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Will domain dot भारत spur the growth of Indian languages on the internet?
https://cis-india.org/openness/news/scroll-in-rohan-venkataramakrishnan-will-domain-dot-bharat-spur-the-growth-of-Indian-languages-on-the-internet
<b>Modi's effort to promote the use of Hindi and e-governance has given hope to those who want to see more vernacular content online, but many challenges have to be overcome.</b>
<p>Rohan Venkataramakrishnan's blog post was <a class="external-link" href="http://scroll.in/article/676475/Will-domain-dot-%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A4--spur-the-growth-of-Indian-languages-on-the-internet">published in Scroll.in</a> on August 29, 2014. Sunil Abraham gave his inputs.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">For most of its short history, the internet has been the English speaker’s playground. Though English is the world’s third-most spoken language (after Mandarin and Spanish), it is by far the most commonly used language on the internet. If you wanted to make sense of most of what’s on the World Wide Web, you had to be able to read and write English.<br /><br />This is slowly changing. The <a href="http://www.medianama.com/2014/07/223-bharat-domain-hindi/" target="_blank">launch of Devanagari script web addresses</a> on Sunday, allowing people to use .भारत domain names, was another step in the slow effort to bring about a multilingual Web. Already, Indian languages like Hindi – one of the most commonly-spoken languages on Earth – lag far behind. The move gels well with the new government’s effort to promote the use of Hindi, and its push to increase digital services available to all citizens. The next few years could well see a spurt in vernacular content online.<br /><br />But first many challenges have to be overcome. “At present, not a single Indian language figures in the top 10 languages prevalent on the Internet, though Chinese, Arabic and Russian feature in the list,” said a<a href="http://www.mckinsey.com/%7E/media/mckinsey%20offices/india/pdfs/online_and_upcoming_the_internets_impact_on_india.ashx" target="_blank"> McKinsey report</a> on the internet's impact on India. “The next wave of internet adoption in India will be dominated by local language speakers, which underscores the need for much more content and applications to be offered in local languages.”<br /><br /><b>Vernacular internet</b><br /><a href="http://qz.com/96054/english-is-no-longer-the-language-of-the-web/">Early studies </a>of the internet attempted to quantify how much of the web was in English. A 1997 estimate put the number at 80% of all websites, while the Online Computer Library’s study in 2003 concluded that 72% of all online content was in English. Today that number is much lower.</p>
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<p>W3Techs, which conducts surveys of the internet, now estimates that about 55% of content on the Internet is in English, followed by German, Russian and Japanese. Indian languages don’t crack the top 35.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The analysis is by its nature imprecise. The internet is vast and mostly uncharted. Estimates suggest search engines have indexed only 40% of Web content, leaving much off the mainstream radar. Measuring language becomes even harder because, in the early years, when fonts were harder to render, most non-English content on the internet was spelt out in Roman letters.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Indian Wiki<br />T</b>he rise of multilingual scripts has changed that, and made it easier to evaluate the diversity of the internet. Yet even the best approach relies more on sampling than measurement. There is one section of the Web, however, that does allow for comparisons of absolute numbers.<b></b></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Relative to other tongues, Indian language-articles still comprise a minuscule portion of Wikipedia. English, Spanish and French are perhaps expected, but even languages like Vietnamese have nearly 10 times the number of pages that Hindi does. Waray-Waray, the fifth-most commonly spoken language in the Philippines, appears to be an outlier because of an automated translation method that creates pages in that language.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Hindi content has been growing on the internet encyclopedia, from no pages in 2003 to more than one lakh in 2011, but it still falls far behind the languages that are spoken as commonly as it, like Spanish and Arabic, let alone those with much smaller reach. Of course in many countries English is not spoken at all, so Internet users need web pages in their own language. In India, because of the language-class association, the majority of Internet users are at least conversant in English.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Obstacle Course</b><br />The impediments to further growth are all too apparent. For one, internet infrastructure still <a href="http://www.medianama.com/2014/08/223-namaindic-a-summary/">leaves much to be desired</a>. Though India has the third-largest internet user-base in the world, only 10% of the country is actually online. Even by 2015, when internet access is expected to reach 28% of the population, the equivalent rural figure is likely to be just 9%, according to estimates.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“A lot of the core infrastructure that is necessary for language computing is missing,” said Sunil Abraham, executive director of the Centre for Internet & Society. “There’s no mandate by the government that these languages must be supported, no comprehensive dictionaries, no thesauri, no machine translation capabilities, no optical character recognition capabilities. Because our market is so insignificant for proprietary software makers, they haven’t done enough to develop these. Meanwhile, the free software community is too small and mostly English-speaking.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The government has launched some initiatives in this regard, like a National Translation Mission aimed at machine translating text from English into Indic languages, as well as banks of fonts that are free to use. But Abraham said that while the government is clear this should be a priority area, it underestimates the scale of the problem.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“We need large scale investment by the government into each language,” he said. “We’re looking at maybe even Rs 100 crore per language, to bring each of our traditional languages into the internet age.”</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/scroll-in-rohan-venkataramakrishnan-will-domain-dot-bharat-spur-the-growth-of-Indian-languages-on-the-internet'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/scroll-in-rohan-venkataramakrishnan-will-domain-dot-bharat-spur-the-growth-of-Indian-languages-on-the-internet</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaWikipediaInternet GovernanceAccess to Knowledge2014-09-08T05:50:11ZNews ItemWikiwomen’s Meetup at St. Agnes College Explores Potentials and Plans of Women Editors in Mangalore, Karnataka
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikiwomen2019s-meetup-at-st-agnes-college-explores-potentials-and-plans-of-women-editors-in-mangalore-karnataka
<b>Karnataka is known for its diverse linguistic cultures. Aside from Kannada, many are native speakers of Konkani, Tulu, and other languages. A small Wikiwomen's meetup was held on Saturday, August 27th at St. Agnes College, Mangalore, to invite female Wikipedians from the region. Many of them were new to the online encyclopedia but demonstrated strong interest in learning and contributing more Indic language content online.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Mangaluru/WikiWomen/1">Wikiwomen’s meetup</a> was held at St. Agnes College on August 27<sup>th</sup> in the hope to strengthen the bonding and communication between female Wikipedians in Mangalore. Attendees of the meetup on Saturday included five Kannada Wikipedian, one Konkani Wikipedian, one from the recently gone live Tulu Wikipedia, and Ting-Yi Chang from the CIS A2K team. Two of the Kannada Wikipedians are staff and faculty members of the College’s library and Department of Kannada respectively. Both were brought into Wikipedia by <a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-st-agnes-college-mangaluru-to-bridge-gender-gap-in-wikipedia">edit-a-thons</a> held on the college campus in the last few months</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The meetup started off with a round of brief self-introduction and an inspiring introductory presentation by Dhanalakshimi K T, a St. Agnes commerce student who had successfully organized the last two women’s edit-a-thons on her campus.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">“<i>Wikipedia is a great tool for knowledge sharing. When we edit in our own languages, people from outside of the city who don’t speak English can learn things more easily online.... It is the respect and passion I have for my language."</i></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The presentation also touched upon some feasible benefits that editors gains through participating in Wikipedia/media projects: improvement in writing and research skills, nurturing a critical thinking habit when reading texts and doing research, learnings from collaborative work experience, improvement in language and communication skills, etc. One of the participants later mentioned that with the hobby of editing Wikipedia, she began actively researching in her interested topics. Even in occasions when she had no time to actually update the content onto Wikipedia, the knowledge she gained throughout the research process has already enriched her and broadened her horizon of the subject.