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TTT 2015
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/ttt-2015
<b>The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) conducted a four day training workshop for Wikimedians all over India in order to facilitate conducting and organising outreach activities for promotion of Wikimedia activities within Indian language communities. Wikimedians from 21 language communities had participated in this training workshop including Wikipedians working for Nepali and Maithili Wikipedia.</b>
<p> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">CIS-A2K was successful in providing an idea exchange platform during the TTT workshop. Wikipedians from all over India got a chance to discuss their respective Wikimedia projects and identify best practices that could be customised for their own Wikimedia projects.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">CIS-A2K conducted TTT 2015 with a clear objecive of training Indian Wikimedians in conducting effective outreach activites, As a reflective exercise on the efficacy of our TTT camp held in Bangalore during February, 2015 we are now conducting follow-up with the participants and I have contacted three Wikipedians (for the month of November 2015) and following are the updates:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Sailesh Patnaik (Odia Wikimedian):</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Activities till now:</p>
<ol>
<li>Attended Google I/O Bhubaneswar to deliver a talk about Wikipedia movement.</li>
<li>Has organized a workshop at KIST Bhubaneswar with 50+ participants.</li>
<li>Was invited by GDG Bhubaneswar group to deliver a talk about Wikipedia project during Google Dev Fest.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Presented a seminar at CET Bhubaneswar after the invitation from the organizing committee of the Perception (The Annual tech fest of CET , Bhubaneswar).</li></ol>
<p>Upcoming Activities</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Planning to organize a Wiki Takes Bhubaneswar photowalk and am also planning a GLAM project with a Cooperative society powered by Central Government and spread Open Source movement in Odisha.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">V.T. Narayanan and Sayant Mahato (Samskritam Wikipedians):</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Activities till now:</p>
<ol>
<li>In May 2015, Samskrita Bharati organized a camp in Kalladka.</li>
<li>In July 2015 : Rashtriya Sanskrit Samsthan, Sringeri (Now Sringa Giri) organized a symposium for their staff and students.</li>
<li>In August 2015, Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidya Peeta, Tirupathi organized introductory classes on Wikipedia. Sayant Mahato attended the programme and expained in detail about Sanskrit Wikipedia.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Later in August 2015, at Aksharam, Bangalore, Samskrita Bharati conducted a " Medha Shibiram" exclusively oriented to youngsters and students who are based outside India like in USA. The Shibiram was well received both by the students and their parents. The participants were very interested to know about Sanskrit Wikipedia.</li>
<li>Samskrita Bharati is engaged in the work of editing the existing articles in Wikipedia. </li></ol>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/ttt-2015'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/ttt-2015</a>
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No publisherhasanCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWikipedianSpeak2015-12-15T07:36:25ZBlog EntryTouch Point Report: Department of Tourism Studies, Christ University and St. Aloysius College, Managalore
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/department-of-tourism-studies-christ-university-st-aloysius-college
<b>CIS-A2K conducts Wikipedia in Education programme at St. Aloysius colege, Mangalore. This partnership is unique as it provides to us a pool of editors for three Wikimedia projects, i.e: Kannada, Tulu and Konkani.
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<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">Touch point Report:</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">St. Aloysius</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">With editors from St. Aloysius college taking lead in organising 13<sup>th</sup> anniversary of Kannada Wikipedia anniversary, Kannada Wikipedia is growing in Mangalore and can be expected to produce content and engagement regularly similar to Bangalore and Mysore volunteers.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">Activites</p>
<ol>
<li>Translation of system messages for Tulu Wikipedia</li>
<li>Creating Tulu WP tutorial videos</li>
<li>Guiding St Aloysius College Student interns</li>
<li>Planning of 13<sup>th</sup> anniversary of Kannada Wikipedia anniversary</li></ol>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">Reporting on the learning: PEG application created after extensive discussion with the student volunteers and Mr. Vishwanth Badikana who is primary coordinator of the event.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">New developments: A possible partnership with Karnataka Tulu Academy is being explored, this could lead to content donation.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">Failures: Non-availabilty of scanners hampered our chances of securing some important primary resources that would have been useful for content generation.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">Primary Contact: Mr. Vishwanath Badikana,</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">Christ University</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">Introduction: A2K team is implementing its largest Wikipedia in Education programme at Christ University. This programme has been under operation since 2013 and has seen multiple revisions regarding: faculty engagement, evaluation process, student contributions and A2K team's responsibilties.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">Activites: Edit-a-thon on Wikivoyage organised at Department of Tourism Studies, Christ University, Bangalore</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">Reporting on the learning: 1) As the edit-a-thon was happening on English Wikivoyage and A2K team had not intimated about the event to the larger community, there were instances of accounts being blocked and ip address being blocked as well.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">A2K conducted Wikivoyage edit-a-thon and was surprised to see that many tourist places in India do not find mention on this Wikimedia project.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">New developments: Interest shown by the faculty of Department of Tourism Studies, Christ University to host the student assignments on Wikimedia projects.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">Failures: A2K was unable to help students to upload images onto commons.wikimedia.org during the session. A follow up session is being planned.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Primary Contact: Ms. Mugdha Kulkarni, mugdha.shailendra@christuniversity.in</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/department-of-tourism-studies-christ-university-st-aloysius-college'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/department-of-tourism-studies-christ-university-st-aloysius-college</a>
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No publisherhasanOpen Educational ResourcesCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipedia2015-12-15T07:37:14ZBlog EntryGuru-G Learning Labs and CIS A2K Institutional Partnership
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/guru-g-learning-labs-and-cis-a2k-institutional-partnership
<b>Incorporated in 2013, Guru-G is the world’s first gamified platform for teaching and teacher training.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Guru-G converts existing textbooks and teacher resources into adaptive teaching packs (or guided lesson plans), which provide in-class guidance to teachers on different ways in which they can teach a topic. The guidance adapts to the teacher’s past behavior, student moods & the practices that have resulted in best learning outcomes for their students. These packs save preparation time & effort for a teacher before class plus make teaching fun and interesting during and after class. Teachers can also track their progress and train at their own pace if interested.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard"><strong>Rationale for Institutional partnership:</strong><br />A2K aimed at developing additional resources that would supplement the learning curve of students at High school and undergraduate levels. The partnership also aimed to build digital research skills into the students so as to equip them for the new modes of knowledge aggregators.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard">Both Guru-G labs and CIS work at the intersection of technology, education and social empowerment, it was planned that due to the mutual interests, the partnership will be able to identify a large group of Wikipedia users in Kannada and it was hoped that of these new generation readers some of the students would be trained as Wikipedians. Contribution towards Wikisource was also discussed in the MoU.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard"><strong> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard"><strong>Plan of Action:</strong><br />Due to the internal team movement and shortage of manpower from at CIS, we were unable to work closely with the Guru-G Lab. However, we have recently restarted our conversations with them.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard"><strong> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard"><strong>Plans for Future:</strong><br />As Guru-G Learning Labs provide platforms to collaboratively discuss ideas, A2K team, would like to use this partnership in designing our training activities.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard">Nature of collboaration and rolling out of resources for better implementation of Wikipedia in Education programme run by CIS-A2K. CIS-A2K will work with educational institutions, developmental organisations and teachers who have already been identified by Guru-G labs and provide to them resources such as Offline Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard">Training programmes may be designed and customised for Wikipedia in Education programme run by CIS-A2K across different colleges. Creating platforms and activities for A2K's community capacity building activities such as TTT and MWTTT.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/guru-g-learning-labs-and-cis-a2k-institutional-partnership'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/guru-g-learning-labs-and-cis-a2k-institutional-partnership</a>
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No publisherhasanOpen Educational ResourcesCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipedia2015-12-15T07:52:06ZBlog EntryGrants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015 round2/The Centre for Internet and Society/Impact report form
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/grants-apg-proposals-2014-2015-round2-the-centre-for-internet-and-society-impact-report-form
<b>This form is for organizations receiving Annual Plan Grants to report on their results to date. For progress reports, the time period for this report will the first 6 months of each grant (e.g. 1 January - 30 June of the current year). For impact reports, the time period for this report will be the full 12 months of this grant, including the period already reported on in the progress report (e.g. 1 January - 31 December of the current year).</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Read the original published on <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round2/The_Centre_for_Internet_and_Society/Impact_report_form">Wikimedia Blog here</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">This form includes four sections, addressing global metrics, program stories, financial information, and compliance. Please contact APG/FDC staff if you have questions about this form, or concerns submitting it <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Reporting_requirements" title="Grants:APG/Reporting requirements">by the deadline</a>. After submitting the form, organizations will also meet with APG staff to discuss their progress.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Global metrics overview - all programs</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We are trying to understand the overall outcomes of the work being funded across our grantees' programs. Please use the table below to let us know how your programs contributed to the <a class="extiw" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_%26_Evaluation/Global_Metrics" title="m:Grants:Learning & Evaluation/Global Metrics">Global Metrics</a>. We understand not all Global Metrics will be relevant for all programs, so feel free to put "0" where necessary. For each program include the following table and</p>
<ol style="text-align: justify; ">
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Next to each required metric, list the outcome achieved for all of your programs included in your proposal.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Where necessary, explain the context behind your outcome.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">In addition to the Global Metrics as measures of success for your programs, there is another table format in which you may report on any OTHER relevant measures of your programs success.</li>
</ol>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>For more information and a sample, see <a class="extiw" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_%26_Evaluation/Global_Metrics" title="m:Grants:Learning & Evaluation/Global Metrics">Global Metrics</a>.</i></p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Overall</h3>
<table class="plain" style="text-align: justify; ">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>Metric</th><th>Achieved outcome</th><th>Explanation</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1. # of active editors involved</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">157</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K has been able to increase participation of female editors across its Focus Language Areas.</td>
</tr>
<tr style="text-align: right; ">
<td style="text-align: left; ">2. # of new editors</td>
<td>799</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">Our WEP initiatives have helped in introducing and retaining editors across FLA (except for Odia).</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3. # of individuals involved</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">1200</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">Public events and anniversary celebrations held in Odia and Kannada have helped Wikimedia projects in reaching the general public as these events have been widely covered by media.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4. # of new images/media added to Wikimedia articles/pages</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">2823</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">Photo-walks, WEP activities and image re-licensing efforts have helped the A2K team in achieving this metric.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5. # of articles added or improved on Wikimedia projects</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">18998</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">Thematic edit-a-thons anchored by A2K and Collaborative edit-a-thons that have been supported by A2K have been a big hit during the last grant period amongst Indic Wikimedians.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>6. Absolute value of bytes added to or deleted from Wikimedia projects</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">109.64 MB</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Kannada</h3>
