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Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at SDM
https://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wiki-workshop-sdm
<b>The Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, SDM College, Ujire is holding a wiki workshop on September 15, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja from CIS-A2K team is participating in this workshop.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The workshop is being held to teach post-graduate students studying Journalism and Mass Communication on contributing and editing Wikipedia. The students will be particularly trained to edit Kannada Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">More about SDM College, Ujire <a class="external-link" href="http://www.sdmcujire.in/">here</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wiki-workshop-sdm'>https://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wiki-workshop-sdm</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-09-12T06:16:36ZNews ItemKonkani Wikipedia workshop at AIMIT, St Aloysius College
https://cis-india.org/news/konkani-wiki-workshop-aimit-september-13-2013
<b>St. Aloysius College is organizing a Konkani Wikipedia workshop at AIMIT, St Aloysius College (Autonomous), Beeri, Mangalore on September 13, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja from the CIS-A2K team will participate in the event.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The workshop is aimed at people who want to edit Konkani Wikipedia using Kannada script. Konkani Wikipedia is in incubator at present. Konkani speaking people want to bring this out of incubator. Adding enough content to the Konkani Wikipedia will enable that. Those interested in adding content to Konkani Wikipedia will be trained in the workshop. This will be a full day event.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="http://www.staloysius.ac.in/">Click to read</a> about St.Aloysius Institute of Management</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/konkani-wiki-workshop-aimit-september-13-2013'>https://cis-india.org/news/konkani-wiki-workshop-aimit-september-13-2013</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-09-12T06:09:42ZNews ItemDigital Resources in Telugu: A Workshop for Research Scholars
https://cis-india.org/openness/events/digital-resources-in-telugu
<b>The Department of Cultural Studies, English and Foreign Languages University and the CIS-A2K invite you to a workshop for research scholars on September 13, 2013. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Note to Participant:</b><br />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; "><b>What students gain from Wikipedia editing</b>:<br />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 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>Essential Information Literacy for Researcher in Digital Era</li>
<li>Changing trends in knowledge production post digital turn</li>
<li>What exactly is Wikipedia and how does it work?</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><b>Schedule</b>:<br />10 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. (Discussion and demonstration) <br />2.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m. (Practical session)</p>
<h3>Important Instructions for Interested Participants</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">Each student attending the workshop 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 September 12, 2013 (before the workshop commences).</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 September 12, 2013 before the commencement of the Workshop </b><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AshSF7ZKRBR5dEY0N0tlZTcxRDktSHdaOERWeGhuRUE&usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AshSF7ZKRBR5dEY0N0tlZTcxRDktSHdaOERWeGhuRUE&usp=sharing</a></li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">All the students are expected to do editing on Wikipedia. We will choose Telugu Wikipedia as a site to do some editing. Please be assured that we will also show how to use English Wikipedia. For this workshop each student should come up with one article at least in <b>Telugu</b>. 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. <b>If you are not able to type, please bring the write-up in your note book.</b> Check if the topic you are writing on is already available on Telugu Wikipedia (www.te.wikipedia.org).<b><br /><br />Suggested topics:</b> a) About a key Theorist in your field of research; b) About a critical concept that you use in your Research; c) Your Research Object; d) Any other notable topic that you feel should be in your language Wikipedia.</li>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/digital-resources-in-telugu'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/digital-resources-in-telugu</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-09-12T10:30:45ZEventWikipedia Training in Telugu for Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad
https://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-training-in-telugu-for-b-r-ambedkar-open-university
<b>CIS-A2K is conducting a Wikipedia training programme in Telugu for the faculty of Dr. B.R.Ambedkar Open University (Dr. BRAOU) in Hyderabad on September 5 and 6, 2013. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This is done as part of the "ICT and eContent" workshop organized by the Centre for Staff Training and Development of Dr. BRAOU for their faculty. T. Vishnu Vardhan Program Director, CIS-A2K has been invited to teach a module on "Knowledge and Openness in the Digital Era" as part of which this Wikipedia training programme was also organized.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Details in <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%B6%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B7%E0%B0%A3_%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%82/%E0%B0%B9%E0%B1%88%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%8D/%E0%B0%B9%E0%B1%88%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%8D2">Telugu originally published in the metapage on Wikipedia</a> is reproduced below:</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">వికీపీడియా:శిక్షణ శిబిరం/హైదరాబాద్/హైదరాబాద్2</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">--<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AF%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%95:Contributions/14.139.86.130" title="ప్రత్యేక:Contributions/14.139.86.130">14.139.86.130</a> 05:32, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)పరాంకుశం వెంకట రమణ==తేదీ - స్థలం== సెప్టెంబరు, 5 2013; <a class="text external" href="http://www.braou.ac.in/%7C" rel="nofollow">డాక్టర్ బి.ఆర్. అంబేద్కర్ సార్వత్రిక విశ్వవిద్యాలయం</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>సమయం<br /></b>పొ. 10.00 నుండి మ. 1.00 వరకు</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">నిర్వహణ సంస్థ/లు</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a class="extiw" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge" title="m:India Access To Knowledge">CISA2K</a> డాక్టర్ బి.ఆర్. అంబేద్కర్ సార్వత్రిక విశ్వవిద్యాలయం, హైదరబాద్ వారి సంస్థాగత భాగస్వామ్యంతో. ఈ శిబిరం Centre for Staff Training and Development (Dr. BRAOU) వారు 10 రోజులపాటు విశ్వవిద్యాలయం యొక్క ఉపాధ్యాయుల కొరకు నిర్వహించిన ‘ICT and e-Content Development’ Workshop లో భాగంగా నిర్వహించబడినది.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">నిర్వాహకులు</p>
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<li><a 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:Visdaviva" title="వాడుకరి:Visdaviva">విష్ణు</a> (<a 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%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Visdaviva" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Visdaviva">చర్చ</a>)</li>
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<p>--<a 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:Elkasudharani" title="వాడుకరి:Elkasudharani">Elkasudharani</a> (<a 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%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Elkasudharani" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Elkasudharani">చర్చ</a>) 05:37, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)==Dr.BRAOU లోని కార్యక్రమ సంధానకర్తలు==</p>
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<li><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghanta_Chakrapani" title="w:Ghanta Chakrapani">ఘంటా చక్రపాణి</a> (డైరెక్టర్, Centre for Staff Training and Development, డాక్టర్ బి.ఆర్. అంబేద్కర్ సార్వత్రిక విశ్వవిద్యాలయం)</li>
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<p>--<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AF%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%95:Contributions/14.139.86.130" title="ప్రత్యేక:Contributions/14.139.86.130">14.139.86.130</a> 05:35, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)</p>
<p>శిక్షణ శిబిరానికి హజరైన సభ్యులు</p>
<p>--<a class="new" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Pallavisudheer&action=edit&redlink=1" title="వాడుకరి:Pallavisudheer (పుట లేదు)">Pallavisudheer</a> (<a 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%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Pallavisudheer" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Pallavisudheer">చర్చ</a>) 05:31, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)</p>
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<li>సరోజ --<a 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:Drgsaroja" title="వాడుకరి:Drgsaroja">Drgsaroja</a> (<a 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%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Drgsaroja" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Drgsaroja">చర్చ</a>) 05:27, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)</li>
<li>--<a 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:Rajani_nellutla" title="వాడుకరి:Rajani nellutla">Rajani nellutla</a> (<a 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%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Rajani_nellutla" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Rajani nellutla">చర్చ</a>) 05:29, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)</li>
<li>--<a 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:Kiranmayi.ys" title="వాడుకరి:Kiranmayi.ys">Kiranmayi.ys</a> (<a 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%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Kiranmayi.ys" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Kiranmayi.ys">చర్చ</a>) 05:30, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)</li>
<li>--<a class="new" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Vasuvaddanam&action=edit&redlink=1" title="వాడుకరి:Vasuvaddanam (పుట లేదు)">Vasuvaddanam</a> (<a 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%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Vasuvaddanam" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Vasuvaddanam">చర్చ</a>) 05:31, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)</li>
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<p>--<a 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:Gpushpa" title="వాడుకరి:Gpushpa">Gpushpa</a> (<a 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%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Gpushpa" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Gpushpa">చర్చ</a>) 05:32, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC) --<a 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:Drgsaroja" title="వాడుకరి:Drgsaroja">Drgsaroja</a> (<a 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%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Drgsaroja" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Drgsaroja">చర్చ</a>) 05:34, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)</p>
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<li>--<a 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:Boju_srinivas" title="వాడుకరి:Boju srinivas">Boju srinivas</a> (<a 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%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Boju_srinivas" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Boju srinivas">చర్చ</a>) 05:36, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)</li>
<li>--<a 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:Shridhevie" title="వాడుకరి:Shridhevie">Shridhevie</a> (<a 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%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Shridhevie" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Shridhevie">చర్చ</a>) 05:37, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)</li>
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<p>పై వరసలో పేరు చేర్చండి లేక సంతకం చేయండి></p>
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<li>--[[--<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AF%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%95:Contributions/14.139.86.130" title="ప్రత్యేక:Contributions/14.139.86.130">14.139.86.130</a> 05:35, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)]]</li>
