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Wikimania 2013: Wikipedians represent Indian Languages in Hong Kong
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikimania2013
<b>The 7th, 8th and 9th of August 2013 saw over 600 Wikipedians across the world participating Wikimania at Hong Kong. The three day annual international conference for users and contributors of Wikipedia brought many debates about open educational research, open source technologies, gender gap, documenting the history of mankind in a free and open platform like Wikipedia and its sister sites in collaboration with Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums and all of these in 286 world languages. More and more volunteers are joining this movement and it is expanding the media of accessing and disseminating knowledge.
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><span id="docs-internal-guid-0678dac9-1578-bf89-b289-18949346d9c2">Here is a school teacher who lives in Salem, a small industrial town in Tamil Nadu. There lives a school teacher who was born in Sri Lanka and moved to Hong Kong long back. They have never met in real life but have been helping in correcting each others mistakes in Wikipedia articles. These two school teachers have taken their knowledge from the four walls of the classrooms to a larger audience of</span><a href="http://ta.wikipedia.org"><span> Tamil Wikipedia</span></a><span>. I then realized how language brings people together. This is what I heard from my inner voice when I met </span><a href="http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D:Parvathisri"><span>S.Parvathi </span></a><span>from Salem and </span><a href="http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D:HK_Arun"><span>H.K.Arun</span></a><span> from Sri Lanka during </span><a href="http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org"><span>Hong Kong Wikimania 2013</span></a><span>, an annual gathering of Wikipedia contributors.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span id="docs-internal-guid-0678dac9-1579-0dad-9740-452c9aae519f">Many still are not aware the existence of Wikipedias in Indian languages. There are 20 South Asian language Wikipedias with more than 2 lakh articles contributed totally by about 1500 voluntary contributors in all these languages. There are hundred more contributors like Arun and Parvathi who create new articles in Tamil Wikipedia, and rectify mistakes by new contributors.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian"><span>Wikipedians</span></a><span> are all volunteers who devote their time for building the greatest repository of knowledge on the internet. Wikipedia articles are free from any copyright infringement so anyone can freely access, share, make modifications and redistribute them. Wikipedians have been able to create this ecosystem of nurturing new editors by teaching them the process of encyclopaedic content generation which not only polishes their writing abilities, but strengthens their communication skills. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>Wikimania is fun, it brings wikipedians across the globe speaking diverse languages under one roof where they meet each other and share their ideas and collaborate. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>Over 600 wikipedians from various countries participated in this year’s Wikimania including </span><a href="http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikimania2013#Attendees"><span>16 from India</span></a><span>. In the open world of Wikipedia collaboration always happen beyond borders; one </span><a href="http://ne.wikipedia.org"><span>Nepali</span></a><span> and four </span><a href="http://bn.wikipedia.org"><span>Bangla</span></a><span> Wikipedians from Bangladesh also joined the Indian Wikipedians to rejoice the triumph of the effort of all the volunteers from the subcontinent. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>The fun was not just limited in creating a wall of their dreams, ambitions and action plans to take their own language Wikipedia to more people or discuss how they could write articles that are important to each others languages. It went upto helping each other to fix problems in typing Indian languages and discussing success stories of successful workshops that resulted bring more student </span><span id="docs-internal-guid-0678dac9-1579-9d5b-64e9-70790c72feab">contributors. </span><a href="http://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE:Ganesh_Paudel"><span>Ganesh Paudel</span></a><span>, a Wikipedian from Nepal says, "My hometown is very close to India and we share the same script with Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit and Konkani. India and Nepal both have sizable population speaking Nepali, Maithili, Bhojpuri, Awadhi, Sanskrit, Bangla and Hindi. I’m personally interested to collaborate with Indians speaking these languages." I could see the glow in his eyes when he wrote and explained the beautiful curvature of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranjana_alphabet"><span>Ranjana</span></a><span> script to me.</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tinucherian"><span> Tinu Cherian</span></a><span>, another long term Wikipedian who was attending Wikimania for the third time was excitedly live-tweeting the happening at Hong Kong. When I asked how he is feeling after a short break he unfolded his hands and proudly said, "Wikipedia is like religion to me, once a Wikipedian, you are always a Wikipedian!". </span><a href="http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%89%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%8D:Netha_Hussain"><span>Netha</span></a><span>, a medical college student from Kerala spoke about bringing more women to contribute to Wikipedia. She calls </span><a href="http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%89%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%8D:Kavya_Manohar"><span>Kavya</span></a><span>, a college lecturer and Malayalam wikipedian who spoke about </span><a href="https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Women_and_non-conventional_education_-_A_study_from_Indian_cultural_context"><span>Women and non-conventional education</span></a><span> as one of the gems she has discovered in her personal journey. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>Wikimania also has Sengai Podhuvan, one of the oldest Indian Wikipedians. His </span><a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/L11_1222_R5_DS/en/US"><span>appeal for Wikipedia fundraising</span></a><span> brought a lot of donations to Wikimedia Foundation. Dr. Podhuvan shared his story of learning using computer, Tamil typing and writing articles about Wikimania this year brought many academicians, education researchers, policy change makers and open source and open knowledge activists across the world to share their ideas, activities going across the world even while </span><a href="https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Women_and_non-conventional_education_-_A_study_from_Indian_cultural_context"><span>enjoying dinner</span></a><span> in the </span><a href="http://www.sky100.com.hk/"><span>100th floor</span></a><span>. </span></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikimania2013'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikimania2013</a>
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No publishersubhaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-09-13T06:03:03ZBlog EntryA Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Krishnarajapet
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/a-kannada-wikipedia-workshop-at-krishnarajapet
<b>On Sunday, August 11, 2013, a day-long Kannada Wikipedia workshop was conducted at Shyam Computers, Krishnarajapet, Karnataka. The workshop was co-organized by the CIS-A2K team along with Kannada Sahitya Parishat of KR Pet. This report summarizes the proceedings of that workshop and subsequent research into relevant questions flowing from the discussions.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The CIS-A2K team has been getting requests to conduct Kannada Wikipedia workshops from various parts of Karnataka. One such request came from ISRO technician Akash B., who is originally from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishnarajpet">Krishnarajapet</a>, popularly known as K R Pet, in <a href="http://www.mandya.nic.in/">Mandya Dist</a> of Karnataka. . Shyamesh of Shyam Computers sponsored the venue by lending his cyber centre. The workshop was scheduled for 10.00 a.m. and began a little late at 10.45 a.m.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">About 20 participants came together to learn Wikipedia editing. The inauguration was followed by the hands-on workshop. We had some discussions with Akash about the IP address restrictions for registering new users. Usually only 6 persons can register on a day from one IP address. Fortunately, the cyber centre had a dynamic IP. After 6 registrations, we reset the modem so that the remaining participants could register. Akash helped some participants to register the previous day itself.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The participants were quite enthusiastic. We gave a presentation about <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page">Wikipedia</a> and <a class="external-link" href="http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%AE%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%96%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF_%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%9F">Kannada Wikipedia</a> and then gave a demonstration about editing the Wikipedia. After that the participants tried their hands on editing Kannada Wikipedia. Some of the participants who attended the workshop are now editing the Kannada Wikipedia on a daily basis. We hope that they sustain their interest and enhance the quality of Kannada Wikipedia.</p>
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<td>A group picture of the participants from the Krishnarajapet workshop. (Picture by Dr. U.B.Pavanaja, CC-BY-SA 3.0)</td>
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<p>A special thanks to Kannada Sahitya Parishat, K R Pet, Akash B and Shyam Computers.</p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/prajavani-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-workshop" class="external-link">Prajavani,</a> (August 12, 2013)</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/suvarna-times-of-karnataka-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-workshop" class="external-link">Suvarna Times of Karnataka</a> (August 12, 2013)</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/vijaya-vani-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-wikipedia-workshop" class="external-link">Vijaya Vani</a> (August 12, 2013)</li>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/a-kannada-wikipedia-workshop-at-krishnarajapet'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/a-kannada-wikipedia-workshop-at-krishnarajapet</a>
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No publisherpavanajaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-09-05T06:46:39ZBlog EntryKrishnarajapet Wikipedia Workshop (Coverage in Prajavani)
https://cis-india.org/news/prajavani-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-workshop
<b>Prajavani covered the Kannada Wikipedia workshop organised by the CIS-A2K team and the Kannada Sahitya Parishat of KR Pet., on August 12, 2013. A scanned version of the report is produced below.</b>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/prajavani-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-workshop'>https://cis-india.org/news/prajavani-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-workshop</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-09-05T05:50:24ZNews ItemKrishnarajapet Wikipedia Workshop (Coverage in Suvarna Times of Karnataka)
https://cis-india.org/news/suvarna-times-of-karnataka-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-workshop
<b>Suvarna Times of Karnataka covered the Kannada Wikipedia workshop organised by the CIS-A2K team and the Kannada Sahitya Parishat of KR Pet., on August 12, 2013. A scanned version of the report is produced below.</b>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/suvarna-times-of-karnataka-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-workshop'>https://cis-india.org/news/suvarna-times-of-karnataka-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-workshop</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-09-05T06:10:01ZNews ItemKrishnarajapet Wikipedia Workshop (Coverage in Vijaya Vani)
