Cross posting. Sent from my Cyanogen phone ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sunil Abraham <[email protected]> Date: 11 నవం 2015 4:07 PM Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] CIS-A2K 2.0 and new Programme Associates To:
> Dear Wikimedians, > > It gives me immense pleasure to announce that CIS-A2K is implementing its new > model of working - CIS-A2K version 2.0. This model takes on board many of the > criticisms that have been made of our work so far. > > We will be eliminating the role of Program Director in this version, and I > (from July, 2015) am the person at the Centre for Internet and Society in > charge of programming under the WMF grant. Nirmita Narasimhan (from this > month onwards), Policy Director will be assisting me. This will result in a > reduction of the budget. > > As part of this version 2.0, CIS-A2K would try to engage communities towards > an in depth analysis of community engagement, and take A2K programme closer > to the community by contracting Program Associates (PA). Each of the five > focus language areas(FLAs): Kannada, Konkani, Marathi, Odia and Telugu will > have one PA each working from the city or town where most of the community > members operate. This will help CIS-A2K understand the language community > more closely and work in accordance with needs of the community. Thus > avoiding duplication of resources and bringing focus to the activities > organised. The PAs will be directly managed and be held accountable by > members of each language community who will assign any work they want to be > done. CIS-A2K team will provide an additional layer of supervision and > oversight. This will reduce need for CIS staffers to travel from Bengaluru > for every event/activity. > > In addition, the existing employees at CIS-A2K would now be working for all > the five FLAs in a more specialized role as follows: > > Pavanja : Would be responsible for creating movement resources such as > handbook, tutorial videos, etc, and shall plan for creation, printing and > distribution. > Rahmanuddin : Would operate as technical liaison person. > Subhashish : Will help Wikipedians create blogs on Wikimedia blog and report > all events happening around, along with media publication and coverage of > events organised by the communities and A2K team. > Tanveer : Would be responsible for all insitutional partnerships and content > donation activities. Communities are encouraged to get in touch with Tanveer > if they want any specific institution to be explored for Wikipedia activities. > > This will enable the above core A2K team members to have multiple touch > points with the FLA Wikimedia communities. Unlike the previous model where a > single Programme Officer was solely responsible for activities for a FLA. > > Abhinav and Tito Dutta would be Program Associates and will be working on > Marathi Workplan and policy level discussions respectively. > > We have ensured that the PA selection process is done by community consensus. > Announcements were sent out on the FLA Wikipedia village pumps in the 2nd and > 3rd week of August. > A community nomination was expected to set the process rolling, but with > multiple people applying, A2K team asked the applicants to translate some of > the important movement resources documents (These were handbooks regarding > Editing Wikipedia, Illustrating Wikipedia, GLAM handbook, Free licenses > handbook and so on) to assess the applicants understanding of Wikimedia > projects. > > The translations sent by the participants were put up for community members > to review (these were uploaded by candidates on commons.wikimedia.org). The > reviews did not offer any decisive inputs regarding finalising PA position. > It was also felt based on visit and conversations with Telugu Wikipedia > community members, that a selection committee should be constituted for > selecting PA for each language. > > Telugu - > > Telugu announcement was made on 19 August, Candidate A applied on 20 August. > As this was the only application, the application deadline was extended to 15 > September and an announcement in this regard was put out on 7 September on > Telugu Wikipedia village pump. Candidate B and Candidate C submitted their > applications on 26 September and 28 September respectively. Mr. Ravi > Vyzasatya, Dr. Rajsekhar and Ms. Sujatha were part of the selection > committee. Selection committee members and their profiles: > > Ravi Vyzasatya: Mr. Ravi Vyzasatya with username వైజాసత్య is one of the > earliest Telugu Wikipedians and sysop on Telugu Wikipedia and Telugu > Wiktionary. He has been a Wikipedian for more than 10 years. His areas of > interest are research articles, biographies of personalities. He is > instrumental in creation of village articles on Wikipedia using his bot, > which has created close to 24,000 articles on Telugu Wikipedia. He also > proposes rules and policies on Telugu Wikipedia. By profession he is a > researcher with expertise in Molecular Biology, Immunology, Cell Biology. > > > Rajasekhar: Dr. Rajasekhar, username Rajasekhar1961, has been a Telugu > Wikipedian for over 8 years and is a bureaucrat & sysop on Telugu Wikipedia, > sysop on Telugu Wikisource and Telugu Wiktionary. He was one of the senior > most Wikipedians with interest in wide range of areas like Biology, Telugu > language, Yoga, Telugu personalities, Medicine and Transportation. He is a > pathologist by profession. Interesting thing is that he has turned his lab > into Wikipedia help centre and has provided his phone number publicly for > anyone to call and know about Wikipedia. > > Sujatha: Ms. Sujatha Thummapudi, username T.sujatha, has been a Telugu > Wikipedian for over 9 years and is a sysop on Telugu Wikipedia, Wiktionary > and Wikisource. She has been writing articles on spirituality, religion, > places and so on. She was part of the Lilavathi's daughters project and lead > the project in Telugu. She, along with her husband Mr. Sriramamurthy garu has > been actively working in Te Wiktionary, Te Wikipedia and Te Wikisource as > well. > > Mr. Ravi Vyzasatya asked the three candidates two questions and the > candidates answered the same on Tewiki village pump. Later A2K team asked the > selection committee to send us their decision. > > The selection committee for Telugu came to a consensus