Marathi subtitles for clip: File:Savitrichya Online Leki (Savitri's Online Daughters).webm

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आम्ही पाबळ आणि आसपासच्या गावातील मुली 

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कॉलेजची डिग्री मिळाली, पण पुढे काय? 

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We need work for the hands, thoughts for the brain and self-respect to live. 

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We got all this in one go through Wikimedia projects.

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Wikimedia is an umbrella that covers many projects like 

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Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary etc.  

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There is a lot of knowledge in the world but most online knowledge is in English. 

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One should be able to access, create and preserve all this information one's own language. 

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Similarly, one should be able to add new knowledge in their own languages. 

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That is why Wikimedia projects were born. 

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Currently, such free content is being generated by communities in more than 250 languages, all over the world. 

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Everyone can access this open knowledge freely from anywhere. 

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Keeping these objectives in mind, we came in contact with Centre for Internet and Society's  Access to Knowledge Programme (CIS-A2K), 

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which facilitates creation of free and open  knowledge in Indian languages.

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With their help, we took up the work of creating knowledge in Marathi at Vigyan Ashram, Pabal. 

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For this, CIS provided us with an overhead scanner and 3 laptops. 

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We work on 3 platforms: Wikipedia, Wikisource and Wikimedia Commons. 

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What exactly we do? 

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We have written more than 600 articles on Marathi Wikipedia. 

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Some of them are about birds, villages, agriculture, rural technology and many women achievers. 

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We have created a QR Code for article on Pabal village and put it up in a public space. 

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Anyone can scan it and get information about our village - Pabal. 

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We work on Wiki projects to make this local information, the knowledge and skills of people 

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and reliable reference literature to be available to the society in just one click! 

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Wikimedia Commons contains knowledge collections in the form of images, audios and videos.

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We have uploaded more than 300 images on Wikimedia Commons.

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Wikisource is a free library. The books here are available in Unicode, so one can search for them easily. 

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First step is to make these books copyright free and upload them on Wikimedia Commons.

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Anyone can then download these books and use them as a free resource. 

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In the last two years, many writers like Madhav Gadgil, Jayant Naralikar, Mangala Naralikar, Iravati Karve, 

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Sharu Ranganekar, Sunilkumar Lawate, S.G. Majgaonkar, Mohan Hirabai Hiralal, Laxmikant Deshmukh, Varsha Deshpande, 

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Hamid Dalwai, Mehrunnisa Dalwai or their heirs have made their literature copyright free. 

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NGOs like Jnana Prabodhini, Lek Ladaki Abhiyan, Saptahik Vivek, and Vrikshamitra have also released their reference material under a free license. 

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We have scanned and processed about 28,000 pages of such material so far.  

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We need to run an OCR Code in Python program to convert these pdf books into

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Unicode text after they are uploaded into the Wikisource project.

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We even learned how to do that and have successfully done OCR of more than 15,000 pages.  

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There is a 150-year-old library at Rajgurunagar, near our village.

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We are now digitizing 25 rare, 19th Century books, from the library's collection. 

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We got basic training at Vigyan Ashram for this work. 

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For advanced training, CIS-A2K gave us an opportunity to attend workshops at Bengaluru, Ranchi, Kolkata, Delhi, Pune, and Visakhapatnam. 

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That has connected us to various Wikimedia communities in other states, working on such projects. 

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Taking Savitribai Phule's legacy forward - We are Savitri's Online Daughters!