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Wikipedia edit-a-thon in mind? Kindly start here
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-mind-kindly-start-here
<b>Are you thinking to conduct a Wikipedia edit-a-thon? You may use this document as an initial guide. Please note: this article is written keeping specially organisations, institutions, and individuals in mind, who are new to Wikipedia world.
We are starting this post with some basic questions. Please feel free to ask questions by mailing tito "at" cis-india.org</b>
<p>Are you thinking to conduct a Wikipedia edit-a-thon? That's great. In this article I'll explain a few thinks, which might help to plan your ediit-a-thon your better?</p>
<p>First thing first, a few questions:</p>
<ol><li>Do you want to contribute to Wikipedia or other projects? Other than Wikipedia, there are a few other interesting projects such as Wikisource, Wikidata, Wiktionary, Wikimedia Commons. <br /></li><li>Do you want to contribute to other language Wikipedias/projects such as Tamil Wikipedia, Kannada Wikipedia, Telugu Wikisource, Bengali Wikisource etc., other than the same old English Wikipedia? <br /></li></ol>
<p>If you are planning to do an English Wikipedia edit-a-thon, it is comparatively more difficult, and needs much more preparation. I'll explain some of these things below.</p>
<p>Now let's talk about edit-a-thon structure:</p>
<ul><li>Do you want to do it an offline edit-a-thon? Or is it going to be an online edit-a-thon?</li><li>What is the duration?</li><li>How many people are going to participate? Are they already Wikipedians or new to Wikipedia?</li></ul>
<h2>Help pages: Getting started with Wikipedia<br /></h2>
<p>Let's start by gathering a few help pages' link which will help to get started with Wikipedia:</p>
<ul><li>Introduction to Wikipedia: <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Introduction">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Introduction</a> <br /></li><li>CheatSheet: learn how to write using Wikicode <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet</a><br /></li></ul>
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<h2>Policies and guidelines<br /></h2>
<p>It is really important to know about a few policies before you start editing Wikipedia. Please explain these policies and guidelines to edit-a-thon participants as well.</p>
<ol><li><strong>Notability</strong>: we have "notability" policy. What are the topics we can write about? Please read here: <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability </a> Now, these are "General Notability Guidelines or in short we call it GNG (please read the "General notability guideline" in the page). Now, we have detailed explanation pages on different notability topics: <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Notability_guide">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Notability_guide</a>, please read the pages you need such as <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(people)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(people)</a>. Now in every guideline page you'll get something called "basic criteria", and/or "additional criteria". These are the guidelines you need to pass. A good argument goes like this: "The article meets Wikipedia notability because it meets "this", "this", "this", and "this" (or #1, #3, #4, and #5) of the mentioned notability guideline. <br /></li><li><strong>Verifiability</strong>: The next important policy is Verifiability. Please read <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability</a>. Please also read, what are reliable references or how to identify reliable sources: <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipediaa:Identifying_reliable_sources">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipediaa:Identifying_reliable_sources</a>. There is a fine list of references such as forum posts, personal blogs, eCommerce websites, press releases, user-generated content etc. etc. we should not use as references on Wikipedia.</li><li><strong>Neutral point of view:</strong> Neutral point of view is absolutely important. Please read: <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view</a></li></ol>
<h2>Frequently asked questions</h2>
<p><strong>Question:</strong> I do not have references, can I create pages or add information?</p>
<p><strong>Answer:</strong> No, references are important. Specially, on English Wikipedia, where content are reviewed more, reliable secondary references are absolutely needed.</p>
<p><strong>Question:</strong> But, I am writing the "truth".</p>
<p><strong>Answer:</strong> Wikipedia works with :verifiability, and not truth. Please read: <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability,_not_truth">Verifiability, not truth</a></p>
<p><strong>Question: </strong>I can not provide the things you are asking, but I am working for a cause. Can't you help?</p>
<p><strong>Answer: </strong>That's a good question. A2K cares about bridging gender gap, knowledge revolution, and diversity. However, please note, it is a standard practice Wikipedia is not a soapbox or means of promotion, and Wikipedia is also not a place to do advocacy, propaganda, or recruitment of any kind. If you really want to advocated about your cause, why not try your own website, blog, or some forums?</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-mind-kindly-start-here'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-mind-kindly-start-here</a>
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No publishertitoWikimediaEdit-a-thonWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2018-05-11T08:15:56ZBlog EntryWikipedia Asian Month — 2016 iteration starts on 1 November
https://cis-india.org/a2k/wikipedia-asian-month-2014-2016-iteration-starts-on-1-november
<b>The second iteration of Wikipedia Asian Month (WAM), a month-long edit-a-thon to create and improve Asia-related articles on Wikipedia, is going to start on 1 November 2016. In this blog post we'll revisit the stats of the 2015 iteration of the event. We'll also talk to Addis Wang, an organizer of WAM, to know more about their progress and preparation.</b>
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<hr /><a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Asian_Month">Wikipedia Asian Month</a> (WAM) is a month-long online edit-a-thon where the participants create or expand Asia-related articles on Wikipedia. The main rules of this initiative are: a) the articles must be created or expanded during the mentioned period (i. e. November), b) new articles must not be stubs and should be at least 3,000 bytes and around 300 words in length, c) the article must follow Wikipedia guidelines such as Neutral point of view, notability, verifiability, copyright etc.
