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Rahmanuddin Shaikh
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6 Sep 2016
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Making Telugu Suitable for InternetIn brief, the article speaks of steps in making a language other than English suitable for Internet and computers, what input methods, fonts and content are available in Telugu as on date and what challenges are ahead in making language …
8 May 2016
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Stats for March 2016CIS-A2K team closely works with 5 Indian languages, we call as focus language areas. Here are the stats for the month of March 2016.
4 May 2016
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Images and links matter qualityWikipedia articles are considered of a higher quality when they have illustrations. An article without images is considered dull. Wikipedia is all about references. Any information on Wikipedia is encouraged to have verifiable citations. …
1 Jan 2016
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Report of Konkani Wikipedia's progress (July-December 2015)Konkani language is one of the 22 languages recognized by Indian union in 8th schedule. As per the 2007 census there are about 7.4 million Konkani speakers.[1] Konkani language has its own Wikipedia created on 15th June 2015. This blog post …
1 Jan 2016
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Odia Wikipedia progress from July to December, 2015Odia Wikipedia, one of the very active Wikipedias in Indian languages has been showing a negative rate of growth for the last 6 months. We will try to analyse, what has been happening and how can that be improved.
30 Oct 2015
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Konkani-language books from Konkani-language culture center Mannd Sobhaann to enrich Konkani WikipediaMangalore based cultural centre Maand Sobhaann has recently relicensed 3 of their publications under a free license so that the books could be digitised on Konkani Wikisource and enrich Konkani Wikipedia.
9 Aug 2015
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Rare Telugu religious and historical work preserved at Annamacharya library to come on Wikisource!Telugu Wikipedia Community and the Centre for Internet & Society conducted a day long edit-a-thon at Annamaya Library on August 6, 2015 at Andhra Loyola College, Vijayawada.
26 Feb 2015
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Telugu Wikipedia Winter Camp at Andhra Loyola CollegeStudents of physics, statistics and Telugu departments of Andhra Loyola College spent 5 days of their Christmas vacation of 2014 to edit and enrich Telugu Wikipedia and Wikisource. They worked on their respective subject areas and came up …
31 Jan 2015
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Telugu Wikimedia Hackathon 2014Telugu Wikimedia (including their projects Telugu Wikipedia, Telugu Wikisource etc.) is one of the largest and most powerful Indian language Wikimedia projects, and it is growing and expanding everyday. In the last half of 2014, Telugu …
13 Dec 2014
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Creating Free Software Environment at Andhra Loyola CollegeAndhra Loyola college has signed an MoU with CIS-A2K and as part of it CIS-A2K team has provided a free and open software environment at Andhra Lyola College's Computer Center. Thirty machines have been installed with free software …
17 Sep 2014
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Expanding the World of Telugu Wikipedia – CIS-A2K and ALC join handsStudents and faculty of Andhra Loyola College in Vijayawada aim to enhance Telugu Wikipedia through increased contributions to Wikipedia and make it available under free license.
19 Aug 2014
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Andhra Loyola College and the Centre for Internet & Society sign MoU for Better Net AccessAndhra Loyola College (ALC) and the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to steward the growth of Telugu Wikipedia and to make available free knowledge in …
22 Jun 2014
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Ten Telugu Books Re-released Under CC-BY-SA 3.0 LicenseFor the first time in the history of Indian books, 10 Telugu books by a single author were released under Creative Commons license (CC-BY-SA 3.0) on June 22, 2014 at 10 a.m. at Golden Threshold, Abids, Hyderabad.
15 Feb 2014
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Tewiki 10th AnniversaryTewiki 10th anniversary celebration 2014, started on February 15 in Vijayawada at Kakaraparti Bhavanarayana College. It was co-organized by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team and the Telugu Wikipedia …
31 Dec 2013
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Telugu Wikipedia completes 10 yearsTelugu Wikipedia completed 10 years on December 10, 2013. Several training sessions, aka Wiki Academies, were planned by the Telugu Wikipedia community to mark the occasion.