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Krishnarajapet Wikipedia Workshop (Coverage in Vijaya Vani)
https://cis-india.org/news/vijaya-vani-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-wikipedia-workshop
<b>Prajavani covered the Kannada Wikipedia workshop organised by the CIS-A2K team and the Kannada Sahitya Parishat of KR Pet., on August 12, 2013. A scanned version of the report is produced below.</b>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/vijaya-vani-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-wikipedia-workshop'>https://cis-india.org/news/vijaya-vani-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-wikipedia-workshop</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-09-05T06:45:12ZNews ItemKrishnarajapet Wikipedia Workshop (Coverage in Suvarna Times of Karnataka)
https://cis-india.org/news/suvarna-times-of-karnataka-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-workshop
<b>Suvarna Times of Karnataka covered the Kannada Wikipedia workshop organised by the CIS-A2K team and the Kannada Sahitya Parishat of KR Pet., on August 12, 2013. A scanned version of the report is produced below.</b>
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<th><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/SuvarnaTimesOfKarnatakaMandya1282013Page61.png" alt="Suvarna Times of Karnataka Coverage" class="image-inline" title="Suvarna Times of Karnataka Coverage" /></th>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/suvarna-times-of-karnataka-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-workshop'>https://cis-india.org/news/suvarna-times-of-karnataka-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-workshop</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-09-05T06:10:01ZNews ItemKrishnarajapet Wikipedia Workshop (Coverage in Prajavani)
https://cis-india.org/news/prajavani-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-workshop
<b>Prajavani covered the Kannada Wikipedia workshop organised by the CIS-A2K team and the Kannada Sahitya Parishat of KR Pet., on August 12, 2013. A scanned version of the report is produced below.</b>
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<th><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/PrajavaniWikiWorkshopMandyaAug122013.png" alt="Prajavani Wikipedia Report" class="image-inline" title="Prajavani Wikipedia Report" /></th>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/prajavani-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-workshop'>https://cis-india.org/news/prajavani-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-workshop</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-09-05T05:50:24ZNews ItemKonkani Wikipedia workshop at AIMIT, St Aloysius College
https://cis-india.org/news/konkani-wiki-workshop-aimit-september-13-2013
<b>St. Aloysius College is organizing a Konkani Wikipedia workshop at AIMIT, St Aloysius College (Autonomous), Beeri, Mangalore on September 13, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja from the CIS-A2K team will participate in the event.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The workshop is aimed at people who want to edit Konkani Wikipedia using Kannada script. Konkani Wikipedia is in incubator at present. Konkani speaking people want to bring this out of incubator. Adding enough content to the Konkani Wikipedia will enable that. Those interested in adding content to Konkani Wikipedia will be trained in the workshop. This will be a full day event.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="http://www.staloysius.ac.in/">Click to read</a> about St.Aloysius Institute of Management</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/konkani-wiki-workshop-aimit-september-13-2013'>https://cis-india.org/news/konkani-wiki-workshop-aimit-september-13-2013</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-09-12T06:09:42ZNews ItemKonkani Wikipedia makes headway
https://cis-india.org/news/epaperoheraldo-august-24-2013-diana-fernandes-konkani-wikipedia-makes-headway
<b>The first floor of the Krishnadas Central Library has been bustling with activity for the last four days. A closer look reveals the concentration, thought and precision that is put into each letter of the Devnagri script Konkani they type. Still further and you realise it’s a Wikipedia site that final year MA Konkani students of Goa University are busy with.</b>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">This article by Diana Fernandes was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.epaperoheraldo.in/Details.aspx?id=10641&boxid=155915750&uid=&dat=8%2f25%2f2013">published in OHeraldO</a> on August 24, 2013. Nitika Tandon is quoted.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">A follow up to the Konkani Wikipedia workshop that was held earlier last month at St. Xavier’s College, Mapusa and King’s school, Margao, the Centre for Internet and Society ( CIS) in its Access to Knowledge ( A2K) initiative were back to try and bring to life a seven year incubation Konkani Wikipedia page.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The final year MA Konkani students were busy typing away at their screen as I went to pay them a visit. Nitika Tandon, Goa in- charge from the CIS- A2K team says Goan students have shown the most interest so far. Priyadarshini Tadkodkar, Head of Department at Goa University says she’s thrilled for the project as it will not only help students update and reach out to other writers but also help in popularising Goa’s mother tongue.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“ So far there was nothing in Konkani on Wikipedia. There are so many articles about Goa in English but not in Konkani. Those who do not know only to read or develop their Konkani skills can probably use this.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Also for the students it’s an opportunity for them to discuss their thoughts with other editors,” says Tadkodkar.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The last time she was in the state, Tandon says people were more inclined to hear of the English Wikipedia rather than Konkani, but sees this workshop as a definite success story.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Students were visibly interested in not only writing about Goa but to change the way people look at Goa. “ Goa is only seen as beaches, parties and cheap liquor. There is so much more. Like Goa’s unique cuisine or its famous personalities like D D Kosambi,” says Supriya.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“ People say that Konkani will die in another 20 – 25 years. I see this as an opportunity to save it,” says another student John.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Articles written by the students will be assessed by Madhavi Sardesai, editor of Jaan, a Konkani literary journal, after which students will be asked to make the corrections online.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A total of 38 students attended over the span of two days. Each session comprised eight hours of training a day. Topics discussed during the workshop included basics of Wikipedia and the status of Konkani Wikipedia as well as typing in Devnagri script, the sort of articles that are required for the site and using references other than Facebook and how to site them in the article.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“ Forty- two pages of content were generated in two days and have already been put up on the site. The students love it. Students who came in the first batch wanted to join the second one simply because they want to write. Though they don’t get credit for this workshop as part of the syllabus students are indeed interested,” says Tandon.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Though a total of 140 articles on topics ranging from Goa’s heritage, culture, traditions and famous personalities have been uploaded, she says it requires at least five contributors to add to the existing database regularly.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/epaperoheraldo-august-24-2013-diana-fernandes-konkani-wikipedia-makes-headway'>https://cis-india.org/news/epaperoheraldo-august-24-2013-diana-fernandes-konkani-wikipedia-makes-headway</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-09-17T06:07:54ZNews ItemKonkani Wikipedia Advances in 4 Days — From 90 Articles to 130 Articles!
