The Centre for Internet and Society https://cis-india.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 261 to 275. Odia Wikipedia Workshop to be organised in Puri https://cis-india.org/openness/odia-wikipedia-workshop-to-be-organised-in-puri <b>In collaboration with the the Google Local guides group, the first ever Odia Wikipedia workshop in Puri is being organised on this December 20.</b> <p>This workshop aims at helping the participants learn about creating and improving the Odia Wikipedia articles about the local places, people, and culture of the historical town Puri and the district. Currently there is some presence of the town and the district on Odia Wikipedia but majority of the content are related only to Jagannath temple. The participants will be oriented with <a class="external-link" href="https://or.wikipedia.org/s/3h">Wikipedia's basics</a>, <a class="external-link" href="https://or.wikipedia.org/s/jxw">policy and guidelines </a>of Odia Wikipedia, Odia-alphabet input. The event is free and open to everyone.</p> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/odia-wikipedia-workshop-to-be-organised-in-puri'>https://cis-india.org/openness/odia-wikipedia-workshop-to-be-organised-in-puri</a> </p> No publisher Sailesh Patnaik CIS-A2K Odia Wikipedia 2015-12-29T11:55:12Z Event Kannada Wikipedia Editathon: Vijayavani https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-vijayavani <b>The article was published in Vijayavani on December 11, 2015. A scanned version of the article is given below.</b> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/VijayavaniMangaluruDec112015.jpg/@@images/0a33d6f1-4943-4481-8c56-bd80ae3891f1.jpeg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Vijayavani" /><img src="https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-vijayavani" alt="null" id="__mce_tmp" title="Kannada Wikipedia Editathon: Vijayavani" /></p> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-vijayavani'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-vijayavani</a> </p> No publisher praskrishna CIS-A2K Kannada Wikipedia Access to Knowledge 2016-01-05T06:34:46Z News Item Kannada Wikipedia Editathon: Vijaya Karnataka https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-vijaya-karnataka <b>The article was published in Vijaya Karnataka on December 11, 2015. A scanned version of the article is below.</b> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/VijayaKarnatakaMangaluruDec112015.jpg/@@images/b282e3da-5a01-4064-aa40-dbe6d4226ca6.jpeg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Vijayakarnataka" /></p> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-vijaya-karnataka'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-vijaya-karnataka</a> </p> No publisher praskrishna CIS-A2K Kannada Wikipedia Access to Knowledge 2016-01-05T06:35:13Z News Item Kannada Wikipedia Editathon in Mangalore: Udayavani https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-in-mangalore-udayavani <b>The article was published in Udayavani on December 11, 2015. A scanned version of the article is given below.</b> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/UdayavaniMangaluruDec112015.jpg/@@images/a22f9ba2-c6cb-41ee-8daf-6e8143d895ea.jpeg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Udayavani " /></p> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-in-mangalore-udayavani'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-in-mangalore-udayavani</a> </p> No publisher praskrishna CIS-A2K Kannada Wikipedia Access to Knowledge 2016-01-05T06:36:24Z News Item Kannada Wikipedia Editathon: Udayavani Coverage https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-udayavani-coverage <b>The article was published in Udayavani on December 7, 2015. A scanned version of the article is below.</b> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/UdayavaniMangaluruDec072015.jpg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Udayavani" /></p> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-udayavani-coverage'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-udayavani-coverage</a> </p> No publisher praskrishna CIS-A2K Kannada Wikipedia Access to Knowledge 2016-01-05T06:36:53Z News Item Kannada Wikipedia Editathon in Prajavani https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-in-prajavani <b>The article was published in Prajavani on December 13, 2015. A scanned version of the article is below.</b> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/PrajavaniMangaluruDec132015.jpg/@@images/fbc094d4-6ac1-4e14-93ed-666103c6fcfc.jpeg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Prajavani Mangaluru Edition" /></p> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-in-prajavani'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-in-prajavani</a> </p> No publisher praskrishna CIS-A2K Kannada Wikipedia Access to Knowledge 2016-01-05T06:39:56Z News Item Kannada Wikipedia Editathon: Prajavani https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-prajavani-mangal <b>The article was published in Prajavani Mangal on December 11, 2015. A scanned version of the article is given below.