<p dir="ltr">The first iteration of Wikipedia Asian Month was conducted between 1-30 November 2015 and saw enthusiastic participation from Asian Wikipedia communities. These are some statistics from the last iteration of WAM:</p>
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<p dir="ltr">1,286 editors from 43 different communities participated in 2015 edition of WAM. The following Indic Wikimedia communities participated in the challenge- Assamese, Bengali, English, Gujarati, Kannada, Maithili, Malayalam, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">6,096 articles were created or expanded over-all, and of these 4,306 articles followed all the suggested rules.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">During the Asian Month, 42,067,774 bytes were added on Wikipedia.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">190 new editors participated in this challenge.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Now after the successful first iteration, the organizers of Wikipedia Asian Month are all set to kick off the second iteration of the event. This year's WAM edition will be organized between 1–30 November 2016. Before the beginning of this event, we have taken an interview of <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:AddisWang">Addis Wang</a>, a primary organizer of the event.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>CIS-A2K: </strong>So, you are all set for another edition of Wikipedia Asian Month. Are you excited?</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Addis Wang</strong>: Yes. I’m excited to see our Asian community collaborate together once again and looking forward to make more contributions in this years’ edition.</p>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong>CIS-A2K:</strong> Tell us a few things you learnt during the last edition of WAM? Are you going to bring any changes this year?</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Addis Wang:</strong> <span id="docs-internal-guid-10da995a-1477-8ac4-b742-e5e9145b6ccc">The most important thing we will change from the experience of last year is speeding up the postcard processing. We did not start collecting address until we had all the language communities finish the analysis of contributed articles. So this year, we will have multiple rounds of address collection to ensure most people receive their postcards by the end of the year. We will also ask local communities who are making the postcards to finish the process before the end of the November, and be prepared to send postcards in early December.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong>CIS-A2K:</strong> 2016 edition of WAM will start soon. How are the responses so far? Do you feel that this edition will be bigger than the earlier one?</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Addis Wang: </strong><span id="docs-internal-guid-10da995a-1482-2dec-0fcc-d890c0929ead">I think we will have a bigger Edit-a-thon in term of number of new articles, and number of editors participating. Supporting communities were comparatively less than the number of active editors during last WAM. Increasing the number of supporting communities is also one of our goals and we are working to get more communities involved.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong>CIS-A2K: </strong>That’s a good point. How are you going to support such communities?</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Addis Wang: </strong><span id="docs-internal-guid-10da995a-1478-0705-8561-20bc6342b878">We provide easy set-up guideline so there is not much work needed to do to organize the Wikipedia Asian Month. We are also using Central Notice so there will be a good opportunity to get publicity, and opportunity to engage both old and new editors. Making and sending Wikimedia souvenirs could be difficult for many communities, but they can easily achieve these by joining the Wikipedia Asian Month.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong>CIS-A2K: </strong>Let’s talk about Indic Wikipedia communities. You saw very enthusiastic participation from Indic Wikipedia communities, is it not?</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Addis Wang:</strong> <span id="docs-internal-guid-10da995a-1478-ca47-d0bb-b98014af008a">Yes! As the one of the largest Wikimedia community in the Asia, and maybe the most diverse comunity in the world, Indic community is highly involved into the Wikipedia Asian Month since the idea was proposed during Wikimania 2015. In the last year edition, India is the country that received most postcards sent by Wikipedia Asian Month. Also, Wikipedian Asian Ambassadors of English Wikipedia, who created most articles during the Asian Month, are from India.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong>CIS-A2K:</strong> Thanks Addis for your time. We wish you all the best.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Addis Wang:</strong> Thank you.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Collaboration attribution: <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/author/tanvir">Tanveer Hasan</a></p>
<p dir="ltr">Image source: <a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WAM_2016_Banner-es.png">Wikimedia Commons</a><br /><br /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/wikipedia-asian-month-2014-2016-iteration-starts-on-1-november'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/wikipedia-asian-month-2014-2016-iteration-starts-on-1-november</a>
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No publishertitoCC-SA 4.0Edit-a-thonWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2017-06-28T10:05:20ZBlog EntryThis Multilingual Edit-a-thon wants to Improve Indian Content on Wikipedia
