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Openness
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25 Mar 2013
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Kannada Wikipedia Workshop, Mysore — Coverage in PrajavaniA Kannada Wikipedia workshop was organized by the Centre for Internet and Society in Mysore on March 24, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the event. Prajavani has published a report of the event on March 25, 2013.
21 Mar 2013
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Strategic Issues Emerging from Open Access Dialogues - Final ReportA series of discussions - on the Chat Literacy forum of ELDIS and on Twitter - was organised during November 2012 to March 2013 to identify the global challenges in 'Navigating the Complexities of Open Access'. The discussions were …
19 Mar 2013
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Wiki Women's Day in GoaInternational Women's Day (IWD), also called International Working Women's Day, is celebrated on March 8, every year. There were a series of Wikipedia events organised this year with the aim of increasing participation of women contributing …
19 Mar 2013
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Introductory Wikipedia session at BITS GoaThe Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet and Society was invited by Nikhil Dixit, Public Relations Officer at the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani – Goa (BITS Goa) to organise Wikipedia session on March 7, …
18 Mar 2013
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Ahmednagar — Marathi Wikipedia WorkshopWikipedia Community members helped the Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications Programme (HEIRA), CSCS Bangalore organize a day-long workshop on ‘Digital Literacy’ at Ahmednagar College, Ahmednagar, Maharasthra on January 17, …
13 Mar 2013
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Wikipedia Women's Workshop Bangalore 2013The Wikipedia Women's Workshop Bangalore 2013 was held on March 8, 2013 at Servelots Infotech, Jayanagar in Bangalore. It was organized by Wikimedia India. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the event. The news was covered by Kannada Prabha …
11 Mar 2013
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Wikipedia at AvenirA 4 hours Wikipedia event at Avenir, 2013 is being held at Netaji Subhash Engineering College, Kolkata, West Bengal on 11th March 2013. The Centre for Internet and Society is supporting this event.
2 Mar 2013
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Foreign Funding of NGOsShould FDI in India’s thinktank sector worry us? It is a debate long overdue.
28 Feb 2013
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Open DataCamp - 2013A two day unconference for people working with data from various sectors to come together and share their projects and idea is being organized by Open Data Camp on March 2 and 3, 2013 at Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram (inside Christ University …
28 Feb 2013
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Odia Wikipedia Community Brings Wikipedia Education Program to IIMC, DhenkanalThe Odia Wikipedia community collaborated with the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal and hosted a pilot Odia Wikipedia Education Program. The program began in November 2012 and got over by January 2013. Sixteen student …
28 Feb 2013
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FOSS, Wikimedia and Mozilla Under One Roof at GNUnify 2013, PuneGNUnify 2013 organized in the campus in Pune from February 15 to 17, 2013. The event was organized by Pune Linux/Unix User Group (PLUG) and Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies & Research (SICSR). Subhashish Panigrahi reports the …
28 Feb 2013
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Fifty-fourth Bangalore Wikimedia Meet-up at IIM, BangaloreThe 54th Wikimedia meet-up in Bangalore was held at the Indian Institute of Management on February 25, 2013. The event was planned and organized by Radhakrishna Arvapally, SIG (Special Interest Group) Chair, Bangalore (a part of the …
28 Feb 2013
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Creative Commons comes to IndiaCreative Commons team visited four Indian cities to spread the word about CC free licenses and CC affiliate program. Wikimedia India chapter was approached to join hands with Creative Commons for research and community building.
20 Feb 2013
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Celebrating Odia Wikipedia's Ninth AnniversaryOdia Wikipedia saw its first edit on January 29, 2004. After a dormancy of many years it got revived in 2011. To commemorate the effort of many volunteer wikipedians, a celebratory event was organized on January 29, 2013 in Bhubaneswar. …
11 Feb 2013
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Wiki Meet-up in Bangalore: Talk by Vishnu VardhanVishnu Vardhan, Director of Access to Knowledge team at CIS has been invited by the Bangalore SIG Chair. Vishnu will speak on the Access to Knowledge (Wikipedia) project. The talk is scheduled for February 25, 2013 at 2.00 p.m. in …
10 Feb 2013
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Sanskrit Wikiquote — Now Available!The Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is happy to celebrate the availability of Sanskrit wikiquote.
6 Feb 2013
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Report of Aaron Swartz Memorial HacknightOn 19th and 20th January, HasGeek organized a hacknight to commemorate the life and works of Aaron Swartz. Zainab Bawa from HasGeek shares with us the developments.
5 Feb 2013
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Digital Literacy Workshop at Department of Arts, Delhi UniversityA digital literacy workshop was organised at the Department of Arts, Delhi University for students pursuing their masters in Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies on February 5, 2013. Nitika Tandon shares the developments.
31 Jan 2013
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Odia Wikipedia's 9th Anniversary and Workshop on Application of Odia in MediaThe Centre for Internet & Society in collaboration with Odia-Wikipedia and Academy for Media Learning organized a workshop on January 29, 2013. This was covered in Sambad on January 30, 2013.
31 Jan 2013
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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
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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
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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 …
25 Jan 2013
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 …