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Cyber fears
https://cis-india.org/digital-natives/publications/Cyber%20fears.pdf
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/digital-natives/publications/Cyber%20fears.pdf'>https://cis-india.org/digital-natives/publications/Cyber%20fears.pdf</a>
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No publishertettnerWorkshop2011-08-23T04:26:15ZFileConsilience 2010 Report
https://cis-india.org/a2k/publications/consilience-2010
<b>A report of the proceedings</b>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/publications/consilience-2010'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/publications/consilience-2010</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaWorkshopAccess to Knowledge2011-08-22T13:25:25ZFileCivic Hacking Workshop
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/civic-hacking-workshop
<b>CIS, with the UK Government's Foreign Office and the Cabinet Office Team for Digital Engagement, and Google India, is organizing a workshop on open data (or the lack thereof) and 'civic hacking'.</b>
<p>The UK Government's Foreign Office and the Cabinet Office Team for Digital Engagement, Google India and the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore are organizing a 'Civic Hacking Workshop' on Wednesday, July 28, 2010, bringing together civic-minded technologists who've been working with governmental data in India and Britain.</p>
<p>The workshop will discuss the problems of obtaining data, especially in India, the technological solutions that these various groups have encountered, the difficulties of technology as a mass-based civic solution, and the visions that these groups have for a more engaged civil society and the contributions they seek to make to the public.</p>
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<p>The people attending are, from India (Bangalore):</p>
<ol><li>Alok Singh (Akshara Foundation)</li><li>Shivangi Desai (Akshara Foundation)</li><li>Arun Ganesh (Geohackers / National Institute of Design)</li><li>A. Pandian (Mapunity)</li><li>Sridhar Raman (Mapunity)</li><li>S. Raghavan Kandala (Mapunity)</li><li>Thejesh GN (Janaagraha / Infosys)</li><li>Sushant Sinha (IndianKanoon.com / Yahoo)</li><li>Vijay Rasquinha (Mahiti)</li><li>P.G. Bhat (SmartVote.in)<br /></li><li>Pranesh Prakash (CIS)</li><li>Raman Jit Singh Chima (Google)</li></ol>
<p><br />And from Britain:</p>
<ol><li>David McCandless (Information Is Beautiful)</li><li>Harry Metcalfe (TellThemWhatYouThink.org / Open Rights Group)</li><li>Tim Green (Democracy Club)</li><li>Edmund von der Burg (YourNextMP)</li><li>Rohan Silva (Special Adviser to the PM)</li></ol>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/civic-hacking-workshop'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/civic-hacking-workshop</a>
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No publisherpraneshOpen DataWorkshopDigital GovernanceOpenness2011-08-23T03:14:03ZBlog EntryCartonama Workshop
https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/cartonama
<b>HasGeek presents an intensive, hands-on training for managing and building location based services at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS), Bangalore on 2nd and 3rd March, 2012. CIS is a partner for this event.</b>
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<h2>About the Workshop</h2>
<p>Around 95% smartphone users around the world - which translates to about <a class="external-link" href="http://blur-marketing.com/blog/trends-and-statistics-in-location-based-services/">468 million people - are using Location Based Services</a> to look for points of interests, ATMs, restaurants, hotels and many other services. They are checking traffic status, and sharing locations and check-ins with friends on various social networks. In the last four years, this industry has grown six times, to a whooping $6 billion.</p>
<p>Cartonama Workshop will provide developers, neo-geographers and entrepreneurs working on location based services with hands-on training on advanced tools to manage and represent their geographic data.</p>
<p>The trainers will help participants to learn use of tools such as databases, tile servers, tile studios, Geocoding APIs, search APIs and JavaScript libraries through an application building exercise. The learning process is interspersed with lectures and discussion sessions on issues such as quality of geographic data, commercialization, licensing and privacy. For more details about the workshop sessions, <a class="external-link" href="http://funnel.hasgeek.com/cartonama-workshop/">visit the HasGeek funnel</a>.</p>
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<h2>Speakers</h2>
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<td><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/schuyler_erle.jpg/image_preview" title="Schuyler" height="101" width="101" alt="Schuyler" class="image-inline image-inline" /></td>
<td><strong>Schuyler Erle</strong><br />Free Software developer and evangelist for over fifteen years. He was a co-author of 'Mapping Hacks' and 'Google Maps Hacks'. He was also a co-founder of the OpenLayers and TileCache projects, and is a charter member of the OSGeo Foundation. He also works in the fields of wireless networking, intelligent search engines and the Semantic Web and was the lead developer of NoCatAuth which is an open source wireless captive portal. He built geocoder.us, which is an open source United States. address geocoder. More recently, Schuyler helped found the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and serves on its Board of Directors. He currently resides in San Francisco.</td>
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<td><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/mikel_maron.jpg/image_preview" title="Mikel Maron" height="100" width="100" alt="Mikel Maron" class="image-inline image-inline" /></td>
<td><strong>Mikel Maron</strong><br />Programmer and geographer working for impactful community and humanitarian uses of open source and open data. He is co-founder of Ground Truth Initiative, and of the Map Kibera project. He’s on the Board of the OpenStreetMap Foundation, and President of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, having helped to facilitate the OSM response to the Haiti earthquake. He’s travelled widely, organizing projects in India, Palestine, Egypt, Swaziland, and elsewhere. Previously, he co-founded Mapufacture and worked on collaborative platforms, and geoweb standards, with a wide spectrum of organizations from UN and government agencies to anarchist hacker collectives.</td>
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In 2008, Mikel Maron and Schuyler Erle conducted <a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/India/Events/Free_Map_India_2008" class="external-link">a series of workshops in India</a>. From Delhi to Ludhiana, Pune, Mumbai, Kerala and Bangalore. The workshop series poked people like <a class="external-link" href="http://twitter.com/planemad">Arun Ganesh</a>
and inspired them to map and build applications. Arun and his friends
mapped Chennai extensively and created beautiful maps. They also put the
data together into <a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/busroutes.in" class="external-link">busroutes.in</a>
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BusRoutes.in remains as one of the best examples of using crowdsourced
geographic information to create applications that are useful.</p>
<h2>Sessions</h2>
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<td align="center"><a class="external-link" href="http://funnel.hasgeek.com/cartonama-workshop/194-introduction-to-openstreetmap"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/osm.jpg/image_preview" alt="OpenStreetMap" class="image-inline image-inline" title="OpenStreetMap" /></a></td>
<td align="center"><a class="external-link" href="http://funnel.hasgeek.com/cartonama-workshop/195-gps-surveying-for-osm"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/GPS.jpg/image_preview" alt="GPS Surveying" class="image-inline image-inline" title="GPS Surveying" /></a></td>
<td align="center"><a class="external-link" href="http://funnel.hasgeek.com/cartonama-workshop/196-downloading-from-gps"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Down.jpg/image_preview" alt="Downloading from GPS" class="image-inline image-inline" title="Downloading from GPS" /></a></td>
<td align="center"><a class="external-link" href="http://funnel.hasgeek.com/cartonama-workshop/197-editing-data-in-osm"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Edit.jpg/image_preview" alt="Editing Data" class="image-inline image-inline" title="Editing Data" /></a></td>
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<td align="center"><strong>Introduction to OpenStreetMap</strong><br /></td>
<td align="center"><strong>GPS Surveying for OpenStreetMap</strong><br /></td>
<td align="center"><strong>Downloading from GPS</strong><br /></td>
<td align="center"><strong>Editing Data for OpenStreetMap</strong><br /></td>
