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Access to Knowledge — September 2012 Bulletin
https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-september-2012-bulletin
<b>This is the first newsletter from the Access to Knowledge team of CIS in Delhi. The issue introduces you to the CIS Access to Knowledge program, the team members in Delhi and reports from Workshops conducted by the Wikipedia community.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Beginning from September 1, 2012, Wikimedia Foundation has awarded CIS a two-year grant of upto INR 26,000,000 to support and develop free knowledge in India:</p>
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<h3><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan">Access to Knowledge Programme</a></h3>
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<li>The Wikimedia Foundation’s India Program has become the Access to Knowledge (A2K) programme of CIS. </li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">CIS Office in Delhi</h3>
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<li>The <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_To_Knowledge/Team" title="Access To Knowledge/Team">A2K team</a> consists of four members: <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">Nitika Tandon</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">Shiju Alex</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">Subhashish Panigrahi</a> and <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">Noopur Raval</a>.</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Statistical Report</h3>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/indic-language-wikipedias-statistical-report-jan-june-2012">Indic Language Wikipedias – Statistical Report</a> (January – June 2012) (by Shiju Alex). The data for this report and analysis are based on the statistical data published at <a href="http://stats.wikimedia.org">http://stats.wikimedia.org</a>.</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Wikipedia Workshops</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span class="visualHighlight"><b>Note</b>: Although most of these workshops were conducted prior to the grant period, the reports for all of these were written during September, hence we are featuring these:</span></p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/first-punjabi-wikipedia-workshop">The First Punjabi Wikipedia Workshop</a> (by Shiju Alex and Subhashish Panigrahi, September 27, 2012). </li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/punjabi-wikipedia-workshop-at-punjabi-university-patiala">Punjabi Wikipedia Workshop at Punjabi University, Patiala</a> (by Shiju Alex and Subhashish Panigrahi, September 28, 2012).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/punjabi-wikipedia-workshop-at-amritsar">Punjabi Wikipedia Workshop at Amritsar</a> (by Shiju Alex and Subhashish Panigrahi, September 30, 2012).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/report-of-the-wikipedia-workshop-in-british-library">Wikipedia Workshop in British Library, Chandigarh</a> (by Subhashish Panigrahi, September 27, 2012).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wiki-workshop-tumkur-university">Kannada Wiki Workshop at Tumkur University</a> (Tumkur, Karnataka, September 15, 2012).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikipedia-hyderabad-report">Wikipedia comes to Hyderabad!</a> (by Noopur Raval, September 30, 2012). There was coverage in the <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/drumming-session/article3943855.ece">Hindu</a> on September 28, 2012.</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Blog Entry</h3>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/editor-growth-and-contribution-on-telegu-wikipedia">Editor Growth & Contribution Program on Telugu Wikipedia</a> (by Nitika Tandon, September 29, 2012).</li>
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<h2><a href="https://cis-india.org/">About CIS</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS was registered as a society in Bangalore in 2008. As an independent, non-profit research organisation, it runs different policy research programmes such as <a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility">Accessibility</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k">Access to Knowledge</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/openness">Openness</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance">Internet Governance</a>, and <a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom">Telecom</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i> </i></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>CIS is grateful to its donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation and the Kusuma Trust which was founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin, for its core funding and support for most of its projects.</i></p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Follow us elsewhere</h3>
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<li>Get short, timely messages from us on <a href="https://twitter.com/cis_india">Twitter</a></li>
<li>Join the CIS group on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/28535315687/">Facebook</a></li>
<li>Visit us at <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/">http://cis-india.org</a></li>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-september-2012-bulletin'>https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/access-to-knowledge-september-2012-bulletin</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessNewsletter2012-12-14T06:18:01ZPageવિકિપીડિયા ગુજરાતી માં પણ છે
https://cis-india.org/news/article-in-cybersafar
<b>We've recently been featured in the Gujarati magazine on technology: Cybersafar. The below article was written by Harsh Kothari.</b>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/article-in-cybersafar'>https://cis-india.org/news/article-in-cybersafar</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2012-12-07T10:36:20ZNews ItemAaron Swartz: The First Martyr of the Free Information Movement
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/aaron-swartz-the-first-martyr-of-free-information-movement
