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Subhashish Panigrahi
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15 May 2016
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Draft Law Would Prohibit Showing ‘Disputed Areas’ on Maps of IndiaMaps that label geographic areas of conflict as “disputed” territories in India could put one behind bars for seven years with 1B Indian Rupees (US$15M) penalty if a recently proposed bill becomes law.
30 Apr 2016
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Eight Challenges Indian-Language Wikipedias Need to OvercomeEven after a decade of existence, Indian language Wikipedias are not yet known to many Indian language speakers. Wikipedia, the largest available encyclopedia made in the human history, is what it is today because of the hundreds and …
19 Apr 2016
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Celebrating the 13th anniversary of Kannada WikipediaThe Kannada-language Wikipedia, arguably the largest online encyclopedia in Kannada language, celebrated its 13th anniversary on February 14, 2016 in Mangalore.
29 Mar 2016
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Eight Challenges That Indian-Language Wikipedias Need to OvercomeEven after a decade of existence, Indian language Wikipedias are not yet known to many Indian language speakers. Wikipedia, being the largest available encyclopedia made in the human history, it what it is today because of the hundreds and …
29 Mar 2016
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8 Challenges for Improving Indian Language WikipediasAfter more than 10 years in existence, the Indian-language Wikipedias still are not known to many Indian language speakers. Wikipedia became the largest encyclopedia in history as a result of thousands of volunteer editors.
18 Mar 2016
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Two-Day Long National Wikipedia Education Program Review Meeting To Be Held At Christ University BengaluruDuring this 18-19th a two-day long National Wikipedia Education Program Review meeting is going to be held at Christ University, Bengaluru. Around 25 participants of Wikipedia Education Program leaders from institutes like St. Agnes College …
29 Feb 2016
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Looking ahead to the future of the Kannada Wikipedia: Vasanth S.N.Vasanth S.N. has edited the Kannada-langauge Wikipedia since 2006. As part of the WikipediansSpeak series, I caught up with Vasanth to learn about his contributions to the Kannada Wikipedia, which just celebrated its 13th anniversary. In …
29 Feb 2016
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Can Wikipedia revive dying Indian languages?Yes, by encouraging content and involvement, Wikipedia language communities keep languages relevant.
27 Feb 2016
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କମ୍ପ୍ୟୁଟର ଯୁଗରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାIn 2013, the Centre for Internet and Society commissioned a project to create a typeface and input methods for for Ol chiki script that is used to write in the Santali language. Santali is one of the many victims that has large number of …
27 Feb 2016
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Cultural institution AKA GLAM for more OERMy submission titled "Cultural institution AKA GLAM for more OER" under the theme of "Innovative approaches to opening up cultural heritage collections for education" has been selected for the OER16 conference to be held in Edinburg, …
27 Feb 2016
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Community Digest—Estonians working on a new feedback system for Wikipedia articlesCommunity digest is a weekly publication on Wikimedia Blog. This week, I have authored a section on the Kannada Wikipedia's 13th anniversary that is being celebrated today. It includes a small section from a longer interview with Kannada …
26 Feb 2016
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ମାତୃଭାଷା ଦିବସ: ଆଜିର ସମସ୍ୟା ଓ ଆହ୍ୱାନThe article was published in the editorial section of Odia newspaper the Sambad on February 21, 2016. This piece explains about the challenges of expanding a knowledge base in Odia language and helping it grow beyond just the literature and …
26 Feb 2016
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ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା ପାଇଁ ଏକ ଅନୁଶୀଳନOn the day of the International Mother Language Day, it is important to look outside and draw inspirations from several success stories of digital activism for languages. Hebrew, an ancient language that was almost dead for over 1500 years …
25 Feb 2016
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‘A Good Day for the Internet Everywhere': India Bans Differential Data PricingIndia distinguished itself as a global leader on network neutrality on February 8, when regulators officially banned “differential pricing”, a process through which telecommunications service providers could or charge discriminatory tariffs …
23 Feb 2016
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Net Neutrality Advocates Rejoice As TRAI Bans Differential PricingIndia would not see any more Free Basics advertisements on billboards with images of farmers and common people explaining how much they benefited from this Facebook project.
