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Workshop on Digital Annotation and Content Generation with research scholars in Pune
https://cis-india.org/openness/workshop-on-digital-annotation-and-content-generation-with-research-scholars-in-pune
<b>The Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education (CILHE) is conducting a two-day workshop on Digital Annotation and Content Generation with research scholars at KSP Women’s Studies Centre, Pune on October 30-31, 2015.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Day 1:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As part of this workshop, we will be working
with <a class="external-link" href="http://www.annotationstudio.org/">Annotation Studio</a><span class="_Tgc">, </span>a set of collaborative web-based and open source
annotation tools that allows users to share texts and annotate them
simultaneously. For the educator, it enables tracing points of
engagement with the text, identifying which paragraphs generate most
interest and why, and learn how readers understand the argument of the
text based on marking of tags. For the student, digital annotation is an
interesting exercise in close analytical reading, responding to
feedback, and building an argument.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Day 2:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The second day will be spent in understanding about generating
encyclopedic content on Wikipedia. We will engage the participants in annotating key
Women’s Studies texts and create well-referenced entries on various Indian language Wikipedia projects.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/workshop-on-digital-annotation-and-content-generation-with-research-scholars-in-pune'>https://cis-india.org/openness/workshop-on-digital-annotation-and-content-generation-with-research-scholars-in-pune</a>
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No publishergaruleHigher EducationAccess to KnowledgeMarathi WikipediaCIS-A2KHindi Wikipedia2015-12-31T07:17:02ZEventWikipedia workshop in the theme of “Sau Dhuni Teen” in Pune University
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-workshop-in-the-theme-of-201csou-dhuni-teen201d-in-pune-university
<b>A two-day Wikipedia workshop was organised in the Srimati Savitribai Phule Pune University on the 20th August 2015. The workshop was focused on enriching Wikipedia with 100 articles related to notable Indian women under the scope of the “Sau Dhuni Teen” project.</b>
<p id="docs-internal-guid-7755dbad-d111-8957-68c7-f3ec5877ad2e" dir="ltr">To begin with, we announced it in the Marathi Wikipedia <a href="https://goo.gl/QJrPDJ">village pump </a>prior to the workshop inviting Wikipedians to join. The primary goal of the project was to to introduce Wikipedia as an encyclopaedia for research and a concept to new editors, to promote Marathi Wikipedia and promote the use of Indian languages in Wikipedia.This workshop provided a platform to have an open interaction within the editors, existing as well as new. Interestingly, there was a male:female ratio of 1:10 among the new participants out of which five edited Wikipedia before coming there. Six new accounts were created on that day. Each of the participants created at least one new article which resulted creation of 15 new articles where 28 articles in English, Bangla and Hindi Wikipedias were edited totally. As the participants were new, learning typing using Wikipedia’s native Marathi input method “<a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Input_methods/mr-transliteration">Aksharantaran</a>” was slightly difficult for some where some found the <a href="http://www.google.com/inputtools/chrome/">Google’s input </a>easier. Unavailability of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About_the_Sandbox">sandboxes</a> (user subpages where users work on a draft Wikipedia article until it is fully ready to be published) in Marathi Wikipedia was a concern as many editors were unsure if their article might be changed and/or deleted during the time when they were editing. During the workshop one good quality article was created and the second one was in progress by the end of the second day. We helped the editors to refer to the existing good quality articles for understanding how to write one.</p>
<p dir="ltr">We are planning to to engage with the participating new editors once or twice in a quarter. The event is being organised in collaboration with Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education (CILHE).</p>
More details of the workshop could be found in the <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_for_Research_workshop_at_Pune_University">Meta event page</a>.
