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Skill Building Activities

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WikiTungi programs

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27th Bhubaneswar WikiTungi meetup-May 2018
Intro

The WikiTungi program was started in December 2015, to train the community members (new and old) and to introduce them the broader Wikimedia Movement and projects, other than editing, to bring them out of the online world and interact with the other community members. The WikiTungi has been active in two different cities of the state of Odisha, one in Puri and the other one in Bhubaneswar. The CIS-A2K has been supporting the two WikiTungis (Bhubaneswar and Puri) for over two years now. While members of Bhubaneswar WikiTungi meet once in every month to discuss new projects, events, and challenges faced by the community, the community members of Puri used to meet bi-monthly.

Activities
  • Bhubaneswar Heritage Edit-a-thon

Bhubaneswar heritage edit-a-thon was an online edit-a-thon aimed to improve and create articles on the heritage monuments of the Indian city Bhubaneswar. In this edit-a-thon around 26 Wikipedians from 12 different Wikipedia projects participated and created around 192 articles. CIS-A2K is following up with the authorities on the further process of QRcode project.

 
Barman 100m Hurdles Heptathlon Odisha 2017
 
AAC 2017 Opening Ceremony, clicked during the opening ceremony.
Collaboration with Asian Athletics Championships 2017

Collaboration with Asian Athletics Championships is considered as one of the biggest content collaboration in the Odia Wikimedia projects. After the edit-a-thon, that happened on 30th July 2017, the Asian Athletics Championships website was released under CC-BY-4.0 website, which allowed the community members to upload the images of the championship into Wikimedia Commons. The social media outreach of this collaboration helped in adding almost all the images from the website to Wikimedia Commons, around 300+ images were added to Wikimedia Commons. Also, two members of the community were given the pass by the organization to attend the Opening Ceremony of the event. A2K member Saileshpat and Jnanaranjan Sahu attended the Opening ceremony, around 100 images were clicked during the event of which 50 are added to Commons. Over these years, we have witnessed the use of these images by different media reports and picture stories.

  • Wikidata Workshop

A capacity building program was planned by the Wikimedia Foundation to train community members about the basic of Wikidata and understand how to contribute to it. As a part of the India tour, a two-day long event was planned in Bhubaneswar. While the Bhubaneswar WikiTungi members lead the event, the CIS-A2K helped the members in organizing the Wikidata workshop at KIIT University, Bhubaneswar.

  • Planning of Wikisource and Wikipedia Anniversary

The community members took the lead on organising the 3rd Wikisource conference and 16th Odia Wikipedia birthday by taking different roles and responsibility for the conference. Which brought around 40 Wikipedia ( 20 participants in each event) and organised the conference successfully. Members of Puri WikiTungi were also part of the event,

  • Impact

Over the years the WikiTungi program has catered over 20 active Wikimedians and above 50 individuals in its meetup. In the last two years, WikiTungi project has involved more than 18 editors and about 2,600+ articles were created and more than 8000+ articles have been edited by Wikimedia involved in the project.

Learning

Puri Tungi was mostly of students and has currently been inactive due to different commitments of the community members, CIS-A2K is trying to revive the community by organising more activities in Puri.

Follow up

CIS-A2K will devlop new strategies for the growth of Tungi members and involve community members in more activitis. We would also try again to revive the Puri WikiTungi.

Santali Wikipedia workshop, North Odisha University

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Group picture

"I will say, CIS-A2K is our one of the important partner in our journey especially in India. We had organised a workshop is North Odisha University in Baripada. This event was sponsored bt CIS-A2K, We had the pleasure of having one of the member of CIS, Sailesh Patnaik. Sharing his experience with new Santali Wikipedians provided a lot of ideas and knowledge. CIS is doing a great job in India in promotion of knowledge through the internet platform, Santali Wikipedia is a result of one such efforts."

R Ashwani Banjan Murmu, Santali Wikipedia
Intro

Santali is one of the indigeneous languages of Odisha with over 6.2 Million speakers in four different coutries; India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Nepal. Santali Wikipedia was a project in the Wikimedia incubator and was mainly contributed by volunteers from Bangladesh, Nepal and India. Earlier, Wikimedia Bangladesh had conducted activities to revive and share awareness on Santali Wikipedia and in 2018 CIS-A2K along with Odia Wikimedians User group and Santali Wikimedians from Odisha conducted the first Santali Wikipedia workshop in India.

Activities & Impact

Santali Wikipedians reached out to some volunteers of Odia Wikimedia UG where CIS-A2K supported in organising the event. The workshop was organised for a full day at North Odisha University, Baripada. 30 Students doing Masters in Santali language were part of the workshop, along with 5 active Santali Wikipedians from Odisha. The participants were introduced about Wikipedia account creation, five pillars of Wikipedia and how to edit Santali Wikipedia.

Follow-up

CIS-A2K is planning to organise a capacity building workshop for the Santali Wikipedians in the month of October to train them to learn editing tools and organise Wikimedia outreach programs for future activities.