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The second half of the presentation consists of an introduction to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars">5 pillars rules</a> and some other advice of Wikipedia editing. Participants who were newcomers showed great interest and actively raised questions surrounding the use of different editing tools including the infobox templates, translation tools, useful markups, and personal sandboxes.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">When being asked about the barriers they have faced so far in editing Wikipedia, most agreed that time issues do prevent them sometimes as their offline commitments (work, family, school) can take priority over it. However, most participants also concluded that “those who are truly interested will eventually find the time.” On the other hand, access to internet and facilities has not been reported as a barrier in their cases, but all agreed that it can be for many other women. Awareness was emphasized as a crucial factor when trying to bring in more women to Wikipedia. One of the student participants shared her experience,</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>“Some people may have never heard of Wikipedia before; some misunderstood its use and potential… when I talked about Kannada Wikipedia with my peers, first they thought it was some website for Kannada stories writing…. But when I explained to them what it is and how we can edit, they were all very excited and very much wanted to try."</i></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">In the latter discussion of the meetup, participants talked about the tentative event plans for the next few months. Two sessions were suggested to be held by November, 2016. One as a workshop for the newcomers and the other as an editing event for more experienced female Wikipedians. All participants, old and new, are really excited to strengthen the bonding between Wikiwomens in Mangalore. Some suggested there should be more casual meetups every few weeks to help them communicate more and plan upcoming community events, including an ongoing event that can be held in March, 2017 for the International Women’s Day and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWomen%27s_History_Month">Wikiwomen’s History Month</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The meetup continued with more discussion on various language Wikipedias’ development. As an experienced Wikipedian and an actively outreaching community member, participant Harriet Vidyasagar explained the complexity in Konkani Wikipedia, which contains five scripts, and the importance of those scripts in Konkani language’s history and culture. All participants agreed that seeing their mother tongues’ scripts online and creating more content to make their culture and language visible are a great source of happiness and a motivation for them to continue editing. The session ended with exchange of contacts and group pictures.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikiwomen2019s-meetup-at-st-agnes-college-explores-potentials-and-plans-of-women-editors-in-mangalore-karnataka'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikiwomen2019s-meetup-at-st-agnes-college-explores-potentials-and-plans-of-women-editors-in-mangalore-karnataka</a>
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No publishertingCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeGenderKonkani WikipediaKannada WikipediaEvent2016-09-01T14:39:53ZBlog EntryWikiTungi: Bhubaneswar City Wiki Community Turns 1
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikitungi-bhubaneswar-city-wiki-community-turns-1
<b>The Odia Wikipedia’s WikiTungi is an attempt at building a community of Wikimedians at the city level.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span id="docs-internal-guid-7bfb0247-7d33-566f-91d8-e4047130feac">The </span><span>tungi</span><span>, named after an ancient practice in Odia that involves passing on knowledge of the scriptures, is a city based Wikipedia community that helps Wikimedians around the city to meet and learn from their shared experiences. The Tungi meetups and events are organised with the help of the volunteers.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span><span id="docs-internal-guid-7bfb0247-7d33-b5e9-5c1e-17b27fccb38e">The Odia community's WikiTungi is based out of two cities, Puri and Bhubaneswar. While Wikimedians in Puri conduct meetups bi-monthly, Bhubaneswar Wikimedians meet once a month. In every meetup, Wikimedians exchange their resources with each other, helping address their doubts and queries regarding their problems and projects.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span><span><span id="docs-internal-guid-7bfb0247-7d34-16e3-912c-aa6120f95cef">This February marks the first anniversary of the Bhubaneswar WikiTungi. The WikiTungi members from the city meet every second Sunday of the month. To commemorate the first anniversary of this novel effort, nine community members from the Bhubaneswar Tungi met for a celebratory dinner at a local restaurant on 9 February 2017 <span id="docs-internal-guid-7bfb0247-7d34-673d-162f-178a5fc58e14">and toasted to the dedication of the volunteers.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span><span><span><span><span id="docs-internal-guid-7bfb0247-7d34-be27-1a02-5d78514ab1d1">The community discussed various ideas (listed below) and the ways in which they can be implemented in the regular WikiTungi meetups. Members of the community also showed their interest in organising the third edition of WikiConference India in Bhubaneswar to bring Wikipedia to more people across the state of Odisha. During the community meetup, Tungi members came up with few ideas to implement it as a best practice in the Wikipedia movement.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-7bfb0247-7d34-f76a-dfb4-7a2b6a1e50da"><span>Some of them are listed here:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span>The Tungi members will invite one of the global community leaders for a Skype or hangout session.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span> Discuss the best practice from the global community and discuss them with the community.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span>Updating the minutes of the meeting and sharing them with the other community members.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span>Updating the Learning and Evaluation team about the new learning of the community every month.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span>The community will also send postcards as a souvenirs to the participants of the global community for the online sessions.</span></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikitungi-bhubaneswar-city-wiki-community-turns-1'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikitungi-bhubaneswar-city-wiki-community-turns-1</a>
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No publishersaileshCIS-A2KOdia WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2017-02-27T01:42:11ZBlog EntryWikisource:Internship Project at New Law College, Pune
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikisource-internship-project-at-new-law-college-pune
<b>This Wiki - internship project is being conducted for New Law College (Pune),under the guidance of Prof.Dr.Mukund Sarda, Dean and Principal of NLC by CIS A2K as part of this project at en wikisource; teams of students will acomplish proof reading, validation, compilation annotation etc. of Indian Laws and to begin with Copyright laws and Intellectual property laws at Portal:Copyright law/Copyright law of India.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Next /intermittant stages of a (internship) project, may be conducted on <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" title="w:">english wikipedia</a> for case studies part, and for questions answers, research etc on <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Main_Page" title="wikiversity:Main Page">english wikiversity</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:WikiProject" title="Wikisource:WikiProject">WikiProject</a> is dedicated to posting and organizing pages for <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Category:Laws_of_India" title="Category:Laws of India">Acts of the Indian Parliament</a> and other Indian legislation. Present collaboration :<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Portal:Copyright_law/Copyright_law_of_India" title="Portal:Copyright law/Copyright law of India">Intellectual Property Acts</a>:</p>
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<li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:Indian_Copyright_Act_1957.djvu" title="Index:Indian Copyright Act 1957.djvu">Index:Indian Copyright Act 1957.djvu</a> (<a class="text external" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Index:Indian_Copyright_Act_1957.djvu">related Recent Changes</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:Patents_Act_1970_%28India%29.pdf" title="Index:Patents Act 1970 (India).pdf">Index:Patents Act 1970 (India).pdf</a> (<a class="text external" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Index:Patents_Act_1970_%28India%29.pdf">related Recent Changes</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:Trade_Marks_Act_%28India%29,_1999.djvu" title="Index:Trade Marks Act (India), 1999.djvu">Index:Trade Marks Act (India), 1999.djvu</a> (<a class="text external" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Index:Trade_Marks_Act_%28India%29,_1999.djvu">related Recent Changes</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:Geographical_Indications_of_Goods_%28Registration_and_Protection%29_Act,_1999.djvu" title="Index:Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999.djvu">Index:Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999.djvu</a> (<a class="text external" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Index:Geographical_Indications_of_Goods_%28Registration_and_Protection%29_Act,_1999.djvu">related changes</a>)</li>
