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Wikimedia
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19 Feb 2025
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She Leads Bootcamp 2025CIS-A2K is committed to bridging the gender gap within Indian Wikimedia communities, and to further this goal, last year we launched the impactful She Leads program. This initiative is designed to empower female Wikimedians to take on …
6 May 2024
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Commemorating Chandan Chiring (1990-2024)With a heavy heart, I am deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of Chandan Chiring Phukan at 11:30 pm on Saturday, April 27th. Chandan Chiring was born on November 14, 1990, in Titabor, Jorhat district of Assam.
12 Feb 2024
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Open Movement in India (2013-23): The Idea and Its ExpressionsThis report identifies some broad patterns that have materialized in the Open Movement in the country in the last decade. The report is based on a reading of the available literature on selected projects and conversations with academicians …
10 Feb 2024
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Using the Wikimedia sphere for the revitalization of small and underrepresented languages in IndiaThis report explores opportunities within the Wikimedia movement and projects to help revitalise small and underrepresented languages in India and provide recommendations to CIS’s Access to Knowledge team in furthering this effort. The …
21 Oct 2022
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Mapping Content on Gender and Sexuality in Indian LanguagesThis research study explores content production processes on gender and sexuality in Indian languages, its digital documentation and factors that affect its availability and use on open access platforms. The research was undertaken by …
21 Oct 2022
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Infrastructural Needs of Indian Language Wikisource ProjectsThis is a short study on identifying the infrastructural gaps on Indian language Wikisource projects, and potential strategies to address the same. The study was undertaken by Jayantha Nath, Puthiya Purayil Sneha and Satdeep Gill, with …
21 Oct 2022
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Exploring Knowledge Repositories on Water Resources in IndiaThis research study explores knowledge repositories on water resources in India, with a focus on how the digital transition has impacted the process of creation & access to these resources and possible collaborations to build open digital …
11 Oct 2022
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Digitisation of O Bharat, a bilingual biweekly published in Goa from 1912 to 1949The digitization project of O Bharat, a historic biweekly published between 1912 to 1949 in Goa was completed through collaboration of different organizations. The trustees of Bharatkar Hegde Desai Trust initiated the project in …
11 Oct 2022
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Digitisation of O Bharat, a bilingual biweekly published in Goa from 1912 to 1949It all started like this. During the Wikimedia session at Goa University in October 2021, it was realised that there is very little documentation about the ‘Goa Liberation Struggle’ on Wikimedia projects. So, in the meeting Prof. Vinay …
20 Aug 2021
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Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021/ReportIn March 2020, the whole world came to a standstill. What many deemed as a regular ‘flu’ turned out to be the pandemic that brought everyone to their knees. The things that we always did, we could no longer do them. We were all confined to …
28 Jun 2021
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Bodh: a new tool for Wikidata lexicographical dataWe are happy to announce that a new tool, named Bodh, has been developed by Jay Prakash, as a CIS-A2K assignment, to add or modify statements for lexemes, senses and forms.
31 Dec 2020
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Research Studies on Indian Language Wikimedia Projects 2019-21This is a compilation of the final reports from a series of short-term studies undertaken by the CIS-A2K team in 2019-2021, on an array of topics related to Indian language Wikimedia projects. The projects were undertaken by Subodh …
30 Sep 2020
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Access to Knowledge 2019–2020 Utilisation CertificateAccess to Knowledge 2019–2020 WMF APG Utilisation Certificate
23 Dec 2019
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Wikiorientation at Dr.GR Damodaran College of ScienceAn orientation session on Wikimedia projects was held on 6-7 December 2019 at Dr. GR Damodaran College of Science. This talk was part of the “Hour of Code” event, which is an International event celebrated across the globe to encourage …
24 Nov 2019
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Project Tiger 2.0If you think that Indian languages are as important as international languages, like English, then, you are on the same page with this article. If not, then, let me explain, why it is a significant and much bigger issue than you think.
24 Nov 2019
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Project Tiger 2.0If you think that Indian languages are as important as international languages, like English, then, you are on the same page with this article. If not, then, let me explain, why it is a significant and much bigger issue than you think.