<b>Well known American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist died on January 11, 2013. Lawrence Liang from the Alternative Law Forum discusses with Newsclick the tragic loss. The interview was conducted by Prabir Purkayastha. </b>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">This interview was originally published by <a class="external-link" href="http://newsclick.in/international/aaron-swartz-first-martyr-free-information-movement">NewsClick</a> on January 19, 2013.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Discussing on the immediate background in which this tragic event happened, Lawrence says that all of us are collectively mourning the death of an extremely talented individual. He adds that Aaron was facing a very difficult trial ahead. A couple of years ago he had plugged his computer on to the MIT network and had downloaded approximately four million articles from JSTOR (primary database for social science and other science journals) and he had intended to make freely available. This act of his in many ways marks Aaaron's short life but one which is marked by a certain commitment and activism around the idea of free knowledge.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Lawrence further says that his anger at databases like JSTOR was the fact that they were charging extraordinary amounts of money to provide access (which meant that they were not available to most people in the world) without paying any royalty to the authors contributing to the article or to the people who do the peer review of the articles. Here is a scenario which is rent control of the worst kind essentially of knowledge which is completely privatised and enclosed (public knowledge which is enclosed in this particular way).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Most researchers and academics who work and contribute towards making of journals do not get compensated for it but are paid for by public money because they happen to be employed by universities or research centres. And then all this material goes behind pay walls. And that is the context in which we need to understand Aaron's life. Click below to watch the full interview:</p>
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<h2>Video</h2>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/aaron-swartz-the-first-martyr-of-free-information-movement'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/aaron-swartz-the-first-martyr-of-free-information-movement</a>
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No publisherlawrenceOpennessVideoOpen Access2013-01-24T12:26:02ZBlog EntryAaron Swartz Memorial Hacknight
https://cis-india.org/openness/events/aaron-swartz-memorial-hacknight
<b>On Saturday, January 19, 2013, HasGeek and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) are organizing a hacknight to understand Aaron’s work and contribute to his projects. The event starts from 2.00 p.m. onwards and ends at 8.00 a.m., the next day morning. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>Among the hackers present will be some of Aaron's collaborators, such as </span><a href="https://twitter.com/anandology"><span>Anand Chitipothu</span></a><span> and </span><a href="https://twitter.com/asldevi"><span>A S L Devi.</span></a><span>The Aaron Swartz memorial hacknight is a free event. You </span><span>do not</span><span> have to be a hacker to contribute and do not have to be present for the entire night. Join us even if just to show solidarity or inspire others on what they can do. HasGeek encourages participants to bring their own energy drinks and snacks for the evening so that there is enough to go around. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b id="internal-source-marker_0.2664988487958908"><span>To register, visit: </span><a href="http://hacknight.in/hasgeek/aaronsw-memorial"><span>http://hacknight.in/hasgeek/aaronsw-memorial</span></a><span>. Once your registration is approved, you can add or join a project to work on during the hacknight.</span></b></p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><b><span>Aaron Swartz</span></b><span></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>Aaron Swartz was a hacktivist. He helped create RSS 1.0; contributed to Creative Commons; was an early builder of Reddit, where he's often acknowledged as a co-founder; created the </span><a href="http://webpy.org/"><span>web.py</span></a><span> framework; and more recently, became a data liberator, first with PACER, the US public case law archive, and then with scholarly articles from JSTOR, both of which got him into trouble with the law. Aaron's </span><a href="http://demandprogress.org/"><span>Demand Progress</span></a><span> project helped stop SOPA and PIPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act in the US, both of which threatened to have far reaching unintended consequences.</span><a href="http://rememberaaronsw.tumblr.com/"><span></span></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://rememberaaronsw.tumblr.com/"><span>Aaron Swartz took his life on Jan 11, 2013.</span></a><span> However, his work on making the world a better place should not die with him. On Saturday, January 19, </span><a href="http://hasgeek.com/"><span>HasGeek</span></a><span> and the </span><a href="https://cis-india.org/"><span>Centre for Internet and Society (CIS)</span></a><span> are organizing a </span><a href="http://hacknight.in/hasgeek/aaronsw-memorial"><span>hacknight</span></a><span> to understand Aaron’s work and contribute to his projects. Among the hackers present will be some of Aaron's collaborators, such as </span><a href="https://twitter.com/anandology"><span>Anand Chitipothu</span></a><span> and </span><a href="https://twitter.com/asldevi"><span>A S L Devi</span></a><span>, who can help you get started.</span></p>
<h3><span>About HasGeek</span><span></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>HasGeek creates discussion spaces around emerging technologies to foster the growth of communities. Since 2010, HasGeek has organized a number of conferences, hacknights and geekups around open source, web design and development, big data, cloud computing and mobile opportunities. The </span><a href="http://jobs.hasgeek.com/"><span>HasGeek Job Board</span></a><span> connects thousands of individuals every month with jobs around upcoming technologies. HasGeek also builds tools to assist communities with organizing events and meetups. For more information, write to </span><a href="mailto:info@hasgeek.com"><span>info@hasgeek.com</span></a><span></span><span></span></p>
