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Indic Wikisource Community Consultation 2018
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<b>A group of Indian Wikisource leader from 12 different language communities gathered in Kolkata to attend the Indic Wikisource Community Consultation 2018</b>
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<p>There was a long time required of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition">Optical Character Recognition (OCR)</a> for Indic language computing. There was not at per OCR available in Indic languages before 2015. Most of the Indic subdomain was created in 2007 to 2011, but due to not availability of OCR, the Indic Wikisource Community used to type the whole book or import the Unicoded text from other non-reliable sources. In 2015 the after Google Drive OCR released Indic community relief from the typing era.</p>
<p>Later <a href="https://github.com/tshrinivasan">Shrinivasan T</a><strong> </strong>developed an <a href="https://github.com/tshrinivasan/OCR4wikisource">OCR4wikisource</a> script to use the Google Drive OCR as Bot. Since the implementation of the OCR, there has been a lot of progress in Indic Wikisource. But we have realized the there should be a common platform where we can share our knowledge. Then one-month planning we have organized <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Community_Consultation_2018">Indic Wikisource Community Consultation 2018</a>. in Kolkata. this is first such consultation at this scale, convened by the CIS A2K team. </p>
<p>The meeting had a representation of one volunteer from the Assamese, Bangla, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Telugu, and Sanskrit language Wikisource communities. <a title="User:Ananth subray" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ananth_subray">Ananth Subray</a> (Kannada ) <a title="User:Bodhisattwa" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bodhisattwa">Bodhisattwa</a> (Bengali) <a title="User:Hrishikes (page does not exist)" class="gmail-new" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Hrishikes&action=edit&redlink=1">Hrishikes</a> Sen (English ) <a title="User:Gurlal Maan" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gurlal_Maan">Gurlal Maan</a> (Punjabi ) G<a title="User:Gitartha.bordoloi" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gitartha.bordoloi">itartha Bordoloi</a> (Assamese ) <a title="User:Pooja Jadhav" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pooja_Jadhav">Pooja Jadhav</a> (Marathi ) <a title="User:Pmsarangi" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pmsarangi">Pankajmala Sarangi</a> (Oriya ) <a title="User:Shubha" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shubha">Shubha</a> (Sanskrit ) <a title="User:Sushant savla" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sushant_savla">Sushant Savla</a> (Gujurati ) R<a title="User:Ranjithsiji" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ranjithsiji">anjith siji</a> (Malayalam ) <a title="User:अजीत कुमार तिवारी (page does not exist)" class="gmail-new" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A4_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0_%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80&action=edit&redlink=1">A</a>jit Kumar Tiwari (Hindi ) <a title="User:Ramesam54 (page does not exist)" class="gmail-new" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Ramesam54&action=edit&redlink=1">Ramesam54</a> (Telugu ) <a title="User:Jayprakash12345" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jayprakash12345">Jayprakash</a> (Indic Tech team) <a title="User:Chinmayee Mishra" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Chinmayee_Mishra">Chinmayee Mishra</a> (Oriya ) as well as Tito Dutta, Tanveer Hasan, Subodh Kulkarni and Jayanta Nath, four members of the <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge">Access to Knowledge Programme</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_Internet_and_Society_%28India%29">Centre for Internet and Society</a> (CIS-A2K) .</p>
<p>The <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Community_Consultation_2018#Objectives">objectives</a> of the consultation are:</p>
<ol><li>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 (including English) around the world through the Indic Wikisource Project.</li><li>Attempt to come to an agreement on a roadmap for a future where our resources are better utilized, our volunteers are better served, and progress on our mission is more steadily attained.</li></ol>
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<p>We have started our discussion on day zero with the agenda of the main aims of this consultation and what all participants want from this program. The discussion was started at 6 PM and ended at 10 PM night. After discussion, we have summarized and set-up for two days agenda which was actually coming from the participants. The CIS-A2K team arranged for the travel and stay of all participants, as well as a night stay for all participants between the zero and second day, to ensure that the programme started on time on.</p>
<p>Day one started with Introduction of Wikisource by me were introduce the workflow of Wikisource, adding text, finding the source, basic copyright checking, creating Index pages, OCRed the page, Proofreading, layout with typography, Validation, Transclusion and Finishing touch. Later on, <a title="User:Hrishikes (page does not exist)" class="gmail-new" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Hrishikes&action=edit&redlink=1"><span id="gmail-1205" class="gmail-gr_ gmail-gr_1205 gmail-gr-alert gmail-gr_gramm gmail-gr_inline_cards gmail-gr_run_anim gmail-Style gmail-replaceWithoutSep">Hrishikes</span></a> Sen demonstrated each segment broadly. <a title="User:Bodhisattwa" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bodhisattwa"><span id="gmail-1204" class="gmail-gr_ gmail-gr_1204 gmail-gr-alert gmail-gr_gramm gmail-gr_inline_cards gmail-gr_run_anim gmail-Style gmail-replaceWithoutSep">Bodhisattwa</span></a> (Bengali) demonstrated Wikisource Tool, like IA-UPLOAD, Vicuna Uploader, URL2COMMONS, Fill index Gadget etc. And all participants implement hands-on. Bodhisatta showed the <a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%96%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC.webm">Bengali Wikisource promotional videos.</a></p>