<table class="plain" style="text-align: justify; ">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>Metric</th><th>Achieved outcome</th><th>Explanation</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1. # of active editors involved</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">23</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">As of now the Kannada community is relatively small, A2K would like to expand the user and editor base by taking Wikimedia activities to various parts of the state.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2. # of new editors</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">609</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">These numbers include new editors from WEP initiative and editathons conducted as part of 13 Kannada Wikipedia anniversary.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3. # of individuals involved</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">700</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">Public event organised during the 13th Kannada Wikipedia anniversary has boosted our reach.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4. # of new images/media added to Wikimedia articles/pages</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">1290</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">Due to the Photo walk organised as part of the 13th year Kannada Wikipedia anniversary celebrations.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5. # of articles added or improved on Wikimedia projects</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">8132</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">Most of the articles created under WEP initiative are still under sandbox (as a quality enforcing measure), hence the number is low. The number also includes Wikisource folios.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>6. Absolute value of bytes added to or deleted from Wikimedia projects</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">56.5 MB</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Konkani</h3>
<table class="plain" style="text-align: justify; ">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>Metric</th><th>Achieved outcome</th><th>Explanation</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1. # of active editors involved</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">4</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">Activities in Konkani Wikipedia dipped after the project became live.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2. # of new editors</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">20</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">The new editors were introduced to Konkani Wikipedia with the help of <a class="text external" href="http://www.nirmalainstitute.org/" rel="nofollow">Nirmala Institute of Education, Panjim</a> an institutional partner of CIS-A2K.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3. # of individuals involved</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">50</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4. # of new images/media added to Wikimedia articles/pages</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">34</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5. # of articles added or improved on Wikimedia projects</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">1546</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">Konkani Wikipedians took the project of creating one article per village in Goa quite enthusiatically.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>6. Absolute value of bytes added to or deleted from Wikimedia projects</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">8.11 MB</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<ol style="text-align: justify; "> </ol>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Marathi</h3>
<table class="plain" style="text-align: justify; ">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>Metric</th><th>Achieved outcome</th><th>Explanation</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1. # of active editors involved</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">64</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">Events conducted at Pune University, Pune and IIT-Bombay involved existing Wikipedians.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2. # of new editors</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">59</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">Activities conducted at SWERI, Pandharpur, TISS, Mumbai and IIT-Mumbai have contributed to this.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3. # of individuals involved</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">150</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">Involvement of Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation Limited opened up new readership to get involved in Marathi Wikimedia projects.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4. # of new images/media added to Wikimedia articles/pages</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">27</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">A2K team could not organise a dedicated photo walk or invest in image re-licensing activity.</td>
</tr>
<tr style="text-align: justify; ">
<td>5. # of articles added or improved on Wikimedia projects</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">331</td>
<td>Although the number of the articles is low, many new female editors were introduced and have taken up editing on Marathi Wikipedia.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>6. Absolute value of bytes added to or deleted from Wikimedia projects</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">2.64 MB</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Odia</h3>
<table class="plain" style="text-align: justify; ">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>Metric</th><th>Achieved outcome</th><th>Explanation</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1. # of active editors involved</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">21</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; "><a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/odia-wikipedia-takes-puri" rel="nofollow">Wiki Tungi</a> activities are lead by active Wikimedians from the Odia community.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2. # of new editors</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">56</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; "><a class="extiw" href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86:%E0%AC%A8%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%B3%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%B0_%E0%AC%97%E0%AC%A3%E0%AC%B8%E0%AC%AE%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%A6%E0%AC%A8%E0%AC%BE_%E0%AD%A8%E0%AD%A6%E0%AD%A7%E0%AD%AB" title="or:ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:ନବକଳେବର ଗଣସମ୍ପାଦନା ୨୦୧୫">Nabakalebara edit-a-thon</a> gained a lot of currency on the social media platforms which in turn resulted in new editors for Odia Wikimedia projects.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3. # of individuals involved</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">120</td>
<td>Three events with Puri WikiTungi (Puri Workshop, 15th Anniversary celebration, and Mission Odisha event), <a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/introducing-odia-wikipedia-to-students-of-utkal-university-bhubaneswar" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia workshop in Utkal University</a>.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4. # of new images/media added to Wikimedia articles/pages</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">601</td>
<td>Nabakalebara edit-a-thon had an in-built component of adding images related to the Rathayatra.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5. # of articles added or improved on Wikimedia projects</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">1780</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">Only pages created in Odia Wikipedia and Odia Wikisource are indicated and not article improved.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>6. Absolute value of bytes added to or deleted from Wikimedia projects</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">9.56 MB</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Telugu</h3>
<table class="plain" style="text-align: justify; ">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>Metric</th><th>Achieved outcome</th><th>Explanation</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1. # of active editors involved</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">30</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2. # of new editors</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">45</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">Need to try getting more New users on to the board.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3. # of individuals involved</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">150</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4. # of new images/media added to Wikimedia articles/pages</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">871</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5. # of articles added or improved on Wikimedia projects</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">1342</td>
<td>Includes folios digitized in Wikisource.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>6. Absolute value of bytes added to or deleted from Wikimedia projects</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">7.23 MB</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Train-a-Wikipedian</h3>
<table class="plain" style="text-align: justify; ">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>Metric</th><th>Achieved outcome</th><th>Explanation</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1. # of active editors involved</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">15</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">Editors who have participated in at least one training session.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2. # of new editors</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">10</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">Editors who got beginners' training (includes account creation and basic Wikipedia training such as Wikiformatting, components of Wikipedia, article structure).</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3. # of individuals involved</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">30</td>
<td>#1+#2 and the people who were involved during training sessions.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4. # of articles added or improved on Wikimedia projects</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">5867</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5. Absolute value of bytes added to or deleted from Wikimedia projects</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">25.6 MB</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Telling your program stories - all programs</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Please tell the story of each of your programs included in your proposal. This is your chance to tell your story by using any additional metrics (beyond global metrics) that are relevant to your context, beyond the global metrics above. You should be reporting against the targets you set at the beginning of the year throughout the year. We have provided a template here below for you to report against your targets, but you are welcome to include this information in another way. Also, if you decided not to do a program that was included in your proposal or added a program not in the proposal, please explain this change. More resources for storytelling are at the end of this form. Here are some ways to tell your story.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "> </p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li style="text-align: justify; ">We encourage you to share your successes and failures and what you are learning. Please also share why are these successes, failures, or learnings are important in your context. Reference learning patterns or other documentation.</li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li style="text-align: justify; "> Make clear connections between your offline activities and online results, as applicable. For example, explain how your education program activities is leading to quality content on Wikipedia.</li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li style="text-align: justify; "> We encourage you to tell your story in different ways by using videos, sound files, images (photos and infographics, e.g.), compelling quotes, and by linking directly to work you produce. You may highlight outcomes, learning, or metrics this way.</li>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "> We encourage you to continue using dashboards, progress bars, and scorecards that you have used to illustrate your progress in the past, and to report consistently over time.</li>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "> You are welcome to use the table below to report on any metrics or measures relevant to your program. These may or may not include the global metrics you put in the overview section above. You can also share your progress in another way if you do not find a table like this useful.</li>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">A2K key activities</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">During this grant period CIS-A2K has organized and supported a number of events in collaboration with Indic Wikimedia community members. Some of those are:</p>
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<th>July 2015</th><th>August 2015</th><th>September 2015</th>
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<td><a class="text external" href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/07/15/konkani-wikipedia-goes-live/">Konkani Wikipedia goes live</a>,<br /> (<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/July_2015#Event_organized.2Fparticipated" title="CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/July 2015">See more</a>)</td>
<td><a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/events/rare-telugu-religious-and-historical-work-preserved-at-annamacharya-library-to-come-on-wikisource" rel="nofollow">Telugu Wikipedia edit-a-thon at Annamacharya library</a><br /> <a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/events/tulu-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-mangalore" rel="nofollow">Tulu Wikipedia edit-a-thon in Mangalore</a><br /> (<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/July_2015" title="CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/July 2015">See more</a>)</td>
<td><a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/events/seminar-on-empowering-marathi-schools-pune" rel="nofollow">Seminar on "Empowering Marathi Schools", Pune</a>,<br /> <a class="extiw" href="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%B8%E0%B2%AE%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AE%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B2%E0%B2%A8/%E0%B3%A7%E0%B3%AF" title="kn:ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನ/೧೯">Kannda Wikipedia meetup</a><br /> (<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/August_2015" title="CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/August 2015">See more</a>)</td>
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<th style="text-align: justify; ">October 2015</th><th style="text-align: justify; ">November 2015</th><th style="text-align: justify; ">December 2015</th>
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<td><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/konkani-language-books-from-konkani-language-culture-center-mannd-sobhaann-to-enrich-konkani-wikipedia" rel="nofollow">Konkani language book donation</a><br /> (<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/October_2015" title="CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/October 2015">See more</a>)</td>
<td><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/November_2015#top" title="CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/November 2015">4 Indic language communities IRC meeting</a>,<br /> <a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/news/making-tulu-wikipedia-live" rel="nofollow">Community discussion for making Tulu Wikipedia live</a><br /> (<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/November_2015" title="CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/November 2015">See more</a>)</td>
