Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] CIS-A2K December 2016 newsletter

[Tito Dutta]

Please read the subject-line of the email: "CIS-A2K December 2015
newsletter"
Regards.

On 13 January 2016 at 12:41, Tito Dutta  wrote:

> ​​Hello,
>
> Centre for Internet and Society’s Access To Knowledge (CIS-A2K) program
> would like to share with you the newsletter below for the month of December
> 2015. We look forward to hear any feedback or input you might have.
>
> As per the 2007 census of India, there are about 7.4 million speakers who
> speak Konkani as a native language. Many might not know though the language
> finally made a late entry on Wikipedia in 2014 with the release of the Goan
> Konkani Wikipedia (https://gom.wikipedia.org). Since the beginning of the
> project as an Incubator project, it has faced several issues; complications
> because of the multiple scripts used to write Konkani, building a community
> from scratch (
> http://www.dnaindia.com/blogs/post-konkani-wikipedia-climbing-up-the-indian-language-ladder-1885294v
> to contribute to the Wikipedia project, and finding encyclopedic resources
> to grow content. The Konkani community that contributes on Wikipedia is
> predominantly present in Goa with a few contributors living elsewhere. The
> statistical analysis of the last six months shows several trends of the
> project and community growth. There is an overall state of both the content
> and community seem to be stable with a total of 124 editors and 2400
> articles. However, the growth trends are little worrying as there is hardly
> any new editors that has joined the community in last six months. The
> active editors (with more than 5 edits a month) have also slowed down over
> time with a few them becoming inactive as the average of the number of
> active editors for the previous six months (January-June 2015) was 18 that
> has come down alarming to 5. Same is the case of very active editors (with
> more than 100 edits a month) and number of new articles being created every
> month. These downtrends are more of a result of the on-wiki, online and
> offline activities slowing down. There is a great need for more leadership
> and community-led activities that could be catalyzed by organizational
> support.
>
> . . . Read more on the CIS website:
> http://cis-india.org/openness/konkani-wikipedia-progress-from-july-to-december-2015
>
> == Resources created ==
>
> • Indic Wikipedia policies and guidelines handbook:
>
> Currently CIS-A2K is working with five Indian-language Wikimedia
> communities (Kannada, Konkani, Marathi, Odia and Telugu). While working
> with the mentioned Indic Wikimedia communities, we observed a number of
> issues affecting them and we also noticed that there are many similarities
> between the issues and difficulties faced by these communities. So, we
> decided to start working a help document "Indic Wikipedia Policies and
> Guidelines Handbook".
>
> At first, we created a short handbook discussing a number of topics, such
> as how to create new policies, or modify the existing ones, using village
> pump, enforcing policies etc. Then we talked to Indic Wikipedians to know
> more about the policies and guidelines-related issues and problems they are
> facing. We also asked to give their feedback on the first draft of this
> handbook.
>
> The handbook is now released now and may be seen here (
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indic_Wikipedia_Policies_and_Guidelines_Handbook.pdf).
>
>
> == Event organized/participated ==
>
> • Talk on bringing 1000 books about the culture of Maharashtra on Marathi
> Wikipedia (
> http://cis-india.org/openness/discussion-on-bringing-peshwa-culture-on-marathi-wikipedia):
>
>
> Maharashtra Granthottejak Sanstha, a Pune based non-profit that was
> founded in Justice Mahadev Govind Ranade and colleagues in 1894, has
> recently announced to digitise their 1000 volumes of books centred around
> Peshwa culture. A discussion about digitising these books and making them
> available online on Marathi Wikisource was organised on 1 December at the
> Energy Resources Institute (TERI), Bengaluru. Avinash Chaphekar, Joint
> Secretary of MGS addressed this talk.
>
> • Sau Dhuni Teen Project: December Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at Women's
> Studies Centre, University of Pune (
> http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/events/sau-dhuni-teen-project-december-edit-a-thon-at-womens-studies-centre-university-of-pune):
>
>
> A Wikipedia edit-a-thon was organized on 3 December at the Women's Studies
> Centre, University of Pune, as a part of the Sau Dhuni Teen project (
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K_/Projects/Sau_Dhuni_Teen) where
> this group of Wiki-women contributed to conceptualize Wikipedia as a
> knowledge resource. They not just edited Wikipedia articles but used
> Wikipedia as a platform to generate Indian language annotations of academic
> texts in women's studies and social sciences. More in this report (
> http://cis-india.org/openness/sau-dhuni-teen-project-december-edit-a-thon).
>
>
> • Indian language Wikipedias in the classr

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WMIN, on behalf of Global Tamil Wikimedia Community, signs an MoU with Tamil Virtual Academy