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/this-multilingual-edit-a-thon-wants-to-improve-indian-content-on-wikipedia
<b>Ever wondered how many articles the Kannada Wikipedia or the Hindi Wikipedia have relating to India, its social history, literary and cultural heritage and the journey of over 1600 languages? </b>
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<p>The article was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report-this-multilingual-edit-a-thon-wants-to-improve-indian-content-on-wikipedia-2170545">published in DNA</a> on January 26, 2016.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">India has over <strong><a href="http://ipindia.nic.in/girindia/treasures_protected/registered_GI_30March2015.pdf" target="_blank">235 Geographical Indications (GI)</a></strong> spread over the length and breadth of the 29 states and 7 union territories. GI identifies goods or products as originating in a region or locality and indicates the unique characteristic or particular qualities it has as a result of being made in that area. Out of India's 235 GI, as identified by the Geographical Indications Registry of the Government of India, there exist only about 70 English Wikipedia entries. The state of many Indian language Wikipedias is even worse where a vast majority of the identified GIs and other important topics related to art, craft, cuisine, culture, attire and tradition are missing from Wikipedia. Even Karnataka, which has the maximum number of GIs at 30, has only a handful of articles and a few images on Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This Republic Day, 75 Wikipedia editors who are volunteers and represent 18 Indic languages are coming together online to show their patriotism in a unique way. It is not by hoisting the tri-colour and talking about India's glorious past, but by enhancing Wikipedia content related to the GIs of India in their own languages. Those who are multilingual are even going to create Wikipedia articles in two or three different languages. The multilingual edit-a-thon started on January 25 and will go on until January 31. The event is focused on improving existing Wikipedia content related to GIs of India, translating them into Indic languages and also creating new articles. Being an online event, it has also opened up the door to many contributors outside India. A few participants from Nepal and Bangladesh have signed up for the event.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So little of the great journey of our products with unique quality is available in the public domain. The saddest part is that there is literally a bottom level existence for content related to Indian GIs on Wikipedia, the world's largest online encyclopedia, which is often the first link a web search throws up. This sort of lack of access to knowledge related to India is not new. Even outside of Wikipedia, there is very less that exists about the many stories worth telling from our country. However, crying over the low access to knowledge would never solve the real problem.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Geographical_Indications_in_India_Edit-a-thon" target="_blank">This edit-a-</a><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Geographical_Indications_in_India_Edit-a-thon" target="_blank">thon</a> </strong>is just a digital experiment but can be a great way of doing digital activism for the preservation of languages and taking the uniqueness of India to millions of people in their own languages.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/this-multilingual-edit-a-thon-wants-to-improve-indian-content-on-wikipedia'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/this-multilingual-edit-a-thon-wants-to-improve-indian-content-on-wikipedia</a>
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No publishersubhaCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaEdit-a-thon2016-01-28T07:23:09ZBlog EntryKannada Wikipedia edit-a-thon organised at Sagara, Karnataka
https://cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-sagara
<b>A two-day-long Kannada Wikipedia edit-a-thon was organised at Sagara, Karnataka during January 26-27. A photowalk was also organised on the 25th to cover places of encyclopedic importance.</b>
<p>The theme of this edit-a-thon was Mechanical Engineering. 12 editors including seven new editors participated in this event. 20 articles were created/improved and four media files were uploaded. This was first of its kinds of edit-a-thon in Sagara and was useful to improve articles related to the field of mechanical engineering in Kannada Wikipedia which otherwise did not much content nor many editors to contribute in this domain. Six full fledged articles were created during the event. It was planned to organise more such events at Sagara in the future to gather people interested in the same subject area and expand the reach of mechanical engineering in Kannada language.<br /><br />
A day before the edit-a-thon, four active Kannada Wikimedians and I went on a photowalk and clicked about 100 images of places that are important and could be used for Wikipedia articles.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-sagara'>https://cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-sagara</a>
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No publisherAnanth SubrayCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaEdit-a-thonKannada Wikipedia2016-08-22T10:58:40ZBlog EntryIndian Women and Craft Edit-a-thon
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/indian-women-and-craft-edit-a-thon-1
<b>A two-day long edit-a-thon aimed to archive the Women achievers in the field of art and craft on Kannada Wikipedia was held with the help of Srishti Institute and Janastu on 8th March and 25th March 2018.