<td><a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/events/sau-dhuni-teen-project-december-edit-a-thon-at-womens-studies-centre-university-of-pune" rel="nofollow">Sau Dhuni Teen Project: December Wikipedia Edit-a-thon</a>,<br /> <a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/discussion-on-bringing-peshwa-culture-on-marathi-wikipedia" rel="nofollow">Initiative to bring 1000 books<br /> about the culture of<br /> Maharashtra on Marathi Wikipedia</a><br /> (<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/December_2015" title="CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/December 2015">See more</a>)</td>
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<th style="text-align: justify; ">January 2016</th> <th style="text-align: justify; ">February 2016</th> <th style="text-align: justify; ">March 2016</th>
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<td><a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/100-konkani-articles-added-to-wikipedia-in-one-day" rel="nofollow">Konkani-language Edit-a-thon and English-Romi Konkani dictionary release</a>,<br /> <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Geographical_Indications_in_India_Edit-a-thon" title="CIS-A2K/Events/Geographical Indications in India Edit-a-thon">Geographical Indications in India Edit-a-thon</a><br /> (<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/January_2016" title="CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/January 2016">See more</a>)</td>
<td><a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/events/digitisation-sprint-at-andhra-loyola-college-vijayawada-to-bring-more-books-on-telugu-wikisource" rel="nofollow">Digitisation sprint at Andhra Loyola College</a>,<br /> <a class="text external" href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/02/28/kannada-wikipedia-vasanth-sn/">Kannada Wikipedia's 13th anniversary</a><br /> (<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/February_2015" title="CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/February 2015">See more</a>)</td>
<td>(<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/February_2016" title="CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/February 2016">See more</a>) <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Press_releases/National_Wikipedia_Education_Program_Review_Meeting_At_Christ_University_Bengaluru" title="CIS-A2K/Press releases/National Wikipedia Education Program Review Meeting At Christ University Bengaluru">National Wikipedia Education review program</a>,<br /> <a class="text external" href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/05/09/bangla-translations-odia-womens-history/">Odia-language Women’s History Month edit-a-thons</a><br /> (<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/March_2016" title="CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/March 2016">See more</a>)</td>
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<th style="text-align: justify; ">April 2016</th> <th style="text-align: justify; ">May 2016</th> <th style="text-align: justify; ">June 2016</th>
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<td><a class="extiw" href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86:%E0%AC%9C%E0%AC%A8%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%AE%E0%AC%A4%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A5%E0%AC%BF/%E0%AD%A7%E0%AD%AA" title="or:ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:ଜନ୍ମତିଥି/୧୪">Odia Wikipedia's 14th anniversary</a><br /> (<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/April_2016" title="CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/April 2016">See more</a>)</td>
<td><a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/events/mini-train-the-trainer-and-mediawiki-training-for-wikimedians-in-pune" rel="nofollow">Mini TTT and MWT in Pune</a>,<br /> <a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/events/advanced-training-for-kannada-language-wikimedians-in-bangalore" rel="nofollow">Advanced training for Kannada-language Wikimedians</a><br /> (<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/May_2016" title="CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/May 2016">See more</a>)</td>
<td><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program/2016" title="CIS-A2K/Events/Train the Trainer Program/2016">Train the Trainer 2016</a>,<br /> <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/MediaWiki_Training/2016" title="CIS-A2K/Events/MediaWiki Training/2016">MediaWiki Training</a><br /> (<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/June_2016" title="CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/June 2016">See more</a>)</td>
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</tbody>
</table>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Capacity building</h2>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Train the Trainer</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/TTT" title="TTT">Train the Trainer</a> (or TTT in short) is a residential program that attempts to groom leadership skills among the Indian Wikimedians. Participating Wikimedians interact with A2K staff members and community leaders towards designing, implementing and documenting activities such as outreach, GLAM projects, edit-a-thons, etc. Various topics such as grants' structure, funding opportunities both with A2K and WMF, effective reporting and documentation, use of Global and other metrics, etc., are also covered.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">After the first 2 iterations in <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program/2013" title="CIS-A2K/Events/Train the Trainer Program/2013">2013</a> and <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program/2015" title="CIS-A2K/Events/Train the Trainer Program/2015">2015</a>, the third iteration of the training program <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program/2016" title="CIS-A2K/Events/Train the Trainer Program/2016">was conducted in June 2016</a>.</p>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Diversity</dt></dl>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In this iteration—</p>
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<li><b>Language:</b> 16 Wikimedians from 10 different language communities participated as shown in the pie chart below.</li>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>Gender:</b> This year we had 5 female participants (out of 15 participants). After the 2013 iteration we felt we should try to encourage more female Wikipedians to participate in TTT. However, this does not mean that we had any different eligibility criteria set for the female Wikipedians.</li>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>Representation of Indic Wikimedia communities:</b> We had participants from all over India. Although TTT is a national-level event, we also had participants from outside of India (Nepal and Sri Lanka).</li>
</ul>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Lessons learnt</dt></dl>
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<div class="thumbinner"><a class="image" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CIS-A2K_TTT_2016.jpg"><img class="thumbimage" height="166" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/CIS-A2K_TTT_2016.jpg/300px-CIS-A2K_TTT_2016.jpg" width="300" /></a>
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<div class="thumbcaption">TTT 2016 participants</div>
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<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li style="text-align: justify; ">After the 2015 version we found that a few participants faced difficulties to understand and work on the pre-event presentations. This year (2016), we have given more detailed instructions and were in touch with the participants while they were doing pre-event works.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">By dovetailing TTT and MWT, A2K team was able to bring Indic Wikimedians working for outreach and on technical front together. This helped the participants to create a wishlist regarding tools, gadgets, and other technical help required to conduct effective outreach activities.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Based on participants' feedback and suggestions plus our own observations, while keeping Wikimedia Foundation's guidelines in mind, we make necessary changes to our program structure. In this year's TTT we made a number of changes‖</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>We encouraged more eligible female editors to participate.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">We found that the objective and aims of the event remained unclear to a few participants in the earlier iterations. This year we have given more attention to explain the program's objectives, aims and expectations.</li>
</ul>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Challenges</dt></dl>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li style="text-align: justify; ">We expected that the participants would be in touch with us while planning, conducting, and making reports of an event. After 2015 TTT<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-too_early_1-0"><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round2/The_Centre_for_Internet_and_Society/Impact_report_form#cite_note-too_early-1">[1]</a></sup> we found a few participants did not respond to our emails or messages.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">While TTT 2016 participants have shown active interest during WCI-related edit-a-thon, the same level of interest was not seen during regular monthly meetups.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Despite having communicated to the TTT 2015 participants that a mini TTT should be organized in their communities, however this was not taken up actively.</li>
</ul>
<h4 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Mediawiki_Training">Mediawiki Training</span></h4>
<div class="thumbinner" style="text-align: justify; "><a class="image" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MWT%283%29.jpg"><img class="thumbimage" height="200" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/MWT%283%29.jpg/300px-MWT%283%29.jpg" width="300" /></a>
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<div class="thumbcaption">Participants of MWT 2016, during the workshop</div>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">MediaWiki Training (MWT) is an annual residential training workshop that intends to bridge the prevalent gap between outreach volunteers and MediaWiki volunteers and developers. MWT attempts to create and groom 'tech' leaders from the existing Indian language Wikipedians. It aims to facilitate discussions around nurturing leadership regarding technical issues such as filing bugs that hinder the growth of Indian language Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects. At the same time, it encourages active contribution towards improving the existing MediaWiki software from the participants to understand importance of utilizing technology for outreach activities.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/MediaWiki_Training/2015" title="CIS-A2K/Events/MediaWiki Training/2015">first iteration of the event</a> was held on 24-27 June 2015. 14 editors from 8 Indic communities participated in this workshop. Some of the topics taught during the workshop were: Bugs -presentation, demo & case study, Bots - Pywiki & AWB, MediaWiki tools, TranslateWiki, Quarry, WikiMetrics, APIs, User scripts.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/MediaWiki_Training/2016" title="CIS-A2K/Events/MediaWiki Training/2016">second iteration</a> of the workshop was conducted on 17-19 June 2016 in Bangalore. MWT 2016 was planned to facilitate an idea-exchange platform between outreach volunteers and MWT participants. 11 editors from 6 Indic Wikimedia communities recieved training during this workshop. Some of the topics discussed during the program were Wikidata, usage of Wikimedia labs tools, templates and infobox creation, as well as AutoWikiBrowser (AWB).</p>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Lessons learnt</dt></dl>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Ensure better logistics co-ordination thus guaranteeing involved participation from the participants.</li>
<li>Priority topics must be given more time.</li>
</ul>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Challenges</dt></dl>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Scheduling follow-up events such as mini version of MWT across Indic Wikimedia communities.</li>
<li>To identify female Wikimedians and encourage them to participate in MWT.</li>
</ul>
<h4 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Train-a-Wikipedian_2">Train-a-Wikipedian</span></h4>
<div class="thumbinner" style="text-align: justify; "><a class="image" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Train-a-Wikipedian_by_CIS-A3K.jpg"><img class="thumbimage" height="225" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Train-a-Wikipedian_by_CIS-A3K.jpg/300px-Train-a-Wikipedian_by_CIS-A3K.jpg" width="300" /></a>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian" title="CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian">Train-a-Wikipedian</a> (TAW) was started in December 2015 to identify enthusiastic Indic Wikipedians, to train and groom them to develop their editing skills. Inspired by the <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user" title="en:Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user">Adopt-a-User program</a> of the English-language-Wikipedia, this initiative is working on encouraging new Wikimedians who nominate themselves to learn basic Wikimedia policies. Until 30 June 2016, more than <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian/Sessions" title="CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian/Sessions">25 training sessions</a> have been conducted.</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>The concept of Train-a-Wikipedian was appreciated by several Indic Wikimedians from different communities.</li>
<li>More than 25 Wikimedians signed up for this program.</li>
</ul>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Reflections</dt></dl>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">These are some of the reflections/feedback we received from Train-a-Wikipedian participants:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Username</p>
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<th><br /></th><th>Community</th> <th>Topics/Learnings</th> <th>Feedback/Reflections</th>
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<td><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nrgullapalli" title="User:Nrgullapalli">User:Nrgullapalli</a><br /> (<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian/Nrgullapalli" title="CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian/Nrgullapalli">Training page</a>)</td>
<td>Telugu Wikipedia</td>
<td>Policy discussion such as civility, stub,<br /> How to search in a better way using operators etc on the web to get references<br /> Introduction to The Wikipedia Library / Resource exchange / CIS-A2K Resource exchange.</td>
<td>
<blockquote>
<div>
<div>“</div>
The training was helpful, I learned a couple of new tools. But I feel such trainings should be conducted on regular basis and follow-ups should be done.
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</blockquote>
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<td><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mouryan" title="User:Mouryan">User:Mouryan</a><br /> (<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian/Mouryan" title="CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian/Mouryan">Training page</a>)</td>
<td>Bengali Wikipedia</td>
<td>Essentials of conducting local Wiki-event.<br /> Using special pages such as Special:UncategorizedPages,, Special:ShortPages etc., Google Books citation, Metrics.wikimedia.org</td>
<td>
<blockquote>
<div>
<div>“</div>
It was amazing and a quite enriching experience for me at a personal level sir. The things I learnt at Train-a-Wikipedian Hyderabad actually paid the results soon enough.and it enabled to successfully conduct my first offline Wikipedia Meetup in Kolkata just within one month's time. . .