</b> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/PrajavaniMangaluruDec112015.jpg/@@images/855a3251-6bb9-43a3-84a8-a3285c5d9976.jpeg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Prajavani Mangal" /></p> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-prajavani-mangal'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-prajavani-mangal</a> </p> No publisher praskrishna CIS-A2K Kannada Wikipedia Access to Knowledge 2016-01-05T06:40:23Z News Item Kannada Wikipedia Editathon Coverage in Prajavani https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-prajavani-mangal <b>The article was published in Prajavani Mangal on December 10, 2015. A scanned version of the article is below.</b> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/PrajavaniMangaluruDec102015b.jpg/@@images/62c10e73-16ef-44e1-b84a-1be2a70e7e3e.jpeg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Prajavani Mangal" /></p> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-prajavani-mangal'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-prajavani-mangal</a> </p> No publisher praskrishna CIS-A2K Kannada Wikipedia Access to Knowledge 2016-01-05T06:40:52Z News Item Post More Articles on Kannada Wikipedia https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/post-more-articles-on-kannada-wikipedia <b>The article was published in Indian Express, Mangaluru edition on December 12, 2015. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja was quoted. A scanned version of the article is given below.</b> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/IndianExpressMangaluruDec122015.jpg/@@images/6deff004-d1f3-40c6-9c12-38add439df54.jpeg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Indian Express Article" /></p> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/post-more-articles-on-kannada-wikipedia'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/post-more-articles-on-kannada-wikipedia</a> </p> No publisher praskrishna CIS-A2K Kannada Wikipedia Access to Knowledge 2016-01-05T06:38:06Z News Item English and Telugu Wikipedia edit-a-thon in Hyderabad https://cis-india.org/openness/english-and-telugu-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-hyderabad <b>After a long time, a collaborative Telugu and English Wikipedia edit-a-thon is being organised in Hyderabad on December 20.</b> <p id="docs-internal-guid-98d87700-f6fa-1493-9772-105a5994d0a4" dir="ltr">This Sunday, the Telugu and English language Wikipedia editors are organising a unique edit-a-thon at Golden Threshold, Abids. The event is aimed at translating many English Wikipedia articles related to Telugu language and culture to Telugu and vice versa. Theatre scholar and Telugu Wikimedian Pranay Raj Vangari and English Wikimedian Srikar Kasyap are organising this event with support from Centre for Internet and Society. Telugu speakers who contribute to English Wikipedia are going to contribute to Telugu Wikipedia. “The event is scheduled at 10 am and over a dozen articles are planned to be created during the sprint”, explains Vangari. Kashyap adds saying, “the Wikimedians are also planning to share best practices of the two communities which will benefit everyone”. The event is open to all and newbies will be oriented with the basics of Wikipedia editing and enriching the knowledge pool in Telugu and other languages on the Internet.</p> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/english-and-telugu-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-hyderabad'>https://cis-india.org/openness/english-and-telugu-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-hyderabad</a> </p> No publisher Pavan Santosh CIS-A2K Wikipedia Telugu Wikipedia Access to Knowledge 2015-12-31T07:49:19Z Event Kannada Wikipedia edit-a-thon in St. Agnes College, Mangaluru to bridge gender gap in Wikipedia https://cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-st-agnes-college-mangaluru-to-bridge-gender-gap-in-wikipedia <b>As part of a series of workshops to mark the 13th anniversary, Kannada Wikipedia, a Kannada Wikipedia edit-a-thon was organised during this 10th-12th in St. Agnes College, Mangaluru to address the issue of gender gap in Wikipedia. </b> <p>Totally 24 female students Wikimedians participated in this edit-a-thon. Three female Wikipedia editors from the institution also joined as facilitators. Vishwanatha Badikana, Kannada professor of the institution who is also a Kannada and Tulu Wikipedian inaugurated the event as chief guest. The first day was spent in demonstrating about the <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wiki_markup">Wiki markup</a>. During the following two days the participants created articles about notable writers and other notable women of coastal Karnataka. 