Author
Subhashish Panigrahi
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27 Oct 2015
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ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପାଠାଗାରର ଆବଶ୍ୟକତା (Need for an Odia-language Wikisource)This post is about the Odia library movement and the conventional archival, touch-bases on the problems with dissemination of knowledge with more public domain books that are entering into the "rare and perishing" category, a comparative …
25 Oct 2015
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Odia Wikisource to Celebrate Its First Anniversary in BhubaneswarOdia Wikisource, a sister project of Odia Wikipedia and a free online Odia-language library is celebrating its first anniversary in Bhubaneswar tomorrow i.e., 25th October, 2015.
11 Oct 2015
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WikipediansSpeak: Telugu Language Library Catalog Project Helps Wikipedia GrowIn 2013, the interview project “WikipediansSpeak” was launched in response to observations that many noteworthy Wikimedians were being underrepresented both locally and globally. Not just them personally—their work, and the communities they …
27 Sep 2015
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Wikimedia contributor shares his Linux storyComputers have fascinated me since childhood, but my first encounter—like many others—was not with Linux. For me, it was with Microsoft Paint. Then, many years later in 2011, it was my Wikipedia mentor, Shiju Alex, who introduced me to …
26 Sep 2015
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Google's Optical Character Recognition Software Now Works with All South Asian LanguagesThe Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software by Google now works for more than 248 world languages, including all the major South Asian languages, and it's easy to use and works with over 90 percent accuracy for most languages.
26 Sep 2015
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As Odia Wikipedia turns 13, what happens next?Odia Wikipedia, one of several Indian-language Wikipedia projects, celebrated thirteen years of free knowledge contribution on June 3.
25 Sep 2015
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OCR and OER – updateWe welcome this short posting from Subhashish Panigrahi which updates a 2014 posting of his on Indic Language Wikipedias as Open Educational Resources at http://education.okfn.org/indic-language-wikipedias-as-open-educational-resources/
20 Jul 2015
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Odia Wikisource has a new Wikisourcer, and he is the youngest in the Odia Wikimedia community!Prateek Pattanaik (User:Shrijagannatha on Odia Wikisource) is a young researcher of Odia literature and Odissi music. He has not just digitized as many as 54 Odia-language poetry dating early 18th century but has also annotated, both poetic …
18 Jul 2015
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Konkani Wikipedia Goes Live After 'Nine Years' of IncubationKonkani Wikipedia is the second Wikimedia project after Odia Wikisource that has gone live out of incubation. The project stayed in the incubation for nine long years and the community has gone through a long debate to have a Wikipedia of …
15 Jun 2015
News
Odia Wikipedia Celebrates 13 Years of Free Knowledge Contribution at BhubaneswarThe event was held at the Institute of Physics, Near Apollo Hospital, Bhubaneswar, Odisha on June 3, 2015, at 5 p.m.
14 Jun 2015
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How the Odia Wikimedia community is enriching Wikipedia with character encoding technologyLast year, I wrote about the development of Odia language character encoding converters that the Wikipedia community was working on. These converted text into Unicode, a universal encoding standard. These converters have now been made …
12 Jun 2015
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The Newly Updated Indic Keyboard App Now Supports 22 Asian LanguagesThis blog post was written in my personal capacity.
8 Jun 2015
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Indian government includes open source in RFPsThe Government of India has implemented a remarkable new policy-level change for open source software (OSS) deployment.
31 May 2015
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ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡିଆ: ନୂତନ ଯୁଗର ଆରମ୍ଭMy op-ed on Odia Wikipedia and its journey of 13 years was published in Odia daily "The Samaja".
31 May 2015
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Odia Language Wikipedia Page Grows to 800K Page Views A MonthOdia Wikipedia is one of the first few Indian language Wikipedia projects celebrating such an old age. The Wikimedia community will gather in Odisha's capital of Bhubaneswar on June 3 to celebrate Odia Wikipedia's 13th anniversary.
28 May 2015
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How to do GuerillaGLAMA proposal titled How to do GuerrillaGLAM" that I had submitted for the Wikimania 2015 has been accepted. I will be presenting this on July 18.
13 May 2015
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Odia Wikipedia Set to Celebrate 13 Years of Volunteer ContributionsOdia Wikipedia, one of the first of several Indian language Wikipedia projects, is ready to celebrate 13 glorious years of free knowledge contribution on June 3.
28 Apr 2015
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Wikipedia Campus at Oxford CollegeCIS-A2K collaborated with the Oxford College of Engineering, Bommanahalli, Bangalore on April 24, 2015 for introducing Wikimedia projects at their institution. Radhakrishna, a senior Wikimedian from Bangalore provided the crucial …
15 Apr 2015
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ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା ପାଇଁ ଡିଜିଟାଲ ଅସୁବିଧାThis paper was presented at the 2nd National Language Seminar by CIS-A2K Pogramme Officer Subhashish Panigrahi. In the paper, Panigrahi discusses about the hindrances of mass use of Odia language on the internet and how that is impacting in …
30 Mar 2015
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2nd National Language Conference, BhubaneswarInstitute of Odia Studies and Research organised 2nd National Language Conference beginning on Monday, March 30, 2015 and ending on April 2, 2015 at the Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar. This conference was organised in collaboration with …
27 Mar 2015
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India's Supreme Court Axes Online Censorship Law, But Challenges RemainThe Supreme Court of India took a remarkable step to protect free expression on March 24, 2015, striking down controversial section 66A of the IT Act that criminalized “grossly offensive” content online. In response to a public interest …
27 Feb 2015
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Hindi Wiki Community Baithak in DelhiHindi Wikimedians met in New Delhi during February 14 and 15. This was the first meeting of the Hindi community. Subhashish Panigrahi attended the meetup.
21 Feb 2015
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Our Endangered LanguagesMy op-ed (in Odia) about the endangered languages was published in the Samaja this 21st on the International Mother Language Day.
31 Jan 2015
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ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା ପାଇଁ ଅନ୍ତର୍ଜାତୀୟ ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପThis is an op-ed I authored for Odia newspaper the "Samaja" that got published on January 30, 2015. Through this post I intend to highlight the needs for taking the Odia language to international fora instead of keeping it confined within …
6 Jan 2015
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Indian Netizens Criticize Online Censorship of ‘Jihadi’ ContentThe article on online censorship by Subhashish Panigrahi was published in Global Voices on January 6, 2015.
30 Dec 2014
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Odia Wikisource workshop at New DelhiThe Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team in collaboration with "The Intellects" organized a seminar in New Delhi on December 14, 2014. Subhashish Panigrahi gave a talk.
30 Dec 2014
28 Dec 2014
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Several Publications Now Available under Creative Commons LicenseThe Centre for Internet and Society has got the following publications under Creative Commons (CC-BY-SA 4.0) license. These are from multiple authors.
3 Dec 2014
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Odia Wikisource campus project at Kalinga Institute of Social SciencesThe Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team organized a closing ceremony, on December 3, to conclude the three months campus project for Odia Wikisource at Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences, Bhubaneswar.
25 Nov 2014
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Nineteen Books Published by Ama Odisha Relicensed under CC-by-SA 4.0Odisha's most circulated newspaper Sambad has collaborated with CIS-A2K to relicense 19 books published by its sister concern "Ama Odisha".