Congratulations Rahimanuddin !
Best wishes for your new role.
Now your passion became your work. Lots of synergy !!!!!
-RK
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Nitika Tandon <nitika(a)cis-india.org>wrote;wrote:
Dear all,
We thank you all for your support and collaboration. Please find below
the details of our work in the month of November 2013.
CIS-A2K Narrative Report
This narrative report captures the work done by the A2K program during the
period of September 2012 to June 2013. It examines projects and activities
and its impact and outcomes over a period of the initial Ten months of the
Grant. This report will also inform CIS-A2K program’s strategy for the next
one year to achieve the goals set out by its donor, Wikimedia Foundation,
and
goals<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Programm…
in our Work
Plans<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_pla…
were developed in consultation with the Wikimedia community in
India). Importantly, this Narrative Report is critical for the Wikimedia
community in India, Global Wikimedia community and the Wikimedia Foundation
to get a comprehensive overview of A2K’s work and to critically assess the
A2K program’s eligibility for further support. The report compiled by by T.
Vishnu Vardhan, Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahi can be accessed at
http://bit.ly/1dFyjpO.
► Announcements
- CIS Signs MoU with Christ University, Bangalore (November 20, 2013):
The Access to Knowledge team signed a MoU as part of which CIS-A2K and
Christ University will impart Wikipedia education in Indian classrooms:
http://bit.ly/1ehr8kz.
- We are happy to share with you that Rahmanuddin Shaik has been
selected for the role of "Community Communications Consultant" at CIS-A2K!
Rahmanuddin is an active contributor on Wikimedia Commons, Telugu Wikipedia
and Telugu Wikisource:
http://bit.ly/1bwrEu3.
►Articles
- ಅಂತರ್ಜಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ನೆಟ್ಟ ಸಸಿಗೆ ಈಗ ಹತ್ತು ವರ್ಷ (by Dr. U.B. Pavanaja,
Kannada Prabha, November 1, 2013):
http://bit.ly/17LOw4O. The article
highlights 10 years of Kannada Wikipedia, the current status of the Kannada
Wikipedia vis-a-vis number of articles, number of editors, active editors,
and page views per month.
- Train The Trainer Programme for Wikipedians (by Subhashish
Panigrahi, DNA, November 14, 2013):http://bit.ly/ILwLMr. The article
was edited by Rohini Lakshane of DNA.
►Blog Entries
- Train the Trainer Program (by Subhashish Panigrahi, November 18,
2013):
http://bit.ly/18hjw0n.
- Konkani Vishwakosh Under CC-BY-SA (by Nitika Tandon, November 26,
2013):
http://bit.ly/1gnVV2z.
► Events Organised
- Wikipedia Orientation Programme for MA Students (Christ University,
Bangalore, November 12, 2013):
http://bit.ly/ItxAtu. Syed
Muzammiluddin was the trainer. Twenty students participated.
- Wikipedia Orientation Programme for the Second Language Students
(Christ University, Bangalore, November 12, 13, 16 and 19, 2013):
http://bit.ly/1bxsOYF. T. Vishnu Vardhan, Syed Muzammiluddin and Dr.
U.B.Pavanaja were the trainers. About 1200 second language students
participated in the programme.
- Documentation and Wikipedia Contribution — A One Day Workshop
(Kalinga Institute of Social Studies, Bhubaneswar, November 14, 2013). The
workshop was conducted by Subhashish Panigrahi:
http://bit.ly/1fSvl1v.
- Documentation and Wikipedia Workshop (Kalinga School of Management,
Bhubaneswar, November 16, 2013):
http://bit.ly/Imf0DV. Subhashish
Panigrahi conducted the workshop.
- Konknni Wikipedia Workshop (organised by Dalgado Konknni Akademi and
CIS-A2K, Goa Central State Library, November 16 and 17, 2013):
http://bit.ly/1fSwiH5.
- Tenth Anniversary of Wikipedia (H N Multimedia Hall, National
College, Basavanagudi, Bangalore, November 17, 2013):
http://bit.ly/1eJ6da9. Dr. U R Ananthamurthy, Prof. G. Venkatasubbiah
and Ravi Hegde were the guests of honour. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja conducted the
workshop.
