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Copyright, patents and Indian-language Wikimedia projects. 1,320 items.
22 Jan 2013
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Bringing Konkani Encyclopedia in Public DomainOn December 14, 2012, a meeting was scheduled with the Vice Chancellor Dr. Satish R Shetye to discuss the possibility of bringing Konkani Encyclopedia in public domain. Nitika Tandon shares the development in this blog post.
22 Jan 2013
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A Wiki Workshop at Raj Kumar Goel Institute of Technology, GhaziabadThe Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team organized a Wikipedia workshop at Raj Kumar Goel Institute of Technology (RKGIT), Ghaziabad in collaboration with Metawings on January 17, 2013. Subhashish Panigrahi summarizes …
21 Jan 2013
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Celebrating the success of Wikipedia in Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013Wikipedia Club Pune, a local community based outreach user group in Pune has recently organized Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013 to spread words about “Spoken Wikipedia”, a project to add recorded audio for Indic language Wikipedia articles which …
19 Jan 2013
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Wikipedia in St. Xavier's College, Mapusa, GoaA three hour Wikipedia workshop was organized by the Centre for Internet & Society, Delhi, in the morning of December 14, 2012 at St. Xavier's College in Mapusa, Goa. Over 30 participants attended the session.
15 Jan 2013
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Two-day Wiki Workshop in Goa University: An IntroductionLast month, on December 12 and 13, 2012, the Access to Knowledge team from the Centre for Internet & Society along with Wikipedia community members organized a two-day workshop for M.A. and Ph.D. students at the Goa University. Nitika …
30 Dec 2012
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A Wikipedia Workshop at NMAITThe Centre for Internet & Society, Delhi collaborated with Metawings Institute to spread the words about Wikipedia for Indian languages. A one-day workshop was organized to educated the students on contributing to Wikipedia on December 21, …
28 Dec 2012
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New Avenues: Media Wiki GroupsThis blog post is a brief recap and snippets of my conversation with Harsh Kothari, a volunteer on Gujarati Wikipedia on what we've been doing to help with MediaWiki groups.
27 Dec 2012
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A Wikipedia Workshop at SRM University, ChennaiThe Centre for Internet & Society, Delhi in association with Metawings Institute organized a one-day workshop on contributing to Wikipedia at SRM University on December 17, 2012. About 40 students from different engineering colleges in …
8 Dec 2012
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Marathi Wiki Workshop at Tata Institute of Social SciencesThe Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai is taking up a number of activities and conducting workshops focusing on Indian languages across cities. A series of workshops in …
30 Nov 2012
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Kolkata: Tasting the Sweetness of Wikipedia!Recently, Access to Knowledge team member Subhashish Panigrahi spent some time with wikipedians in Kolkata. Through this blog post he shares his experience and learning from the interaction. This post explores the journey of three …
30 Nov 2012
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First Odia Wikipedia Education Program to be Rolled OutOdia Wikipedians gathered at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Dhenkanal on November 8, 2012 to start the first Odia Wikipedia Education Program. This program aims to bring students edit articles on Odia Wikipedia through a …
30 Nov 2012
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Exploring the Internals of Mobile Devices — Report from a One-day Workshop at TERIOn October 27, 2012, the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) organised a one-day workshop on exploring the internals of mobile technologies at the TERI Southern Regional Centre in Bangalore. The workshop received more than 140 registrants, …
29 Nov 2012
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Comments on the Broadcast Treaty and Exceptions and Limitations for Libraries and ArchivesThis November at WIPO the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights was witness to a tough negotiation on the proposed Treaty providing access to copyrighted materials to visually impaired persons. In between these discussions, the …
26 Nov 2012
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Comments on the Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (Draft)The Department of Science and Technology invited public comments on the Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (Draft). Accordingly, the Centre for Internet and Society has made the following comments on the draft policy document.
