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Telugu Wikipedia Day 2015: Eenadu Coverage
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/telugu-wikipedia-day-2015-eenadu-coverage
<b>Telugu Wikipedians conducted history photowalk in Dr. YSR state archaeological museum to celebrate Telugu Wikipedia Day 2015 on December 13, 2015. Pavan Santosh supported the community as a representative from CIS-A2K</b>
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<p>Below is the media coverage of the event published by leading newspaper Eenadu (Hyderabad edition) on December 13, 2015.</p>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Eenadu.jpg/@@images/a1d4f1b7-078d-44f5-b38e-083e80049f4b.jpeg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Eenadu Coverage" /></p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-01-05T06:33:51ZNews ItemOdia Wikipedia Workshop to be organised in Puri
https://cis-india.org/openness/odia-wikipedia-workshop-to-be-organised-in-puri
<b>In collaboration with the the Google Local guides group, the first ever Odia Wikipedia workshop in Puri is being organised on this December 20.</b>
<p>This workshop aims at helping the participants learn about creating and improving the Odia Wikipedia articles about the local places, people, and culture of the historical town Puri and the district. Currently there is some presence of the town and the district on Odia
Wikipedia but majority of the content are related only to Jagannath
temple. The participants will be oriented with <a class="external-link" href="https://or.wikipedia.org/s/3h">Wikipedia's basics</a>, <a class="external-link" href="https://or.wikipedia.org/s/jxw">policy and guidelines </a>of Odia Wikipedia, Odia-alphabet input. The event is free and open to everyone.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/odia-wikipedia-workshop-to-be-organised-in-puri'>https://cis-india.org/openness/odia-wikipedia-workshop-to-be-organised-in-puri</a>
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No publisherSailesh PatnaikCIS-A2KOdia Wikipedia2015-12-29T11:55:12ZEventKannada Wikipedia Editathon: Vijayavani
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-vijayavani
<b>The article was published in Vijayavani on December 11, 2015. A scanned version of the article is given below.</b>
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<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/VijayavaniMangaluruDec112015.jpg/@@images/0a33d6f1-4943-4481-8c56-bd80ae3891f1.jpeg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Vijayavani" /><img src="https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-vijayavani" alt="null" id="__mce_tmp" title="Kannada Wikipedia Editathon: Vijayavani" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-vijayavani'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-vijayavani</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KKannada WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-01-05T06:34:46ZNews ItemKannada Wikipedia Editathon: Vijaya Karnataka
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-vijaya-karnataka
<b>The article was published in Vijaya Karnataka on December 11, 2015. A scanned version of the article is below.</b>
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<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/VijayaKarnatakaMangaluruDec112015.jpg/@@images/b282e3da-5a01-4064-aa40-dbe6d4226ca6.jpeg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Vijayakarnataka" /></p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KKannada WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-01-05T06:35:13ZNews ItemKannada Wikipedia Editathon in Mangalore: Udayavani
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-in-mangalore-udayavani
<b>The article was published in Udayavani on December 11, 2015. A scanned version of the article is given below.</b>
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<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/UdayavaniMangaluruDec112015.jpg/@@images/a22f9ba2-c6cb-41ee-8daf-6e8143d895ea.jpeg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Udayavani " /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-in-mangalore-udayavani'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-in-mangalore-udayavani</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KKannada WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-01-05T06:36:24ZNews ItemKannada Wikipedia Editathon: Udayavani Coverage
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-udayavani-coverage
<b>The article was published in Udayavani on December 7, 2015. A scanned version of the article is below.</b>
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<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/UdayavaniMangaluruDec072015.jpg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Udayavani" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-udayavani-coverage'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-udayavani-coverage</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KKannada WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-01-05T06:36:53ZNews ItemKannada Wikipedia Editathon in Prajavani
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-in-prajavani
<b>The article was published in Prajavani on December 13, 2015. A scanned version of the article is below.</b>
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<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/PrajavaniMangaluruDec132015.jpg/@@images/fbc094d4-6ac1-4e14-93ed-666103c6fcfc.jpeg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Prajavani Mangaluru Edition" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-in-prajavani'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-in-prajavani</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KKannada WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-01-05T06:39:56ZNews ItemKannada Wikipedia Editathon: Prajavani