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<p dir="ltr">On 8th March 2018, The Access to Knowledge program in collaboration with the<a href="http://srishti.ac.in/"> Srishti Institute of Art, design, and technology</a> organised a Kannada Wikipedia workshop at<a href="http://janastu.org/home/index.html#/about-us"> Janastu</a>, Bangalore. Srishti Institute is a Bangalore based non-residential institute which provides art and design education to various individuals, and Jantsu is a Non-profit organisation which provides FOSS support to NGOs and NPOs. The theme of the event was to create articles on Indian women and crafts, Padmini, the course leader for Digital Humanities at Srishti Institute helped the A2K program in preparing a list of articles which can be added into Wikipedia.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Near about 15 staffs of Janastu attended the workshop, as the majority of the participants had Kannada language background the event was conducted in the Kannada language. During the workshop, the participants were introduced to their user sandbox, and after the orientation program, they started creating articles on them. A total number of<a href="https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/janastu"> 7 articles</a> were developed on the same day, we also introduced Wikimedia Commons to the participant, on how to upload images to Commons and how to add images from Commons to Wikipedia articles.</p>
<p dir="ltr">After the workshop at Janastu, a follow-up edit-a-thon was also conducted on 25th March 2018 at The CIS office. Five participants from the previous workshop joined us for the edit-a-thon and eight articles were created or improved as a part of that edit-a-thon, of which <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daroji_Eramma">Daroji Eramma’</a>s article was one among them. Daroji Eramma was a Kannada folk singer and performer of a South Indian folk art called Burrakatha. At the end of the event, a Wikidata training was given to the participants which helped them to translate a few labels on Wikidata.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/indian-women-and-craft-edit-a-thon-1'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/indian-women-and-craft-edit-a-thon-1</a>
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No publisherGopalakrishna A.Edit-a-thonKannada WikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWorkshop2018-07-04T16:30:28ZBlog EntryGeographical Indications in India Edit-a-thon
https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/geographical-indications-in-india-edit-a-thon
<b>Between 25 January and 31 January 2016, CIS-A2K is organizing an edit-a-thon to celebrate India's republic day. The goal of this edit-a-thon is to create and improve Geographical Indications articles.</b>
<h3>Expectations</h3>
<p>We expect that if you participate in this edit-a-thon, you'll create or expand at least 3 articles. However you may work on as many as articles you want.</p>
<h3>Rules</h3>
<p>For an article to be considered as part of this Geographical Indications in India Edit-a-thon, it must adhere to the following rules</p>
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<li>The new article must be created between 0:00 UTC on 25 January 2016 and 23:59 UTC on 31 January 2016.</li>
<li><b>Creation/Expansion rule</b>: <b>If you are creating a new article</b> the new article must have a size of at least 3,500 bytes and a minimum length of roughly 300 words (the word count excludes templates, infoboxes, references, etc.), <b>If you are expanding an existing article</b>, you need to expand this article by at least 3000 bytes, (the word count excludes templates, infoboxes, references, etc.)</li>
<li>The articles should not copyvio content and should follow verifiability and other important policies of Wikipedia.</li>
<li>The articles should have decent references;</li>
<li>The article must not be purely machine translated.</li>
<li>There should not be any maintenance tags in the articles</li>
<li>The article must have a direct relation to Geographical Indications in India (see <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Geographical_Indications_in_India_Edit-a-thon#Articles">Proposed articles</a>).</li>
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<h3>Participants</h3>
<p>Please add your username below. If you can not find your community name, please add a section using level 3 header (eg. === Ukrainian Wikipedia ===). <b>We also encourage you to start an event page on your Wikipedia.</b></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/geographical-indications-in-india-edit-a-thon'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/geographical-indications-in-india-edit-a-thon</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaEdit-a-thonEvent2016-01-26T15:19:56ZEventEdit-a-thon organised at Christ University Bangalore to celebrate Women’s Day
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/edit-a-thon-organised-at-christ-university-bangalore-to-celebrate-women2019s-day
<b>A day-long edit-a-thon was organised at Christ University Bangalore on March 12, 2016 to celebrate the Women’s Day and grow the women-related articles on Kannada Wikipedia.</b>