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/konkani-wikipedia-advances-in-four-days
<b>There has been a rise of article contributions to the Konkani Wikipedia in a span of 4 days following a 4 day programme organized by the CIS-A2K team for M.A. students from the Konkani Department, Goa University at the Central State Library, Goa from August 21 to 24, 2013. Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahi conducted the event.</b>
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<p>The original details posted on the meta page can be <a class="external-link" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Konkani_Wikipedia_workshop_21-24_August2013#Phase_2_.28Day_3_and_Day_4.29">viewed here</a>.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Introduction</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">There are 30 lakh <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konkani_language">Konkani speakers</a> spread across the Konkani belt of <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konkani_language">Goa</a>, <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnataka_Konkani">Karnataka</a>, <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konkani_in_Karnataka_and_Kerala">Kerala</a>, <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konkan">Maharashtra</a>. Only a few are aware of the existence of an open source project, Konkani Wikipedia, that can help them preserve their language and culture. The project has been in incubation since its inception in 2006 and had 90 articles till last week — an incomparable number in <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia">English Wikipedia</a>, which has 4.3 million articles. However, <a class="external-link" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Programme_Plan">CIS-A2K</a> teams effort in Goa to strengthen <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konkani_languages">Konkani Wikipedia</a> project and community has finally started to show some tangible results. As a follow up to the early workshops and orientations we organized this latest programme to help the students make themselves familiar in editing and contributing articles to Konkani Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We started the event with a demonstration on the basics of editing the Wikipedia followed by a brief discussion about Konkani Wikipedia and the editing session. Besides these we had fun activities and wiki quiz.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Highlights of the Workshop</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">A total of 38 students from the <a class="external-link" href="http://www.unigoa.ac.in/department.php?adepid=7&mdepid=1">Konkani Department</a> took part in this workshop. Forty-three new articles were created and added to Konkani Wikipedia in the 4-day event. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">During the first couple of days, 22 students generated 42 pages of print material and in the last two days, 16 students generated 56 pages of printed material. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">A total of 987 edits were made and 41 references were added on Konkani Wikipedia. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">The students added a total of 3,90,040 bytes of data; an average of 10KB data was added by each student.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Students wrote articles on varied topics such as Goan folk dances, eminent personalities, festivals, folk music, proverbs, food items, theater, etc.</li>
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<td style="text-align: justify; "><i>Pictured above: Participants at the Konkani Wiki editing workshop in <a class="external-link" href="http://www.unigoa.ac.in/department.php?adepid=7&mdepid=1">Goa University</a>. Picture credit: Subhashish Panigrahi</i></td>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Articles and Participants</h3>
<p><b>Phase 1 (Day 1 and Day 2)</b></p>
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<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8B" title="incubator:Wp/gom/धालो">धालो</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Varsha_kavlekar">Varsha Kavlekar</a></td>
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<td>2</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B3%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%AB%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A6_%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%97" title="incubator:Wp/gom/केळशीची फमाद दर्यादेग">केळशीची फमाद दर्यादेग</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mona_rodrigues">Mona Rodrigues</a></td>
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<td>3</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%80" title="incubator:Wp/gom/देखणी">देखणी</a></td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fernandes_Sandra" title="incubator:User:Fernandes Sandra">Fernandes Sandra</a></td>
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<td>4</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%8B" title="incubator:Wp/gom/गोयच्यों परबो">गोयच्यों परबो</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Komal_dhuri">Komal Dhuri</a></td>
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<td>5</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D" title="incubator:Wp/gom/जागर्">जागर्</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Cliffa_fernandes">Cliffa Fernandes</a></td>
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<td>6</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%87_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%95_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AF" title="incubator:Wp/gom/गोंयचे पारंपारीक वेवसाय">गोंयचे पारंपारीक वेवसाय</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Abigail_dias">Abigail Dias</a></td>
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<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82_%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%96%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%A3" title="incubator:Wp/gom/गोंयचें मुखेल जेवण">गोंयचें मुखेल जेवण</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Effa_Dias">Effa Dias</a></td>
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<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%A5" title="incubator:Wp/gom/चवथ">चवथ</a></td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shanta_Gaundalkar" title="incubator:User:Shanta Gaundalkar">Shanta Gaundalkar</a></td>
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<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B3%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B3%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%B3%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B3" title="incubator:Wp/gom/कुंकळ्ळेची चळवळ">कुंकळ्ळेची चळवळ</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dias_neves">Dias Neves</a></td>
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<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%87_%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A1" title="incubator:Wp/gom/राणेचे बंड">राणेचे बंड</a></td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fay_Fernandes" title="incubator:User:Fay Fernandes">Fay Fernandes</a></td>
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<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B3%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0" title="incubator:Wp/gom/रविंद्र केळेकार">रविंद्र केळेकार</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gaurisha_phal_desai">Gaurisha Phal Desai</a></td>
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<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%87_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%95_%E0%A4%96%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B3" title="incubator:Wp/gom/गोंयचे पारंपारीक खेळ">गोंयचे पारंपारीक खेळ</a></td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Safira_Ferns" title="incubator:User:Safira Ferns">Safira Ferns</a></td>
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<td>13</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%88_%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AC" title="incubator:Wp/gom/शणै गोयबाब">शणै गोयबाब</a></td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pratima_Fal_Desai" title="incubator:User:Pratima Fal Desai">Pratima Fal Desai</a></td>
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<td>14</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%8B" title="incubator:Wp/gom/मांडो">मांडो</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Anisha_gad">Anisha Gad</a></td>
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<td>15</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A4" title="incubator:Wp/gom/संगीत">संगीत</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Santoshi_kole">Santoshi Kole</a></td>
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<td>16</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%80,%E0%A4%93%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80" title="incubator:Wp/gom/म्हणी,ओपारी">म्हणी,ओपारी</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pooja_kavlekar">Pooja Kavlekar</a></td>
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<td>17</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B0_%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A6-_%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A3_%E0%A4%86%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B0" title="incubator:Wp/gom/मोसिन्योर दाल्गाद- जीण आनी वावर">मोसिन्योर दाल्गाद- जीण आनी वावर</a></td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sukhada_Daikar" title="incubator:User:Sukhada Daikar">Sukhada Daikar</a></td>
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<td>18</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%82_%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%82" title="incubator:Wp/gom/कोंकणी तियात्राचीं कांतारां">कोंकणी तियात्राचीं कांतारां</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Konknni_mogi_24">Konknni mogi 24</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>19</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A3%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%8B" title="incubator:Wp/gom/कोंकणी लोककाणयो">कोंकणी लोककाणयो</a>, <a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE" title="incubator:Wp/gom/कोंकणी सिनेमा">कोंकणी सिनेमा</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Supriya_kankumbikar">Supriya Kankumbikar</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>20</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%80" title="incubator:Wp/gom/गोवा कोंकणी अकादेमी">गोवा कोंकणी अकादेमी</a>, <a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%B3" title="incubator:Wp/gom/कोंकणी भाशा मंडळ">कोंकणी भाशा मंडळ</a></td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Vaishali_Parab" title="incubator:User:Vaishali Parab">Vaishali Parab</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>21</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%95" title="incubator:Wp/gom/कोंकणी नाटक">कोंकणी नाटक</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Darshan_kandolkar">Darshan Kandolkar</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>22</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0" title="incubator:Wp/gom/विश्व कोंकणी केंद्र">विश्व कोंकणी केंद्र</a></td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:John_Noronha" title="incubator:User:John Noronha">John Noronha</a></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><b>Phase 2 (Day 3 and Day 4)</b></p>