<p>Day two was started with Google <span id="gmail-94" class="gmail-gr_ gmail-gr_94 gmail-gr-alert gmail-gr_gramm gmail-gr_inline_cards gmail-gr_run_anim gmail-Punctuation gmail-only-ins gmail-replaceWithoutSep">Drive</span> OCR without using Bot solution developed by <a title="User:Jayprakash12345" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jayprakash12345">Jayprakash</a> (Indic Tech team). Later on OTRS process by Jayanta Nath, Wikisource Roadmap by Tanveer Hasan, Institutional Partnership - by Subodh Kulkarni and Transclusion in Wikisource by Susant Salva presented. The most achievements of this meeting were the second day, <a title="User:Jayprakash12345" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jayprakash12345">Jayprakash</a> leads the task myself to clear the <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic-TechCom/Requests/IWCC2018">Wikisource technical backlog</a>. </p>
<p>There were also some ideas coming up by the session by Tanveer. This included awareness, outreach, followups, and evaluation. A report about this meeting was published at <a href="https://www.cis-india.org/indic-wikisource-community-consultation-2018-report-at-asomiya-pratidin-epaper-highest-circulated-assamese-daily">Asomiya Pratidin</a>. Some feedback from the participants can be found <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Indic_Wikisource_Community_Consultation_2018">here</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/indic-wikisource-community-consultation-2018'>https://cis-india.org/indic-wikisource-community-consultation-2018</a>
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No publisherjayantaCIS-A2KOdia WikisourceAccess to KnowledgeCommonsIndic WikisourceAutomationWorkshoparchivesWikisourceKannada WikisourceIndic ScriptsMobile AppsMarathi Wikisource2018-12-08T18:22:29ZBlog EntryEngaging on the Digital Commons
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/digital-commons
<b>We at the Centre for Internet and Society are very glad to be able to participate in the 13th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC). Our interest in the conference arises mainly from our work in the areas of intellectual property rights reform and promotion of different forms of ‘opennesses’ that have cropped up as a response to perceived problems with our present-day regime of intellectual property rights, including open content, open standards, free and open source software, open government data, open access to scholarly research and data, open access to law, etc., our emerging work on telecom policy with respect to open/shared spectrum, and the very important questions around Internet governance. The article by Sunil Abraham and Pranesh Prakash was published in the journal Common Voices, Issue 4.</b>
<p>Our work on intellectual property reform are proactive measures at effecting policy change that go towards protecting and preserving an intellectual, intangible commons. We have opposed the Protection and Utilization of the Public-funded Intellectual Property Bill (an Indian version of the American Bayh-Dole Act) which sought to privatise the fruits of publicfunded research by mandating patents on them. We are working towards reform of copyright law which we believe is lopsided in its lack of concern for consumers and that its current march towards greater enclosure of the public domain is unsustainable. Believing that not all areas of industry and technology are equal, and that patent protection is ill-suited for the software industry, we have worked to ensure that the current prohibitions against patenting of software are effectively followed.</p>
<p>Defensively—that is working within the existing framework of intellectual property law—we seek to promote the various forms of copyright and patent licensing that have arisen as reactions to restrictive IP laws. Free/open source software and open content have arisen as a reaction to the restrictive nature of copyright law, such as the presumption under copyright law that a work is copyrighted by the mere fact of it coming into existence. (for instance, this was not so in the United States until 1989, till when a copyright notice was required to assert copyright). While earlier the presumption was that a work was to belong to the public domain, after the Berne Convention, that presumption was reversed. This led to the creation of the idea of special licences, by using which one could allow all others to share his/her work and reuse it. This innovation in using the law to promote, rather than restrict, what others could do with one’s works has enabled the creation and sharing of everything from Wikipedia, to Linux (which powers more than 85 percent of the world’s top 500 supercomputers) and Apache HTTP server (more than 60 percent of all websites). The advent of the Internet has allowed the creation of intangible digital commons.</p>
<p>We are also starting to engage with the question of telecom policy around spectrum allocation, and believe that promotion of a shared spectrum would help make telecom services, including broadband Internet, available to people at reasonable prices. We also believe that Internet governance should not be the prerogative of governments, and should not happen in a top-down fashion.</p>
<p>Comparisons between tangible commons and intangible commons have been made by people like Elinor and Vincent Ostrom, who in 1977 contributed to our understanding of subtractability and public goods. James Boyle has written about the expansion of copyright law as “the second enclosure movement”, following in the footsteps of the first enclosure movement against the take-over of common land which stretched from the fifteenth century till the nineteenth. Yochai Benkler, has written extensively on commons in information and communication systems as well as on spectrum commons. Just as Elinor Ostrom’s work shows how Garrett Hardin’s evocative ‘tragedy of the commons’ and the problems of free-riding are very often avoided in practice, Michael Heller’s equally evocative phrase ‘gridlock economy’ shows that ‘over-propertisation’ of knowledge can lead to a ‘tragedy of the anti-commons’.</p>
