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Subhashish Panigrahi
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17 Nov 2014
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Odia Wikisource, its PotentialI wrote an editorial in Odia newspaper the "Samaja" on November 17, 2014. I have written about Odia Wikisource, its potential and how people can get involved in it with a short note about the digitization done already. I have also …
17 Nov 2014
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Odia author Nirmala Kumari Mohapatra's 21 books relicensed under CC-by-SA 4.0Twenty one books of renowned Odia author Nirmala Kumari Mohapatra will now be available under the Creative Commons License.
26 Oct 2014
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Odia Wikisource Goes Live!Odia netizens have more than one reason to celebrate this festive season.
24 Oct 2014
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Open access platform to save the Odia Indian languageIn February 2014, the Government of India declared the South Asian language Odia as the 6th classical language of India which is one among 22 scheduled languages of India and has a literary heritage of more than 5,000 years. There are …
22 Oct 2014
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Odia Littérateur Ramakrushna Nanda's 4 Books Now Available Under a Creative Commons LicenseChildren literature in Odia language went through an ennoblement after the intervention of Ramakrushna Nanda's writings.
19 Oct 2014
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More Than 40 Million People Await the Launch of Odia WikisourceSpeakers of Odia will soon have mountains of books to read online in their mother tongue, following the launch of the Odia Wikisource, which will make accessible many rare books that have entered the public domain.
14 Oct 2014
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Bharat Majhi Writings Now Available Under a Creative Commons LicenseBefore the advent of Odia Wikisource becoming live, Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) got in touch with notable Odia author Bharat Majhi for bringing his writings on the Internet.
13 Oct 2014
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ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା ବିକାଶରେ ପ୍ରତିବନ୍ଧକ ଓ ସମ୍ଭାବନାI authored an editorial in today's Samaja (Odia daily). It talks about the hurdles Odia language has been facing and potential aspects of the language including it being used massively on the Internet in Wikipedia and other platforms.
27 Aug 2014
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OpenGLAM at Wikimania 2014GLAM activities in the last two months have been quite happening!
25 Aug 2014
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We are WikipediaWikimedia Deutchland has included a paragraph about WeAreWikipedia on their blog.
28 Jul 2014
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Doctors and Translators Are Working Together to Bridge Wikipedia's Medical Language GapI interviewed Wikimedian User:CFCF who is managing the entire project to understand how it is going to work and wrote on Global Voices' Rising Voices about it.
28 Jul 2014
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Classical Odia Language in the Digital AgeThe essay was published in the June edition of Odisha Review, a magazine published by Government of Odisha's Department of Information and Public Relations.
23 Jul 2014
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ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା ବିକାଶର ରାସ୍ତାThe column was published in Odia newspaper The Sambad's editorial. It shows a comparative analysis of Odia language with other languages — both linguistic and usability in digital platforms. The article also emphasizes on various aspects …
23 Jul 2014
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Mozilla brings Indian Communities together Twice in One MonthI took part in two major events, Indic FirefoxOS L10n Sprint 2014 and MozCamp Beta – India organized by Mozilla in India as a voluntary contributor. In this blog post I am sharing with you my experience of the events.
23 Jul 2014
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Mozilla Brings Indian Communities TogetherI took part in two major events, Indic FirefoxOS L10n Sprint 2014 and MozCamp Beta – India organized by Mozilla in India as a voluntary contributor. In this blog post I am sharing with you my experience of the events.
7 Jul 2014
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State of Odia Language in Computing and Future StepsI participated in a "National Level Seminar on, Computer Application and Odia Language" organized by the Institute of Odia Studies and Research in Bhubaneswar on July 6, 2014 as a panelist to discuss about the state of Odia language in …
4 Jul 2014
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ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଅକ୍ଷରସଜ୍ଜାThis article was published in the Samaja (Odia newspaper) on July 4, 2014.
20 Jun 2014
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Odia Language gets a new Unicode Font ConverterRecently, I worked on designing a font encoding converter with a fellow Wikimedian Manoj Sahukar. We worked by taking the code of a converter that was made three years back and made it work for two fonts AkrutiOriSarala99 and …
18 Jun 2014
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This Twitter Account Puts a Face to the Unsung Volunteer Editors Behind WikipediaThe life of a Wikipedia editor is an interesting one. Globally, about 100,000 editors edit the collaborative online encyclopedia's 30 million articles in 287 languages, including over 4.5 million in the English Wikipedia.
27 May 2014
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Indic Language Wikipedias as Open Educational ResourcesThe Open Education Working Group sees supporting multilingual activities such as translation to and from languages which are not often used as one of its key future roles. Subhashish Panigrahi’s post while dwelling upon the growth of Indic …
27 May 2014
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GLAM in India: 10 tips for successful GLAM projectsGLAM initiatives work as a gateway to unleash knowledge, decode archived documentation to build modern wonders and also educate people about their past cultural and scientific journey.
2 May 2014
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Books and More are Relicensed to Creative CommonsThis blog post is cross-posted from Opensource.com. It was published on May 2, 2014.
26 Apr 2014
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14 Odia books re-released under Creative Commons licenseThis blog entry by Subhashish Panigrahi (originally published in Wikimedia Foundation's Blog) was edited and re-published by Rohini Lakshane in DNA on April 26, 2014.
19 Apr 2014
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Report from India: Relicensing books under CCMy name is Subhashish Panigrahi. I am an educator currently working in the community and communication front at The Centre for Internet and Society’s Access To Knowledge program (CIS-A2K), an India-based catalyst program to grow Indic …
14 Apr 2014
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Odisha Dibasa 2014: 14 Books Re-released under CC LicenseOdisha became a separate state in British India on April 1, 1936. Odia, a 2,500 year old language recently gained the status of an Indian classical language. The Odia Wikimedia community celebrated these two occasions on March 29 in …
8 Apr 2014
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ଓଡ଼ିଅା ଭାଷାର ବିକାଶ ଓ କମ୍ପ୍ୟୁଟରThis article was published in Odia magazine "The Kadambini". It covers a brief history of the book digitization initiatives in Odia language, problems with access available content in ISCII standard, scope of Unicode content and Open …
8 Apr 2014
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Vachana Sanchaya: Bringing Access to 11th century Kannada LiteratureThe blog post throws light on providing access to Vachana Sanchaya, a eleventh century Kannada literature.
4 Apr 2014
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୭୯ ବର୍ଷରେ ସ୍ୱତନ୍ତ୍ର ଓଡ଼ିଶା: ଶାସ୍ତ୍ରୀୟ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଓ କମ୍ପ୍ୟୁଟରରେ ଏହାର ବ୍ୟବହାରThis article was published in online Odia magazine "The Amalekha". It covers a brief history of the book digitization initiates in Odia language, problems with access available content in ISCII standard, scope of Unicode content and Open …
30 Mar 2014
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11th Century Kannada Literature Now on WikisourceThis blog post by Pavithra Hanchagaiah and Omshivaprakash HI was edited by Rohini Lakshane for DNA. It was first edited by Subhashish Panigrahi, CIS-A2K on the Wikimedia Foundation blog where it was first published.
27 Mar 2014
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Digitize any Book in the Public DomainThe article is about a mass scale digitization project for Kannada WikiSource by two Wikipedians.