[Wikimedia-IN-PUN] CIS-A2K Newsletter January 2015

Wed, 25 Feb 2015 12:01:05 -0800

Dear all,

Below is the details of the activities by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access To Knowledge program (CIS-A2K).

Telugu Wikimedia Hackathon 2014

Telugu Wikimedia (including their projects Telugu Wikipedia, Telugu Wikisource etc.) is one of the largest and most powerful Indian language Wikimedia projects, and it is growing and expanding everyday[1]. In the last half of 2014, Telugu Wikimedia community members contacted CIS-A2K team with a request to organize a MediaWiki tutorial workshop for them. Following their request, on 28 December 2014, CIS-A2K team organized a MediaWiki hackathon event for Telugu Wikimedia community members to enhance their skills and understanding of technical matters related to MediaWiki usage. The theme of the workshop was “Mediawiki, its extensions and tools to work around” and it aimed at allowing Wikipedians to use MediaWiki tools more effectively.

Op-ed

  1. ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା ପାଇଁ ଅନ୍ତର୍ଜାତୀୟ ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ (Subhashish Panigrahi; The Samaja, January 31, 2015).

Blog Entry

  1. Telugu Wikimedia Hackathon 2014 (Rahmanuddin Shaik; January 31, 2015).

Media Coverage

  1. Works of Veerasalingam Pantulu on web (Hans India; January 1, 2015).
  2. Centre should partner local communities in 'Digital India': Expert (IANS and mirrored in Zee News; January 9, 2015).
  3. Musician donates Gwalior Gharana songs to free e-library (Times of India; January 20, 2015).

Participation in Event

  1. Citizen Media Summit 2015 (Organized by Global Voices; January 24 – 25, 2015).

Announcement

  1. 2015 Opensource.com Community Awards Every year, Opensource.com awards people from our community who have excelled in contributing and sharing stories about open source. Subhashish Panigrahi from the CIS-A2K team won the award under the category ‘People's Choice Awards’.

References

  1. Telugu Wikipedia Stats tables

The Access to Knowledge Team

  1. Wikimedia Foundation has funded A2K to anchor the growth of the Wikimedia movement in India. The A2K team consists of five members, all of them being based in Bangalore: T. Vishnu Vardhan, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja, Subhashish Panigrahi, Rahmanuddin Shaik and Tanveer. We also have one Advisor, Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana working with us.
    Archives of our newsletters can be accessed here. Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach programmes, technical bugs, logistics-merchandise and media, public relations and communications here.

About CIS

The Centre for Internet and Society is a non-profit research organisation 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.

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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 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].


This bulletin is also available on Meta-wiki at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Reports/Newsletter/January_2015

Thank you all for your kind support and collaboration!

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With Thanks & Regards
Rahmanuddin Shaik
Program Officer,
Centre for Internet and Society - Access 2 Knowledge Program 
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