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Access to Knowledge
Copyright, patents and Indian-language Wikimedia projects. 1,320 items.
25 Oct 2016
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How Open Access Content helps Fuel Growth in Indian-language WikipediasMobile Internet connectivity is growing rapidly in rural India, and because most Internet users are more comfortable in their native languages, websites producing content in Indian languages are going to drive this growth. In a country like …
22 Oct 2016
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What Indian Language Wikipedias can do for Greater Open Access in IndiaThe number of internet users in India was expected to reach 460 million by 2015, as the growth in the previous year was 49 percent. The total number of users for Hindi content alone reached about 60 million last year.
21 Oct 2016
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Querying Wikipedia DataRecently I wrote a blog about the stub article length of Wikipedia articles. I mentioned the difference in actual number of characters and the number of bytes used to define stub articles between English and Indian language Wikipedias. One …
20 Oct 2016
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UTF-8, Indic and Stub Length Article in WikipediaOne of the activities conducted as part of Wiki Conference India 2016 was the Punjab Editathon. It was about adding articles related to Punjab to Indian language Wikipedias and English Wikipedia. There was also an announcement made about …
20 Oct 2016
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Technical Alternative to Encrypted Media ExtensionsThis post is an analysis of the various technical alternatives to EME (encyrpted media extensions) that have emerged from the discussions at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). These alternatives and the proposed EME specification along …
20 Oct 2016
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(Lack of) Representation of Non-Western World in Process of Creation of Web StandardsWorld Wide Consortium (W3C) as a standard setting organization for the World Wide Web plays a very important role in shaping the web. We focus on the ongoing controversy related to Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) and found that there was a …
9 Oct 2016
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Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015 round2/The Centre for Internet and Society/Impact report formThis form is for organizations receiving Annual Plan Grants to report on their results to date. For progress reports, the time period for this report will the first 6 months of each grant (e.g. 1 January - 30 June of the current year). For …
6 Oct 2016
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Localisation experiences in Kannada and Tulu WikipediasIt has become a fashion to talk about the digital divide in India. These talks are going on for more than 2 decades now. Nevertheless there is no doubt about the need of taking the benefits of Information Communication Technology (ICT) for …
24 Sep 2016
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Delhi High Court’s Ruling Against Publishers is a Triumph For KnowledgeThe court conclusively stated that the reproduction of any work by a teacher or a pupil in the course of instruction would not constitute infringement.
18 Sep 2016
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ସଫ୍ଟଓଏର ସ୍ୱାଧୀନତା ଦିବସ: ଆମ ହାତେ ଆମ କୋଡ଼ ଲେଖିବାSoftware Freedom Day (SFD), which celebrates the use of free and open software, was celebrated in many cities today. The piece sheds light on the philosophy of software freedom, and how free and open source software is making a significant …
18 Sep 2016
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Software Freedom Day: The Importance of Free and Open Source SoftwareSoftware Freedom Day (SFD) on September 17 celebrates the liberty that free and open software and the philosophy of freedom brings into people’s lives. When SFD was started in 2004, only 12 teams from different places joined. It grew to a …
18 Sep 2016
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Another 5 Years: What Have We Learned about the Wikipedia Gender Gap and What Has Been Done? (Part 3.)Five years after Wikimedia Foundation’s 2011 editor survey was conducted and revealed the gender gap issue, scholars, practitioners, and communities around the globe have come a long way to address the gender imbalance of the online …
18 Sep 2016
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Another 5 Years: What Have We Learned about the Wikipedia Gender Gap and What Has Been Done? (Part 2)Five years after Wikimedia Foundation’s 2011 editor survey was conducted and revealed the gender gap issue, scholars, practitioners, and communities around the globe have come a long way to address the gender imbalance of the online …
18 Sep 2016
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Another 5 Years: What Have We Learned about the Wikipedia Gender Gap and What Has Been Done? (Part 1)Five years after Wikimedia Foundation’s 2011 editor survey was conducted and revealed the gender gap issue, scholars, practitioners, and communities around the globe have come a long way to address the gender imbalance of the online …
17 Sep 2016
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ଆମ ହାତେ ଆମ କୋଡ୍ ଲେଖିବାI authored a column on writing our code in our own hands for the editorial of Odia-language daily the "Samaja". The piece is about the philosophy of software freedom and how free and open source software is making a significant difference …
17 Sep 2016
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It's September, and That Means It's Time for Software Freedom DaySoftware Freedom Day (SFD), which celebrates the use of free and open software, is just around the corner on September 17. When the day first started in 2004, only 12 teams from different places joined, but it has since grown to include …
14 Sep 2016
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Methodology: Statements of Working (Form 27) of Indian Mobile Device PatentsIn India, if a patent is not locally worked within three years of its issuance, any person may request a compulsory license, and if the patent is not adequately worked within two years of the grant of such a compulsory license, it may be …
12 Sep 2016
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Where is the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Headed?The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) – the Asian answer to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is still being furiously scripted.
