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Mini TTT and MWT held in Kolkata

tito — 2017-06-28T09:53:55Z

A regional version of Train The Trainer and MediaWiki Training was recently conducted in Kolkata.

CIS-A2K’s widely well-regarded flagship skill building program was conducted in Kolkata between 7- 8 January 2017, in partnership with the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group. The two-day event was held at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences. There were 20 participants at the event, of which 18 were male and only two female.

There were three thematic sessions, each broadly dealing with: Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource. The participants were taught article enrichment and how to upgrade articles into good category articles on Wikipedia. The participants learnt reference resources in detail in addition to discussing the different types of syntax required to apply the references meaningfully. The participants were also exposed to advanced search techniques on Google in order to gather relevant references.

During the Commons session, the participants were taught the basics of creating categories and subcategories in order to help narrow down searches and hence, image utility on Commons. Facilitating easy identification of an image helps enrich articles in need of descriptive photos. Additionally, participants were encouraged to give specific file names to their images along with a detailed description of the same. This was followed by a technical session on the following popular tools and gadgets that help frequent uploaders on Commons:

Cat-a-lot is a JavaScript gadget that helps with moving images (or subcategories) between categories or adding categories to search results
Google Images tab: On File pages, adds a new tab to easily search for similar images on the Internet using Google Images
OTRS is a tool used by the Wikimedia projects, including Commons, to manage and archive email conversations. The main use of OTRS in relation to Commons is to verify and archive licensing permissions.
Flickr2Commons - Tool to easily upload single and multiple files from Flickr to Commons. This tool uses OAuth to upload files to Commons.

In addition to these on-wiki discussions, a broader discussion took place on photography tips such as the rule of thirds which helps enhance the effect and purpose of the image.

The final thematic session was on Wikisource. Participants had a hands on lesson in proofreading methodology in addition to learning about image formatting, formatting table of contents, table access page break, text divider, and tools and script of Wikisource.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mini-ttt-and-mwt-held-in-kolkata

MediaWiki Training 2017

Tito Dutta and Ananth Subray — 2017-06-07T08:43:57Z

MediaWiki Training 2017 conducted in Bangalore

The third iteration of the MediaWiki Training was conducted on 24-26 February at Bangalore, India (the first and second iterations of MWT was conducted in 2015 and 2016). 16 participants from 9 Indic Wikimedia communities attended the workshop. The following graph shows the participation from different Indic Wikimedia communities.

Malayalam Wikimedian User:Viswaprabha attended the workshop as a resource person. On behalf of the Centre for Internet and Society, User:Titodutta and User:Ananth_subray were the resource persons.

== Sessions ==

On the first day, the following topics were discussed

=== First day: technical audit ===

Introduction to MediaWiki Training: The first session of the day started with introducing the aims of objectives of MediaWiki Training 2017.

Introduction to MediaWiki software and platform: Following this User:Titodutta and User:Viswaprabha discused the MediaWiki software, different extensions, LocalSettings.php and some other important configurations related to MediaWiki.

Wikipedia technical audit: Wikipedia technical audit was the central theme of the day, and the phrase “Wikipedia technical audit” was coined by Rahul Desmukh of IIT Bombay. He suggested that once in a year a Wikimedia community should do its technical audit, when the community would solve issues like deadend pages, orphan pages, uncategorized pages, script errors, infobox errors, reference errors, and other errors and issues related to a Wikimedia project.

On the first day of the MWT workshop we discussed these issues and errors and how to solve these.

== Second day ==

On the second day of third iteration of MWT, we began with problems faced in different languages with respect to Templates and Imfoboxes. And continued with teaching how to create the basic info boxes. Each participant were thought how to add two digits in a single template and creation of LUA templates. Later we had thought them how to create a basic template by adding a label and data, and even localizing of some templates were also done.

After this use of Wikidata was thought and INfoboxes using wikidata.

Post lunch some of the tools and their uses and applications were thought Copyvio, Duplication detector, Google books citation, Citation generator and Hay's tool directory

== Third day ==

On the third day of MWT 2017, the first session started with a session where User:Viswaprabha discussed Wikimedia Labs Quarry (https://quarry.wmflabs.org/)

The major points of the session were:

Introduction to Quarry.
Importance of Quarry
Coding simple quarry.

User:Viswaprabha also showed how to integrate Google spreadsheet with Quarry. He showed a couple of examples where he had the most of it using the tricks.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mediawiki-training-2017

Wiki Loves Mayabazaar

Pavan Santhosh — 2017-06-07T09:24:35Z

On the 60th anniversary of the movie Mayabazar, Telugu Wikimedians celebrated Wiki Loves Mayabazar, an event to commemorate the cult Telugu film Mayabazar. As part of the celebrations, an edit-a-thon of the same name was held at Ravindra Bharathi in Hyderabad. Interestingly, the Cultural Department of Telangana Government sponsored the entire event.

In the Telugu speaking regions, there is a well-known appreciation of the cinematic arts. Mayabazar, released in 1957 captured the imagination of fans like no other film had before. Telugu Wikipedians decided to pay tribute to the movie by improving articles and content related to it on Telugu Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.

The edit-a-thon was held on 30 April, 2017 at the monthly Wikimitra Vedika meetup of Telugu Wikipedians. A screening of the film took place followed by discussions on references, citations, film studies and articles related to the film. From 1 May 2017, the edit-a-thon took place online.

There were 15 participants of which only one member was female. Telugu Wikipedian, Kasyap hoped for more participation as this "is an interesting event."

However, the event was made popular by the wide ranging media coverage in print and electronic media.

Media pieces on the event:

1. ‘మాయాబజార్‌’కు వినూత్న షష్టిపూర్తి

(Eenadu Newspaper; 1 May, 2017)

2.‘మాయాబజార్’కు 60 ఏళ్లు.. వినూత్న షష్టిపూర్తి వేడుకకు సిద్ధమవుతున్న వికీపీడియన్లు! (Ap7am.com; 1 May 2017)Wiki Loves Mayabazaar

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wiki-loves-mayabazaar

Barcamp Bangalore

praskrishna — 2014-10-13T04:43:45Z

The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team participated in a Barcamp at SAP Labs, Bangalore on October 12, 2014. Dr. U.B.Pavanaja and Rahmanuddin Shaik participated in the event.