<table class="listing">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82_%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%95_%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9A" title="incubator:Wp/gom/गोंयचें लोक नाच">गोंयचें लोक नाच</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pooja_tople">Pooja Tople</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%AF_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A5%E0%A4%BE" title="incubator:Wp/gom/गोंयची जातीय वेवस्था">गोंयची जातीय वेवस्था</a>, <a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%AF_%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%89%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%8B_%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8" title="incubator:Wp/gom/गोंय मुक्ती उपरान्तचो इतिहास">गोंय मुक्ती उपरान्तचो इतिहास</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Priyanka_kudaskar">Priyanka Kudaskar</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B3%E0%A5%80" title="incubator:Wp/gom/दिवाळी">दिवाळी</a>,<a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE" title="incubator:Wp/gom/शिरगांवची जात्रा">शिरगांवची जात्रा</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pritam_barve">Pritam Barve</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%82" title="incubator:Wp/gom/गोंयची लोकगितां">गोंयची लोकगितां</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rusita_paryekar">Rusita Paryekar</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%A3%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82_%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%B8" title="incubator:Wp/gom/हिंदूच्या सणपरबांचें जिन्नस">हिंदूच्या सणपरबांचें जिन्नस</a></td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gauri_Prabhugaonkar" title="incubator:User:Gauri Prabhugaonkar">Gauri Prabhugaonkar</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>6</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BC%E0%A4%BE" title="incubator:Wp/gom/लोकवादय़ा">लोकवादय़ा</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Suma_parab_gaonkarr">Suma Parab Gaonkarr</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>7</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82" title="incubator:Wp/gom/गाराणें">गाराणें</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Darshana_mandrekar">Darshana Mandrekar</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>8</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B3%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A8" title="incubator:Wp/gom/तुळशीलग्न">तुळशीलग्न</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Heefza">Heefza</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>9</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8B" title="incubator:Wp/gom/बारसो">बारसो</a></td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nikita_Prabhu" title="incubator:User:Nikita Prabhu">Nikita Prabhu</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>10</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%A5%E0%A4%BE" title="incubator:Wp/gom/कोंकणी कथा">कोंकणी कथा</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Marizma_mascarenhas">Marizma Mascarenhas</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>11</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%82_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%82_%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%82" title="incubator:Wp/gom/गोंयचीं क्रिस्तावांचीं काजारां">गोंयचीं क्रिस्तावांचीं काजारां</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Linette_saldanha">Linette Saldanha</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>12</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%95" title="incubator:Wp/gom/बेबींक">बेबींक</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Frania_pereira">Frania Pereira</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>13</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0" title="incubator:Wp/gom/तियात्र">तियात्र</a></td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rhakee_Santos" title="incubator:User:Rhakee Santos">Rhakee Santos</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>14</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%87_%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4" title="incubator:Wp/gom/गोंयचे तियात्रिस्त">गोंयचे तियात्रिस्त</a></td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pereira_Goreti" title="incubator:User:Pereira Goreti">Pereira Goreti</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>15</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B3%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%8B_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%8B" title="incubator:Wp/gom/कुळबी समाजाच्यो परबो">कुळबी समाजाच्यो परबो</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rubiya_komarpant">Rubiya Komarpant</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>16</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82_%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AA" title="incubator:Wp/gom/कोंकणीतलें पयलें बरप">कोंकणीतलें पयलें बरप</a></td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Savidha_Talekar" title="incubator:User:Savidha Talekar">Savidha Talekar</a></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h3>Media Coverage</h3>
<ul>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://www.thegoan.net/Goa/Goenkar/Wikipedia-writes-a-new-script/05585.html">Wikipedia writes a new script</a> (by Joyce Dias, The Goan, August 24, 2013)</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://www.epaperoheraldo.in/Details.aspx?id=10641&boxid=155915750&uid=&dat=8%2f25%2f2013">Konkani Wikipedia makes headway</a> (by Diana Fernandes, OHeraldO, August 24, 2013)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Learnings<b> </b></h3>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>Pre-course work : </b>Participants were asked to do <a class="external-link" href="https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Welcome_to_Wikipedia_brochure_EN.pdf">pre-course work</a> before the actual event. This included creating Wikipedia usernames, selecting articles they wanted to edit, writing their articles in Konkani on a piece of paper and get their references too. Students were also given few pages of Wikipedia literature <a class="external-link" href="https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Welcome_to_Wikipedia_brochure_EN.pdf">to read beforehand</a>. Students did all their pre-course work with a lot of dedication and efficiency confirming their passion and interest to contribute to Wikipedia. The pre-course also helped students to come prepared and focused for the workshop.<b> </b></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>Limiting number of participants: </b>We limited the number of participants to a total of 40 and further divided in two different groups with about 20 students in each. The first batch came for 2 consecutive days and the second batch came for the last two consecutive days of the event. By limiting the number of participants we were able to give individual attention to each student and closely monitor their on wiki performance.<b> </b></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><b>Longer duration workshop: </b>Fourteen hours of training was given to each batch. It was spread over 2 days. We had sufficient time to break down the entire workshop into different sections (theoretical and practical) that could be easily followed by the participants. Those 14 hours gave us enough time to cover most of the important topics (such as teaching typing, adding reference, adding headers, wiki markup, talk page protocol, etc.) at as comfortable pace.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>Bite size chunks:</b> The workshop was divided into different sections to give them bite size information only. Each theoretical section was followed by a practical section. For example, the first section involved teaching <a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Konkani_%28Devanagari%29_keyboard_layout_and_typing.pdf">typing in Devanagari</a> and then participants were given enough time to type their articles in Devanagari. In the second section we taught them how to add headers and then the participants were given sometime to add only headers to their articles. This was followed by a third section where we taught them how to add references and then giving them time to add their references. We made sure that we didn't overwhelm the students with a lot of information in one go and broke it down into simpler pieces.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>Energizers :</b> Seven continuous hours of editing Wikipedia would have really tired the students and made them disinterested as well. To keep their energy and motivation level high, after fixed intervals we played some energizer games with them.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>Student co-ordinators: </b>A total of 4 students were selected (2 from each batch) to act as student co-ordinators. These co-ordinators acted as a communication bridge between A2K members and the participants. For example, these co-ordinators would help students take a unanimous decision about what are the next dates for a follow up session, what timings would work for everyone, etc.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>Varied sources of information: </b>We used different sources and means to educate students about Wikipedia and Wikipedia editing. We definitely didn't want it to be a 14-hour long discourse and hence used different tools such as (<a class="external-link" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/WWC-Netha-Hussain.ogv">Netha's</a>, <a class="external-link" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tojUFx6VdNs">Poongothai's</a>, <a class="external-link" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIdMVOhduSk">Sriket and Noopur's</a>, and <a class="external-link" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tZpg-FEqUg">Ganesh's</a> videos talking about their personal experiences in the Wikipedia world), along with <a class="external-link" href="http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Welcome2WP_English_Flap_081810.pdf">handouts</a>, presentations, <a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Konkani_%28Devanagari%29_keyboard_layout_and_typing.pdf">cheat sheets for typing</a>, etc. We also invited Harriet for a video conference to speak with students in Konkani and share with them some inspirational stories.</li>
</ul>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Challenges</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">Most students didn't know typing in Devanagari and had to be taught during the workshops. It took them a little while to practice and get comfortable with the typing tool. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">We wanted to make sure that along with quantity, students are also producing good quality articles. Non-existance of active Konkani Wikipedia editors makes it a little tough to keep control on the quality. Hence, we reached out to <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhavi_Sardesai">Madhavi Sardesai</a> and Priyadarshani Tadkodkar <a class="external-link" href="http://www.unigoa.ac.in/department.php?adepid=7&mdepid=1">professors from the Konkani Department at Goa University</a> to assess the quality and ask students to make required changes. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Since Konkani Wikipedia is in incubation students had to do some additional work such as:
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<li>Browse through <a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/">incubator.wikimedia.org</a> to find about Konkani Wikipedia. Many wanted to know why Konkani Wikipedia doesn't have an independent link just as <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/">en.wikipedia.org</a>. </li>
<li>Add Category:Wp/gom to every new article that was created. Many found this as extra work. </li>
<li>Searching for existing articles on incubation was difficult for participants. </li>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">During the workshop all students added huge amount of information but only a handful of them continued editing once they left the computer lab. This brings us to our all time biggest challenge: How do we keep their motivation and interest levels high for them to continue writing on Wikipedia beyond these workshops?</li>
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<p><i>Seen above: Konkani Wikipedia editing session in progress. Picture credit: Subhashish Panigrahi</i></p>
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<h3>Acknowledgements</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This event and future events at Goa University would not have been possible without the committed support CIS-A2K has got from the Goa University and Wikipedians. CIS-A2K is very thankful to <a class="external-link" href="http://www.unigoa.ac.in/contentarticledisp.php?id=3"> Dr. Satish Shetye</a> (Vice-Chancellor, Goa University) — for seeing the significance of growing open knowledge movement in Goa and Konkani and encouraging Konkani Wikipedia activities at GU. Thanks are due to the GU faculty, specifically Prof. Alito Sequeira; <a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhavi_Sardesai" title="w:Madhavi Sardesai">Prof. Madhavi Sardesai</a>; <a class="external-link" href="http://www.unigoa.ac.in/academic_staff.php?staffid=40&adepid=7&mdepid=1">Prof. Priyadarshini Tadkodkar</a>; and <a class="external-link" href="http://library.unigoa.ac.in/?q=node/7">Dr. Gopa Kumar</a>. Wikipedians Harriet Vidyasagar and <a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Nooronha" title="w:Frederick Nooronha">Frederick Nooronha</a>. Last but not the least the enthusiastic students of Goa University who are integral to this event.</p>
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<h3>What's Next?</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A2K team is organizing a follow-up session with the same set of students on Sept 6 and 7, 2013. This session will aim to clear any confusions/doubts that participants may have about Wikipedia editing and also to give them a brief about <a class="external-link" href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page">Wikimedia Commons</a>. In this session, students will also decide how they would want to continue with this project with an aim to bring Konkani Wikipedia as a live project.</p>
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<p><b>Additional Info</b>:</p>
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<li>Konkani Department, Goa University: <a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/14S87Ci">http://bit.ly/14S87Ci</a></li>
<li>Central State Library, Goa: <a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/1dzHmao">http://bit.ly/1dzHmao</a></li>
<li>Konkani Wikipedia: <a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/1dGOFOL">http://bit.ly/1dGOFOL</a></li>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/konkani-wikipedia-advances-in-four-days'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/konkani-wikipedia-advances-in-four-days</a>
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No publishernitikaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaFeaturedWorkshopVideoOpenness2013-09-03T10:37:15ZBlog EntryKonkani Wikipedia — Climbing up the Indian Language Ladder?
