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31 Jan 2013
Blog post
Access to Knowledge Report — September to December 2012This post provides an overview of the activities done by the Access to Knowledge team under the grant provided by the Wikimedia Foundation from September 2012 to December 2012.
29 Jan 2013
Event
Odia Wikipedia 9th Anniversary CelebrationThe Centre for Internet & Society, New Delhi is celebrating the ninth anniversary of Odia Wikipedia. The event is being held at Academy of Media Learning, M-6, Samanta Vihar in Bhubaneswar from 10.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
29 Jan 2013
News
First Odia Wikipedia Education Program concludes at IIMC, DhenkanalThe first Odia Wikipedia Education program ended yesterday at Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Dhenkanal with distribution of certificates to the participants.
28 Jan 2013
Blog post
Remembering Aaron Swartz, Taking Up the FightI encountered the Aaron Swartz memorial the other day that helps ‘liberate’ a randomly selected article from JSTOR, as an act of civil disobedience, to commemorate both the legacy that Swartz leaves behind, but also the high-profile …
26 Jan 2013
Event
Odia Education Program at IIMC, DhenkanalThe Centre for Internet & Society, Delhi is organizing a workshop on the Odia Education Program on January 26, 2013, from 3.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m.
25 Jan 2013
Blog post
Konkani in Wikipedia Incubator — Taking it to the Next LevelAn introductory session on Konkani in Wikipedia was organized by the Centre for Internet and Society, Delhi in the Konkani Department at Goa University on December 12, 2012. About 30 participants took part in the event.
25 Jan 2013
News
Bangalore hackers write code as tribute to Aaron SwartzA small crowd gathered here on Saturday afternoon in the basement of the Centre for Internet and Society to participate in the Aaron Swartz Memorial Hacknight, organised by HasGeek.
24 Jan 2013
Blog post
Promoting GLAM in GoaWe organised an introductory Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums (GLAM) session at Goa State Central Library on December 13, 2012. It was well attended by about 45 interested people coming from over 10 different GLAM institutes in Goa.
24 Jan 2013
Blog post
Aaron Swartz: The First Martyr of the Free Information MovementWell known American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist died on January 11, 2013. Lawrence Liang from the Alternative Law Forum discusses with Newsclick the tragic loss. The interview was conducted by …
22 Jan 2013
Blog post
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
Blog post
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
Blog post
Indic Language Wikipedias — Statistical Report — 2012I have compiled the statistical update of the Indic language Wikipedias for the year 2012. As usual, in this report, my aim is to provide my perspectives on the health of various Indic language communities as well as the state of various …
21 Jan 2013
Blog post
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
Blog post
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.
19 Jan 2013
Event
Aaron Swartz Memorial HacknightOn Saturday, January 19, 2013, HasGeek and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) are organizing a hacknight to understand Aaron’s work and contribute to his projects. The event starts from 2.00 p.m. onwards and ends at 8.00 a.m., the …
18 Jan 2013
Blog post
The Violence of Knowledge CartelsWe are all struck with a sense of loss, grief and shock since we heard of the death of Aaron Swartz, by suicide. People who have been his friends have written heart-felt obituaries, saluting his dreams and visions and unwavering commitment …
15 Jan 2013
Blog post
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
Blog post
Open Access Champion Leslie Chan Delivers Five Talks in IndiaProfessor Leslie Chan, a champion of Open Access (OA) and Associate Director of the Centre for Critical Development Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough visited Tiruvananthapuram and Mysore in December 2012 for a series of …
30 Dec 2012
Blog post
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
Blog post
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
Blog post
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 …
21 Dec 2012
Event
Access to Knowledge Workshop @ NMAMIT, Karkala Taluk, KarnatakaThe Centre for Internet & Society in collaboration with Metawing Technologies (P) Ltd. is organizing a Wikipedia workshop at NMAMIT, Karkala Taluk, Karnataka on December 21, 2012, from 9.30 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.
19 Dec 2012
Blog post
Non Unicode ISCII Text Can be Converted to Unicode Now!Odia Wikipedian Manoj Sahukar has designed a new tool which can convert non Unicode ISCII text to Odia Unicode text. A majority of the digitized text and web content of newspapers and books are in non unicode text which now could be used …
12 Dec 2012
News
Leslie Chan Lectures in Tiruvananthapuram and MysoreProf. Leslie Chan from the University of Toronto, Canada is giving a series of lectures in Tiruvananthapuram and Mysore from December 17, 2012 to December 19, 2012.
10 Dec 2012
Blog post
Random Hacks of Kindness Global December 2012 — A ReportA Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) hackathon in Bangalore was hosted at office of the Center for Internet and Society (CIS) in Domlur on December 1 and 2, 2012. CIS, Amnesty International India Office, Greenpeace India Office, HasGeek, Yahoo …
8 Dec 2012
Blog post
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 …
5 Dec 2012
News
A Report of Odia Wikipedia Workshop at IIT, KharagpurThe Samaja, Odia daily, Kolkata edition, on December 3, 2012, published an article about the Odia Wikipedia Workshop organized in IIT, Kharagpur, West Bengal.
30 Nov 2012
Blog post
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
Blog post
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
Event
Art in the Open Source Age — A Talk by Gene KoganThe Centre for Internet and Society is hosting a talk by Gene Kogan, a programmer and digital artist, at its office in Bangalore on November 30th, 2012, from 5.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m.