25 new articles were created by the participants on the second day. By the end of the last day, 25 more articles were created in <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About_the_Sandbox">sandboxes</a> on the last day by lunch time. They will soon work on the articles and improve before moving them to the article namespace so they become live articles. From the three day long edit-a-thon about 75 new articles are expected to come on Kannada Wikipedia. More details about the edit-a-thon could be read on Kannada Wikipedia <a class="external-link" href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/s/1e9n">event page</a>.</p> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-st-agnes-college-mangaluru-to-bridge-gender-gap-in-wikipedia'>https://cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-st-agnes-college-mangaluru-to-bridge-gender-gap-in-wikipedia</a> </p> No publisher pavanaja Wikipedia CIS-A2K Kannada Wikipedia 2016-01-12T11:22:25Z Blog Entry Sau Dhuni Teen Project: December Edit-a-thon https://cis-india.org/openness/sau-dhuni-teen-project-december-edit-a-thon <b>As part of the "Sau Dhuni Teen Project" a multilingual Wikipedia Wikipedia edit-a-thon was organised at the Women's Studies Centre, University of Pune.</b> <p><strong>Concept note:</strong><br />The digital domain is becoming increasingly significant as a knowledge repository today. Especially relevant in this context is the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which contains information on almost every topic under the sun and is used extensively by researchers. The fact that information from the Wikipedia is even used as a starting point of academic writing necessitates thinking about how this information is organized, or in other words, how we conceptualize Wikipedia as a knowledge resource. In the multilingual Indian context, generation of content in the Indian languages is a logical next step. It is with the intention of strengthening this knowledge network in the social sciences, that Women's Studies Centre, Pune University conducts content generation workshops with university researchers. The broad mandate of the digital resource generation workshop is to introduce university students to tools of collaborative knowledge production on the internet and methods for generating new online content in Indian languages under Sau Dhuni Teen Project. Also introductory session on Wiktionary.</p> <p><strong>Project aim:</strong></p> <ul><li>Facilitate researchers to think critically about concepts and their associations</li><li>Involve researchers as active editors on the Indian language Wikipedias</li><li>Utilize Wikipedia as a platform to generate Indian language annotations of academic texts in Women's Studies and the Social Sciences</li></ul> <p>The organisers are also planning to engage the students in annotating one key women's studies text each through follow-up workshops and credit them as contributors to the "Annotated Bibliography project"</p> <strong>Project outcome:</strong> <p>9 female participants joined for this edit-a-thon and edited various articles on Marathi Wikipedia. The Marathi Wikimedia community being quite particular about the citations from Marathi-language source was somehow challenging as the participants struggled at times to find much information about many things notable. A simple step by step <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basic_Guidelines_for_your_Wikipedia_entry.pdf">tutorial</a> was created, printed and shared among the participants. Some of the participants showed interest in participating in the <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian">Train-a-Wikipedian</a> programme that CIS-A2K is planning. Sheena D'Lima engaged with the participants by sharing her learning from <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:MOS">Manual of Style</a> for writing Wikipedia article.</p> <strong>More information about the event on <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K_/Projects/Sau_Dhuni_Teen/December_2016_Edit-a-thon_at_Krantijyoti_Savitribai_Phule's_Women's_Studies_Centre,_Pune_University">Meta.</a></strong> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/sau-dhuni-teen-project-december-edit-a-thon'>https://cis-india.org/openness/sau-dhuni-teen-project-december-edit-a-thon</a> </p> No publisher garule Marathi Wikipedia CIS-A2K Access to Knowledge 2015-12-08T10:30:09Z Blog Entry TTT 2015 https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/ttt-2015 <b>The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) conducted a four day training workshop for Wikimedians all over India in order to facilitate conducting and organising outreach activities for promotion of Wikimedia activities within Indian language communities. Wikimedians from 21 language communities had participated in this training workshop including Wikipedians working for Nepali and Maithili Wikipedia.</b> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">CIS-A2K was successful in providing an idea exchange platform during the TTT workshop. Wikipedians from all over India got a chance to discuss their respective Wikimedia projects and identify best practices that could be customised for their own Wikimedia projects.