His article has now been translated into their languages. Though it might not lead to more money for the struggling artists of Bidar, they might get an edge while marketing their wares, says Omshivaprakash. This is the advantage that a week-long editathon hopes to achieve. Editors of the online encyclopaedia are celebrating Republic Day by encouraging people to upgrade and contribute articles on those arts, crafts and goods unique to various parts of India. "People are already working on 15 products from Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh, Assam and West Bengal," says Subhashish Panigrahi, Wikipedian and language activist.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;India has 213 goods and crafts with geographical indication (GIs) tags. The GI mark is a kind of trademark, which indicates that a product's reputation is linked to its origins in a particular area. Of 213 GI tags, only 70 have English entries. So while intricacies of Muga silk-making in Assam and cultivating Bangalore Blue grapes are explained in detail in English, Alleppey coir has only a sketchy Malayalam entry.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;"People should know the history of each item. For example, they should know how Kondapalli toys from near Vijayawada are made,"says Nageswara Rao Gullapalli.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Omshivaprakash, who created a signboard outside Bidar Fort last year, with a QR code that allows users to read the relevant wiki entry on their mobile phones, says a change in design can make a difference."The QR code was etched in bidri to create a socio-economic link between readers and artisans. Though the art is expensive, the artists are not paid well,"he says.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;It is this desire to unearth new facts that will see Santosh Shinga, an IIT-B researcher, delving deep into Nagpur oranges, Nashik grapes and Mahabaleshwar strawberries. "I am from Nagpur and interested in fruits,"says Shinga, who knows a bit of orange farming.The only exception in his list is Puneri pagadi, the elaborate headgear recently spotted on actor Ranveer Singh in Bollywood movie 'Bajirao Mastani'.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Panigrahi hopes to finish the edits in English by January 30, right in time when the event wraps up by January 31. Karnataka, which tops the list with 30 GI goods, has only a handful of articles and images, says Panigrahi.&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/times-of-india-january-27-2016-wikipedia-initiative'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/times-of-india-january-27-2016-wikipedia-initiative&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>2016-01-29T15:44:36Z</dc:date>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wiki-workshop-at-iit-bombay">
    <title>Wikipedia Indian Languages Workshop at IIT, Bombay</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wiki-workshop-at-iit-bombay</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;This is a brief report on the Wikipedia Indian languages workshop held on March 9, 2013 at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in partnership with Vaani, the Hindi bloggers' club at IIT, Bombay. &lt;/b&gt;
        &lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Vaani is a group of students at the institute who maintain personal blogs in Hindi language. They upload stories, poems and other original material in Hindi and hold regular meetings as a part of Vaani. Their motive is to conserve and promote the love for native languages, especially that of Hindi.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;The A2K team had proposed a meeting and workshop to Vaani students earlier in February but it was eventually scheduled in March. The date also coincided with Women's day celebrations which gave us an opportunity to discuss questions of gender, access, knowledge bias on Wikipedia and more. It was attended by 17 participants and was coordinated by Apoorv Maheshwari from Vaani.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;The participant group was diverse – it consisted of doctoral students from humanities as well as sciences and a few graduate students from different departments. Before talking about how to contribute to Wikipedia, we had a round of introductions and questions from participants about what they wanted to know. Most of the participants had seen the 'edit' button and had clicked on it but were clueless beyond that. They also wanted to know about the style guide to writing articles on Wikipedia. After initial discussions and a few edits on English Wikipedia, we moved to exploring Indian language Wikipedias. Surprisingly, only a few of them knew that Wikipedia exists in Indian languages. This led to questions of font support, readership and contribution – who contributes to Indian Wikipedias, why one should contribute and more.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Unfortunately, since the institute's IP address has been reported and blocked for vandalism, we could not make user accounts on the spot. However, they tried their hand at editing to understand the process itself. Another challenge while doing workshops with Indian language Wikipedias is font support for individual computers that participants bring. Perhaps there is a need to carry support documentation and tools (keyboard layouts and free fonts). Towards the end, they expressed an interest in a longer Wikipedia program for all the bloggers on campus in different languages.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;We thank the members of Vaani for their support and participation and hope to build and sustain this relationship further.&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wiki-workshop-at-iit-bombay'&gt;https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wiki-workshop-at-iit-bombay&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