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<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/WikisourceCertificate.png" alt="Wikisource Certificate" class="image-inline" title="Wikisource Certificate" /></p>
<p>More information on <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Internship_project_at_New_Law_College,_Pune">Wikimedia Blog</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikisource-internship-project-at-new-law-college-pune'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikisource-internship-project-at-new-law-college-pune</a>
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No publishersubodhCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWikisource2017-03-28T15:37:09ZBlog EntryWikisource Workshop at Vigyan Ashram, Pabal
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/subodh-kulkarni-may-26-2019-wikisource-workshop-at-vigyan-ashram
<b>The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) organized a workshop in collaboration with Vigyan Ashram, Pabal on May 25-26, 2019 at Pabal. Total 12 participants attended sessions during this two days workshop. The basic skills in digitisation, uploading on Commons and Wikisource process were imparted in the workshop. Jayanta Nath was the facilitator.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Active members of Wikisource at Vigyan Ashram have expressed their interest in learning advanced skills on VP. Previously, they have scanned & uploaded 50+ books on Commons, OCR'd 10,000+ pages and proofread few pages. This team wants to learn advanced skills in processing scanned books, metadata linking with Wikidata, Wikisource - proofreading & layout skills, tools etc. The institution has also planned to integrate proofreading activity with the Unicode/FOSS training courses, so that the students will be involved in next academic year. The primary objectives of the workshop were:</p>
<p>To impart :</p>
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<li>Basic orientation to Wikisource</li>
<li>Understanding of Wikisource work flow</li>
<li>Skills required from scanning to OCR of book</li>
<li>skills for Proof-reading, transclusion methods</li>
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<h3>Agenda</h3>
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<li>Introduction to Wikisource - features, scope and future potential</li>
<li>Wikisource work flow - explanation of different stages</li>
<li>Upload tools and Copyrights</li>
<li>OCR4Wikisource and Indic OCR</li>
<li>Proofreading methods and Tools required</li>
<li>Wikisource tools, gadgets</li>
<li>Transclusion methods</li>
<li>Wikidata linkage</li>
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<h3>Day 1</h3>
<p id="_mcePaste" style="text-align: justify; ">Day one started with training on Scanning and post processing methods. The expert trainer explained various programmes to clean files & make the pdf of book. He also reviewed the previous work done at Vigyan Ashram and gave important suggestions. All the participants scanned 20 pages and processed them for practise. Then copyright issues and various licenses were discussed with some examples on Commons. The big size books were uploaded by chunkedupload tool. This will be useful in future as it reduces time and space also. <span>After the uploading session, the basics of Wikisource project were explained by Jayanta Nath. He demonstrated proof-reading methods and the related tools, gadgets required. Some scripts for proof-reading are not imported in Marathi Wikisource. The need analysis was done to identify basic minimum templates and gadgets. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>The participants learned to make their common.js pages to install the scripts. The hands-on activity was done by distributing the pages of one book for all the members. </span><span>Day one started with training on Scanning and post processing methods. The expert trainer explained various programmes to clean files & make the pdf of book. He also reviewed the previous work done at Vigyan Ashram and gave important suggestions. All the participants scanned 20 pages and processed them for practise. Then copyright issues and various licenses were discussed with some examples on Commons. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>The big size books were uploaded by chunkedupload tool. This will be useful in future as it reduces time and space also.After the uploading session, the basics of Wikisource project were explained by Jayanta Nath. He demonstrated proof-reading methods and the related tools, gadgets required. Some scripts for proof-reading are not imported in Marathi Wikisource. The need analysis was done to identify basic minimum templates and gadgets. The participants learned to make their common.js pages to install the scripts. The hands-on activity was done by distributing the pages of one book for all the members.</span></p>
<h3><span>Day 2</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">On the second day, three active Wikimedians and one new member from Pune joined group at Vigyan Ashram. After the recap of first day activity, the review of status of Marathi Wikisource was taken. The practise session for proof-reading & layout of pages continued till lunch break. In the second half, final process of transclusion was explained in detail. The participants also learnt about the various methods for different forms of books. The final layout for reading the books on Wikisource and formats for downloading the books were also discussed.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In the last session, the future plan of Wikisource activity was discussed. The organisation has decided to involve all the trainees in this activity to enhance the skills as well as knowledge. The active community members have planned to spread the awareness about the Wikisource in the society for more content donation and increasing editor base.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Follow-up</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Consistent activity for the new trainees is planned with trained team at the institute. Scanning of rare and re-licensed books from libraries is in progress. This activity will be scaled up in near future.</p>
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<p><a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Wikisource_Workshop_at_Vigyan_Ashram,_Pabal_(25-26_May_2019)">The blog post was originally published on Wikimedia Blog</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/subodh-kulkarni-may-26-2019-wikisource-workshop-at-vigyan-ashram'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/subodh-kulkarni-may-26-2019-wikisource-workshop-at-vigyan-ashram</a>
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No publishersubodhWikimediaWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2019-06-23T03:26:53ZBlog EntryWikisource Handbook for Indian Communities
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wiki-source-handbook-for-indian-communities
<b>Wikisource is one of the trending Wikimedia projects. Many new editors and new books to Indic language Wikisource's get added over a period of time. However, new editors as well as existing editors face numerous problems while working with the content online. The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team, to help the editors, has created this Handbook. CIS invites feedback to the first draft of this Handbook. CIS-A2K will continue to work with the Wikipedia communities to improve their efforts towards developing Wikisource. </b>
<h2>Preface</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Currently, CIS-A2K is working with five Indian-languages Wikimedia communities (Kannada, Konkani, Marathi, Odia, and Telugu) and one focus project area (Wikisource with punjabi community). While working with the above mentioned Indic Wikimedia communities, we noticed that there are many similarities between the issues and challenges faced by these communities. So, we decided to create this “Wikisource Handbook for Indian Communities”.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">At first, we went through the Wikisource of each language and noted the status. Then we talked to Indic Wikipedians to know more about the Wikisource related issues that they are facing. We also asked for the feedback on the first draft of this handbook. Our actual work will start after the release of this book, when we’ll work with the communities to improve their efforts towards developing Wikisource.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Click to download the <b><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/files/wikisource-handbook-for-indian-communities">Wikisource Handbook for Indian Communities</a></b> co-authored by Bodhisattwa Mandal and Ananth Subray P V. with graphics support from Saumya Naidu.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wiki-source-handbook-for-indian-communities'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wiki-source-handbook-for-indian-communities</a>