https://cis-india.org/news/vijaya-vani-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-wikipedia-workshop
<b>Prajavani covered the Kannada Wikipedia workshop organised by the CIS-A2K team and the Kannada Sahitya Parishat of KR Pet., on August 12, 2013. A scanned version of the report is produced below.</b>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/vijaya-vani-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-wikipedia-workshop'>https://cis-india.org/news/vijaya-vani-august-12-2013-krishnarajapet-wikipedia-workshop</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-09-05T06:45:12ZNews ItemStress on posting articles on Kannada Wikipedia
https://cis-india.org/news/hindu-r-krishna-kumar-august-2-2013-stress-on-posting-articles-on-kannada-wikipedia
<b>A workshop to be held on CPDPS premises on August 6.</b>
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<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">This <a class="external-link" href="http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/stress-on-posting-articles-on-kannada-wikipedia/article4980552.ece">article by R Krishna Kumar was published in the Hindu on August 2, 2013</a>. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja is quoted.</p>
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<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">For those with knowledge of Kannada and basic computer skills, here is an opportunity for posting articles in Kannada on the collaborative and free Wikipedia and facilitate the growth of Kannada online.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">To help interested people learn the process of posting their articles on Wikipedia, the Centre for Proficiency Development Placement Service (CPDPS) of the University of Mysore will conduct a one-day workshop on August 6 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">The workshop will be conducted on the CPDPS premises, Manasagangotri, and is being conducted by U.B. Pavanaja of the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">Niranjana Vanalli, Director, CPDPS, told <i>The Hindu</i> that though Kannada has got the classical language tag and several Kannada writers have got the Jnanpith, Kannada is among the least represented language on Wikipedia in terms of articles in Indian languages, and this workshop is a small step towards correcting these lacunae.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">According to Mr. Pavanaja of CIS, Bangalore, though Kannada Wikipedia was launched in June 2003 and this year marks the 10th anniversary of the launch of the website, there are only 14,500 articles in Kannada.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">This is in contrast to nearly 1,00,000 Hindi articles, 52,000 Telugu articles about 52,000 articles in Tamil, 25,000 in Bengali and 30,000 articles in Malayalam in the Wikipedia. There are over 4.6 million articles in English. German and French are close to English and so it is not merely Kannada but all Indian languages that are lagging behind, said Mr. Pavanaja.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">However, there is scope for improvement as 13 lakh people visit the Kannada Wikipedia website every month. It definitely means that many people are interested in reading articles in Kannada online, so there is scope for posting more articles for their benefit.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">Interestingly Wikipedia, which was launched in January 2001, has articles in 22 Indian languages and 256 languages around the world. There are over 3 crore articles and the number is growing by the day.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">There are other significant aspects to the contribution of Indians to the development of Wikipedia. While Kannadigas have taken to the enrichment of Wikipedia in English their contribution to the enrichment of the Kannada section has been abysmal. Incidentally, there are nearly 16 lakh editors of Wikipedia all over the world of which about 5,500 are Indians and of them 3,300 edit and contribute regularly in English. The remaining 2,200 contribute in Indian languages.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">According to Mr. Pavanaja, roughly 2 crore Indians regularly visit the Wikipedia site but very few are either contributing or editing.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">“Indians were definitely taking advantage of Wikipedia as it gets more than 2 crore hits every year. But the number of Indians contributing to enrich the content is less, more so for Kannada”, he added. Mr. Vanalli, who is a professor in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Mysore, pointed out that it was ironical that the Kannada was the only Indian language to have an encyclopaedia of its own – Kannada Vishwakosha – published by the University of Mysore. But when it comes to the online collaborative project of Wikipedia, Kannada is lagging behind and this should be reversed.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">The workshop will introduce to the participants the features of Wikipedia, and give hands-on demonstration on how to edit and contribute articles. Participants can bring articles of their choice for editing and posting on Wikipedia. For details, contact Director of CPDPS on 0821-2419337/405 or email omegauom@gmail.com for registration.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; "><i><b>The workshop will introduce participants to features of Wikipedia, and give demonstration on how to edit and contribute articles</b></i></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/hindu-r-krishna-kumar-august-2-2013-stress-on-posting-articles-on-kannada-wikipedia'>https://cis-india.org/news/hindu-r-krishna-kumar-august-2-2013-stress-on-posting-articles-on-kannada-wikipedia</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-08-02T06:27:52ZNews ItemA Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Sagara
https://cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wiki-workshop-at-sagara