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<td align="center"><a class="external-link" href="http://funnel.hasgeek.com/cartonama-workshop/198-tagging-and-map-features"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/tag.jpg/image_preview" alt="Tagging" class="image-inline image-inline" title="Tagging" /></a><br /></td>
<td align="center"><a class="external-link" href="http://funnel.hasgeek.com/cartonama-workshop/199-geo-file-formats"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Geographic.jpg/image_preview" alt="Geographic file formats" class="image-inline image-inline" title="Geographic file formats" /></a></td>
<td align="center"><a class="external-link" href="http://funnel.hasgeek.com/cartonama-workshop/200-geo-enabled-databases"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Geoenabled.jpg/image_preview" alt="Geo-enabled Databases" class="image-inline image-inline" title="Geo-enabled Databases" /></a></td>
<td align="center"><a class="external-link" href="http://funnel.hasgeek.com/cartonama-workshop/201-processing-osm-data"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/process.jpg/image_preview" alt="Processing" class="image-inline image-inline" title="Processing" /></a></td>
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<td align="center"><strong>Tagging and Map Features</strong><br /></td>
<td align="center"><strong>Geographic File Formats</strong><br /></td>
<td align="center"><strong>Geo-enabled Databases</strong><br /></td>
<td align="center"><strong>Processing OpenStreetMap Data</strong><br /></td>
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<td align="center"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/swiss.jpg/image_preview" alt="Data Swiss Army Knives" class="image-inline image-inline" title="Data Swiss Army Knives" /><br /></td>
<td align="center"><a class="external-link" href="http://funnel.hasgeek.com/cartonama-workshop/203-create-shapefiles-from-collected-data"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/shape.jpg/image_preview" alt="Creating Shapefiles" class="image-inline image-inline" title="Creating Shapefiles" /></a></td>
<td align="center"><a class="external-link" href="http://funnel.hasgeek.com/cartonama-workshop/204-tiles"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/tiles.jpg/image_preview" alt="Tiles" class="image-inline image-inline" title="Tiles" /></a></td>
<td align="center"><a class="external-link" href="http://funnel.hasgeek.com/cartonama-workshop/205-tilemill"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/tilemill.jpg/image_preview" alt="Tilemill" class="image-inline image-inline" title="Tilemill" /></a></td>
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<td align="center"><strong>Data Swiss Army Knives</strong><br /></td>
<td align="center"><strong>Creating Shapefiles</strong><br /></td>
<td align="center"><strong>Tiles</strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>Tilemill</strong></td>
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<td align="center"><a class="external-link" href="http://funnel.hasgeek.com/cartonama-workshop/206-javascript-mapping-apis"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/java.jpg/image_preview" alt="Javascript Mapping APIs" class="image-inline image-inline" title="Javascript Mapping APIs" /></a></td>
<td align="center"><a class="external-link" href="http://funnel.hasgeek.com/cartonama-workshop/207-serving-tiles"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/serve.jpg/image_preview" alt="Serving Tiles" class="image-inline image-inline" title="Serving Tiles" /></a></td>
<td align="center"><a class="external-link" href="http://funnel.hasgeek.com/cartonama-workshop/208-geocoding-and-location-queries"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Geocoding.jpg/image_preview" alt="Geocoding" class="image-inline image-inline" title="Geocoding" /></a></td>
<td align="center"><a class="external-link" href="http://funnel.hasgeek.com/cartonama-workshop/209-putting-it-all-together"><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/putting.jpg/image_preview" alt="Putting" class="image-inline image-inline" title="Putting" /></a></td>
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<td><strong>Java Script Mapping APIs<br /></strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>Serving Tiles<br /></strong></td>
<td><strong>Geocoding and Location queries<br /></strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>Putting it all together<br /></strong></td>
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<h2>Why You Should Attend the Workshop?</h2>
<p>The workshop is only open to 30 participants. This is to ensure that the trainers can pay individual attention to each participant.</p>
<p>The workshop will train you with both back-end as well as front-end tools necessary for developing functional location based services and will enable you to build maps which can be used on devices ranging from phones to tablets to computers. It is aimed at teaching you the entire technology stack, right from managing the data to deploying the data on the server, and finally presenting it to your end user. During the hands-on sessions, you will develop web-based location services and learn how to manage your geographic data by creating interactive maps.</p>
<p>Mikel and Schuyler have extensive experience working with interactive maps, open data, Open Street Maps (OSM) and diverse communities on the ground. Participants will benefit immensely from the knowledge, experience and expertise of the trainers.</p>
<h2><a class="external-link" href="http://cartonama.doattend.com/">Registration</a></h2>
<p>Tickets are priced at Rs. 10,000. Participants can register through the DoAttend portal. Or, you can pay offline through cheques and DD. Your ticket price covers workshop facilities and the facilitators' travel to India. The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) has sponsored part of the workshop expenses.</p>
<p>Participants are expected to bring their own GPS devices / mobile phones and computers for the application building exercises.</p>
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If you have any queries, write to <a class="external-link" href="mailto:sajjad@hasgeek.in">Sajjad Anwar</a>.</p>
<p align="center"><a class="external-link" href="http://cartonama.doattend.com/"><strong>Buy Tickets Now</strong></a></p>
<h2>Venue</h2>
<p>The workshop will be held at the Centre for Internet and Society
(CIS), Bangalore. The congenial atmosphere at CIS facilitates both
formal and informal interactions, and peer-to-peer learning.<br />
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<p>No. 194, 2nd C Cross, 4th Main<br />
Opposite Domlur Club<br />
Domlur 2nd Stage, Bangalore - 560 071</p>
<h2>The Centre for Internet & Society</h2>
<p>The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is a Bangalore-based independent, non-profit research organisation. CIS is primarily involved in research on the Internet and its relationship to society. Through its academic and research programmes, campaigns, and advocacy, CIS brings together scholars, academics, students, programmers and scientists to engage in a large variety of issues concerning the Internet: from histories of the Internet to enhancing accessibility for persons with disabilities, openness, telecom and Internet governance, among others.</p>
<p>CIS is supporting the Cartonama Workshop by providing the venue and hosting the workshop facilitators in Bangalore.</p>
<h2>HasGeek</h2>
<p><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/www.hasgeek.com" class="external-link">HasGeek </a>was initiated in September 2010 to create discussion spaces for developers around emerging technologies. Our events are developer-focused. We began by organizing five editions of the DocType HTML5 conference in Bangalore, Chennai, Pune, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad.</p>
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In 2011, we organized a series of events in Bangalore starting with the Android Camp in April, PHP and Cloud Computing in June, JSFoo in October, and Droidcon India in November. Each of these events had an open talks submission and voting system, which made every event more participant-focused. <br />
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In 2012, we are attempting to reach out to a wider audience of developers, entrepreneurs and students, across large and small Indian cities, by addressing interesting technology problems such as UI Engineering, Data Science, SMS and email notifications, among others.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/cartonama'>https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/cartonama</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaEvent TypeWorkshopInternet Governance2012-02-14T10:21:16ZEventCall for Applications: 'Maps for Making Change' - Using Geographical Mapping Techniques to Support Struggles for Social Justice in India
https://cis-india.org/advocacy/other-advocacy/maps-for-making-change
<b>Deadline: 20 November 2009.