Dissecting Wikipedia

Wikipedia is the world’s most famous free and open encyclopaedia which anyone can edit. In this session we will explore various technical aspects of Wikipedia with demonstrations. Wikipedia has its own set of APIs using which we can retrieve information by using various queris and parameters. The output can be generated in various formats. These output can be used for processing by programming languages as input. These will be demonstrated.

Click to read the details on the Barcamp website.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/openness/news/barcamp-bangalore

ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನ/೧೦

praskrishna — 2013-06-11T06:21:31Z

This was organised by the Wikipedia community on May 7, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in this.

ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನ/೧೦

ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಕನ್ನಡದ ಸದಸ್ಯರ ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನ ಈ ತಿಂಗಳು ಐ.‌ಆರ್.ಸಿ ಯಲ್ಲಿ

ಸಮಯ

ಮೇ ೭, ೨೦೧೩ , ರಾತ್ರಿ ೯:೩೦ ರಿಂದ ೧೧:೩೦

ಐ.‌ಆರ್.ಸಿ ಚಾನೆಲ್

IRC channel on freenode: #wikipedia-kn
ಐ.‌ಆರ್.ಸಿಯನ್ನು ಇದುವರೆಗೆ ಬಳಸಿ ಅಭ್ಯಾಸವಿಲ್ಲದವರು ಈ ಕೆಳಗಿನ ವೆಬ್‌ಚಾಟ್ ಲಿಂಕ್ ಬಳಸಬಹುದು.

ವೆಬ್‌ಚಾಟ್ - ಫ್ರೀನೋಡ್ - ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಕನ್ನಡ ಚಾನಲ್

ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನದ ಉದ್ದೇಶ'

ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಸುತ್ತ ನಾವು ಕೈಗೊಳ್ಳಬಹುದಾದ ಕೆಲಸಗಳು
ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಇಂದಿನ ಸ್ಥಿತಿಗತಿ
ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಸುತ್ತಲಿನ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮಗಳು
ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದ ಹತ್ತನೆಯ ವಾರ್ಷಿಕೋತ್ಸವಕ್ಕೆ ತಯಾರಿ

ಭಾಗವಹಿಸುವವರು

ಯು. ಬಿ. ಪವನಜ --Pavanaja (talk) ೦೫:೦೬, ೭ ಮೇ ೨೦೧೩ (UTC)
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ಓಂಶಿವಪ್ರಕಾಶ್

ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನದ ಸಾರಾಂಶ

[20:48:59] * Topic set by techfiz on 2012-03-06 04:07:36 UTC

[20:48:59] [ChanServ] 'ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದ ಅಧಿಕೃತ ಐ.‌ಆರ್.ಸಿ ಚಾನೆಲ್‌ಗೆ ಸ್ವಾಗತ - #wikipeida-kn'

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[21:11:58] <cvg-89> hi

[21:14:30] <shankar> hi

[21:15:07] <cvg-89> You all experience ppl in Wiki; I am newbie

[21:15:10] <cvg-89> ?

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[21:16:47] <cvg-89> Can you tell me how to contribute to wikibooks?

[21:17:58] <shankar> I too haven't contributed any thing to wiki yet

[21:19:17] <kiranravikumar> @cvg-89: May be this 'll help you - http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Help:Contributing

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[21:20:45] <cvg-89> @kiranravikumar; Thanks for the info. But I have already gone through that page.

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[21:21:34] <cvg-89> I can type out the scanned pages of the copyleft books and help in contributing to wikibooks

[21:23:06] <kiranravikumar> Oh ok, may be someone with proper knowledge can help this out. Anyone?

[21:29:22] <Pavanaja> ನನ್ನ ಅಂತರಜಾಲ ಸಂಪರ್ಕ ಅಷ್ಟು ಚೆನ್ನಾಗಿಲ್ಲ. ಮಧ್ಯೆ ಮಧ್ಯೆ ಸಂಪರ್ಕ ಕಡಿಯುತ್ತದೆ

[21:29:31] <techfiz> ನಮಸ್ತೆ ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ

[21:29:40] <Pavanaja> ನಮಸ್ತೆ ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ

[21:30:35] <shankar> ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ!

[21:30:36] <techfiz> cvg-89: ನಿಮ್ಮ ಹೆಸರು

[21:30:54] <techfiz> ನಾನು ಓಂಶಿವಪ್ರಕಾಶ್ ವಿಕಿ ಬಳಕೆದಾರ : Omshivaprakash

[21:32:18] <techfiz> ನನ್ನ ಉತ್ತರ ನಿಧಾನವಾಗಿ ಬಂದರೆ ಕ್ಷಮಿಸಿ... ಕೆಲಸದ ನಡುವಿನಲ್ಲಿದ್ದೇನೆ

[21:32:50] <cvg-89> Nanu Chaitanya

[21:33:00] <kiranravikumar> ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ , ನಾನು ಕಿರಣ್ ಸದಸ್ಯ: kiranravikumar

[21:34:01] <shankar> ನಾನು ಶಂಕರ ಪ್ರಸಾದ್: ಇನ್ನೊಬ್ಬ ವಿಕಿ ಬಳಸುವವ, ಸದ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ ಖಾತೆಯನ್ನು ತೆರೆದಿದ್ದೇನೆ

[21:34:15] <kiranravikumar> ಇಂದಿನ agenda ಎನು?

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[21:35:52] <Pavanaja> ನನ್ನ ಅಂತರಜಾಲ ಸಂಪರ್ಕ ಅಷ್ಟು ಚೆನ್ನಾಗಿಲ್ಲ. ಮಧ್ಯೆ ಮಧ್ಯೆ ಸಂಪರ್ಕ ಕಡಿಯುತ್ತದೆ

[21:36:20] <techfiz> http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%80%E0%B2%A1%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AF:%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%AE%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AE%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B2%E0%B2%A8/%E0%B3%A7%E0%B3%A6

[21:36:34] <techfiz> ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನದ ಉದ್ದೇಶ'

[21:36:34] <techfiz> ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಸುತ್ತ ನಾವು ಕೈಗೊಳ್ಳಬಹುದಾದ ಕೆಲಸಗಳು

[21:36:34] <techfiz> ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಇಂದಿನ ಸ್ಥಿತಿಗತಿ

[21:36:34] <techfiz> ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಸುತ್ತಲಿನ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮಗಳು

[21:36:34] <techfiz> ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದ ಹತ್ತನೆಯ ವಾರ್ಷಿಕೋತ್ಸವಕ್ಕೆ ತಯಾರಿ

[21:36:34] <techfiz> [ಬದಲಾಯಿಸಿ]