24 Nov 2019
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Project Tiger 2.0If you think that Indian languages are as important as international languages, like English, then, you are on the same page with this article. If not, then, let me explain, why it is a significant and much bigger issue than you think.
22 Nov 2019
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Project Tiger 2.0If you think that Indian languages are as important as international languages, like English, then, you are on the same page with this article. If not, then, let me explain, why it is a significant and much bigger issue than you think.
3 Oct 2019
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Analysis on the strategies of Mozilla and Wiki communities on gender gap aspectsThere is a need for research on how Open Source communities are trying to balance the gender ratio and how they provide the safe space environment to its contributors. With this in mind I have come up with this blog as I am an active …
19 Aug 2019
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Call for joining the Free Knowledge movement #Wikipedia #WikimediaEvery little drop makes a Mighty ocean! Join us in this Free Knowledge movement where your contributions will be used world-wide.
31 Jul 2019
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Re-licensing Sessions with Authors and OrganisationsIn collaboration with Marathi community, CIS-A2K is getting connected with various authors and organisations willing to re-license their content under CC-By-SA. A2K is facilitating the OTRS process Commons for re-licensing as well as …
22 Jun 2019
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Wikimedia Education SAARC Conference 2019Christ University in association with the Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) organized a conference, from 20 - 22 June 2019, at Christ University, Bengaluru. Forty-nine Wikimedians from four countries (Sri …
5 Jun 2019
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What is Wikimedia Education SAARC Conference?The Wikimedia Education SAARC conference is on 20th June 2019. A conference for Wikimedians, Wikimedia education leaders, educators and researchers engaged with Open Education and free knowledge movement.
26 May 2019
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Wikisource Workshop at Vigyan Ashram, PabalThe Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) organized a workshop in collaboration with Vigyan Ashram, Pabal on May 25-26, 2019 at Pabal. Total 12 participants attended sessions during this two days workshop. The …
3 May 2019
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Wikipedia assignments workshop for Post Graduate students in PAH Solapur UniversityOn May 3, 2019, Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) along with PAH Solapur University conducted a Wikipedia workshop for students from the post-graduate stream in PAH Solapur University. Ten students from Mass …
15 Apr 2019
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CIS-A2K proposal to Wikimedia Foundation for 2019-2020The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) has submitted its proposal form for the year 2019 - 2020 to the Wikimedia Foundation. CIS thanks all community members who gave valuable suggestions and inputs for …
5 Apr 2019
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Supporting Indian Language Wikipedias Program/ReportCIS-A2K team submitted Project Tiger final report.
7 Mar 2019
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ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಶಿಕ್ಷಣ ಯೋಜನೆ ಸಮಾವೇಶ ಮತ್ತು ತರಬೇತಿಯ ವರದಿಕನ್ನಡ ಭಾಷೆಯು ದಿನದಿಂದ ದಿನಕ್ಕೆ ಬಳಕೆಯಿಲ್ಲದೇ ಕುಂದುತ್ತಿದೆ. ಗ್ರಾಮೀಣ ಭಾಗದ ಕನ್ನಡ ಮಾಧ್ಯಮದ ಮಕ್ಕಳಿಗೆ ಸರಿಯಾದ ಕನ್ನಡ ಆಕರಗಳು ಸಿಗುತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ. ಇಂತಹ ಸಂದರ್ಭದಲ್ಲಿ, ಕನ್ನಡವನ್ನು ಉಳಿಸಿ ಬೆಳೆಸುವುದು ಪ್ರತಿಯೊಬ್ಬ ಕನ್ನಡಿಗನ ಕರ್ತವ್ಯ. ಇದನ್ನೆಲ್ಲ ಗಮನದಲ್ಲಿಟ್ಟುಕೊಂಡು, ಸಂತ ಅಲೋಶಿಯಸ್ …
7 Mar 2019
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Rejuvenating India’s Rivers the Wiki WayTarun Bharat Sangh (TBS), an organisation working on rejuvenation of rivers in India, has began documentation of rivers on Wiki, especially to draw attention to and mitigate the crisis of toxic deposits facing more than 40 rivers in India. …
22 Feb 2019
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Goa University students update ‘Goa’ Marathi articles on WikipediaFaculty and students of Goa University’s Marathi department have updated 164 Marathi articles on Wikipedia related to Goa recently.