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-workshop-in-the-theme-of-201csou-dhuni-teen201d-in-pune-university'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-workshop-in-the-theme-of-201csou-dhuni-teen201d-in-pune-university</a>
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No publisherAbhinav GaruleWikimediaWikipediaMarathi WikipediaWorkshopHindi Wikipedia2016-06-18T18:08:36ZBlog EntryTelugu Wikipedia Education Program at Andhra Loyola College, Vijayawada
https://cis-india.org/openness/events/telugu-wikipedia-education-program-at-andhra-loyola-college-vijayawada
<b>In collaboration with Andhra Loyola College (ALC), Vijayawada, Access to Knowledge programme (CIS-A2K) of the Centre for Internet and Society is opening up a Wikipedia Digital Centre in the college so that students and local Wikimedians could grow Wikipedia and other Wikimedia content in Telugu and other Indian languages. To begin with this, a two-day long Wikipedia Education Program is also being initiated which will continue to grow further by expanding local content on Wikipedia.</b>
<p>As part of this two-day programme 40 undergraduate students (10 each from Botany, Statistics,
Physics and Telugu) will be taking part and will be creating articles in their respective subjects in four languages; Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam and Tamil.</p>
<p>On the 13th a Wikipedia Digital Centre will be opened at ALC. G Umamaheswara Rao of Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies (CALTS) lab, University of Hyderabad will be joining as the chief guest. This lab will have 10 computers and will be jointly managed by the CIS and ALC where the student-Wikipedians and the local Wikimedia community could conduct regular Wikipedia outreach programmes. Joining in this event are principal of the institution Fr. Kishore, Professsor
Sivakumari from Department of Botany, Professor Sahayabaskaran, Department of Physics, and Professor
Kola Sekhar, Department of Telugu. On behalf of CIS-A2K, Rahmanuddin Shaik and Pavan Santosh will be participating and facilitating the Wikipedia Education Program and the inauguration of the lab.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/telugu-wikipedia-education-program-at-andhra-loyola-college-vijayawada'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/telugu-wikipedia-education-program-at-andhra-loyola-college-vijayawada</a>
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No publisherPavan SantoshCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeMalayalam WikipediaTelugu WikipediaHindi Wikipedia2016-01-13T07:51:13ZEventHindustani Language: We Are Wikipedia
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/hindustani-language-we-are-wikipedia
<b>In 2014, the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) embarked on a new social media-based initiative - WeAreWikipedia. The aim of the project was "One Wikimedian every week to tell untold community stories on Twitter". </b>
<p>Read the original published on <a class="external-link" href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF:Hindustanilanguage/%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%83%E0%A4%B7%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A0&oldid=2719808">Wikipedia page here</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Although CIS-A2K has the mandate of promoting Wikimedia Projects only in India, by virtue of the inherent power of Twitter and Internet, the project was able to attract Wikipedians from virtually all parts of the world - India, Cambodia, Israel, USA, and a number of other countries for curating WeAreWikipedia account on Twitter. The enriching outcome was these Wikipedians' expression of community views and as well as their own editing and Wiki World experiences in the form of short and succinct tweets. These messages give a more clear pictures of happenings than tons of blogposts, videos and lengthy articles which we find today scattered over the internet.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In February 2015, I attended the first <a class="text external" href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/03/hindi-wiki-sammelan/">Hindi Wiki Sammelan Meet in Delhi</a>. This event was also supported by CIS-A2K. It was attended by 15 people, including three administrators of the Hindi Wikipedia: Ashish Bhatnagar, Aniruddha Kumar and Sanjeev Kumar. Also present were two reviewers: Piyush Maurya and my humble self. During the meet, one of the participants, Manish Panday, demonstrated the massive reach and impact of "Twittercasting" the event proceedings. This drew a keen interest from the Hindi Wikipedians with the Hindi Wikipedia admin Ashish Bhatnagar taking the lead in curating the "WeAreWikipedia" shortly after the meet. As his one week of curation came to end, he asked as to who would curate next. I volunteered to be part of this exercise. My CIS ex-colleague Subhashish Panigrahi informed about allocating the week March 2-9 for me, which I agreed.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As a Wikimedian, I made it a point to first showcase the developments within Hindi Wikipedia such as the <a class="text external" href="http://snag.gy/UUX8D.jpg" rel="nofollow">notable articles</a> written during the week, the discussions on the Hindi transliteration of non-Hindi names/ titles, village pump discussions, etc.I also shared suggestions with some of the Hindi Wikipedians on editing aspects.