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">CIS-A2K conducted TTT 2015 with a clear objecive of training Indian Wikimedians in conducting effective outreach activites, As a reflective exercise on the efficacy of our TTT camp held in Bangalore during February, 2015 we are now conducting follow-up with the participants and I have contacted three Wikipedians (for the month of November 2015) and following are the updates:</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Sailesh Patnaik (Odia Wikimedian):</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Activities till now:</p> <ol> <li>Attended Google I/O Bhubaneswar to deliver a talk about Wikipedia movement.</li> <li>Has organized a workshop at KIST Bhubaneswar with 50+ participants.</li> <li>Was invited by GDG Bhubaneswar group to deliver a talk about Wikipedia project during Google Dev Fest.</li> <li style="text-align: justify;">Presented a seminar at CET Bhubaneswar after the invitation from the organizing committee of the Perception (The Annual tech fest of CET , Bhubaneswar).</li></ol> <p>Upcoming Activities</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Planning to organize a Wiki Takes Bhubaneswar photowalk and am also planning a GLAM project with a Cooperative society powered by Central Government and spread Open Source movement in Odisha.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">V.T. Narayanan and Sayant Mahato (Samskritam Wikipedians):</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Activities till now:</p> <ol> <li>In May 2015, Samskrita Bharati organized a camp in Kalladka.</li> <li>In July 2015 : Rashtriya Sanskrit Samsthan, Sringeri (Now Sringa Giri) organized a symposium for their staff and students.</li> <li>In August 2015, Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidya Peeta, Tirupathi organized&nbsp; introductory classes on Wikipedia. Sayant Mahato attended the programme and expained in detail about Sanskrit Wikipedia.</li> <li style="text-align: justify;">Later in August 2015, at Aksharam, Bangalore, Samskrita Bharati conducted a " Medha Shibiram" exclusively oriented to youngsters and students who are based outside India like in USA. The Shibiram was well received both by the students and their parents. The participants were very interested to know about Sanskrit Wikipedia.</li> <li>Samskrita Bharati is engaged in the work of editing the existing articles in Wikipedia. </li></ol> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/ttt-2015'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/ttt-2015</a> </p> No publisher hasan CIS-A2K Access to Knowledge Wikimedia Wikipedia WikipedianSpeak 2015-12-15T07:36:25Z Blog Entry Touch Point Report: Department of Tourism Studies, Christ University and St. Aloysius College, Managalore https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/department-of-tourism-studies-christ-university-st-aloysius-college <b>CIS-A2K conducts Wikipedia in Education programme at St. Aloysius colege, Mangalore. This partnership is unique as it provides to us a pool of editors for three Wikimedia projects, i.e: Kannada, Tulu and Konkani. </b> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">Touch point Report:</p> <h3 style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">St. Aloysius</h3> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">With editors from St. Aloysius college taking lead in organising 13<sup>th</sup> anniversary of Kannada Wikipedia anniversary, Kannada Wikipedia is growing in Mangalore and can be expected to produce content and engagement regularly similar to Bangalore and Mysore volunteers.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">Activites</p> <ol> <li>Translation of system messages for Tulu Wikipedia</li> <li>Creating Tulu WP tutorial videos</li> <li>Guiding St Aloysius College Student interns</li> <li>Planning of&nbsp; 13<sup>th</sup> anniversary of Kannada Wikipedia anniversary</li></ol> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">Reporting on the learning: PEG application created after extensive discussion with the student volunteers and Mr. Vishwanth Badikana who is primary coordinator of the event.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">New developments: A possible partnership with Karnataka Tulu Academy is being explored, this could lead to content donation.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">Failures: Non-availabilty of scanners hampered our chances of securing some important primary resources that would have been useful for content generation.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">Primary Contact: Mr. Vishwanath Badikana,</p> <h3 style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">Christ University</h3> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">Introduction: A2K team is implementing its largest Wikipedia in Education programme at Christ University. This programme has been under operation since 2013 and has seen multiple revisions regarding: faculty engagement, evaluation process, student contributions and A2K team's responsibilties.