[21:39:17] <techfiz> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryKN.htm ಮಾರ್ಚ್ ವರೆಗಿನ ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಬಳಕೆಯ ದತ್ತಾಂಶ ಇಲ್ಲಿದೆ

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[21:39:41] <techfiz> ನಿಧಾನವಾಗಿ ಹೊಸ ಲೇಖನಗಳ ಸೃಷ್ಟಿಯ ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಹೊಸ ಸದಸ್ಯರ ಸಂಖ್ಯೆ ಹೆಚ್ಚುತ್ತಿದೆ

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[21:40:33] <techfiz> ಒಂದರ ನಂತರ ಒಂದರಂತೆ ನೆಡೆಯುತ್ತಿರುವ ಕಾರ್ಯಾಗಾರ/ಕಮ್ಮಟಗಳು ಬಳಕೆದಾರರ ಸಂಖ್ಯೆ ಹೆಚ್ಚುವುದಕ್ಕೆ ಕಾರಣವಾಗುತ್ತಿವೆ

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[21:41:02] <techfiz> ಇವರನ್ನು ವಿಕಿ ಸಂಪಾದನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರವೀಣರನ್ನಾಗಿ ಮಾಡುವ ಕೆಲಸ ಬಾಕಿ ಇದೆ

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[21:41:19] <cvg-89> Congratulations to the editors. What an awesome accomplishment

[21:41:35] <techfiz> 14,255 ಸಧ್ಯದ ಲೇಖನಗಳ ಸಂಖ್ಯೆ

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[21:42:13] <mgharish> ಪ್ರಸ್ತುತ ಕನ್ನಡ ಆವೃತ್ತಿಯು ೧೨,೯೯೩ ವಿಷಯಗಳ ಕುರಿತಾದ ಪುಟಗಳನ್ನು ಹೊಂದಿದೆ

[21:42:31] <techfiz> ಕಳೆದ ವರ್ಷಕ್ಕೆ ಹೋಲಿಸಿದಂತೆ ಈ ವರ್ಷದ ಬದಲಾವಣೆ ಶೇ ೧೮ ರಷ್ಟು

[21:42:31] <Pavanaja> ಅದನ್ನು ಬದಲಿಸಬೇಕು. ಹೇಗೆ?

[21:42:51] <techfiz> mgharish: ಅದು ತಾನಾಗೇ ಬದಲಾಗಬೇಕು ಅಲ್ವೇ?

[21:43:04] <mgharish> ಆಗುತ್ತೆ

[21:43:13] <mgharish> ನಿಮಗೆ ೧೪,೨೫೫ ಎಲ್ಲಿಂದ ಸಿಕ್ತು?

[21:43:35] <mgharish> https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B6%E0%B3%87%E0%B2%B7:Statistics

[21:44:12] <techfiz> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryKN.htm

[21:44:13] <Pavanaja> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryKN.htm

[21:44:42] <mgharish> ಓಕೆ.

[21:45:09] <Pavanaja> ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ಎಷ್ಟು ಜನ admins ಇದ್ದಾರೆ?

[21:45:57] <mgharish> https://kn.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B6%E0%B3%87%E0%B2%B7:ListUsers&group=sysop

[21:48:21] <kiranravikumar> @pavanaja sir: https://kn.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B6%E0%B3%87%E0%B2%B7:ListUsers&group=sysop

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[21:50:43] <techfiz> shankar: namaste

[21:50:54] <shreekant> ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ

[21:51:11] <Pavanaja> Shreekant: ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ

[21:51:27] <shreekant> ನೀವು ಸಿಕ್ಕಿದ್ದು ಸಂತೋಷ :)

[21:51:28] <Pavanaja> ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದ ಹತ್ತನೆ ವಾರ್ಷಿಕೋತ್ಸವಕ್ಕೆ ಏನೇನು ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮ ಹಮ್ಮಿಕೊಳ್ಳಬಹುದು?

[21:51:53] <techfiz> ಇದುವರೆಗೆ ವಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದ ಸುತ್ತ ಮಾಡಬಹುದಾದ ಕೆಲಸಗಳ ಯೋಜನಾ ಪಟ್ಟಿಗಳು ಇಲ್ಲಿವೆ.

[21:51:54] <techfiz> https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%80%E0%B2%A1%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AF:%E0%B2%AF%E0%B3%8B%E0%B2%9C%E0%B2%A8%E0%B3%86

[21:52:10] <techfiz> ಇದರ ಸುತ್ತ ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡುವವರ ಸಂಖ್ಯೆ ಹೆಚ್ಚ ಬೇಕು

[21:52:38] <techfiz> ವಾರ್ಷಿಕೋತ್ಸವದ ಆಚರಣೆ ಸರಳವಾಗಿ ಯಾವುದಾದರೂ ಒಂದು ಗುರಿಮುಟ್ಟುವ ಕೆಲಸವಾದರೆ ಸಮುದಾಯಕ್ಕೆ ಉತ್ತಮ

[21:52:44] <shreekant> ನಾನು ಆಗಾಗ ಇಂಗ್ಲೀಷಿನಿಂದ ಅನುವಾದಿಸುತ್ತೀನಿ ಅಷ್ಟೇ

[21:53:10] <shreekant> ಅದೂ ಸುಲಭ / ಸರಳ ಇರುವಂತಹ ಬರಹಗಳು

[21:53:20] <techfiz> ಒಂದು ದಿನ ಆಚರಣೆಗೆ ಬದಲು ತಿಂಗಳು ಪೂರ ಒಂದಲ್ಲಾ ಒಂದು ರೀತಿಯ ಸಂಪಾದನೆಯ ಮೂಲಕ ಆಚರಣೆಗೆ ಹೊಸ ಅರ್ಥ ನೀಡಬೇಕು

[21:53:35] <shreekant> ಸರಿ

[21:54:01] <techfiz> ಆ ತಿಂಗಳು ಎಲ್ಲ ಪತ್ರಿಕೆ, ವಾರ ಪತ್ರಿಕೆ, ಮಾಸಿಕಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಬಳಸುವ, ಸಂಪಾದಿಸುವ ತರಬೇತಿಯನ್ನು ಎಲ್ಲ ಕನ್ನಡಿಗರಿಗೆ ನೀಡುವಂತಾಗಬೇಕು

[21:54:45] <techfiz> ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ಉತ್ತಮ ಸಂಪಾದನೆಗೆ ತೊಡಗಿರುವವರಿಗೆ ಹೆಚ್ಚಿನ ಜವಾಬ್ದಾರಿ ಹೊರಿಸಲು ಮೀಡಿಯವಿಕಿ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದ ತರಬೇತಿಯನ್ನು ನೀಡಬೇಕು

[21:55:00] <techfiz> ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಮಾಹಿತಿ ವಿವರಿಸುವ ಪುಟಗಳ ಬದಲಾವಣೆಯಾಗಬೇಕು

[21:55:28] <Pavanaja> ನಾನು ಅದನ್ನೇ ಹೇಳಿದ್ದು -advanced user training ಎಂದು

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[21:56:00] <Pavanaja> ಒಂದು ಟ್ಯುಟೋರಿಯಲ್ ಕೈಪಿಡಿ ಮಾಡಿದರೆ ಹೇಗೆ?