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    <dc:creator>noopur</dc:creator>
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        <dc:subject>Openness</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Access to Knowledge</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikimedia</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2013-03-28T11:44:04Z</dc:date>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/news/prajavani-may-15-2014-wikipedia-ug-education-christ-university">
    <title>Wikipedia in UG Education program at Christ University</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/news/prajavani-may-15-2014-wikipedia-ug-education-christ-university</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;On May 15, 2014, Prajavani published an article about Wikipedia in UG Education program in Christ University.&lt;/b&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;Click to read the &lt;a class="external-link" href="http://www.prajavani.net/article/%E0%B2%B9%E0%B2%AC%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AC%E0%B2%B2%E0%B2%BF-%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%A8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%A8%E0%B2%A1-%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%B0%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%AC%E0%B2%B3%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B3%E0%B2%BF"&gt;online version published by Prajavani here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;A scanned version of the article is given below:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;th&gt;&lt;img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/copy3_of_Prajavani.png" alt="Prajavani" class="image-inline" title="Prajavani" /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/P2.png" alt="Prajavani 2" class="image-inline" title="Prajavani 2" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/news/prajavani-may-15-2014-wikipedia-ug-education-christ-university'&gt;https://cis-india.org/news/prajavani-may-15-2014-wikipedia-ug-education-christ-university&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
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    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>praskrishna</dc:creator>
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        <dc:subject>Openness</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Access to Knowledge</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikimedia</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2014-05-27T10:19:48Z</dc:date>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-in-st-xaviers-college-goa">
    <title>Wikipedia in St. Xavier's College, Mapusa, Goa</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-in-st-xaviers-college-goa</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;A three hour Wikipedia workshop was organized by the Centre for Internet &amp; Society, Delhi, in the morning of December 14, 2012 at St. Xavier's College in Mapusa, Goa. Over 30 participants attended the session.&lt;/b&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;The workshop started with a short introductory presentation followed by a learning session on how to edit the Wikipedia. Since there were lesser number of computers, participants were divided in groups of 2 or 3 at the maximum. Each group made at least 3 edits with the help of volunteers present in the room.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A follow up session will be organised in January or February of 2013 to organise an edit-a-thon for all the interested and enthusiastic participants.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A special thanks to everyone who helped organising this event, especially to Harriet Vidyasagar, Frederick, Debanjan - all from the Wikipedia family and Nitin Volvoikar, the Head of Journalism Department from &lt;a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Xavier%27s_College,_Mapusa,_Goa"&gt;St. Xavier's&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;Above is a picture of the whole group of participants at the St.Xavier's College at Mapusa, Goa&lt;/td&gt;
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        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-in-st-xaviers-college-goa'&gt;https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-in-st-xaviers-college-goa&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>nitika</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights></dc:rights>

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

   <dc:date>2013-07-26T11:33:29Z</dc:date>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/news/sci-dev-net-megha-prakash-wikipedia-in-indian-languages-on-mobile-phones">
    <title>Wikipedia in Indian Languages on Mobile Phones</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/news/sci-dev-net-megha-prakash-wikipedia-in-indian-languages-on-mobile-phones</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;Wikipedia in India's regional languages and accessible over mobile phones is revolutionising the way Internet content is used in this multi-lingual country, say information technology (IT) experts.&lt;/b&gt;