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">Activites: Edit-a-thon on Wikivoyage organised at Department of Tourism Studies, Christ University, Bangalore</p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">Reporting on the learning: 1) As the edit-a-thon was happening on English Wikivoyage and A2K team had not intimated about the event to the larger community, there were instances of accounts being blocked and ip address being blocked as well.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">A2K conducted Wikivoyage&nbsp; edit-a-thon and was surprised to see that many tourist places in India do not find mention on this Wikimedia project.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">New developments: Interest shown by the faculty of&nbsp; Department of Tourism Studies, Christ University to host the student assignments on Wikimedia projects.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">Failures: A2K was unable to help students to upload images onto commons.wikimedia.org during the session. A follow up session is being planned.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Primary Contact: Ms. Mugdha Kulkarni, mugdha.shailendra@christuniversity.in</p> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/department-of-tourism-studies-christ-university-st-aloysius-college'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/department-of-tourism-studies-christ-university-st-aloysius-college</a> </p> No publisher hasan Open Educational Resources CIS-A2K Access to Knowledge Wikimedia Wikipedia 2015-12-15T07:37:14Z Blog Entry Analysis of Institutional Partnerships: University of Mysore and Guru G Learning Labs https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/analysis-of-institutional-partnerships-university-of-mysore-and-guru-g-learning-lab <b>University of Mysore considered to be one of the most prestigious institutions in the country has been famous for its innovative pedagogic techniques and opening up for students various avenues of knowledge acquisition.</b> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard">The Kannada Encyclopedia project that was taken up by the Kuvempu Kannada Adhyana Samsthe, (KIKS), Manasagangothri, Mysore was one of its kind during its inception. It is safe to say that though Kannda has seen many other projects and attempts towards compiling encyclopedias, to this day the Vishwakoshas produced by University of Mysore are among the top picks regarding quality of the content, scope of the information and its reach with the general public. Many other encyclopedia projects such as “Bala Vignana Kosha” compiled by Shivaram Karanth, “Jnana Gangothri” by Niranjana, the “Kananda Sahitya Vishwakosha” from the Kannada University, Hampi have provided encyclopedic content to the Kannada readers.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard">The idea of the University of Mysore complied Vishwakoshas was simple. It seeked to provide basic and elemenatry information about key topics all around the universe (physical, spiritual, material, cultural, social, behavioural, political and many other domains of knowledge) to the general public. The intention was to make information accessible and easily understandable. It was not expected to educate or assist people in gaining profieciency regarding a certain topic but was expected to provide salient features, brief history and concise introduction.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard"><strong>Rationale for Institutional partnership:</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard">The compilation of topics that were to be part of the Vishwakosha was done alphabetically and till date 13 Vishwakoshas have been produced along with one Kannada Vishaya Vishwakosha which exclusively deals with matters pertaining to Kannada land, language, literature, politics, culture, entertainment and other aspects of Kannada life. The Vishwakosha project was a method to democratise the process of production of knowledge. People from all walks of life were invited to contribute to the Vishwakosha along with the academicians and researchers. The submissions were then scrutinised by the review committee and was edited, information added as per the requirements. As this was not a text only Vishwakosha many attempts were made to source images as well. These were not used as ornamental or page filling purpose but was also informative in its own way with adequate meta data.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard">These encyclopedias have been extremely popular with the Kannada audience both for the content and for its competitive pricing. Prasaranga, the publication division of University of Mysore had also offered an discount for people who would purchase the entire set of Vishwakoshas at a special rate. The Vishwakosha project faced many problems and the last volume of the Vishwakosha was released in the year , while the first volume was released in . University of Mysore has also digitised the Vishwakoshas and made it avaialable for general public on a CD.