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11 May 2013
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Odia Wikipedia: Needs AssessmentThis blog encompasses the status of Odia Wikipedia and assessment of the needs for growth of the community.
7 May 2013
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ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನ/೧೦This was organised by the Wikipedia community on May 7, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in this.
30 Apr 2013
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Analysis of Konkani Wikipedia: Facts & ChallengesNitika Tandon, in this blog post, provides an analysis of the Konkani Wikipedia. She reflects on the challenges faced by Konkani Wikipedia and identifies four possible solutions.
29 Apr 2013
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Indian WikiWomen celebrate Women’s History MonthMarch 2013 was a busy month for women Wikimedians in India, as we conducted various events, such as edit-a-thons and workshops to celebrate the presence of women in Wikimedia projects. The women Wikimedians, members of the Wikimedia India …
22 Apr 2013
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Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project #2: Visualising Page Views and Project PagesIn this blog post, we bring you a visualisation of the page views statistics and the project specific pages that we created last month. The page views indicate the number of unique visits the Wikipedia project concerned has received in one …
17 Apr 2013
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Kolkata Wiki Community MeetupRecently Centre for Internet and Society's Access To Knowledge Programme members T. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi met wikipedians in Kolkata. The event was co-organized by the Access to Knowledge team from the Centre for Internet …
16 Apr 2013
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Wikipedia Workshop in Mangalore — Report in Kannada PrabhaA workshop was conducted for students of Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management, Mangalore by Dr. U.B.Pavanaja on April 9, 2013. Kannada Prabha published a report about this on the following day, April 10, 2013.
16 Apr 2013
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KP Rao fetedKP Rao who had designed fonts for Indian languages including Kannada and devised the first phonetic keyboard driver for Indian languages, was felicitated at a programme organised at Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management on Tuesday, …
15 Apr 2013
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Report of Wiki Workshop in MangaloreA wikipedia workshop was organized in Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management, Mangalore on April 9, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the workshop. Prajavani's Mangalore edition published a report about the felicitation to …
11 Apr 2013
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Need to develop vernacular languages stressedUniversity of Hyderabad (UoH) Vice-Chancellor Prof. Ramakrishna Rama Swamy said on Wednesday that everyone has a duty to contribute to the development of vernacular languages.
4 Apr 2013
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Odia Wikipedia - Bhubaneswar Community Meetup (March 17, 2013)The Access to Knowledge team from the Centre for Internet and Society and the Odia Wikipedia community held a meetup in Bhubaneswar on March 17, 2013. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi participated in this meet-up.
3 Apr 2013
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Odia Wikipedia - Cuttack Community Meetup (March 16, 2013)A meetup of Odia wikipedians was organised by the Access to Knowledge team of the Centre for Internet and Society and the Odia wikipedia community on March 16, 2013. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the meetup.
1 Apr 2013
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2nd Odia Wikipedia Edit-a-thonThe event is being organized today, April 1, 2013 online by the Odia Wikipedia Community, from 10.00 a.m. to 7.00 p.m. The Centre for Internet and Society is supporting this event.
28 Mar 2013
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Wikipedia Indian Languages Workshop at IIT, BombayThis is a brief report on the Wikipedia Indian languages workshop held on March 9, 2013 at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in partnership with Vaani, the Hindi bloggers' club at IIT, Bombay.
26 Mar 2013
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Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project #1: Visualising Basic ParametersSajjad Anwar and Sumandro Chattapadhyay bring you a visualisation of the growth of Indic Wikipedia in this first post on Indic Wikipedia Visualisation project. In doing so, the authors look into the different aspects of the past and present …
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.
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.
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.
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.