This report is an overview of the activities of the Access to Knowledge team at CIS working to promote Wikipedia in Indian languages

1. Access To Knowledge:
September 2012 - January 2013

2. Agenda
● Events organised by A2K
● Meetups attended by A2K
● Programs initiated by A2K
● Technical initiatives by A2K
● Numbers and Data
● Success Stories
● Support required from WMF
● Plans ahead

3. Events conducted
1. SRM University, Chennai 14. Hyderabad Workshop
2. NMAIT, Karkala, Karnataka 15. Inmantec, Gaziabad
3. KMBB College of 16. Springdale School, Amritsar
Engineering, Bhubaneswar 167. St.Stephen's College,
4. AML, Bhubaneswar Delhi
5. Pune Odia Wikipedia 18. Delhi University, Delhi
workshop 19. TGES, Rajkot
6. British Council, Chandigarh 20. Christ College, Rajkot
7. Tata Institute of Social 21. TGES II, Rajkot
Sciences, Mumbai 22. Gujarat Sahitya Parishad
8. Bharati Vidyapeeth College workshop, Ahmedabad
of Engineering, Delhi
9. St.Xaviers, Goa
10. Goa University
11. GLAM workshop, Goa
12. Konkani Department, Goa
University
13. Punjabi Wikipedia
Workshop, Patiala

4. Events conducted
22 Events in 4 months
Across 14 cities
Covered 7 languages
Age group - 15 to 52
Outreached 2250 participants
= 560 participants pm

5. Meetups & Discussions
City No. City No.
1. Bangalore 3 9. Bangalore 1
2. Pune 5 10. Delhi 1
3. Chennai 1 11. Goa 1
4. Mumbai 5 12. Karkala 2
5. Bhubaneswar 2 13. Hyderabad 2
6. Dhenkanal 1 14. Ahmedabad 1
7. Anugul 1 15. Rajkot 1
8. Kolkata 1

6. Meetups & Discussions
Total 27
Touched 150 People
Within 7 language communities

7. Programs
1. Gujarati Article Competition
2. Gujarati Education Program
3. Assamese Education Program
4. Odia Education Program
5. Konkani Wikipedia
6. Wikipedia Takes Pune

8. Technical initiatives
1. Support:
● Bugs filed for PA, AS, OR, HI, GU, Wikiclub
Pune
2. Events and initiatives:
● 2 mini hackathons, devcamp BITS - Pilani
hackathon, Gujarati MediaWiki group
● Started mobile typing app for Indic
languages
● Started typing scheme for OR-WP
● Supported implementation of 4 gadgets on
GU-WP
● Technical training for volunteers

9. Numbers and data
● Total participants attended the sessions = 2050
● No. of participants in our database = 1020
● % of contacts in our database = 49.75%
● No. of usernames collected = 387
● % of usernames collected = 37.9%
● No. of female participants = 288
● % of female participants = 28.2%

10. Success stories
● Increased readership, awareness and functionality
on Gujarati Wikipedia
● Technical volunteer training and MediaWiki groups
● First ever free Indic typing tool for cross platforms
mobile devices
● Phonetic typing tool for Narayam on Odia Wiki
projects
● First Odia Education Program initiated
● Bringing Konkani Encyclopedia on Wiki
● Kick starting Wikipedia community in Goa
● Progress of Assamese WEP

11. Support needed from
WMF
● Data Analysis
● Global learnings and blogs
● Unblocking of IPs

12. Plans ahead
● Starting monthly community IRCs
● Upcoming hackathons and supporting more
technical volunteers
● Running contribution campaign in Bengali
Wikipedia
● Taking part in other FOSS activities
● Education program in at least 2 more languages
● Conducting monthly meet ups in Delhi office
● Creative Commons Day celebrations
● Submitting RTI Applications