<li>--<a 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:Elkasudharani" title="వాడుకరి:Elkasudharani">Elkasudharani</a> (<a 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%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Elkasudharani" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Elkasudharani">చర్చ</a>) 05:37, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">నివేదిక</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">చిత్రమాలిక</p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-training-in-telugu-for-b-r-ambedkar-open-university'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-training-in-telugu-for-b-r-ambedkar-open-university</a>
</p>
No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpennessEvent2013-09-06T05:51:49ZEventTrain the Trainer — Four-day long Residential Training Workshop in Bangalore
https://cis-india.org/openness/events/train-the-trainer
<b>Train the Trainer is a four-day long residential training workshop to enable Indian Wikipedia community members conduct outreach sessions effectively and independently. It is being conducted by the CIS-A2K team in Bangalore in the first week of October.</b>
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<p>See the event on the <a class="external-link" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program">Wikipedia page here</a>. <i>Please note that the exact dates for this event hasn't been finalized. We will let you know once it is done</i>. See the Snippets from Wikimedia Train the Trainer <a class="external-link" href="https://storify.com/CISA2K/wikimedia-train-the-trainer-2015">here</a>.</p>
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<h3>Why CIS-A2K is conducting this Program?</h3>
<p>Based on an internal needs assessment exercise undertaken by CIS-A2K, it has been realized that:</p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">bulk of the Indian population does not know about the existence of Indic Wikipedias and sister projects.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">there is a lot of potential to do outreach in India but it is hampered by community member's lack of time, lack of availability of support material and/or ability to do outreach.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">though many Indic Wikipedia community members have desire to undertake offline outreach they seldom receive support and guidance.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">there is a need to further build the capacity of interested community members to conduct effective outreach sessions.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Thus through this program, the CIS-A2K programme wants to support and enable community members who are interested to conduct Wikipedia outreach sessions in their own cities/languages and to spread the word about the Indic Wikipedias.</p>
<h3>Overview of the programme</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K is organising a 4 day Train the Trainer Program in Bangalore. The program will include:</p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">3 day sessions with interactive training run by professional consultants on how to conduct outreach in an effective manner – training on presentation skills, audience engagement, public speaking etc. It will include mock presentations, with video recording for feedback.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">4th day will be a field trip aiming to train the participants on how to organise an effective photothon; in addition, participants will also add pictures from the field trip to Wikimedia Commons for enhancing and improving articles on Indian language Wikipedias.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Selection Criterion</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K will conduct this program for approximately 20-25 interested community members from different Indian language communities. We want to make sure that there is equal participation from each language community. The CIS-A2K will use below mentioned parameters for selecting candidates.</p>
<ol>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K's evaluation of <a class="text external" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1le9y8P4ojQTLvOm-L2vikfYUnpF_pfLhOTquPAnK7tU/viewform" rel="nofollow">Train the Trainer Program Application Form</a>.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Motivation of the candidate to be a part of the program.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">The applicant should have made minimum 200 edits on their respective Indian language Wikipedia.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">The applicant should have created at least 5 new articles of start class (as defined by their language community) on their respective Indian language Wikipedia.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">The applicant should have conducted at least 1 outreach session before the end of application date and shared the report with the community (via mailing list, village pump, event page, etc.)</li>
</ol>
<h3>Candidates' Deliverable</h3>
<p>There are certain deliverables that CIS-A2K expects out of selected candidates. These are:</p>
<ol>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Take lead in translating outreach documents (including presentations, banners, FAQs, handouts) in their respective language and share it with their respective communities.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Organise at least 2 outreach sessions per month in their respective cities, for a minimum of 6 continuous months and share the report with the community (via mailing list, village pump, event page, etc.).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Take lead in organising at least 1 community meet up in their respective cities, where they would give a small talk/presentation about their experience in the Train the Trainer Program and share ideas and tips they picked from the program with their language community members.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Write a 1500-word report sharing their Train the Trainer Program experience with large emphasis on their learnings and take-aways to be shared with all Indian communities.</li>
</ol>
<h3>What's in it for you?</h3>
<ol>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Get general training and presentation skills which you can apply not only during Wikipedia workshops, but also during delivering personal and professional talks.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Receive detailed feedback about your presentation and training skills from professional consultants.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Help design a training program that serves Wikimedia community in the long term.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Share your skills with others.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Meet fellow Wikimedia editors and have fun.</li>
</ol>
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<tr style="text-align: justify; ">
<th>Dates</th><th>Number of days</th><th>Details</th>
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<tr>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">30th August to 13th September 2013</td>
<td>14 Days</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K accepts applications.</td>
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<tr>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">13th September to 16th September 2013</td>
<td>3 Days</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K evaluates the applications and shares details of selected candidates.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">16th September to 23th September 2013</td>
<td>7 Days</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K co-ordinates with selected candidates to finalize their travel plans, make reservations etc.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">1st week of October 2013</td>
<td>4 Days</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K organises Train the trainer Program.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h3>Call for Participation</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K is calling for applications for it's Train the Trainer Program. If you'd like to be part of this program please make sure that you meet the <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nitika.t/TTT#Selection_Criterion" title="User:Nitika.t/TTT">selection criterion</a> and fill in the <a class="text external" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1le9y8P4ojQTLvOm-L2vikfYUnpF_pfLhOTquPAnK7tU/viewform" rel="nofollow">Train the Trainer Program Application Form</a> by 13th September, 2013.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">FAQ</h3>
<ol>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>What is train the trainer program?</b><br /> Train the trainer is a 4 day program organised by CIS-A2K to build capacity and enable community members to conduct outreach sessions independently or with minimal support to introduce Wikipedia to prospective editors in their respective Indian languages. Participants will be trained on various aspects such as presenting with impact, engaging with the audience, significance of body language, outreach follow ups etc. Program will also include groups discussions on ideas, learnings, challenges faced during outreach sessions.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>When will train the trainer program run?</b><br /> Train the trainer program will take place in Bangalore for 4 continuous days in the 1st week of October 2013. Exact details of dates and venue will be communicated shortly.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>Who can take part in the program?</b><br /> The event is open to all Wikimedia volunteers from India who can and want to support outreach events in the coming year.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>How can I apply?</b><br /> Please fill in <a class="text external" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1le9y8P4ojQTLvOm-L2vikfYUnpF_pfLhOTquPAnK7tU/viewform" rel="nofollow">Train the Trainer Program Application Form</a>.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>Who will take care of my travel and accommodation?</b><br /> CIS-A2K has a budget for Community Development and the team will be able to cover your travel and accommodation.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>What will be the timings each day?</b><br /> The timings of the program will be 9.00am to 7.30pm everyday with sufficient time for lunch, dinner, tea breaks and fun sessions.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>Where will I eat?</b><br /> Light breakfast and lunch will be provided; together with social dinner. Arrangements will also be made for tea and coffee.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>What is expected out of me?</b></li>
</ol> <dl><dd> <dl><dd>
<ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Each selected candidate will be given some pre-work. You're expected to come with completed pre-work.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Take lead in translating outreach documents (including presentations, banners, FAQs, handouts) in their respective language and share it with their respective communities.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Post the program, organize at least 2 outreach sessions per month in your respective cities, for a minimum of 6 continuous months and share the report with the community (via mailing list, village pump, event page, etc.).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Post the program, take lead in organising at least 1 community meet up in your respective cities, where you would give a small talk/presentation about your experience in the Train the Trainer Program and share ideas and tips you picked from the program with your language community members.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Write a 1500-word report sharing your Train the Trainer Program experience with large emphasis on learnings and take-aways to be shared with all Indian communities.</li>
</ul>
<hr />
<h3>Contact</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">For any further queries please mail at <a class="mail-link" href="mailto:a2k@cis-india.org">a2k@cis-india.org</a></p>
<ul>
</ul>
</dd></dl> </dd></dl><ol> </ol><ol> </ol><ol> </ol>
<ul>
</ul>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/train-the-trainer'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/train-the-trainer</a>
</p>
No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpennessEvent2015-09-27T09:59:00ZEventKonkani Wikipedia Advances in 4 Days — From 90 Articles to 130 Articles!