<b>On Sunday, July 28, 2013, a day-long Kannada Wikipedia workshop was conducted at Sagara, Shimoga Dist, Karnataka by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team. In this post, I share with you the happenings from the workshop.</b>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Some months ago, I got a phone call from <a class="external-link" href="http://www.chinmayamrao.com/">Chinmaya M Rao</a> from <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagara,_Shimoga_district">Sagara, Shimoga District</a> requesting me to conduct a Kannada Wikipedia workshop at Sagara. He informed me that there are quite a good number of writers in that area who are interested in adding content to Kannada Wikipedia but don't know how to. Many telephonic discussions followed, many dates were considered, changed, iterated and finally the workshop was organised on Sunday, July 28, 2013. The programme was inaugurated by <a class="external-link" href="http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%97%E0%B3%8B%E0%B2%A1%E0%B3%81_%E0%B2%A4%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AE%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AE%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AA">Shri Kagodu Thimmappa</a>, Speaker of the current <a class="external-link" href="http://kla.kar.nic.in/">Legislative Assembly of Karnataka</a>. Famous Kannada writer <a class="external-link" href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%A8%E0%B2%BE_%E0%B2%A1%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8B%E0%B2%9C">Naa D'Souza</a> was the chief guest. Shri G.T. Shridhar Sharma, President of <a class="external-link" href="http://www.kannadatimes.com/kannada-times-media-world-r">Kannada Times Media World</a>, presided over the function. The programme was jointly organised by CIS and <a class="external-link" href="http://www.kannadatimes.com/">Kannada Times Media World</a>, Sagara.</p>
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<td style="text-align: justify; ">Speaking after inaugurating the workshop, Shri Kagodu Thimmappa said "the basic knowledge of technology has become important as one could get ample, accurate information on various topics, and current affairs of the world in a minute all languages, including Kannada. It is the onus of the people of the sate to preserve and promote the use of Kannada language." (Deccan Herald, Shimaga edition, July 30, 2013). Naa D'Souza mentioned how earlier knowledge was the monopoly of some particular sections of the society and how technology has transformed knowledge into an asset of all the people irrespective of caste, race, religion, region and financial status.</td>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">I then gave a brief introduction to <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page">Wikipedia</a> and <a class="external-link" href="http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%AE%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%96%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF_%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%9F">Kannada Wikipedia</a>. There are many encylopaedias in <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannada_language">Kannada</a> but very few are regularly updated. They are seldom digitised. People who add content to Kannada Wikipedia are in search of authentic information. These are available in many encylopaedias brought in by various academies, associations and universities funded by the Government of Karnataka. People of the state have a right on these content. I requested Shri Kagodu Thimmappa to bring them under the <a class="external-link" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/">Creative Commons License</a> so that the active Kannada Wikipedians can make use of them to add content into Kannada Wikipedia. Shri Kagodu Thimmappa promised to look into this.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">After the inauguration, the actual presentation by me started at a cybercafe run by Istam Computers. It was raining heavily. Participants walked for 5 minutes in heavy rain to reach the venue. The presentation went on till lunch time. The place was very congested. One participant, B. V. Ravindranath, who is a practicing Chartered Accountant at Sagara, offered his place to conduct the hands-on workshop. Hence, all participants went to the new venue which was quite comfortable. Participants did the hands-on editing of Wikipedia till 7.30 p.m. Eleven persons participated in the workshop and edited actively. Some were seen editing Kannada Wikipedia regularly after the workshop.</p>
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<td colspan="2"><i>Dr. U.B. Pavanaja is seen sharing a light moment with participants from the workshop in the above picture</i>.</td>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">An active Kannada Wikipedian, <a class="external-link" href="http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF:Bschandrasgr/%E0%B2%AA%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%9A%E0%B2%AF">B S Chandrashekhar</a> from Sagara, who has more than <a class="external-link" href="http://toolserver.org/~quentinv57/sulinfo/Bschandrasgr">4500 edits on Kannada Wikipedia</a> to his credit was felicitated during the inauguration function. He is 79 years old. Despite his old age, he actively paticipated in the workshop till the end and learnt many intricacies which he was otherwise unaware of.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>In the end, I would like to personally thank Chinmay Rao and G. T. Shridhar Sharma of Kannada Times who toiled a lot in organising the wokrshop. Also thanks to B. V. Ravindranath, CA, who provided the venue for the hands-on workshop</i>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wiki-workshop-at-sagara'>https://cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wiki-workshop-at-sagara</a>
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No publisherpavanajaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopVideoOpenness2014-03-25T08:51:36ZBlog Entryଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:ମେଳଣ/ବୁର୍ଲା (ସମ୍ବଲପୁର)
https://cis-india.org/news/coverage-of-odia-wikipedia-workshop-in-sambad-july-26-27-2013
<b>There was a news coverage on The Sambad, Sambalpur edition about the Odia Wikipedia workshop organized on July 26 and 27, 2013 at Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla. </b>