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No publisherBodhisattwa Mandal and Ananth Subray P. V.CIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaFeaturedHomepage2018-09-19T02:18:40ZBlog EntryWikiSangamotsavam 2016
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikisangamotsavam-2016
<b>The Malayalam Wikipedia community jointly held its anniversary celebrations and annual gathering in Kasaragod district, Kerala from 26 to 28 December, 2016. The Centre for Internet and Society was invited to partake in the event.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-85891707-6de5-4c20-912b-1f4bcd542741">The <a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%A7%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%A8_%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BE%E0%B5%BE">Malayalam Wikipedia</a> community held its fifth annual gathering, <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiSangamotsavam-2016">WikiSangamotsavam</a>, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasaragod_district">Kasaragod</a>, the northernmost district of the state of Kerala. The culturally diverse district is a melting pot of seven actively spoken languages- Malayalam, Kannada, Tulu, the Beary dialect, Tamil, Marathi and Konkani. It was a three day affair from the 26th to 28th December 2016, with the third day’s WikiVoyage incubator session fittingly held on a houseboat out in the Bekal lake! The event commemorated the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayalam_Wikipedia">regional Wikipedia’s</a> completion of 14 years which fell on the 21st of the month. The community aims to build advanced technical support for its members in the next year. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">The first day was marked by a seminar by Mr. Sathyaseelan, a differently abled Wikipedian who demonstrated(video from previous meetup <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr1T3HeBTvU">here</a>) how to convert voice to text using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) methods for visually challenged Wikipedians. This was followed by a session on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap">Open Street Mapping</a> by the newly elected Malayalam Wikipedia administrator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ranjithsiji">Ranjith Siji</a>. In a one-on-one sit down, Ranjit candidly spoke about the technical challenges that the Malayalam Wikipedia and the wider Wikipedia community faces today. He opines that the existing mobile support for editing wikis is proving insufficient and more robust apps need to be developed to make Wikipedia more mobile ready for on-the-go editors. He’s taking this up as his personal mission for the upcoming year. In light of using freely reusable data, Ranjit says, “collaborative editing must also be enabled as groups can work together to improve local knowledge.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">The second day began with a formal opening ceremony by P. Karunakaran, Member of Parliament for the Kasaragod constituency. He spoke on the importance of furthering the cause of knowledge in India’s most literate state. Then, the Malayalam Wikipedia community sat down for a transparent round table discussion on progress made and targets to be set for 2017. The community noted the success of programs and activities like Ente Gramam (which encouraged members to detail information regarding their village/ ancestral village), Olympics month, Wikipedia Asian Month, Wiki 100 Days, etc. The <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/thiruvananthapuram/Malayalam-Wikipedia-leaps-forward-with-100-day-challenge/articleshow/55171206.cms">Wiki 100 Days</a> in particular led to the creation of close to 80 articles a day in Malayalam Wikipedia. The number of articles also saw a surge post the <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016">Wiki Conference India 2016</a> held in Punjab. The discussion mulled on the aspects that need to be improved upon such as selected articles and selected photos on the Main Page which see unenthusiastic voting numbers amongst the community members. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Manojk">Manoj K</a>, an active community member, proposed the strategy of targeting groups of editors(old/new) with niche knowledge of a specific subject or focus area. He related his own experience in this regard: “I’m part of many bird watching and environmental clubs and I talk to them about Wikipedia so that they can use their knowledge about conservation or birds to edit or create those specific wikis.” He also identified challenges that were administrative in nature. “When offline events increase, online participation tends to decrease due to the leg work involved”, he observes. In addition, he feels grant writing and documentation training would also benefit the community. He added that religious vandalism of articles on monuments by fringe groups is also an issue faced by the community.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Anilankv">Anil Kumar</a>, another long time Wikipedian, spoke of the general increase in awareness regarding editing Wikipedia in smaller towns and districts in Kerala. He pointed out that reviving <a href="http://schoolwiki.in/">School Wiki</a> would further increase awareness and, subsequently, participation. The Kerala government’s <a href="https://www.itschool.gov.in/">IT@School project</a> is now leading the efforts behind reviving School Wiki which aims to document (in Malayalam) details of all the schools in the state. <a href="https://itschool.gov.in/ictschoolscheme.php">K. Anvar Sadat</a>, the Executive Director of IT@School spoke to the Malayalam Wikipedia community in a video message enumerating the benefits of a detailed statewide school database. The community also aims to complete their target of 50, 000 Wikipedia articles by the end of the year. The second day came to a close with a seminar on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangalamkali">mangalamkali</a>, a local folk dance in the district by Master Ramachandran.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">Ranjit Siji further outlined the agenda for 2017 saying that data scraping of public records onto Wikipedia and a tool to maintain edit-a-thons will be a key focus for the community this year. He said, “when data can flow from public record to a wiki, it makes editing much easier and accessible even for new editors.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">When asked Manoj added that the community plans to conduct more online and offline events for community bonding. He said, “monthly meetings and edit-a-thons will keep the community active.” 2017 will also see Wikipedians in the community being rewarded through recognition of their pioneering efforts, he said. However, he emphasised the need for public and social media branding of future events. The final day of the annual gathering was held on a houseboat in Nileshwar. Wikipedian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Karikkan">Sajal Karikkan</a> gave a presentation on the <a href="https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wy/ml">Malayalam WikiVoyage project</a>, still in incubation, where users could provide travel guidance about areas they are most familiar with. It was enthusiastically received by the community members. While the event was timed between Christmas and New Year, it did see some enthusiastic participation. However, the community did lack significant participation of women to bridge the gender divide(see chart below). <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3AChiyami">Smitha</a>, a long time Wikipedian and oceanographer feels that working women find it harder. She says, “they simply don’t have the time with their work and family commitments.” With the community planning to create mobile apps for editing in Malayalam, this could be sufficiently addressed through focused efforts to involve more women.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikisangamotsavam-2016'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikisangamotsavam-2016</a>
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No publishermanasa@cis-india.orgCIS-A2KTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2017-02-06T12:47:54ZBlog EntryWikiSangamotsavam 2013 brings Indian Wikimedians together
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/dna-january-14-2014-netha-hussain-subhashish-panigrahi-wikisangamotsavam-2013-brings-indian-wikimedians-together