Maps for Making Change is a two-month project specifically designed for activists and supporters of social movements and campaigns in India. It provides participants with an exciting opportunity to explore how a range of digital mapping techniques can be used to support struggles for social justice. It also allows you to immediately develop and implement in practice a concrete mapping project relevant to your campaign or movement, with full technical support. Interested in joining us? Send in your application by 20 November 2009. </b>
<p align="justify"><em><strong>Background</strong> </em></p>
<p align="justify">Most of us think of maps as representations of territory. But have you ever wondered why <em>bastis</em>, slums, unauthorised colonies and monuments of minorities and poor people rarely are given prominence on maps – or at times are even absent altogether? All too often only seats of power, such as big hospitals, the colonies of the rich and diplomatic missions, receive detailed mention. This is because maps simultaneously also function as representations of relations of power and control: which places, communities, historical monuments, townships, colonies and roads are highlighted on a map reflects the power and control that various communities and classes possess or lack. In modern times, this is particularly obvious in planning processes, which incorporate maps as crucial tools in villages and cities alike. To challenge the practice of privileging the powerful on maps, and to create maps from the margins and of margins, therefore has emerged as an important aspect as well as a tool of our fights against injustice in society.</p>
<p align="justify"><em><strong>Maps for Making Change</strong></em></p>
<p align="justify">Today, with the emergence of new technologies such as GPS and the Internet, mapping techniques have advanced beyond the confines of professional cartographers and can be mobilised and used to fight for social justice by anyone with an interest in maps. Are you someone concerned with the state of social justice in the country today? Are you working closely, as an activist or a supporter, with a campaign or social movement? Are you interested in exploring how digital geographical mapping techniques might help facilitate or support your advocacy and awareness raising campaigns and understanding of the power relations in society? Perhaps you already have some ideas on how maps can fit into your work, but you require technical support to put these into practice? Then this is for you.</p>
<p align="justify">Maps for Making Change is a two-month project that will provide you with the opportunity to explore how mapping can be used to support your campaigns, struggles and movements to fight against injustice. It is jointly organised by the Centre for Internet and Society (Bangalore) and the Tactical Technology Collective (Bangalore and London), and brings together activists and technologists. Over the course of the project, participants will:</p>
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<p align="justify">explore and share ideas about the possible uses of geographical maps within the context of campaigns and movements in India;</p>
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<p align="justify">try out a range of mapping tools and get training and support in the creation and use of maps;</p>
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<p align="justify">develop and implement your own mapping project, involving the creation and use as well as dissemination of maps, relevant to your campaign's or movement's advocacy and goals.</p>
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<p align="justify"><em><strong>Format</strong></em></p>
<p align="justify">Maps for Making Change will take the form of three workshops, with time in between each for participants to work on a mapping project of their choice. The first workshop will take place in Delhi on 3 December, and will be an introductory event, where tools and tactics will be explored and discussed and participants can determine the nature of the information they need to collect to implement their own mapping project. The second workshop will take place over 3 days during the first week of January (exact dates and location to be decided), and will involve actual work on mapping projects, using data and other resources collected by participants in the intervening time. The third workshop will be a two-day event during the first week of February (exact dates and location to be decided), and will be the time for participants to provide overall feedback, as well as to do the final touches on the projects and launch them. Not only during the workshops, but throughout the two-month project period, and at every stage of the development of your project plan, technical support will be available to help participants make your ideas a reality.</p>
<p align="justify">The organisers will cover travel and accommodation expenses of those who are selected to participate in the project. There is no participation fee. By applying, applicants commit themselves, however, to devoting the necessary time to this project. Where relevant, an organisational commitment to allow you to do this would also be required.</p>
<p align="justify"><em><strong>Who should apply?</strong></em></p>
<p align="justify">This is an event for activists and supporters of movements and campaigns based in India. Preference will be given to applicants that intend to use the project directly for their work within a campaign or movement. Applications are welcomed from individuals, but also from groups of people who are working within the same campaign or movement and who would like to develop and implement a mapping project together. Those who have been centrally involved in designing and implementing communication strategies of campaigns and movements are particularly encouraged to apply, but such a role is not at all a prerequisite to be part of Maps for Making Change. Participants from appropriate backgrounds who simply want to explore the technology and its uses without immediately implementing it will be welcome in so far as space allows.</p>
<p align="justify">We would like to also encourage applications from students who are involved with campaigns or movements and who would like to learn these skills so as to use them in their advocacy efforts. Students will be provided with special assistance during the programme.</p>
<p align="justify">All participants should have some familiarity with computer use. While more advanced technology skills are useful, they are not essential: technology support will be provided as required for all participants to ensure that everyone completes their own mapping project.</p>
<p align="justify">Regretfully, we will be able to accommodate translation only from Hindi to English and vice versa, so applicants will need to be comfortable with either of these languages.</p>
<p align="justify"><em><strong>How to apply</strong></em></p>
<p align="justify">Please answer the questions below in Hindi or in English. You do not need to write long responses (up to 300 words max), but please provide us with enough information to understand your involvement in and commitment to campaigns or movements for social justice, as well as your skills and interest. We also would like to know why you want to be part of the Maps for Making Change project and what are some of the contributions (of whatever kind) you could make to it.</p>
<p align="justify">You can send your answers by email to <a href="mailto:mapsforchange@cis-india.org">maps4change@cis-india.org</a>, or by post to:</p>
<div align="justify" class="visualClear">Maps for Making Change</div>
<div align="justify" class="visualClear">c/o Centre for Internet and Society</div>
<div align="justify" class="visualClear">No. D2, 3rd Floor, Sheriff Chambers</div>
<div align="justify" class="visualClear">14, Cunningham Road</div>
<div align="justify" class="visualClear">Bangalore 560052</div>
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The last day for applications is 20 November 2009. Early applications will make us very happy though! :)<em><strong><br /><br />Application Questions:</strong></em>
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Please provide answers to all the following questions.
<p align="left">1) Basic personal information:</p>
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<p align="left">Name:</p>
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<p align="left">Gender:</p>
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<p align="left">Date of birth:</p>
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<p align="left">Nationality:</p>
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<p align="left">Affiliation/organisation:</p>
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<p align="left">E-mail address (if available):</p>
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<p align="left">Telephone and emergency contact number(s):</p>
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<p align="left">Preferred language of communication:</p>
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<p align="left">Veg/non veg:</p>
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<p align="left">Anything else we should know about you (allergies, medical condition, special needs):</p>
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<p align="left">Are you applying individually or as part of a team? If as part of a team, please provide the names of the other team members here;</p>
<p align="left">2) Where are you from, where do you live now, and what is your current movement/organisational affiliation (movement/organisation you work with, its mission, position you have within it, is your organisation a non-profit, etc.)?</p>
<p align="justify">3) What is your wider experience of working with campaigns or movements for social justice? What kinds of initiatives have you been involved in? What kind of responsibilities have you taken up within these?</p>
<p align="justify">4) Have you been involved with any technology projects for non-profit organisations or campaigns or movements for social change? If so please briefly explain your experience (what worked, what didn't, what did you like, what not, etc?) and your role within the project. If you haven't been involved with such a project, please explain why you are interested in exploring the use of technology for social change.</p>
<p align="justify">5) Why are you interested in joining Maps for Making Change in particular? How can you and your movement/organisation benefit from your participation?</p>
<p align="justify">6) Do you already have an idea in mind that involves using maps for social change and that you would like to develop into a project that can support the work of the campaign or movement that you are involved with? If so, please explain.</p>
<p align="justify">7) To help us better understand the kind of technical support we will need to provide during Maps for Making Change, please describe your current technical expertise and ability.</p>
<p align="justify">8) All participants are encouraged to teach as well as to learn. What kind of contribution to the group's learning do you think you could make?</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>If you require more information about the project or about the application process, please email us at <a href="mailto:mapsforchange@cis-india.org">maps4change@cis-india.org</a>, or call us at 080 4092 6283.</strong></p>
<p align="justify">Looking forward to hearing from you!</p>
<p align="justify">The Maps for Making Change Team</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/advocacy/other-advocacy/maps-for-making-change'>https://cis-india.org/advocacy/other-advocacy/maps-for-making-change</a>
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No publisheranjaDigital ActivismPracticeWorkshopResearchers at WorkMaps for Making Change2015-10-05T15:04:12ZBlog EntryBringing Konkani Encyclopedia in Public Domain
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/bringing-konkani-encyclopedia-in-public-domain
<b>On December 14, 2012, a meeting was scheduled with the Vice Chancellor Dr. Satish R Shetye to discuss the possibility of bringing Konkani Encyclopedia in public domain. Nitika Tandon shares the development in this blog post.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>As for now the four volume Konkani Encyclopedia is under the copyright of the <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Goa">University of Goa</a>. Dr. Shetye has gifted one whole set of Konkani Encyclopedia to the Centre for Internet and Society and is interested to relinquish the copyright to release it under creative common license and digitize it on Wikipedia.</span> In the coming weeks we'll be working closely with Dr. Shetye and his team to bring this free encyclopedia on Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A Special thanks to Goa State Library, Goa University, Dr. Shetye, Prof. Alito Siqueira, and Prof. Gopakumar for such a wonderful gift. And a big thanks to Harriet Vidyasagar and Debanjan and all those who helped to pull this through.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/bringing-konkani-encyclopedia-in-public-domain'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/bringing-konkani-encyclopedia-in-public-domain</a>
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No publishernitikaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-07-26T11:35:29ZBlog EntryBridging Gender Gap in Pune: WikiWomenDay 2012 Celebrated with Success!