Content Enrichment Activities

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Sambad Women's Health and Hygiene edit-a-thon

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Intro

In 2017, CIS-A2K collaborated with the Sambad media house to organise India's first 100 Women Edit-a-thon, Sambad is one of the most circulated newspaper and a media house in Odisha, this initiative was planned to bridge the gender gap on Odia Wikipedia.

Activity

Continuing the collaboration, A2K in collaboration with the Odia Wikipedians organised the second iteration of the Sambad Gender gap bridging edit-a-thons in the month of April. The theme of the edit-a-thon was to improve and create articles on women's health, hygiene and social issues on Odia Wikipedia. A group of 18 journalists were part of the two days program, followed as of the first iteration of Sambad 100 Women edit-a-thon. The first day of the event was for the introduction to Wikipedia for new participants and teach them how to edit Wikipedia, Around 9 new journalists were part of the introduction session followed by the edit-a-thon where 18 journalists from Sambad created or improved 21 articles.

Impact

Altogether 73 articles have been improved or created as a part of this campaign by 28 journalists from the Sambad media house. Collaboration with Sambad has not only helped in bridging the content gap but the community and CIS-A2K, also tried to bridge the gap in access of content in an Archival house to improve Wikipedia articles.

Learning
  • Involving previous participants along with new participants helped to ease the process.
  • Translation of articles related to Medical science was difficult for some participants.
Follow up

We are planning to conduct atleast two activities in a year to keep in touch with the journalists and organise a session on how to tackle fake news at Sambad.

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    Participants of Sambad Women and Health Edit-a-thon
  • Trailer of Sambad 100 Women Editathon

Women's History Month Edit-a-thon

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Intro

Women's History Month is an annual Wikipedia edit-a-thon organised by CIS-A2K in collaboration with the Odia Wikipedians to improve or create articles related to women achievers on Odia Wikipedia. The project was started in 2015 with a mission of bridging the gender-gap in contents on Odia Wikipedia. In the last three iterations, more than 350 articles were created as a part of this campaign.

Activity & Impact

This year, CIS-A2K organised the 4th iteration of the Women's History Month by preparing a list of articles on potential topics or existing articles which can be created or improved. As a part of this event, a total of 5 participants signed up as participants for the event and have improved or created 35 articles related to Women achievers from different fields on Odia Wikipedia.

Learning

As the edit-a-thon was planned simultaneously with the Project Tiger edit-a-thon, the participants and the number of articles ratio were decreased in comparison to previous iteration where 236 articles were created.

Follow-up

Some of the participants of Women's History Month edit-a-thon were part of the resource person team for the Sambad Women & Health edit-a-thon.

Institutional Partnership

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State Government collaboration

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"Knowledge now made more accessible" All pictures videos and animations on this website can be used by anyone under our campaign for "Transparency in Governance".

Intro

CIS-A2K initiated the collaboration with Odisha Government departments during the Asian Athletics Championship Edit-a-thon, where CIS-A2K and community members approached the sports department to organise the Asian Athletics Championships Edit-a-thon and relicensing the website into a Creative Commons license.

Activities

CIS-A2K followed the collaboration and along with the help of community members and Asaf Bartov CIS-A2K approached the Chief Minister's Office to continue relicensing project, which was followed by two websites Chief Minister's Office and Commerce Transport and seven social media accounts were relicensed into Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. In the last workplan CIS-A2K was able to relicense eight government websites collaborating with more than five government departments.

Website Relicensing Month Wikimedia Projects Involved
Asian Athletics Championships June 2017 Commons. Wikipedia, Wikidata
Chief Minister Office September 2017 Commons. Wikipedia, Wikidata
Commerce and Transport September 2017 Commons. Wikipedia
Information and Public Relations January 2018 Commons, Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wikidata
STSC Development January 2018 Commons, Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wikidata
Bhubaneswar.me April 2018 Commons, Wikipedia
Smart City Bhubaneswar April 2018 Commons, Wikipedia
Impact

The collaboration has resulted in getting more than 460+ files into Wikimedia Commons and of which 69% files are used in different Wikimedia projects. Many athletes, political leader, and projects got their first image in their Wikipedia article. Earlier before the collaboration, three out of thirteen Chief Ministers of Odisha had their image on Wikipedia article, now all the Chief Ministers have their image, along with that two former governors and the current governor also got their image as a part of this collaboration. Along with the images, many infographics and journals are currently part of Wikimedia Commons. All together the files have received more than 17 Million page in the last one year.

Learnings
  • Showing metrics of the work to the Government departments helped in continuing the collaboration.
  • Many important articles got their first image.
  • Images downloaded from Facebook decreased the resolution of images.
Follow-up

A2K is developing a partnership with the Government to adopt Creative Commons license as a part of a policy, which would help to improve many Wikimedia projects.

Resources to plan for measurement

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Wikimedia Blogs
Learning Patterns

Collaborated with Government organisations, What's next?

Revenues received during this six-month period

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Revenue source Currency Anticipated Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Cumulative Anticipated ($US)* Cumulative ($US)* Explanation of variances from plan
Volunteer support INR 3000 3000 5000 -
Travel & Stay INR 15000 - -
Event organization and logistics INR [1] 10000 [2] 10000 5000 [1]Received from KIIT University during Wikidata Workshop.
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