<h3><span>About CIS</span><span></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>CIS is a research and advocacy organization based in Bangalore. Founded in 2008, the Centre critically engages with issues concerning internet governance, freedom of speech, public accountability and digital pluralism. </span><span>Through multidisciplinary research, intervention, and collaboration, CIS seeks to explore, understand, and affect the shape and form of the internet, and its relationship with the political, cultural, and social milieu of our times.</span></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/aaron-swartz-memorial-hacknight'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/aaron-swartz-memorial-hacknight</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessEvent2013-01-17T05:18:22ZEventA Workshop on Editing Wikipedia in Mumbai
https://cis-india.org/openness/events/workshop-on-editing-wikipedia-in-mumbai
<b>The Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS-A2K) is holding a workshop on Wikipedia editing at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai on August 24, 10.00 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.</b>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The morning session will be having a discussion and demonstration on <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page">Wikipedia</a> (10.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.), which will be followed by a practical session (2.00 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.).</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">As part of the run-up to the Indian Languages Mela (planned for September 20-21, 2013), CILHE will conduct a workshop for those who would like create new articles in any Indian Language Wikipedia. The workshop is organized in collaboration with the Centre for Internet and Society’s <a class="external-link" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge">Access to Knowledge Programme</a> (CIS-A2K) and the Wikipedia Hyderabad community. The objective of the workshop is to train students to edit Wikipedia. Participants are encouraged to work with Telugu, Hindi, Marathi, Urdu or any other language of their choice. Although the workshop is mainly intended for potential competitors for the Mela awards for Best New Article in an Indian Language Wikipedia, anyone interested in Wikipedia is welcome.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As you may know, Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia, and is the 5th most-visited website in the world! It's completely free to use and re-use, it has no advertising, and is available in more than 286 different languages - including 20+ Indian languages. Wikipedia articles are written by ordinary people who volunteer to share their knowledge with the world.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The CILHE is committed to producing material in Indian languages for higher education, and is partnering Wikipedia in drawing new editors to the Indian language Wikipedias so that they become an important knowledge resource.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">What students gain from Wikipedia editing:</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">It improves <b>writing skills</b>. Wikipedia provides students a platform to hone their writing skills. Writing on Wikipedia enhances <b>critical thinking</b> and the ability<b> to </b>see all sides of a story. Students will find this incredibility useful in both their personal and professional lives while evaluating the pros and cons of different situations, projects, assignments etc. Wikipedia editing also strengthens <b>research skills</b>. A Wikipedia editor has to provide credible references by looking up books, journals and online materials. Writing on Wikipedia is good practice for those who will also work on a thesis or a research project.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Your articles will be read by thousands of people across the globe</b>. If you edit a Wikipedia article, it is there *forever* and the audience can be any number from the 500 million who read Wikipedia every month!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>It'll boost your chances in admissions or scholarships or placements</b>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>It teaches students how to collaborate!</b> Editing Wikipedia is magical. You add some content and someone from some other part of the class or school or town or country or somewhere else in the world adds a little bit more and makes the contribution that much better. Wikipedia helps one learn how to work productively with other people, even those you don’t know and may never actually meet.</p>
<p>The workshop will cover the following:</p>
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<li>What exactly is Wikipedia and how does it work?</li>
<li>Who edits Wikipedia?</li>
<li>How do I edit Wikipedia? </li>
<li>What can I edit?</li>
<li>How can I input text in Indian languages?</li>
<li>How do I insert images?</li>
<li>How do I find and add references?</li>
<li>Do’s and Don’ts</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Participants are required to register at least by August 23, 2013. Send your names to Ritesh Khunyakari <a class="external-link" href="http://riteshpk@gmail.com">riteshpk@gmail.com</a>.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Important Instructions</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">Each student attending the Wikipedia Training programme should register themselves on Wikipedia. Please note that once you register on a Wikipedia project, you can use that 'Username' (i.e. same log-in details) across all Wikipedias and Wikimedia platforms. <b>This should be done by August 23, 2013.