CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/March & April 2018

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Newsletter, March & April 2018

From A2K Documenting Rural Women's Lifestyle & Culture at Jeevan Jyoti Women Empowerment Centre Open knowledge repository on Biodiversity & Forest Management for Tribal communities in Collaboration with Tribal Research & Training Institute(TRTI), Pune Telugu Wikipedia reading list is created with more than 550 articles to encourage discourse and research about Telugu Wikipedia content. To address gender gap in participation, a workshop for women writers and literary enthusiasts was conducted in Visakhapatnam under Telugu Wikipedia Mahilavaranam. 18 journalists from Sambad Media house joined together with Odia Wikipedians to create articles on Women's health, hyiegene and social issues. Santali Wikipedians along with Odia Wikipedians organised the first Santali Wikipedia workshop in India. Wikimedia Technical workshop for Kannada Wikipedians to help them understand Wikimedia Tools, Gadgets and Auto Wiki Browser Women and Craft Edit-a-thon, to archive the Women achievers in the field of art and craft on Kannada Wikipedia. In other News CIS-A2K has submitted its annual Work-plan for the year 2018-19 to the APG. Project Tiger has crossed 3077 articles with Punjabi community leading with 868 articles. CIS-A2K is supporting three Wikipedians from India to take part in Wikimania 2018. Users have received Multiple failed attempts to log in notifications, Please change your password regularly. Education Program team at the Wikimedia Foundation has published a report on A snapshot of Wikimedia education activities in Asia. Keep me updated! If you want to receive news from this program, please sign-up here.