<b>WikiSangamotsavam, the annual conference of Malayalam Wikimedians, took place in Alappuzha, Kerala from December 21 to 23, 2013. The conference brought together around 200 Wikimedians and well-wishers from all over India.</b>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The blog post originally <a class="external-link" href="http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/01/06/wikisangamotsavam-2013/">published on Wikimedia Foundation's website</a> was copy edited by Rohini Lakshane and published as an <a class="external-link" href="http://www.dnaindia.com/blogs/post-wikisangamotsavam-2013-brings-indian-wikimedians-together-1950971">article in DNA</a> on January 14, 2014.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The host town, Alappuzha is popularly known as the Venice of the East owing to its picturesque backwaters and canals. Alappuzha was chosen as the location for the conference in an attempt to draw attention to the region's diversity and touristic appeal, thereby increasing the town's representation on Wikipedia. A few pre-conference events including a bicycle rally, a meetup for young Wikimedians and several edit-a-thons were held.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Day 1</b><br />The first day of WikiSangamotsavam started with Wiki-Vidyarthi-Sangamam, a meetup of student Wikimedians. The digitisation of "Sri-Mahabharatham", a seven volume Malayalam epic was flagged off during the Wiki-Vidyarthi-Sangamam. Around 100 students from all over Kerala interacted with each other and learnt about Wikimedia projects in Malayalam. A Wikipedia workshop was conducted for physically impaired delegates. They were introduced to various means of accessibility by the <a href="http://www.daisy.org/" target="_blank">DAISY Consortium</a>. This session helped them learn about self-education tools, accessing knowledge platforms such as Wikipedia, and contributing in Malayalam online.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">During a panel discussion on "Malayalam and Wikipedia" language and computing experts discussed the role of Wikipedia in the growth of the Malayalam language. Talks and presentations about topics relevant to Wikimedia were held in three parallel sessions.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The first day of the event also marked the Malayalam Wikipedia’s eleventh anniversary. The occasion was celebrated by cutting a cake. At the end of the day, Wikimedians entertained themselves by singing Malayalam folk songs.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Day 2</b><br />The second day started with the inaugural session. The event was inaugurated by Sashi Kumar, a media analyst and founder of India’s first regional satellite television channel.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Dr. Thomas Isaac, a former minister in Kerala, was the chief guest at the function. Mementos were given away to active Wikimedians who organised various Wikimedia events throughout 2013.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The QRpedia project was launched by Dr. Thomas Isaac at the Alappuzha lighthouse. QRpedia aims to make QR codes for tourist locations, which link to Wikipedia articles pertaining to the locations and monuments. By the start of the next year, all historical monuments and tourist destinations are set to be marked with QR codes. If successfully completed, Alappuzha would be the first town in India to be fully digitised with QR codes.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A Non-Malayalam Indic Wikimedia meetup was held for Wikimedians who contribute to Wikimedia projects in other Indic languages and English. There was a track to discuss how various collaborative projects could be built to have content creation drives for enriching Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Day 3</b><br />The third and final day of WikiSangamotsavam was devoted to taking Wikimedians on a boat trip amidst the flora of the Vembanad lake to experience its unique biodiversity. Experienced Wikimedians who have done extensive research on the region's biodiversity provided a guided tour onboard the boat.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The 126 acres of reclaimed wetland around the lake and its rare plant species serves as the location for a rich discussion and collaboration among bio-enthusiasts on Wikipedia. Wikimedians also discussed how to go about protecting the biodiversity of the R. Block of Vembanad lake.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The three-day long WikiSangamotsavam brought together many of the Malayalam Wikimedians under one roof and enabled them to share their best practices, ideas and visions for the future.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/dna-january-14-2014-netha-hussain-subhashish-panigrahi-wikisangamotsavam-2013-brings-indian-wikimedians-together'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/dna-january-14-2014-netha-hussain-subhashish-panigrahi-wikisangamotsavam-2013-brings-indian-wikimedians-together</a>
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No publisherNetha Hussain and Subhashish PanigrahiAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaMalayalam WikipediaOpenness2014-02-03T06:57:04ZBlog EntryWikipediansSpeak: Telugu Language Library Catalog Project Helps Wikipedia Grow
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikimedia-blog-october-9-2015-subhashish-panigrahi-telugu-library-catalog-project-wikipedians-speak
<b>In 2013, the interview project “WikipediansSpeak” was launched in response to observations that many noteworthy Wikimedians were being underrepresented both locally and globally. Not just them personally—their work, and the communities they represent, were also unknown to the Wikimedia community and the outside world. </b>
<p>This was published on Wikimedia blog in two languages <a class="external-link" href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/09/telugu-library-catalog-project/">English</a> and <a class="external-link" href="https://goo.gl/J3Nkch">Ukranian</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Wikimedia Foundation’s fundraising campaigns were the biggest inspiration for the project. From video-only interviews, this is an attempt at different ways of interviews, and is the first interview showcasing a Telugu Wikimedian: <a title="w:te:User:విశ్వనాధ్.బి.కె." href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/te:User:%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%B6%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%A8%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A7%E0%B1%8D.%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%BF.%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%86.">Viswanadh B.K.</a>, who was an Individual Engagement (IEG) Grantee last year and has continued to be active in outreach.</p>
<dl style="text-align: justify;"><dt><em><strong>Recently, you attended a Telugu Wikipedia workshop for the Botany-major undergraduate students at <a title="w:Andhra Loyola College" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andhra_Loyola_College">Andhra Loyola College</a>, <a title="w:Vijayawada" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijayawada">Vijayawada</a>, <a title="w:Andhra Pradesh" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andhra_Pradesh">Andhra Pradesh</a>. Would you like to talk a little bit about your participation, how the program was designed, the activities there and the output? How are you planning to mentor the students in the future?</strong></em></dt></dl>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The staff and students are quite enthusiastic, and the students are dedicating considerable time to learning, and reflecting their learning, while editing the <a title="te:" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/">Telugu Wikipedia</a>. However, they need more training on basics of Wikipedia, as well as on policies and guidelines. Without that, they might end up creating low quality articles that the community will face problems cleaning up. <a title="Special:MyLanguage/CIS-A2K" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/CIS-A2K">Centre for Internet and Society’s Access To Knowledge</a> program (CIS-A2K), that has been organizing these sessions in the college, should seek out more support from the Telugu Wikimedia community so that the experienced editors could mentor these students. I feel it would be a good idea to award the students and faculty with certificates. These small little things often motivate many.</p>
<dl style="text-align: justify;"><dt><em><strong>What part should the community and CIS-A2K be playing in the Wikimedia movement? What could and should we do for the Telugu community?</strong></em></dt></dl>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Many in our community do not know how programs like CIS-A2K work. Maybe there is a need to provide some kind of orientation for them which will help them to understand how they could approach CIS asking for support. This process could also help the community understand CIS’s activities and its programmatic implementation. More collaboration, and understanding of the program among the community, will improve involvement in CIS’s activities as well as CIS’s understanding of the community.</p>
<dl style="text-align: justify;"><dt><em><strong>You were the second Telugu Wikipedian to be awarded with an Individual Engagement Grant (IEG). How did it go, and what did you achieve? Based on your own experience, how are you planning to groom this year’s applicants from Telugu and other Indian language Wikimedia communities?</strong></em></dt></dl>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This IEG was my dream come true! Back in 2009, I <a href="http://godaavari.blogspot.in/2009/05/blog-post.html">blogged</a> about the potential of opening up library catalogs on the Internet for people to search for books. It took shape with my grant project: <a title="Grants:IEG/Digitization of Important Libraries Book Catalog in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Digitization_of_Important_Libraries_Book_Catalog_in_Andhra_Pradesh_and_Telangana">“Digitization of Important Libraries Book Catalog in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana”</a>. I worked on an <a title="w:te:వికీపీడియా:వికీప్రాజెక్టు/తెలుగు గ్రంథాలయం/గ్రంథాలయ పుస్తకాల జాబితా" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/te:%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%81/%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%81_%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%A5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%82/%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%A5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2%E0%B0%AF_%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A4%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2_%E0%B0%9C%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%A4%E0%B0%BE">extensive project, digitizing the catalogs</a> of five libraries—a total of 300,000 books—in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. I learned a lot, and <a title="Special:MyLanguage/Grants:Learning patterns/Dealing with authorities for institutional partnerships" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Grants:Learning_patterns/Dealing_with_authorities_for_institutional_partnerships">documented</a> part of my learning, which talks about the ways one should go about partnering with Indian institutions. I believe, my interaction with fellow Wikimedians must have helped them to better their grants applications this year. And I am hoping that I will continue to support more friend from my community and country in the future.</p>