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/konkani-wikipedia-advances-in-four-days
<b>There has been a rise of article contributions to the Konkani Wikipedia in a span of 4 days following a 4 day programme organized by the CIS-A2K team for M.A. students from the Konkani Department, Goa University at the Central State Library, Goa from August 21 to 24, 2013. Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahi conducted the event.</b>
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<p>The original details posted on the meta page can be <a class="external-link" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Konkani_Wikipedia_workshop_21-24_August2013#Phase_2_.28Day_3_and_Day_4.29">viewed here</a>.</p>
<hr />
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Introduction</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">There are 30 lakh <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konkani_language">Konkani speakers</a> spread across the Konkani belt of <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konkani_language">Goa</a>, <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnataka_Konkani">Karnataka</a>, <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konkani_in_Karnataka_and_Kerala">Kerala</a>, <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konkan">Maharashtra</a>. Only a few are aware of the existence of an open source project, Konkani Wikipedia, that can help them preserve their language and culture. The project has been in incubation since its inception in 2006 and had 90 articles till last week — an incomparable number in <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia">English Wikipedia</a>, which has 4.3 million articles. However, <a class="external-link" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Programme_Plan">CIS-A2K</a> teams effort in Goa to strengthen <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konkani_languages">Konkani Wikipedia</a> project and community has finally started to show some tangible results. As a follow up to the early workshops and orientations we organized this latest programme to help the students make themselves familiar in editing and contributing articles to Konkani Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We started the event with a demonstration on the basics of editing the Wikipedia followed by a brief discussion about Konkani Wikipedia and the editing session. Besides these we had fun activities and wiki quiz.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Highlights of the Workshop</h3>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">A total of 38 students from the <a class="external-link" href="http://www.unigoa.ac.in/department.php?adepid=7&mdepid=1">Konkani Department</a> took part in this workshop. Forty-three new articles were created and added to Konkani Wikipedia in the 4-day event. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">During the first couple of days, 22 students generated 42 pages of print material and in the last two days, 16 students generated 56 pages of printed material. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">A total of 987 edits were made and 41 references were added on Konkani Wikipedia. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">The students added a total of 3,90,040 bytes of data; an average of 10KB data was added by each student.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Students wrote articles on varied topics such as Goan folk dances, eminent personalities, festivals, folk music, proverbs, food items, theater, etc.</li>
</ul>
<table class="vertical listing">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/KonkaniWikiLearning.png" alt="Konkani Wiki Learning" class="image-inline" title="Konkani Wiki Learning" /><br /></th>
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<tr>
<td style="text-align: justify; "><i>Pictured above: Participants at the Konkani Wiki editing workshop in <a class="external-link" href="http://www.unigoa.ac.in/department.php?adepid=7&mdepid=1">Goa University</a>. Picture credit: Subhashish Panigrahi</i></td>
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</tbody>
</table>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Articles and Participants</h3>
<p><b>Phase 1 (Day 1 and Day 2)</b></p>
<table class="listing">
<tbody>
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<td>1</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8B" title="incubator:Wp/gom/धालो">धालो</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Varsha_kavlekar">Varsha Kavlekar</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B3%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%AB%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A6_%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%97" title="incubator:Wp/gom/केळशीची फमाद दर्यादेग">केळशीची फमाद दर्यादेग</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mona_rodrigues">Mona Rodrigues</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%80" title="incubator:Wp/gom/देखणी">देखणी</a></td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fernandes_Sandra" title="incubator:User:Fernandes Sandra">Fernandes Sandra</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%8B" title="incubator:Wp/gom/गोयच्यों परबो">गोयच्यों परबो</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Komal_dhuri">Komal Dhuri</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D" title="incubator:Wp/gom/जागर्">जागर्</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Cliffa_fernandes">Cliffa Fernandes</a></td>
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<tr>
<td>6</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%87_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%95_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AF" title="incubator:Wp/gom/गोंयचे पारंपारीक वेवसाय">गोंयचे पारंपारीक वेवसाय</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Abigail_dias">Abigail Dias</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>7</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82_%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%96%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%A3" title="incubator:Wp/gom/गोंयचें मुखेल जेवण">गोंयचें मुखेल जेवण</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Effa_Dias">Effa Dias</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>8</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%A5" title="incubator:Wp/gom/चवथ">चवथ</a></td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shanta_Gaundalkar" title="incubator:User:Shanta Gaundalkar">Shanta Gaundalkar</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>9</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B3%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B3%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%B3%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B3" title="incubator:Wp/gom/कुंकळ्ळेची चळवळ">कुंकळ्ळेची चळवळ</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dias_neves">Dias Neves</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>10</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%87_%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A1" title="incubator:Wp/gom/राणेचे बंड">राणेचे बंड</a></td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fay_Fernandes" title="incubator:User:Fay Fernandes">Fay Fernandes</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>11</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B3%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0" title="incubator:Wp/gom/रविंद्र केळेकार">रविंद्र केळेकार</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gaurisha_phal_desai">Gaurisha Phal Desai</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>12</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%87_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%95_%E0%A4%96%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B3" title="incubator:Wp/gom/गोंयचे पारंपारीक खेळ">गोंयचे पारंपारीक खेळ</a></td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Safira_Ferns" title="incubator:User:Safira Ferns">Safira Ferns</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>13</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%88_%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AC" title="incubator:Wp/gom/शणै गोयबाब">शणै गोयबाब</a></td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pratima_Fal_Desai" title="incubator:User:Pratima Fal Desai">Pratima Fal Desai</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>14</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%8B" title="incubator:Wp/gom/मांडो">मांडो</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Anisha_gad">Anisha Gad</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>15</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A4" title="incubator:Wp/gom/संगीत">संगीत</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Santoshi_kole">Santoshi Kole</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>16</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%80,%E0%A4%93%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80" title="incubator:Wp/gom/म्हणी,ओपारी">म्हणी,ओपारी</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pooja_kavlekar">Pooja Kavlekar</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>17</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B0_%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A6-_%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A3_%E0%A4%86%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B0" title="incubator:Wp/gom/मोसिन्योर दाल्गाद- जीण आनी वावर">मोसिन्योर दाल्गाद- जीण आनी वावर</a></td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sukhada_Daikar" title="incubator:User:Sukhada Daikar">Sukhada Daikar</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>18</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%82_%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%82" title="incubator:Wp/gom/कोंकणी तियात्राचीं कांतारां">कोंकणी तियात्राचीं कांतारां</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Konknni_mogi_24">Konknni mogi 24</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>19</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A3%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%8B" title="incubator:Wp/gom/कोंकणी लोककाणयो">कोंकणी लोककाणयो</a>, <a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE" title="incubator:Wp/gom/कोंकणी सिनेमा">कोंकणी सिनेमा</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Supriya_kankumbikar">Supriya Kankumbikar</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>20</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%80" title="incubator:Wp/gom/गोवा कोंकणी अकादेमी">गोवा कोंकणी अकादेमी</a>, <a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%B3" title="incubator:Wp/gom/कोंकणी भाशा मंडळ">कोंकणी भाशा मंडळ</a></td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Vaishali_Parab" title="incubator:User:Vaishali Parab">Vaishali Parab</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>21</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%95" title="incubator:Wp/gom/कोंकणी नाटक">कोंकणी नाटक</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Darshan_kandolkar">Darshan Kandolkar</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>22</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0" title="incubator:Wp/gom/विश्व कोंकणी केंद्र">विश्व कोंकणी केंद्र</a></td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:John_Noronha" title="incubator:User:John Noronha">John Noronha</a></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><b>Phase 2 (Day 3 and Day 4)</b></p>