14 Feb 2016
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There is No Such Thing as Free BasicsIndia would not see the rain of Free Basics advertisements on billboards with images of farmers and common people explaining how much they could benefit from this Firefox project. Because the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has …
3 Feb 2016
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This little innovation is bringing a revolution in the Odia languageDepicting human language within computing environments has always been a challenge: a given language's script and alphabet needs to be mapped to a coding system that a computer can process digitally. This is done by way of an encoding …
30 Jan 2016
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WikipediansSpeak: Odia Wikisourcer Shares her Journey and GoalsThe most active editor on the Odia Wikisource is Pankajmala Sarangi, a native of Odisha who now lives in New Delhi, where she works at a non-profit. As a leader in a broad community that is dominated by males—indeed, she is the most active …
27 Jan 2016
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ବ୍ୟବହାରୀଙ୍କ ପାଇଁ ନିରାପତ୍ତା ଓ ଗୋପନୀୟତାର କୋକୁଆ ଆଣିବ ଫେସବୁକର ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସThis opinion piece in Odia on Facebook's Free Basics App was published in Your Story. The post highlights several user security and privacy that Free Basics is violating apart from violating net neutrality. It also brings the parallel of …
27 Jan 2016
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କେତେ ମାଗଣା ଫେସବୁକର ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସ?This opinion piece in Odia on Facebook's Free Basics App was published in Odisha.com. The post highlights several user security and privacy that Free Basics is violating apart from violating net neutrality. It also brings the parallel of …
27 Jan 2016
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This Multilingual Edit-a-thon wants to Improve Indian Content on WikipediaEver wondered how many articles the Kannada Wikipedia or the Hindi Wikipedia have relating to India, its social history, literary and cultural heritage and the journey of over 1600 languages?
26 Jan 2016
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Why It's Essential To Grow Indian-Language WikipediasOn 15 January, Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia celebrated its 15th birthday, meeting this milestone with 36 million articles in more than 290 languages (the English-language Wikipedia alone has crossed the 5-million article mark). …
14 Jan 2016
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ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା ପାଇଁ କିଛି ଅନ୍ତର୍ଜାତୀୟ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପWith more free and open software coming in, more people are coming together and collaborating. The ownership of various projects are coming from bigger corporations to the hands of people. It is essential to learn about the global, …
12 Jan 2016
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ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପାଠାଗାର: ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ଡିଜିଟାଲ ପାଠାଗାର ଆନ୍ଦୋଳନର ନୂଆ ମୁହଁMany would be searching for Odia-language books on the internet. Many would feel like correcting typos and other mistakes when found while reading a book, even online. Odia Wikisource is as a platform all those book lovers who want to read …
4 Jan 2016
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କେତେ ମାଗଣା "ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସThis op-ed was published in Odia newspaper "The Samaja" on January 4, 2016. Sunil Abraham and Pranesh Prakash were quoted.
30 Dec 2015
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ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପାଠାଗାରOdia newspaper Sambad carried this featured column of mine yesterday in their Sunday supplement "Sambada Rabibara" on December 6, 2015.
30 Dec 2015
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Millions of Indians Slam Facebook's ‘Free Basics’ AppIt has been less than two months since the nationwide launch of the Free Basics app in India. The smart phone application (formerly known as Internet.org) offers free access to Facebook, Facebook-owned products like WhatsApp, and a select …
4 Dec 2015
3 Dec 2015
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Open access in the Marathi language expands by a thousand booksAs the Maharashtra Granthottejak Sanstha (MGS) celebrated its 121st anniversary recently, the organization re-licensed 1000 books under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license so that the books could be digitized and be made available on the Marathi …
25 Nov 2015
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Guerrilla GLAMː An alternate way of doing GLAM in indie-wayI have been working on a concept called the Guerrilla GLAM. Here is a very quick summary about the concept that was published in the GLAM-wiki newsletter for November.