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/konkani-wikipedia-climbing-up-the-indian-language-ladder
<b>Konkani as a language has seen geographical, political and religious conflicts. Being the official language of Goa and spoken widely in the Indian states of Karnataka, Kerala and Maharashtra it is still trying to strengthen its base. Recently CIS-A2K in collaboration with Goa University organized a four-day workshop for MA, Konkani language students. This workshop involved 38 students creating 43 new articles on Konkani Wikipedia which is incubation. We’re hoping that these efforts will contribute towards bringing this 7 year old project out of incubation to a live Wikipedia project.</b>
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<p>A <a class="external-link" href="http://www.dnaindia.com/blogs/1885294/post-konkani-wikipedia-climbing-up-the-indian-language-ladder">modified version of this was published in DNA</a> on September 6, 2013. This was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.fitnessfoundation.org/konkani-wikipedia-hiking-up-the-indian-native-language-step-ladder/">re-posted</a> in Fitness Foundation website on October 9, 2013.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Incubation</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span><span><span><span><span>Before any language <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page">Wikipedia </a>shapes up as a live project an incubation process is involved. A community of volunteers (known as Wikipedians) gradually grow to sustain this Wikipedia in incubation with active contribution. </span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/Mukhel_Pan"><span><span><span><span><span><span>Konkani Wikipedia incubator</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span><span> </span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span>began way back in 2006. However, due to many reasons it could not take off and is still in incubation. One of the major reasons has been the issue with multiple script usage. Due to political and religious reasons <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konkani_language">Konkani</a> has multiple writing and verbal standards and is also written in multiple script. These include <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari">Devanagari</a> and <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman">Roman</a> (</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><i><span><span>also known as Romi</span></span></i></span></span><span><span><span><span><span>) in Goa where Devanagari is the official script, Kannada in the Konkani speaking regions of Karnataka (Mangalore region primarily), Malayalam in Kerala (Kochi region) and in Perso-Arabic script by part of the Konkani speaking population. The largest script usage for Konkani is in Devanagari. <a class="external-link" href="http://www.unigoa.ac.in/">Goa University</a> is world's first university to have a <a class="external-link" href="http://www.unigoa.ac.in/department.php?adepid=7&mdepid=1">masters programme in Konkani language</a> where the writing standard is in Goan Konkani (Language code: Gom) which is written in Devanagari. During the interaction with the faculty members; Prof. Madhavi Sardesai and Head of the department </span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Rpriyadarshini&action=edit&redlink=1"><span><span><span><span><span><span>Dr. Priyadarshini Tadkoda</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span><span><span><span>r we found that the students are very enthusiastic to contribute to their language. We met the students and introduced <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konkani_language">Konkani Wikipedia</a> to them and they showed interest to take part in a workshop to learn Wikipedia editing. This was the beginning of something new after a long time. Four out of the 38 students volunteered to coordinate the workshop on the ground. They discussed about the workshop and the prerequisites; going through the </span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Wp/gom"><span><span><span><span><span><span>list of articles</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span><span> </span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span>on Konkani Wikipedia, and writing a unique article by collecting resources and creating their usernames on Wikipedia before attending the workshop. To our surprise, all of the students including the four coordinators came out with at least two pages of written content before the workshop.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<h2><span><span><span><span><span>Day 1: Building the Blocks</span></span></span></span></span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span><span><span><span><span>It was 10 in the morning. A big LED panel in the audio visual room of the </span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.goacentrallibrary.gov.in/"><span><span><span><span><span><span>Krishnadas Shama State Central Library, Goa</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span><span> </span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span>was displaying the word cloud containing words like Wikipedia, Openness, Education, Open Knowledge, Global Collaboration, etc. Soon the room was filled with 20 M.A. students from the <a class="external-link" href="http://www.unigoa.ac.in/department.php?adepid=7&mdepid=1">Konkani Department of Goa University</a>. Prior to the workshop we had interacted with the students in the presence of Head of the department </span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Rpriyadarshini&action=edit&redlink=1"><span><span><span><span><span><span>Dr. Priyadarshini</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span><span> </span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span>and <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhavi_Sardesai">Prof. Madhavi Sardesai</a> and from the Konkani department. Four of the students,</span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Supriya_kankumbikar"><span><span><span> </span></span></span></a><a href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Supriya_kankumbikar"><span><span><span><span><span>Supriya Kankumbikar</span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span><span><span><span>,</span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Konknni_mogi_24"><span><span><span> </span></span></span></a><a href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Konknni_mogi_24"><span><span><span><span><span>Fr. Luis Gomes</span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span><span><span><span>,</span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Vaishali_Parab"><span><span><span> </span></span></span></a><a href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Vaishali_Parab"><span><span><span><span><span>Vaishali Parab</span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span><span> </span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span>and</span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:John_Noronha"><span><span><span> </span></span></span></a><a href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:John_Noronha"><span><span><span><span><span>John Noronha</span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span><span> </span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span>volunteered to coordinate for the workshops. With the help of them we managed to get a majority of the students to sign up and create their user accounts before the first workshop. We had to do some rough work to plan for a whole day workshop. The word "workshop" has been always boring for the students and our biggest worry was how we would keep this boredom at bay and make Wikipedia editing a fun.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<h3><span><span><span><span><span>Intro Yourself</span></span></span></span></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">To start with the first day we had an "Adjective Name" activity. It was fun to know how people judge themselves with adjective. Myself turned out to be "Sub-Hashish" and Nitika turned out to be "Naughty-Nitika"! Then we had a discussion about articles that students planned to write. A few of them were not sure if articles like social issues and biography of a writer could fit into Wikipedia framework.