<table class="listing">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82_%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%95_%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9A" title="incubator:Wp/gom/गोंयचें लोक नाच">गोंयचें लोक नाच</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pooja_tople">Pooja Tople</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%AF_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A5%E0%A4%BE" title="incubator:Wp/gom/गोंयची जातीय वेवस्था">गोंयची जातीय वेवस्था</a>, <a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%AF_%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%89%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%8B_%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8" title="incubator:Wp/gom/गोंय मुक्ती उपरान्तचो इतिहास">गोंय मुक्ती उपरान्तचो इतिहास</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Priyanka_kudaskar">Priyanka Kudaskar</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B3%E0%A5%80" title="incubator:Wp/gom/दिवाळी">दिवाळी</a>,<a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE" title="incubator:Wp/gom/शिरगांवची जात्रा">शिरगांवची जात्रा</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pritam_barve">Pritam Barve</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%82" title="incubator:Wp/gom/गोंयची लोकगितां">गोंयची लोकगितां</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rusita_paryekar">Rusita Paryekar</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%A3%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82_%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%B8" title="incubator:Wp/gom/हिंदूच्या सणपरबांचें जिन्नस">हिंदूच्या सणपरबांचें जिन्नस</a></td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gauri_Prabhugaonkar" title="incubator:User:Gauri Prabhugaonkar">Gauri Prabhugaonkar</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>6</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BC%E0%A4%BE" title="incubator:Wp/gom/लोकवादय़ा">लोकवादय़ा</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Suma_parab_gaonkarr">Suma Parab Gaonkarr</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>7</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82" title="incubator:Wp/gom/गाराणें">गाराणें</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Darshana_mandrekar">Darshana Mandrekar</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>8</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B3%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A8" title="incubator:Wp/gom/तुळशीलग्न">तुळशीलग्न</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Heefza">Heefza</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>9</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8B" title="incubator:Wp/gom/बारसो">बारसो</a></td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nikita_Prabhu" title="incubator:User:Nikita Prabhu">Nikita Prabhu</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>10</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%A5%E0%A4%BE" title="incubator:Wp/gom/कोंकणी कथा">कोंकणी कथा</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Marizma_mascarenhas">Marizma Mascarenhas</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>11</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%82_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%82_%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%82" title="incubator:Wp/gom/गोंयचीं क्रिस्तावांचीं काजारां">गोंयचीं क्रिस्तावांचीं काजारां</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Linette_saldanha">Linette Saldanha</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>12</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%95" title="incubator:Wp/gom/बेबींक">बेबींक</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Frania_pereira">Frania Pereira</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>13</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0" title="incubator:Wp/gom/तियात्र">तियात्र</a></td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rhakee_Santos" title="incubator:User:Rhakee Santos">Rhakee Santos</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>14</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%87_%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4" title="incubator:Wp/gom/गोंयचे तियात्रिस्त">गोंयचे तियात्रिस्त</a></td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pereira_Goreti" title="incubator:User:Pereira Goreti">Pereira Goreti</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>15</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B3%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%8B_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%8B" title="incubator:Wp/gom/कुळबी समाजाच्यो परबो">कुळबी समाजाच्यो परबो</a></td>
<td><a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rubiya_komarpant">Rubiya Komarpant</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>16</td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82_%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AA" title="incubator:Wp/gom/कोंकणीतलें पयलें बरप">कोंकणीतलें पयलें बरप</a></td>
<td><a class="extiw" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Savidha_Talekar" title="incubator:User:Savidha Talekar">Savidha Talekar</a></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h3>Media Coverage</h3>
<ul>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://www.thegoan.net/Goa/Goenkar/Wikipedia-writes-a-new-script/05585.html">Wikipedia writes a new script</a> (by Joyce Dias, The Goan, August 24, 2013)</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://www.epaperoheraldo.in/Details.aspx?id=10641&boxid=155915750&uid=&dat=8%2f25%2f2013">Konkani Wikipedia makes headway</a> (by Diana Fernandes, OHeraldO, August 24, 2013)</li>
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<h3>Learnings<b> </b></h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>Pre-course work : </b>Participants were asked to do <a class="external-link" href="https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Welcome_to_Wikipedia_brochure_EN.pdf">pre-course work</a> before the actual event. This included creating Wikipedia usernames, selecting articles they wanted to edit, writing their articles in Konkani on a piece of paper and get their references too. Students were also given few pages of Wikipedia literature <a class="external-link" href="https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Welcome_to_Wikipedia_brochure_EN.pdf">to read beforehand</a>. Students did all their pre-course work with a lot of dedication and efficiency confirming their passion and interest to contribute to Wikipedia. The pre-course also helped students to come prepared and focused for the workshop.<b> </b></li>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>Limiting number of participants: </b>We limited the number of participants to a total of 40 and further divided in two different groups with about 20 students in each. The first batch came for 2 consecutive days and the second batch came for the last two consecutive days of the event. By limiting the number of participants we were able to give individual attention to each student and closely monitor their on wiki performance.<b> </b></li>
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<li><b>Longer duration workshop: </b>Fourteen hours of training was given to each batch. It was spread over 2 days. We had sufficient time to break down the entire workshop into different sections (theoretical and practical) that could be easily followed by the participants. Those 14 hours gave us enough time to cover most of the important topics (such as teaching typing, adding reference, adding headers, wiki markup, talk page protocol, etc.) at as comfortable pace.</li>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>Bite size chunks:</b> The workshop was divided into different sections to give them bite size information only. Each theoretical section was followed by a practical section. For example, the first section involved teaching <a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Konkani_%28Devanagari%29_keyboard_layout_and_typing.pdf">typing in Devanagari</a> and then participants were given enough time to type their articles in Devanagari. In the second section we taught them how to add headers and then the participants were given sometime to add only headers to their articles. This was followed by a third section where we taught them how to add references and then giving them time to add their references. We made sure that we didn't overwhelm the students with a lot of information in one go and broke it down into simpler pieces.</li>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>Energizers :</b> Seven continuous hours of editing Wikipedia would have really tired the students and made them disinterested as well. To keep their energy and motivation level high, after fixed intervals we played some energizer games with them.</li>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>Student co-ordinators: </b>A total of 4 students were selected (2 from each batch) to act as student co-ordinators. These co-ordinators acted as a communication bridge between A2K members and the participants. For example, these co-ordinators would help students take a unanimous decision about what are the next dates for a follow up session, what timings would work for everyone, etc.</li>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>Varied sources of information: </b>We used different sources and means to educate students about Wikipedia and Wikipedia editing. We definitely didn't want it to be a 14-hour long discourse and hence used different tools such as (<a class="external-link" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/WWC-Netha-Hussain.ogv">Netha's</a>, <a class="external-link" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tojUFx6VdNs">Poongothai's</a>, <a class="external-link" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIdMVOhduSk">Sriket and Noopur's</a>, and <a class="external-link" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tZpg-FEqUg">Ganesh's</a> videos talking about their personal experiences in the Wikipedia world), along with <a class="external-link" href="http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Welcome2WP_English_Flap_081810.pdf">handouts</a>, presentations, <a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Konkani_%28Devanagari%29_keyboard_layout_and_typing.pdf">cheat sheets for typing</a>, etc. We also invited Harriet for a video conference to speak with students in Konkani and share with them some inspirational stories.</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Challenges</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">Most students didn't know typing in Devanagari and had to be taught during the workshops. It took them a little while to practice and get comfortable with the typing tool. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">We wanted to make sure that along with quantity, students are also producing good quality articles. Non-existance of active Konkani Wikipedia editors makes it a little tough to keep control on the quality. Hence, we reached out to <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhavi_Sardesai">Madhavi Sardesai</a> and Priyadarshani Tadkodkar <a class="external-link" href="http://www.unigoa.ac.in/department.php?adepid=7&mdepid=1">professors from the Konkani Department at Goa University</a> to assess the quality and ask students to make required changes. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Since Konkani Wikipedia is in incubation students had to do some additional work such as:
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<li>Browse through <a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/">incubator.wikimedia.org</a> to find about Konkani Wikipedia. Many wanted to know why Konkani Wikipedia doesn't have an independent link just as <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/">en.wikipedia.org</a>. </li>
<li>Add Category:Wp/gom to every new article that was created. Many found this as extra work. </li>
<li>Searching for existing articles on incubation was difficult for participants. </li>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">During the workshop all students added huge amount of information but only a handful of them continued editing once they left the computer lab. This brings us to our all time biggest challenge: How do we keep their motivation and interest levels high for them to continue writing on Wikipedia beyond these workshops?</li>
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<p><i>Seen above: Konkani Wikipedia editing session in progress. Picture credit: Subhashish Panigrahi</i></p>
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<h3>Acknowledgements</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This event and future events at Goa University would not have been possible without the committed support CIS-A2K has got from the Goa University and Wikipedians. CIS-A2K is very thankful to <a class="external-link" href="http://www.unigoa.ac.in/contentarticledisp.php?id=3"> Dr. Satish Shetye</a> (Vice-Chancellor, Goa University) — for seeing the significance of growing open knowledge movement in Goa and Konkani and encouraging Konkani Wikipedia activities at GU. Thanks are due to the GU faculty, specifically Prof. Alito Sequeira; <a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhavi_Sardesai" title="w:Madhavi Sardesai">Prof. Madhavi Sardesai</a>; <a class="external-link" href="http://www.unigoa.ac.in/academic_staff.php?staffid=40&adepid=7&mdepid=1">Prof. Priyadarshini Tadkodkar</a>; and <a class="external-link" href="http://library.unigoa.ac.in/?q=node/7">Dr. Gopa Kumar</a>. Wikipedians Harriet Vidyasagar and <a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Nooronha" title="w:Frederick Nooronha">Frederick Nooronha</a>. Last but not the least the enthusiastic students of Goa University who are integral to this event.</p>
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<h3>What's Next?</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A2K team is organizing a follow-up session with the same set of students on Sept 6 and 7, 2013. This session will aim to clear any confusions/doubts that participants may have about Wikipedia editing and also to give them a brief about <a class="external-link" href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page">Wikimedia Commons</a>. In this session, students will also decide how they would want to continue with this project with an aim to bring Konkani Wikipedia as a live project.</p>
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<p><b>Additional Info</b>:</p>
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<li>Konkani Department, Goa University: <a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/14S87Ci">http://bit.ly/14S87Ci</a></li>
<li>Central State Library, Goa: <a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/1dzHmao">http://bit.ly/1dzHmao</a></li>
<li>Konkani Wikipedia: <a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/1dGOFOL">http://bit.ly/1dGOFOL</a></li>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/konkani-wikipedia-advances-in-four-days'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/konkani-wikipedia-advances-in-four-days</a>
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No publishernitikaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaFeaturedWorkshopVideoOpenness2013-09-03T10:37:15ZBlog EntryKonkani Wikipedia — Climbing up the Indian Language Ladder?