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<p>The Centre for Internet and Society <a class="external-link" href="http://or.wikipedia.org/s/gqw">has been credited for financial support</a>. Click to <a class="external-link" href="http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-or/2013-August/000435.html">see the report</a> on the mailing list.</p>
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<p>ସମ୍ବଲପୁରର ବୁର୍ଲାଠାରେ ଥିବା "ବୀର ସୁରେନ୍ଦ୍ରସାଏ ବୈଷୟିକ ବିଶ୍ୱବିଦ୍ୟାଳୟ"ରେ ୨୬ ଓ ୨୭ ଜୁଲାଇ ୨୦୧୩ (ଶୁକ୍ରବାର, ଶନିବାର) ଦିନ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ଏକ କର୍ମଶାଳା ଅନୁଷ୍ଠିତ ହୋଇଯାଇଛି ।</p>
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<li>ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ଉପଯୋଗିତା</li>
<li>ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପଡ଼ିଆରେ ସାଧାରଣ ସମ୍ପାଦନା</li>
<li>ମୁକ୍ତ ଜ୍ଞାନ ବିତରଣର ଉପାଦେୟତା</li>
<li><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86:WPOP" title="ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:WPOP">"ଉଇକିପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ ଓଡ଼ିଶାର ସ୍ଥାନ"</a> ଗଣ-ସମ୍ପାଦନା</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><br />ସମ୍ବଲପୁରର ବୁର୍ଲାଠାରେ ଥିବା ‘ବୀର ସୁରେନ୍ଦ୍ରସାଏ ବୈଷୟିକ ବିଶ୍ୱବିଦ୍ୟାଳୟ(ଭିସୁଟ)’ ର ଗୋଲ୍ଡ଼େନ ଜୁବୁଲୀ ସେମିନାର ହଲ ପରିସରରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ସମ୍ବନ୍ଧରେ ଏକ କର୍ମଶାଳା ଅନୁଷ୍ଠିତ ହୋଇଯାଇଛି । ବିଶ୍ୱବିଦ୍ୟାଳୟର ୧୦୦ରୁ ଉର୍ଦ୍ଧ୍ୱ ଛାତ୍ରଛାତ୍ରୀ ଏହି କର୍ମଶାଳାରେ ଭାଗ ନେଇ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ବ୍ୟବହାର ସଂପର୍କରେ ଜ୍ଞାନ ଅର୍ଜନ କରିଥିଲେ । ବିଶ୍ୱବିଦ୍ୟାଳୟର ପୁରାତନ ଛାତ୍ର ତଥା ସକ୍ରିୟ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିଆଳି ଗୋର୍ବାଚୋଭ ପୋଥାଳଙ୍କ ତତ୍ୱାବଧାନରେ ଏହି କର୍ମଶାଳା ଆୟୋଜିତ ହୋଇଥିଲା ଏବଂ ଉପସ୍ଥିତ ସମସ୍ତଙ୍କୁ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ସଂପର୍କରେ ସବିଶେଷ ବିବରଣୀ ପ୍ରଦାନ କରାଯାଇଥିଲା । ସେ କହିଥିଲେ ଯେ, ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାରେ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ୍ରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ଏକ ଖୋଲା ଜ୍ଞାନକୋଷ । ଏହାକୁ ବ୍ୟବହାର କରି ଜଣେ କିପରି ନିଜର ଗବେଷଣା ଦକ୍ଷତା ବିକାଶ ଓ ମାଗଣା ଜ୍ଞାନର ବିତରଣ କରିପାରିବ, ସେହି ବିଷୟରେ ଆଲୋଚନା କରିଥିଲେ । ଏହା ବ୍ୟତୀତ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ଇତିହାସ, ଆଭିମୁଖ୍ୟ, ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ ବର୍ତ୍ତମାନ ଚାଲୁଥିବା ବିଭିନ୍ନ ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ ବିଷୟରେ ସବିଶେଷ ଆଲୋଚନା କରିଥିଲେ ଓ କହିଥିଲେ ଓଡ଼ିଆରୁ ଦୂରେଇ ଯାଉଥିବା ଲୋକଙ୍କୁ ଓଡ଼ିଆମୁଖୀ କରାଇବାର ଏହା ଅନ୍ୟତମ ପ୍ରଚେଷ୍ଟା । ଶ୍ରୀ ପୋଥାଳ ନିଜର ବକ୍ତବ୍ୟ ଦେଇ ସାରିବା ପରେ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ସମ୍ବନ୍ଧରେ ଛାତ୍ରଛାତ୍ରୀଙ୍କର ବିଭିନ୍ନ ପ୍ରଶ୍ନର ଉତ୍ତର ଦେଇଥିଲେ । ଏହା ପରେ କର୍ମଶାଳରେ ସେ ଉଇକିପିଡିଆରେ ନୂତନ ପ୍ରସଙ୍ଗ ଲେଖିବା, ସମ୍ପାଦନା କରିବା, ଆଧାର ଦେବା ଇତ୍ୟାଦିର ପ୍ରଶିକ୍ଷଣ ଦେଇ ଏକ ଗଣ-ସମ୍ପାଦନା ଆୟୋଜନ କରିଥିଲେ । କର୍ମଶାଳାରେ ବିଶ୍ୱବିଦ୍ୟାଳୟର ପ୍ରାଧ୍ୟାପକ ଡ. ଅମରନାଥ ନାୟକ, ଡ଼ ବିଭୂତି ଭୂଷଣ ପାଣି, ଡ଼. ଅକ୍ଷୟ କୁମାର ପଟ୍ଟନାୟକ, ଡ. ଜ୍ୟୋତି ରଞ୍ଜନ ମହାନ୍ତି ପ୍ରମୁଖ ଉପସ୍ଥିତ ଥିଲେ । କର୍ମଶାଳାର ସଫଳ ପରିଚାଳନା ପାଇଁ ଛାତ୍ର ପ୍ରତିନିଧି ଅବିନାଶ କୁମାର ପୁହାଣ, ସୁପ୍ରଜ୍ଞାନ ପଟ୍ଟନାୟକ, ସୁଭମ ସାହୁ, ସୋମ୍ୟଶ୍ରୀ ଋତୁପର୍ଣ୍ଣୋ ସାହୁ, ଅନନ୍ୟା ସୃଷ୍ଟି ଶତପଥୀ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରିଥିଲେ ।</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">କାର୍ଯ୍ୟକ୍ରମର ସଫଳ ପରିଚାଳନା ନିମନ୍ତେ "ସେଣ୍ଟର ଫର ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ ଏଣ୍ଡ ସୋସାଇଟି - ଆକ୍ସେସ ଟୁ ନଲେଜ" ତରଫରୁ ଟ.୨,୦୦୦/- ର ଆର୍ଥିକ ସହାୟତା ପ୍ରଦାନ କରାଯାଇଥିଲା ।</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id=".E0.AC.AF.E0.AD.8B.E0.AC.97.E0.AC.A6.E0.AD.87.E0.AC.87.E0.AC.A5.E0.AC.BF.E0.AC.AC.E0.AC.BE_.E0.AC.AA.E0.AD.81.E0.AC.B0.E0.AD.81.E0.AC.96.E0.AC.BE_.E0.AC.89.E0.AC.87.E0.AC.95.E0.AC.BF.E0.AC.86.E0.AC.B3.E0.AC.BF">ଯୋଗଦେଇଥିବା ପୁରୁଖା ଉଇକିଆଳି</span></h2>
<p><a href="http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AD%8D%E0%AD%9F%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%B9%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%80:Gorvachove" title="ବ୍ୟବହାରକାରୀ:Gorvachove">ଗୋର୍ବାଚୋଭ ପୋଥାଳ</a></p>
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<li><a class="new" href="http://or.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%AC%AC%E0%AD%8D%E0%AD%9F%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%B9%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%80:Chicku.1994&action=edit&redlink=1" title=" ବ୍ୟବହାରକାରୀ:Chicku.1994 (ପୃଷ୍ଠାଟି ନାହିଁ)">ଗୁରୁକଲ୍ୟାଣ ମହାନ୍ତି</a></li>
<li><a class="new" href="http://or.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%AC%AC%E0%AD%8D%E0%AD%9F%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%B9%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%80:Sameer9437&action=edit&redlink=1" title=" ବ୍ୟବହାରକାରୀ:Sameer9437 (ପୃଷ୍ଠାଟି ନାହିଁ)">ସମୀର ରଞ୍ଜନ ସାହୁ</a></li>
<li><a class="new" href="http://or.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%AC%AC%E0%AD%8D%E0%AD%9F%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%B9%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%80:Hitenbehera&action=edit&redlink=1" title=" ବ୍ୟବହାରକାରୀ:Hitenbehera (ପୃଷ୍ଠାଟି ନାହିଁ)">ହିତେନ କୁମାର ବେହେରା</a></li>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/coverage-of-odia-wikipedia-workshop-in-sambad-july-26-27-2013'>https://cis-india.org/news/coverage-of-odia-wikipedia-workshop-in-sambad-july-26-27-2013</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-08-05T08:04:07ZNews ItemA 'Kannada' Wikipedia Workshop for Bloggers
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-bloggers
<b>On Sunday, June 23, 2013, a day-long Kannada Wikipedia workshop was conducted at Suchitra, Bengaluru for Kannada bloggers by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team. This blog post gives a report on the workshop. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">There was a demand from Kannada bloggers that they need some orientation on editing Kannada Wikipedia. There were informal talks on this since the last 2-3 months on when and how the event should be organised. <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge">CIS-A2K</a> collaborated with Suchitra Film and Cultural Society, Bengaluru and Avadhi. G N Mohan of Avadhi and Prakash Belavadi of Suchitra helped in getting the conference room of Suchitra available for the workshop.