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-prajavani-mangal
<b>The article was published in Prajavani Mangal on December 11, 2015. A scanned version of the article is given below.</b>
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<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/PrajavaniMangaluruDec112015.jpg/@@images/855a3251-6bb9-43a3-84a8-a3285c5d9976.jpeg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Prajavani Mangal" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-prajavani-mangal'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-prajavani-mangal</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KKannada WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-01-05T06:40:23ZNews ItemKannada Wikipedia Editathon Coverage in Prajavani
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-prajavani-mangal
<b>The article was published in Prajavani Mangal on December 10, 2015. A scanned version of the article is below.</b>
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<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/PrajavaniMangaluruDec102015b.jpg/@@images/62c10e73-16ef-44e1-b84a-1be2a70e7e3e.jpeg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Prajavani Mangal" /></p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KKannada WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-01-05T06:40:52ZNews ItemPost More Articles on Kannada Wikipedia
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<b>The article was published in Indian Express, Mangaluru edition on December 12, 2015. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja was quoted. A scanned version of the article is given below.</b>
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<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/IndianExpressMangaluruDec122015.jpg/@@images/6deff004-d1f3-40c6-9c12-38add439df54.jpeg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Indian Express Article" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/post-more-articles-on-kannada-wikipedia'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/post-more-articles-on-kannada-wikipedia</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KKannada WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-01-05T06:38:06ZNews ItemEnglish and Telugu Wikipedia edit-a-thon in Hyderabad
https://cis-india.org/openness/english-and-telugu-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-hyderabad
<b>After a long time, a collaborative Telugu and English Wikipedia edit-a-thon is being organised in Hyderabad on December 20.</b>
<p id="docs-internal-guid-98d87700-f6fa-1493-9772-105a5994d0a4" dir="ltr">This Sunday, the Telugu and English language Wikipedia editors are organising a unique edit-a-thon at Golden Threshold, Abids. The event is aimed at translating many English Wikipedia articles related to Telugu language and culture to Telugu and vice versa. Theatre scholar and Telugu Wikimedian Pranay Raj Vangari and English Wikimedian Srikar Kasyap are organising this event with support from Centre for Internet and Society. Telugu speakers who contribute to English Wikipedia are going to contribute to Telugu Wikipedia. “The event is scheduled at 10 am and over a dozen articles are planned to be created during the sprint”, explains Vangari. Kashyap adds saying, “the Wikimedians are also planning to share best practices of the two communities which will benefit everyone”. The event is open to all and newbies will be oriented with the basics of Wikipedia editing and enriching the knowledge pool in Telugu and other languages on the Internet.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/english-and-telugu-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-hyderabad'>https://cis-india.org/openness/english-and-telugu-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-hyderabad</a>
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No publisherPavan SantoshCIS-A2KWikipediaTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2015-12-31T07:49:19ZEventKannada Wikipedia edit-a-thon in St. Agnes College, Mangaluru to bridge gender gap in Wikipedia
https://cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-st-agnes-college-mangaluru-to-bridge-gender-gap-in-wikipedia
<b>As part of a series of workshops to mark the 13th anniversary, Kannada Wikipedia, a Kannada Wikipedia edit-a-thon was organised during this 10th-12th in St. Agnes College, Mangaluru to address the issue of gender gap in Wikipedia. </b>
<p>Totally 24 female students Wikimedians
participated in this edit-a-thon. Three female Wikipedia editors from the institution also joined as facilitators. Vishwanatha Badikana, Kannada professor of the institution who is also a Kannada and Tulu Wikipedian inaugurated the event as
chief guest. The first day was spent in demonstrating
about the <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wiki_markup">Wiki markup</a>. During the following two days the participants created articles
about notable writers and other notable women of coastal Karnataka. 25 new articles were
created by the participants on the second day. By the end of the last day, 25 more articles were created in <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About_the_Sandbox">sandboxes</a> on
the last day by lunch time. They will soon work on the articles and improve before moving them to the article namespace so they become live articles. From the three day long edit-a-thon about 75 new