</b> Please note that you will not be able to register more than 5 Usernames from a single IP address within 24 hours (a security feature of Wikipedia). This tutorial will help you with Registration on Wikipedia <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial/Registration">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial/Registration</a></li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Once registered the students must furnish their details on the google doc. I have already entered my data just as sample. Please circulate this link to all the students at the earliest. <b>This should be done by August 24, 2013 before the commencement of the Workshop </b><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AshSF7ZKRBR5dFBfM2lTaExINTZodVZ4ejd3VURzMEE&usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AshSF7ZKRBR5dFBfM2lTaExINTZodVZ4ejd3VURzMEE&usp=sharing</a></li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">All the students are expected to do editing on Wikipedia. We will choose Telugu Wikipedia (<a href="http://www.te.wikipedia">www.te.wikipedia</a>) as a site to do some editing. Please be assured that we will also show how to use English and other language Wikipedias. For this workshop each student should come up with one article at least in an Indian language. This should be typed and be available in a soft copy form and could be carried in a thumb drive or any other storage media which should be easily accessible to them during the training programme.</li>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/workshop-on-editing-wikipedia-in-mumbai'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/workshop-on-editing-wikipedia-in-mumbai</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpennessEvent2013-08-23T16:00:46ZEventA Wikipedia Workshop at SRM University, Chennai
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-workshop-at-srm-chennai
<b>The Centre for Internet & Society, Delhi in association with Metawings Institute organized a one-day workshop on contributing to Wikipedia at SRM University on December 17, 2012. About 40 students from different engineering colleges in Chennai participated in the workshop. Metawings coordinated for the logistics and for spreading the word among the students.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The three-hour workshop was mostly interactive. Since most students had a fair idea of what Wikipedia is and who writes articles on Wikipedia, they had many queries on who the 'editors' were, who selects them, how one can become an editor, how to determine reliability and authenticity of Wikipedia articles and so on. This was a pattern that I observed in many workshops that we conduct where people who have a level of ease and familiarity with using Wikipedia to get information, have often wondered if the information they are using is reliable or not. This also gives us a chance to explain how their contributions can make the encyclopedia more inclusive, informative and reliable.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">One student was called upon to create a user account and instead of answering his query on patrolling edits, I encouraged him to vandalize a popular article just to see how quickly it is reverted and the correct version is restored. Some students were also interested in knowing about Indian language Wikipedias. So, I invited a student to create his account in Tamil Wikipedia and create his user page subsequently.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">After the workshop the students wanted to stay in touch and receive more information on Wikipedia projects they could contribute to and filled up contact forms.</p>
<p>Special thanks to Metawings for helping us out with the logistics and to the student coordinators at SRM University for their cooperation!</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-workshop-at-srm-chennai'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-workshop-at-srm-chennai</a>
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No publishernoopurAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2012-12-27T05:57:34ZBlog EntryA Wikipedia Workshop at NMAIT
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-workshop-at-nmait
<b>The Centre for Internet & Society, Delhi collaborated with Metawings Institute to spread the words about Wikipedia for Indian languages. A one-day workshop was organized to educated the students on contributing to Wikipedia on December 21, 2012. About 170 engineering students took part in this event.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The workshop began with interaction with the students about their understanding. I asked few questions like what is Wikipedia, who edits articles on Wikipedia, is it paid or free, did they ever try to edit Wikipedia, etc. I took them through a presentation to explain basics of Wikipedia, five pillars, notability and copyright issues related to vandalism. One of the students were called to create his user account. Students were showed the simpler sign up process. To explain how articles are edited we introduced errors in the article on Bengaluru and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bangalore&diff=529072240&oldid=529071146">made it the capital of India for few minutes</a>! Students were explained how Wikipedia editors correct mistakes like these in real time and correct facts are published in Wikipedia. A majority of the students asked about the authenticity of articles which is open to anyone. So I got a chance to refresh the page and show how the error introduced was reverted within a few minutes.</p>
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<td style="text-align: center; ">Above is a picture of the participants from the Wikipedia Workshop at Karkala</td>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The session went on with such interaction and students were explained more about the importance of citing references to add credibility to the facts they can add on Wikipedia articles.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We also had Dr. Ashok Kumar, prof, Computer science department, a wikipedian and columnist for Kannada newspaper <a href="http://www.udayavani.com/">Udaya Vani</a>. Dr. Kumar <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Outreach_Document_-_Kannada.pdf">introduced</a> Kannada Wikipedia to the students. At the end of the session I had a discussion with him about organizing more workshops for Kannada Wikipedia and supporting participant students. Special thanks to <a href="http://www.metawinggroups.com/">Metawings</a> for finding the venue and supporting for the event.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-workshop-at-nmait'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-workshop-at-nmait</a>