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Announcement was made in the KannadaWikipedia group of Facebook. This group has more than 2000 members. One member even sent a message questioning the wisdom of inviting everyone for the workshop. He asked, "can we accommodate all the people if they turn up?" However, I was quite sure that not more than 25 will turn up. The reason being the condition that participants should come with their own laptops and internet connections. As the workshop date neared, more and more people began registering for participation. The number reached 56 on the previous night. I sent a message requesting people to reconfirm the participation as the conference room could accommodate 25 people only. Few people withdrew and only 13 persons reconfirmed.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">June 23, being a Sunday, the personnel at Suchitra came to open the room only at 9.50 a.m. Myself and some participants were there at 9.20 a.m. itself. Once everyone settled down, there was an issue with the projector. My ultrabook has only a mini HDMI port. I keep an HDMI-to-VGA converter and have been using it from the last 2-3 workshops. It worked well at those places. But on June 23, it refused to work. I then exchanged my ultrabook with another participant and the presentation and workshop begun. I had sent some tutorial files to all those who confirmed participation. All of them came and surprisingly, there were two more participants, who hadn't confirmed their participation. That accelerated the participation by them. This itself was very encouraging. That means the participants who came that day were really serious of editing Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The workshop was conducted intermixing presentation and hands-on. By evening everyone had learnt how to edit Wikipedia, how to create headings, sub-headings, bulleted lists, text, numbered text, how to insert Wiki links as well as external links, etc. People picked up inserting reference as well quite quickly. Since majority of them were bloggers, they already knew the concepts but wanted to know the Wiki syntax which they picked up by the end of the workshop.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Harish M G, who is an admin with Kannada Wikipedia joined the workshop and helped in clearing many advanced doubts.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The result of the workshop is quite encouraging. Most of them have added contents and edited some existing pages as well. Thanks are due to Suchitra for sponsoring the venue and to Avadhi for co-organising this event.</p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span>Additional photos are here - </span></a><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Kannada_Wikipedia_workshop_for_bloggers_at_Suchitra">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Kannada_Wikipedia_workshop_for_bloggers_at_Suchitra</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-bloggers'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-bloggers</a>
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No publisherpavanajaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-07-03T10:19:56ZBlog EntryA Telugu Wiki Meetup @ CIS, Bangalore
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/telugu-wiki-meet-up-at-cis-june-2-2013
<b>On June 2, 2013, the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) hosted a Telugu wiki meetup in its Bangalore office. Updates from the meetup is shared in this blog post.</b>
<p><a class="external-link" href="http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%AC%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%B3%E0%B1%82%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%81_%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80_%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%82_:_2_%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%82%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D_2013">Access the Telugu wikipedia page about the event here</a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Unfortunately, I was unable to attend the <a class="external-link" href="http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%82/%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%81_%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE_%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%B9%E0%B1%8B%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%82_2013">Telegu Wiki Mahotsavam held in Hyderabad</a> earlier this year (in April 2013) due to personal and professional constraints even though <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Arjunaraoc">Arjuna Rao</a> called me twice and requested me to attend it. However, when he called again recently about a planned meetup in Bangalore, I willingly took up the initiative.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">I used the "<a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_in_Bangalore">Category: Wikipedians in Bangalore</a>" and communicated with all the Telugu users. I met <a class="external-link" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Visdaviva">T. Vishnu Vardhan</a>, Programme Director, <a class="external-link" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge">Access to Knowledge</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/" class="external-link">Centre for Internet and Society</a> and personally and took his views. Myself and Arjuna took the initial steps to organize this meeting. Arjuna managed to invite Dr. T. Ramakrishna and Gudipati Narayana for<a class="external-link" href="http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%82/%E0%B0%AC%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%B3%E0%B1%82%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%81/2_%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%82%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D_2013"> this meetup</a>. He also managed to announce about this event in the press.