articles are expected to come on Kannada Wikipedia. More details about the edit-a-thon could be read on Kannada Wikipedia <a class="external-link" href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/s/1e9n">event page</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-st-agnes-college-mangaluru-to-bridge-gender-gap-in-wikipedia'>https://cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-st-agnes-college-mangaluru-to-bridge-gender-gap-in-wikipedia</a>
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No publisherpavanajaWikipediaCIS-A2KKannada Wikipedia2016-01-12T11:22:25ZBlog EntrySau Dhuni Teen Project: December Edit-a-thon
https://cis-india.org/openness/sau-dhuni-teen-project-december-edit-a-thon
<b>As part of the "Sau Dhuni Teen Project" a multilingual Wikipedia Wikipedia edit-a-thon was organised at the Women's Studies Centre, University of Pune.</b>
<p><strong>Concept note:</strong><br />The digital domain is becoming increasingly significant as a knowledge repository today. Especially relevant in this context is the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which contains information on almost every topic under the sun and is used extensively by researchers. The fact that information from the Wikipedia is even used as a starting point of academic writing necessitates thinking about how this information is organized, or in other words, how we conceptualize Wikipedia as a knowledge resource. In the multilingual Indian context, generation of content in the Indian languages is a logical next step. It is with the intention of strengthening this knowledge network in the social sciences, that Women's Studies Centre, Pune University conducts content generation workshops with university researchers. The broad mandate of the digital resource generation workshop is to introduce university students to tools of collaborative knowledge production on the internet and methods for generating new online content in Indian languages under Sau Dhuni Teen Project. Also introductory session on Wiktionary.</p>
<p><strong>Project aim:</strong></p>
<ul><li>Facilitate researchers to think critically about concepts and their associations</li><li>Involve researchers as active editors on the Indian language Wikipedias</li><li>Utilize Wikipedia as a platform to generate Indian language annotations of academic texts in Women's Studies and the Social Sciences</li></ul>
<p>The organisers are also planning to engage the students in annotating one key women's studies text each through follow-up workshops and credit them as contributors to the "Annotated Bibliography project"</p>
<strong>Project outcome:</strong>
<p>9 female participants joined for this edit-a-thon and edited various articles on Marathi Wikipedia. The Marathi Wikimedia community being quite particular about the citations from Marathi-language source was somehow challenging as the participants struggled at times to find much information about many things notable. A simple step by step <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basic_Guidelines_for_your_Wikipedia_entry.pdf">tutorial</a> was created, printed and shared among the participants. Some of the participants showed interest in participating in the <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian">Train-a-Wikipedian</a> programme that CIS-A2K is planning. Sheena D'Lima engaged with the participants by sharing her learning from <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:MOS">Manual of Style</a> for writing Wikipedia article.</p>
<strong>More information about the event on <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K_/Projects/Sau_Dhuni_Teen/December_2016_Edit-a-thon_at_Krantijyoti_Savitribai_Phule's_Women's_Studies_Centre,_Pune_University">Meta.</a></strong>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/sau-dhuni-teen-project-december-edit-a-thon'>https://cis-india.org/openness/sau-dhuni-teen-project-december-edit-a-thon</a>
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No publishergaruleMarathi WikipediaCIS-A2KAccess to Knowledge2015-12-08T10:30:09ZBlog EntryTTT 2015
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/ttt-2015
<b>The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) conducted a four day training workshop for Wikimedians all over India in order to facilitate conducting and organising outreach activities for promotion of Wikimedia activities within Indian language communities. Wikimedians from 21 language communities had participated in this training workshop including Wikipedians working for Nepali and Maithili Wikipedia.</b>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">CIS-A2K was successful in providing an idea exchange platform during the TTT workshop. Wikipedians from all over India got a chance to discuss their respective Wikimedia projects and identify best practices that could be customised for their own Wikimedia projects.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">CIS-A2K conducted TTT 2015 with a clear objecive of training Indian Wikimedians in conducting effective outreach activites, As a reflective exercise on the efficacy of our TTT camp held in Bangalore during February, 2015 we are now conducting follow-up with the participants and I have contacted three Wikipedians (for the month of November 2015) and following are the updates:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Sailesh Patnaik (Odia Wikimedian):</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Activities till now:</p>
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<li>Attended Google I/O Bhubaneswar to deliver a talk about Wikipedia movement.</li>
<li>Has organized a workshop at KIST Bhubaneswar with 50+ participants.</li>
<li>Was invited by GDG Bhubaneswar group to deliver a talk about Wikipedia project during Google Dev Fest.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Presented a seminar at CET Bhubaneswar after the invitation from the organizing committee of the Perception (The Annual tech fest of CET , Bhubaneswar).</li></ol>