<p>Through this conference we wish to learn of the lessons that academic writings on tangible commons have to impart to intangible commons which are configured very differently (in terms of subtractability, for instance). Ostrom’s work shows how individuals can, in a variety of settings, work to find institutional solutions that promote social cooperation and human betterment. As part of her nine design principles of stable local common pool resource management, she lists clearly defined boundaries for effective exclusion of external unentitled parties. How does that work, when even the existing mechanisms of boundary-definition in intellectual property, such as patent claims, are often decried as being ambiguous thanks to the legalese they are written in? What of traditional knowledge for which defining the community holding ownership rights becomes very difficult? As Ostrom and Hess note, “the rules and flow patterns are different with digital information”, but how do these differences affect the lessons learned from CPR studies? How do Ostrom’s pronouncements against uniform top-down approaches to resource management affect the way that copyright and patents seek to establish a uniform system across multiple areas of art, science and industry (musical recordings and paintings, pharmaceuticals and software)? And how can Ostrom’s work on management of natural resources inform us about the management of resources such as spectrum or the Internet itself? These are all very interesting and important questions that need to be explored, and we are glad that this conference will help us understand these issues better.</p>
<p>Please read the article in Common Voices Issue 4 <a class="external-link" href="http://iasc2011.fes.org.in/common-voices-4.pdf">here</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/digital-commons'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/digital-commons</a>
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No publisherpraneshDigital AccessOpennessCommonsDigital Governance2011-08-20T12:56:26ZBlog EntryAsian Athletics Championships 2017 Edit-a-thon
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/asian-athletics-championships-2017
<b>Odia Wikipedians, in conjunction with Indian Athletics Federation and Sports and Youth Services collaborated to document the 2017 Asian Athletics Championships. Hundreds of photos were uploaded and new Wikipedia content added to inform the event’s fans. </b>
<p>The Asian Athletics Championships is an intra-continental sports event organized bi-annually since 1973. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Asian_Athletics_Championships">22nd championship</a> was held in July at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalinga_Stadium">Kalinga Stadium</a>
in Bhubaneswar, India, where 655 athletes from 41 countries
participated in 21 games. The Odia Wikipedia community worked with the
event organizers in different ways, to document the event on Wikipedia,
by holding edit-a-thons (editing workshops), to improve Wikipedia’s
content about the championships and releasing official photos of the
event under free Creative Commons licenses.</p>
<p>The original plan was for the Indian city of Ranchi, Jharkhand to
host the 2017 athletics, but plans changed 90 days before the event when
Bhubaneswar was selected as a venue instead. Preparing the Kalinga
Stadium and getting ready for the championships in that short period was
a challenge for the organizers. However, the state government of Odisha
stepped in to assist, and as part of that freely shared the event
website content under Creative Commons licenses.</p>
<p>The local Wikipedia community, along with the WikiTungi project in
Bhubaneswar, were invited by R. Vineel Krishna, the State Department’s
Director of Sports and Youth Services, to organize an edit-a-thon for
the Championships. The scope was to improve Wikipedia’s content about
the participating Asian athletes.</p>
<p>Before the event, existing Wikipedia articles provided little
information on the biographies and accomplishments of some of the
participating athletes. Odia Wikipedians collaborated with the Sports
and Youth Services Department of Odisha to bridge the dearth of
information.</p>
<p>Edit-a-thon participants <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Asian_Athletics_Championships_2017_Edit-a-thon">gathered</a> at the office of CSM Technologies, an event partner for the championships. Fifteen Wikimedians from Bhubaneswar and Puri <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiTungi">WikiTungi</a>, with some CSM staff members and new editors participated in the edit-a-thon.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;" dir="ltr"><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/YRYydz-GZkOJTdcgg2-aVfgQs2K8o-m49SqwMzTJ3TsoFJ27d3Wg9JEFZz9bqyi_kxsI6qjExZCLOJcaAERTd1ynbVN7rPy3teBk3pBqnqBeLJk8ioDPD8EBDxPI5rjOqAu4PW8" alt="800px-Panoramic_view_of_Kalinga_Stadium.jpg" height="229" width="602" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" dir="ltr">Kalinga Stadium,, Bhubaneswar/ CC-BY-SA 4.0/ Sailesh Patnaik</p>
The collection includes images of the athletes during their Heats,
Semi Finals, Final, and Medal ceremonies of all four days. 127 images
are used in 269 pages on Wikipedia in 27 languages, and many articles
added their first image from this collection. WikiProject <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red">Women in Red</a> used the images in many female athlete articles. The Odia Wikipedia community and the <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K">Centre for Internet and Society</a> are also planning to work with the <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Asian_Month">Wikipedia Asian Month</a> competition to use these images to illustrate Wikipedia articles they work on, in their next edition.<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Victuallers"> Victuallers</a>, one of the volunteers of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red">Women in Red</a> project, identified athlete photos from the <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/category:Images_from_Odisha2017.games">games website collection</a> and used them to illustrate their articles. He has also created new articles of other participating female athletes.
