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A2K key activities

During this grant period CIS-A2K has organized and supported a number of events in collaboration with Indic Wikimedia community members. In the following table we are including some of the events conducted or supported by CIS-A2K, we feel were impactful for the movement:

July 2017	August 2017	September 2017
Punjabi Wikimedians strategy Meeting and CIS-A2K Punjabi Wikimedians' meeting, Telugu Wikisource Workshop, Wikipedia Workshop on Template Creation and Modification Conducted in Bengaluru	Wikimedia Workshop at Ismailsaheb Mulla Law College, Satara, Marathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at Dalit Mahila Vikas Mandal, Satara, Orientation Program at Kannada University, Hampi	Marathi Wikipedia Workshop at Solapur University, Discussion on Creation of Social Media Guidelines & Strategy for Telugu Wikimedia
October 2017	November 2017	December 2017
Marathi Wikipedia - Vishwakosh Workshop for Science writers in IUCAA, Pune, Indian Women Bureacrats Edit-a-thon	Marathi Wikipedia workshop for Sandarbh Science magazine writers, Kannada Wikipedia Orientation Workshop at IISc, Bengaluru, Wikimedia Technical Workshop at Savitribai Phule Pune University	Meeting with Librarians' Association on WIkipedia Library Project, Marathi Wikipedia Workshop at DKTE Society's Textile & Engineering Institute
January 2018	February 2018	March 2018
Train The Trainer 2018, Wikidata Workshop, Andhra Loyola College, Vijayawada	Media Wiki Training 2018, Indic Wikisource IRC Marathi language day program at Sangli	AWB, Wiki-tools and gadgets training, Women's Day Workshop in KBP Engg College, Satara Indian women and craft Wikisource Internship Project at New Law College, Pune
April 2018	May 2018	June 2018
Action Plan Meeting at Tribal Research & Training Institute, Sambad Health and Women Edit-a-thon, Wikimedia Conference (India)	Pilot workshop of NGOs at Gadchiroli on building Van Bodh - Open knowledge resource on Biodiversity, Action Plan Meeting at Tribal Research & Training Institute	Session on Telugu Digital Platforms to Indu Gnana Vedika, Telugu Wikipedia Quality Improvement Workshop, Wiki Advanced Training 2018

Requests which supported by CIS-A2K

• Bhopal Hindi Wiki workshop, request made by Hindi Wikimedians to support a training workshop in Bhopal in October 2017
• Telugu prapancha maha shabalu, request made by Telugu Wikimedians to support participate in telugu prapancha maha shabalu in December 2017
• Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon at VVIT, requested by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon at Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology in March 2018. Which was focused on content gap related to women and art on English Wikipedia.
• Workshop for Santali editors, request by Santali Wikimedians to conduct Santali Wiki workshop in Mayurbhanj in February 2018.

Kannada University Hampi Wiktionary work

What work was done

Trainers from CIS-A2K speaking about the importance of digitisation of Dravida Nighantu

CIS-A2K and Dravida Samskruti Adhyanaya Kendra, Kannada University Hampi had started digitisation of Dravida Nighantu in August to enrich contents and quality of Kannada Wiktionary and Wikisource. The book was present in non-Unicode. First, we started converting the approximately 60000 non-Unicode words into Unicode. After that Dravida nighantu will be released under Creative Commons license. We submitted a proposal in the month of December to release Dravida Nighantu under creative commons license. Previously the process of converting non-Unicode ISCII to Unicode was cemented due to academic. Because of that CIS-A2K had conducted the offline program in February to PhD students of Dravida Samskruti Adhyana Kendra, Kannada University Hampi. In this workshop, we finished converting approximately 60000 words into Unicode and proofread. After that, we contacted Wiktionary experts like info-farmer and community members to add them into Wiktionary. Since the interface of Wiktionary is changing they advised us not to upload the words now.

Learnings

From this event we learnt, there are institutions and students who are looking for opportunities to learn Kannada and improve Kannada online. But they do not know where they need to invest time and efforts. Building faith and understandings about open knowledge movement and creative commons license in them will directly effect of Kannada Wikimedia movement.

Follow-up

Dravida Samskruti Adhyana Kendra interested to include the Wikimedia project related works in their academics. A2K is supporting with the resources and required pattern and in reports on Wiki and blogs.

Impact

It is very important for having Kannada typing knowledge to any Kannada PhD students. Before we digitizing Dravida nighantu was in non-Unicode. After digitization PhD students learnt about Kannada software in which they can type in Unicode. Also, they learnt Kannada typing. This will help us in future to digitize more books efficiently. Now they can publish their research papers also in Unicode, previously it was in non-Unicode. This will help to give references on kn.wiki about Dravidian culture-related articles.

Footprint

• Mangalore
• Bangalore
• Mysuru
• Shravanabelagola
• Tumakuru
• Hampi
• Kolara