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A remarkable development during the week was publication of my report on <a class="text external" href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/03/hindi-wiki-sammelan/">Hindi Wiki Sammelan Meet in Delhi</a> and its <a class="text external" href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/no/2015/03/02/%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%80-%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF-%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%A8-%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D/">Hindi translation</a> by Ashish Bhatnagar on Wikimedia Foundation Blog. I was delighted to post the information of both these developments on Twitter. In fact, Ashish Bhatnagar favorited my Twitterpost about the Hindi translation. . In addition to Hindi Wikipedia, I was also vocal on the developments at the language front such as Kavita Path Pratiyogita (Poetry Competition) by HindiUSA, Unicode converters, Hindi blogs, developments in Urdu and other Indian languages. I also highlighted some of the projects such as Speedydeletion Wikia, Manypedia, blogpost/ online forum discussions on Wikipedia as well as the rise of mobile edits on Indian Wiki projects.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Since <b>March 8 or Women's Day</b> happened during the week, I made many tweets during the week about the commemorative Wikipedia Editathons both in India and abroad, including those in places like Latin America. I also tweeted about important events such GLAM-WIKI 2015 conference, Erasmus Prize 2015 for Wikipedia, Howard University's efforts to fill in Wikipedia’s gaps in Black History, etc.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">I was glad to highlight many important issues during my week as a curator. This included the special media attention abroad given to people who edit Wikipedia or Wikimedia projects such as the featured interview of Bryan Henderson in the <a class="text external" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/wikipedia-editor-has-made-some-47000-corrections-to-online-database-10024355.html" rel="nofollow">The Independent</a>. I suggested that there is a need for such an encouraging gesture to the contributors of Wikimedia projects. I remember some of the Wikipedians favoriting this message as they concurred with me. I also stressed on the need to reinforce fresh lease of life in projects such as <a class="text external" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Devanagari_Wikis_Monitoring_Team">Devanagari Wikis Monitoring Team</a> as an active team will benefit not just Hindi but all Wiki Projects in Devanagari-based languages.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The most pleasing aspect of my curator experience were the proactive discussions, retweets, favoriting, of many of my messages. I witnessed an instant response when I mentioned how beautifully the bot-assisted Twitter account "PakistanEdits" posts about anonymous edits from Pakistan on English Wikipedia and the need for a similar tool for India. One Wikipedian promised to work on finding a similar solution to this idea. Similarly, my Twitterpost on the time-barred "Hindi Wiki Sammelan" message notification on every page of Bhojpuri Wikipedia was removed instantly. A still surprising reaction was seen only a few days back when a gentleman enquired about how he can contribute to fill the need for Sanskrit text in the online Vietnamese Wikipedia guestbook page - this response comes after a fortnight of my tweet, and two persons had curated the Twitter account during this period.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Thus, I believe that my messages were well received and my interactions with other Twitter-users were friendly, informative and extremely fruitful. A summary of my curator experience is as follows:</p>
<table class="grid listing">
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<th>Description of Tweets</th><th>Number</th>
</tr>
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<td>No of Unique Tweets</td>
<td>148</td>
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<td>My Tweets Retweeted</td>
<td>53</td>
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<td>My Tweets Favorited</td>
<td>63</td>
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<td>My Discussed Tweets</td>
<td>12</td>
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<td>Others Tweets I Retweeted</td>
<td>27</td>
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<td>Followers+</td>
<td>34</td>
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<td>Following+</td>
<td>17</td>
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<td>Image Uploads</td>
<td>5</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/hindustani-language-we-are-wikipedia'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/hindustani-language-we-are-wikipedia</a>
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No publishersyedOpennessHindi WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2015-04-10T16:20:07ZBlog EntryHindi Wiki Community Baithak in Delhi
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/how-the-first-time-face-to-face-interaction-helped-india-hindi-wikipedia-community
<b>Hindi Wikimedians met in New Delhi during February 14 and 15. This was the first meeting of the Hindi community. Subhashish Panigrahi attended the meetup.</b>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/how-the-first-time-face-to-face-interaction-helped-india-hindi-wikipedia-community'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/how-the-first-time-face-to-face-interaction-helped-india-hindi-wikipedia-community</a>