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wiki-women-day-2012-pune
<b>A2K team members Subhashish Panigrahi and Noopur Raval participated in the "WikiWomenDay" organized by Wikipedia Club Pune at PAI International Learning Solutions, Azam Campus on October 28, 2012. Subhashish unfolds the happenings of this full day free fun workshop.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Globally participation of women on Wikipedia is less than 10 per cent. Women wikipedians across the world have joined hands to boost women's contribution to Wikipedia. Recently the A2K team was in Pune for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Club_Pune/WikiWomenDay">WikiWomenDay 2012</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Club_Pune">Wikipedia Club Pune</a>, the first Wikipedia club in India, to encourage women's participation on Wikipedia, had organized a full day fun event on October 28, 2012 at <a href="http://www.pai-ils.com/">PAI International Learning Solutions</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Abhishek Suryavanshi, founder of Wikipedia Club Pune briefed about the agenda of the event. Noopur spoke about the global contribution on Wikipedia in terms of various topics and how male-centered topics were well covered. Few of the male centric articles were taken up for comparison with those of women to make the audience understand the gap of contribution. A good majority of articles which were of interest to men were well written whereas women centric articles were of bad shape due to lack of contribution from women. A visual <a href="http://visual.ly/wikipedias-gender-gap">representation</a> was shown to the participants to explain the statistical information about gender gap on Wikipedia. Apart from article contribution, male editors were found to be more social and discussed more on talk pages which also bring more male editors on Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Participants were introduced to the basics of Wikipedia editing (five pillars, notability, importance of source of references, vandalism) before they were explained about actual editing. Each of the participants were provided with a computer and one of them was invited to create her user account.</p>
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<p>Thereafter Abhishek demonstrated searching an article on Wikipedia and how logging in to Wikipedia allows editors to edit articles which are protected from editing by anyone. One of the logged in editors was asked to make a small edit on an article which surprised many of the participants. They realized that even they can make changes to the articles, for the first time in their life. Then there was a buzz about the credibility of the articles as they all saw that anyone can edit the articles. So the Wikipedia article on Pune was vandalized and Pune was made the capital of India for a few minutes! The page was refreshed after a while and reverted. This was clear enough to demonstrate how active the editor community is on Wikipedia.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Most of the errors and typos get corrected quickly as someone or the other notices that there is a mistake and correct it. However, there are many articles, especially articles of Indian context which still have wrong information because the number of Indian editors are less. A series of editing for various favourite articles chosen by new wikipedians opened up the window for them to understand how important their participation could be. Abhishek, Nikita, Noopur and Subhashish helped the editors with editing.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">After engaging the editors for quite sometime with editing there was a fun quiz session to brush up what was taught. The participants were asked questions based on the previous session.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Winners of the quiz were awarded with Wikipedia stickers and badges.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center; ">A picture of participants learning wiki editing on WikiWomenDay 2012 in Pune</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Some of the participants left after the lunch break. Those who came back then gathered for a Indian language Wikipedia session. Out of the whole audience there were Bengali, Hindi, Marathi and Odia speakers. They all were showed their respective language wikipedias. A demonstration was given to show the typing tool. As the editors were completely new to the Indian language typing, some of them started typing using default <a href="http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Narayam">Narayam</a> transliteration tool and some took the help of <a href="http://www.bhashaindia.com/ilit">Microsoft ILIT</a> and <a href="http://www.google.co.in/transliterate">Google Transliterate</a> as well. During this session new wikipedians edited many articles on <a href="http://mr.wikipedia.org/">Marathi</a>, <a href="http://hi.wikipedia.org/">Hindi</a> and <a href="http://bn.wikipedia.org/">Bengali</a> Wikiepdia. After the whole day session there was still some time left for acclaim and fun. The participants were awarded with participation and contribution certificate by the Wikipedia Club Pune. All the new wikipedians registered on Wikipedia Club Pune.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">There was a special announcement for Wikipedia Summit India, Anniversary Celebration of Wikipedia Club Pune. Club members celebrated with cutting a special Wikipedia cake. Rishi Aacharya and Ketaki Pole from PAI International Learning Solutions extended their support for this event.</p>
<h3>Meeting with Wikipedia Club Pune members</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">There was a meeting with some of the Wikipedia Club Pune members on October 27, 2012 at PAI International Learning Solutions. It was attended by Subhashish Panigrahi and Noopur Raval. Abhishek Suryavanshi, founder of the club brought a proposal about the Wikipedia India Summit, anniversary celebration of Wikipedia Club Pune which is planned in the first quarter of 2013. Importance of a India level summit, plans and agenda, logistics and partnership and sponsorship options were discussed during this meeting. There will be public announcement regarding this summit.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wiki-women-day-2012-pune'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wiki-women-day-2012-pune</a>