<p id="docs-internal-guid-ed624c5e-ce6a-a416-8323-c7078d2dcd29" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/business/media/31link.html?_r=0">Like most other Wikipedia projects</a>, Kannada Wikipedia also has way to go with bringing a balance in articles of all genders. 10 undergraduate students from the university participated in this event and created 20 quality articles of 137819 bytes during this edit-a-thon. Two experienced editors participated as mentors. More about the event could be read in the <a href="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%B8%E0%B2%82%E0%B2%AA%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%A8%E0%B3%8B%E0%B2%A4%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%97%E0%B2%B3%E0%B3%81/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%82%E0%B2%AA%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%A8%E0%B3%8B%E0%B2%A4%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%B5_%E0%B2%85%E0%B2%82%E0%B2%A4%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%B7%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%9F%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%80%E0%B2%AF_%E0%B2%AE%E0%B2%B9%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B3%E0%B2%BE_%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%A8%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%9A%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%A3%E0%B3%86_%E0%B3%A8%E0%B3%A6%E0%B3%A7%E0%B3%AC">event page</a> on Kannada Wikipedia.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/edit-a-thon-organised-at-christ-university-bangalore-to-celebrate-women2019s-day'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/edit-a-thon-organised-at-christ-university-bangalore-to-celebrate-women2019s-day</a>
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No publisherAnanth SubrayCIS-A2KKannada WikipediaEdit-a-thon2016-05-20T13:47:24ZBlog EntryEdit-a-thon at DSERT Bengaluru to improve Science-related articles in Kannada Wikipedia
https://cis-india.org/openness/edit-a-thon-at-dsert-bengaluru-to-improve-science-related-articles-in-kannada-wikipedia
<b>We have been working with the Department of State Educational Research and Training of Karnataka (DSERT), a Government of Karnataka-run research and training institution headquartered in Bengaluru. With the hope of expanding the reach of Science-related content in Kannada Wikipedia, we organised an edit-a-thon spanning over three days from the 11th January through the 13th.</b>
<p id="docs-internal-guid-37d9719d-9278-b9b3-081f-905efd20910b" dir="ltr">This edit-a-thon was part of many ongoing <a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/edit-a-thon-to-improve-kannada-language-science-related-wikipedia-articles-1">outreach programmes</a> at <a href="http://dsert.kar.nic.in/">DSERT</a> and had engagement with faculty members from several schools and colleges in Karnataka, and help them contribute to the Science-related articles in Kannada Wikipedia. The edit-a-thon was organised by the Centre for Internet and Society’s <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K">Access to Knowledge programme</a> and 12 educators participated in the programme. In total, 53 articles were created/improved during these three days. With six female educator-editors actively participating in this event, there was a fair balance in the gender demography. More details about the event can be read in the event page <a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/s/1gf2">here</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/edit-a-thon-at-dsert-bengaluru-to-improve-science-related-articles-in-kannada-wikipedia'>https://cis-india.org/openness/edit-a-thon-at-dsert-bengaluru-to-improve-science-related-articles-in-kannada-wikipedia</a>
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No publisherAnanth SubrayCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeEdit-a-thonWorkshopKannada Wikipedia2016-08-16T08:31:50ZBlog EntryDalit History Month 2017 edit-a-thon in Delhi, India
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/dalit-history-month-2017-edit-a-thon-in-delhi-india
<b>Dalit History Month edit-a-thon was conducted in Delhi on 20 May 2017. Here is a report.</b>
<p>A Dalit HIstory Month edit-a-thon was conducted Delhi, India on 20 May, 2017. This event was organised by Whose Knowledge?. A member from the Center for Internet and Society, Bangalore, attended the event as a resource person. The history of Dalit movement, and their knowledge are not very-well represented on Wikipedia, and it is essential that attempts are made to bridge such gaps. This edit-a-thon was such an initiative. On 15 April, this year, an edit-a-thon was <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Dalit_History_Month_2017#Berkeley.2C_USA_-_April_15">conducted</a> in Berkeley, US, and the Delhi edit-a-thon was followed by that.</p>