<p>Upcoming Activities</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Planning to organize a Wiki Takes Bhubaneswar photowalk and am also planning a GLAM project with a Cooperative society powered by Central Government and spread Open Source movement in Odisha.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">V.T. Narayanan and Sayant Mahato (Samskritam Wikipedians):</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Activities till now:</p>
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<li>In May 2015, Samskrita Bharati organized a camp in Kalladka.</li>
<li>In July 2015 : Rashtriya Sanskrit Samsthan, Sringeri (Now Sringa Giri) organized a symposium for their staff and students.</li>
<li>In August 2015, Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidya Peeta, Tirupathi organized introductory classes on Wikipedia. Sayant Mahato attended the programme and expained in detail about Sanskrit Wikipedia.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Later in August 2015, at Aksharam, Bangalore, Samskrita Bharati conducted a " Medha Shibiram" exclusively oriented to youngsters and students who are based outside India like in USA. The Shibiram was well received both by the students and their parents. The participants were very interested to know about Sanskrit Wikipedia.</li>
<li>Samskrita Bharati is engaged in the work of editing the existing articles in Wikipedia. </li></ol>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/ttt-2015'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/ttt-2015</a>
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No publisherhasanCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWikipedianSpeak2015-12-15T07:36:25ZBlog EntryTouch Point Report: Department of Tourism Studies, Christ University and St. Aloysius College, Managalore
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/department-of-tourism-studies-christ-university-st-aloysius-college
<b>CIS-A2K conducts Wikipedia in Education programme at St. Aloysius colege, Mangalore. This partnership is unique as it provides to us a pool of editors for three Wikimedia projects, i.e: Kannada, Tulu and Konkani.
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<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">Touch point Report:</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">St. Aloysius</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">With editors from St. Aloysius college taking lead in organising 13<sup>th</sup> anniversary of Kannada Wikipedia anniversary, Kannada Wikipedia is growing in Mangalore and can be expected to produce content and engagement regularly similar to Bangalore and Mysore volunteers.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">Activites</p>
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<li>Translation of system messages for Tulu Wikipedia</li>
<li>Creating Tulu WP tutorial videos</li>
<li>Guiding St Aloysius College Student interns</li>
<li>Planning of 13<sup>th</sup> anniversary of Kannada Wikipedia anniversary</li></ol>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">Reporting on the learning: PEG application created after extensive discussion with the student volunteers and Mr. Vishwanth Badikana who is primary coordinator of the event.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">New developments: A possible partnership with Karnataka Tulu Academy is being explored, this could lead to content donation.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">Failures: Non-availabilty of scanners hampered our chances of securing some important primary resources that would have been useful for content generation.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">Primary Contact: Mr. Vishwanath Badikana,</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">Christ University</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">Introduction: A2K team is implementing its largest Wikipedia in Education programme at Christ University. This programme has been under operation since 2013 and has seen multiple revisions regarding: faculty engagement, evaluation process, student contributions and A2K team's responsibilties.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">Activites: Edit-a-thon on Wikivoyage organised at Department of Tourism Studies, Christ University, Bangalore</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">Reporting on the learning: 1) As the edit-a-thon was happening on English Wikivoyage and A2K team had not intimated about the event to the larger community, there were instances of accounts being blocked and ip address being blocked as well.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">A2K conducted Wikivoyage edit-a-thon and was surprised to see that many tourist places in India do not find mention on this Wikimedia project.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">New developments: Interest shown by the faculty of Department of Tourism Studies, Christ University to host the student assignments on Wikimedia projects.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">Failures: A2K was unable to help students to upload images onto commons.wikimedia.org during the session. A follow up session is being planned.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Primary Contact: Ms. Mugdha Kulkarni, mugdha.shailendra@christuniversity.in</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/department-of-tourism-studies-christ-university-st-aloysius-college'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/department-of-tourism-studies-christ-university-st-aloysius-college</a>
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No publisherhasanOpen Educational ResourcesCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipedia2015-12-15T07:37:14ZBlog Entry