[21:56:02] <techfiz> ಸಮುದಾಯ ಪುಟದಲ್ಲಿ ಕಾಣದಿರುವ ಅನೇಕ ಮುರಿದ ಕೊಂಡಿಗಳನ್ನು ಸರಿಪಡಿಸಬೇಕು

[21:56:17] <kiranravikumar> Registered users: ೧೪,೯೪೮, ಅದರ ಶೇಕಡ ೧೦ ಸಂಪಾದಿಸಿದರೆ ಸಾಕು, ನಮ್ಮ ಗುರಿ ಮುಟ್ಟ ಬಹುದು.

[21:56:33] <techfiz> ಕೈಪಿಡಿ ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ಇಂಗ್ಲೀಷ್ನಲ್ಲಿ ಲಭ್ಯವಿದೆ... ಆದರೆ ಸ್ವತ: ಉಪಯೋಗಿಸದ ವಿನ: ಅದರ ಪ್ರಯೋಜನವಿಲ್ಲ

[21:57:18] <Pavanaja> ಇಂಗ್ಲಿಶ್ ಕೈಪಿಡಿಯನ್ನೆ ಅಲ್ಪ ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಬದಲಾಯಿಸಿ ಕನ್ನಡೀಕರಿಸಬಹುದು

[21:57:28] <Pavanaja> ಒಂದು ಟ್ಯುಟೋರಿಯಲ್ ವೀಡಿಯೋ ಕೂಡ ಮಾಡಬಹುದು

[21:57:52] <techfiz> kiranravikumar: ಸಂಖ್ಯೆಗಳ ಬೆನ್ನ ಹಿಂದೆ ಓಡುವುದು ಅಷ್ಟೇನೂ ಸಮಂಜಸವಲ್ಲ...

[21:58:21] <techfiz> ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ಸಂಪಾದನೆಗೆ ತೊಡಗಿರುವವರನ್ನು ಮಾತನಾಡಿಸಿ ಸಮುದಾಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಅವರು ನೆಲೆಯೂರುವಂತೆ ಮಾಡಲು ಬೇಕಾದಷ್ಟು ಸಮಯ ವ್ಯಯಿಸಬೇಕಿದೆ

[22:00:11] <kiranravikumar> ಖಂಡಿತ ...

[22:00:44] <techfiz> ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಅನುಭವೀ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯನ್ನ ಸಂಖ್ಯೆ ಬಹಳ ಕಡಿಮೆ ಇರುವುದರಿಂದ ಎಲ್ಲರನ್ನೂ ಒಟ್ಟುಗೂಡಿಸಿ ಎಡಿಟಥಾನ್ ಮಾಡಿದರೆ ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ಒಬ್ಬರನ್ನೊಬ್ಬರು ಅರಿಯುವ ತಂಡ ಕಟ್ಟುವ ಕೆಲಸವೂ ಸಾಧ್ಯವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ

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[22:02:09] <techfiz> ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದ ಲೇಖನಗಳಿಗೆ ಬೇಕಿರುವ ಭೂಪಟಗಳನ್ನು ಪಡೆಯುವುದು ಹೇಗೆ, ಓಪನ್‌ಸ್ಟ್ರೀಟ್ ಮ್ಯಾಪ್ ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡುವ ಬಗೆ ಕೂಡ ಅರಿತು ಅದನ್ನು ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಬಳಸಬಹುದು

[22:02:24] <Pavanaja> editathon ಯಾವ ವಿಷಯದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ?

[22:03:17] <techfiz> editathon ಗೆ ವಿಷಯಕ್ಕಿಂತಲೂ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಉತ್ತಮ ಸಂಪಾದನೆ ಹೇಗೆ ಎನ್ನುವುದನ್ನು ವಿಚಾರವಾಗಿಟ್ಟುಕೊಳ್ಳಬಹುದು

[22:03:25] <techfiz> ಮೇಲೆ ಹೇಳಿದ ವಿಷಯಗಳನ್ನೂ ಸೇರಿಸಿ

[22:03:34] <techfiz> ಹ್ಯಾಕಥಾನ್ ಅಥವಾ ಎಡಿಟಥಾನ್

[22:03:40] <techfiz> ಏನಾದರೂ ಕರೆಯಿರಿ

[22:03:55] <Pavanaja> ವಿಕಿಥಾನ್ :-)

[22:04:02] <techfiz> ಮೀಡಿಯವಿಕಿ ಪ್ಲಗಿನ್‌ಗಳು (hotcat ಇತ್ಯಾದಿ)

[22:04:14] <techfiz> ಇತರರೂ ಈ ವಿಷಯಗಳ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ತಮ್ಮ ತಮ್ಮ ಅನಿಸಿಕೆ ತಿಳಿಸಿ :)

[22:04:24] <techfiz> ವಾರ್ಷಿಕೋತ್ಸವ ಎಲ್ಲರದ್ದೂ,

[22:04:37] <techfiz> ನನಗೆ ಅನಿಸಿದ ವಿಚಾರಗಳನ್ನು ಹೇಳುತ್ತಿದ್ದೇನಷ್ಟೇ

[22:04:37] <Pavanaja> ಅದೆಲ್ಲ ನಾನು ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ತಿಳಿಸಿದ advanced trainingನಲ್ಲಿ ಸೇರಿಸಬಹುದು

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[22:05:57] <Pavanaja> ಅಂದ ಹಾಗೆ ಕೆಲವು ಪಾಲಿಸಿಗಳನ್ನು ತೀರ್ಮಾನ ಮಾಡಲೂ ಒಂದು ಐಆರ್‌ಸಿ ಸಭೆ ಮಾಡೋಣವೇ?

