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Access to Knowledge
Copyright, patents and Indian-language Wikimedia projects. 1,320 items.
29 May 2019
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Should India adopt Plan S to realise Open Access to Public-funded Scientific Research?Timely and affordable access to scientific research remains a problem in this digital day and age. Around three decades ago, the radical response that emerged was making public-funded scientific research “open access”, i.e. publishing it on …
26 May 2019
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Wikisource Workshop at Vigyan Ashram, PabalThe Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) organized a workshop in collaboration with Vigyan Ashram, Pabal on May 25-26, 2019 at Pabal. Total 12 participants attended sessions during this two days workshop. The …
21 May 2019
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Project Tiger 2019 Coordinator position openTo contribute to support, and coordinate of the work of the Project Tiger, we are looking for a creative, dedicated individual to join the team as a coordinator. Please note that women, especially those from socioeconomically marginalized …
19 May 2019
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CIS-A2K Communication Officer positionThe Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is seeking applications only from prospective candidates who identify themselves as women, for the position of Programme Officer (Communications, the position is also known as Communication Officer), …
17 May 2019
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Wikidata Advisor (Consultant) position openThe Access to Knowledge team of the Centre for Internet and Society is seeking applications for the position of Wikidata Advisor (consultant), to support its Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) Programme.
3 May 2019
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Wikipedia assignments workshop for Post Graduate students in PAH Solapur UniversityOn May 3, 2019, Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) along with PAH Solapur University conducted a Wikipedia workshop for students from the post-graduate stream in PAH Solapur University. Ten students from Mass …
25 Apr 2019
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Indic Wikisource Speak: J. BalajiTo perfectly proofread the content with matching styles it takes a lot of effort. Patience is the key. The formatting methods are in wikisource are different from Wikipedia. So wikipedians are finding it difficult to edit in wikisource …
25 Apr 2019
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Indic Wikisource speak : ShubhaAs the texts are in the searchable format, many students and research scholars can make use of Wikisource. As we all know, Samskrit is a treasure trove of knowledge. There are many such books that can be uploaded and utilised by the public. …
15 Apr 2019
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CIS-A2K proposal to Wikimedia Foundation for 2019-2020The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) has submitted its proposal form for the year 2019 - 2020 to the Wikimedia Foundation. CIS thanks all community members who gave valuable suggestions and inputs for …
11 Apr 2019
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Indic Wikisource speak: Info-farmerIndic Wikisource movement needs more simplification of interface and also unification of existing interfaces. Let us develop new tools for wikisource. Give fund to developers like Shrinivasan. Understand the results of OCR4wikisource which …
11 Apr 2019
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Indic Wikisource speak : Ajit Kumar Tiwari"Wikisource is going to be as important as Wikipedia because it addresses the issues of citations and references inherently. I will make it as my key pedagogical tool to educate my students and make them a part of this great movement." - …
10 Apr 2019
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SVG Translation Workshop at KBC North Maharashtra UniversityThe Centre for Internet & Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) wing organized an SVG translation workshop in collaboration with KBC North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon on 14-15 March 2019. The workshop was a part of India level campaign. Total …
10 Apr 2019
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Indic Wikisource Speak: Sushant SavlaFuture is bright -- Sushant Savla (User:Sushant_savla) from Gujarati Wikisource community, share his experience & journey.
10 Apr 2019
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Indic Wikisource Speak: Dr. Hrishikes SenThere are plenty of people engaged in digitising Bengali books. Plenty of pirated digitised books are available online. We need to tap into that catchment area. I think, if we can prepare high-grade pdf versions of our completed works and …
10 Apr 2019
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Indic Wikisource Speak: Dr. Gitartha Bordoloi"People are more aware of Wikipedia than Wikisource." - Gitartha Bordoloi from Assamese Wikisource community, share his experience with CIS-A2K team.