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No publishersubhaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2012-11-10T08:30:09ZBlog Entryଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:ମେଳଣ/ବୁର୍ଲା (ସମ୍ବଲପୁର)
https://cis-india.org/news/coverage-of-odia-wikipedia-workshop-in-sambad-july-26-27-2013
<b>There was a news coverage on The Sambad, Sambalpur edition about the Odia Wikipedia workshop organized on July 26 and 27, 2013 at Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla. </b>
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<p>The Centre for Internet and Society <a class="external-link" href="http://or.wikipedia.org/s/gqw">has been credited for financial support</a>. Click to <a class="external-link" href="http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-or/2013-August/000435.html">see the report</a> on the mailing list.</p>
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<p>ସମ୍ବଲପୁରର ବୁର୍ଲାଠାରେ ଥିବା "ବୀର ସୁରେନ୍ଦ୍ରସାଏ ବୈଷୟିକ ବିଶ୍ୱବିଦ୍ୟାଳୟ"ରେ ୨୬ ଓ ୨୭ ଜୁଲାଇ ୨୦୧୩ (ଶୁକ୍ରବାର, ଶନିବାର) ଦିନ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ଏକ କର୍ମଶାଳା ଅନୁଷ୍ଠିତ ହୋଇଯାଇଛି ।</p>
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<li><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://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:WPOP" title="ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:WPOP">"ଉଇକିପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ ଓଡ଼ିଶାର ସ୍ଥାନ"</a> ଗଣ-ସମ୍ପାଦନା</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><br />ସମ୍ବଲପୁରର ବୁର୍ଲାଠାରେ ଥିବା ‘ବୀର ସୁରେନ୍ଦ୍ରସାଏ ବୈଷୟିକ ବିଶ୍ୱବିଦ୍ୟାଳୟ(ଭିସୁଟ)’ ର ଗୋଲ୍ଡ଼େନ ଜୁବୁଲୀ ସେମିନାର ହଲ ପରିସରରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ସମ୍ବନ୍ଧରେ ଏକ କର୍ମଶାଳା ଅନୁଷ୍ଠିତ ହୋଇଯାଇଛି । ବିଶ୍ୱବିଦ୍ୟାଳୟର ୧୦୦ରୁ ଉର୍ଦ୍ଧ୍ୱ ଛାତ୍ରଛାତ୍ରୀ ଏହି କର୍ମଶାଳାରେ ଭାଗ ନେଇ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ବ୍ୟବହାର ସଂପର୍କରେ ଜ୍ଞାନ ଅର୍ଜନ କରିଥିଲେ । ବିଶ୍ୱବିଦ୍ୟାଳୟର ପୁରାତନ ଛାତ୍ର ତଥା ସକ୍ରିୟ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିଆଳି ଗୋର୍ବାଚୋଭ ପୋଥାଳଙ୍କ ତତ୍ୱାବଧାନରେ ଏହି କର୍ମଶାଳା ଆୟୋଜିତ ହୋଇଥିଲା ଏବଂ ଉପସ୍ଥିତ ସମସ୍ତଙ୍କୁ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ସଂପର୍କରେ ସବିଶେଷ ବିବରଣୀ ପ୍ରଦାନ କରାଯାଇଥିଲା । ସେ କହିଥିଲେ ଯେ, ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାରେ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ୍ରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ଏକ ଖୋଲା ଜ୍ଞାନକୋଷ । ଏହାକୁ ବ୍ୟବହାର କରି ଜଣେ କିପରି ନିଜର ଗବେଷଣା ଦକ୍ଷତା ବିକାଶ ଓ ମାଗଣା ଜ୍ଞାନର ବିତରଣ କରିପାରିବ, ସେହି ବିଷୟରେ ଆଲୋଚନା କରିଥିଲେ । ଏହା ବ୍ୟତୀତ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ଇତିହାସ, ଆଭିମୁଖ୍ୟ, ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ ବର୍ତ୍ତମାନ ଚାଲୁଥିବା ବିଭିନ୍ନ ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ ବିଷୟରେ ସବିଶେଷ ଆଲୋଚନା କରିଥିଲେ ଓ କହିଥିଲେ ଓଡ଼ିଆରୁ ଦୂରେଇ ଯାଉଥିବା ଲୋକଙ୍କୁ ଓଡ଼ିଆମୁଖୀ କରାଇବାର ଏହା ଅନ୍ୟତମ ପ୍ରଚେଷ୍ଟା । ଶ୍ରୀ ପୋଥାଳ ନିଜର ବକ୍ତବ୍ୟ ଦେଇ ସାରିବା ପରେ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ସମ୍ବନ୍ଧରେ ଛାତ୍ରଛାତ୍ରୀଙ୍କର ବିଭିନ୍ନ ପ୍ରଶ୍ନର ଉତ୍ତର ଦେଇଥିଲେ । ଏହା ପରେ କର୍ମଶାଳରେ ସେ ଉଇକିପିଡିଆରେ ନୂତନ ପ୍ରସଙ୍ଗ ଲେଖିବା, ସମ୍ପାଦନା କରିବା, ଆଧାର ଦେବା ଇତ୍ୟାଦିର ପ୍ରଶିକ୍ଷଣ ଦେଇ ଏକ ଗଣ-ସମ୍ପାଦନା ଆୟୋଜନ କରିଥିଲେ । କର୍ମଶାଳାରେ ବିଶ୍ୱବିଦ୍ୟାଳୟର ପ୍ରାଧ୍ୟାପକ ଡ. ଅମରନାଥ ନାୟକ, ଡ଼ ବିଭୂତି ଭୂଷଣ ପାଣି, ଡ଼. ଅକ୍ଷୟ କୁମାର ପଟ୍ଟନାୟକ, ଡ. ଜ୍ୟୋତି ରଞ୍ଜନ ମହାନ୍ତି ପ୍ରମୁଖ ଉପସ୍ଥିତ ଥିଲେ । କର୍ମଶାଳାର ସଫଳ ପରିଚାଳନା ପାଇଁ ଛାତ୍ର ପ୍ରତିନିଧି ଅବିନାଶ କୁମାର ପୁହାଣ, ସୁପ୍ରଜ୍ଞାନ ପଟ୍ଟନାୟକ, ସୁଭମ ସାହୁ, ସୋମ୍ୟଶ୍ରୀ ଋତୁପର୍ଣ୍ଣୋ ସାହୁ, ଅନନ୍ୟା ସୃଷ୍ଟି ଶତପଥୀ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରିଥିଲେ ।</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">କାର୍ଯ୍ୟକ୍ରମର ସଫଳ ପରିଚାଳନା ନିମନ୍ତେ "ସେଣ୍ଟର ଫର ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ ଏଣ୍ଡ ସୋସାଇଟି - ଆକ୍ସେସ ଟୁ ନଲେଜ" ତରଫରୁ ଟ.୨,୦୦୦/- ର ଆର୍ଥିକ ସହାୟତା ପ୍ରଦାନ କରାଯାଇଥିଲା ।</p>
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<p><a href="http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AD%8D%E0%AD%9F%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%B9%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%80:Gorvachove" title="ବ୍ୟବହାରକାରୀ:Gorvachove">ଗୋର୍ବାଚୋଭ ପୋଥାଳ</a></p>
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<li><a class="new" href="http://or.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%AC%AC%E0%AD%8D%E0%AD%9F%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%B9%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%80:Chetana_pradhan&action=edit&redlink=1" title=" ବ୍ୟବହାରକାରୀ:Chetana pradhan (ପୃଷ୍ଠାଟି ନାହିଁ)">ଚେତନା ପ୍ରଧାନ</a></li>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/coverage-of-odia-wikipedia-workshop-in-sambad-july-26-27-2013'>https://cis-india.org/news/coverage-of-odia-wikipedia-workshop-in-sambad-july-26-27-2013</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-08-05T08:04:07ZNews ItemAn Odia Wikipedia Workshop at KMBB College, Bhubaneswar
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/odia-wikipedia-workshop-organized-in-kmbb-college-bhubaneswar
<b>The Centre for Internet and Society along with Odia Wikipedians in Bhubaneswar organized an Odia Wikipedia workshop on November 18, 2012. It was held in KMBB College of Engineering. Odia Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia in Odia language which everyone can edit. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Odia Wikipedians gathered in the temple city of Bhubaneswar on November 18, 2012 to organize the third <a href="http://or.wikipedia.org/s/c8x">Odia Wikipedia workshop</a> in <a href="http://www.kmbb.in/">KMBB College of Engineering</a>. KMBB College of Engineering is a BPUT affiliated engineering college supported by Ama Odisha, an organization working for media, communication and development of Odia language. <a href="http://kmbb.academia.edu/DhanadaMishra">Dr. Dhanada Mishra</a>, Director-Academics, KMBB and a veteran educationalist and open source source enthusiast supported this event. Forty-five students from KMBB attended this workshop. The agenda for the two-and-a-half hour session was to educate students about open source movement, journey of Wikipedia and how to contribute to Odia Wikipedia and how it would help them. Nine active Odia Wikipedians joined to support this event.