[22:06:33] <kiranravikumar> ಏನು edit ಮಾಡುವುದು ಅಂತ ಹೇಳುವುದಕಿಂತ, ಏನನ್ನು - ಏತಕ್ಕೆ ಅಂತ ತಿಳಿಸಬೇಕು ...

[22:08:26] <kiranravikumar> ವಾರ್ಷಿಕೋತ್ಸವ ಎಂದು? ಯಾವ ದಿನಾಂಕ?

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[22:11:50] <techfiz> June 12

[22:12:11] <kiranravikumar> ok

[22:13:15] <techfiz> mgharish:

[22:13:19] <shankar> ಎಲ್ಲಿ?

[22:13:32] <mgharish> ?

[22:14:27] <techfiz> shankar: ಇನ್ನೂ ಏನನ್ನೂ ನಿರ್ಧರಿಸಿಲ್ಲ... ಅದಕ್ಕೇ ಮೇಲೆ ಏನೆಲ್ಲಾ ಮಾಡಬಹುದು ಎಂದು ಪಟ್ಟಿ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಿದ್ದೆ

[22:14:28] <techfiz> :)

[22:14:46] <techfiz> mgharish: ನಿಮ್ಮ ದನಿ ಕೇಳುತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ.. ಕಾಣುತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ ಕೂಡ :)

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[22:15:16] <mgharish> ನಿಮ್ಮೆಲ್ಲರ ಮಾತು ನೋಡ್ತಾ ಇದೀನಿ.. ಹೇಳೋದೇನೂ ಇಲ್ಲ ಅನ್ನಿಸ್ತು.. ಸುಮ್ನಿದ್ದೆ :)

[22:15:53] <techfiz> :)

[22:16:21] <techfiz> mgharish: ವಿಕಿಸೋರ್ಸ್, ವಿಕಿಕೋಟ್ಸ್‌ನಲ್ಲಿ ಹಾಟ್‌ಕ್ಯಾಟ್ ಇತ್ಯಾದಿ ಬೇಕಿತ್ತು

[22:16:29] <techfiz> ಸರಿಪಡಿಸುವಿರ?

[22:16:50] <mgharish> ಅದಕ್ಕೆ ಅಡ್ಮಿನ್ ರೈಟ್ಸ್ ಬೇಕು

[22:16:55] <techfiz> ಹೌದು

[22:17:03] <mgharish> ನಿಮಗೆ ಕೊಡೋದಕ್ಕೆ ನನ್ನ ಸಮ್ಮತಿ ಇದೆ ಅಂತ ಹಾಕಿದ್ನಲ್ಲ..

[22:17:16] <techfiz> ಓ ನೋಡ್ಲಿಲ್ಲ್... ಚೆಕ್ ಮಾಡ್ತೀನಿ

[22:17:17] <mgharish> ನನಗೆ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾತ್ರ ಅಡ್ಮಿನ್ ರೈಟ್ ಇದೆ..

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[22:18:04] <techfiz> ವಿಕಿಬುಕ್ಸ್ ಪ್ರಾಜೆಕ್ಟ್‌ ಮತ್ತೆ ಕಾರ್ಯನಿರ್ವಹಿಸುವಂತೆ ಮಾಡಲು ಅದರ ಮೀಡಿಯವಿಕಿ ಅನುವಾದ ಕಾರ್ಯ ಪೂರ್ಣಗೊಳ್ಳಬೇಕಿದೆ.. ಇದಕ್ಕೆ ಸಹಕರಿಸುವವರು ಯಾರಾದರೂ ಇದ್ದಲ್ಲಿ ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಸಂಪರ್ಕಿಸಿ

[22:18:26] <techfiz> http://toolserver.org/~robin/?tool=codelookup&code=kn

[22:19:28] <techfiz> ೧೨೦೦ ಸಾಲುಗಳು ಇನ್ನೂ ಕನ್ನಡೀಕರಣ ಗೊಳ್ಳಬೇಕಿದೆ ಮೀಡಿಯ ವಿಕಿಯಲ್ಲಿ...

[22:19:41] <techfiz> translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate?task=untranslated&limit=2000&language=kn&group=core

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[22:22:32] <mgharish> ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ಬಳಸಿದ್ದೇ ವಿಕಿಬುಕ್ಸಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಕೂಡ ಉಪಯೋಗ ಆಗುತ್ತೆ ಅಲ್ವಾ?

[22:23:37] <techfiz> ಹೌದು

[22:23:48] <techfiz> ಆದರೆ ಕೆಲವೊಂದು ಇನ್ನೂ ಅನುವಾದಗೊಂಡಿಲ್ಲ

[22:24:13] <techfiz> ಆದ್ದರಿಂದ ಆ ೧೧೫೦ ಮುಖ್ಯ ಸಾಲುಗಳು ಅನುವಾದ ಗೊಳ್ಳಬೇಕಿದೆ

[22:24:29] <techfiz> ನಂತರ ನಾನು ವಿಕಿಪುಸ್ತಕ ದ ಮರುಸ್ಥಾಪನೆಗೆ ಕೇಳಿಕೊಳ್ಳಬಹುದು

[22:25:39] <Pavanaja> ವಾರ್ಷಿಕೋತ್ಸವ ಬಗ್ಗೆ .... ಏನೇನು ಮಾಡಬಹುದು?

[22:29:21] <mgharish> ಪ್ರಚಾರ

[22:38:31] <shankar> ಮುಂದೆ?

[22:38:49] <mgharish> ಇವತ್ತು ಯಾಕೋ ಚರ್ಚೆ ಪೂರ್ತಿ ಡಲ್ ಆಗಿದೆ..

[22:38:54] <mgharish> ನಿದ್ದೆ ಬರ್ತಾ ಇದೆ!

[22:39:03] <shankar> :)

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[22:41:07] <mgharish> techfiz: ಮುಂದೇನು?

[22:46:14] <techfiz> Zzzzz :)

[22:47:04] <techfiz> shreekant: ನಿಮ್ಮ ದಶಕಗಳ ಪಟ್ಟಿ ಚೆನ್ನಾಗಿದೆ

[22:47:13] <techfiz> ಅದನ್ನು ಪೂರ್ಣಗೊಳಿಸಬೇಕು

[22:47:31] <shreekant> ಟ್ಯುಟೋರಿಯಲ್ ಅಂದಿರಲ್ಲ .. ಅಂದರೇನು ಅಂತ ಇಂಗ್ಲೀಷಿನ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ನೋಡಿ /ಟ್ಯುಟೊರಿಯಲ್ ಪುಟ ಸೇರಿಸಿದ್ಎ ಇದೇ ಈಗ!

