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2014

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Date Status Event Details Outcome
January 13, 2014   Likely Wrapping up work with Vishwakosh Volume 1 participants -
January 14, 2014   Likely Wrapping up work with Vishwakosh Volume 2 participants -
January 15, 2014   Likely Wrapping up work with Vishwakosh Volume 3 participants -
January 16, 2014   Likely Wrapping up work with Vishwakosh Volume 4 participants -

2013

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Date Status Event Details Outcome
December 14-15, 2013   Done Yuva Konkani Sahitya Samelan at Goa University A Wikipedia stall was put up by Wikipedia editors from Goa University to showcase all the projects and work that has been done on Konkani Wikipedia. Over three hundred students from colleges and higher secondary schools from Konkani-speaking regions of the country learnt about Konkani Wikipedia.
December 9, 2013   Done Konkani Translation Sprint at Goa University Library Students from Konkani Department at Goa University helped translate Media Wiki system messages on Translate Wiki. Translation of 79% messages were completed.
December 8, 2013   Done Konkani Vishwakosh Wikipedia Workshop at Goa University Library A workshop for organised for Konkani Vishwakosh participants. About 15 people attended this session.
November 30, 2013   Done Editing Sprint for Vishwakosh at Goa Central State Library Over 20 participants attended the editing sprint organised to help digitize Konkani Vishwakosh on Wikisource.
November 28, 2013   Done Konkani Vishwakosh : Doubt Solving Session at Goa Central Library Participants of Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Project requested to organise this session to help clarify their doubts such as how to add headings, bullets, pictures etc. This session was organised for participants working on Volume 3&4.
November 26, 2013   Done Konkani Vishwakosh : Doubt Solving Session at Goa Central Library Participants of Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Project requested to organise this session to help clarify their doubts such as how to add headings, bullets, pictures etc. This session was organised for participants working on Volume 1&2.
October 19-20, 2013   Done Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Project at Goa Central State Library This workshop was organised for students, professors, faculty, professionals who enrolled for Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Project. 37 participants were trained on editing Wikipedia and Wikisource to help digitize the encyclopedia.
September 26, 2013   Done Re-release of Konkani Vishwakosh under CC at Goa University Goa University re-released Konkani Vishwakosh under Creative Commons License CC-BY-SA 3.0. To celebrate and further the movement of open knowledge and open access Goa University in collaboration with Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge Programme (CIS-A2K) organised an event on 26th September 2013 at 10am at the Goa University Conference Hall.
September 24, 2013   Done Wikipedia workshop at Computer Science Department, Goa University An introductory workshop was organised for 15 students at Computer Science Department, Goa University.
August 29-30, 2013   Done Wikipedia workshop for Sociology Department, Goa University About 15 students from Sociology Department at Goa University attended the training workshop.
August 21-24, 2013   Done Konkani Wikipedia Workshop for Goa University Students at Goa Central State Library Total of 38 MA students from Konkani Department, Goa University attended the workshop.43 new articles were created on Konkani Wikipedia in the 4 day event. Total of 987 edits, 41 references, 3,90,040 bytes of data was added on Konkani Wikipedia.
July 27, 2013   Done Wikipedia workshop at Library Science Department, Goa University About 25 participants attended this hand on training session organised for Library Science Students at Goa University.

2012

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Date Status Event Details Outcome
December 14, 2012   Done Introductory Wikipedia Workshop at St. Xavier's College, Mapusa, Goa A three hour Wikipedia workshop was organized at St. Xavier's College. Over 30 participants attended the hands on session.
December 13, 2012   Done Promoting GLAM in Goa at Goa Central State Library An introductory GLAM session was well attended by about 45 interested people coming from over 10 different GLAM institutes in Goa. Some of the institutes attending the session were: Museum of Christian Art, Goa Chitra, Bookworm Library, K.S. Goa State Library, GTL Bicholini, and DFLG District Library.
December 12-13, 2012   Done Two-day Wiki Workshop: An Introduction at Goa University A two-day workshop was organised for M.A. and Ph.D. students at the Goa University. Over 35 participants attended the two-day workshop.