Dear all,
Apologies for the delay of December 2014 newsletter.
Below is the details of the activities by the Centre for Internet
and Society's Access To Knowledge program (CIS-A2K).
Students of physics, statistics and Telugu departments of Andhra Loyola
College spent 5 days of their Christmas vacation of 2014 to
edit and enrich Telugu Wikipedia and Wikisource. They
worked on their respective subject areas and came up with more
than 100 new articles on Telugu Wikipedia and about 300 pages
of Veeresalingam's works were typed on Telugu Wikisource.
Blog entries
- Odia
Wikisource campus project at Kalinga Institute of Social
Sciences (Subhashish Panigrahi; December 3, 2014).
- Several
Publications Now Available Under Creative Commons License
(Subhashish Panigrahi; December 28, 2014).
- Odia
Wikisource Workshop at New Delhi (Subhashish
Panigrahi;December 30, 2014). The event was organized by CIS in
collaboration with "The Intellects" on December 14.
Event
co-organized
- Odia
Wikisource Sabha (Co-organized by CIS-A2K and Odia
Wikimedia Community; November 28, 2014).Subhashish Panigrahi
participated in the event.
News and
media coverage
- Odia
Wikipedia (Dhatri; December 1, 2014).
- Odia
Wikipedia (Odiapua; December 1, 2014).
- Access
to Rare Books Made Easy (Diana Sahu; Indian Express;
December 5, 2014).
- Tulu
Wikipedia gets some push (Hindu Businessline; December 13,
2014).
- Tulu
Wikipedia (Kannada Prabha; December 14, 2014).
- Tulu
Wikipedia (Vijaya Karnataka; December 15, 2014).
- Tulu
Wikipedia (VijayaVani; December 27, 2014).
- Works
of Veerasalingam Pantulu on web (Hans India; December 31,
2014).
- Wiki
Winter Camp - Coverage in Sakshi(Sakshi; December 31,
2014).
- Wiki
Winter Camp - Coverage in Eenadu (Eenadu; December 31,
2014).
Participation
in event
- ICT
for Development (Organized by hrist University; December
3, 2014). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja was a speaker at this event.
- Swatantra
2014: Fifth International Free Software Conference, Kerala
(Organized by ICFOSS, Govt. of Kerala; Hotel Hycinth by Sparsa,
Trivandrum; December 18–20, 2014). T. Vishnu Vardhan chaired a
session on Wikimedia and Access to Knowledge in India and
Rahimanuddin Shaik co-presented on Making DLI Accessible.
Wikimedia Foundation has funded A2K to anchor the growth of
Wikimedia movement in India. The A2K team consists of six members,
four based in Bangalore: T. Vishnu Vardhan, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja,
Subhashish Panigrahi and Rahmanuddin Shaikh. One team member
Nitika Tandon has left from the organisation -- We wish Nitika all
the best for her career. We also have one Advisor Dr. Tejaswini
Niranjana working with us. Archives of our newsletters can be
accessed at http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters.
Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach
programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandise and media, public
relations and communications at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Requests
About CIS:
Centre for Internet and Society is a non-profit research
organization that works on policy issues relating to freedom of
_expression_, privacy, accessibility for persons with disabilities,
access to knowledge and IPR reform, and openness (including open
government, FOSS, open standards, etc.), and engages in academic
research on digital natives and digital humanities.Follow us
elsewhere
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CISA2K
CIS group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/cis.india
Visit us at: https://cis-india.org
Request for Collaboration:
We invite researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both
organisationally and as individuals, to collaboratively engage
with Internet and society and improve our understanding of this
new field. To discuss the research collaborations, write to Sunil
Abraham, Executive Director, at [email protected] or
Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at [email protected].
To discuss collaborations on Indic language wikipedia, write to T.
Vishnu Vardhan, Programme Director, A2K, at
[email protected] is grateful to its primary donor the
Kusuma Trust founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari,
philanthropists of Indian origin for its core funding and support
for most of its projects. CIS is also grateful to its other
donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy
International, UK, Hans Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and IDRC
for funding its various projects.
This bulletin is also available on Meta-wiki at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Reports/Newsletter/December_2014
Thank you all for your kind support and collaboration!
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