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We finally met at CIS and had a two-hour session:</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">The Programme</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">Welcome note by Sasi</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Mutual introductions</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">An introduction was given to <a class="external-link" href="http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%81">Telugu Wiki projects</a> with practical examples. (Using, searching, editing, interaction and getting help)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Guests’ doubts were clarified by the Telugu Wikipedians <a class="external-link" href="http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0">Ravichandra</a>, Arjuna and <a class="external-link" href="http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Veera.sj">Sasi</a></li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Dr. Ramakrishna suggested that parallel to the <a class="external-link" href="http://te.wikipedia.org/">Telugu Wikipedia</a> development, Telugu should be encouraged to be used in administration. This should start with interactions with the officials and the organizations working towards it</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Gudipati Narayana conveyed his view that Telugu Wikipedia can be used to increase the standards in Telugu teaching</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Both the guests promised that they will do their bit in organizing the Wikipedia awareness events in the organizations know to them</li>
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<td style="text-align: center; ">A group photo of Telegu Wikipedians from the meetup held at CIS, Bangalore is seen below</td>
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<td><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Photo.png" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Group Photo" /></td>
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<p><i>It is decided that a Telugu Wiki Meet-Up will be held on second Saturday of every month in Bangalore for Telugu Wikipedians.<br /></i></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/telugu-wiki-meet-up-at-cis-june-2-2013'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/telugu-wiki-meet-up-at-cis-june-2-2013</a>
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No publisherSJ VeeraTelegu WikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-08-19T06:53:18ZBlog EntryA Kannada Wikipedia Workshop in Udupi
https://cis-india.org/openness/events/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-udupi-april-29-2013
<b>The Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet and Society is organizing a Kannada wikipedia workshop at the MGM college in Udupi. Govinda Pai Research Centre, MGM College Udupi is sponsoring the event.The workshop will begin at 10.00 a.m. and end by 5.00 p.m. Dr. U.B.Pavanaja will give a talk on Kannada wikipedia.</b>
<p>The workshop will cover the following topics:</p>
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<li>What is Wikipedia?</li>
<li>Who edits Wikipedia?</li>
<li>How does Wikipedia work?</li>
<li>HOW TO EDIT?</li>
<li>What can I edit?</li>
<li>Why to contribute to Wikipedia</li>
<li>Kannada specific topics </li>
<li>Brief on Creative Commons</li>
<li>Hands-on</li>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-udupi-april-29-2013'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-udupi-april-29-2013</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpennessEvent2013-04-26T06:29:15ZEventReport of Wiki Workshop in Mangalore
https://cis-india.org/news/prajavani-mangalore-edition-april-10-2013-report-of-wikipedia-workshop
<b> 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.</b>
<p>Below is the report published in Prajavani on April 10, 2013.</p>
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<th><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/PV.png/@@images/55293059-d849-4105-92d1-b54dbd3e9e84.png" alt="Prajavani News Coverage" class="image-inline" title="Prajavani News Coverage" /><br /></th>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/prajavani-mangalore-edition-april-10-2013-report-of-wikipedia-workshop'>https://cis-india.org/news/prajavani-mangalore-edition-april-10-2013-report-of-wikipedia-workshop</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-04-16T06:14:42ZNews ItemKannada Wikipedia Workshop, Mysore — Coverage in Prajavani
https://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-report-in-prajavani
<b>A Kannada Wikipedia workshop was organized by the Centre for Internet and Society in Mysore on March 24, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the event. Prajavani has published a report of the event on March 25, 2013.</b>
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<th><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/PrajavaniWikiMeetupMysore.png" alt="Prajavani report" class="image-inline" title="Prajavani report" /></th>
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<td>Prajavani published a report of the Kannada Wikipedia workshop held at Mysore on March 25, 2013.<br /></td>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-report-in-prajavani'>https://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-report-in-prajavani</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-03-25T08:49:20ZNews ItemWiki Women's Day in Goa
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wiki-womens-day-in-goa
<b>International Women's Day (IWD), also called International Working Women's Day, is celebrated on March 8, every year. There were a series of Wikipedia events organised this year with the aim of increasing participation of women contributing to Wikipedia. One such event was organised by the Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet and Society and the Wikimedia India Chapter at the Nirmala Institute of Education (NIE), a Secondary Teacher Education College in Panaji, Goa on March 8, 2013.</b>
<p align="JUSTIFY">NIE is a respected institution providing pre- and in-service teacher education to thousands of teachers and about a 100 of them (99 per cent of the participants being women) joined in to learn Wikipedia editing and increase women related content on Wikipedia.</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY">Rohini Lakshane from the Wikimedia India Chapter and Nitika Tandon from Access to Knowledge, CIS lead the session jointly. The session began with the introduction of Wikipedia, Wikipedia volunteers, the five pillars, motivation of volunteers to contribute to Wikipedia tirelessly and a brief of different activities that are being organised to strengthen the Wikimedia movement in India. Most of the students and faculty members were curious about two main things:</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">How to integrate the new community of editors in Goa with the larger Indian and global community?</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">How can teachers and students use Wikipedia to advance students' knowledge and add useful content to Wikipedia?</li>