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/konkani-wikipedia-climbing-up-the-indian-language-ladder
<b>Konkani as a language has seen geographical, political and religious conflicts. Being the official language of Goa and spoken widely in the Indian states of Karnataka, Kerala and Maharashtra it is still trying to strengthen its base. Recently CIS-A2K in collaboration with Goa University organized a four-day workshop for MA, Konkani language students. This workshop involved 38 students creating 43 new articles on Konkani Wikipedia which is incubation. We’re hoping that these efforts will contribute towards bringing this 7 year old project out of incubation to a live Wikipedia project.</b>
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<p>A <a class="external-link" href="http://www.dnaindia.com/blogs/1885294/post-konkani-wikipedia-climbing-up-the-indian-language-ladder">modified version of this was published in DNA</a> on September 6, 2013. This was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.fitnessfoundation.org/konkani-wikipedia-hiking-up-the-indian-native-language-step-ladder/">re-posted</a> in Fitness Foundation website on October 9, 2013.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Incubation</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span><span><span><span><span>Before any language <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page">Wikipedia </a>shapes up as a live project an incubation process is involved. A community of volunteers (known as Wikipedians) gradually grow to sustain this Wikipedia in incubation with active contribution. </span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/Mukhel_Pan"><span><span><span><span><span><span>Konkani Wikipedia incubator</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span><span> </span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span>began way back in 2006. However, due to many reasons it could not take off and is still in incubation. One of the major reasons has been the issue with multiple script usage. Due to political and religious reasons <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konkani_language">Konkani</a> has multiple writing and verbal standards and is also written in multiple script. These include <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari">Devanagari</a> and <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman">Roman</a> (</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><i><span><span>also known as Romi</span></span></i></span></span><span><span><span><span><span>) in Goa where Devanagari is the official script, Kannada in the Konkani speaking regions of Karnataka (Mangalore region primarily), Malayalam in Kerala (Kochi region) and in Perso-Arabic script by part of the Konkani speaking population. The largest script usage for Konkani is in Devanagari. <a class="external-link" href="http://www.unigoa.ac.in/">Goa University</a> is world's first university to have a <a class="external-link" href="http://www.unigoa.ac.in/department.php?adepid=7&mdepid=1">masters programme in Konkani language</a> where the writing standard is in Goan Konkani (Language code: Gom) which is written in Devanagari. During the interaction with the faculty members; Prof. Madhavi Sardesai and Head of the department </span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Rpriyadarshini&action=edit&redlink=1"><span><span><span><span><span><span>Dr. Priyadarshini Tadkoda</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span><span><span><span>r we found that the students are very enthusiastic to contribute to their language. We met the students and introduced <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konkani_language">Konkani Wikipedia</a> to them and they showed interest to take part in a workshop to learn Wikipedia editing. This was the beginning of something new after a long time. Four out of the 38 students volunteered to coordinate the workshop on the ground. They discussed about the workshop and the prerequisites; going through the </span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Wp/gom"><span><span><span><span><span><span>list of articles</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span><span> </span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span>on Konkani Wikipedia, and writing a unique article by collecting resources and creating their usernames on Wikipedia before attending the workshop. To our surprise, all of the students including the four coordinators came out with at least two pages of written content before the workshop.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<h2><span><span><span><span><span>Day 1: Building the Blocks</span></span></span></span></span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span><span><span><span><span>It was 10 in the morning. A big LED panel in the audio visual room of the </span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.goacentrallibrary.gov.in/"><span><span><span><span><span><span>Krishnadas Shama State Central Library, Goa</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span><span> </span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span>was displaying the word cloud containing words like Wikipedia, Openness, Education, Open Knowledge, Global Collaboration, etc. Soon the room was filled with 20 M.A. students from the <a class="external-link" href="http://www.unigoa.ac.in/department.php?adepid=7&mdepid=1">Konkani Department of Goa University</a>. Prior to the workshop we had interacted with the students in the presence of Head of the department </span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Rpriyadarshini&action=edit&redlink=1"><span><span><span><span><span><span>Dr. Priyadarshini</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span><span> </span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span>and <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhavi_Sardesai">Prof. Madhavi Sardesai</a> and from the Konkani department. Four of the students,</span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Supriya_kankumbikar"><span><span><span> </span></span></span></a><a href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Supriya_kankumbikar"><span><span><span><span><span>Supriya Kankumbikar</span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span><span><span><span>,</span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Konknni_mogi_24"><span><span><span> </span></span></span></a><a href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Konknni_mogi_24"><span><span><span><span><span>Fr. Luis Gomes</span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span><span><span><span>,</span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Vaishali_Parab"><span><span><span> </span></span></span></a><a href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Vaishali_Parab"><span><span><span><span><span>Vaishali Parab</span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span><span> </span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span>and</span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:John_Noronha"><span><span><span> </span></span></span></a><a href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:John_Noronha"><span><span><span><span><span>John Noronha</span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span><span> </span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span>volunteered to coordinate for the workshops. With the help of them we managed to get a majority of the students to sign up and create their user accounts before the first workshop. We had to do some rough work to plan for a whole day workshop. The word "workshop" has been always boring for the students and our biggest worry was how we would keep this boredom at bay and make Wikipedia editing a fun.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<h3><span><span><span><span><span>Intro Yourself</span></span></span></span></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">To start with the first day we had an "Adjective Name" activity. It was fun to know how people judge themselves with adjective. Myself turned out to be "Sub-Hashish" and Nitika turned out to be "Naughty-Nitika"! Then we had a discussion about articles that students planned to write. A few of them were not sure if articles like social issues and biography of a writer could fit into Wikipedia framework.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Editing Time</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span><span><span><span><span>Article titles were decided. Everyone was ready with their homework write-ups and books for adding sources. The next big thing was typing in Devanagari. Only four-five of them knew typing. Students came forward for trying their hands in typing. For the first time some of them typed a few words and they typed it correctly. We could see the glow of triumph after they typed correctly using “</span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Input_methods/hi-transliteration"><span><span><span><span><span><span>Transliteration</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span><span>” </span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span>layout. The editing session began. Our experience with majority of the Indian language outreach participants had been more or the less the same; most new Wikipedians struggle to type. This time we printed some</span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Konkani_%28Devanagari%29_keyboard_layout_and_typing.pdf"><span><span><span> </span></span></span></a><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Konkani_%28Devanagari%29_keyboard_layout_and_typing.pdf"><span><span><span><span><span>handouts</span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span><span> </span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span>with the layout for typing help. It worked well. Students managed to type albeit small little typos.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<h3><span><span><span><span><span>Game Time</span></span></span></span></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span><span><span><span><span>We had to cut the session for an activity break and invited them to play “Tumi Kashi Asat” (means </span></span></span></span></span><span><span><i><span><span>How are you doing</span></span></i></span></span><span><span><span> </span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span>in Konkani). This is a game I learned from my colleague Vishnu. To make it more interesting we got it translated to Konkani by our coordinator Supriya. The host has to make some body movements and ask “Tumi Kashi Asat” and bending forward. The participants have to move their body in the reverse way and answer “Ami bari ashat” (I’m doing good). This replaced the caffeine intake for the four days and kept all of us alive.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>The editing spree went on for the rest of the day. Regular doses of small fun activities were served to keep the Goan tides high. To our surprise all of the students created articles. We were not sure whether we could judge them in the parameter of stub and start. For us it was the greatest start for a language to have the asset of these sweet wikipedians that have seen many struggles and spent seven years in incubation.</span></p>