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Dr. Mishra began the session by introducing Odia Wikipedians to the students. He spoke about Open source movement, how the community supports various open source projects, how Wikipedia was started and how it is essential for students to take part in such activities. Subhashish Panigrahi briefly spoke about the history of Odia wikipedia, how it grew up in the recent years to its present state. Odia Wikipedian <a href="http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ManXiii">Manoranjan Behera</a> discussed about how everyone can contribute to the Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">To explain the easiness of typing in Odia, some of the students were invited to write text on a board and test the typing tool on Odia Wikipedia. A new article about the college was created and one of the students wrote few sentences. Wikipedians explained the importance of creating user accounts and demonstrated how to search an article, how to create an article and the basics of editing an article. A Question and Answer session was held for students to put their queries. At the end of the session, contact details were shared with the students and the Facebook group (<a class="external-link" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/OdiaWiki">https://www.facebook.com/groups/OdiaWiki</a>) of Odia Wikipedia was shown so that students could continue editing and remain in touch with fellow wikipedians.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Odia daily “The Sambad” <a href="https://cis-india.org/news/report-of-odia-wikipedia-workshop-in-sambad" class="external-link">covered this event</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/odia-wikipedia-workshop-organized-in-kmbb-college-bhubaneswar'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/odia-wikipedia-workshop-organized-in-kmbb-college-bhubaneswar</a>
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No publishersubhaHigher EducationAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopVideoOpenness2012-12-07T22:40:32ZBlog EntryAccess to Knowledge Workshop @ NMAMIT, Karkala Taluk, Karnataka
https://cis-india.org/openness/events/a2k-workshop-at-nmamit
<b>The Centre for Internet & Society in collaboration with Metawing Technologies (P) Ltd. is organizing a Wikipedia workshop at NMAMIT, Karkala Taluk, Karnataka on December 21, 2012, from 9.30 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Over 100 students are expected to participate in this workshop. The primary aim of the workshop is to educate them about Wikipedia in Indian languages and tell them how they can contribute to Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS is willing to bear the travelling expense for upto two wikipedians to and from Bangalore (or any other place in Karnataka that is close to Karkala).</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/a2k-workshop-at-nmamit'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/a2k-workshop-at-nmamit</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpennessEvent2012-12-19T07:20:31ZEventA workshop to improve Telugu Wikipedia articles on Nobel laureates
https://cis-india.org/openness/a-workshop-to-improve-telugu-wikipedia-articles-on-nobel-laureates
<b>Many articles about Nobel laureates are missing in the Telugu Wikipedia. Recently undergraduate students from four different disciplines of the Andhra Loyola College (ALC), Vijayawada gathered to create and improve articles related to Nobel laureates.</b>
<p>Spanned for three days—from August 16 through 18—54 students from the department of Telugu, Botany, Statistics and Physics edited articles related to Nobel laureates, improved the content quality and inserted images that were already there in Wikimedia Commons. There was a great balance of equal participation in the number of female and male students. During this sprint 124 existing articles on Telugu Wikipedia were improved and 118 of them saw images being added. Though it was challenging for me to manage so many participants, I was partly successful in mentoring some of the students who in turn helped their friends with basic editing.</p>
<p>Apart from educating the students about editing Wikipedia, I demonstrated about digitising “Kavitvatattva Vicharam”, a book authored by by Kattamanchi Ramalinga Reddy in 1913 and is considered as the first modern literary criticism in Telugu literature, on Telugu Wikisource. Some of the students tried to proof-read the book for the first time.</p>
There is a plan laid out to work with a small subset of these participating students again for different kind of academic-centric projects like the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QRpedia">QRpedia</a> project. To keep the activity more regular, the students are are creating the missing Botany-related articles. We are hoping to work with remaining students at least once in every quarter.
A few recommendations for bettering the students’ understanding of Wikipedia and the community that Telugu Wikipedian <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Chaduvari">User:Chaduvari</a> had shared earlier came quite useful during this event. Based on his inputs I did my best elaborating the [Wikipedia] project structure and community dynamics to the new editors. Another long time Wikimedian <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rajasekhar1961">Rajasekhar</a> followed up on the Wikisource activity remotely. B. Manikantha, a students from the Arts department shares, “Until now I always had a notion that Wikipedia might be some sort of entertainment website where we can listen to music and play games. But after attending this workshop I could understand how great it is as a learning platform. Also I learnt about one of our professors<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE_%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%81"> Dr. Gumma Sambashivarao</a> who is a noted author, and how the articles about more such authors could be made available online in our language.” “It was fun translating articles in my favourite subject—war. I’m hoping to continue my contributions further”, he adds.
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More details in the <a href="http://goo.gl/8EjA1C">event page</a> on Telugu Wikipedia.