<dl style="text-align: justify;"><dt><em><strong>What drove you, over the years, to work on a project like this digitizing library catalogs? Were there any additional learning and benefits from this project?</strong></em></dt></dl>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In this digital age, people searching for books on the Internet might have developed the notion that if a book is not available online, it doesn’t exist. I have been experiencing this very issue while looking for evidence notability and citations on the Telugu Wikipedia. Many Wikipedia editors argue for citing at least the name of the book when the book is not available online. This pushed me to create a central catalog that will benefit Wikipedians, researchers, and readers. In the process of creating the catalog, I also managed to develop strong relations with several cultural organizations. These include <a href="http://kathanilayam.com">Kathanilayam</a>, a dedicated organization collecting every Telugu story; the Annamayya Library, which developed into a great cultural center in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh; and the Suryaraya Vidyananda Library, whose collection is enriched with rare manuscripts and important books. I touch based with them then, and they are slowly becoming household names for other Wikimedians for their library-related needs. We can see the potential of strong partnerships and synergy with these libraries.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikimedia-blog-october-9-2015-subhashish-panigrahi-telugu-library-catalog-project-wikipedians-speak'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikimedia-blog-october-9-2015-subhashish-panigrahi-telugu-library-catalog-project-wikipedians-speak</a>
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No publishersubhaCIS-A2KOdia WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2015-12-15T08:06:52ZBlog EntryWikipediansSpeak: Piotr Konieczny
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedians-speak-piotr-konieczny
<b>WikipediansSpeak is a video interview show hosted by Subhashish Panigrahi at the Centre of Internet and Society. It brings you series of posts about Wikipedians across the globe. Wikipedians are those voluntary contributors who write Wikipedia articles, correct mistakes made by other wikipedians and share knowledge for free to the world. </b>
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<div id="stcpDiv" style="text-align: justify; ">This episode brings you a conversation with <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus">Piotr Konieczny</a>, a veteran Wikipedian from Poland. He has contributed to over <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Did_you_know">514 DYK articles</a> on Wikipedia. Being a sociologist and academician Piotr has always tried to divert attention more students, academicians, researchers, scholars to contribute to Wikipedia. I first met Piotr during <a class="external-link" href="http://www.opensym.org/2013/08/09/a-simple-report-on-wikisym-opensym-2013/">WikiSym + OpenSym Conference</a> at Hong Kong and again at <a class="external-link" href="https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_page">Wikimania 2013</a>. It was the beginning of my Wiki-experience of meeting more researchers and scholars who are also Wikipedians. Piotr is now based in Seoul and where he is <a class="external-link" href="http://www.hanyang.ac.kr/user/teacherDirect.action?gaeinNo=A045978&viewHakgwajojikCd=Y3YEAD">teaching Informational Sociology</a> at the Hanyang University (한양대학교). His keen interest in using Wikipedia as a teaching tool and Wikipedia’s impact in social movement brings the expanse of diversifying Wikipedia’s outreach to masses. In academia he proposes for <a class="external-link" href="http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program">Wikipedia Education Programs</a> that converts the users of Wikipedia to contribute who elsewhere use it just as a tool to accessing knowledge. If a small portion of the subject experts start contributing to Wikipedia then there would be a big change in this world.</div>
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No publishersubhaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2013-09-18T12:22:36ZBlog EntryWikipediansSpeak: Odia Wikisourcer Shares her Journey and Goals
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikipediansspeak-odia-wikisourcer-shares-her-journey-and-goals
<b>The most active editor on the Odia Wikisource is Pankajmala Sarangi, a native of Odisha who now lives in New Delhi, where she works at a non-profit. As a leader in a broad community that is dominated by males—indeed, she is the most active contributor to the Odia-language Wikisource—we asked her to share her journey and her goals to grow the project and community as part of the “WikipediansSpeWell, I think I would work on creating a database of all the Odia speakers living in New Delhi and the city organizations that work in propagating Odia language and culture, and plan Wikisource outreach programs for them.k” interview series.</b>
<p>Odia Wikisourcer Pankajmala Sarangi shares her experience and future plans to grow the community. Video by Pankajmala Sarangi (original video) and Subhashish Panigrahi (post production), freely licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 license. The video can be <a class="external-link" href="http://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/01/29/odia-wikisourcer-journey-goals/">viewed here</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Pankajmala feels that the community is like her home. “I can’t tell how happy I am after seeing that this one year-old project has already digitized over 200 books. With more and more youth coming on the internet, the internet won’t disappoint them when the type and search in Odia language.”</p>
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<li>Forming expert /resource groups to increase the thematic group structure in the community so that each group could work collaboratively for specific goals.</li>
<li>We can also create groups through the help of the resident welfare associations in Odisha cities where <a title="w:or:ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:ଉଇକି ଟୁଙ୍ଗି" class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/or:%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86:%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF_%E0%AC%9F%E0%AD%81%E0%AC%99%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%97%E0%AC%BF">Odia WikiTungis</a> (in Odia Wikimedia community city based informal groups have been started that actively organize outreach and engage with new Wikimedians) are already working. They can work hand-in-hand. This will help us expand this program to more new places.</li>
<li>We can tie up with basic computer training institutes where their students and new Wikimedians who do not have access to computer/internet could learn about Odia Wikipedia editing as a vocational training. These institutes remain idle during day time and get busy after 4 pm as schools and college students come to learn about computer basics after their class hours.</li>
<li>One idea could be involving veterans whose expertise could help improve the quality of the articles which is otherwise going in vain after retirement. Post retirement life is otherwise lonely and many feel worthless who could enjoy the company of many new friends. The senior citizens groups could train new Wikimedians using these institutional facilities.</li>
<li>Summer vacation Wikipedia outreach for school/college students:
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<li>It has became mandatory in all private schools and colleges to do voluntary work for a few hours every day for six months to finish up a program. We can ask these private institutions to include editing and contributing to Odia Wikipedia and other Odia Wikimedia projects in their syllabus. They would not only get Wikipedians as facilitators without spending any money but will become part of such a global and multilingual group. We can involve students for both editing Wikipedia articles, and digitizing and correcting typos and other mistakes on Odia Wikisource. If a manual with the above details is available then it would be better to refer it while working. When we are discussing something in our community then the users (who are eligible for giving suggestions) should automatically get a message saying your suggestion/input is required on this (with that link to the page).</li></ul>
