User:Sailesh (CIS-A2K)/Progress report 2018-19
Collaboration with Odisha Government Sports department
[edit] | Earlier in 2017 we made a collaboration with the Sports department of Odisha Government for Asian Athletics Championships- Edit-a-thon and GLAM. As a part of the collaboration, we organised an edit-a-thon in Bhubaneswar and relicensed the website of Asian Athletics Championship under CC-BY-SA 4.0 license. This relicense of content helped the community to upload almost 300 images of Asian athletes on Wikimedia Commons. |
2018 Men's Hockey World Cup was the 14th edition of the Hockey World Cup that took place in November–December 2018, at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, India.
As a measure to continue this collaboration with the Odisha Government Sports department, A2K team, along with the Odia Wikimedians User Group and approached the Sports department to organise multi-lingual edit-a-thons in different cities in India for 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup, and proposal was accepted by the department. Sports department of helped in sponsoring the onsite edit-a-thons.
CIS-A2K worked with Malayalam Wikimedians User Group, Punjabi Wikimedians User Group, Hindi Wikimedians User Group and VVIT WikiConnect, and organised 5 onsite edit-a-thons in different Indian cities with the theme of Hockey. Almost 200 articles were created and improved as a part of the edit-a-thons.
Place
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Languages | Participants | Articles created | Media links/Mentions |
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| Thrissur | Malayalam | 8 | 158 | Sports department tweet |
| Patiala | Punjabi | 8 | 63 | |
| Guntur | English, Telugu | 8 | 102 Wikidata items created | |
| Modi College workshop, Patiala | Punjabi | ‘ਵਿਕੀਪੀਡੀਆ’ ਨਾਲ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ ਨੂੰ ਅੰਤਰਰਾਸ਼ਟਰੀ ਪੱੱਧਰ ’ਤੇ ਪਛਾਣ ਮਿਲੀ: ਚਰਨ ਗਿੱਲ | ||
| Delhi | Odia, Hindi, English, Malayalam | 13 | 60* |
CIS-A2K is now focusing to show the impact of the work to the department and request them to donate a few images of Hockey World Cup as per the previous Asian Athletics Championship donation.
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Hockey World Cup 2018 Edit-a-thon, Thrissur -
Hockey World Cup 2018 Edit-a-thon, Guntur -
Hockey World Cup 2018 Edit-a-thon, Guntur
Learning
[edit]- Unique activities helps to get a mention on Government social media accounts and helps in the reach of Wikimedia projects.
- Working with community leaders helps to organise events in multiple projects.
Follow-up
[edit]- This edit-a-thon was a part of the long-term collaboration with Government of Odisha. In the future, we will collaborate with them in similar activities or re-licensing educational content.
WikiTungi
[edit]WikiTungi is a city-based meetup for Wikimedians in Odisha to discuss ideas, activities, collaborations and future plans. CIS-A2K is supporting WikiTungi both financially and in idea-level.
In the last 6 months N numbers of WikiYTungi meetups were conducted. The details of these meetups are:
| Date | Number of participants | Important discussion topic |
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| Example | Example | Example |
| Example | Example | Example |
| 12 November | 8 | Discussion on expanding Wiktionary project. |
We are highlighting one discussion during WikiTungi. On DD Month Year, during the WikiTungi meetup, the participants discussed the follow up after the Odia Wikipedia's 16th anniversary. As Odia Wikipedia was turning 16, community members organised the conference, bringing at least 20 Odia Wikimedians for the conference to discuss and strategize on the growth of the movement. During the Tungi meetup, we did a sprint and brainstorming to write the report of rapid grant. In the previous meetups also, we used the WikiTungi to distribute works among the various members for the Wikipedia conference.
The WikiTungi members also took part in discussing and meetings with the Sports department and the State Crafts museum where CIS-A2K is planning to collaborate in future.
One interesting development we saw in this period was the expansion of WikiTungi outside Odisha. On DAY MONTH YEAR an Odia meetup was conducted in Bangalore, Karnataka. In this meetup, four Odia Wikimedians participated. Some of the topics discussed during the meetup were:
- How to involve more people with Odia Wikipedia.
- Make Bangalore Tungi meetings more structured.
- Discussion on basic challenges.
Follow-up
[edit]- We'll do at least one more WikiTungi meetup in Bangalore in the next 6 months
- We'll try to further expand WikiTungi and expect to conduct 1 WikiTungi meetup in Delhi.
Learnings
[edit]Odia Virtual Academy collaboration
[edit]Odia Virtual Academy (OVA) is an organisation of the Government of Odisha, that works for development, promotion, and popularisation of Odia language, literature, and lexicography for general use.
Over the last one year, the CIS-A2K team has been working with the state government of Odisha in releasing the content owned by the government under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. As a part of this activity, 9 Odisha Government websites have relicensed their content under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
As of 27 January 2019, more than 457 images and other files such as research journals, infographics were uploaded to Wikimedia Commons from these websites and 8 social media accounts. 69.7% of these images have been used in different Wikimedia projects and have received a near about 21 Million page views.
| Websites relicensed after CIS-A2K intervention after July 2017-December 2018 | Chief Minister's Office | Asian Athletics Championship | Department of Commerce and Transport | Information and Public Relations Department | ST SC Development Department | Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited | Bhubaneswar Me | KALIA Scheme | Capital Region Urban Transport |
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We are excited that the Government of Odisha showed interest in adopting an Open Content Policy and make information of other departments accessible for the public. After a dialogue with the Government administrators, CIS-A2K submitted a proposal to the Odia Virtual Academy to work on drafting this policy of the state. In October 2018, CIS signed an MoU with the state to draft the policy, work on sustainability of Wikimedia projects and other things.
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Captains of different hockey teams at Bhubaneshwar for 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup -
Chilika lake from Bhubaneswar.me website -
Odisha fire personnel leaving for 2018 Kerala floods.
Learnings
[edit]- Following up with the department and showing the impact of their decison results in expanding the work.
Follow-up activities
[edit]- We'll finish our work in supporting the Government to draft their Open Content Policy.
- Well consult the researchers of CIS research and policy team
- Working on tools to add more images to Commons.