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/a-workshop-to-improve-telugu-wikipedia-articles-on-nobel-laureates'>https://cis-india.org/openness/a-workshop-to-improve-telugu-wikipedia-articles-on-nobel-laureates</a>
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No publisherPavan SanthoshTelugu WikisourceCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopTelugu Wikipedia2016-09-12T15:01:15ZBlog EntryA Workshop on Editing Wikipedia in Mumbai
https://cis-india.org/openness/events/workshop-on-editing-wikipedia-in-mumbai
<b>The Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS-A2K) is holding a workshop on Wikipedia editing at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai on August 24, 10.00 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.</b>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The morning session will be having a discussion and demonstration on <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page">Wikipedia</a> (10.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.), which will be followed by a practical session (2.00 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.).</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">As part of the run-up to the Indian Languages Mela (planned for September 20-21, 2013), CILHE will conduct a workshop for those who would like create new articles in any Indian Language Wikipedia. The workshop is organized in collaboration with the Centre for Internet and Society’s <a class="external-link" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge">Access to Knowledge Programme</a> (CIS-A2K) and the Wikipedia Hyderabad community. The objective of the workshop is to train students to edit Wikipedia. Participants are encouraged to work with Telugu, Hindi, Marathi, Urdu or any other language of their choice. Although the workshop is mainly intended for potential competitors for the Mela awards for Best New Article in an Indian Language Wikipedia, anyone interested in Wikipedia is welcome.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As you may know, Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia, and is the 5th most-visited website in the world! It's completely free to use and re-use, it has no advertising, and is available in more than 286 different languages - including 20+ Indian languages. Wikipedia articles are written by ordinary people who volunteer to share their knowledge with the world.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The CILHE is committed to producing material in Indian languages for higher education, and is partnering Wikipedia in drawing new editors to the Indian language Wikipedias so that they become an important knowledge resource.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">What students gain from Wikipedia editing:</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">It improves <b>writing skills</b>. Wikipedia provides students a platform to hone their writing skills. Writing on Wikipedia enhances <b>critical thinking</b> and the ability<b> to </b>see all sides of a story. Students will find this incredibility useful in both their personal and professional lives while evaluating the pros and cons of different situations, projects, assignments etc. Wikipedia editing also strengthens <b>research skills</b>. A Wikipedia editor has to provide credible references by looking up books, journals and online materials. Writing on Wikipedia is good practice for those who will also work on a thesis or a research project.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Your articles will be read by thousands of people across the globe</b>. If you edit a Wikipedia article, it is there *forever* and the audience can be any number from the 500 million who read Wikipedia every month!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>It'll boost your chances in admissions or scholarships or placements</b>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>It teaches students how to collaborate!</b> Editing Wikipedia is magical. You add some content and someone from some other part of the class or school or town or country or somewhere else in the world adds a little bit more and makes the contribution that much better. Wikipedia helps one learn how to work productively with other people, even those you don’t know and may never actually meet.</p>
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<li>What exactly is Wikipedia and how does it work?</li>
<li>Who edits Wikipedia?</li>
<li>How do I edit Wikipedia? </li>
<li>What can I edit?</li>
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<li>How do I insert images?</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Participants are required to register at least by August 23, 2013. Send your names to Ritesh Khunyakari <a class="external-link" href="http://riteshpk@gmail.com">riteshpk@gmail.com</a>.</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">Each student attending the Wikipedia Training programme should register themselves on Wikipedia. Please note that once you register on a Wikipedia project, you can use that 'Username' (i.e. same log-in details) across all Wikipedias and Wikimedia platforms. <b>This should be done by August 23, 2013.</b> Please note that you will not be able to register more than 5 Usernames from a single IP address within 24 hours (a security feature of Wikipedia). This tutorial will help you with Registration on Wikipedia <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial/Registration">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial/Registration</a></li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Once registered the students must furnish their details on the google doc. I have already entered my data just as sample. Please circulate this link to all the students at the earliest. <b>This should be done by August 24, 2013 before the commencement of the Workshop </b><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AshSF7ZKRBR5dFBfM2lTaExINTZodVZ4ejd3VURzMEE&usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AshSF7ZKRBR5dFBfM2lTaExINTZodVZ4ejd3VURzMEE&usp=sharing</a></li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">All the students are expected to do editing on Wikipedia. We will choose Telugu Wikipedia (<a href="http://www.te.wikipedia">www.te.wikipedia</a>) as a site to do some editing. Please be assured that we will also show how to use English and other language Wikipedias. For this workshop each student should come up with one article at least in an Indian language. This should be typed and be available in a soft copy form and could be carried in a thumb drive or any other storage media which should be easily accessible to them during the training programme.</li>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/workshop-on-editing-wikipedia-in-mumbai'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/workshop-on-editing-wikipedia-in-mumbai</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpennessEvent2013-08-23T16:00:46ZEventA Workshop on "Exploring the Internals of Mobile Technologies"
https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/workshop-exploring-the-internals-of-mobile-technologies-1
<b>The Centre for Internet and Society invites all individuals interested in investigating and exploring the internal of the Mobile/Hardware Technologies and understanding of capabilities of mobile phones to join our workshop on Saturday, October 27, 2012, at the TERI Southern Regional Centre.</b>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">Bringing together the technical/hacker community and individuals interested in mobile devices to explore mobile devices internals and capabilities</p>
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<li>Forensic Analysis</li>
<li>Understanding of Mobile as Telecommunication Device (2G/3G, etc.)</li>
<li>Understanding Mobile/Devices Internals</li>
<li>Working with JTAG/UART Ports</li>
<li>Porting Open Softwares on Mobiles/Hardwares</li>
</ul>
<h3>Expected outcomes:</h3>
<ol>
<li>Understanding of mobile devices internals and capabilities</li>
<li>Documenting mobile devices capabilities and internals</li>
<li>Publishing of blogs on knowledge generated</li>
<li>Exploration/Speculation on research/development avenues</li>
</ol>
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<h3><b>Agenda </b></h3>
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<th style="text-align: left; "><b>I. Core Talks</b></th>
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<td>Tea/Coffee: <br />Time: 9:00 - 9:30 a.m.<br /></td>
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<td>
<p class="normal"><b>1. Arduino Board Capabilities and Playing Around It!</b><br />Objective: Understanding Arduino board capabilities and playing with it<br />Speaker: Sudar Muthu<br />Level: Introduction<br />Duration: 1 Hour<br />Time: 9:30 - 10:30 a.m.</p>
</td>
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<td><b>2. Initiatives@CIS<br /></b>
<p class="normal">Objective: Discussing the research initiative that has led CIS to become interested in mobile device internals and capabilities<br />Speaker: Jadine Lannon<br />Level: Introduction<br />Duration: 10-15 Minutes<br />Time: 10:30 - 10:45 a.m.</p>
</td>
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<td><b>3. Mobile Hacking Through Linux Drivers<br /></b>
<p class="normal">Objective: Understanding the Linux kernel & driver internals from the perspective of reverse engineering<br />Speaker: Anil Kumar Pugalia<br />Level: Intermediate to Advanced<br />Duration: 1 Hour<br />Time: 10:45 - 11:45 a.m.</p>
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<td><b>4. Hardware Hacking (Board/Chips Capabilities)<br /></b>
<p class="normal">Objective: Discuss and explore key areas of mobile hardware<br />(power, clock, pin multiplexing, peripherals, etc.)<br />Speaker: Khasim Syed Mohammed<br />Level: Introductory to Advanced<br />Duration: 1 Hour<br />Time: 11:45 - 12:45 p.m.</p>
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<td>Lunch Time<br />Time: 12:45 - 1:30 p.m.</td>
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<td><b>5. Porting Open Software on Hardware</b><br />Objective:<br />Cover porting examples for each type of peripherals<br />Cover Android and Linux bringup as an example<br />Speaker: Khasim Syed Mohammed<br />Level: Intermediate to Advance<br /> Duration: 2 Hours<br />Time: 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.</td>
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<th style="text-align: left; "><b>II.</b><b>Community Knowledge Sharing/Hacking! </b><br /></th>
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<td>Time: 3.30 to 5.30 p.m.</td>
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<p class="normal"><b>5. Free Slot</b></p>
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<p class="normal"><b>6. Free Slot</b></p>
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<td>Tea/Coffee Time</td>
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<td><b>7. Free Slot</b></td>