[22:48:02] <shreekant> ದಶಕಗಳ ಪಟ್ಟಿ - ಪೂರ್ಣಗೊಳಿಸಬೇಕು --- ಅಂದರೇನು ? ಹೇಗೆ?

[22:48:20] <techfiz> ಟ್ಯುಟೋರಿಯ ಇದೆ ಅನ್ಸುತ್ತೆ ಈಗಾಗ್ಲೇ

[22:48:30] <shreekant> ನನಗೆ ಸಿಗಲಿಲ್ಲ

[22:48:34] <shreekant> ಸೇರಿಸ್ದೆ

[22:48:54] <techfiz> http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%B6%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%97%E0%B2%B3_%E0%B2%AA%E0%B2%9F%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%9F%E0%B2%BF

[22:49:51] <techfiz> http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%B9%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%AF:%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%82%E0%B2%AA%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%A8%E0%B3%86 - ಇಂತಹದ್ದೊಂದು ಪುಟವನ್ನು ನುರಿತ ಸಂಪಾದಕರಿಗೆ ಅನ್ವಯಿಸುವಂತೆ ಸಿದ್ದಪಡಿಸ್ಬೇಕು ಎಂದದ್ದು

[22:49:57] <shreekant> ದಶಕಗಳ ಪಟ್ಟಿ - ಇನ್ನೂ ಏನಾಗಬೇಕು?

[22:50:35] <techfiz> ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಎಲ್ಲ ಕೊಂಡಿಗಳೂ ಮುರಿದಿವೆ.. ಜೊತೆಗೆ, ಪ್ರತಿ ದಶಕಕ್ಕೂ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದ ವಿಕಿಪುಟಗಳ ಪಟ್ಟಿ ಅದರಲ್ಲಿ ಸಿಗುವಂತಾದರೆ ಚೆನ್ನ

[22:50:48] <techfiz> ವರ್ಗಗಳಿಗೆ ಈ ಪ್ರತಿ ಪುಟವನ್ನು ರೀಡೈರೆಕ್ಟ್ ಮಾಡಬಹುದು

[22:50:52] <techfiz> mgharish: ಏನಂತೀರಿ

[22:51:46] <shreekant> ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಟ್ಯೂತೋರಿಯಲ್ ಸೇರಿಸಬೇಕು ನಿಜ ... ಆದರೆ ಟ್ಯುಟೋರಿಯಲ್ ಅಂದರೆ ಏನು ? ಬೇಕಲ್ಲವೇ? ಅದನ್ನು ಸೇರಿಸಿದ್ದೇನೆ http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%9F%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%9F%E0%B3%8A%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AF%E0%B2%B2%E0%B3%8D

[22:52:22] <shreekant> ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಟ್ಯುಟೋರಿಯಲ್ ಪ್ರಯ್ಸ್ತ್ನಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ

[22:53:18] <shreekant> ಸರಿಯಾಗಿ ತಿಳಿಯಲಿಲ್ಲ . ಬೇರೆ ಯಾರಾದರೂ ಅದನ್ನು ಮಾಡಲಿ

[22:53:45] <techfiz> shreekant: ವಾರಾಂತ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಕಾಲ್ ಮಾಡ್ತೇನೆ.. ಬಹಳ ದಿನ ಆಯ್ತು ನಿಮ್ಮೊಂದಿಗೆ ಮಾತನಾಡಿ

[22:53:47] <techfiz> :)

[22:53:54] <shreekant> ನೀವು ಹೇಳಿದ "ದಶಕಗಳ ಪಟ್ಟಿ - ಇನ್ನೂ ಏನಾಗಬೇಕು?" ಗೆ ನನ್ನ ಉತ್ತರ . ಓಕೆ

[22:54:02] <shreekant> ಗುಡ್ ನೈಟ್

[22:54:32] <techfiz> ಶುಭರಾತ್ರಿ

[22:58:04] <kiranravikumar> GN

[23:03:42] <shreekant> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial ಇದರ ಕನ್ನಡ ಅನುವಾದ ಬೇಕಿದೆಯೇ ?

[23:05:13] <shreekant> http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%80%E0%B2%A1%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AF:%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%95%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%82%E0%B2%9A%E0%B2%BF ಇದು ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ಇದೆಯಲ್ಲ್?

[23:05:30] -*- shankar clicks

[23:06:14] <shankar> ಹೌದು.. ಇದರ ಅನುವಾದ ಹೊಸಬರಿಗೆ ನೆರವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ

[23:06:39] <shreekant> ಇದು ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ಇದೆಯಲ್ಲ ?

[23:07:17] <shreekant> ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:ದಿಕ್ಸೂಚಿ ಹೆಸರಿನಲ್ಲಿ

[23:07:44] <shankar> ಓಹ್.. ಹೌದು.. ಇದರ ಜೊತೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದು ವೀಡಿಯೊ ಸೇರಿಸಿದರೆ ಇನ್ನೂ ಉತ್ತಮ

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[23:12:46] -*- shankar ತೆರಳುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾನೆ... ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ಶುಭರಾತ್ರಿ

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[23:24:48] <mgharish> techfiz: ದಶಕಗಳ ಪಟ್ಟಿ

[23:24:55] <mgharish> bot run ಮಾಡಿ ಮಾಡ್ಬಹುದು

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/news/kannada-irc-meet-may-7-2013

CIS Celebrates 5 Years: A Report in Prajavani

praskrishna — 2013-06-12T11:46:48Z

Prajavani published a report on the Centre for Internet and Society's 5 year celebrations organised in Bangalore on the final day, May 23, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja gave a talk on Kannada and IT.


Given below is the report published in Prajavani on May 24, 2013:

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/news/prajavani-may-24-2013-report-on-cis-celebrates-5-years

CIS Celebrates 5 Years: A Report in Udayavani

praskrishna — 2013-06-12T11:48:23Z

Udayavani on May 25, 2013, published a report of the evening programme hosted as part of the Centre for Internet and Society's 5 year celebrations in its Bangalore edition.

Dr. Chandrashekhara was the chief guest for the event on May 23, 2013. He gave a talk on Kannada in modern era.