[omshivaprak...@gmail.com]

Awesome! Hope more  governments work on such a move. Kudos to all who made
it possible.
On 13-Jan-2016 20:19, "Subhashish Panigrahi" 
wrote:

> This is a great news!
>
> Just tweeted about this great policy change by the TN govt. :)
>
> best,
> subha
>
> On 1/13/2016 4:27 PM, Ravishankar Ayyakkannu wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 09th January 2016, WMIN, on behalf of Global Tamil Wikimedia Community,
> signed an MoU with Tamil Virtual Academy, Chennai.
>
> We will collaborate with or seek support from Tamil Virtual Academy under
> various domains including and starting with the following:
>
>- Policy initiatives for adoption of free content licenses in public
>institutions
>- Infrastructure support
>- Capacity building programs
>- Digitization of Galleries, Archives, Museums, Libraries in Tamil Nadu
>- Access to information for writing Wikipedia articles
>- Wikipedia content improvement
>- Outreach
>- Wikipedia in Education
>
> Global Tamil Wikimedia Community approved this collaboration with
> unananimous support. Full text of this MoU
>  can be seen here.
> *Tamil Virtual Academy* (TVA) is a high-profile
>  autonomous
> institution established by the Government of Tamil Nadu under its
> Information Technology Department. TVA aims at providing Internet-based
> resources and opportunities for the Tamil communities living in different
> parts of the globe as well as others interested in learning Tamil, Science,
> Technology, Tamil Computing software and acquiring knowledge of the
> history, art, literature and culture of the Tamils and to identify,
> establish, maintain and promote the solutions for the Tamil computing
> requirements of Tamil Diaspora, Government, Educational, Media and Business
> institution.
>
> We believe that collaborations like these will help us set the precedent
> to engage in free content advocacy works in other parts of the country.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ravi
>
>
>
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> @subhapa / https://cis-india.org
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WMIN, on behalf of Global Tamil Wikimedia Community, signs an MoU with Tamil Virtual Academy

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

This is a great news!

Just tweeted about this great policy change by the TN govt. :)

best,
subha

On 1/13/2016 4:27 PM, Ravishankar Ayyakkannu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 09th January 2016, WMIN, on behalf of Global Tamil Wikimedia
> Community, signed an MoU with Tamil Virtual Academy, Chennai.
>
> We will collaborate with or seek support from Tamil Virtual Academy
> under various domains including and starting with the following:
>
>   * Policy initiatives for adoption of free content licenses in public
> institutions
>   * Infrastructure support
>   * Capacity building programs
>   * Digitization of Galleries, Archives, Museums, Libraries in Tamil Nadu
>   * Access to information for writing Wikipedia articles
>   * Wikipedia content improvement
>   * Outreach
>   * Wikipedia in Education
>
> Global Tamil Wikimedia Community approved this collaboration with
> unananimous support. Full text of this MoU
>  can be seen here.
>
> *Tamil Virtual Academy* (TVA) is a high-profile
>  autonomous
> institution established by the Government of Tamil Nadu under its
> Information Technology Department. TVA aims at providing
> Internet-based resources and opportunities for the Tamil communities
> living in different parts of the globe as well as others interested in
> learning Tamil, Science, Technology, Tamil Computing software and
> acquiring knowledge of the history, art, literature and culture of the
> Tamils and to identify, establish, maintain and promote the solutions
> for the Tamil computing requirements of Tamil Diaspora, Government,
> Educational, Media and Business institution.
>
> We believe that collaborations like these will help us set the
> precedent to engage in free content advocacy works in other parts of
> the country.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ravi
>
>
>
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Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge
Centre for Internet and Society
@subhapa / https://cis-india.org

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] 2000+ books nationalized by The Government of Tamil Nadu released in Public domain

[Bala Jeyaraman]

Excellent work. This was a major irritant (the definition of "nationalised
work") in commons. Congratulations and thanks to all who made this possible.
On Jan 13, 2016 4:30 PM, "Ravishankar Ayyakkannu" 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> The Government of Tamil Nadu has declared all books that have been
> nationalized so far and all books that will be nationalized in future will
> be released under CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication
> license , when their
> copyright has not already expired according to  Indian Copyright Act, 1957
> and Indian Copyright Rules, 1958.
>
>
> Nationalization of books written by eminent people who have worked for the
> development of Tamil language and society is a pioneering scheme by Tamil
> Nadu Government where copyright is acquired following due procedure and the
> books are declared nationalized for public usage.
>
>
> The Government of Tamil Nadu first acquired rights for the works of Poet 
> Subramania
> Bharathi  in 1949 and
> announced his works as nationalized in 1963. Since then it has nationalized
> 2000+ works written by 100+ authors.
>
> In order to make these books fully available for public usage globally, it
> is essential that these books are available under a free content license.
>
> An official letter announcing this can be seen at
>
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tamil-Nadu-Nationalized-Books-Public-Domain-Declaration.jpg
>
> This announcement was made possible owing to the collaboration between
> Tamil Virtual Academy, Global Tamil Wikimedia Community and Wikimedia India.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ravi
>
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] 2000+ books nationalized by The Government of Tamil Nadu released in Public domain