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<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/NethasVideo.png/@@images/7c6006be-6dee-4a10-b4bf-982ca38cf478.png" title="Netha's Video" height="247" width="330" alt="Netha's Video" class="image-inline" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center; ">Participants watching Netha's video</p>
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<p>To answer the first part, participants were informed about regular Wiki meet ups in different cities, several city based and language based Wikipedia mailing lists where one can find volunteer friends, active use of user talk pages and village pumps, Wikimedia India Facebook page amongst many others.</p>
<p>To address the second part there was also a brief discussion about wiki project classroom coordination with specific examples from universities around the world. The teachers and faculty members will be sent a detailed outline of the program, list of universities with on-going projects, list of teachers who have used Wikipedia as a teaching tool and are willing to serve as a contact to help others set up a similar teaching courses.</p>
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<p align="JUSTIFY">The session was planned to go on until late evening with hands on editing in the computer lab. But unfortunately, we (Rohini and Nitika) were informed that the session will have to close before the scheduled closing time as participants had to leave. Except for two or three participants coming on stage and making their user accounts and another 3-4 article edits, we couldn't include more editing as a part of the outreach session, primarily due to time constraint. We're hoping that at a small percentage of participants would try actual editing at home and contribute to women related articles and some of them will be successful in using Wikipedia as a teacher's tool. We have their contact details and we'll try and monitor their on Wiki activities and provide them support whenever needed.</p>
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<th><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/NIEWikipediaWorkshop.png" alt="NIE Wikipedia Workshop" class="image-inline" title="NIE Wikipedia Workshop" /></th>
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<td style="text-align: center; ">A picture of participants doing Wiki editing at the NIE workshop in Goa</td>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wiki-womens-day-in-goa'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wiki-womens-day-in-goa</a>
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No publishernitikaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaFeaturedWorkshopOpenness2013-03-19T06:32:25ZBlog EntryIntroductory Wikipedia session at BITS Goa
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-session-at-bits-goa
<b>The Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet and Society was invited by Nikhil Dixit, Public Relations Officer at the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani – Goa (BITS Goa) to organise Wikipedia session on March 7, 2013. Nitika Tandon participated in this workshop and shares with us the developments.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Despite the fact that students were busy with their exams and lab tests nearly 30 of them turned up for the event. Many of the students had already tried a bit of IP editing but had not bothered to create accounts. When asked why they hadn't created user accounts many of them said they didn't feel that it is important to create accounts till they are able to correct or add information that they want to share using IPs. The participants were then told about the importance of creating user accounts: using it as an identity with the Wikipedia community, each edit being added to their edit count, helping them build trust, friends and connections with other editors, being able to become Wikipedia administrators or system operators, etc.</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY">As most of the participants had some knowledge of Wikipedia editing, having made sporadic edits in the past, they wanted to know more about advanced editing. About an hour was therefore spent on actual hands on editing where students tried — adding references, wiki markups, info boxes, etc. Students were also taught on how to use user talk pages to interact with other editors. During the course of the workshop we figured that one of the participants had worked on <a href="http://live.wikimedia.in/">live.wikimedia.in</a> search in 2011 and we invited him to talk a little about his project, experience and involvement. A lot of students were surprised that one amongst their fellow students had worked with the Wikimedia movement in India and achieved so much success. His story really inspired several in the room and many participants made promises to get more involved as editors. Many participants were also curious to know more about Hackathons.</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY"><i>Our next step is to connect participants from all the workshops organised in Goa at <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITS_Goa">BITS Goa</a>, <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa_University">Goa University</a>, <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa_State_Central_Library">Central State Library</a> and Nirmala Institute of Education, since December last year, to enable and support them to organise regular Wiki meet-ups and programs, etc., and strengthen the Wikimedia movement in Goa</i>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-session-at-bits-goa'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-session-at-bits-goa</a>
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No publishernitikaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-07-26T11:40:41ZBlog Entry