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Editing Time</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span><span><span><span><span>Article titles were decided. Everyone was ready with their homework write-ups and books for adding sources. The next big thing was typing in Devanagari. Only four-five of them knew typing. Students came forward for trying their hands in typing. For the first time some of them typed a few words and they typed it correctly. We could see the glow of triumph after they typed correctly using “</span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Input_methods/hi-transliteration"><span><span><span><span><span><span>Transliteration</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span><span>” </span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span>layout. The editing session began. Our experience with majority of the Indian language outreach participants had been more or the less the same; most new Wikipedians struggle to type. This time we printed some</span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Konkani_%28Devanagari%29_keyboard_layout_and_typing.pdf"><span><span><span> </span></span></span></a><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Konkani_%28Devanagari%29_keyboard_layout_and_typing.pdf"><span><span><span><span><span>handouts</span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span><span> </span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span>with the layout for typing help. It worked well. Students managed to type albeit small little typos.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<h3><span><span><span><span><span>Game Time</span></span></span></span></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span><span><span><span><span>We had to cut the session for an activity break and invited them to play “Tumi Kashi Asat” (means </span></span></span></span></span><span><span><i><span><span>How are you doing</span></span></i></span></span><span><span><span> </span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span>in Konkani). This is a game I learned from my colleague Vishnu. To make it more interesting we got it translated to Konkani by our coordinator Supriya. The host has to make some body movements and ask “Tumi Kashi Asat” and bending forward. The participants have to move their body in the reverse way and answer “Ami bari ashat” (I’m doing good). This replaced the caffeine intake for the four days and kept all of us alive.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>The editing spree went on for the rest of the day. Regular doses of small fun activities were served to keep the Goan tides high. To our surprise all of the students created articles. We were not sure whether we could judge them in the parameter of stub and start. For us it was the greatest start for a language to have the asset of these sweet wikipedians that have seen many struggles and spent seven years in incubation.</span></p>
<h3><span>Rat and Frog Game</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>There was surprise for participating wikipedians post lunch, “Rat race”. Participants sit on chairs and one of them is made to stand in the center. The rat makes others run and replace each others seats and one among the participants become rat. This rat race brought back the old childhood memories and for a moment everyone forgot their age. At the end of it students sat down to take a deep breath and we taught them some of the basic wiki-codes (bold, Italics and adding references).</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Editing session went on until the rest of the day. To our surprise all of the students had created their first articles by the end of the day.</p>
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<h2><span>Day 2: Climbing up the Ladder</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This was the day to tell the students about the advanced options and ensure addition of more citations. Citations on Wikipedia are very essential for readers to validate the facts. But bringing this to the students who just had started learning typing in their language a day before was not that easy. The second day was spent giving small breaks during the editing session for small activities. Running, jumping and shouting fueled the students to be happy editors and not burdened. We managed to teach them the advanced options for proper wiki-formatting (Bold, Italics, Heading and Category), and citations. By the end of the first two days 22 students created 24 articles (about 42 pages of written content). Everyone clapped for their friends. We welcomed them to Konkani Wikipedia community, left our contacts to contact further and showed them the Facebook group that they could join and be more connected before thanking and saying bye for the day with the promise of more fun for the next workshop.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Day 3: Fresh Batch, New Start</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span><span><span><span><span>Sixteen new students from the M.A. course were welcomed. Four student-coordinators and one from the first batch of students joined the "funday". The entire day was spent with lots of fun, creating articles and learning about the basic know how about <a class="external-link" href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting">Wiki-codes</a>. Half the students in this batch knew typing in Devanagari Inscript. Our first and second day taught us how students ask their fellow students more than they ask us for small little help. Nitika and myself being Inscript noobs made it tough. We then paired these students with those who knew <a class="external-link" href="http://http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InScript_keyboard">Inscript</a>, thanks to the </span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/2/24/I18N_Indic_MarathiKeyboardLayouts_IndicKeyboardLayoutInscriptForMarathi.png"><span><span><span><span><span><span>Fedora Devanagari keyboard layout</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span><span><span><span>. It helped us to look and guide the students. All of the students created their first articles. <a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:John_Noronha">John</a>, <a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Supriya_kankumbikar">Supriya</a> and <a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Vaishali_Parab">Vaishali</a> (from first batch) were giving final touches to their second articles.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Day 4: No Need to Say Good Bye!</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>This was the day to do two very important things: clap for their contribution on the first day and tell about contribution of their friends, teach about the advanced options and extend further support. Seeing the newspaper coverage about the workshop featuring some of their friends was a delight for our new wikipedians after two long days. Few of them came forward to share their experience about the workshop and their vision for Konkani language.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>At the end of four days all of them bid us farewell. It felt like saying bye to good old friends. These were the foundation days and the biggest editing rally <a class="external-link" href="https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/Mukhel_Pan">Konkani Wikipedia Incubator</a> has seen in the last seven years with this milestone that the students had created. Happy faces of our new found friends is going to be a great piece of memory in this journey.</span></p>
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<h2><span>Media Coverage<br /></span></h2>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://www.thegoan.net/Goa/Goenkar/Wikipedia-writes-a-new-script/05585.html">Wikipedia writes a new script</a> (by Joyce Dias, The Goan, August 24, 2013)</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://www.epaperoheraldo.in/Details.aspx?id=10641&boxid=155915750&uid=&dat=8%2f25%2f2013">Konkani Wikipedia makes headway</a> (by Diana Fernandes, OHeraldO, August 24, 2013)</li>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/konkani-wikipedia-climbing-up-the-indian-language-ladder'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/konkani-wikipedia-climbing-up-the-indian-language-ladder</a>
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No publishersubhaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopVideoOpenness2013-10-25T07:16:30ZBlog EntryKnowledge Sharing through GLAM at Bangalore
https://cis-india.org/openness/events/knowledge-sharing-through-glam
<b>A seminar for GLAM institutions (GLAM stands for Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) will be held in Bangalore on February 25, 2013, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. The program is supported by Wikimedia, Creative Commons and the Centre for Internet & Society.</b>
<h2>Sponsors</h2>
<p>This program is sponsored by:</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">Wikimedia Chapter, (WMIN), Bengaluru, a non profit society and the India Chapter of Wikimedia Foundation,</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Center for Internet and Studies, (CIS), Bengaluru, an independent NGO, operating the Access to Knowledge program for Wikimedia Foundation,</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Creative Commons, USA, a nonprofit organization that enables people to share their knowledge and creativity through free legal tools, <br />in partnership with</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">College of Fine Arts, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishad, Bengaluru, an autonomous institution promoting Art, and Education. Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath was first established as “Chitrakala Vidyalaya”, under the aegis of Chitrakala Parishath in 1964. The founder secretary Late Prof. M.S. Nanjunda Rao was instrumental in establishing and developing the institute, which has grown to the current international status. The Institution offers Post- Graduate and Post- Diploma courses, and proposes to begin a PhD programme [Research Centre] in the near future. Presently the Institution has been accredited and functioning as an Autonomous Institution as set by the U.G.C. and Bangalore University.</li>
