CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/March 2019

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March 2019
Volume 3
Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon

CIS-A2K with Punjabi Wikimedians conducted Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon, March 2019 held on the 23rd March 2019, at Patiala, Punjab, India. The theme of this event created women-centric articles on the Punjabi Wikipedia, in order to decrease the gender gap read more...

Wiki Awareness Program at Jhanduke

CIS-A2K organized Wiki Awareness Program at Jhanduke village in Mansa district of Punjab on 31 March 2019. CIS-A2K has organized this program after the participants have shown their interest to talk about Wikipedia and Wikimedia Foundation read more...

Content donation sessions with authors
CIS-A2K has adopted integrated approach towards knowledge generation in Marathi language. With the involvement of various stakeholders in different programmes, CIS-A2K facilitated comprehensive workshop of publishers, printers, designers & writers in September 2018. As a result of this, four authors and one organisation took initiative to re-license & upload 34 books on Commons. read more...
SVG Translation Workshop at KBC

CIS-A2K has organised this SVG translation workshop in collaboration with KBC North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon on 14-15 March 2019. This is part of India level campaign. Total 58 participants attended the workshop and contributed to Commons till 31st March 2019 read more...

Wikipedia Workshop at KBP Engineering College

Lek Ladaki Abhiyan (LLA), organisation working on Women's issues is involved in content generation on women's issues for the last two years with the support of CIS-A2K. On the occasion of Women's day on 9th March, Wikipedia workshop was organised in collaboration with KBP Engineering college. In this event 24 women participated and edited 18 articles related to women's issues, legal aid and women's movements to reduce the gender gap in the articles over Marathi Wikipedia. read more...

Work-plan submission

CIS-A2K is submitting the work-plan for the period 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020. Our plans and programs may be divided into the following verticals:

  • Content Enrichment
  • Skill Development Initiatives
  • Partnership
  • Leadership
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