and selected Mr. Pavan > Santhosh as the candidate for the post of PA for Telugu for a period of 3 > months on trial basis. If the performance is satisfactory during this period, > we can continue with him. His profile is given below: > > Pavan Santhosh: He has been a very active Telugu Wikipedian with more than > 16000 edits to his credit and has worked extensively to improve content and > quality in Telugu Wikipedia, Wikisource & Wiktionary. He was the joint > secretary of the committee that organized the 11th anniversary of Telugu > Wikipedia. He has been an Individual Engagement grantee from Wikimedia > Foundation for the project “Making Telugu content accessible”. He has > organized and co-organized many meetups, events and outreach programs. > > > Kannada - > > The announcement for PA was made on Kannada Wikipedia village pump on August > 12, It was postponed twice to 15 September and 15 October. The decision was > given by selection committee in last week of October. > Selection committee members and their profiles: > > Tejas Jain (User:Teju2friends): Software engineer by profession. Has been an > active Kannada Wikipedian since 2007. Has more than 4500 edits in Kannada > Wikipedia, about 250 in Kannada Wiktionary, about 35 in Kannada Wikiquote. He > has also contributed to other Wikimedia projects. He has written useful > scripts. He has participated in many Kannada Wikipedia events, meetups and > conducted outreach programs. > > Harish M G (User:M G Harish): Software engineer by profession. Has been an > active Kannada Wikipedian since 2006. He has more than 2700 edits to his > credit in Kannada Wikipedia, about 105 in Kannada Wikiquote. He has been an > administrator of Kannada Wikipedia. he has written useful scripts. He has > participated in many Kannada Wikipedia event, meetups and conducted many > outreach programs. > > Vikas Hegde (User:Vikashegde): Software engineer by profession. Has been an > active Kannada Wikipedian since 2009. He has nearly 800 edits to his credit > in Kannada Wikipedia and about 35 edits in Kannada Wikiquote. He has also > contributed to other Wikimedia projects. He has been the major contributor to > some projects in Kannada Wikipedia. He has participated in many Kannada > Wikipedia events and meetups. He is also a well known Kannada blogger and > written some useful blogs about using Kannada in IT. > > The selection committee has agreed to appoint Mr. Ananth Subray for a period > of 3 months on trial basis. If the performance is satisfactory during this > period, we can continue with him. Here is a profile of Mr. Ananth Subray. As > he is a student, he would be employed as an intern. > > Ananth Subray (User:Ananth subray): Mr. Ananth Subray is a 2nd year BSc. > (PCM) student at Christ University, Bengaluru. He has been part of the > Wikipedia Education Program in the university from last 2 years. Having been > recommended by the faculty and his other fellow batch-mates, he also helped > us to run the Wikisource activities for the Education Program for the junior > batches in his university. Ananth is fluent in Kannada, Hindi and Telugu > apart from English. Even though new in the Wikimedia community, Ananth has > been a fast learner and is active as a Wikimedian. He has participated in the > Mediawiki Train-the-Trainer programme conducted by CIS-A2K this year. > > > Konkani > > The Konkani Wikipedia community has selected Ms. Melissa Simoes as the > consensus candidate to become the next PA for Konkani. Here is her profile. > > Melissa Simoes (User:Melissa Simoes on gom.wikipedia.org): She is a graduate > and has a degree in education. She has worked as teacher in a high school at > Goa. She has been a very active Konkani Wikipedian and has contributed whole > heartedly to Konkani Wikipedia. She had important contribution in making > Konkani Wikipedia go live. Writing poems is one of her hobbies. > > > Odia > > The announcement for Odia Wikipedia PA was made on 14th August, but was > postponed to 10th October as one of the previous selection committee members > requested that he would want to apply for the post. A new selection committee > was formed. The selection committee gave their decision on 1 November. > Selection committee members and their profiles > > Mrutyunjaya(User:MKar): most active Wikimedian in the Odia Wikimedia > community so far. Admin on Odia Wikipedia and Odia Wikisource. Been active in > building the "WikiTungi" (Odia Wikimedia user group) in Nalconagar where he > has brought many Wikimedians onboard. Active in conducting community surveys, > designing and implementing WikiProjects and WEP; discussion and content > acquisition for Wikisource from many authors. > > Shitikantha Dash(User:ଶିତିକଣ୍ଠ ଦାଶ): OR WT admin, active in WP and WT. > created over 100K words by using a 1930 lexicon, created an encoding > converter for Shreelipi Oriya font-Unicode conversion. MWTTT participant and > active tech contributor in OR WM community. Currently pursuing MTech in > Rourkela, Odisha. > > Harihar Prasad Satapathy(User:Hpsatapathy): Works in the court at Rayagada. > Active since 2014 on OR WP and EN WP. The articles he created about Rayagada > distt. been the highest no. of articles ever created about any distt. on OR > WP. > > The selection committee has agreed to appoint Mr. Sailesh Patnaik for a > period of 3 months on trial basis. If the performance is satisfactory during > this period, we can continue with him. Here is a profile of Mr. Sailesh > Patnaik. As he is a student, he would be employed as an intern. > > Sailesh Patnaik(User: Saileshpat): Mr. Sailesh Patnaik is a Mechanical > Engineering student at KIIT University, Bhubaneswar. He has been active in > Wikimedia Movement from last three years. He is also involved and > coordinating with CIS-A2K from 2013 for the growth of Odia Wikipedia and > strengthening the community. He is already handling the social media accounts > and outreach programs for Odia Wikipedia. > > Hope the Wikipedia communities in India will continue to guide us and hold as > accountable with their feedback and criticism during A2K version 2.0 so that > we can continue to evolve and change the programme. > > Best wishes, > > Sunil > > Ph: +91 9611100817 _______________________________________________ WikiTe-L mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikite-l