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<h3>What is GLAM and what does it have to do with Wikimedia and Creative Commons?</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>GLAM</b> is an acronym for Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums. It also incorporates other cultural institutions such as theatres, zoos, botanical gardens, public broadcasters, etc.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The <b>GLAM-WIKI</b> project supports GLAMs and other institutions who want to work with Wikimedia to produce open-access, freely-reusable content for the public.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Why contribute?</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Every cultural institution has an abundance of resources to share. A partnership with Wikimedia is a low cost, high-impact way for them to disseminate their resources to a global audience.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">How to contribute?</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>Wikipedia</b> - Contributions can include article creation or expansion, reference correction and expansion, and institutional research/text donations.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>Wikimedia Commons</b> - Contributions can include images, video, and other media as well as descriptions and metadata for already-existing files in the repository.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>Wikisource</b> - As a collection of free and open content texts of original sources, appropriate contributions include out-of-copyright books and documents.</li>
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<h3>How does it help the GLAM institution?</h3>
<p>Here are a few reasons:</p>
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<li>It fits in closely with the core mission of the cultural institution of preserving heritage and history.</li>
<li>It step jumps the GLAM institution’s reach by increasing potential audiences.</li>
<li>Footfalls to the GLAM institution are likely to increase through greater awareness of the institute’s collection and knowledge.</li>
<li>It will provide a well-tested platform for the digitization efforts of the GLAM institution. Staff will find it satisfying given its global reach and impact.</li>
<li>There is a strong likelihood of higher public relations coverage of the GLAM institute because of Wikipedia’s goodwill.</li>
<li>Wikimedia Foundation and Creative Commons are nonprofit organizations.</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Different GLAMs have different needs and goals for their projects, and this seminar will educate the audience on how GLAM-WIKI fits these with Wikimedia's goals of free knowledge. From existing partnership programs Wikimedia India will present a few global projects, and examples on how they've worked in practice and benefited every one including the GLAM institutions.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Creative Commons</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables users to share their knowledge and creativity through free legal tools. They develop, support, and steward legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Copyright laws were developed in a previous era where in protection was given to artists, authors, and other creators as a default. In this situation sharing requires a deliberate prior permission. In the internet era, so much of sharing of digital media is happening online, and these require tools that ensure prior permission, and control the level of use. The legal tools of Creative Commons enable controlled sharing.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Creative Commons licenses are not an alternative to copyright. They work alongside copyright and enable users to modify their copyright terms to best suit their needs.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">What will users learn?</h3>
<p>In this part of the seminar users will learn about:</p>
<ul>
<li>Creative Commons as an organization</li>
<li>How the Creative Commons licenses work</li>
<li>How they relate to Open GLAM, and Wikimedia</li>
<li>What are the tools? How to choose them and use them</li>
<li>How can people selectively retain rights, while releasing some of it for free public use</li>
<li>Examples of how GLAM institutions are using CC</li>
<li>New business models and online communities</li>
<li>Other applications of CC</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The speakers from Creative Commons have a long experience of discussing CC with GLAM institutions.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CC licensing also works for many other applications such as music, video, writing, and many other creative works. Open Education Resources, and Public Data are also some of the domains. The focus of the presentation will be on GLAM. However, people interested in other applications may also be able to take the opportunity to have discussions after the main presentation.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Who should attend the seminar?</h3>
<p>The seminar would be of interests to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Administrators of Public policy</li>
<li>Administrators of GLAM institutions</li>
<li>Art historians, Artists, Photographers, and Sculptors</li>
<li>Legal professionals</li>
<li>Bloggers, Authors, Editors, and Publishers.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Admission:</h2>
<p>Admission is free to the public who register. <b>Please bring a print copy of this registration page for admission</b>.</p>
<ul>
<li>Please visit the link to register: <a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/VZ8yIE">http://bit.ly/VZ8yIE</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Location map of venue: <a class="external-link" href="http://goo.gl/maps/sYsxI">http://goo.gl/maps/sYsxI</a></li>
</ul>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/knowledge-sharing-through-glam'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/knowledge-sharing-through-glam</a>
</p>
No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpennessEvent2013-02-18T05:37:46ZEventKannada Wikipedia Workshop, Mysore — Coverage in Prajavani
https://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-report-in-prajavani
<b>A Kannada Wikipedia workshop was organized by the Centre for Internet and Society in Mysore on March 24, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the event. Prajavani has published a report of the event on March 25, 2013.</b>
<table class="listing">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/PrajavaniWikiMeetupMysore.png" alt="Prajavani report" class="image-inline" title="Prajavani report" /></th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Prajavani published a report of the Kannada Wikipedia workshop held at Mysore on March 25, 2013.<br /></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-report-in-prajavani'>https://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-report-in-prajavani</a>
</p>
No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-03-25T08:49:20ZNews ItemKannada Wikipedia workshop at Shree Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara (SDM) College Ujire, Karnataka
https://cis-india.org/openness/events/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-at-shree-dharmasthala-manjunatheshwara-sdm-college-ujire-karnataka
<b>A Kannada Wikipedia workshop is being planned to be organised in Shree Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara (SDM) College Ujire on the 13th August 2015. This is going to be part of the several outreach programmes in the institution.</b>
<p>Topics to be discussed:</p>
<ul><li>What, Why & How of Wikipedia</li><li>Basics of Wikipedia markup</li><li>Kannada Wikipedia</li><li>Editing Kannada Wikipedia</li><li>What can be added to Kannada Wikipedia and how to add articles</li></ul>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-at-shree-dharmasthala-manjunatheshwara-sdm-college-ujire-karnataka'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-at-shree-dharmasthala-manjunatheshwara-sdm-college-ujire-karnataka</a>
</p>
No publisherpavanajaWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopKannada Wikipedia2016-06-18T18:12:41ZEventKannada Wikipedia Workshop at SDM
https://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wiki-workshop-sdm