Above is the report published in Udayavani on May 25, 2013

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/news/udayavani-may-25-2013-cis-celebrates-5-years

Wiki Media Foundation keen on developing Urdu Wikipedia

praskrishna — 2014-11-01T13:29:32Z

The Wikipedia India Community Consultation 2014 was organized by the Wiki Media Foundation (WMF) and Wikipedia India Chapter in collaboration with Centre for Internet Society (CIS A2K) Bangalore on The venue was Movenpick Hotel and scheduled for October 4th and 5th here.

The article by Nisar Ahmed Syed was originally published on the website of Karnataka Muslims on October 22, 2014.

India Community Consultation 2014 held in Bangalore

The objectives of the meet up according to the organizers are “to share views and preferences on the most effective ways to pursue our shared vision of creating and sharing free knowledge in India and in the Indian languages, and to arrive at an agreement on a road map for a future where its resources are better utilized, its volunteers are better served and progress on its mission is more steadily attained. “

I reached Bangalore on 3rd October and invited Urdu speaking people and the Urdu media from Bangalore for a general meet up. Mr. Azeez Belgaumi a renowned Urdu Poet & writer and Mr. Syed Tanveer Ahmed, as senior Journalist heading “Karnataka Muslims” News portal approached me and we had a good conversation to know more about Urdu Wikipedia. They appreciated Wikipedia and promised to extend their support to the Urdu Wikipedia.

Mr. Syed Tanveer Ahmed and Mr. Azeez Belgaumi promised to take up the initiative to conduct some Wiki workshops in collaboration with Salam foundation and CIS A2K. Mr. Vishnu the Project Director CIS has also agreed to extend his best support to organize the outreach programmes in Bengaluru and other parts of India to develop Urdu Wikipedia.

An introductory meeting was held in the evening of 3rd October in which members of WMF and the Wikipedians representing languages viz. English, Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Odia, Assamese, Kannada, Konkani, Sanskrit, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Marathi, and Gujarati attended.

On 4th October after noon the scheduled meet up was conducted wherein WMF Senior Director Grantmaking Mrs. Anasuya Sengupta from US, Head of Wikimedia Grants & Global South Partnerships Mr. Asaf Bartov from US, Chief Financial Officer Mr. Garfiled Byrd from France and Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees Mr. Petricio Lorente from Argentina Trustee Bishakha Datta participated. Mr. Gagan Sethi from Counterviews Gujarat facilitated the programme.

The Indic language bureaucrats, sysops and representatives participated actively and focused on the topic how to improve the Wikipedia in Indic languages. This session gone up to 7 p.m. and in the night too, the delegates had the get together to discuss on various issued related to Wikimedia programmes in India.

On the 5th October morning the work shop continued with dignified discussions. Various user groups from different languages took part and presented their views and successes. The discussions focused on wiki tools, various practical problems, do’s and don’ts. It’s a fabulous meet to take part, comprehend, and show the spirit of volunteerism towards Wikipedia.

During discussion on Urdu language, Mr. Asaf appreciated the contributions of Mr. Muhammad Shuaib. Mr. Nisar Ahmed Syed administrator in Telugu Wikipedia represented Urdu Wikipedia too as he is a contributor to Urdu Wikipedia. He discussed issues and stressed the need of outreach and developmental activities for Urdu Wikipedia in India. Mr. Muzammil Ahmed from Hindi and Urdu Wikipedia advocated its importance.

Ms. Anasuya and Mr. Asaf Bartov accepted the need of Urdu Wiki development programmes in India and they said they are ready to prepare a road map for the same.

Finally with the initiations of Mr. Nisar Ahmed Syed and with the kind cooperation of Mr. Asaf Bartov and Mrs. Anasuya Sengupta, an Urdu user group was set and introduced. The user group initially was gathered by backing of Mr. Asaf Bartov. The group has Mr. Syed Nisar Ahmed (Pune), Mr. Muzammil Ahmed (Hyderabad), Mr. Azeez Belgaumi (Bengaluru) and Mr. Satdeep Gil (Punjab).

The contributions of Muzammil Ahmed and Nisar Ahmed to Urdu Wikipedia were appreciated. The WMF team thanked all the Urdu users from India who rendered their best contributions.

Emphasis was laid to improve the Urdu Wikipedia India group.

As WMF intends to focus on the online encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA in the Indian languages Urdu users too expressed willingness to work for the mother tongue Urdu by enriching Urdu Wikipedia.

Mr. Nisar Ahmed said, “It is true that the awareness among the Urdu speaking community about Urdu Wikipedia is very less.” He emphasized the need to take a small step to lead to a large extent to bring awareness by means of outreach programmes, meet ups, seminars. It was accepted and appreciated to initiate outreach work among the Urdu speaking states and clusters in India.

In India about 450 newspapers and magazines are being published in Urdu language. And it is an amazing fact that many of the Urdu newspapers are using the Wikipedia as their source material from English Wikipedia as it has a large and authentic content, but they are not aware about the need to enrich Urdu Wikipedia. It should be known that everyone can edit, resource and enrich it. Hence it is decided to start a user group for Urdu Wikipedia India and to bring the same message to the masses.

“Bring Urdu Wikipedia from budding stage to a blooming stage.”

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/openness/news/karnataka-muslims-nisar-ahmed-syed-october-22-2014-wiki-media-foundation-keen-on-developing-urdu-wikipedia

Report of Wiki Workshop in Mangalore

praskrishna — 2013-04-16T06:14:42Z

A wikipedia workshop was organized in Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management, Mangalore on April 9, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the workshop. Prajavani's Mangalore edition published a report about the felicitation to K.P. Rao and about the wikipedia workshop.

Below is the report published in Prajavani on April 10, 2013.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/news/prajavani-mangalore-edition-april-10-2013-report-of-wikipedia-workshop

Need to develop vernacular languages stressed

praskrishna — 2013-04-15T08:47:29Z

University of Hyderabad (UoH) Vice-Chancellor Prof. Ramakrishna Rama Swamy said on Wednesday that everyone has a duty to contribute to the development of vernacular languages.

The article was published in Hans India on April 11, 2013.