<blockquote class="pullquote"><strong>According to a 2011 survey, Wikipedia editors are only about <a title="w:Gender bias on Wikipedia" class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_bias_on_Wikipedia">nine percent female</a>. The Wikisource statistics is not yet known, but I would theorize that it is similar. How do you think we could bridge this gap in Odia?</strong></blockquote>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">We surely have less women. We could reorient our current work to bring in a few other aspects like more focused outreach in women’s college and schools, creating a network of women who are interested to contribute to Wikimedia projects, making Twitter lists and Facebook groups for women for more friendly conversation and support, inviting and involving more women participants in Wikimedia outreach. I also wonder how we can gift the top contributors some gifts as a token of appreciation. We could also organize field trips for them to a public library, museum or art gallery so that they get to see how Wikimedia projects could grow by imbibing available resources.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>What are your personal plans to build a community for Odia Wikisource in New Delhi?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Well, I think I would work on creating a database of all the Odia speakers living in New Delhi and the city organizations that work in propagating Odia language and culture, and plan Wikisource outreach programs for them.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>This post is part of the <a class="text external" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikipediansSpeak">WikipediansSpeak series</a>, which aims to chronicle the voices of the Wikipedia community. You can find more of these posts on the <a class="text external" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikipediansSpeak">Wikimedia Commons</a>.</em></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikipediansspeak-odia-wikisourcer-shares-her-journey-and-goals'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikipediansspeak-odia-wikisourcer-shares-her-journey-and-goals</a>
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No publisherSubhashish Panigrahi and Nasim AliWikipediansSpeakCIS-A2KOdia WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-02-05T20:49:36ZBlog EntryWikipedian Pavan Santhosh says Telugu Wikipedians are creating Knowledge revolution (in Telugu)
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/andhra-jyoti-december-12-2016-telugu-wikipedians-are-creating-knowledge-revolution
<b>Pavan Santhosh said that Telugu Wikipedians are creating a knowledge revolution in Telugu. On Sunday, December 12, 2016, in Golden Threshold, Abids, Telugu Wikipedians celebrated Telugu Wikipedia day. Telugu Wikipedians Pranay Raj and Meena Gayathri who successfully completed 100 Wikidays challenge successfully were given mementos and cut a cake on this occassion.
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<p>Clipping of the article that appeared in Andhra Jyoti on December 12, 2016:<br /><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/AndhraJyothi12thDec.jpg/@@images/9a570cf6-a8b7-4717-89cb-a331525cab3d.jpeg" alt="Andhra Jyoti" class="image-inline" title="Andhra Jyoti" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/andhra-jyoti-december-12-2016-telugu-wikipedians-are-creating-knowledge-revolution'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/andhra-jyoti-december-12-2016-telugu-wikipedians-are-creating-knowledge-revolution</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-12-17T01:35:04ZNews ItemWikipedia: State of Tech — A Talk by Erik Moeller
https://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-state-of-tech-talk-by-erik-moeller
<b>The Centre for Internet & Society, Bangalore is hosting a talk by Erik Moeller, Vice President of Engineering and Product Development at the Wikimedia Foundation at its office in Bangalore on November 12, 2012, from 11.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m., followed by a lunch discussion.</b>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Wikipedia's technology platform is rapidly changing, with improvements being deployed every day. Unlike other top websites, Wikipedia is run by a non-profit (Wikimedia Foundation) and all its technology is open source, ready to be improved and extended by you.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Learn about the recent and coming technology changes to Wikipedia and Wikimedia's other projects: the new Visual Editor, improvements to mobile sites and apps, Wikidata, and projects with mysterious codenames like "Echo", "Milkshake", "Agora" and "Flow". Learn how to get involved and ask anything you'd like to know about Wikipedia.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Erik Moeller</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Erik Moeller is the Vice President of Engineering and Product Development at the Wikimedia Foundation, overseeing a department of about 70 people. Erik has been involved in Wikipedia since 2001 and joined the staff of Wikimedia in 2008. He previously worked as a journalist and project manager.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-state-of-tech-talk-by-erik-moeller'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-state-of-tech-talk-by-erik-moeller</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessLectureEvent Type2012-12-18T06:51:46ZEventWikipedia’s 15th birthday inspires Bangla translators; Odia-language Women’s History Month edit-a-thons
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikimedia-blog-may-9-2016-bangla-translations-odia-womens-history
<b>Bangla-language Wikipedians translated about 600 articles for their language’s Wikipedia; Odia-language Wikimedians hosted their second annual Women’s History Month edit-a-thon.</b>
<p>The article was <a class="external-link" href="http://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/05/09/bangla-translations-odia-womens-history/">published on Wikimedia Blog</a> on May 9, 2016.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Bangla Wikipedians conduct multi-month edit-a-thon</h3>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/BengaliWikipedians.png" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Bengali Wikipedians" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">On 15 January, Wikipedia turned fifteen years old . To celebrate this special day, a <a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE:%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A7%A7%E0%A7%AB/%E0%A6%85%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%A8">good article writing competition</a> was organized on the <a title="w:bn:প্রধান পাতা" class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bn:%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%A7%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BE">Bangla Wikipedia</a> by <a class="extiw" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Bangladesh">Wikimedia Bangladesh</a>. Bangla Wikipedia has a total article count of over 42,000. Among these, only a handful of articles are rated as “good” articles (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_articles">English equivalent</a>). In an attempt to enhance the content quality in the Bangla Wikipedia, a competition was organized that aimed to increase the number of good articles. The competition lasted from 1 November 2015 to 10 January 2016. The events received press coverage from around the country, including newspapers like <em><a title="w:Prothom Alo" class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prothom_Alo">Prothom Alo</a></em> and <em><a title="w:The Daily Star (Bangladesh)" class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Star_(Bangladesh)">The Daily Star</a></em>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In this contest, Bangla Wikipedians fully translated about 600 good articles from English Wikipedia. A total of 550 Bengali-speaking registered users from Bangladesh, India, Italy and South Korea participated in this two-month long competition; 130 of them were awarded a Wikipedia Badge, wristband, USB flash drive, and T-shirts by Wikimedia Bangladesh. A reviewing panel of 35 experienced and regular users evaluated the translated articles. Among all the participants of the competition, 86% were new to Wikipedia and contributed for the first time, 14% were frequent editors, and 12% were female.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This contest increased the number of good quality articles in Bangla Wikipedia and, at the same time, engaged a huge number of new users in Wikipedia through this contest. S.M. Monir created the highest number of articles and was awarded the first prize, a bicycle, and a certificate in the 15th year celebration program.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a title="w:bn:উইকিপিডিয়া:উইকিপিডিয়া ১৫/অফলাইন" class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bn:%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE:%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A7%A7%E0%A7%AB/%E0%A6%85%E0%A6%AB%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%A8">Good article edit-a-thon day</a> was another event in this series of programs. Five edit-a-thons were organized in three different cities in the Dhaka, Sylhet and Chittagong divisions. Like the contest, the aim of the edit-a-thons was to increase the number of good articles on the Bangla Wikipedia. As a result of these edit-a-thons, the number of good articles are increased from 14 to 60. Besides those events, Wikipedia Workshops were held in three different Universities of Bangladesh. On an average, about 50 students attended in each workshop. The main goal of the workshops was to create awareness about Wikimedia projects. Another goal was to introduce Wikipedia (especially Bangla Wikipedia) to the audience and show the attendees how to edit the articles and contribute photographs to Wikimedia Commons.