- First Phase of Odia Wikipedia Workshop (Indian Institute of Mass
Communication, Bhubaneswar, November 18, 2013):
http://bit.ly/18doDer.
Subhashish Panigrahi conducted the workshop.
- Konkani Wikipedia Workshop (Nirmala Institute of Education, Goa,
November 19, 2013):
http://bit.ly/1fSAUwT. Nitika Tandon conducted the
event.
- Konkani Vishwakosh: Doubt Solving Session I (Goa Central State
Library, November 26, 2013):
http://bit.ly/1gnVV2z. Nitika Tandon
conducted the session.
- Konkani Vishwakosh: Doubt Solving Session II (Goa Central State
Library, November 28, 2013):
http://bit.ly/1gnVV2z. Nitika Tandon
conducted the session.
- Editing Sprint for Vishwakosh (Goa Central, State Library, November
30, 2013):
http://bit.ly/1gnVV2z. Nitika Tandon conducted the event.
► Event Co-organised
- The Relaunch of Creative Commons India (co-organised by Wikimedia
India, Acharya Narendra Dev College and CIS, India Islamic Cultural Centre,
November 12, 2013):
http://bit.ly/HPxrAO. Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Minister
of State for Human Resource Development was the chief guest at the event.
► Event Participated In
- Wikimedia Diversity Conference (organized by German Wikipedia
Community, GLS Campus, Berlin):
http://bit.ly/Ixr9W8. T. Vishnu
Vardhan was a speaker at this event and made a presentation on the
challenges and opportunities for the Wikimedia movement in India.
► Media Coverage
CIS gave its inputs for the following media coverage:
- Kannada Wikipedia and its Tenth Anniversary (RadioCity, November 2,
2013):
http://bit.ly/1dHEwBI.
- Indian Govt to Build Machine Translation System for 22 Indic
Languages (by Brindaalakshmi, Medianama, November 14, 2013):
http://bit.ly/J4qg7V. CIS MoU with Goa University is mentioned.
- 10th anniversary of Kannada wikipedia (by ND Shiva Kumar, The Times
of India, November 15, 2013):
http://bit.ly/IxqDr7.
- Tenth Anniversary of Kannada Wikipedia (Udayavani, November 15,
2013):
http://bit.ly/1aFwqF1.
- ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ಈಗ ದಶಮಾನೋತ್ಸವ. ಅದರ ಪ್ರಯುಕ್ತ ಒಂದು ಆಚರಣೆ (Avadhi
Website, November 16, 2013):
http://bit.ly/ImiBSy.
- ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಗೆ 10, ಬೆಳವಣಿಗೆ ಸಾಲದು: ಪ್ರೊ .ಜಿವಿ (OneindiaKannada,
November 17, 2013):
http://bit.ly/19blS17.
- Tenth Anniversary of Kannada Wikipedia (Vijayavani, November 17,
2013):
http://bit.ly/1b7exSa.
- ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ದಶಮಾನೋತ್ಸವ ಸಂಭ್ರಮ (Prajavani, November 18, 2013):
http://bit.ly/1hWtt9v.
- ಕನ್ನಡದ ಆನ್ಲೈನ್ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ ದುರ್ಬಲ (Vijaya Karnataka, November 19,
2013):
http://bit.ly/1hWtsCy.
- Panaji: DKA organizes two day Konkani Wikipedia workshop
(Daijiworld, November 18, 2013):
http://bit.ly/1inoi03.
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
Muzammiluddin Syed, one member Nitika Tandon in Delhi and one Advisor Dr.
Tejaswini Niranjana. Archives of our newsletters can be accessed here (
http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters). Wikipedians from various
communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs,
logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications at
http://bit.ly/TOcXId.
About CIS
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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 the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive
Director, at sunil(a)cis-india.org or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at
nishant(a)cis-india.org. To discuss collaborations on Indic language
wikipedia, write to T. Vishnu Vardhan, Programme Director, A2K, at
vishnu(a)cis-india.org
CIS is grateful to its donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation,
Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation and the Kusuma Trust which was
founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian
origin, for its core funding and support for most of its projects.
Thanks
Nitika Tandon
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