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No publishersubhaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessHindi Wikipedia2015-02-27T01:34:25ZBlog EntryDigital Technology Engaging Pedagogy through Hindi Wikipedia - A Case Study
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/digital-technology-engaging-pedagogy-through-hindi-wikipedia-a-case-study
<b>We have published an article in International Journal of English Language, Literature in Humanities. The article is titled "Digital Technology Engaging Pedagogy through Hindi Wikipedia - A Case Study". The authors of the article are Hindi faculty members of Christ University and Ananth Subray from the Centre for Internet & Society provided research assistance.</b>
<h3>Abstract</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Hindi Wikipedia (Hindi Edition of Wikipedia) in the undergraduate language classroom. Wikipedia or Open Source Learning is a powerful tool in the acquisition of knowledge especiallyin today’s digital context.While many of the European languages have already established afoothold in the digital space, the Indian languages are yet to create a niche for themselves. Even after a decade of its launch,the Hindi Wikipediacould not attire the enabled richness of the English Wikipedia.While there are about fifty lakh articles in English, Hindi Wikipedia has only about a lakh.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This paper is an attempt to show how a whole new concept of productive activity for faculty andstudents can be opened through a study of basics in Indian language computing typing and editing Wikipedia articles.It explains the value of Wikis for teaching and learning as compared to traditional teaching and physical paper assignment model, showing the power of Open Source Learning and Wikipedia.Most importantly, it shows how Wikipedia and Global Peer Review can directly and immediately influence the quality and relevance of Teaching and Learning in classrooms and learning spaces today.This pilot study ofstudents’ use of sources in authoring Wikipedia articles shows, how students processed texts from sources to compose their own texts transforming classrooms from a place of knowledge deliveryto a place of creativity and research.Through Wikipedia, students are being empowered tobecome creative writers, efficient editors and successful researchers. Article creation and editingof articles in Hindi for Wikipedia is bound to transform the students’ ability to interpret, analyze,create new knowledge and develop their Research Aptitude. This article addresses the importance of Digital Learning through Wikipedia as Pedagogy in Christ University’s UG language classrooms and discusses the prospects and possibilities of using Wikipedia as a learning tool through a case study.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="http://ijellh.com/OJS/index.php/OJS/article/view/4594/4026">Read the peer reviewed article published by the International Journal of English Language, Literature in Humanities, Volume 6, Issue 8, August 2018</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/digital-technology-engaging-pedagogy-through-hindi-wikipedia-a-case-study'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/digital-technology-engaging-pedagogy-through-hindi-wikipedia-a-case-study</a>
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No publisherDr. George Joseph,Dr. Sebastian K.A, and Kavitha AAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessHindi Wikipedia2018-10-28T05:56:25ZBlog EntryDeveloping Open Educational Resources in Indian Languages
https://cis-india.org/openness/developing-open-educational-resources-in-indian-languages
<b>The Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education (CILHE), Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), in collaboration with the Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) programme at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), has been involved in organising workshops on developing open educational resources (OER) in Indian languages with undergraduate and postgraduate students across various partner institutions. The objective of these workshops is to introduce students to: a) tools of collaborative knowledge production on the Internet, and b) methods for generating new online content in Indian languages.</b>
<p id="docs-internal-guid-6a5cf4f0-34dc-8053-8ba7-e604a4aef120" dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">During November 2015 - February 2016, four such workshops have been organised at TISS’ Mumbai and Tuljapur campuses, <a href="http://www.srtt.org/casestudies/Pune_University_Case_Study%20-%202.pdf">Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule Women's Studies Centre</a> (KSPWSC), Pune University, and at the <a href="http://www.efluniversity.ac.in/">English and Foreign Languages University</a> (EFLU), Hyderabad.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">A one and half day workshop was organised at KSPWSC, Pune during January 22-23, 2016. A total of 20 students attended this workshop along with three faculty members from the Centre. This workshop is a part of CILHE's ongoing and sustained engagement with KSPWSC to generate and strengthen content pertaining to women's studies on the <a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/">Marathi Wikipedia</a>.