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The series programs ended on 15th January 2016 at <a title="en:Bishwo Shahitto Kendro" class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishwo_Shahitto_Kendro">Bishwo Shahitto Kendro</a> in <a title="en:Dhaka" class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhaka">Dhaka</a> through the celebration of Wikipedia’s birthday. Noted filmmaker <a title="en:Mostofa Sarwar Farooki" class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mostofa_Sarwar_Farooki">Mostofa Sarwar Farooki</a> was present at the program as a special guest.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:NahidSultan"><em>Nahid Sultan</em></a><em>, Secretary<br /></em><em><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Bangladesh">Wikimedia Bangladesh</a></em></p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify;">Odia-language contributors and the women they are inspired by</h2>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/copy2_of_OdiaWikipedia.png" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Odia Wikipedian" /></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Last month, the second <a title="or:ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:ଆନ୍ତର୍ଜାତିକ ମହିଳା ମାସ ଗଣ-ସମ୍ପାଦନା, ୨୦୧୬" class="extiw" href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86:%E0%AC%86%E0%AC%A8%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%A4%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%9C%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%A4%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%95_%E0%AC%AE%E0%AC%B9%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%B3%E0%AC%BE_%E0%AC%AE%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B8_%E0%AC%97%E0%AC%A3-%E0%AC%B8%E0%AC%AE%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%A6%E0%AC%A8%E0%AC%BE,_%E0%AD%A8%E0%AD%A6%E0%AD%A7%E0%AD%AC">Women’s History Month edit-a-thon</a> began on Odia-language Wikimedia sites. With a theme of <em>Women I am inspired </em><em>by</em>, the event aimed to improve articles on these notable individuals. Twenty articles were created and ten were improved, thanks to the dozens of participants—seven of which were women who went on to found an <a title="or:ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ମହିଳା ଉଇକିଆଳି" class="extiw" href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86:%E0%AC%93%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86_%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86_%E0%AC%AE%E0%AC%B9%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%B3%E0%AC%BE_%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86%E0%AC%B3%E0%AC%BF">informal group for female editors</a> on the Odia Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Among the participants, eight were brand-new. We reached out to <a title="or:u:Rajmishra757" class="extiw" href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/u:Rajmishra757">Rajalaxmi Mishra</a> to talk about their experience. Rajalaxmi is a MCA student who began editing the Odia Wikipedia after a <a title="Utkal University workshop" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Utkal_University_workshop">Utkal University workshop</a>. <a title="or:ଆନି ବେସାନ୍ତ" class="extiw" href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%86%E0%AC%A8%E0%AC%BF_%E0%AC%AC%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%B8%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%A8%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%A4">Annie Besant</a>, an article she has been working on since the edit-a-thon (in part thanks to <a href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/01/29/content-translation-50000-articles/">Content Translation</a>), is now among the top ten longest articles on the site, and she has also put in time editing <a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%B8%E0%AD%81%E0%AC%A7%E0%AC%BE_%E0%AC%9A%E0%AC%A8%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%A6%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%A8%E0%AD%8D">Sudha Chandran</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Rajalaxmi chose these articles because Besant “has always inspired me with her personality. Writing an article on her has helped me learn more from her life story. Chandran’s achievements have also inspired me, as she never let her problem [she lost a leg to gangrene in 1981] be a barrier—she is one of the most famous dancers in India.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em><a title="User:Saileshpat" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Saileshpat">Sailesh Patnaik<br /></a><a title="m:India Access To Knowledge" class="extiw" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge">Access To Knowledge</a>, <a title="w:Centre for Internet and Society (India)" class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_Internet_and_Society_(India)">Centre for Internet and Society</a></em></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikimedia-blog-may-9-2016-bangla-translations-odia-womens-history'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikimedia-blog-may-9-2016-bangla-translations-odia-womens-history</a>
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No publisherNahid Sultan and Sailesh PatnaikCIS-A2KOdia WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-06-09T12:10:15ZBlog EntryWikipedia writes a new script
https://cis-india.org/news/thegoan-joyce-dias-august-24-2013-wikipedia-writes-a-new-script
<b>Wikipedia is available in over 30 Indian languages. Add Konkani to that list. The Centre for Internet and Society has just completed a programme of training students to write for Konkani Wikipedia.</b>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The article was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.thegoan.net/Goa/Goenkar/Wikipedia-writes-a-new-script/05585.html">published in the Goan</a> on August 24, 2013.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">They sat listening to Subhashish Panigrahi, learning how to seamlessly flow from English to Konkani. Panigrahi walked around the room, 40 sets of eyes and ears followed him eagerly, latching on to his every word. Then the team moved into a small conference room at the new Central Library, where they sat down to work on a few articles in Konkani. The reason: Because Wikipedia has a new language – Konkani.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">When on February 4, 1987, Konkani in Devnagri script was declared the official language of Goa according to the Goa Daman and Diu Official Language Act, 1987, little did the officials know that one day, one of the largest web-based encyclopaedias would want the encyclopaedia to be available also in Konkani for the 30, 00000 or so Konkani language speakers over the world.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Wikipedia, a multi-lingual, web-based, free content encyclopaedia is available in over 30 Indian languages and several languages of other nations. The project to begin a Konkani Wikipedia began in 2006. “Sadly, even after seven years of inception, Konkani Wikipedia has only 90 articles,” says Nitika Tandon, of the CIS-A2K (Centre for Internet & Society, Access to Knowledge) team. The CIS is a movement for open access to web-based information. “Rather than being open receivers of knowledge, we want people to be active producers of knowledge,” she adds. The CIS has selected five Indian languages to uplift and Konkani is one of them.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Carlos Fernandes, the Curator of the Central Library said, “We supported it because this will maintain the culture and develop the language using technology. Articles in Konkani language will be available to people all over the world and thus should one want to research something in Konkani, his search will not be limited to the books of the library.” Another project by the CIS team to make Konkani more well-known is digitising the 4-volume Konkani encyclopaedia published by the Goa University. “This encyclopaedia will be uploaded by this team and will be available under the creative commons licence,” says Dr Gopakumar, the university Librarian.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The programme covered aspects like how Wikipedia works, how to edit articles, how to type in Devnagri, how to create a new article, etc. “We are learning how to about editing and writing in Wikipedia. The 40 students are of MA part 2, and the group is divided into two. The first 20 will work on the first two days and the others will work on the last two,” says Fr Luis Xavier Gomes who is doing his MA in Konkani at Goa University. Fr Gomes will be writing on Konkani tiatr and Konkani cantar after having researched and referenced about the same.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/thegoan-joyce-dias-august-24-2013-wikipedia-writes-a-new-script'>https://cis-india.org/news/thegoan-joyce-dias-august-24-2013-wikipedia-writes-a-new-script</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2013-09-04T06:27:27ZNews Item