        &lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This post by Megha Prakash was &lt;a class="external-link" href="http://www.scidev.net/south-asia/digital-divide/news/wikipedia-in-indian-languages-on-mobile-phones.html"&gt;published in Sci Dev Net &lt;/a&gt;on October 15, 2013. T. Vishnu Vardhan is quoted.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;"Developing Wikipedia and other content in regional languages is a way  forward to bridge the knowledge gap," says T. Vishnu Vardhan, programme  director of the Access to Knowledge project at the Centre for Internet  and Society (CIS), Bangalore. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; In September, CIS signed an agreement with Goa University to train  students and foster collaborative content development with Wikipedia  libraries and archives in view. A similar agreement was signed in August  with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, while a third is  due to be signed this month with Christ University, Bangalore.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; India's 28 states and seven union territories are organised on a  linguistic basis and three of its vernaculars — Hindi, Bengali and  Punjabi — rate among the world's ten most widely spoken languages, each  with its own script. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; With 70 mobile phone subscriptions per 100 people and the market flooded  with affordable feature phones, the majority of India's 1.2 billion  people potentially have &lt;a href="http://www.scidev.net/global/enterprise/digital-divide/"&gt;access to IT&lt;/a&gt;. Current usage, however, is limited to downloading entertainment content and to such applications as mobile banking.   &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Vardhan tells &lt;i&gt;SciDev.Net&lt;/i&gt; that attention is now being paid to developing knowledge repositories in India's regional languages.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;M. Sampath Kumar, who heads the Telugu department at the University of  Madras in Chennai, says the Telugu Wikipedia is regularly used by  students and researchers and is a resource for speakers of the language  living abroad but eager to maintain community links.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Kumar tells &lt;i&gt;SciDev.Net&lt;/i&gt; that literary content is popular and that there is a future for regional Wikipedia in &lt;a href="http://www.scidev.net/global/communication/education/"&gt;educating&lt;/a&gt; the younger generation and serving as a free repository for traditional knowledge in the vernacular. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Subbiah Arunachalam, a Chennai-based IT consultant, says the effort will  benefit non-English speaking rural youth at school and college levels  and help bring them on par with their urban counterparts in terms of  knowledge.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; A programme funded by the Wikimedia Foundation and due to end in June  2014 covers the Telugu, Kannada, Oriya, Bengali and Konkani languages. A  Hindi version already has 100,000 articles and recorded eight million  views.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 'Lilavati's Daughters', a book on Indian women scientists published by  the Bangalore-based Indian Academy of Sciences, is currently being  translated into the regional languages with a view to engaging women  content developers and editors.&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/news/sci-dev-net-megha-prakash-wikipedia-in-indian-languages-on-mobile-phones'&gt;https://cis-india.org/news/sci-dev-net-megha-prakash-wikipedia-in-indian-languages-on-mobile-phones&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>Openness</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Access to Knowledge</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikimedia</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2013-10-25T06:00:28Z</dc:date>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-hackathon-bits-hyderabad">
    <title>Wikipedia Hackathon at BITS Hyderabad</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-hackathon-bits-hyderabad</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;CIS - A2K team and BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus are organizing a hackathon for their tech fest — ATMOS on October 26 - 27, 2012, from 6.00 p.m. on October 26 to 6.00 a.m. on October 27.&lt;/b&gt;
        &lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;An all night hackathon to get started in contributing technically to the world’s largest source of free information – Wikipedia. The code that you write (and eventually deploy) will be viewed/used 7,938,026,125 times a month! Write user scripts that fix annoying little things with the way Wikipedia functions. Write bots to import (and accurately maintain) large amounts of information from various sources into Wikipedia. Write tools to make it easier to maintain Wikipedia’s standards and fight spam. Most of all join the awesome Open Source community and have fun!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Pre-requisites:&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Preferable working knowledge of HTML/CSS/Javascript *or* python.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;Laptops, which you will have to carry with you.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: start; float: none; "&gt;To register for the event, click &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGpCalViX1FCc0FwT1g2ZFNqN3FrNUE6MQ" style="text-align: start; " target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: start; float: none; "&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-hackathon-bits-hyderabad'&gt;https://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-hackathon-bits-hyderabad&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>Access to Knowledge</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikimedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Openness</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Event Type</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2012-10-25T08:42:56Z</dc:date>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/news/beforeitnews-august-1-2013-wikipedia-gains-massive-traffic-thanks-to-vernacular-languages">
    <title>Wikipedia Gains Massive Traffic Thanks To Vernacular Languages</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/news/beforeitnews-august-1-2013-wikipedia-gains-massive-traffic-thanks-to-vernacular-languages</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;The blog post was published in Before It's News on August 1, 2013. T. Vishnu Vardhan is quoted.&lt;/b&gt;