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No publishersubhaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2013-01-04T16:30:28ZBlog EntryA Wikipedia Presentation at BITS, Goa
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/a-wikipedia-presentation-at-goa
<b>Quark is one of India's largest science, technology and management festivals, held every February at BITS Pilani - K.K. Birla Goa Campus. This year in 2015, the event was held from February 6 to 8, 2015. This blog post captures the key moments. About 12 delegates attended the event.</b>
<h3>How it Started?</h3>
<p>For celebrating this annual event, "Quark 2015", <a class="external-link" href="http://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/goa/">BITS Pilani</a> invited speakers from all over India. Many parallel tracks happen during this event. I got an Invite to speak about Wikimedia projects.The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) supported my event participation.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Dr. Sunil Kumar, a BITS physics professor who could not join the presentation due to conflicting meetings met me in the morning that day. He was curious to understand how Wikimedia projects work, how people collaborate to write the same article, how the conflicting views gets resolved among editors and how one can trust the content. He was excited to know the mechanics behind. We discussed about organizing a quiz for their students. He responded very positive and said that he will discuss this internally and get back to me later.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS team also helped me to establish contact with Luis Gomes, a local Konkani Wikipedian. We met at the event and shared our thoughts. It was a good learning for me to understand how Konkani Wikipedia is progressing.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">I gave my speech in the afternoon. The participants showed great enthusiasm to learn about Wikipedia projects. The session was very interactive. The participants tried answering open ended questions like — As on today, what are the possible ways to preserve unique knowledge and skill? The participants also asked questions on the source of knowledge contribution to Wikipedia and how it survives?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="https://prezi.com/a2qogoowdy2a/wikimedia-projects/">My presentation</a> showcased how anyone could contribute to Wikipedia and also explore greater possibilities of exploring existing frame work with examples like <a class="external-link" href="http://qrpedia.org/">QRpedia</a>, <a class="external-link" href="http://www.wikiwand.com/">WikiWand</a>, and many more.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/a-wikipedia-presentation-at-goa'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/a-wikipedia-presentation-at-goa</a>
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No publisherRadhakrishna ArvapallyOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2015-03-09T01:21:43ZBlog EntryA Wikipedia Mini-hackathon in Delhi
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/mini-hackathon-delhi
<b>Wikipedian Yuvaraj Pandian visited the CIS office in Delhi and helped the Access to Knowledge team conduct a super-ad-hoc mini-hackathon with two other volunteers, Sheel from Delhi and Harsh from Ahmedabad. The aim was to get them a kickstart in developing userscripts/gadgets, and get them to a point where the prior existing documentation makes sense to them. </b>
<p>The ad-hoc plan had three parts:</p>
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<li>The execution environment (Concept of userscripts vs gadgets, ResourceLoader)</li>
<li>The API concepts (Special:ApiSandbox, concept of 'actions' in the API)</li>
<li>Accessing the API from JS (mediawiki.api module, concept of AJAX)</li>
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<p>Here is the account of what they did, written by Yuvi:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">"We covered all parts of them slowly, with both Harsh and Sheel working at things until they fully understood what they were doing and why whatever they were doing was working.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">I introduced them to the environment first by having them execute code in Chrome's JS Console, and then in their own common.js. Once they understood the context in which the code was getting executed, the 'ResourceLoader default modules'<a href="#fn1" name="fr1">[1]</a>documentation started making sense to them, and they could pick up other modules from there.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We then explored the API via the API Sandbox<a href="#fn2" name="fr2">[2]</a>, which is a relatively new (and not very well known) way of letting people play around with the API. It is a massive improvement over the older, non-interactive docs<a href="#fn3" name="fr3">[3]</a>, and both Harsh and Sheel were very excited about being able to discover all the things they could do with the API. A fair amount of time was spent messing around with it on different wikipedias (en, hi and gu) and reading bits of the API Documentation<a href="#fn4" name="fr4">[4]</a> to understand the concepts behind the actions - and for filling in the gaps.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Finally we had them use the API from a userscript to make calls. I went through the entire process line by line, explaining how AJAX works and how asynchronous programming works. We traced the flow of code together to understand how the seamingly nonlinear asynchronous programming model works. Then we dug into a bit of how to use the mw.loader module to make dependencies work, and why the same code that was working in the chrome js console was not working in their common.js.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">It ended with them trying to port HotCat to their native language wikipedias. Harsh started to explore more about getting started with MediaWiki dev itself (rather than just gadgets), but the clone took a looooong time and we had run out of time by then. I directed him to a WMF tech open chat happening today, and hopefully that could help!</p>
