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19 Jan 2013
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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.
18 Jan 2013
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 …
19 Dec 2012
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 …
28 Nov 2012
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વિકિપીડિયા ગુજરાતી માં પણ છેWe've recently been featured in the Gujarati magazine on technology: Cybersafar. The below article was written by Harsh Kothari.
23 Nov 2012
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OdishaDiary conferred prestigious Odisha Youth Inspiration Award 2012 to Odia Wikipedia teamOdishaDiary (Orissadiary.com) conferred the prestigious Odisha Youth Inspiration Award 2012 to the team of contributors of Odia Wikipedia.
22 Nov 2012
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Wikipedia Women's Workshop in MumbaiThe Wiki Women Workshop was organized at the Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Wadala in Mumbai on November 4, 2012. It was attended by over 60 women participants who were taught how to contribute to Wikipedia articles and briefed about …
19 Nov 2012
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Typing in Indic Languages from Mobiles made Easy!A new app is up for typing in Indic languages from mobile phones. This is is available online at: http://bitly.com/indictyping and supports on iOS. Android version is to be released soon.
19 Nov 2012
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Science Gallery Workshop @ SrishtiSrishti School of Art, Design and Technology is organizing a workshop to discuss the exciting potential of envisaging a Science Gallery in Bangalore as a part of the Global Science Gallery Network. Sunil Abraham is participating in this …
19 Nov 2012
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Report on Wikipedia Hackathon held in HyderabadBITS Hyderabad had a tech fest from October 25 to 27, 2012, and wanted to conduct a technical wiki hackathon. We decided to do it on October 26 — all night.
19 Nov 2012
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Open Government Platform: An Open Source Solution to Democratizing Access to Information and Energizing Civic EngagementIf government could release these datasets in open format for people to use & reuse, a whole lot of new innovative apps could be built around these datasets to provide better, customized services to citizens.
19 Nov 2012
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Odia Wikipedia Gets a New Typing Solution!Subhashish Panigrahi worked with Yuvi Panda to create a new typing scheme for Odia Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. This blog post gives a summary of this development and its outcome.
19 Nov 2012
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Follow up to Wikipedia Introductory Session at Bharati Vidyapeeth — More Interested and More Involved ParticipantsA Wikipedia introductory session was organised at Bharati Vidyapeeth Engineering College in Delhi early this year and a follow up session was organised by CIS on November 19, 2012. About 12 to 15 participants attended the follow up session. …
19 Nov 2012
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An Odia Wikipedia Workshop at KMBB College, BhubaneswarThe Centre for Internet and Society along with Odia Wikipedians in Bhubaneswar organized an Odia Wikipedia workshop on November 18, 2012. It was held in KMBB College of Engineering. Odia Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia in Odia language …
19 Nov 2012
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A Report of the Odia Wikipedia Workshop held in KMBB College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar(By Debapriya Priyadashi Chakra) Sambad, Odisha's most widely read and largest circulated daily, on November 19, 2012, published an article about the Odia Wikipedia workshop organized in KMBB College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
19 Nov 2012
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‘Some Indian laws could be challenging’Wikipedia’s founder member Erik Möller says their principle is not to decide the map of India, but to explain that there is a controversy.
11 Nov 2012
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A Wikipedia Mini-hackathon in DelhiWikipedian Yuvaraj Pandian visited the CIS office in Delhi and helped the Access to Knowledge team conduct a super-ad-hoc mini-hackathon with two other volunteers, Sheel from Delhi and Harsh from Ahmedabad. The aim was to get them a …
10 Nov 2012
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An Odia Wikipedia Workshop at Academy of Media LearningOdia Wikipedians were invited to Academy of Media Learning (AML), Bhubaneswar for a guest lecture and a workshop on contributing to Odia Wikipedia. The event was organised by the Centre for Internet & Society on November 10, 2012. This is a …
9 Nov 2012
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Steady Steps.....FOSS and the MDG'sPranesh Prakash was a panelist at this IGF workshop held on November 9, 2012. It was organised by International Center For Free and Open Source Software and Free Software and OpenSource Foundation For Africa.
31 Oct 2012
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Gujarati Wikipedia Article Competition – 10 schools, 200 students, 20 articles on Gujarati WikipediaThis was a competition to raise Wikipedia awareness and help students discover the joy of writing articles in their native language and an attempt to connect producers having knowledge in Gujarati to a wide audience of more than four lakh …