        &lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;a class="external-link" href="http://beforeitsnews.com/science-and-technology/2013/08/wikipedia-gains-massive-traffic-thanks-to-vernacular-languages-2623714.html"&gt;Click to read the original published in Before It's News&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Non-profit &lt;a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://wikimediafoundation.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;Wikimedia Foundation&lt;/a&gt;, the parent company of knowledge-based article collating platform &lt;a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.wikipedia.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; seems to be &lt;a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/internet/Wikipedia-boom-in-Marathi-Malayalam-and-other-desi-languages/articleshow/21518534.cms" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;receiving&lt;/a&gt; enhanced traction on the portal from India. The reason for this upswing in activity is apparently its decision to &lt;a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.watblog.com/2010/09/25/wikimedia-to-open-office-in-india/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;expand&lt;/a&gt; the scope of the portal via multiple Indian Languages, revealed a  recent study by the Bangalore-based Center for Internet and Society (&lt;a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://cis-india.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;CIS&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;A while back Wikipedia, sensing the need  of non-English speaking /understanding audience had opened its doors  for about 18 Indian Languages. The main attractions seemed to be  articles penned down in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam &amp;amp; Kannada, which  managed to attract a lot of writers who have come forth &amp;amp; added  “thousands” of new articles in these &amp;amp; other native languages, all  within a span of 8 months ranging from September 2012 to April 2013.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Interestingly, the study reveals that  though a lot of pages did get created, many of these articles did not  enjoy equally massive visitor count. However, when Wikipedia  subsequently &lt;a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.watblog.com/2012/03/01/now-browse-wikipedia-in-marathi-more-indian-languages-coming-soon/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;extended&lt;/a&gt; the support to Marathi &amp;amp; Bengali, the reader-count picked up.  Started just a few months back, about 40,000 articles written in Marathi  have been getting 30 Lakh visitors &amp;amp; these pages have collectively  managed to add another 10 Lakh monthly visitors, while Bengali articles  has been steadily getting about 14 Lakh Page Views per month.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Wikipedia seems to have undoubtedly  fueled the consumption of online content. It has proven that people  actually craved for knowledge in the native language, but didn’t have a  proper platform. However, there were a few technological hurdles as  well. Web Browsers, in their formative stages, simply didn’t have the  capability of pulling, processing &amp;amp; displaying languages or  alphabets other than English. Additionally, having been used to type in  English-only keyboards, penning information-laden articles in native  languages did have a long &amp;amp; steep learning curve.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Thankfully, such petty, but pestering issues seem to have been &lt;a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.watblog.com/2013/07/26/wikipedia-announces-an-editing-tool-for-mobile-devices/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;ironed out&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; creation, publication &amp;amp; consumption of content in local  languages has evidently picked-up steam. Now the writers, who are fondly  called ‘Wiki foot soldiers’ have been forwarding the crusade of  offering free knowledge to anyone &lt;a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.watblog.com/2013/07/26/aircel-offers-free-wikipedia-access-on-mobile-phones-thanks-to-wikimedia-partnership/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;interested&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; numbers at both the end is growing healthily.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Judging by the &lt;a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.watblog.com/2013/03/28/gmail-introduces-indic-language-support-for-feature-phone-users/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;appetite&lt;/a&gt; for online content in their &lt;a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.watblog.com/2013/05/09/google-can-now-translate-into-five-new-languages-including-marathi/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;local avatar&lt;/a&gt;,  T Vishnu Vardhan, Program Director, Access to Knowledge Project, CIS  has aptly summarized the current state of altered necessities. He says “&lt;i&gt;In  the last two years, the demand for knowledge in Indian languages has  grown as we have moved to the motto of ‘roti, kapda and internet&lt;/i&gt;” What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/news/beforeitnews-august-1-2013-wikipedia-gains-massive-traffic-thanks-to-vernacular-languages'&gt;https://cis-india.org/news/beforeitnews-august-1-2013-wikipedia-gains-massive-traffic-thanks-to-vernacular-languages&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>praskrishna</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights></dc:rights>

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

   <dc:date>2013-08-19T04:18:24Z</dc:date>
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