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; "><strong>Pune</strong><br />On Day 1, after the opening address by Dr. Anagha Tambe from KSPWSC, Sohnee Harshey from CILHE, TISS spoke about the importance of creating open educational resources in Indian languages for social sciences and humanities. She sought responses from participants about the nature of their engagement with their research areas—which languages they used while collecting data, whether they had accessed reading material in languages other than English, and what were their sources of information. All the participants had used languages other than English in their learning process, some had even accessed Indian language Wikipedias, and all of them felt the need for more resources in Indian languages—especially in simpler and more accessible formats. Tanveer Hasan from CIS then spoke about the utility of Wikipedia for knowledge consumers and its immense potential for students to become knowledge producers, especially in the Indian languages.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">In order to familiarize the participants with social sciences (specifically women's studies) terminology in Indian languages, an exercise was conducted, wherein they were asked to describe a concept (from a given list) without using the term itself. The idea behind this was to highlight what function a concept performs in a sentence and in the language context, and what assumptions are made while using this concept. This was followed up with another exercise where the participants were encouraged to choose two concepts and explain their denotation and connotation. This was done in order to familiarise them with the web of other concepts in which a concept is located. The concept of ‘labour’ or ‘shram’ (in Marathi) was chosen for discussion.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">On Day 2 of the workshop, Abhinav Garule, Programme Associate with A2K-CIS, introduced the participants to the basics of Wikipedia editing through a hands-on activity. They navigated through both the English and Indian language Wikipedias to see how the edit, talk, and view history functions work, what the key characteristics of a good article are, and how one can read more about a certain topic through interwiki and external links and categories. This was interspersed with recalling the exercises done on the previous day and comparing the critical thinking process involved.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">Since one of the simpler ways to populate Indian language Wikipedias is through translation of existing content in English, participants were encouraged to try this with an entry of their choice. They were asked to also list difficulties that they faced in the process of translation. At the end of this exercise, a range of ‘problems’ like lack of appropriate terminology for complex concepts, the dangers of oversimplification, differences between languages in terms of the structure of sentences, and lack of references in Indian languages, were highlighted by the participants. While they were still thinking about these problems, another challenge was put forth for them to look at two conflicting or opposing references for a topic (for example, a movie review, or reporting around an event) and come up with a ‘neutral’ write-up about it. Questions of what constitutes a valid reference, issues of plagiarism, personal opinion, codes of civility on Talk pages formed part of this discussion.</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">Following this, the participants chose one topic (each) on which they wished to create a Wikipedia article in an Indian language. Most of the participants worked on the Marathi Wikipedia. They worked in groups of 3-4 to edit and create a range of articles including ones on patriarchy, colonialism, masculinity, family, and tribes, among others. A total of 12 entries were created in this workshop. Participants also explored Wikimedia Commons, Meta, and Wikisource as allied repositories. The students have now become active as knowledge producers and will join the existing group of editors at KSPWSC in the wiki-sprints to generate new content every month.</p>
<p><strong>Hyderabad: </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Similar exercises were also conducted during the two-day workshop at EFLU, Hyderabad in February 2016. The participants worked on the Malayalam, Telugu, and Hindi Wikipedias. Articles were written on geographical entities like Tamil Eelam and West Godavari district, on academic figures like M.S.S. Pandian and Maxine Berstein, academic and literary works such as My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk and Towards a World of Equals by Susie Tharu, among other topics. Since creating an article from scratch also involved deliberation regarding issues of translation, and the limits of concepts and their meanings in the Indian context, it is hoped that these new editors will find it useful for their own research to think critically about the process of generating content on the Indian language Wikipedias.</p>
<p class="discreet"><em>* Sohnee Harshey works at the</em><em> Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education, Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Article edited by Subhashish Panigrahi of CIS-A2K.<br /></em></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/developing-open-educational-resources-in-indian-languages'>https://cis-india.org/openness/developing-open-educational-resources-in-indian-languages</a>
