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Konkani Wikipedia
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19 Dec 2016
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Wikipedia workshop for Konkani students conducted in MangaluruA two days Wikipedia workshop "introduction to Wikipedia" was conducted at Besant College, Mangaluru. 16 undergraduate and post-graduate students from 3 different colleges participated in the event. Here is a report.
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 …
7 Aug 2016
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Community digest: Konkani language speakers are separated by scripts but unite by Wikipedia; news in briefKonkani-language Wikipedians on what they think of Wikipedia as a binding factor for native speakers who speak in different variations of the same language and write in different scripts.
8 May 2016
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Stats for March 2016CIS-A2K team closely works with 5 Indian languages, we call as focus language areas. Here are the stats for the month of March 2016.
1 Jan 2016
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Report of Konkani Wikipedia's progress (July-December 2015)Konkani language is one of the 22 languages recognized by Indian union in 8th schedule. As per the 2007 census there are about 7.4 million Konkani speakers.[1] Konkani language has its own Wikipedia created on 15th June 2015. This blog post …
30 Oct 2015
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Konkani-language books from Konkani-language culture center Mannd Sobhaann to enrich Konkani WikipediaMangalore based cultural centre Maand Sobhaann has recently relicensed 3 of their publications under a free license so that the books could be digitised on Konkani Wikisource and enrich Konkani Wikipedia.
18 Jul 2015
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Konkani Wikipedia Goes Live After 'Nine Years' of IncubationKonkani Wikipedia is the second Wikimedia project after Odia Wikisource that has gone live out of incubation. The project stayed in the incubation for nine long years and the community has gone through a long debate to have a Wikipedia of …
13 Jul 2015
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Reading Devanagari script based sites like Konkani Wikipedia in Kannada ScriptThis is a small hack to read websites with Devanagari script (used for Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Maithili and a few more languages) based sites like Konkani Wikipedia in Kannada script.
6 Sep 2014
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NIE Steps in to Grow Konkani WikipediaThe Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) signed a memorandum of agreement (MoU) with Nirmala Institute of Education, Goa to enhance digital literacy in Konkani in the education sector across Goa.
16 May 2014
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Community led Konkani Wikipedia OutreachGoa University students organised the first ever community led Konkani Wikipedia outreach on May 14, 2014. Fifteen first year M.A. students from Konkani Department participated in the six hour long workshop.
31 Dec 2013
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CIS-A2K: Work Accomplished on Konkani WikipediaThe Centre for Internet and Society’s Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K team) is pleased to share with you the key accomplishments about the work it accomplished on Konkani Wikipedia from September to December 2013 in this report. In accordance …
17 Dec 2013
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Pooja Tople on Wikimedia ProjectsThe Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) in collaboration with the Goa University is working to build Konkani Wikipedia. As part of this program it organised the Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Program …
16 Dec 2013
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Darshana Mandrekar speaks on Konkani WikipediaThe Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) in collaboration with the Goa University is working to build Konkani Wikipedia. As part of this program it organised the Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Program …
13 Dec 2013
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Darshan Kandolkar on Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization ProcessThe Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) in collaboration with the Goa University is working to build Konkani Wikipedia. As part of this program it organised the Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Program …
12 Dec 2013
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Varsha Kavlekar on Konkani Wikipedia IncubatorThe Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) in collaboration with the Goa University is working to build Konkani Wikipedia. As part of this program it organised the Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Program …
18 Nov 2013
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Panaji: DKA organizes two day Konkani Wikipedia workshopIn order to showcase Romi Konknni on a global platform, Dalgado Konknni Akademi (DKA) organized a two day Konkani Wikipedia workshop November 16 and November 17 for Romi Konknni writers in collaboration with Centre for Internet and …
17 Nov 2013
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Priyadarshini Tadkodkar on Konkani languageCIS-A2K team interviewed Priyadarshini Tadkodkar about Konkani language. She speaks how editing/contributing to Konkani Wikipedia would help students.
13 Nov 2013
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Konkani Vishwakosh Under CC-BY-SAUpon CIS-A2K's explicit request, Goa University has approved the re-release of Konkani Vishwakosh under the Creative Commons License (CC-BY-SA 3.0) to make it freely available to public and giving them the right to share, use and even build …
23 Oct 2013
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कोंकणी विश्वकोश ‘विकिपीडिया’वरNews about digitalization of Konkani Vishwakosh, appeared in Navprabha daily on October 22, 2013 on front page.
1 Oct 2013
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Re-release of Konkani Vishwakosh under CC-BY-SA 3.0Goa University re-released Konkani Vishwakosh under Creative Commons License CC-BY-SA 3.0. To celebrate and further the movement of open knowledge and open access Goa University in collaboration with Centre for Internet & Society's Access …
1 Oct 2013
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Mangalore: Konkani writers resolve to form all-India forum at JKS conferenceJagotik Konknni Songhotton (JKS) organized an All-India Konkani Writers’ Conference on Sunday, September 29 at Kalaangann.
30 Sep 2013
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Konkani Wikipedia in the makingProcess of uploading the four volumes of Konkani encyclopaedia will be completed in six months’ time.
30 Sep 2013
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Goa University to make available online Konkani Wikipedia, within 6 monthsThick heaps of the four volumes of Konkani language ‘vishwakosh’ or encyclopedia , till now available only in hard copy, will now attain a modern access.
30 Sep 2013
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Goa University Partners CIS India To Build Konkani WikipediaThe Goa university has entered into a three year memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) for building the Konkani Wikipedia, reports navhindtimes.
30 Sep 2013
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For the love of Konkani: Preserving Goa's official languageWith many local dialects on the brink of extinction, Joanna Lobo meets the language conservationists who have taken it upon themselves to preserve Goa's official language.
27 Sep 2013
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Konkani Wikipedia from Goa University in 6 monthsPiles of the thick four volumes of Konkani vishwakosh or encyclopedia waiting to be picked up by users at the Goa University (GU) will now attain a modern avatar.
27 Sep 2013
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Goa University announces plan to upload Konkani encyclopedia on WikipediaThe Goa University, on Thursday, re-launched the four volumes of Konkani Vishwakosh (Konkani encyclopedia), and announced its ambitious plan to upload the same on Wikipedia – a free encyclopedia built collaboratively using Wiki software – …
25 Sep 2013
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Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization ProjectThe Centre for Internet and Society in collaboration with the University of Goa invite you to a two-month project on digitization of Konkani Vishwakosh. Please send in your applications by October 5, 2013.