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<p>[<a href="#fr1" name="fn1">1</a>].<a class="external-link" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Default_modules">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Default_modules</a><br />[<a href="#fr2" name="fn2">2</a>].<a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox</a><br />[<a href="#fr3" name="fn3">3</a>].<a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php</a><br />[<a href="#fr4" name="fn4">4</a>].<a class="external-link" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/mini-hackathon-delhi'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/mini-hackathon-delhi</a>
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No publisherYuvraj PandianAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2012-12-04T07:31:21ZBlog EntryA Wikipedia Editing Workshop in Goa
https://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-editing-workshop-in-goa
<b>On the occasion of International Women's Day, the Access to Knowledge team from the Centre for Internet & Society is organizing a wikipedia editing workshop on March 8, 2013 at Nirmala Institute of Education, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., followed by an offline and online editathon.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The online editathon is a month-long affair, which will be held every weekend starting with the weekend after March 8. The goal of the month-long event is to encourage more women to contribute to Wikipedia and increase representation of articles related to women in Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The event aims at creating new articles, expanding the existing stubs and translating English articles to various Indian languages. Members are requested to start edithons in regional language Wikipedias.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-editing-workshop-in-goa'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-editing-workshop-in-goa</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessEvent2013-03-05T09:10:24ZEventA Wiki Workshop at Raj Kumar Goel Institute of Technology, Ghaziabad
https://cis-india.org/openness/wikipedia-workshop-at-rkgit-ghaziabad
<b>The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team organized a Wikipedia workshop at Raj Kumar Goel Institute of Technology (RKGIT), Ghaziabad in collaboration with Metawings on January 17, 2013. Subhashish Panigrahi summarizes the happenings from the one-day workshop in this blog post.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As part of the soft skill development training program, RKGIT, an engineering college is working on a series of activities to empower the students with practical approach and competence for their professional life. We were invited to conduct a workshop for the students of mechanical engineering and help them understand the real reasons for contributions to Wikipedia as a volunteer.</p>
<p>Some of the focus areas we set for the workshop were:</p>
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<p>Number of students not to exceed 60 to make sure that we get enough time and space to interact actively and pay individual attention.</p>
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<p>Number of coordinators to support with logistics to conduct the workshop smoothly.</p>
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<p>Active participation of teachers.</p>
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<p>Arrangement of internet labs with multiple IP addresses for smooth user account creation.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Around 65 mechanical engineering students from second and third year participated in this workshop. We began the workshop with an interactive discussion about their practical relation with Wikipedia as students and the usability and difficulties that they face. I presented about some important facts about Wikipedia and voluntary contribution in different ways. During and after the presentation students asked a lot of questions about the notability and authenticity of articles, collaboration vs. fights among editors, references and its significance, etc.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">There was a short break to make way for students to settle in the internet lab for a hands on training session. We faced problems with the LAN and 3G network for mobile broadband which made this session longer than expected. There were problems for creating accounts because of the Internet explorer and X based systems and the students couldn't create their user accounts. So, we had to manage with them contributing anonymously from IP addresses. Despite these unexpected technical problems all of them edited various articles. Some of them tried to vandalize and observe the quick reversal of the vandals.</p>
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<th><img class="image-inline" src="blog/resolveuid/c95b296397b746abae98c8b557344504/@@images/image/preview" /><br />Subhashish presenting about Wikipedia to the participants</th>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">I had a discussion with the director about conducting more such workshops, especially technical workshops where students can code and contribute to MediaWiki.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Quick links:</h3>
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<li>Presentation used for this workshop: <a class="external-link" href="http://www.slideshare.net/psubhashish/you-can-also-wikipedia">www.slideshare.net/psubhashish/you-can-also-wikipedia</a></li>
<li>English Wikipedia: <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org">http://en.wikipedia.org</a> (Click <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Main+Page&type=signup">here</a> to create an account on Wikipedia)</li>
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<h3>Presentation</h3>
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<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="356" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/16067135" width="427"> </iframe></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/wikipedia-workshop-at-rkgit-ghaziabad'>https://cis-india.org/openness/wikipedia-workshop-at-rkgit-ghaziabad</a>