<p>14 editors participated in the edit-a-thon (not counting the resource persons). In the introduction speech Wikimedian and the primary co-ordinator of the event Inaaya explained the details the importance, scope and objectives of the edit-a-thon. This was followed by hands' on editing activities. A few participants were new to Wikipedia, and they created their accounts. Discussions took place to understand the gaps, and the difficulties. It was noticed that finding references to create or expand articles is sometimes a big challenge. Other than referencing, other topics such as Wikipedia manual of style, images, image license policy etc. were also discussed. Although it was a one-day workshop, the aim was to continue it after the event as well, so the participants were encouraged to continue editing. We have <a class="external-link" href="https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Delhi/May_Dalit_History_edit-a-thon/home">statistics</a> of last 1 month, and it shows that in this time period: 45 articles were edited, 11 articles were created, and more than 10 thousand words were added.</p>
<p>There are plans to conduct follow-up Wiki-events. A few students of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, showed interest to form Wikipedia club in their campus. Although, the edit-a-thon was not very big in scale and size, taking such an initiative itself is challenging, and hopefully such initiatives will help reduce the knowledge gap on Wikipedia.</p>
<h2>See also</h2>
<ul><li><a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Dalit_History_Month_2017">Event page</a> on Wikipedia</li></ul>
<h2>Image source</h2>
<ul><li><a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dalit_History_Month_header.jpg">File:Dalit History Month header.jpg</a>, from Wikimedia Commons, author: <a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bilqischondol">Bilqischondol</a>, file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.<br /></li></ul>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/dalit-history-month-2017-edit-a-thon-in-delhi-india'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/dalit-history-month-2017-edit-a-thon-in-delhi-india</a>
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No publishertitoEdit-a-thonWikipediaDalit History Month2017-06-21T06:09:39ZBlog EntryAda Lovelace Edit-a-thon 2014
https://cis-india.org/openness/events/ada-lovelace-edit-a-thon-2014
<b>A Wikipedia edit-a-thon is being held at Urban Solace on October 14, 2014 from 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. The event is being organized by IndiaBioScience in partnership with the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team. CIS-A2K will conduct the first three edit-a-thons.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In India, Science as a discipline is subject to many of the same gender issues as it is worldwide - women scientists are fewer in number than men, they occupy fewer positions of power, and face distinct issues by virtue of their gender and the accompanying societal pressures. Women Scientists in India also tend to be less visible than their male counterparts, and public awareness of Indian Women Scientists is low.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">IndiaBioScience will be organising a series of public events to raise the profile of women scientists on one of the most-popular online encyclopaedias - Wikipedia. At these events, participants will be encouraged to create and complete profiles of Indian Women in Science.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The last of these events, on October 14 coincides with <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace_Day" title="Ada Lovelace Day">Ada Lovelace Day</a>, an international day to celebrate the achievements of women in Science, Technology and Math.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">To participate sign up below or click here (<a class="free external" href="http://www.indiabioscience.org/content/women-science-wiki-edit-thon" rel="nofollow">http://www.indiabioscience.org/content/women-science-wiki-edit-thon</a>)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Lunch and snacks will be provided.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">At the venue, the events will begin with a short, hands-on introduction to Wiki editing. Participants can then go on to pick the scientist they would like to work on. There will be an interaction session with a guest Woman Scientist around lunch, with a discussion of issues commonly faced by women in science. In the afternoon session, participants can continue working on the Wiki pages, with a break for tea. Participants are requested to bring their laptops. We have a few desktops available at Saturday's venue for those who cannot do so.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Online participants can find us via <a class="text external" href="https://plus.google.com/+IndiabioscienceOrg" rel="nofollow">Google Hangout</a>. Chat with us or dial in for interactions, questions, help or simply to socialize.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Speaker: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohini_Godbole" title="Rohini Godbole">Rohini Godbole</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">See the event page on <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Ada_Lovelace_Edit-a-thon_2014">Wikipedia</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/ada-lovelace-edit-a-thon-2014'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/ada-lovelace-edit-a-thon-2014</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaEdit-a-thonOpenness2014-10-13T06:30:08ZEvent