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From: Arjuna Rao Chavala
Date: Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 5:14 PM
Subject: Report on Liam Wyatt's talk "Wikipedia and GLAM's" -
Organized by KALA/ NCSI-NET
To: "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia."
Hi,
Here is a brief report on talk on Wikipedia and GLAM's talk by Liam
Wyatt - organized by Karntaka Stae Library Association (KALA[1])/
NCSI-NET [2] on 19 Feb 2011 at 10:30AM at NCSI Conference hall, IISc,
Bangalore
The session attracted 26 LIS professionals from
academic/industry/students. I, Gautam John and Arun Ram were some of
Bangalore Wikipedians who attended the event. Liam explained
Wikipedia and how it be can used easily with presentations and live
demonstrations, which thrilled the audience. There were several
questions around Wikipedia policies and how it deals with
controversial topics around politics, culture. Audience also showed
lot of interest in the copyright policies of Wikipedia. Liam
explained it nicely by illustrating the different licensing options
from all rights reserved to public domain and highlighting the
licenses applicable to Wikipedia. Liam shared how Oxford English
Dictionary led the crowd sourcing towards creating knowledge, when
it decided to publish the complete dictionary and sought inputs from
public to share all the known words.
He shared his popular quote
If people were passing out Knowledge on the street for free everyday,
I am sure that there would be a lot more learning, based on Gregg
Gillis's quote about free paints and painting.
There were questions on software for building an archive of
publications and Liam suggested e-hive as a potential option.
There was an interesting questions on the number of contributors for
Sanskrit Wikipedia and Arun answered the same, based on his knowledge
of working with Sanskrit Community.
We also met with senior public library professionals and a member of
Karnataka knowledge commission, who offered their help towards
initiatives to provide free access to Wikipedia in public libraries.
Most of the audience were excited to know that Wikipedia is available
in several Indian languages. I extended an invitation to the audience
to take the community/chapter's help in spreading Wikipedia in their
respective professional communities/users.
Here is a link to some of the photos of the event.
https://picasaweb.google.com/arjunaraoc/LiamSTalkToKALANCSINET?feat=directli...
[1]http://kalaonline.com/
[2]http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/ncsi-net
Cheers
Arjun
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