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No publishersubhaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2013-01-22T03:09:25ZBlog EntryA Telugu Wiki Meetup @ CIS, Bangalore
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/telugu-wiki-meet-up-at-cis-june-2-2013
<b>On June 2, 2013, the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) hosted a Telugu wiki meetup in its Bangalore office. Updates from the meetup is shared in this blog post.</b>
<p><a class="external-link" href="http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%AC%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%B3%E0%B1%82%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%81_%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80_%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%82_:_2_%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%82%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D_2013">Access the Telugu wikipedia page about the event here</a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Unfortunately, I was unable to attend the <a class="external-link" href="http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%82/%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%81_%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE_%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%B9%E0%B1%8B%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%82_2013">Telegu Wiki Mahotsavam held in Hyderabad</a> earlier this year (in April 2013) due to personal and professional constraints even though <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Arjunaraoc">Arjuna Rao</a> called me twice and requested me to attend it. However, when he called again recently about a planned meetup in Bangalore, I willingly took up the initiative.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">I used the "<a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_in_Bangalore">Category: Wikipedians in Bangalore</a>" and communicated with all the Telugu users. I met <a class="external-link" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Visdaviva">T. Vishnu Vardhan</a>, Programme Director, <a class="external-link" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge">Access to Knowledge</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/" class="external-link">Centre for Internet and Society</a> and personally and took his views. Myself and Arjuna took the initial steps to organize this meeting. Arjuna managed to invite Dr. T. Ramakrishna and Gudipati Narayana for<a class="external-link" href="http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%82/%E0%B0%AC%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%B3%E0%B1%82%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%81/2_%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%82%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D_2013"> this meetup</a>. He also managed to announce about this event in the press.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We finally met at CIS and had a two-hour session:</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">The Programme</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">Welcome note by Sasi</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Mutual introductions</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">An introduction was given to <a class="external-link" href="http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%81">Telugu Wiki projects</a> with practical examples. (Using, searching, editing, interaction and getting help)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Guests’ doubts were clarified by the Telugu Wikipedians <a class="external-link" href="http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0">Ravichandra</a>, Arjuna and <a class="external-link" href="http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Veera.sj">Sasi</a></li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Dr. Ramakrishna suggested that parallel to the <a class="external-link" href="http://te.wikipedia.org/">Telugu Wikipedia</a> development, Telugu should be encouraged to be used in administration. This should start with interactions with the officials and the organizations working towards it</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Gudipati Narayana conveyed his view that Telugu Wikipedia can be used to increase the standards in Telugu teaching</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Both the guests promised that they will do their bit in organizing the Wikipedia awareness events in the organizations know to them</li>
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<td style="text-align: center; ">A group photo of Telegu Wikipedians from the meetup held at CIS, Bangalore is seen below</td>
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<td><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Photo.png" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Group Photo" /></td>
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<p><i>It is decided that a Telugu Wiki Meet-Up will be held on second Saturday of every month in Bangalore for Telugu Wikipedians.<br /></i></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/telugu-wiki-meet-up-at-cis-june-2-2013'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/telugu-wiki-meet-up-at-cis-june-2-2013</a>
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No publisherSJ VeeraTelegu WikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-08-19T06:53:18ZBlog EntryA Telegu Wiki Meetup @ CIS
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/telegu-wiki-meet-up-july-13-2013
<b>Telugu Wikipedians had their monthly meetup at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in Bangalore on Saturday, July 13, 2013, 2.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Telugu Wikipedians <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Arjunaraoc">Arjuna</a>, <a class="external-link" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Ravichandrae">Ravichandra</a>, <a class="external-link" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Veera.sj">Sasi </a>and <a class="external-link" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%B9%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D">Rahmanuddin </a>participated in the meetup. Telugu lecturer Gudipati Narayana and Haribabu on behalf of <a class="external-link" href="http://www.indiaforyou.in/magazine/index.php?mid=32145">Bengaluru Telugu Tejam</a> also attended the event. Dr. T. Ramakrishna, who translated <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savitri:_A_Legend_and_a_Symbol">Aurobindo Ghosh's "Savitri"</a> to Telugu was the chief guest for this meetup. This is the second monthly <a class="external-link" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%8A%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%9F%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%80">Telugu Wikipedia</a> workshop in Bangalore.</p>