<b>The Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, SDM College, Ujire is holding a wiki workshop on September 15, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja from CIS-A2K team is participating in this workshop.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The workshop is being held to teach post-graduate students studying Journalism and Mass Communication on contributing and editing Wikipedia. The students will be particularly trained to edit Kannada Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">More about SDM College, Ujire <a class="external-link" href="http://www.sdmcujire.in/">here</a>.</p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wiki-workshop-sdm'>https://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wiki-workshop-sdm</a>
</p>
No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-09-12T06:16:36ZNews ItemKannada Wikipedia Workshop
https://cis-india.org/openness/events/kannada-wikipedia-workshop
<b>A Kannada Wikipedia workshop is being organized by the Centre for Internet and Society in Mysore on March 24, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja will be participating in this workshop. The one day workshop will begin at 10 a.m. in the morning and shall end at 5.00 p.m. in the evening.</b>
<h1 class="firstHeading" id="firstHeading"><span dir="auto">ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನ/೯</span></h1>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ಇನ್ನಷ್ಟು ಮಾಹಿತಿ ಸೇರಿಸುವ ಸಲುವಾಗಿ ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಸಮುದಾಯ ಮಾರ್ಚ್ ೨೪ರಂದು ಮೈಸೂರಿನ ಇನ್ಸ್ಟಿಟ್ಯೂಶನ್ ಆಫ್ ಇಂಜಿನಿಯರ್ಸ್ ಸಭಾಂಗಣದಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದೆಡೆ ಸೇರುತ್ತಿದೆ. ಕನ್ನಡದ ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶದ ಸಂಪಾದನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಆಸಕ್ತಿ ಉಳ್ಳವರು, ಬ್ಲಾಗಿಗರು, ಪತ್ರಕರ್ತರು, ಲೇಖಕರು ಎಲ್ಲ ಈ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮದಲ್ಲಿ ಭಾಗವಹಿಸಬಹುದು.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id=".E0.B2.B8.E0.B2.AE.E0.B3.8D.E0.B2.AE.E0.B2.BF.E0.B2.B2.E0.B2.A8.E0.B2.A6_.E0.B2.89.E0.B2.A6.E0.B3.8D.E0.B2.A6.E0.B3.87.E0.B2.B6">ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನದ ಉದ್ದೇಶ</span></h2>
<ul>
<li>ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಪರಿಚಯ</li>
<li>ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ಸಂಪಾದಕ ಆಗುವ ವಿಧಾನ</li>
<li>ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ಲೇಖನಗಳನ್ನು ಸೇರಿಸುವ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಪ್ರಾತ್ಯಕ್ಷಿಕೆ</li>
<li>ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ಚಿತ್ರಗಳನ್ನು ಸೇರಿಸುವ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಪ್ರಾತ್ಯಕ್ಷಿಕೆ</li>
<li>ಕನ್ನಡದ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶದಲ್ಲಿ ಇರಲೇ ಬೇಕಾದ ವಿಷಯಗಳ ಪಟ್ಟಿ ತಯಾರಿಸುವುದು</li>
<li>ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ಲೇಖನ ಮತ್ತು ಚಿತ್ರ ಸೇರಿಸುವುದು</li>
</ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id=".E0.B2.AF.E0.B2.BE.E0.B2.B0.E0.B3.81_.E0.B2.AD.E0.B2.BE.E0.B2.97.E0.B2.B5.E0.B2.B9.E0.B2.BF.E0.B2.B8.E0.B2.AC.E0.B2.B9.E0.B3.81.E0.B2.A6.E0.B3.81">ಯಾರು ಭಾಗವಹಿಸಬಹುದು</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ಕನ್ನಡದ ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶದ ಸಂಪಾದನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಆಸಕ್ತಿ ಉಳ್ಳವರು, ಬ್ಲಾಗಿಗರು, ಪತ್ರಕರ್ತರು, ಲೇಖಕರು, ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಗರು(ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಾದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಆಸಕ್ತಿ ಉಳ್ಳವರು)</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id=".E0.B2.A6.E0.B2.BF.E0.B2.A8.E0.B2.BE.E0.B2.82.E0.B2.95_.E0.B2.AE.E0.B2.A4.E0.B3.8D.E0.B2.A4.E0.B3.81_.E0.B2.B8.E0.B3.8D.E0.B2.A5.E0.B2.B3">ದಿನಾಂಕ ಮತ್ತು ಸ್ಥಳ</span></h2>
<ul>
<li><b>ಇನ್ಸ್ಟಿಟ್ಯೂಶನ್ ಆಫ್ ಇಂಜಿನಿಯರ್ಸ್</b></li>
</ul>
<p>ಜೆ.ಎಲ್.ಬಿ. ರಸ್ತೆ<br /> ಮೈಸೂರು - ೫೭೦೦೦೫</p>
<ul>
<li><b>ದಿನಾಂಕ</b>: ಮಾರ್ಚ್ ೨೪, ೨೦೧೩, ಭಾನುವಾರ (ಇಡೀ ದಿನ)</li>
</ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id=".E0.B2.95.E0.B2.BE.E0.B2.B0.E0.B3.8D.E0.B2.AF.E0.B2.95.E0.B3.8D.E0.B2.B0.E0.B2.AE_.E0.B2.AA.E0.B2.9F.E0.B3.8D.E0.B2.9F.E0.B2.BF">ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮ ಪಟ್ಟಿ</span></h2>
<table class="listing">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center; "><b>ಸಮಯ</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center; "><b>ಕಾರ್ಯಸೂಚಿ</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center; "><b>ಮಾತನಾಡುವವರು</b></td>
<td style="text-align:center; "><b>ಟಿಪ್ಪಣಿ, ಉಪಯೋಗ</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>೯:೫೦ ಬೆಳಗ್ಗೆ</td>
<td>ನೊಂದಣಿ</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td>ನಿಮ್ಮ ಹೆಸರು/ಇ-ಅಂಚೆ/ಮೊಬೈಲ್/ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಬಳಕೆದಾರರ ಹೆಸರು ಜೊತೆಗೆ,<br /> ಭಾಗಿಯಾಗುತ್ತಿರುವುದರ ಉದ್ದೇಶವನ್ನು ಸ್ವಾಗತಕಾರರ ಬಳಿ ತಿಳಿಸಿ</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>೧೦:೦೦</td>
<td>ಸ್ವಾಗತ</td>
<td>ಪವನಜ</td>
<td>ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮದ ಉದ್ದೇಶ ಮತ್ತು ಅದರ ಪ್ರತಿಪಲಾಪೇಕ್ಷೆಗಳ ವಿವರಣೆ</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>೧೦:೧೫ - ೧೧:೧೫</td>
<td>ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ</td>
<td>ಪವನಜ</td>
<td>ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಎಂದರೆ ಏನು?<br /> ಇದನ್ನು ಸಂಪಾದಿಸುವವರು ಯಾರು ಮತ್ತು ಏಕೆ?<br /> ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದ ಇತರೆ ಯೋಜನೆಗಳು</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>೧೧:೧೫ - ೧೧:೩೦</td>
<td align="center" colspan="3">ಚಾ</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>೧೧:೩೦ - ೧೨:೦೦</td>
<td>ಕ್ರಿಯೇಟಿವ್ ಕಾಮನ್ಸ್</td>
<td>ಕಿರಣ್ ರವಿಕುಮಾರ್</td>
<td>ಕ್ರಿಯೆಟೀವ್ ಕಾಮನ್ಸ್ (Creative Commons) ಬಗ್ಗೆ ವಿವರಣೆ.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>೧೨:೦೦ - ೧೩:೦೦</td>
<td>ಪ್ರಾತ್ಯಕ್ಷಿಕೆ</td>
<td>ಪವನಜ</td>
<td>ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಸಂಪಾದಕ ಆಗುವುದು ಹೇಗೆ, ಸಂಪಾದಿಸುವುದು ಹೇಗೆ, ಇತ್ಯಾದಿ</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>೧೩:೦೦ - ೧೪:೦೦</td>
<td align="center" colspan="3">ಊಟ</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>೧೪:೦೦ - ೧೪:೧೫</td>
<td>ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ೧೦೦೦ ಯೋಜನೆ ಪರಿಚಯ</td>
<td>ಪವನಜ</td>
<td>ಕನ್ನಡ ಮತ್ತು ಕರ್ನಾಟಕಕ್ಕೆ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದ ಪ್ರಮುಖ ಲೇಖನಗಳನ್ನು ಪಟ್ಟಿ ಮಾಡಿ,<br /> ಸಮುದಾಯದ ಆಯ್ಕೆಯ ಮೇರೆಗೆ ಲೇಖನಗಳ ಸಂಪಾದನೆ, ಪರಿಷ್ಕರಣೆ ಇತ್ಯಾದಿಗಳ ಅವಶ್ಯಕತೆ, ಭಾಗವಹಿಸುವಿಕೆ</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>೧೪:೧೫ - ಕೊನೆಯವರೆಗೆ</td>
<td>ಪ್ರಯೋಗ (hands-on)</td>
<td>ಎಲ್ಲರೂ</td>
<td>ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದಲ್ಲಿ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನಕ್ಕೆ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದ ಲೇಖನಗಳನ್ನು ಸೇರಿಸುವ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನ</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id=".E0.B2.B8.E0.B3.8D.E0.B2.B5.E0.B2.AF.E0.B2.82.E0.B2.B8.E0.B3.87.E0.B2.B5.E0.B2.95.E0.B2.B0.E0.B3.81">ಸ್ವಯಂಸೇವಕರು</span></h2>
<ol>
<li><a href="http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF:Pavanaja" title="ಸದಸ್ಯ:Pavanaja">Pavanaja</a> (<a href="http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF%E0%B2%B0_%E0%B2%9A%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%9A%E0%B3%86%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%9F:Pavanaja" title="ಸದಸ್ಯರ ಚರ್ಚೆಪುಟ:Pavanaja">talk</a>) ೦೭:೩೭, ೧೧ ಮಾರ್ಚ್ ೨೦೧೩ (UTC)</li>
<li>ಕಿರಣ್ ರವಿಕುಮಾರ್</li>
<li>ನವೀನ್ ಜೋಯಿಸ್</li>
</ol>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id=".E0.B2.AD.E0.B2.BE.E0.B2.97.E0.B2.B5.E0.B2.B9.E0.B2.BF.E0.B2.B8.E0.B2.B2.E0.B3.81_.E0.B2.87.E0.B2.9A.E0.B3.8D.E0.B2.9B.E0.B2.BF.E0.B2.B8.E0.B3.81.E0.B2.B5.E0.B2.B5.E0.B2.B0.E0.B3.81">ಭಾಗವಹಿಸಲು ಇಚ್ಛಿಸುವವರು</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ನೀವೂ ಭಾಗಿಯಾಗಲು ಇಚ್ಚಿಸುವುದಾದರೆ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಹೆಸರನ್ನು # ಮುಂದೆ ಸೇರಿಸಿ ಅಥವಾ ~ ಅನ್ನು ನಾಲ್ಕು ಭಾರಿ ಟೈಪಿಸಿ ಸಹಿ ಮಾಡಿ.</p>
<ol style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>ಹಾಲತಿ ಸೋಮಶೇಖರ</li>
<li>ಮಾಲಿನಿ ಅಭ್ಯಂಕರ್</li>
</ol>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id=".E0.B2.B8.E0.B2.AE.E0.B3.8D.E0.B2.AE.E0.B2.BF.E0.B2.B2.E0.B2.A8.E0.B2.95.E0.B3.8D.E0.B2.95.E0.B3.86_.E0.B2.B8.E0.B2.B9.E0.B2.BE.E0.B2.AF">ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನಕ್ಕೆ ಸಹಾಯ</span></h2>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>ಬೆಂಬಲ</dt></dl>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>ಸೆಂಟರ್ ಫಾರ್ ಇಂಟರ್ ನೆಟ್ ಅಂಡ್ ಸೊಸೈಟಿ, ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು</li>
</ul>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>ಉಪಯುಕ್ತ ಕೊಂಡಿಗಳು</dt><dt>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id=".E0.B2.B8.E0.B3.82.E0.B2.9A.E0.B2.A8.E0.B3.86">ಸೂಚನೆ</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ಭಾಗವಹಿಸುವವರು ಲ್ಯಾಪ್ಟಾಪ್, ಪವರ್ ಸ್ಟ್ರಿಪ್ (extension switchboard) ಮತ್ತು ಅಂತರಜಾಲ ಸಂಪರ್ಕ ಡಾಂಗಲ್ ತಂದರೆ ಒಳ್ಳೆಯದು.</p>
</dt></dl><ol style="text-align: justify; "> </ol><ol style="text-align: justify; "> </ol>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
</ul>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/kannada-wikipedia-workshop'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/kannada-wikipedia-workshop</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpennessEvent2013-03-15T09:52:18ZEventIntroductory Wikipedia session at BITS Goa
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-session-at-bits-goa