<h3><span>Rat and Frog Game</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>There was surprise for participating wikipedians post lunch, “Rat race”. Participants sit on chairs and one of them is made to stand in the center. The rat makes others run and replace each others seats and one among the participants become rat. This rat race brought back the old childhood memories and for a moment everyone forgot their age. At the end of it students sat down to take a deep breath and we taught them some of the basic wiki-codes (bold, Italics and adding references).</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Editing session went on until the rest of the day. To our surprise all of the students had created their first articles by the end of the day.</p>
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<p><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AKonkani_%28Devanagari%29_keyboard_layout_and_typing.pdf" title="By Subhashish Panigrahi (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons"><img alt="Konkani (Devanagari) keyboard layout and typing" height="299" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Konkani_%28Devanagari%29_keyboard_layout_and_typing.pdf/page1-423px-Konkani_%28Devanagari%29_keyboard_layout_and_typing.pdf.jpg" width="212" /></a></p>
<p>Guide for Konkani Wikipedia editing with typing layouts</p>
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<h2><span>Day 2: Climbing up the Ladder</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This was the day to tell the students about the advanced options and ensure addition of more citations. Citations on Wikipedia are very essential for readers to validate the facts. But bringing this to the students who just had started learning typing in their language a day before was not that easy. The second day was spent giving small breaks during the editing session for small activities. Running, jumping and shouting fueled the students to be happy editors and not burdened. We managed to teach them the advanced options for proper wiki-formatting (Bold, Italics, Heading and Category), and citations. By the end of the first two days 22 students created 24 articles (about 42 pages of written content). Everyone clapped for their friends. We welcomed them to Konkani Wikipedia community, left our contacts to contact further and showed them the Facebook group that they could join and be more connected before thanking and saying bye for the day with the promise of more fun for the next workshop.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Day 3: Fresh Batch, New Start</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span><span><span><span><span>Sixteen new students from the M.A. course were welcomed. Four student-coordinators and one from the first batch of students joined the "funday". The entire day was spent with lots of fun, creating articles and learning about the basic know how about <a class="external-link" href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting">Wiki-codes</a>. Half the students in this batch knew typing in Devanagari Inscript. Our first and second day taught us how students ask their fellow students more than they ask us for small little help. Nitika and myself being Inscript noobs made it tough. We then paired these students with those who knew <a class="external-link" href="http://http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InScript_keyboard">Inscript</a>, thanks to the </span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/2/24/I18N_Indic_MarathiKeyboardLayouts_IndicKeyboardLayoutInscriptForMarathi.png"><span><span><span><span><span><span>Fedora Devanagari keyboard layout</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span><span><span><span>. It helped us to look and guide the students. All of the students created their first articles. <a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:John_Noronha">John</a>, <a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Supriya_kankumbikar">Supriya</a> and <a class="external-link" href="http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Vaishali_Parab">Vaishali</a> (from first batch) were giving final touches to their second articles.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Day 4: No Need to Say Good Bye!</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>This was the day to do two very important things: clap for their contribution on the first day and tell about contribution of their friends, teach about the advanced options and extend further support. Seeing the newspaper coverage about the workshop featuring some of their friends was a delight for our new wikipedians after two long days. Few of them came forward to share their experience about the workshop and their vision for Konkani language.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>At the end of four days all of them bid us farewell. It felt like saying bye to good old friends. These were the foundation days and the biggest editing rally <a class="external-link" href="https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/Mukhel_Pan">Konkani Wikipedia Incubator</a> has seen in the last seven years with this milestone that the students had created. Happy faces of our new found friends is going to be a great piece of memory in this journey.</span></p>
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<h2><span>Media Coverage<br /></span></h2>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://www.thegoan.net/Goa/Goenkar/Wikipedia-writes-a-new-script/05585.html">Wikipedia writes a new script</a> (by Joyce Dias, The Goan, August 24, 2013)</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://www.epaperoheraldo.in/Details.aspx?id=10641&boxid=155915750&uid=&dat=8%2f25%2f2013">Konkani Wikipedia makes headway</a> (by Diana Fernandes, OHeraldO, August 24, 2013)</li>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/konkani-wikipedia-climbing-up-the-indian-language-ladder'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/konkani-wikipedia-climbing-up-the-indian-language-ladder</a>
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No publishersubhaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopVideoOpenness2013-10-25T07:16:30ZBlog EntryVoices from Goa: Rusita Paryekar, a MA student writes articles on Konkani Wikipedia
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/voices-from-goa-wikipedia-editor-rusita-paryekar
<b>Rusita Paryekar is one of the 38 students from the MA Konkani department of Goa University gathered at the State Central Library to learn writing and editing articles on Konkani Wikipedia. Currently Konkani Wikipedia is in incubation and needs more voluntary participation from enthusiasts who want their language, Konkani to strengthen its base in the digital knowledge domain.</b>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Thirty-eight M.A. students from the Konkani department of Goa came together for a four day long Konkani Wikipedia editing fun workshop and created history. Konkani Wikipedia is one of the Wikipedia projects that went into incubation (a phase every new Wikipedia project goes to allow the editor community to grow and take the project to a sustainable position) seven years back. Sadly it is still in incubation. One of the major reasons is the conflict for script. Konkani is <a href="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/konkani.htm" target="_blank">written in 5 different scripts</a>; Devanagari in Goa (as the official script of Goa) and Maharashtra, Roman (<i>also known as Romi)</i> and written by Goan Christian population, Kannada in Mangalore region of Karnataka, and Malayalam in Kochi region of Kerala. The Konkani speaking diaspora is now very much part of the the socio-ethnic groups of these neighbouring regions. The language of these states has naturally influenced Konkani spoken and written by the Konkani diaspora which has resulted in multiple writing standards and dialects. There are four standards of writing systems:</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">Writing standard that is officially approved by the <a href="http://www.dol.goa.gov.in/" target="_blank">Directorate of Official language, Government of Goa</a> written in Devanagari script. Majority of the books (includes all Government of Goa publications) are written in this standard.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Writing standard that was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_loanwords_in_Konkani" target="_blank" title="List of loanwords in Konkani">influenced</a> by the Portugese language during the Portuguese rule. Earliest available writings in Konkani including The Holy Bible are written in this standards.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Writing standard that Mangalorean Konkani diaspora use.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Writing standard that Keralite Konkani diaspora use.</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Interestingly Konkani diaspora of all these regions have produced books in the writing standards mentioned above. The <a href="https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/Mukhel_Pan" target="_blank">Konkani Wikipedia incubation</a> project currently has 133 articles written in 3 different scripts; Devanagari, Roman and Kannada which has been a problem to get the approval. But this has not stopped the language enthusiasts to stop contributing. While meeting these students I felt that urge for bringing up Konkani in a digital domain and telling the Konkani diaspora about the untold story of Goa. This is the motivation that drives Rusita and many others to contribute to Wikipedia. Her first contribution was about Goan folk songs (<a href="https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%82" target="_blank">गोंयची लोकगितां</a>) which is the first Konkani article about this topic on the internet that is available for free. ‘If I would not write about my culture in my language who would do that?, says Rusita.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Further reading<br /></b>Manohar L. Sardessai. <a href="http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/40872551?uid=7451096&uid=3738256&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=3&uid=4830040&uid=67&uid=62&sid=21102620930003" target="_blank">Influence on Konkani</a>. Journal of South Asian Literature. Vol. 18, No. 1, Goan Literature: A Modern Reader (Winter, Spring 1983), pp. 155-158.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i><span class="extiw">Copyright note: The video and the content of this post are in <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/" target="_blank">CC-BY-SA 3.0</a>. Feel free to use, share and remix the content and attribute me.</span></i></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/voices-from-goa-wikipedia-editor-rusita-paryekar'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/voices-from-goa-wikipedia-editor-rusita-paryekar</a>
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No publishersubhaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-09-06T12:30:19ZBlog EntryKonkani Wikipedia makes headway
https://cis-india.org/news/epaperoheraldo-august-24-2013-diana-fernandes-konkani-wikipedia-makes-headway