<div>”</div>
</div>
</blockquote>
</td>
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<td><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rajasekhar1961" title="User:Rajasekhar1961">User:Rajasekhar1961</a><br /> (<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian/Rajasekhar1961" title="CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian/Rajasekhar1961">Training page</a>)</td>
<td>Telugu Wikipedia</td>
<td>AdminTools such as MoreMenu, QuickWikiEditor, Citation making using Google Books citation tool, autofilling (from reftoolbar), DOI citation tool; Quick Page purging</td>
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<blockquote>
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<div>“</div>
I picked up some very useful skills & learnt good tools. But, I became a little inactive after that so could not utilize these learnings much. I hope to do so in future.</div>
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</td>
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<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Lessons learnt</dt></dl>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>This initiative was inspired by English Wikipedia's program Adopt-a-user, however we found that we must make necessary changes to meet requirements of Indic Wikimedians.</li>
<li>Real-life training sessions left a deeper impact and motivated Wikimedians much more than online training modules.</li>
</ul>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Challenges</dt></dl>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>We failed to conduct sufficient number of offline training sessions.</li>
<li>Follow-ups have not been done for a couple of workshops, for example a TAW workshop was <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian/Sessions/2016-05-15" title="CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian/Sessions/2016-05-15">conducted in Hyderabad on 15 May</a> and was well-received, but no follow-up TAW workshop has been conducted since then in the city.</li>
<li>From A2K's side sometimes there were delays in connecting and co-ordinating with the signed-up participants. On the other hand sometimes, we did not got responses from the participants when we contacted them.</li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Policies_and_guidelines_on_Indic_Wikipedias">Policies and guidelines on Indic Wikipedias</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K started working on <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Policies_and_guidelines" title="CIS-A2K/Policies and guidelines">a project</a> to support and encourage Indic Wikipedians to create and/or localize policies in their native languages. A survey was conducted and a <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indic_Wikipedia_Policies_and_Guidelines_Handbook.pdf" title="File:Indic Wikipedia Policies and Guidelines Handbook.pdf">policy handbook</a> was also created.</p>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Lessons learnt</dt></dl>
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<li>Efforts must be taken to initiate discussion regarding creation, localisation of policies in events organized by A2K</li>
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<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Challenges</dt></dl>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Although a few policy-discussion meetups have been conducted (such as <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian/Sessions/2016-02-07" title="CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian/Sessions/2016-02-07">this one</a>), we faced difficulties finding volunteer translators to translate the handbook into Indic languages.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Kannada_2">Kannada</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Kannada Wikipedia has reached the 20,000 article mark during this year. Kananda community members collaboratively designed the plan for the 13th Kannada Wikipedia anniversary. This activity brought together Wikimedians from different parts of Karnataka. By applying for a PEG Kannada Wikipedians have interacted with global Wikipedians and WMF staff. This event resulted in new editors and outreach activities in various parts of Karnataka. A2K has appointed a <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Glossary" title="CIS-A2K/Glossary">Program Associate</a> as per its revised strategy <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Glossary" title="CIS-A2K/Glossary">A2K 2.0</a> for Kannada Wikimedia projects.</p>
<h4 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Institutional_partnership">Institutional partnership</span></h4>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Two new partnerships have been initiated during this grant period–</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">While Alva's Education Foundation is going to be a partner in implementing Wikipedia Education Program. DSERT is an institution that trains school teachers all across Karnataka state. A2K will be training the trainers about using and editing Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in the context of their classroom. However, the 3 other institutional partnerships - Karnataka Janapada University, Manjusha Museum, Dharmasthala, and Tumkur University, Tumkur- that were anticipated during the writing of workplan, could not materialize. This was due to the delay in recruiting a Program Associate for the Kannada Wikimedia projects.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A2K has successfully continued its earlier partnerships and has benefited from their advice regarding our WEP activities and workplan.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Both the DSERT partnership and the 13th anniversary helped raise awareness around thematic article writing which encouraged Kannada Wikipedians to engage in projects. Various editing projects on literature, science, engineering subjects were taken up actively by the community members. Approximately 225 articles were created exclusively as part of 13th year anniversary celebrations.</p>
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<div class="thumbcaption">Offline versions of Kannada Wikipedia (using kiwix) were distributed through flash drives like this during 13th year Kannada Wikipedia anniversary</div>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K also tried to engage in skill-building activities for the Kannada community members. As per the requests from volunteers, capacity building programs were arranged both in groups and in one-on-one settings to individual Wikimedians. Both TTT and MWT saw active participation from Kannada community. The results of these would be visible in the coming months.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In order to increase the offline readership of Kannada Wikipedia, offline versions of Kannada Wikipedia (using kiwix) were distributed through flash drives during 13th year Kannada Wikipedia anniversary held at Mangalore. 50 such flash drives have been distributed so far to those in need.</p>
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<li>Kannada was not properly represented in terms of blogs and media coverage and we have been working on addressing this issue.</li>
<li>A better communication method would be devised with inputs from the community members.</li>
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<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Gating factors</dt></dl>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A2K has not been successful towards re-releasing of textbooks published by the Government of Karnataka under CC-by-SA licences.</p>
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<li>An orientation for Kananda bloggers, some of who could be potential Wikimedians, has not taken place.</li>
<li>Some community members have repeatedly emphasized on having better communication, documentation of activities taken up by the Program Associate.</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Odia_2">Odia</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Through the community building activities such as the formation of Puri WikiTungi and revival of Bhubaneswar WikiTungi, active editors of the Odia Wikipedia movement reached <a class="text external" href="https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/ChartsWikipediaOR.htm">30 editors</a> (as of 30 June 2016). Regular follow-up with Wikimedians on-Wiki and via different social media channels along with monthly meetups has helped in editor retention. This has further encouraged Odia Wikimedians to participate in both on-Wiki and off-Wiki activities.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K has supported the community to celebrate the 14th Anniversary of Odia Wikipedia, which facilitated 30 Wikimedians to meet and discuss the future activities for Odia Wikimedia projects.</p>
<h4 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Formation_of_Puri_WikiTungi">Formation of Puri WikiTungi</span></h4>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/odia-wikipedia-takes-puri" rel="nofollow">Puri WikiTungi</a> is a city-based editing group formed by Wikimedians from Puri to spread awareness about Odia Wikimedia projects in and around the city. This group was formed after the first Wikipedia workshop in Puri. Around 30 individuals attended the workshop. 14 participants from this workshop have emerged as active editors on Odia Wikipedia and Odia Wikisource. They are also involved in conducting offline meet-ups, seminar and workshops.</p>
<h4 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Bridging_the_Gender_gap">Bridging the Gender gap</span></h4>
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<div class="thumbcaption">Gender diversity in Odia Wikimedia community during 2014-16. For this statistics Odia Wikipedia and Odia Wikisource have been considered.</div>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K has engaged with seven new female Wikipedians and this has resulted in their active participation on Odia Wikimedia projects. One of the female Wikmedians, <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Chinmayee_Mishra" title="User:Chinmayee Mishra">Chinmayee Mishra</a> has independently conducted a Wikipedia orientation workshop. This workshop has boosted participation of female Wikipedians. Their efforts have been discussed through blog posts and other social media platforms.</p>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Lessons learnt</dt></dl>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Two organizations are unofficially supporting Odia Wikimedia community by providing meetup space and internet access for Bhubaneswar and Puri WikiTungis. A2K must make official agreements with these institutions.</p>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Gating factors</dt></dl>
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<li>Failed to build a partnership with any institution for running Education program for Odia Wikimedia projects. Awareness about the importance of WEPs is required for achieving this.</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Telugu_2">Telugu</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A2K team has been successfully collaborating with Telugu Wikipedia community to improve <a class="extiw" 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%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%81/%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%82%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%85%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A6_%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2_%E0%B0%B6%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A7%E0%B0%BF" title="te:వికీపీడియా:వికీప్రాజెక్టు/గూగుల్ అనువాద వ్యాసాల శుద్ధి">content quality</a> on Telugu Wikipedia and strengthen the community by increasing its reader and editor base. The team also <a class="extiw" 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%B8%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%82/%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%81_%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%A6%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8B%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%82_2015_-_%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%8B%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95_%E0%B0%9B%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%81" title="te:వికీపీడియా:సమావేశం/తెలుగు వికీపీడియా దినోత్సవం 2015 - తెవికీలోకి చారిత్రిక ఛాయాచిత్రాలు">shares ideas</a> by <a class="extiw" 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%B0%E0%B0%9A%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%A1/%E0%B0%AA%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A4_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A_46#.E0.B0.B5.E0.B0.BF.E0.B0.9C.E0.B0.AF.E0.B0.B5.E0.B0.BE.E0.B0.A1_.E0.B0.86.E0.B0.82.E0.B0.A7.E0.B1.8D.E0.B0.B0_.E0.B0.B2.E0.B0.AF.E0.B1.8A.E0.B0.B2.E0.B0.BE_.E0.B0.95.E0.B0.B3.E0.B0.BE.E0.B0.B6.E0.B0.BE.E0.B0.B2.E0.B0.B2.E0.B1.8B_.E0.B0.A1.E0.B0.BF.E0.B0.9C.E0.B0.BF.E0.B0.9F.E0.B1.88.E0.B0.9C.E0.B1.87.E0.B0.B7.E0.B0.A8.E0.B1.8D_.E0.B0.B8.E0.B1.8D.E0.B0.AA.E0.B1.8D.E0.B0.B0.E0.B0.BF.E0.B0.82.E0.B0.9F.E0.B1.8D" title="te:వికీపీడియా:రచ్చబండ/పాత చర్చ 46">providing</a> and <a class="extiw" 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%B8%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%82/%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%A5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A7%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%B2%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%81_%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80_%E0%B0%85%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%80" title="te:వికీపీడియా:సమావేశం/గ్రంథాలయాధికారులకు వికీ అకాడమీ">extending</a> support such as involving community members in <a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/cis-brings-nadustunna-charithra-magazine-under-by-cc-by-sa-licence" rel="nofollow">discussions with potential partners</a> and <a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/a-workshop-to-improve-telugu-wikipedia-articles-on-nobel-laureates" rel="nofollow">designing programs based on their suggestions</a>. Such collaboration has strengthened communities to conduct many <a class="extiw" 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%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%81/%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%98%E0%B0%9F%E0%B0%A8%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%81,_%E0%B0%AA%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%A3%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%81_%E0%B0%8E%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%9F%E0%B0%A5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D" title="te:వికీపీడియా:వికీప్రాజెక్టు/సంఘటనలు, పరిణామాలు ఎడిటథాన్">Edit-a-thons</a> which have resulted in a wide variety of quality articles. A2K intends to continue such collaborative activities resulting in improvements of stub and poorly translated articles.</p>
