CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/April 2017

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CIS-A2K Newsletter, April 2017

Symposium on Wikipedia, Wikisource and Wiktionary Projects at Gokhale Institute Of Politics & Economics  A strategic symposium on Marathi Wikipedia and its sister projects was conducted on 29 April, 2017. This was an attempt to bring together various stakeholders for developing a strategic plan for Marathi language wiki projects such as Wikipedia, and especially Marathi Wikisource and Wiktionary. Read more...

Wiki Loves Mayabazaar On the 60th anniversary of the movie Mayabazar, Telugu Wikimedians celebrated Wiki Loves Mayabazar, an event to commemorate the cult Telugu film Mayabazar. As part of the celebrations, an edit-a-thon of the same name was held at Ravindra Bharathi in Hyderabad. Read more...

Programme reports Outreach, education programme and community engagement programme reports: Digitisation, Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource Orientation Workshop at Vigyan Ashram, Pabal, Dist.Pune On 5 February, an introductory Wikipedia orientation program was held in partnership with Vigyan Ashram, for 15 youths from Pabal and surrounding villages in Shirur, Maharashtra. Given the keen interest and enthusiasm of the participants, a follow up workshop was held on 3 April, 2017. Read more... Thematic Edit-a-thon at Savitribai Phule Mahila Ekatma Samaj Mandal, Aurangabad Savitribai Phule Mahila Ekatma Samaj Mandal, a social work organisation working with underprivileged sections of society in Aurangabad partnered with CIS-A2K to conduct a Marathi Wikipedia edit-a-thon on 13 April, 2017. Read more...

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