<b>The Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet and Society was invited by Nikhil Dixit, Public Relations Officer at the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani – Goa (BITS Goa) to organise Wikipedia session on March 7, 2013. Nitika Tandon participated in this workshop and shares with us the developments.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Despite the fact that students were busy with their exams and lab tests nearly 30 of them turned up for the event. Many of the students had already tried a bit of IP editing but had not bothered to create accounts. When asked why they hadn't created user accounts many of them said they didn't feel that it is important to create accounts till they are able to correct or add information that they want to share using IPs. The participants were then told about the importance of creating user accounts: using it as an identity with the Wikipedia community, each edit being added to their edit count, helping them build trust, friends and connections with other editors, being able to become Wikipedia administrators or system operators, etc.</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY">As most of the participants had some knowledge of Wikipedia editing, having made sporadic edits in the past, they wanted to know more about advanced editing. About an hour was therefore spent on actual hands on editing where students tried — adding references, wiki markups, info boxes, etc. Students were also taught on how to use user talk pages to interact with other editors. During the course of the workshop we figured that one of the participants had worked on <a href="http://live.wikimedia.in/">live.wikimedia.in</a> search in 2011 and we invited him to talk a little about his project, experience and involvement. A lot of students were surprised that one amongst their fellow students had worked with the Wikimedia movement in India and achieved so much success. His story really inspired several in the room and many participants made promises to get more involved as editors. Many participants were also curious to know more about Hackathons.</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY"><i>Our next step is to connect participants from all the workshops organised in Goa at <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITS_Goa">BITS Goa</a>, <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa_University">Goa University</a>, <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa_State_Central_Library">Central State Library</a> and Nirmala Institute of Education, since December last year, to enable and support them to organise regular Wiki meet-ups and programs, etc., and strengthen the Wikimedia movement in Goa</i>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-session-at-bits-goa'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-session-at-bits-goa</a>
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No publishernitikaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-07-26T11:40:41ZBlog EntryIntroducing Odia Wikipedia to students of Utkal University, Bhubaneswar
https://cis-india.org/openness/introducing-odia-wikipedia-to-students-of-utkal-university-bhubaneswar
<b>A four-hour-long workshop was organised at Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha on February 25, 2016 for the students of Master of Computer Applications (MCA) and Master in Arts, Department of Odia-language.</b>
<p dir="ltr">70 participants consisting of 35 male and 25 female students from the two departments joined in this workshop. Three active Wikimedians; Mrutyunjaya Kar, Subas Chandra Rout and Jnanaranjan Sahu supported in mentoring the new editors. Two other Wikimedians; Chinmayee Mishra and Rajalaxmi Mishra, who are students in the university, organized the event.</p>
<p dir="ltr">During the introductory session, we introduced the students about Odia Wikipedia, the Wikimedia community, and the <a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/s/yea">Bhubaneswar WikiTungi</a>, a local user collaborative in the city of Bhubaneswar. <a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MKar">Mrutyunjaya Kar</a>, administrator of Odia Wikipedia and Odia Wikisource presented about the Odia Wikimedia projects, how the students enhance their skills while contributing to these projects and introduced the <a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/s/jxw">Wikipedia policies</a> to the new editors. “Even though we announced that students can leave by 2 pm, most students stayed back over an hour. Even in a conservative expectation, there will at least be 3-4 students who will be actively contributing in the future. As Chinmayee is associated with us from before, she could lead the local activities in the university”, he adds. <a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jnanaranjan_sahu">Jnanaranjan Sahu</a> who has been active in building several tools and software for Odia Wikimedia projects introduced about <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/">Mediawiki</a> and the Optical Character Recognition and its application in growing <a href="https://or.wikisource.org/s/266">Odia Wikisource</a>. He also suggests for regular follow-up outreach in the university so that the new editors get constant support and this enthusiasm does not stop here.</p>
<p>Out of the 70 participants, more than 50 participants managed to create their accounts and even made more than 200 edits during the workshop. They selected articles of their own interest and edited. Four faculty members from the MCA department participated in the workshop and were eager to learn how Wikipedia editing works. Rajalaxmi Mishra, who always wanted to edit but never edited Odia Wikipedia made her debut edit this day. She elaborates, “Chinmayee being a batchmate and a good friend always talked about Odia Wikipedia but I personally never did much beyond reading the English Wikipedia article. This workshop was more of a real starting point for me and I started writing about many renowned women like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Besant">Annie Besant</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalpana_Chawla">Kalpana Chawla</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudha_Chandran">Sudha Chandran</a>. Being a student of Computer Science, I am also planning to write more articles in my own subject area. I have just finished writing about a popular bird of Odisha Chinmayee is my batchmate, was helping her”.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/introducing-odia-wikipedia-to-students-of-utkal-university-bhubaneswar'>https://cis-india.org/openness/introducing-odia-wikipedia-to-students-of-utkal-university-bhubaneswar</a>
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No publisherSailesh PatnaikCIS-A2KOdia WikipediaWorkshop2016-05-20T10:52:41ZBlog EntryIndic Wikisource Community Consultation 2018 report at Asomiya Pratidin ePaper- Highest Circulated Assamese Daily
https://cis-india.org/indic-wikisource-community-consultation-2018-report-at-asomiya-pratidin-epaper-highest-circulated-assamese-daily
<b>Indic Wikisource Community Consultation 2018 report at Asomiya Pratidin ePaper- Highest Circulated Assamese Daily</b>
<p><em>Volunteers from various Indic Wikisource projects took part in a discussion organized by Centre for Internet and society: access to knowledge (CIS:A2K) in Kolkata recently. Dr. Gitartha Bordoloi participated in this consultation on behalf of the Assamese Wikisource which included other Indic languages like Bengali, Odia, Marathi, Malayalam, Hindi, Kannada, Gujarati, Punjabi, Telugu and Sanskrit. It is worth mentioning here that Wikisource is another important project like Wikipedia, Wiktionary etc operated by Wikimedia Foundation. Anyone can contribute to this wikisource project which stores copyright-free books, plays, lyrics, speeches, translated works etc. Such works are first scanned and digitalized and then converted to unicode so that everything becomes searchable. Assamese Wikisource (<a href="http://as.wikisource.org/" target="_blank">as.wikisource.org</a>), started in 2013, so far includes various literary works of Guru Sankardeva and Madhavdev, Jyotiprasad Agarwala, Lakshminath Bezbaroa, Padmanath Gogain Baruah, Chandraprasad Agarwala, Amulya Barua, Dandinath Kalita etc. Measures to popularize Wikisource among masses, increasing numbers of readers and contributors, correct techniques to digitalize a book etc were discussed at the event in Kolkata.</em></p>
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<p><em>Translated from Assamese by Dr. Gitartha Bordoloi </em></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/indic-wikisource-community-consultation-2018-report-at-asomiya-pratidin-epaper-highest-circulated-assamese-daily'>https://cis-india.org/indic-wikisource-community-consultation-2018-report-at-asomiya-pratidin-epaper-highest-circulated-assamese-daily</a>
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No publisherjayantaCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeIndic WikisourceBooksDigitisationWikisourceIndic ComputingWorkshopIndic Scripts2018-12-10T15:08:56ZNews Item