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No publisherSohnee Harshey*CIS-A2KMalayalam WikipediaMarathi WikipediaTelugu WikipediaHindi Wikipedia2016-06-10T01:50:22ZBlog EntryChrist University Wikipedia Education Program Internship
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/christ-university-wikipedia-education-program-internship-1
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<p dir="ltr">The Centre for Internet and Society - Access to Knowledge program, in partnership with Christ University, is announcing its annual internship program for the 1200 students enrolled in the Wikipedia Education Program. The Wikipedia Education Program at Christ University, now in its fourth year, is an effort to bring together educators and students to use Wikipedia as an educational implement. CIS-A2K conducts the internship activity for passionate Christ University students to improve the quality of the articles created or edited by their fellow WEP peers. The internship will largely involve improving upon the articles created by their peers as well as gathering community consensus based on which these articles would be moved to the main namespace.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">The students will be working on Wikipedia over the course of 21 days in developing upon the content created by Christ University Wikipedia Education Program participants. The fledgling articles currently housed in the individual “sandboxes” of the WEP participants will be improved upon by the interns through addition of detailed content, images and info-boxes.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">The students are selected based on three main criteria: fluency of language(written and spoken), knowledge of Wikipedia and its processes, and their personal interest levels. The applications are open from 13 to 17 December, 2017. Interested students can apply here:</p>
<p dir="ltr">https://goo.gl/forms/Ffxh3T3DRZz8Q25F3</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/christ-university-wikipedia-education-program-internship-1'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/christ-university-wikipedia-education-program-internship-1</a>
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No publishermanasaraoCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikipedia Education ProgramWikimediaWikipediaSanskrit WikipediaUrdu WikipediaOpennessHindi WikipediaTulu WikipediaKannada Wikipedia2017-12-14T08:55:05ZBlog EntryChrist University Wikipedia Education Program Internship
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/christ-university-wikipedia-education-program-internship
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<p id="docs-internal-guid-0f6be479-11df-80e2-bfe1-1c86f83e058d" dir="ltr">CIS-A2K’s Wikipedia Education Program with Christ University, Bangalore is coming to an end after another year of intense classes, certificate courses and an internship at The Centre for Internet and Society. The internship activity in particular has successfully managed to engage students beyond classroom hours. The selection of 12 students for the internship program was based on their penchant for the language as well as their interest in the wiki world.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">The internship was structured into three stages. Firstly, the students were asked to develop stub articles. The aim of this activity was for students to learn searching skills. As a result, over 1500 articles were developed with qualitative work.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Secondly, the students were asked to create new articles from scratch. They searched for the topic on the Wikipedia, ascertained whether the article exists or not and later researched further on the content of the articles. As a result, the students were able to create 1400+ articles</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Finally, the students were asked to draft policy pages for their respective language Wikipedia. They went through the policy pages in different languages including English and were asked to create similar policy pages for Kannada Wikipedia.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Unlike previous years, the activities during the internship program were tailored to suit the individual capabilities of the students, taking into consideration the suggestions from community members. The students were of the opinion that in addition to rekindling their love for the language, the internship program also enabled them to develop their overall knowledge of various subjects. The students felt that their vocabulary and typing skills also improved. However, the students were of the opinion that they could have been taken a level or two higher from article writing and introduced to other Wikimedia projects and topics related to the overall movement. The CIS-A2K WEP Program hopes to incorporate these suggestions for the upcoming year while also trying to increase the number of days of the internship in order not to tax the students.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/christ-university-wikipedia-education-program-internship'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/christ-university-wikipedia-education-program-internship</a>
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No publisherManasa Rao and Ananth SubrayCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikipedia Education ProgramWikimediaWikipediaSanskrit WikipediaOpennessHindi WikipediaKannada Wikipedia2017-07-05T09:33:19ZBlog Entry