23 Nov 2012
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Pervasive Mobile Technologies: Meet Our Mobile Devices!As a part of the Pervasive Technologies: Access to Knowledge in the Marketplace research project, the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is researching 12 mobile phone devices to generate a better understanding of the intellectual property …
22 Nov 2012
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Wikipedia Women's Workshop in MumbaiThe Wiki Women Workshop was organized at the Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Wadala in Mumbai on November 4, 2012. It was attended by over 60 women participants who were taught how to contribute to Wikipedia articles and briefed about …
20 Nov 2012
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Transcripts of Discussions at WIPO SCCR 25We are providing archival copies of the transcripts of the 25th session of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights, which is being held in Geneva from November 19, 2012 to November 23, 2012.
19 Nov 2012
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Typing in Indic Languages from Mobiles made Easy!A new app is up for typing in Indic languages from mobile phones. This is is available online at: http://bitly.com/indictyping and supports on iOS. Android version is to be released soon.
19 Nov 2012
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Report on Wikipedia Hackathon held in HyderabadBITS Hyderabad had a tech fest from October 25 to 27, 2012, and wanted to conduct a technical wiki hackathon. We decided to do it on October 26 — all night.
19 Nov 2012
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Odia Wikipedia Gets a New Typing Solution!Subhashish Panigrahi worked with Yuvi Panda to create a new typing scheme for Odia Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. This blog post gives a summary of this development and its outcome.
19 Nov 2012
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Follow up to Wikipedia Introductory Session at Bharati Vidyapeeth — More Interested and More Involved ParticipantsA Wikipedia introductory session was organised at Bharati Vidyapeeth Engineering College in Delhi early this year and a follow up session was organised by CIS on November 19, 2012. About 12 to 15 participants attended the follow up session. …
19 Nov 2012
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An Odia Wikipedia Workshop at KMBB College, BhubaneswarThe Centre for Internet and Society along with Odia Wikipedians in Bhubaneswar organized an Odia Wikipedia workshop on November 18, 2012. It was held in KMBB College of Engineering. Odia Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia in Odia language …
14 Nov 2012
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ICOMM2012: International Communications and Electronics FairThe seventh India International Communications and Electronics Fair (ICOMM2012) organized by CMAI Association of India was held at the NSIC Expo Grounds in New Delhi from September 14 to 15, 2012. Jadine Lannon attended the event, and …
11 Nov 2012
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A Wikipedia Mini-hackathon in DelhiWikipedian Yuvaraj Pandian visited the CIS office in Delhi and helped the Access to Knowledge team conduct a super-ad-hoc mini-hackathon with two other volunteers, Sheel from Delhi and Harsh from Ahmedabad. The aim was to get them a …
10 Nov 2012
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An Odia Wikipedia Workshop at Academy of Media LearningOdia Wikipedians were invited to Academy of Media Learning (AML), Bhubaneswar for a guest lecture and a workshop on contributing to Odia Wikipedia. The event was organised by the Centre for Internet & Society on November 10, 2012. This is a …
31 Oct 2012
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Super Cassettes v. MySpaceThe Delhi High Court’s judgment in Super Cassettes v. MySpace last July is worrying for a number of reasons. The court failed to appreciate the working of intermediaries online and disregard all pragmatic considerations involved. The …
31 Oct 2012
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Gujarati Wikipedia Article Competition – 10 schools, 200 students, 20 articles on Gujarati WikipediaThis was a competition to raise Wikipedia awareness and help students discover the joy of writing articles in their native language and an attempt to connect producers having knowledge in Gujarati to a wide audience of more than four lakh …
31 Oct 2012
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Gujarat Wikipedia Education Program: RajkotThis report analyses a series of meetings and workshops held in Rajkot, a city in Gujarat, India during the month of October 2012.
31 Oct 2012
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First Pune Odia Wikipedia Workshop Organized!The first Pune Odia Wikipedia workshop was organized in Pune on October 27, 2012. Subhashish Panigrahi recollects his experience about the events through this report.
30 Oct 2012
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The Hathitrust Judgment and its impact on TVI negotiations at WIPOThose of you who have been following my earlier posts on the WIPO negotiations on the Treaty for the Visually Impaired will remember that one of the biggest concerns of the World Blind Union on the draft wording of the Treaty was with the …