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Access to Knowledge
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23 Sep 2016
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To embed a tweet or not?Experts say it would amount to copyright infringement if the fair use clause is exploited.
22 Sep 2016
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Tulu Wikipedia Goes 'Live' after 8 Years on IncubatorEight years after being created in the Wikimedia Incubator, the Tulu-language Wikipedia is now live as the 23rd Indic language.
22 Sep 2016
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Law and Economy Policy Conference 2016 (LEPC - 2016)The National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) in collaboration with the Institute of New Economic Thinking (INET) is organising India’s first “Law Economics Policy Conference (LEPC-2016)”. The aim is to bring together legal, …
22 Sep 2016
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“Made in India” Innovation PolicyIn this post they emphasize upon the need for data-driven IP policy making in India.
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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Data Xgen launches paid Hindi email serviceJaipur based Enterprise email provider Data Xgen Technologies has launched a paid email service in Hindi Devnagari script. This is especially for .bharat domain names, but can also be used for other domains. As of now, the company offers …
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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Press coverage about Punjab edit-a-thon & Telugu Wikipedia successAndhra Jyothi, one of the leading news papers in Telugu covered Punjab edit-a-thon & Telugu wikipedia success in national level with the angle of Pranaraj involvement in it.
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.
25 Aug 2016
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International Conference on Innovation for Shared ProsperityRohini Lakshane attended a conference on IP Rights, Competition and Standard Setting in the IT industry on August 20 and 21, 2016. The conference was organized by O.P. Jindal Global University and Jindal Initiative on Research in IP & …
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 …
22 Aug 2016
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Tulu takes a major Wiki leap, all thanks to a dedicated teamTulu is one of the five Dravidian languages but it has the least number of speakers. Though it has a script, lack of usage has made it almost obsolete, forcing Tulu writers to write in Kannada. This has, however, benefited Tulu today, …
22 Aug 2016
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Tulu gets official Wikipedia page, but Mumbai linguists say more is neededSitting in his Sunkadakatte home in Bengaluru, Dr UB Pavanaja still recalls the moment when he was at the WikiConference India 2016 in Chandigarh earlier this month. Academicians from all over India had gathered at the event, to share their …
20 Aug 2016
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Focus on India—WikiConference produces new apps; state government adopts free licensesWikiConference India and its productive hackathon
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 …