He presided over the Telegu Wikipedia Mahotsavam 2013 being celebrated at the Golden Threshold in Abids. The two-day programme-cum-workshop is being organised in collaboration of the UoH, Theatre Outreach Unit (TOU), Indian wing of Wikipedia and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS). While extending support to the Telegu Wikipedia (TW), the Vice-Chancellor said that he had been encouraging the university students to contribute to the site. He advised the organisers to explore opportunities to expose youth to TW.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/news/the-hans-india-april-11-2014-need-to-develop-vernacular-languages-stressed

Odia Wikisource Turns 3

manasarao — 2017-10-23T05:40:20Z

Odia Wikisource, the Odia language version of Wikisource, an online digital library of free content textual sources run by the Wikimedia Foundation, celebrates three years of contributing to the free knowledge movement this October. Odia Wikisource is a sister project of Odia Wikipedia, the oldest Indian language Wikipedia. The Odia Wikimedia community, a group of active contributors to Odia Wikimedia projects in India, has been working towards digitizing rare books that are no longer under copyright as well as encouraging authors and publishers to free-license their work under the Creative Commons ShareAlike License 4.0. This license allows anyone free use of the work with due attribution. The books are usually digitized into Unicode text by scanning them using Optical Character Recognition technique. This ensures their easy accessibility on the Internet so that people may easily copy, share and use these works for citations and references. If the books are damaged to a degree that they cannot be scanned, volunteers take the painstaking effort to manually type out whole books and manuscripts.

Odia Wikisource contributors/ CCBYSA4.0 User:Psubhashish

The Odia Wikisource project was realized on 20 October, 2014 after a two-year incubation period. Says Pankajmala Sarangi, long time Odia Wikimedian active on Wikisource, "since [2014] more than 300 old and rare books have been digitised and made available online. Before that, searching [for] a book in Odia was not possible even if it existed in pdf or some other format. Now it has become easy and all the books available on Wikisouce are easily searchable." In addition to digitization, the Odia Wikimedia community members conduct regular quality checks of the content from time to time by ensuring proper licensing, attributions and other errors that may be avoided by thorough proof-reading. While these quality checks follow global guidelines that have been localised to help volunteers prevent vandalism of any form, it has not been without its challenges. Ms. Pankajmala explains that the lack of Odia text on operating systems is problematic for access and availability.

Despite the challenges, Odia Wikisource counts amongst its accomplishments the digitization of a twelve volume 14th century Odia classic as well as 16th century palm leaf manuscripts from the Dadhibaman Temple in Bargarh, Odisha. Taking the movement to classrooms, Odia Wikisource was introduced to students of the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences to pique the interest of young minds in the preservation of Odia language texts online. The many advantages of Odia Wikisource has also been illustrated to institutions with the Utkal University library encouraging the digitization of their rare books and manuscripts by Odia Wikimedians.

Sangram Keshari Senapati, another active Odia Wikimedian explains that Odia Wikisource is important for the preservation of those books which run a high risk of being lost in the coming years. He says, "our future generation must get a chance to read them." Adding to this, Ms. Pankajmala says, "Sky is the limit for Odia wikisource. We will try to digitise more books, most probably triple the number of existing books. We'll even try to reach more libraries and authors and get more books and further digitize them. The number of wikimedians may also flourish till that time."

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/odia-wikisource-turns-3

Wikimedia Workshop at Ismailsaheb Mulla Law College, Satara

Subodh Kulkarni — 2017-10-24T11:52:19Z

A Wikimedia Workshop was on 4 August 2017 at the Ismailsaheb Mulla Law College in Satara to introduce the Wikipedia and its sister projects to the students.

A Wikimedia Workshop was conducted at the the Ismailsaheb Mulla Law College in Satara. The workshop provided an introduction to students on the various Wikimedia projects. The workshop also aimed to equip them with Wikipedia editing skills. However, owing to time constraints the editing component has been postponed.

The workshop saw at an attendance of 30 participants, with 20 women participants. The Principal of the institution, Ms. Sunita Pawar said, "Wikipedia is good platform for students to do online assignments. We are eager to integrate it in academics." A discussion on integrating academic assignments with Wikimedia Projects was conducted to develop the basic theme and concepts.

The meta page of the event can be found here.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikimedia-workshop-at-ismailsaheb-mulla-law-college-satara

Marathi Wikipedia Workshop at MGM Trust's College of Journalism and Mass Communication, Aurangabad

Subodh Kulkarni — 2017-10-24T13:18:41Z

A Marathi Wikipedia Workshop was recently held at the MGM Trust's College of Journalism and Mass Communication on 11 August 2017.

A Marathi Wikipedia workshop was recently conducted at the MGM Trust's College of Journalism and Mass Communication at Aurangabad. The workshop aimed to introduced Marathi Wikipedia to the students of the college and equip them with the process of editing the same. The workshop was attended by 10 female participants and 15 male participants.

"It was happiest moment for me, when I created new article on Pashmi, [a] species of dog. I added [an] image also." says Shivani Joshi a participant at the workshop. While 21 new editors were introduced to Wikipedia, 60 articles were improved and 15 images added. Another participant, Randhir Patil who added content on water-related articles says, "This content can be used as training material by field workers.

The meta page of the event can be found here.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-workshop-at-mgm-trusts-college-of-journalism-and-mass-communication-aurangabad

Orientation Program at Kannada University, Hampi

Gopalakrishna A. — 2017-10-24T13:01:25Z

A Kannada Wikipedia Orientation Program was conducted at Kannada University Hampi on 31 August and 1 September 2017.

A Kannada Wikipedia orientation program was conducted at the Kannada University in Hampi recently wherein the participants where introduced to the various Wikimedia projects in Kannada. The participants were doctoral research students of the Dravida Samskruti Adhyayana Kendra of which 5 were male and 1 female.

Working on Wiktionary, the students added 3300 words to their sandboxes, which will be moved to the main space on Wiktionary.

The meta page of the event can be found here.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/orientation-program-at-kannada-university-hampi

Marathi Wikipedia Workshop at Solapur University

Subodh Kulkarni — 2017-10-24T14:09:24Z

15 September

A Marathi Wikipedia Workshop was held at the Department of Mass Communications at Solapur University. The workshop aimed to introduce Wikimedia and its sister projects to the students. The workshop comprised 25 participants with 10 female attendees.

Sharing their thoughts after the event, the participants were enthuse. Says Priyanka Lagshetti, "I never imagined that I can contribute to Wikipedia. I worked on various media related articles." Another participant, Ambadas Bhasake added, "This workshop showed us a innovative way to use internet productively and constructively"

While 19 new editors joined Wikipedia, participants worked on 60 articles and made around 90 edits. 15 images were added to Commons and into articles.

The meta page of the event can be found here.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/marathi-wikipedia-workshop-at-solapur-university