10 Apr 2019
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Content Donation Sessions with AuthorsCIS-A2K has adopted an integrated approach towards knowledge generation in Marathi language. With the involvement of various stakeholders in different programmes, CIS-A2K facilitated a comprehensive workshop for publishers, printers, …
9 Apr 2019
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Wikimedia projects orientation session at Tata Trust's Vikas Anvesh FoundationResearchers in development sector produce a pool of training material and case studies. However, these do not trickle down to the society and many in the public domain are unaware of the same.
5 Apr 2019
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Supporting Indian Language Wikipedias Program/ReportCIS-A2K team submitted Project Tiger final report.
1 Apr 2019
31 Mar 2019
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Design and the Open Knowledge MovementWith the objective of connecting the open knowledge movement with design, the Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet and Society co-organised the Wikigraphists Bootcamp India 2018 with the Wikimedia Foundation during September …
21 Mar 2019
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Comments and Suggestions to the Draft Patent Manual March 2019A coordinated civil society response to the consultation on the Patent Manual. CIS provided comments on patenting of computer related inventions.
7 Mar 2019
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ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಶಿಕ್ಷಣ ಯೋಜನೆ ಸಮಾವೇಶ ಮತ್ತು ತರಬೇತಿಯ ವರದಿಕನ್ನಡ ಭಾಷೆಯು ದಿನದಿಂದ ದಿನಕ್ಕೆ ಬಳಕೆಯಿಲ್ಲದೇ ಕುಂದುತ್ತಿದೆ. ಗ್ರಾಮೀಣ ಭಾಗದ ಕನ್ನಡ ಮಾಧ್ಯಮದ ಮಕ್ಕಳಿಗೆ ಸರಿಯಾದ ಕನ್ನಡ ಆಕರಗಳು ಸಿಗುತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ. ಇಂತಹ ಸಂದರ್ಭದಲ್ಲಿ, ಕನ್ನಡವನ್ನು ಉಳಿಸಿ ಬೆಳೆಸುವುದು ಪ್ರತಿಯೊಬ್ಬ ಕನ್ನಡಿಗನ ಕರ್ತವ್ಯ. ಇದನ್ನೆಲ್ಲ ಗಮನದಲ್ಲಿಟ್ಟುಕೊಂಡು, ಸಂತ ಅಲೋಶಿಯಸ್ …
7 Mar 2019
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The city of Bhubaneswar is going OpenBhubaneswar supporting the concept of Openness movement has joined as one of the ambassadors of the movement in the world by giving citizens the right to access the content online produced by the government and make use of the work.
7 Mar 2019
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Rejuvenating India’s Rivers the Wiki WayTarun Bharat Sangh (TBS), an organisation working on rejuvenation of rivers in India, has began documentation of rivers on Wiki, especially to draw attention to and mitigate the crisis of toxic deposits facing more than 40 rivers in India. …
7 Mar 2019
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CIS-A2K Finance Officer: Call for applicationThe Access to Knowledge team of the Centre for Internet and Society is seeking applications for the position of Finance Officer, to support its Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) Programme. The job application is open to women only.
6 Mar 2019
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Train the Trainer program 2018Trainer the Trainer program is an annual three days residential program organised by the Access to Knowledge Program of Centre for Internet and Society. The program identifies the community leaders and brings Wikimedians from and around the …
26 Feb 2019
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Marathi Language Fortnight Workshops 2019Maharashtra is a state which is rich in diversity in terms of language and culture seen in its various regions such as Konkan, Marathwada, Western Maharashtra, Northern Maharashtra and Vidarbha. Awareness needs to be created to make …
13 Feb 2019
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Mini MediaWiki Training TheniCIS-A2k is trying to strengthen the MediaWiki movement in India, and over the last six months, the team has collaborated with different Indian Wikimedians and started a project called Indic-TechCom.
6 Feb 2019
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Supporting Indian Community 2018: Needs AssessmentThe Wikimedia Foundation and Google worked in close coordination with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Wikimedia India chapter (WMIN) and user groups will pilot a program encouraging Wikipedia communities to create locally …
1 Feb 2019
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Marathi Wikipedia Workshop & 1lib1ref session at Goa UniversityMarathi language department of Goa University has initiated the process to document the culture of Goa on Marathi Wikipedia and Commons.