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<td><b>8. Free Slot</b></td>
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</table>
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<p dir="ltr"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span></p>
<p class="normal" style="text-align: justify; "><i>We are inviting community members to take up <b>Free Slots </b>to share their knowledge in this section. In this section, any person can propose a talk, workshop, or speculation about any device for a duration 30 minutes to 1 hour, as long as the topic falls within broader scope of the focus areas described at the in the “Scope of the Conference and Workshop” section of the workshop objectives.</i></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Venue, Dates and Logistics</b></p>
<p>The event will take place on Saturday, October 27, 2012, at the following address:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span id="internal-source-marker_0.6882451646961272" style="text-align: start; "> </span></p>
<p>TERI Southern Regional Centre<br />4th Main, Domlur II Stage <br />Bangalore - 560 071 <br />Karnataka</p>
<p> </p>
<p class="normal" style="text-align: justify; ">The event will be begin at 9 a.m. on Saturday and end in the evening around 5 p.m. Lunch and snacks will be provided by CIS.</p>
<p class="normal" style="text-align: justify; "><b>Available Resources:<br /></b>CIS has purchased 12 gray-market mobile phones with the intent to document as much information about the life-cycles, hardware, software and content of each phone as possible. We request that the producers, make and model of each device be kept anonymous in discussions/publications that take place outside of the workshop.</p>
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<h3 class="normal" style="text-align: justify; ">The Speakers</h3>
<p class="normal" style="text-align: justify; "><b>1. Anil Kumar Pugalia</b><br />The author is a freelance trainer in Linux internals, Linux device drivers, embedded Linux & related topics. Prior to this, he was at Intel and Nvidia. He has been working with Linux since 1994. A gold medallist from IISc, Linux & knowledge sharing are two of his many passions. Creating and playing with open source hardware is one of his hobbies, which he materializes through his company eSrijan, which can be accessed at:<a href="http://profession.sarika-pugs.com/"><br />Website: </a><a href="http://profession.sarika-pugs.com/">http://profession.sarika-pugs.com/</a></p>
<p class="normal" style="text-align: justify; "><b> 2. Jadine Lannon</b><br />Jadine is a research intern at the Centre for Internet and Society. She is currently working on the “Pervasive Technologies: Access to Knowledge in the Marketplace” research project. More information on the research project can be found here: <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/pervasive-technologies-access-to-knowledge-in-the-market-place">http://cis-india.org/a2k/pervasive-technologies-access-to-knowledge-in-the-market-place</a></p>
<p class="normal" style="text-align: justify; "><b>3. Khasim Syed Mohammed</b><br />Khasim leads Open Hardware and Software Initiatives at Texas Instruments. Blog: <a href="http://www.khasim.in/">http://www.khasim.in/</a>; <a href="http://khasim.blogspot.in/">http://khasim.blogspot.in/</a></p>
<p class="normal" style="text-align: justify; "><b>4. Sudar Muthu</b><br />Sudar does open hardware as hobby; Arudino is his playground. He is passionate about programming (particularly web-based) and loves to design and build web sites/services from scratch. AJAX, Web2.0, Semantic Web, Comet, RDF or any of those latest buzz-field jargons.</p>
<p class="normal">Blog: <a href="http://sudarmuthu.com/">http://SudarMuthu.com</a>; <a href="http://hardwarefun.com/">http://hardwarefun.com</a>; <b> </b></p>
<p class="normal"><b>Supporting Communities:</b></p>
<ul>
<li>NULL: <a href="http://null.co.in/">http://null.co.in/</a></li>
<li>SecurityXploaded: <a href="http://securityxploded.com/">http://securityxploded.com/</a></li>
<li>Computer Club India: <a href="http://computerclub.in/Main_Page">http://computerclub.in/Main_Page</a></li>
</ul>
<p class="normal"><b><br /></b></p>
<p class="normal"><b>Register at:</b><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?fromEmail=true&formkey=dG1UcHBYR2xRLWhPZ0QwVWlaaEg0SXc6MQ"> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?fromEmail=true&formkey=dG1UcHBYR2xRLWhPZ0QwVWlaaEg0SXc6MQ</a></p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/workshop-exploring-the-internals-of-mobile-technologies-1'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/workshop-exploring-the-internals-of-mobile-technologies-1</a>
</p>
No publisherjdineEvent TypeWorkshopAccess to Knowledge2012-10-25T06:52:50ZEventA Wikipedia Workshop at SRM University, Chennai
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-workshop-at-srm-chennai
<b>The Centre for Internet & Society, Delhi in association with Metawings Institute organized a one-day workshop on contributing to Wikipedia at SRM University on December 17, 2012. About 40 students from different engineering colleges in Chennai participated in the workshop. Metawings coordinated for the logistics and for spreading the word among the students.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The three-hour workshop was mostly interactive. Since most students had a fair idea of what Wikipedia is and who writes articles on Wikipedia, they had many queries on who the 'editors' were, who selects them, how one can become an editor, how to determine reliability and authenticity of Wikipedia articles and so on. This was a pattern that I observed in many workshops that we conduct where people who have a level of ease and familiarity with using Wikipedia to get information, have often wondered if the information they are using is reliable or not. This also gives us a chance to explain how their contributions can make the encyclopedia more inclusive, informative and reliable.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">One student was called upon to create a user account and instead of answering his query on patrolling edits, I encouraged him to vandalize a popular article just to see how quickly it is reverted and the correct version is restored. Some students were also interested in knowing about Indian language Wikipedias. So, I invited a student to create his account in Tamil Wikipedia and create his user page subsequently.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">After the workshop the students wanted to stay in touch and receive more information on Wikipedia projects they could contribute to and filled up contact forms.</p>
<p>Special thanks to Metawings for helping us out with the logistics and to the student coordinators at SRM University for their cooperation!</p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-workshop-at-srm-chennai'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-workshop-at-srm-chennai</a>
</p>
No publishernoopurAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2012-12-27T05:57:34ZBlog EntryA Wikipedia Mini-hackathon in Delhi
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/mini-hackathon-delhi
<b>Wikipedian Yuvaraj Pandian visited the CIS office in Delhi and helped the Access to Knowledge team conduct a super-ad-hoc mini-hackathon with two other volunteers, Sheel from Delhi and Harsh from Ahmedabad. The aim was to get them a kickstart in developing userscripts/gadgets, and get them to a point where the prior existing documentation makes sense to them. </b>
<p>The ad-hoc plan had three parts:</p>
<ol>
<li>The execution environment (Concept of userscripts vs gadgets, ResourceLoader)</li>
<li>The API concepts (Special:ApiSandbox, concept of 'actions' in the API)</li>
<li>Accessing the API from JS (mediawiki.api module, concept of AJAX)</li>
</ol>
<p>Here is the account of what they did, written by Yuvi:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">"We covered all parts of them slowly, with both Harsh and Sheel working at things until they fully understood what they were doing and why whatever they were doing was working.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">I introduced them to the environment first by having them execute code in Chrome's JS Console, and then in their own common.js. Once they understood the context in which the code was getting executed, the 'ResourceLoader default modules'<a href="#fn1" name="fr1">[1]</a>documentation started making sense to them, and they could pick up other modules from there.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We then explored the API via the API Sandbox<a href="#fn2" name="fr2">[2]</a>, which is a relatively new (and not very well known) way of letting people play around with the API. It is a massive improvement over the older, non-interactive docs<a href="#fn3" name="fr3">[3]</a>, and both Harsh and Sheel were very excited about being able to discover all the things they could do with the API. A fair amount of time was spent messing around with it on different wikipedias (en, hi and gu) and reading bits of the API Documentation<a href="#fn4" name="fr4">[4]</a> to understand the concepts behind the actions - and for filling in the gaps.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Finally we had them use the API from a userscript to make calls. I went through the entire process line by line, explaining how AJAX works and how asynchronous programming works. We traced the flow of code together to understand how the seamingly nonlinear asynchronous programming model works. Then we dug into a bit of how to use the mw.loader module to make dependencies work, and why the same code that was working in the chrome js console was not working in their common.js.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">It ended with them trying to port HotCat to their native language wikipedias. Harsh started to explore more about getting started with MediaWiki dev itself (rather than just gadgets), but the clone took a looooong time and we had run out of time by then. I directed him to a WMF tech open chat happening today, and hopefully that could help!</p>
<hr />
<p>[<a href="#fr1" name="fn1">1</a>].<a class="external-link" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Default_modules">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Default_modules</a><br />[<a href="#fr2" name="fn2">2</a>].<a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox</a><br />[<a href="#fr3" name="fn3">3</a>].<a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php</a><br />[<a href="#fr4" name="fn4">4</a>].<a class="external-link" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page</a></p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/mini-hackathon-delhi'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/mini-hackathon-delhi</a>
</p>
No publisherYuvraj PandianAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2012-12-04T07:31:21ZBlog Entry