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard"><strong>Plan of Action:</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard">Access to Knowledge team sought to bring these treasure troves of Knowledge onto the digital platform and update the information available on these Vishwakoshas. It was a shot in the arm for the activities being conducted by CIS-A2K when University of Mysore agreed to re-release all of its encyclopedias under free licence for the benefit of larger Kannada community. University of Mysore also agreed to handover soft copies of the few encyclopedias (that were already digitised) to create and redirect content towards Kannada Wikipedia.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard">A2K team has conducted three skill building and Wikipedia orientation workshops with the students of University of Mysore in order to kick start the content generation activities. These workshops were received very positively by the students. However due to lack of an active community and serious infrastructural issues the students could not continue with the activities that had been planned. Due to the inactivity of these new volunteers we have witnessed a decrease in the activity of content generation effort as aimed earlier.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="Textbody">CIS-A2K facilitated extracting the legacy text from the soft-copies, converting them to Unicode, distributing the files among volunteers and Christ University interns and uploading them to Kannada Wikisource. These articles will serve as primary material for new content generation on Kannada Wikipedia. CIS-A2K celeberated Open Knowledge Day in collaboration with University of Mysore.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard">The non availability of infrastructual requirement, administrative difficulties such as scheduling of academic calendar offered the A2K team many invaluable lessons towards fostering an institutional partnership. A2K team adopted corrective measures and has been using the encyclopedias donated by University of Mysore as a primary reference for the subsequent edit-a-thons. A2K has also created a project page on Meta to attract Kannada Wikimedians towards content generation.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard"><strong>Outcome and Output:</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard">A2K team utilised its institutional partnership with Christ University in the initial stages and digitised volumes of Kannada Encyclopedias. These were used both as references for the edit-a-thons conducted by CIS-A2K and as a primary reference material that was curated into an independent article on Kannada Wikipedia. Many Kannada Wikimedians have joined hands with A2K in acheiving this. This is an on-going activity.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard"><strong>Plans for Future:</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard">As University of Mysore has rich archival collection particulalry in Indian Languages, A2K team intends to talk to individual departments to bring this content to Open Knowledge repositiries.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard">A2K team would like to involve various Departments to dedicate some staff on an hourly basis towards speedy completion of the project.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard">The existing MoU is understood as a one time activity of content donation (print and e copy of Vishwakosha) where as A2K would like to continue this activity as a long term engagement that will facilitate in building research skills and writing skills.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard">A2K team intends to request to University of Mysore should select/suggest some student volunteers for the digitisation project. With the inclusion of Kannada PA A2K team would collaborate with key Departments at the University of Mysore to conduct digitisation and translation sprints that will be facilitated by and other Wikimedians.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="Standard">A2K team would like to collate all the new articles created with the help of the content donated by University of Mysore and circulate it as a newsletter on a monthly basis and sent to the Kannada community and University of Mysore.</p> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/analysis-of-institutional-partnerships-university-of-mysore-and-guru-g-learning-lab'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/analysis-of-institutional-partnerships-university-of-mysore-and-guru-g-learning-lab</a> </p> No publisher hasan Open Educational Resources CIS-A2K Access to Knowledge Wikimedia Wikipedia 2015-12-15T07:39:15Z Blog Entry
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