<b>The first floor of the Krishnadas Central Library has been bustling with activity for the last four days. A closer look reveals the concentration, thought and precision that is put into each letter of the Devnagri script Konkani they type. Still further and you realise it’s a Wikipedia site that final year MA Konkani students of Goa University are busy with.</b>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">This article by Diana Fernandes was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.epaperoheraldo.in/Details.aspx?id=10641&boxid=155915750&uid=&dat=8%2f25%2f2013">published in OHeraldO</a> on August 24, 2013. Nitika Tandon is quoted.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">A follow up to the Konkani Wikipedia workshop that was held earlier last month at St. Xavier’s College, Mapusa and King’s school, Margao, the Centre for Internet and Society ( CIS) in its Access to Knowledge ( A2K) initiative were back to try and bring to life a seven year incubation Konkani Wikipedia page.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The final year MA Konkani students were busy typing away at their screen as I went to pay them a visit. Nitika Tandon, Goa in- charge from the CIS- A2K team says Goan students have shown the most interest so far. Priyadarshini Tadkodkar, Head of Department at Goa University says she’s thrilled for the project as it will not only help students update and reach out to other writers but also help in popularising Goa’s mother tongue.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“ So far there was nothing in Konkani on Wikipedia. There are so many articles about Goa in English but not in Konkani. Those who do not know only to read or develop their Konkani skills can probably use this.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Also for the students it’s an opportunity for them to discuss their thoughts with other editors,” says Tadkodkar.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The last time she was in the state, Tandon says people were more inclined to hear of the English Wikipedia rather than Konkani, but sees this workshop as a definite success story.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Students were visibly interested in not only writing about Goa but to change the way people look at Goa. “ Goa is only seen as beaches, parties and cheap liquor. There is so much more. Like Goa’s unique cuisine or its famous personalities like D D Kosambi,” says Supriya.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“ People say that Konkani will die in another 20 – 25 years. I see this as an opportunity to save it,” says another student John.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Articles written by the students will be assessed by Madhavi Sardesai, editor of Jaan, a Konkani literary journal, after which students will be asked to make the corrections online.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A total of 38 students attended over the span of two days. Each session comprised eight hours of training a day. Topics discussed during the workshop included basics of Wikipedia and the status of Konkani Wikipedia as well as typing in Devnagri script, the sort of articles that are required for the site and using references other than Facebook and how to site them in the article.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“ Forty- two pages of content were generated in two days and have already been put up on the site. The students love it. Students who came in the first batch wanted to join the second one simply because they want to write. Though they don’t get credit for this workshop as part of the syllabus students are indeed interested,” says Tandon.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Though a total of 140 articles on topics ranging from Goa’s heritage, culture, traditions and famous personalities have been uploaded, she says it requires at least five contributors to add to the existing database regularly.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/epaperoheraldo-august-24-2013-diana-fernandes-konkani-wikipedia-makes-headway'>https://cis-india.org/news/epaperoheraldo-august-24-2013-diana-fernandes-konkani-wikipedia-makes-headway</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-09-17T06:07:54ZNews ItemA Workshop on Editing Wikipedia in Mumbai
https://cis-india.org/openness/events/workshop-on-editing-wikipedia-in-mumbai
<b>The Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS-A2K) is holding a workshop on Wikipedia editing at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai on August 24, 10.00 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.</b>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The morning session will be having a discussion and demonstration on <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page">Wikipedia</a> (10.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.), which will be followed by a practical session (2.00 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.).</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">As part of the run-up to the Indian Languages Mela (planned for September 20-21, 2013), CILHE will conduct a workshop for those who would like create new articles in any Indian Language Wikipedia. The workshop is organized in collaboration with the Centre for Internet and Society’s <a class="external-link" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge">Access to Knowledge Programme</a> (CIS-A2K) and the Wikipedia Hyderabad community. The objective of the workshop is to train students to edit Wikipedia. Participants are encouraged to work with Telugu, Hindi, Marathi, Urdu or any other language of their choice. Although the workshop is mainly intended for potential competitors for the Mela awards for Best New Article in an Indian Language Wikipedia, anyone interested in Wikipedia is welcome.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As you may know, Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia, and is the 5th most-visited website in the world! It's completely free to use and re-use, it has no advertising, and is available in more than 286 different languages - including 20+ Indian languages. Wikipedia articles are written by ordinary people who volunteer to share their knowledge with the world.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The CILHE is committed to producing material in Indian languages for higher education, and is partnering Wikipedia in drawing new editors to the Indian language Wikipedias so that they become an important knowledge resource.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">What students gain from Wikipedia editing:</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">It improves <b>writing skills</b>. Wikipedia provides students a platform to hone their writing skills. Writing on Wikipedia enhances <b>critical thinking</b> and the ability<b> to </b>see all sides of a story. Students will find this incredibility useful in both their personal and professional lives while evaluating the pros and cons of different situations, projects, assignments etc. Wikipedia editing also strengthens <b>research skills</b>. A Wikipedia editor has to provide credible references by looking up books, journals and online materials. Writing on Wikipedia is good practice for those who will also work on a thesis or a research project.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Your articles will be read by thousands of people across the globe</b>. If you edit a Wikipedia article, it is there *forever* and the audience can be any number from the 500 million who read Wikipedia every month!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>It'll boost your chances in admissions or scholarships or placements</b>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>It teaches students how to collaborate!</b> Editing Wikipedia is magical. You add some content and someone from some other part of the class or school or town or country or somewhere else in the world adds a little bit more and makes the contribution that much better. Wikipedia helps one learn how to work productively with other people, even those you don’t know and may never actually meet.</p>
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<li>What exactly is Wikipedia and how does it work?</li>
<li>Who edits Wikipedia?</li>
<li>How do I edit Wikipedia? </li>
<li>What can I edit?</li>
<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>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Participants are required to register at least by August 23, 2013. Send your names to Ritesh Khunyakari <a class="external-link" href="http://riteshpk@gmail.com">riteshpk@gmail.com</a>.</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">Each student attending the Wikipedia Training programme should register themselves on Wikipedia. Please note that once you register on a Wikipedia project, you can use that 'Username' (i.e. same log-in details) across all Wikipedias and Wikimedia platforms. <b>This should be done by August 23, 2013.</b> Please note that you will not be able to register more than 5 Usernames from a single IP address within 24 hours (a security feature of Wikipedia). This tutorial will help you with Registration on Wikipedia <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial/Registration">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial/Registration</a></li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Once registered the students must furnish their details on the google doc. I have already entered my data just as sample. Please circulate this link to all the students at the earliest. <b>This should be done by August 24, 2013 before the commencement of the Workshop </b><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AshSF7ZKRBR5dFBfM2lTaExINTZodVZ4ejd3VURzMEE&usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AshSF7ZKRBR5dFBfM2lTaExINTZodVZ4ejd3VURzMEE&usp=sharing</a></li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">All the students are expected to do editing on Wikipedia. We will choose Telugu Wikipedia (<a href="http://www.te.wikipedia">www.te.wikipedia</a>) as a site to do some editing. Please be assured that we will also show how to use English and other language Wikipedias. For this workshop each student should come up with one article at least in an Indian language. This should be typed and be available in a soft copy form and could be carried in a thumb drive or any other storage media which should be easily accessible to them during the training programme.</li>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/workshop-on-editing-wikipedia-in-mumbai'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/workshop-on-editing-wikipedia-in-mumbai</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpennessEvent2013-08-23T16:00:46ZEventWikimania 2013: Wikipedians represent Indian Languages in Hong Kong
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikimania2013
<b>The 7th, 8th and 9th of August 2013 saw over 600 Wikipedians across the world participating Wikimania at Hong Kong. The three day annual international conference for users and contributors of Wikipedia brought many debates about open educational research, open source technologies, gender gap, documenting the history of mankind in a free and open platform like Wikipedia and its sister sites in collaboration with Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums and all of these in 286 world languages. More and more volunteers are joining this movement and it is expanding the media of accessing and disseminating knowledge.