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<p style="text-align: center;" dir="ltr"><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/p_FwscNB98RMO6qmWaLfdiYd_tNE73wKvJWd0cn1CmBq9Ult5j1DieulUmX0M1WSQXY83pP-FgRzavBYuR_n8ouBLRPCElmI7cTyQ_uGdA7ZsE_Ul5xItf0j1Z0tFxrX6VFvD78" alt="aac 2.jpg" height="449" width="449" /></p>
<p align="center">Arpitha M. of India in action at the 400m hurdles event/ CC-BY-SA 4.0</p>
<p>The event started with a basic Wikipedia orientation session for new
participants. There was no Wikipedia article for the championships in
Odia language, so participants created it in addition to improving the
English Wikipedia article. Along with that, 10 new articles were
improved and created on both Odia and English Wikipedia. The 2017
Championships page on the English Wikipedia received over <a href="https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&start=2017-07-03&end=2017-07-09&pages=2017_Asian_Athletics_Championships">100,000 views</a> during the championships week.</p>
<p>“Wikipedia has been the one-stop source of knowledge for me,” says <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Impulsion_gods">Alankar Devta</a>,
an edit-a-thon participant. “It has helped me learn a lot and prepare
for competitions. This is the first time, I got a chance to take part in
any Wikipedia edit-a-thon. Apart from that, the articles about the
athletes taking part in this year’s Championships are of great help for
the readers who may want to search for the athletes with expectations to
find useful information about them.”</p>
<p>Wikimedia community members were offered passes to attend the opening
ceremony and take photos. We spent four hours taking photos of the 41
participating teams, athletes and cultural events. All were <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Opening_Ceremony-_22nd_Asian_Athletics_Championships">uploaded to Wikimedia Commons</a>. Nearly <a href="http://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/glamorous.php?doit=1&category=Opening+Ceremony-+22nd+Asian+Athletics+Championships&use_globalusage=1&ns0=1&projects%5Bwikipedia%5D=1">19% of the photos</a> taken at the opening ceremony are used on Wikipedia articles.</p>
<p>A major outcome of the edit-a-thon was releasing the content and
images of the championship’s official website under a Creative Commons
license. 286 images from the websites <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/category:Images_from_Odisha2017.games">were added to Wikimedia Commons</a>, of which 47.2% are used on Wikipedia in several languages.</p>
<p>“I have worked with the Women in Red project since it started,” says <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Victuallers">Victuallers</a>.
“Over the past two years, we have helped raise the percentage [of
female biographies on the English Wikipedia] from 15.5 to 17%. One of
the things that hold us back, though, is that women are less likely to
have images available. It’s, therefore, amazing to find that a major
athletic event has released hundreds of images with a CC BY-SA license.
Participating athletes are all notable and women are fairly well
represented. I have downloaded over 100 pictures and cropped group
photos to create portraits. We’ve been tweeting the new articles and
pictures on <a href="https://twitter.com/WikiWomenInRed">@WikiWomenInRed</a> and trying to encourage all to “one up” the Odisha people. It’s a great success and we need more people to follow suit.”</p>
<p>With such collaborative spirit from the Government institutes, the
Odia community is planning to get more content from Odisha under a free
license. The community has also partnered with the Bhubaneswar
Development Authority, to run a global edit-a-thon named <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bhubaneswar_Heritage_Edit-a-thon">Bhubaneswar Heritage Editathon</a>, for documenting the culture and heritage monuments of the city.</p>
<p>A version of<a class="external-link" href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/07/28/digest-asia-athletics-championships/"> this blog</a> post appears on the <a class="external-link" href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/07/28/digest-asia-athletics-championships/">Wikimedia Blog</a>, co-authored by Sailesh Patnaik and Jnanaranjan Sahu.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/asian-athletics-championships-2017'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/asian-athletics-championships-2017</a>
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No publisherSailesh Patnaik & Jnanaranjan SahuCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaCommonsOdia WikipediaOpenness2017-08-01T05:23:47ZBlog Entry