<h4 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Activities_and_Events">Activities and Events</span></h4>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K team has been involved in conducting (holding or co-ordinating) several edit-a-thons in Telugu Wikimedia community, while a few were <a class="extiw" 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%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%81/%E0%B0%AA%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A4_%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%81_%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%A8%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE_%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2_%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A4%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%A3_%E0%B0%8E%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%9F%E0%B0%A5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D" title="te:వికీపీడియా:వికీప్రాజెక్టు/పాత తెలుగు సినిమా వ్యాసాల విస్తరణ ఎడిటథాన్">anchored in Telugu</a>, others were <a class="extiw" 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%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%81/%E0%B0%9C%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%AB%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%87%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%B7%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%87%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%87%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE_%E0%B0%8E%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%8D-%E0%B0%85-%E0%B0%A5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D" title="te:వికీపీడియా:వికీప్రాజెక్టు/జాగ్రఫికల్ ఇండికేషన్స్ ఇన్ ఇండియా ఎడిట్-అ-థాన్">multi-lingual</a>. Many initiatives of the last grant period (i.e. July 2014 to June 2015) <a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/news/telugu-wiki-edit-a-thon-at-alc" rel="nofollow">have been continued</a>. A2K and the community have <a class="extiw" 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%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%81/%E0%B0%AA%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A4_%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%81_%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%A8%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE_%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2_%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A4%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%A3_%E0%B0%8E%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%9F%E0%B0%A5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D" title="te:వికీపీడియా:వికీప్రాజెక్టు/పాత తెలుగు సినిమా వ్యాసాల విస్తరణ ఎడిటథాన్">collaboratively organised</a> an of sharing resources has resulted in which focused on improving Telugu movie articles. Community members have expanded stubs with information, references and photos. For the edit-a-thon A2K provided resources and references and the community members developed stub articles and created new articles.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Capacity building activities have also been carried out with Telugu Wikipedians. A <a class="extiw" 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%B8%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%B6%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%81/%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%B9%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%B2_%E0%B0%85%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%97%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B9%E0%B0%A8_%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%82" title="te:వికీపీడియా:సమావేశం/హైదరాబాదు/కాపీహక్కుల అవగాహన కార్యక్రమం">copyrights session</a> was conducted to improve Telugu Wikimedians' understanding on the subject and clear doubts for Wikisource contributors. Community members, Meena Gayathri and T.Sujatha, attending CIS A2K's <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian/Sessions/2016-02-11" title="CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian/Sessions/2016-02-11">Train-a-Wikipedian session</a> have expressed that they gained invaluable knowledge and skills in content translation. The two later initiated a <a class="extiw" 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%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%81/%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%82%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%85%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A6_%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2_%E0%B0%B6%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A7%E0%B0%BF" title="te:వికీపీడియా:వికీప్రాజెక్టు/గూగుల్ అనువాద వ్యాసాల శుద్ధి">project</a> to improve the quality of Google Translated articles. More than 30 such articles have been improved through it.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Similarly, the <a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/tools-orientation-for-telugu-wikimedians-at-hyderabad" rel="nofollow">Quick introduction sessions</a> held in Hyderabad community meet-ups by CIS A2K helped explain some online tools usage and enabled Wikipedians to contribute better for Wikimedia projects. One of the most active Wikipedians, <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%B2%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95" title="User:స్వరలాసిక">Swaralasika</a>, said that he was able to make better citations after the sessions which has helped him improve his editing.</p>
<h4 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Institutional_Partnership_2">Institutional Partnership</span></h4>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">With the institutional partnerships established between CIS A2K and Annamayya library, Telugu Wikisource community members <a class="text external" href="https://te.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8B%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D:%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%8B%E0%B0%B7%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2_%E0%B0%A8%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%A3">have uploaded some of the missing pages</a> in on Telugu Wikisource. Due to the attempts of the community members towards proofreading these books can be downloaded now. The Andhra Loyola College partnership has also cultivated new editors and engage in WEP activities.</p>
<h4 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Outreach_and_Media">Outreach and Media</span></h4>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Increased media coverage has helped the cause of Telugu Wikimedia projects. Hard work of several Telugu Wikipedians (such as <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pranayraj1985" title="User:Pranayraj1985">Pranayraj</a> and <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%B6%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%A8%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A7%E0%B1%8D.%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%BF.%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%86." title="User:విశ్వనాధ్.బి.కె.">Viswanadh</a>) has been recognized and highlighted. <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pranayraj1985" title="User:Pranayraj1985">Pranayraj</a> points out that the media coverage helped him reach more people who want to contribute to Wikipedia.</p>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Lessons learnt</dt></dl>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>A2K team has been working to make Telugu Wikipedia more visible in popular Telugu media, especially in printed media such as <a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/telugu-wikipedia-day-2015-photo-walk" rel="nofollow">off-wiki</a> and <a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/telugu-wikipedia-articles-on-punjab-media-coverage" rel="nofollow">on-wiki</a> events coverage in major local newspapers like <i>Eenadu</i>, <i>Sakshi</i>, <i>Andhra Jyothi</i></li>
<li>WEP activities at partner institutions need to be synchronized with their academic schedule.</li>
</ul>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Gating factors</dt></dl>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Technical support requests from the community were delayed on our end. To overcome this, we are trying to find interns to assign technical tasks requested from communities.</li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Konkani_2">Konkani</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Having gone live since July 2015 after nine years of incubation, <a class="extiw" href="https://gom.wikipedia.org/wiki/" title="gom:">Goan Konkani Wikipedia</a> has developed and expanded with the help of CIS A2K to draw more contributors and resources into the project. CIS-A2K has attempted to develop Konkani Wikipedia in all the three scripts (Romi, Devanagari, Kannada). Institutions such as Thomas Stephen Konkani Kendra (TSKK) for Romi script, Goa Konkani Sahitya Academy for Devanagari script, Karnataka Konkani Sahitya Academy for Kannada script have agreed to donate content.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Department of Computer Science, Goa University, had organized an edit-a-thon to include the villages of Goa state on Konkani Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Due to the discontinuation of the Program Associate for Konkani, several of our programmatic activities have not been accomplished during this grant period.</p>
<h4 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Partnership">Partnership</span></h4>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In the past year, CIS-A2K had the honour to collaborate with Mannd Sobhaann and World Konkani Centre, organizations working with Konkani language and culture, to bring in more resources into Konkani Wikipedia. These two organizations work for popularization and conservation of Konkani culture and language. Mannd Sobhaan has donated three Konkani books under CC-BY-SA license which has provided great sources for citation and references. On the other hand, these organizations have also agreed to hold GLAM activities, while A2K would digitize their archives of audio, video and text resources to further expand resources available for Konkani Wikimedia projects.</p>
<h4 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Activities_and_Events_2">Activities and Events</span></h4>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A one-day edit-a-thon was organized at Krishnadas Shama Central Library, Goa in January 2016. Members of CIS-A2K participated in this event to help mentor the participants. The event created 100 new articles on Konkani Wikipedia in a single day.</p>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Lessons learnt</dt></dl>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Increase editor base by engaging academicians and bloggers.</li>
<li>Increase readership by introducing Konkani Wikipedia in primary and higher primary schools.</li>
</ul>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Gating factors</dt></dl>
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<li>Activity in the end of 2015 was low in Konkani Wikipedia that no new articles were created in November and December.</li>
<li>Non-availability of a Program Associate</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Marathi_2">Marathi</span></h3>
<h4 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Partnership_2">Partnership</span></h4>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Maharashtra Granthottejak Sanstha (MGS) has re-licensed 1000 books on the culture, history, and literature under CC-by-SA 4.0 license in October, 2015. In December 2015, a discussion was initiated by CIS A2K at The Energy Resources Institute (TERI) to plan digitization and uploading of the books for Marathi Wikisource.</p>
<h4 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Events_and_Outreach">Events and Outreach</span></h4>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A two-day workshop was organised by the CIS A2K Program Associate in August 2015 at Srimati Savitribai Phule Pune University. This workshop was an attempt to bridge the <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K_/Projects/Sau_Dhuni_Teen/December_2015_Edit-a-thon_at_Krantijyoti_Savitribai_Phule%27s_Women%27s_Studies_Centre,_Pune_University" title="CIS-A2K /Projects/Sau Dhuni Teen/December 2015 Edit-a-thon at Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule's Women's Studies Centre, Pune University">gender gap</a> on Marathi Wikipedia. The "Sau Dhuni Teen" project focused on creating Wikipedia articles on notable women, themes and works related to gender studies. This event attracted new editors and introduced to them input methods for Marathi methods and basic guidelines of contributing to Wikipedia. The event also served as an important initiative to utilize Wikipedia in generating Indian language annotations on academic sources in Women's Studies and the Social Sciences.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In May, 2016, CIS A2K organized a two-day mini version of Train-the-trainer (TTT) and Mediawiki Training (MWT) for Marathi Wikimedians in Pune. Topics covered in the Mediawiki training include Wikidata, bug triage, Mediawiki extensions, etc., while the TTT session focused on advanced editing skills, outreach planning, and grants structure introduction.</p>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Lessons learnt</dt></dl>
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<li>A strategy is required to utilize books donated by Maharashtra Granthottejak Sanstha (MGS) as references on Marathi Wikipedia.</li>
<li>Spreading Marathi Wikipedia-related activities to different parts of Maharashtra .</li>
</ul>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Gating factors</dt></dl>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Some participants of workshops reflect that unavailability of sandboxes in Marathi Wikipedia was a concern for new editor as they were unsure if the article might be changed during the time they edit.</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="General_Support_and_Service_to_the_Movement">General Support and Service to the Movement</span></h3>
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<h4 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Partnership_Summary">Partnership Summary</span></h4>
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<li><b>Growing partnerships in WEPs</b>: A2K team has successfully continued all the partnerships form the previous grant period and has also been able to bring new partners onboard thus adding value to the Wikimedia movement. A2K conducted a review program for its WEP partners in Bangalore during the last grant period. This review program allowed the WEP partners across 3 different states to meet and discuss the salient features of the WEP initiative being run at their institutions. This review program helped A2K team to understand institutional expectations and challenges. The review meeting also helped us to generate inter institutional collaboration and sync A2K schedule with academic calendar of these institutions.</li>
<li><b>Book/Resource donation and digitization</b>: A2K team is immensely happy to have partnered with Maharashtra Granthottejak Sanstha which has donated 1000 books about the Maratha administration, culture, history and social life. Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation Limited, Pune has offered us in-kind support by digitising all these books and making them available to be uploaded on Marathi Wikisource.</li>
<li>Our collaboration with Manasu Foundation, Bangalore has also allowed us to digitise content donated to A2K for free. Andhra Loyola College, Vijayawada now hosts a Digital Resource Lab that provides nevessary infrastructure (Computers, Internet access and printing facility) for all the Telugu Wikimedians.</li>
<li>Centurion University, Bhubhaneswar has expressed in digitising Odia publications from the copyright lapse period. With this partnership A2K expects to add close to 50000 folios to Odia Wikisource.</li>
<li><b>Goa University partnership and Indian village articles</b>: After a brief lull in the activities of Konkani Wikipedia activities have spiked up again mainly because of the encouragement offered by Goa University. Prof. Madhav Gadgil with support from Goa University has launched a project of using the Census of India data to create articles on Villages of India. This activity has been eagerly taken up by the Konkani community members.Encouraged by the level of enthusiasm shown by the Konkani community members Telugu, Marathi and Odia community members have also been engaged in creating articles on villages of India in their respective languages.</li>
<li><b>Partnership in image re-licensing</b>: Alva's Education Foundation have donated more than 15000 images under CC-BY_SA license. These images depict the folk art forms, famous personalities, cultural practices, tribal costumes and other areas regarding the social and cultural life of Karnataka in particular and South India in general.</li>
<li><b>Decision of focusing on existing partnerships</b>: Many institutions that were indicated under the category 'To be explored' for a partnership during this plan year have not been approached as A2K team worked towards consolidating its work with the existing institutions rather than crowding our resources. This decision was taken in accordance with the suggestion of community members and FDC suggestion.</li>