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><span id="docs-internal-guid-0678dac9-1578-bf89-b289-18949346d9c2">Here is a school teacher who lives in Salem, a small industrial town in Tamil Nadu. There lives a school teacher who was born in Sri Lanka and moved to Hong Kong long back. They have never met in real life but have been helping in correcting each others mistakes in Wikipedia articles. These two school teachers have taken their knowledge from the four walls of the classrooms to a larger audience of</span><a href="http://ta.wikipedia.org"><span> Tamil Wikipedia</span></a><span>. I then realized how language brings people together. This is what I heard from my inner voice when I met </span><a href="http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D:Parvathisri"><span>S.Parvathi </span></a><span>from Salem and </span><a href="http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D:HK_Arun"><span>H.K.Arun</span></a><span> from Sri Lanka during </span><a href="http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org"><span>Hong Kong Wikimania 2013</span></a><span>, an annual gathering of Wikipedia contributors.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span id="docs-internal-guid-0678dac9-1579-0dad-9740-452c9aae519f">Many still are not aware the existence of Wikipedias in Indian languages. There are 20 South Asian language Wikipedias with more than 2 lakh articles contributed totally by about 1500 voluntary contributors in all these languages. There are hundred more contributors like Arun and Parvathi who create new articles in Tamil Wikipedia, and rectify mistakes by new contributors.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian"><span>Wikipedians</span></a><span> are all volunteers who devote their time for building the greatest repository of knowledge on the internet. Wikipedia articles are free from any copyright infringement so anyone can freely access, share, make modifications and redistribute them. Wikipedians have been able to create this ecosystem of nurturing new editors by teaching them the process of encyclopaedic content generation which not only polishes their writing abilities, but strengthens their communication skills. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>Wikimania is fun, it brings wikipedians across the globe speaking diverse languages under one roof where they meet each other and share their ideas and collaborate. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>Over 600 wikipedians from various countries participated in this year’s Wikimania including </span><a href="http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikimania2013#Attendees"><span>16 from India</span></a><span>. In the open world of Wikipedia collaboration always happen beyond borders; one </span><a href="http://ne.wikipedia.org"><span>Nepali</span></a><span> and four </span><a href="http://bn.wikipedia.org"><span>Bangla</span></a><span> Wikipedians from Bangladesh also joined the Indian Wikipedians to rejoice the triumph of the effort of all the volunteers from the subcontinent. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>The fun was not just limited in creating a wall of their dreams, ambitions and action plans to take their own language Wikipedia to more people or discuss how they could write articles that are important to each others languages. It went upto helping each other to fix problems in typing Indian languages and discussing success stories of successful workshops that resulted bring more student </span><span id="docs-internal-guid-0678dac9-1579-9d5b-64e9-70790c72feab">contributors. </span><a href="http://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE:Ganesh_Paudel"><span>Ganesh Paudel</span></a><span>, a Wikipedian from Nepal says, "My hometown is very close to India and we share the same script with Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit and Konkani. India and Nepal both have sizable population speaking Nepali, Maithili, Bhojpuri, Awadhi, Sanskrit, Bangla and Hindi. I’m personally interested to collaborate with Indians speaking these languages." I could see the glow in his eyes when he wrote and explained the beautiful curvature of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranjana_alphabet"><span>Ranjana</span></a><span> script to me.</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tinucherian"><span> Tinu Cherian</span></a><span>, another long term Wikipedian who was attending Wikimania for the third time was excitedly live-tweeting the happening at Hong Kong. When I asked how he is feeling after a short break he unfolded his hands and proudly said, "Wikipedia is like religion to me, once a Wikipedian, you are always a Wikipedian!". </span><a href="http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%89%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%8D:Netha_Hussain"><span>Netha</span></a><span>, a medical college student from Kerala spoke about bringing more women to contribute to Wikipedia. She calls </span><a href="http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%89%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%8D:Kavya_Manohar"><span>Kavya</span></a><span>, a college lecturer and Malayalam wikipedian who spoke about </span><a href="https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Women_and_non-conventional_education_-_A_study_from_Indian_cultural_context"><span>Women and non-conventional education</span></a><span> as one of the gems she has discovered in her personal journey. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>Wikimania also has Sengai Podhuvan, one of the oldest Indian Wikipedians. His </span><a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/L11_1222_R5_DS/en/US"><span>appeal for Wikipedia fundraising</span></a><span> brought a lot of donations to Wikimedia Foundation. Dr. Podhuvan shared his story of learning using computer, Tamil typing and writing articles about Wikimania this year brought many academicians, education researchers, policy change makers and open source and open knowledge activists across the world to share their ideas, activities going across the world even while </span><a href="https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Women_and_non-conventional_education_-_A_study_from_Indian_cultural_context"><span>enjoying dinner</span></a><span> in the </span><a href="http://www.sky100.com.hk/"><span>100th floor</span></a><span>. </span></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikimania2013'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikimania2013</a>
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No publishersubhaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-09-13T06:03:03ZBlog EntryA Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Krishnarajapet
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/a-kannada-wikipedia-workshop-at-krishnarajapet
<b>On Sunday, August 11, 2013, a day-long Kannada Wikipedia workshop was conducted at Shyam Computers, Krishnarajapet, Karnataka. The workshop was co-organized by the CIS-A2K team along with Kannada Sahitya Parishat of KR Pet. This report summarizes the proceedings of that workshop and subsequent research into relevant questions flowing from the discussions.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The CIS-A2K team has been getting requests to conduct Kannada Wikipedia workshops from various parts of Karnataka. One such request came from ISRO technician Akash B., who is originally from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishnarajpet">Krishnarajapet</a>, popularly known as K R Pet, in <a href="http://www.mandya.nic.in/">Mandya Dist</a> of Karnataka. . Shyamesh of Shyam Computers sponsored the venue by lending his cyber centre. The workshop was scheduled for 10.00 a.m. and began a little late at 10.45 a.m.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">About 20 participants came together to learn Wikipedia editing. The inauguration was followed by the hands-on workshop. We had some discussions with Akash about the IP address restrictions for registering new users. Usually only 6 persons can register on a day from one IP address. Fortunately, the cyber centre had a dynamic IP. After 6 registrations, we reset the modem so that the remaining participants could register. Akash helped some participants to register the previous day itself.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The participants were quite enthusiastic. We gave a presentation about <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page">Wikipedia</a> and <a class="external-link" href="http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%AE%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%96%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF_%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%9F">Kannada Wikipedia</a> and then gave a demonstration about editing the Wikipedia. After that the participants tried their hands on editing Kannada Wikipedia. Some of the participants who attended the workshop are now editing the Kannada Wikipedia on a daily basis. We hope that they sustain their interest and enhance the quality of Kannada Wikipedia.</p>
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<td>A group picture of the participants from the Krishnarajapet workshop. (Picture by Dr. U.B.Pavanaja, CC-BY-SA 3.0)</td>
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<p>A special thanks to Kannada Sahitya Parishat, K R Pet, Akash B and Shyam Computers.</p>
<h3>Media Coverage</h3>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/prajavani-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-workshop" class="external-link">Prajavani,</a> (August 12, 2013)</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/suvarna-times-of-karnataka-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-workshop" class="external-link">Suvarna Times of Karnataka</a> (August 12, 2013)</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/vijaya-vani-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-wikipedia-workshop" class="external-link">Vijaya Vani</a> (August 12, 2013)</li>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/a-kannada-wikipedia-workshop-at-krishnarajapet'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/a-kannada-wikipedia-workshop-at-krishnarajapet</a>
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No publisherpavanajaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-09-05T06:46:39ZBlog EntryKrishnarajapet Wikipedia Workshop (Coverage in Prajavani)
https://cis-india.org/news/prajavani-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-workshop
<b>Prajavani covered the Kannada Wikipedia workshop organised by the CIS-A2K team and the Kannada Sahitya Parishat of KR Pet., on August 12, 2013. A scanned version of the report is produced below.</b>
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<th><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/PrajavaniWikiWorkshopMandyaAug122013.png" alt="Prajavani Wikipedia Report" class="image-inline" title="Prajavani Wikipedia Report" /></th>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/prajavani-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-workshop'>https://cis-india.org/news/prajavani-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-workshop</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-09-05T05:50:24ZNews ItemKrishnarajapet Wikipedia Workshop (Coverage in Suvarna Times of Karnataka)
https://cis-india.org/news/suvarna-times-of-karnataka-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-workshop
<b>Suvarna Times of Karnataka covered the Kannada Wikipedia workshop organised by the CIS-A2K team and the Kannada Sahitya Parishat of KR Pet., on August 12, 2013. A scanned version of the report is produced below.</b>
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<th><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/SuvarnaTimesOfKarnatakaMandya1282013Page61.png" alt="Suvarna Times of Karnataka Coverage" class="image-inline" title="Suvarna Times of Karnataka Coverage" /></th>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/suvarna-times-of-karnataka-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-workshop'>https://cis-india.org/news/suvarna-times-of-karnataka-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-workshop</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-09-05T06:10:01ZNews ItemKrishnarajapet Wikipedia Workshop (Coverage in Vijaya Vani)
https://cis-india.org/news/vijaya-vani-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-wikipedia-workshop
<b>Prajavani covered the Kannada Wikipedia workshop organised by the CIS-A2K team and the Kannada Sahitya Parishat of KR Pet., on August 12, 2013. A scanned version of the report is produced below.</b>
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<th style="padding-left: 30px; "><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/copy_of_VijayaVaniWikiWorkshopMandyaAug122013.png" alt="Vijaya Vani Coverage" class="image-inline" title="Vijaya Vani Coverage" /></th>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/vijaya-vani-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-wikipedia-workshop'>https://cis-india.org/news/vijaya-vani-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-wikipedia-workshop</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-09-05T06:45:12ZNews Item