[BalaSundaraRaman]

This is a key milestone, Ravi. Glad to hear it has materialised. Kudos to 
everyone who has worked for it. 
Cheers, Sundar 

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  On Wed, 13 Jan, 2016 at 4:29 pm, Ravishankar 
Ayyakkannu wrote:   
Hi,


The Government of Tamil Nadu has declared all books that have been nationalized 
so far and all books that will be nationalized in future will be released under 
CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication license, when their 
copyright has not already expired according to  Indian Copyright Act, 1957 and 
Indian Copyright Rules, 1958. 




Nationalization of books written by eminent people who have worked for the 
development of Tamil language and society is a pioneering scheme by Tamil Nadu 
Government where copyright is acquired following due procedure and the books 
are declared nationalized for public usage.




The Government of Tamil Nadu first acquired rights for the works of Poet 
Subramania Bharathi in 1949 and announced his works as nationalized in 1963. 
Since then it has nationalized 2000+ works written by 100+ authors.



In order to make these books fully available for public usage globally, it is 
essential that these books are available under a free content license. 

An official letter announcing this can be seen at 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tamil-Nadu-Nationalized-Books-Public-Domain-Declaration.jpg

This announcement was made possible owing to the collaboration between Tamil 
Virtual Academy, Global Tamil Wikimedia Community and Wikimedia India.

Thanks,

Ravi




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[Wikimediaindia-l] 2000+ books nationalized by The Government of Tamil Nadu released in Public domain

[Ravishankar Ayyakkannu]

Hi,


The Government of Tamil Nadu has declared all books that have been
nationalized so far and all books that will be nationalized in future will
be released under CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication
license , when their
copyright has not already expired according to  Indian Copyright Act, 1957
and Indian Copyright Rules, 1958.


Nationalization of books written by eminent people who have worked for the
development of Tamil language and society is a pioneering scheme by Tamil
Nadu Government where copyright is acquired following due procedure and the
books are declared nationalized for public usage.


The Government of Tamil Nadu first acquired rights for the works of
Poet Subramania
Bharathi  in 1949 and
announced his works as nationalized in 1963. Since then it has nationalized
2000+ works written by 100+ authors.

In order to make these books fully available for public usage globally, it
is essential that these books are available under a free content license.

An official letter announcing this can be seen at

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tamil-Nadu-Nationalized-Books-Public-Domain-Declaration.jpg

This announcement was made possible owing to the collaboration between
Tamil Virtual Academy, Global Tamil Wikimedia Community and Wikimedia India.

Thanks,

Ravi
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[Wikimediaindia-l] WMIN, on behalf of Global Tamil Wikimedia Community, signs an MoU with Tamil Virtual Academy

[Ravishankar Ayyakkannu]

Hi,

On 09th January 2016, WMIN, on behalf of Global Tamil Wikimedia Community,
signed an MoU with Tamil Virtual Academy, Chennai.

We will collaborate with or seek support from Tamil Virtual Academy under
various domains including and starting with the following:

   - Policy initiatives for adoption of free content licenses in public
   institutions
   - Infrastructure support
   - Capacity building programs
   - Digitization of Galleries, Archives, Museums, Libraries in Tamil Nadu
   - Access to information for writing Wikipedia articles
   - Wikipedia content improvement
   - Outreach
   - Wikipedia in Education

Global Tamil Wikimedia Community approved this collaboration with
unananimous support. Full text of this MoU 
can be seen here.
*Tamil Virtual Academy* (TVA) is a high-profile
 autonomous
institution established by the Government of Tamil Nadu under its
Information Technology Department. TVA aims at providing Internet-based
resources and opportunities for the Tamil communities living in different
parts of the globe as well as others interested in learning Tamil, Science,
Technology, Tamil Computing software and acquiring knowledge of the
history, art, literature and culture of the Tamils and to identify,
establish, maintain and promote the solutions for the Tamil computing
requirements of Tamil Diaspora, Government, Educational, Media and Business
institution.

We believe that collaborations like these will help us set the precedent to
engage in free content advocacy works in other parts of the country.

Thanks,

Ravi
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