<li><b>Partnership re-assessment</b>: A further re-assessment of Institutional partnerships based on the parameters of RoI, contribution to Global Metrics and community support will be undertaken during the grant period July 2016- June 2017. Thus providing the A2K team opportunity to consolidate its work further and adopting course corrections (such as working with a different Wikimedia project, changing target group, conducting intensive summer/winter camps and if necessary exiting the partnership).</li>
</ul>
<h4 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Outreach_Strategies_Development">Outreach Strategies Development</span></h4>
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<li><b>Online and offline media outreach strategies</b>: Stories related to Indian language Wikipedias and Wikimedia projects used to get less attention in the regional language media in India. There has been a hike in news articles and columns related to Indic-language Wikimedia projects both in print and electronic media. One of the most important reasons behind this is the establishment and growing relations with journalists and news editors that are responsible for specific genre of news. Actively writing opinion pieces to newspaper editorials and making blog posts on popular online portals are another reason.</li>
<li><b>Laying out strategies for recruiting new contributors using social media</b>: Learning from our past initiative experiences such as the movement where new contributors on social media helped Odia Wikisource go live<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2"><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round2/The_Centre_for_Internet_and_Society/Impact_report_form#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup>, CIS-A2K has been helping communities with online outreach strategies. Some of the lessons learned can be found in <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_patterns/Harvesting_new_Wikimedians_from_social_media" title="Grants:Learning patterns/Harvesting new Wikimedians from social media">this</a> learning pattern.</li>
</ul>
<h4 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Other_Communication_and_Contribution">Other Communication and Contribution</span></h4>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><b>Balance of Focus Language Area (FLA) and non-FLA language</b>: As CIS-A2K has been working primarily in five focus languages (Kannada, Konkani, Marathi, Odia and Telugu, with Tulu and Santali as two additional languages), there has been more attention paid to the aforementioned seven languages and less on the remaining Indian languages. The same pattern also reflects in our media outreach. To balance this and to provide support in the larger Indic language community, CIS-A2K has made efforts in connecting non-FLA Wikimedians with global community leaders<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3"><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round2/The_Centre_for_Internet_and_Society/Impact_report_form#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> and writing about work accomplished in non-FLA communities.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4"><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round2/The_Centre_for_Internet_and_Society/Impact_report_form#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup></li>
<li><b>Highlighting the' community-led projects and less-known languages</b>: CIS-A2K has contributed and highlighting in promoting the projects that are primarily community-led<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5"><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round2/The_Centre_for_Internet_and_Society/Impact_report_form#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup> that are not necessarily catalyzed by the CIS-A2K. Also, via public speaking and publications, CIS-A2K has attempted to promote indigenous and the less-known languages of India.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6"><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round2/The_Centre_for_Internet_and_Society/Impact_report_form#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup></li>
</ul>
<h4 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Challenges">Challenges</span></h4>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><b>Labor intensive WEP programs</b>: WEP initiative at many of our institutions have proven to be labour intensive. A2K team has not been able to integrate its efforts with the community members. There has also been a perception that the participating Higher Education institutions are required to only provide infrastructure and carve time out of academic schedule. This leads to a situation where the A2K team is often forced to devote time and resources towards the evaluation of assignments.</li>
<li><b>Lack of institutional partnership in Odia community</b>: Despite the A2K team's attempts to establish formal institutional partnership and further a WEP initiative in Odia language, we have not been successful. With the consent of the Odia community A2K team has approached Centurion University regarding setting up a Wikisource Learning Centre.</li>
</ul>
<h4 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="CIS-A2K_request_page">CIS-A2K request page</span></h4>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K has a <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:CIS-A2K/Requests" title="Talk:CIS-A2K/Requests">request page</a> intended for Wikimedian/s from India to place requests for support from CIS-A2K. Between 1 July 2015 and 30 June 2016, CIS-A2K has supported 21 such programs/initiatives. The communities supported by CIS-A2K include Odia, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali etc. Besides offering financial support to conduct events, CIS-A2K has also provided non-financial support such as SWAG material, and technical and documentaion support.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Some of the events/initiatives we have supported are</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Odia Wikipedians <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:CIS-A2K/Requests/Archive_2015_2#Request_to_fund_for_Odia_Wikipedia_workshop_cum_Nabakalebara_Editathon_during_the_event." title="Talk:CIS-A2K/Requests/Archive 2015 2">conducting Nabakalebara edit-a-thon</a> (July 2015), <a class="text external" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:CIS-A2K/Requests&oldid=15252159#Funding_request_for_Odia_Wikisource_1st_Birthday_Celebration">Odia Wikisource 1st anniversary celebration</a> (October 2015), <a class="text external" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:CIS-A2K/Requests&oldid=15924524#Funding_request_for_Wikipedia.27s_15th_Birthday_Celebration">Wikipedia's 15th Birthday celebration</a> (January 2016)</li>
<li>funding Bengali Wikipedia community to conduct a <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:CIS-A2K/Requests/Archive_2015_2#Requesting_Funds_for_Wikiacademy_at_Oxford_Book_stores_Kolkata" title="Talk:CIS-A2K/Requests/Archive 2015 2">workshop (Wikiacademy)</a> (August 2015), <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:CIS-A2K/Requests/Archive_2015_2#Requesting_Funds_for_Wikiacademy_at_Oxford_Book_stores_Kolkata" title="Talk:CIS-A2K/Requests/Archive 2015 2">a meetup</a> (October 2015), and an "<a class="text external" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:CIS-A2K/Requests&oldid=15924524#Request_For_Funding_of_In-depth_Meet-up_of_Bengali_Wikipedia_editor_community_in_Kolkata">in-depth Meet-up of Bengali Wikipedia editor community in Kolkata</a>" (June 2016)</li>
<li>helping Malayalam Wikimedia community to <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:CIS-A2K/Requests/Archive_2015_2#Funding_request_for_Malayalam_wiki_Padana_Shibiram_.E2.80.93_Kozhikode_-2" title="Talk:CIS-A2K/Requests/Archive 2015 2">organize a meet-up at Kozhikode, Kerala</a> (July 2015), and <a class="text external" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:CIS-A2K/Requests&oldid=15252159#Grant_request_for_Malayalam_Wikimedia_Anniversary_Outreach_program_.28Wikisangamotsavam_2015.29">Wikisangamotsavam 2015</a> (December)</li>
<li>support Telugu Wikipedians to conduct a photowalk and a joint Telugu-English Wikimedians’ meetup in Hyderabad (both in December)</li>
<li>supporting <a class="text external" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:CIS-A2K/Requests&oldid=15924524#Request_fund_for_two-day_workshop_on_Samskrit_Wikisource_-_2016">two-day workshop on Samskrit Wikisource - 2016</a></li>
</ul>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Lessons learnt</dt></dl>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a class="mw-disambig" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants" title="Grants">WMF grants opportunities</a> should be discussed and promoted amongst Indic Wikimedia communities.</li>
<li>Wikimedia communities must be encouraged to optimize in-kind support such as event venue, internet connectivity.</li>
</ul>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Challenges</dt></dl>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>We have continuously informed communities that a request (specially if it is a large one) should come to us at least 3-4 weeks before the event date(s). However we have received requests at the last moment and hence faced difficulties (such as time-pressure) reviewing and process these requests in time.</li>
<li>We ask communities to submit expenditure details and narrative report of an event soon after its completion. However, we have faced difficulties collecting the said records in time.</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Revenues_received_during_this_period_.286_month_for_progress_report.2C_12_months_for_impact_report.29">Revenues received during this period (6 month for progress report, 12 months for impact report)</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>Provide exchange rate used:</i></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>1 USD = 61.88 INR</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span id="fdc-progress-table-2"> </span> <i>Table 2</i> <b>Please report all spending in the currency of your grant unless US$ is requested.</b></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><i>Please also include any in-kind contributions or resources that you have received in this revenues table. This might include donated office space, services, prizes, food, etc. If you are to provide a monetary equivalent (e.g. $500 for food from Organization X for service Y), please include it in this table. Otherwise, please highlight the contribution, as well as the name of the partner, in the notes section.</i></li>
</ul>
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<table class="vertical listing">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><b>Revenue source</b></td>
<td><b>Currency</b></td>
<td><b>Anticipated</b></td>
<td><b>Q1</b></td>
<td><b>Q2</b></td>
<td><b>Q3</b></td>
<td><b>Q4</b></td>
<td><b>Cumulative</b></td>
<td><b>Anticipated ($US)*</b></td>
<td><b>Cumulative ($US)*</b></td>
<td><b>Explanation of variances from plan</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>GSMA</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">263,783.00</td>
<td align="right">263,783.00</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">263,783.00</td>
<td align="right">4262.73</td>
<td align="right">4262.73</td>
<td><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Wikimedia Foundation</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">12,000,000.00</td>
<td align="right">6,997,845.00</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">4,998,082.00</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">11,995,927.00</td>
<td align="right">193,923.72</td>
<td align="right">193,857.90</td>
<td><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Kusuma Foundation</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">15,000,000.00</td>
<td align="right">7,500,000.00</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">7,500,000.00</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">15,000,000.00</td>
<td align="right">242,404.65</td>
<td align="right">242,404.65</td>
<td><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MacArthar Foundation</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">6,593,625.00</td>
<td align="right">6,593,625.00</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">6,593,625.00</td>
<td align="right">106,555.03</td>
<td align="right">106,555.03</td>
<td><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cybersteward Project</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">495,100.00</td>
<td align="right">495,100.00</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">495,100.00</td>
<td align="right">8,000.97</td>
<td align="right">8,000.97</td>
<td><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Big Data MF</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">4,578,734.00</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">4,578,734.00</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">4,578,734.00</td>
<td align="right">73,993.76</td>
<td align="right">73,993.76</td>
<td><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Privacy International</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">3,883,300.63</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">405,388.00</td>
<td align="right">3,477,912.63</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">3,883,300.63</td>
<td align="right">62,755.34</td>
<td align="right">62,755.34</td>
<td><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>IDRC</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">6,751,260.57</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">6,751,260.57</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">6,751,260.57</td>
<td align="right">109,102.47</td>
<td align="right">109,102.47</td>
<td><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The Mozilla Corporation</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">662,173.00</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">662,173.00</td>
<td align="right">662,173.00</td>
<td align="right">10,700.92</td>
<td align="right">10,700.92</td>
<td><br /></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</dd></dl>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">* Provide estimates in US Dollars</p>
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<th>Grants</th> <th>Explanation</th>
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<tr>
<td>GSMA</td>
<td>This fund is allocated to CIS for GSMA project undertaken in collaboration with Privacy International. The research has sought to understand different legal and regulatory aspects of security and surveillance in India.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Wikimedia Foundation</td>
<td>Wikimedia Foundation has given this grant, as part of their APG, to work with the Wikimedia community of volunteers in India to expand Wikimedia’s Indic language free knowledge projects, including Wikipedia in Indic languages. In addition, the grant aims to generate improvements in India-relevant free knowledge in Wikimedia’s English projects and wider distribution of free knowledge within India.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Kusma Foundation Fund</td>
<td>Kusuma Foundation funds the core of CIS programmes.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Spending_during_this_period_.286_month_for_progress_report.2C_12_months_for_impact_report.29">Spending during this period (6 month for progress report, 12 months for impact report)</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Please use the exchange rate in your APG proposal.</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span id="fdc-progress-table-3"> </span> <i>Table 3</i> <b>Please report all spending in the currency of your grant unless US$ is requested.</b></p>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dd>(The "budgeted" amount is the total planned for the year as submitted in your proposal form or your revised plan, and the "cumulative" column refers to the total spent to date this year. The "percentage spent to date" is the ratio of the cumulative amount spent over the budgeted amount.)</dd></dl> <dl style="text-align: justify; "><dd>