<h3>An Introduction to Telugu Wiki</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The workshop began with the mutual introduction and thereafter the participants were briefed about content creation and editing of articles. A practical demonstration was given by creating an article on Bengaluru Telugu Tejam. Arjuna, Ravichandra, Rahmanuddin and Sasi responded to the queries from the participants and clarified their doubts.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Introduction to Savitri</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Dr. T. Ramakrishna thereafter gave a presentation of Aurobindo's book "<a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savitri:_A_Legend_and_a_Symbol">Savitri</a>". He spoke in length about <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Aurobindo">Aurobindo Ghosh</a>, his contributions to the freedom movement of India, and a brief background about Savitri, an epic poem in blank verse based upon a theology from the Mahabharata. Dr. Ramakrishna said that Sri Aurobindo who was a great spiritual leader and a yogi conveyed the message that religion and culture in India are not interlinked or interrelated. He also said that the characters in the present story tells to mankind how to increase spiritual energy.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Telugu Wikipedia Issues and Projects</h3>
<p>The following were some of the observations and decisions taken at this meetup:</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">It was decided to complete the "<a class="external-link" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%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%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%96%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%81">Telugu Famous Personalities</a>" as soon as possible so that new projects could be taken up.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Narayana has promised to make a plan to train Telugu lecturers and students on <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telugu_language">Telugu Wikipedia</a> and to release it very soon to TE-Wikipedia</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Rahmanuddin proposed to increase participation in Telugu Writers Meetings and Internet Meetings which are held across the globe so that the awareness on <a class="external-link" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%8A%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%9F%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%80">TE-Wiki</a> can be increased</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Arjuna requested to look into the plans which would answer the issues raised in Telugu Wikipedian Meet</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Dr. Ramakrishna felt that more pressure should be brought on the Government of India to increase the usage of <a class="external-link" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%82/%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%81_%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE_%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%B9%E0%B1%8B%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%82_2013">Telugu Wiki Mahotsavam</a>.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">After completing the current priorities, projects related to Bangalore should be taken up.</li></ul>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/telegu-wiki-meet-up-july-13-2013'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/telegu-wiki-meet-up-july-13-2013</a>
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No publisherSJ Veera (Telugu Wikipedian)Access to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaTelugu WikipediaOpenness2013-09-01T11:30:18ZBlog EntryA Seminar on E-publishing of Odia Books
https://cis-india.org/openness/news/seminar-e-publishing-odia-books
<b>A seminar was organized by Molybtech Technology Solutions on November 30, 2014 for the betterment of Odia language and writers at Bhanja Kala Mandap.</b>
<p>Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the seminar as a speaker and shared his knowledge with the audience.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/seminar-e-publishing-odia-books'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/seminar-e-publishing-odia-books</a>
</p>
No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessOdia WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2014-12-07T02:41:26ZNews ItemA Report of the Odia Wikipedia Workshop held in KMBB College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar
https://cis-india.org/news/report-of-odia-wikipedia-workshop-in-sambad
<b>(By Debapriya Priyadashi Chakra) Sambad, Odisha's most widely read and largest circulated daily, on November 19, 2012, published an article about the Odia Wikipedia workshop organized in KMBB College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar, Odisha.</b>
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<th><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/OdiaWikipediaworkshopKMBBBhubaneswar.png" alt="Odia Wikipedia Workshop" class="image-inline" title="Odia Wikipedia Workshop" /></th>
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<p>Read a <a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/odia-wikipedia-workshop-organized-in-kmbb-college-bhubaneswar" class="external-link">detailed report</a> about this workshop.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/report-of-odia-wikipedia-workshop-in-sambad'>https://cis-india.org/news/report-of-odia-wikipedia-workshop-in-sambad</a>
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