6 Sep 2016
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Making Telugu Suitable for InternetIn brief, the article speaks of steps in making a language other than English suitable for Internet and computers, what input methods, fonts and content are available in Telugu as on date and what challenges are ahead in making language …
1 Sep 2016
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Wikiwomen’s Meetup at St. Agnes College Explores Potentials and Plans of Women Editors in Mangalore, KarnatakaKarnataka is known for its diverse linguistic cultures. Aside from Kannada, many are native speakers of Konkani, Tulu, and other languages. A small Wikiwomen's meetup was held on Saturday, August 27th at St. Agnes College, Mangalore, to …
31 Aug 2016
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A workshop to improve Telugu Wikipedia articles on Nobel laureatesMany articles about Nobel laureates are missing in the Telugu Wikipedia. Recently undergraduate students from four different disciplines of the Andhra Loyola College (ALC), Vijayawada gathered to create and improve articles related to Nobel …
31 Aug 2016
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3 Copyright Tips for Students and EducatorsCopyright is a really complicated topic, and when it comes to online use of creative works, accidentally crossing the line between fair use and a copyright violation is easy. How do you know what is copyrighted? Recently Frederico Morando …
30 Aug 2016
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Meet the Newly Born Tulu Wikipedia, the 23rd in a South Asian Language!The Tulu language Wikipedia became the latest entrant in the family of 294 world-language Wikipedia projects after the project went live from Wikimedia Incubator earlier this month.
30 Aug 2016
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Campaign for relicensing copyrighted books under Creative Commons licensesA campaign has been started to relicense Telugu-language books of several noted authors from "all rights reserved" to Creative Commons Share-Alike (CC-BY-SA) license.
26 Aug 2016
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Preserving Languages and Cultures in India: The Birth of the Tulu WikipediaAfter eight years of effort and outreach, the Tulu language Wikipedia has gone live. Wikimedia contributors play a key role in preserving languages and cultures, and tools like the Wikimedia Incubator help new projects like the Tulu …
26 Aug 2016
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Community Digest: Tulu Wikipedia Goes Live after Eight Years in Incubator; News in BriefEight years after being created in the Wikimedia Incubator, the Tulu-language Wikipedia is now live as the 23rd Indic language Wikipedia.
23 Aug 2016
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ଓଡ଼ିଆ ପାଇଁ ଓସିଆର: ଛପା ଲେଖାର ଛବିରୁ ଡିଇଟାଲ ଲେଖାThough not an open source solution, Google's OCR works really well for Odia and other Indian languages. My column in the Odia daily the Samaja that was published last Saturday briefs about how the OCR works and has a step-by-step process to …
17 Aug 2016
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WikiConference India 2016 Submission: We, Men, Women: Collective Learning in Bridging Indic Wikipedia Gender GapsThere is no denying that non-English Wikipedias are disproportionally underrepresented in scholarly focus despite the significant role of an open knowledge society can play in smaller linguistic groups – local collaboration and …
17 Aug 2016
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WikiConference India 2016 Submission: How to better tell your Wikimedia Community Story using Media as a ToolThe Wikimedia community has constantly struggled to a) reach out to masses and tell them about their contribution, and motivate people to contribute to the Wikimedia projects. Media plays a very important role in spreading the word about …
17 Aug 2016
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WikiConference India 2016 Submission: Gender Gap in Indian Language Wikipedias – Projects, Outreach and OutcomeIndia is not much different from the global statistics when it comes to gender gap issues in Wikipedia. Indian language Wikipedias are known to have similar ratio of male to female editors.