<table class="vertical listing">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><b>Expense</b></td>
<td><b>Currency</b></td>
<td><b>Budgeted</b></td>
<td><b>Q1</b></td>
<td><b>Q2</b></td>
<td><b>Q3</b></td>
<td><b>Q4</b></td>
<td><b>Cumulative</b></td>
<td><b>Budgeted ($US)*</b></td>
<td><b>Cumulative ($US)*</b></td>
<td><b>Percentage spent to date</b></td>
<td><b>Explanation of variances from plan</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Staff Cost</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">5,884,320.00</td>
<td align="right">986,800.00</td>
<td align="right">1,328,057.00</td>
<td align="right">1,695,815.00</td>
<td align="right">1,455,531.00</td>
<td align="right">5,466,203.00</td>
<td align="right">95,092.44</td>
<td align="right">88,335.54</td>
<td>92.9</td>
<td>Slightly under spent</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Staff Travel & Stay</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">985,000.00</td>
<td align="right">211,267.00</td>
<td align="right">162,566.00</td>
<td align="right">453,724.00</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">827,557.00</td>
<td align="right">15,917.91</td>
<td align="right">13,373.58</td>
<td>84.02</td>
<td>Due to inclusion of Program Associates presence staff travel has come down</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Volunteer Support</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">1,530,000.00</td>
<td align="right">41,847.00</td>
<td align="right">422,041.00</td>
<td align="right">100,631.00</td>
<td align="right">764,787.00</td>
<td align="right">1,329,306.00</td>
<td align="right">24,725.27</td>
<td align="right">21,482.00</td>
<td>86.89</td>
<td>Increased activities with the intervention of Program Associates</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Meetups</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">895,000.00</td>
<td align="right">84,285.00</td>
<td align="right">4,679.00</td>
<td align="right">151,904.00</td>
<td align="right">114,825.00</td>
<td align="right">355,693.00</td>
<td align="right">14,463.48</td>
<td align="right">5,748.11</td>
<td>39.74</td>
<td>A2K team has conducted Train-the-Trainer and Media Wiki Training during the last quarter of the grant period. These receipts will be updated in the final cumulative financial report</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Digitization</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">150,000.00</td>
<td align="right">5,250.00</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">10,250.00</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">15,500.00</td>
<td align="right">2,424.05</td>
<td align="right">250.48</td>
<td>39.74</td>
<td>Purchase of scanners to assist communities towards digitisation has been done</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Equipment</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">80,000.00</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">170,000.00</td>
<td align="right">362,430.00</td>
<td align="right">122,660.00</td>
<td align="right">655,090.00</td>
<td align="right">1,292.82</td>
<td align="right">10,586.46</td>
<td>819</td>
<td>Essential equipment such as laptops, video camera and hard disks purchased for newly hired Program Associates and A2K staff</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Assistant/Intern</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">110,000.00</td>
<td align="right">20,000.00</td>
<td align="right">30,000.00</td>
<td align="right">110,000.00</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">160,000.00</td>
<td align="right">1,777.63</td>
<td align="right">2,585.65</td>
<td>145.45</td>
<td>Hiring of 3 Program Associates has resulted in over spending</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Consumables (Printing, Statinery, Swag)</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">460,000.00</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">0</td>
<td align="right">7,433.74</td>
<td align="right">0</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>A2K was unable to utilise these funds for publishing and distributing of Community Resources</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Miscellaneous</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">165,000.00</td>
<td align="right">89,003.00</td>
<td align="right">21,207.00</td>
<td align="right">50,978.00</td>
<td align="right">50,442.00</td>
<td align="right">211,630.00</td>
<td align="right">2,666.45</td>
<td align="right">3,420.01</td>
<td>128</td>
<td>Unanticipated expenses regarding orientation of PA</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Design/Documentation & Research</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">50,000.00</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">20,950.00</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">16,508.00</td>
<td align="right">37,458.00</td>
<td align="right">808.02</td>
<td align="right">605.33</td>
<td>75</td>
<td>Optimal spending</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Program Advisor</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">580,800.00</td>
<td align="right">132,000.00</td>
<td align="right">132,000.00</td>
<td align="right">132,000.00</td>
<td align="right">132,000.00</td>
<td align="right">528,000.00</td>
<td align="right">9,385.91</td>
<td align="right">8,532.64</td>
<td>90.9</td>
<td>Optimal spending</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>TOTAL</b></td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">11,979,132.00</td>
<td align="right">1,570,452.00</td>
<td align="right">2,291,500.00</td>
<td align="right">3,067,732.00</td>
<td align="right">2,656,753.00</td>
<td align="right">9,586,437.00</td>
<td align="right">193,586.49</td>
<td align="right">154,919.80</td>
<td>80</td>
<td>Final Financial report will have the cumulative details.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</dd></dl>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">* Provide estimates in US Dollars</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Compliance">Compliance</span></h2>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Is_your_organization_compliant_with_the_terms_outlined_in_the_grant_agreement.3F">Is your organization compliant with the terms outlined in the grant agreement?</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As required in the grant agreement, please report any deviations from your grant proposal here. Note that, among other things, any changes must be consistent with our WMF mission, must be for charitable purposes as defined in the grant agreement, and must otherwise comply with the grant agreement.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement? Please answer "Yes" or "No".</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Are you in compliance with provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Code (“Code”), and with relevant tax laws and regulations restricting the use of the Grant funds as outlined in the grant agreement? Please answer "Yes" or "No".</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">References</h2>
<ol style="text-align: justify; ">
<li style="text-align: justify; "><span class="reference-text">2016 TTT version was conducted between 15–17 June 2016, and in this impact report we are reporting only till 30 June 2016. Although we have seen positive impact after this year's TTT, we are not including these in this report.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><span class="reference-text"><span class="reference-text">Panigrahi, Subhashish. "<a class="text external" href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/21/more-than-40-million-people-await-the-launch-of-odia-wikisource/">More Than 40 Million People Await the Launch of Odia Wikisource</a>". Wikimedia Blog (21 October 2014).</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><span class="reference-text"><span class="reference-text"><span class="reference-text">[ Roali], an IME for Assamese language that is quite popular in the Assamese speakers, came live after long time. CIS-A2K has worked closely with the developer of this IME, some of the Assamese Wikipedia community members and Wikimedia Foundation's Language Engineering team in the entire process.</span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><span class="reference-text"><span class="reference-text"><span class="reference-text"><span class="reference-text">Broadening the scope of blogs CIS-A2K has contributed to the larger Indic communities has been a constant effort, though in a limited capacity. A few such blogs can be read here: <a class="text external" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.in/subhashish-panigrahi-/why-its-essential-to-grow-indian-language-wikipedias/" rel="nofollow">1</a>, <a class="text external" href="https://globalvoices.org/2015/08/29/googles-optical-character-recognition-software-now-works-with-all-south-asian-languages/" rel="nofollow">2</a>, and <a class="text external" href="http://www.thehoot.org/media-watch/digital-media/can-wikipedia-revive-dying-indian-languages-9186" rel="nofollow">3</a>.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><span class="reference-text"><span class="reference-text"><span class="reference-text"><span class="reference-text"><span class="reference-text">In <a class="text external" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.in/subhashish-panigrahi-/an-innovation-thats-bringing-an-online-revolution-in-the-odia-l/" rel="nofollow">this</a> article, a community-led project for creating a script encoding converter for the Odia-language Wikimedia projects was highlighted. There were more publication in the Odia newspapers and the project was promoted on social media so that more people contribute using the Unicode standard. The latter will eventually help <a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/the-telegraph-april-7-2016-anwesha-ambaly-odia-gets-more-space-in-e-world" rel="nofollow">spread</a> the language's reach on the Internet.</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><span class="reference-text"><span class="reference-text"><span class="reference-text"><span class="reference-text"><span class="reference-text"><span class="reference-text">CIS-A2K and type designer Pooja Saxena submitted a paper and presented a paper titled "<a class="text external" href="http://typoday.in/2016/spk_papers/Pooja_Saxena_Shubhasis%20Panigrahi_TypographyDay-2016.pdf" rel="nofollow">Bringing Ol Chiki to the digital world</a>" at the Typoday 2016, an annual conference in India to bring type designers and script experts under one roof. The presentation is about CIS-A2K's work in bringing a freely-licensed typeface for the <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ol_Chiki_alphabet" title="w:Ol Chiki alphabet">Ol Chiki script</a> that is used to write <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santali_language" title="w:Santali language">Santali</a>, an indigenous language spoken across several countries in South Asia.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
</ol>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Signature">Signature</span></h2>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Once complete, please sign below with the usual four tildes.</dt></dl>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lahariyaniyathi" title="User:Lahariyaniyathi">Lahariyaniyathi</a> (<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Lahariyaniyathi" title="User talk:Lahariyaniyathi">talk</a>) 17:01, 28 September 2016 (UTC)</li>
</ul>
<h1 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Resources">Resources</span></h1>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Resources_to_plan_for_measurement">Resources to plan for measurement</span></h2>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Global metrics are an important starting point for grantees when it comes to measuring programmatic impact (<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_patterns/Calculating_global_metrics" title="Grants:Learning patterns/Calculating global metrics">Learning Patterns</a> and <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Global_Metrics_Tutorial.pdf" title="File:Global Metrics Tutorial.pdf">Tutorial</a>) but don’t stop there.</li>
<li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Logic_models" title="Grants:Evaluation/Logic models">Logic Models</a> provide a framework for mapping your pathway to impact through the cause and effect chain from inputs to outputs to outcomes. Develop a logic model to map out your theory of change and determine the metrics and measures for your programs.</li>
<li>Importantly, both <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Quantitative_vs_Qualitative" title="Grants:Evaluation/Quantitative vs Qualitative">qualitative and quantitative measures are important</a> so consider both as you determine <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Measures_for_evaluation" title="Grants:Evaluation/Measures for evaluation">measures for your evaluation</a> and be sure to <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Learning_modules/3Welcome" title="Grants:Evaluation/Learning modules/3Welcome">ask the right questions</a> to be sure to capture your program stories.</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Resources_for_storytelling">Resources for storytelling</span></h2>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Reporting_and_Storytelling" title="Grants:Evaluation/Reporting and Storytelling">WMF storytelling series</a> and <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MCruz_%28WMF%29/Sandbox/Storytelling_toolkit" title="User:MCruz (WMF)/Sandbox/Storytelling toolkit">toolkit (DRAFT)</a></li>
<li><a class="text external" href="http://www.frameworksinstitute.org/workshops/wideanglelens/children/part1.html" rel="nofollow">Online workshop on Storytelling</a>. By Frameworks institute
<ul>
<li>The origin of storytelling</li>
<li>Story frames, with a focus on news-worthiness.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="text external" href="http://workingnarratives.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Story-Guide.pdf" rel="nofollow">Reading guide: Storytelling and Social change</a>. By Working Narratives
<ul>
<li>The uses of the story.</li>
<li>Case studies.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="text external" href="https://philanthropy.com/article/3-Tips-for-Telling-Stories/228559" rel="nofollow">Blog: 3 Tips on telling stories that move people to action</a>. By Paul VanDeCarr (Working Narratives), on Philanthropy.com</li>
<li><a class="text external" href="http://www.sparknow.net/publications/SDC_Story_Guide_en.pdf" rel="nofollow">Building bridges using narrative techniques</a>. By Sparknow.net
<ul>
<li>Differences between a report and a story</li>
<li>Question guides and exercises.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="text external" href="http://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/188.pdf" rel="nofollow">Guide: Tools for Knowledge and Learning</a>. By Overseas Development Institute (UK).
<ul>
<li>Developing a strategy</li>
<li>Collaboration mechanisms</li>
<li>Knowledge sharing and learning</li>
<li>Capturing and storing knowledge.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/grants-apg-proposals-2014-2015-round2-the-centre-for-internet-and-society-impact-report-form'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/grants-apg-proposals-2014-2015-round2-the-centre-for-internet-and-society-impact-report-form</a>
</p>
No publisherhasanWikimediaCIS-A2KWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-10-09T14:40:36ZBlog EntryCommunity Prioritisation of Content Donation: Kannada Wikisource
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/community-prioritisation-content-donation-kannada-wikisource
<b> CIS-A2K has initiated a community consultation in order to prioritise and streamline the work on Wikisource projects across FLA. Due to the commitment of volunteers from the respective FLA and the institutional partnerships that A2K has developed we have been able to bring a large corpus of content under free licence into our Wikisource projects. CIS-A2K promotes both content donation and content acquisition strategies in order to bring in free licence content.
</b>
<p> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">The re-releasing of the content under CC-BY-SA is a difficult task no doubt, but the even more difficult task is to get the donated content digitised and made available on Wikisource. As this activity involves three intermediary steps of scanning the original document, uploading the same on commons.wikimedia.org and finally recreate the same page on Wikisource by typing.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">It is common knowledge that Indian Language Wikimedia communities consist of very few volunteers and in many communities it is Wikipedia that is the chief attraction for volunteers. This compounds the problem towards work that has to be done on Wikisource. To overcome this problem CIS-A2K has initiated a community consultation and prioritisation effort. CIS-A2K consults community in form of posts on Village pump, mailing lists and other channels of communication and update them about the overall content donated towards Wikisource projects and requests for suggestions and feedback as to the plan to digitse and bringing the content on Wikisource.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">For the month of November, 2015 CIS-A2K discussed the plan with the Kannada community Wikimedians and proposed a plan of aggregating all the content that has been donated towards Kannada Wikisource and copyright lapse content that has been identified by Wikimedians. A2K team is currently utilising its institutional partnership with Christ University in digitising the content of Sri. Niranjana a prominent Kannada author that was donated by Prof. Tejaswini Niranjana. As a result of this collaboration with the community A2K team shall be posting a comprehensive list of the content donated to Kannada Wikisource along with copyright lapse books that are available digitally on Digital Library of India and Osmania University Digital Library and other such platforms.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">This consultation process with the Kannada Wikimedia community also seeded an idea of creating a 'Book Bank' for Kannada Wikimedians. The objective of the book bank is to provide authentic references, citation material and other primary sources of information for content generation. As a first step towards building of the proposed book bank, we have purchased encyclopaedic material on Stone Inscriptions found in Karnataka, Women writers of Karnataka, Literary history of Karnataka and Kannada Dictionaries. The material acquired under 'Book Bank' will serve as resources for community and will be provided to the community members upon request for the same.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">Following lists provide information about the current status of projects undertaken on Kannada Wikipedia:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard"><strong>Projects which are active on Wikisource:</strong></p>
<ol style="text-align: justify;">
<li>Vimochane - 50 pages to be typed out of 355</li>
<li>Abhaya - 63 to be typed of 326 pages</li>
<li>Doorada Nakshatra - 23 typed out of 175</li>
<li>Rangammana Vathara - 23 to be typed of 209 pages</li>
<li>Ekangini - 41 typed of 228 pages</li>
<li>Kalyanaswami - 100 typed of 251</li></ol>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">These books are scanned and uploaded on Kannada Wikisource</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody"><strong>Books to be uploaded on Wikisource:</strong></p>
<ol style="text-align: justify;">
<li>Chirasmarane</li>
<li>Mrutyunjaya</li>
<li>Deekshe</li>
<li>Navodaya</li>
<li>Palike banda panchamruta</li>
<li>Swami Aparampara</li></ol>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody"><strong>Books available to be scanned:</strong></p>
<ol style="text-align: justify;">
<li>Banashankari</li>
<li>Nandagokula</li></ol>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">CIS-A2K has visited the following libraries in order to optimise the efforts put into Kannada Wikisource:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">1) Central Library, Cubbon Park, Bangalore</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">2) Kannada Shaitya Parishat, Chamarajpet, Bangalore</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">3) B.M. Shri Pratishtana Library, Bangalore</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">4) Gokhale Institute of Public Affairs, Basavanagudi, Bangalore</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">The visits have resulted in identifying many books that were hitherto unavailable with A2K team. We are in process of getting these books and digitise them so that they can be uploaded on Kannada Wiisource. A2K team is hopeful that the increased levels of activity and consultation held with the community will help the overall progress of Kannada Wikisource project.</p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/community-prioritisation-content-donation-kannada-wikisource'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/community-prioritisation-content-donation-kannada-wikisource</a>
</p>
No publisherhasanOpen Educational ResourcesCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaKannada Wikisource2015-12-15T07:42:09ZBlog EntryCIS brings Nadustunna Charithra magazine under by CC BY SA licence
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/cis-brings-nadustunna-charithra-magazine-under-by-cc-by-sa-licence
<b>As a part of its content donation initiative, the Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) has brought all issues of Nadustunna Charithra magazine under Creative Common Licence. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify;">CIS-A2K has received 74 issues as of now from the Telugu Jaati foundation. These issues shall be published by A2K on a blog site under CC BY SA licence to make it a reliable reference resource and adhere Wikipedia guidelines.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Nadustunna Charithra magazine has dealt extensively with Telugu semantics and Telugu Cultural history and we hope to upload all the issues to Telugu Wikisource. These magazines will also serve as handy reference guides for Telugu Wikipedians and shall act as a major referencing and citation resource.<br /><br />CIS-A2K has also been successful in acquiring 250 song books (booklets that have the lyrics of songs featured in a film) of Telugu movies for content donation. These song books serve as introduction to the film itself. They contain lyrics of the songs, poster of the movie, details of the cast and crew, a short synopsis both in Telugu and English along with photographs of the lead actors. As of now CIS-A2K has been able to locate song books for most of the films produced between 1930-1954.<br /><br />These resources shall also help the Telugu community in coming up with new/improved articles related to Telugu cinema. With most of the basic information regarding a film available in the song book, we expect that the Telugu community along with active cooperation from A2K shall create GA quality articles and this content donation will also help in improving stubs that were created earlier.<br /><br />CIS-A2K is extremely grateful for the support received by the Telugu community during this content donation initiative and would like to thank in person Mr. Bhaskarnaidu, Mr. Gullapalli Nageshwara Rao who have been part of these conversations and helped us identify the resources to be re-licensed.<br /><br /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/cis-brings-nadustunna-charithra-magazine-under-by-cc-by-sa-licence'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/cis-brings-nadustunna-charithra-magazine-under-by-cc-by-sa-licence</a>
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No publisherhasanTelugu WikipediaCreative CommonsAccess to KnowledgeOpen Access2016-06-18T18:07:46ZBlog EntryAnalysis of Institutional Partnerships: University of Mysore and Guru G Learning Labs
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/analysis-of-institutional-partnerships-university-of-mysore-and-guru-g-learning-lab
<b>University of Mysore considered to be one of the most prestigious institutions in the country has been famous for its innovative pedagogic techniques and opening up for students various avenues of knowledge acquisition.</b>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard">The Kannada Encyclopedia project that was taken up by the Kuvempu Kannada Adhyana Samsthe, (KIKS), Manasagangothri, Mysore was one of its kind during its inception. It is safe to say that though Kannda has seen many other projects and attempts towards compiling encyclopedias, to this day the Vishwakoshas produced by University of Mysore are among the top picks regarding quality of the content, scope of the information and its reach with the general public. Many other encyclopedia projects such as “Bala Vignana Kosha” compiled by Shivaram Karanth, “Jnana Gangothri” by Niranjana, the “Kananda Sahitya Vishwakosha” from the Kannada University, Hampi have provided encyclopedic content to the Kannada readers.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard">The idea of the University of Mysore complied Vishwakoshas was simple. It seeked to provide basic and elemenatry information about key topics all around the universe (physical, spiritual, material, cultural, social, behavioural, political and many other domains of knowledge) to the general public. The intention was to make information accessible and easily understandable. It was not expected to educate or assist people in gaining profieciency regarding a certain topic but was expected to provide salient features, brief history and concise introduction.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard"><strong>Rationale for Institutional partnership:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard">The compilation of topics that were to be part of the Vishwakosha was done alphabetically and till date 13 Vishwakoshas have been produced along with one Kannada Vishaya Vishwakosha which exclusively deals with matters pertaining to Kannada land, language, literature, politics, culture, entertainment and other aspects of Kannada life. The Vishwakosha project was a method to democratise the process of production of knowledge. People from all walks of life were invited to contribute to the Vishwakosha along with the academicians and researchers. The submissions were then scrutinised by the review committee and was edited, information added as per the requirements. As this was not a text only Vishwakosha many attempts were made to source images as well. These were not used as ornamental or page filling purpose but was also informative in its own way with adequate meta data.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard">These encyclopedias have been extremely popular with the Kannada audience both for the content and for its competitive pricing. Prasaranga, the publication division of University of Mysore had also offered an discount for people who would purchase the entire set of Vishwakoshas at a special rate. The Vishwakosha project faced many problems and the last volume of the Vishwakosha was released in the year , while the first volume was released in . University of Mysore has also digitised the Vishwakoshas and made it avaialable for general public on a CD.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard"><strong>Plan of Action:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard">Access to Knowledge team sought to bring these treasure troves of Knowledge onto the digital platform and update the information available on these Vishwakoshas. It was a shot in the arm for the activities being conducted by CIS-A2K when University of Mysore agreed to re-release all of its encyclopedias under free licence for the benefit of larger Kannada community. University of Mysore also agreed to handover soft copies of the few encyclopedias (that were already digitised) to create and redirect content towards Kannada Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard">A2K team has conducted three skill building and Wikipedia orientation workshops with the students of University of Mysore in order to kick start the content generation activities. These workshops were received very positively by the students. However due to lack of an active community and serious infrastructural issues the students could not continue with the activities that had been planned. Due to the inactivity of these new volunteers we have witnessed a decrease in the activity of content generation effort as aimed earlier.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">CIS-A2K facilitated extracting the legacy text from the soft-copies, converting them to Unicode, distributing the files among volunteers and Christ University interns and uploading them to Kannada Wikisource. These articles will serve as primary material for new content generation on Kannada Wikipedia. CIS-A2K celeberated Open Knowledge Day in collaboration with University of Mysore.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard">The non availability of infrastructual requirement, administrative difficulties such as scheduling of academic calendar offered the A2K team many invaluable lessons towards fostering an institutional partnership. A2K team adopted corrective measures and has been using the encyclopedias donated by University of Mysore as a primary reference for the subsequent edit-a-thons. A2K has also created a project page on Meta to attract Kannada Wikimedians towards content generation.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard"><strong>Outcome and Output:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard">A2K team utilised its institutional partnership with Christ University in the initial stages and digitised volumes of Kannada Encyclopedias. These were used both as references for the edit-a-thons conducted by CIS-A2K and as a primary reference material that was curated into an independent article on Kannada Wikipedia. Many Kannada Wikimedians have joined hands with A2K in acheiving this. This is an on-going activity.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard"><strong>Plans for Future:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard">As University of Mysore has rich archival collection particulalry in Indian Languages, A2K team intends to talk to individual departments to bring this content to Open Knowledge repositiries.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard">A2K team would like to involve various Departments to dedicate some staff on an hourly basis towards speedy completion of the project.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard">The existing MoU is understood as a one time activity of content donation (print and e copy of Vishwakosha) where as A2K would like to continue this activity as a long term engagement that will facilitate in building research skills and writing skills.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard">A2K team intends to request to University of Mysore should select/suggest some student volunteers for the digitisation project. With the inclusion of Kannada PA A2K team would collaborate with key Departments at the University of Mysore to conduct digitisation and translation sprints that will be facilitated by and other Wikimedians.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard">A2K team would like to collate all the new articles created with the help of the content donated by University of Mysore and circulate it as a newsletter on a monthly basis and sent to the Kannada community and University of Mysore.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/analysis-of-institutional-partnerships-university-of-mysore-and-guru-g-learning-lab'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/analysis-of-institutional-partnerships-university-of-mysore-and-guru-g-learning-lab</a>
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No publisherhasanOpen Educational ResourcesCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipedia2015-12-15T07:39:15ZBlog Entry