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Wikimedia
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22 Oct 2016
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What Indian Language Wikipedias can do for Greater Open Access in IndiaThe number of internet users in India was expected to reach 460 million by 2015, as the growth in the previous year was 49 percent. The total number of users for Hindi content alone reached about 60 million last year.
21 Oct 2016
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Querying Wikipedia DataRecently I wrote a blog about the stub article length of Wikipedia articles. I mentioned the difference in actual number of characters and the number of bytes used to define stub articles between English and Indian language Wikipedias. One …
9 Oct 2016
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Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015 round2/The Centre for Internet and Society/Impact report formThis form is for organizations receiving Annual Plan Grants to report on their results to date. For progress reports, the time period for this report will the first 6 months of each grant (e.g. 1 January - 30 June of the current year). For …
18 Sep 2016
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Another 5 Years: What Have We Learned about the Wikipedia Gender Gap and What Has Been Done? (Part 3.)Five years after Wikimedia Foundation’s 2011 editor survey was conducted and revealed the gender gap issue, scholars, practitioners, and communities around the globe have come a long way to address the gender imbalance of the online …
18 Sep 2016
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Another 5 Years: What Have We Learned about the Wikipedia Gender Gap and What Has Been Done? (Part 2)Five years after Wikimedia Foundation’s 2011 editor survey was conducted and revealed the gender gap issue, scholars, practitioners, and communities around the globe have come a long way to address the gender imbalance of the online …
18 Sep 2016
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Another 5 Years: What Have We Learned about the Wikipedia Gender Gap and What Has Been Done? (Part 1)Five years after Wikimedia Foundation’s 2011 editor survey was conducted and revealed the gender gap issue, scholars, practitioners, and communities around the globe have come a long way to address the gender imbalance of the online …
31 Aug 2016
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A workshop to improve Telugu Wikipedia articles on Nobel laureatesMany articles about Nobel laureates are missing in the Telugu Wikipedia. Recently undergraduate students from four different disciplines of the Andhra Loyola College (ALC), Vijayawada gathered to create and improve articles related to Nobel …
30 Aug 2016
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Campaign for relicensing copyrighted books under Creative Commons licensesA campaign has been started to relicense Telugu-language books of several noted authors from "all rights reserved" to Creative Commons Share-Alike (CC-BY-SA) license.
17 Aug 2016
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WikiConference India 2016 Submission: We, Men, Women: Collective Learning in Bridging Indic Wikipedia Gender GapsThere is no denying that non-English Wikipedias are disproportionally underrepresented in scholarly focus despite the significant role of an open knowledge society can play in smaller linguistic groups – local collaboration and …
17 Aug 2016
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WikiConference India 2016 Submission: How to better tell your Wikimedia Community Story using Media as a ToolThe Wikimedia community has constantly struggled to a) reach out to masses and tell them about their contribution, and motivate people to contribute to the Wikimedia projects. Media plays a very important role in spreading the word about …
17 Aug 2016
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WikiConference India 2016 Submission: Gender Gap in Indian Language Wikipedias – Projects, Outreach and OutcomeIndia is not much different from the global statistics when it comes to gender gap issues in Wikipedia. Indian language Wikipedias are known to have similar ratio of male to female editors.
8 Aug 2016
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South Asia's Largest Wikimedia Conference Kicks Off in IndiaWiki Conference India 2016, the largest gathering of the contributors of Wikipedia (the multilingual online encyclopaedia) and its sister projects called Wikimedia projects, begins August 5 in Landran, in the Indian state of Punjab.
7 Aug 2016
News
WikiConference India 2016WikiConference India 2016 is an event to provide a common platform for all Wikimedians in India to meet and share their views, discuss challenges and exchange useful tips, best practices and other information. The Conference is open for …
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.
5 Aug 2016
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The largest Wikipedia gathering in South Asia kicks offWikimedia Conference 2016Wiki Conference India 2016 (WCI), the largest gathering of contributors to Wikipedia and its sister projects in South Asia, will be held during August 5-7 this year in Chandigarh, India.
30 Jul 2016
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Architectures of KnowledgeRohini Lakshane was a speaker at a workshop organized by Columbia's Group for Experimental Methods in the Humanities at Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai.
9 Jul 2016
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Open source effort gives indigenous language an official typefaceSantali, an aboriginal South Asian language, has a brand new freely licensed font and set of cross-platform open source input tools on the way.
9 Jul 2016
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Community celebrates birthday of Odia Wikipedia and Odia WiktionaryThis June, Odia Wikipedia turned 14 and Odia Wiktionary turned 11. Odia Wikimedia community member Chinmayee Mishra, CIS-A2K Programme Associate Sailesh Patnaik and I co-authored this blog in the Wikimedia Blog. The blog chronicles several …
12 Jun 2016
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Beyond Editor Count: Assessing Quality on WikipediaSince Wikipedia is considered as the go-to source for different kinds of knowledge by anyone starting off in a particular field of study, and since Indian languages (IL) are often the default languages of the classroom in India, …
5 Jun 2016
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Digital native: Control A, BackspaceThe rewriting of textbooks should not be compared to the collaborations on Wikipedia, which only goes by evidence.
12 May 2016
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Kannada Wikipedia edit-a-thon organised at Sagara, KarnatakaA two-day-long Kannada Wikipedia edit-a-thon was organised at Sagara, Karnataka during January 26-27. A photowalk was also organised on the 25th to cover places of encyclopedic importance.
10 May 2016
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Cultural institution AKA GLAM for more OERThe OER conference was held in Edinburgh, Scotland on April 19 and 20, 2016. Subhashish Panigrahi gave a talk at the event organised by the University of Edinburg.
9 May 2016
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Indian English Wikipedian Nvvchar completes 1500 Did You Know articlesIndian English Wikipedian Nvvchar has completed 1500 Did you know articles. This is the second highest on English Wikipedia.
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 May 2016
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T’puram to host Wikipedia workshop on May 4, 5The workshop will be led by Prof. Madav Gadgil and a team of experienced Wikipedia editors.
28 Apr 2016
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Exercise to Correct articles in Tulu Wikipedia beginsIt will go on till Saturday at the Ramakrishna pre-university college.
19 Apr 2016
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Celebrating the 13th anniversary of Kannada WikipediaThe Kannada-language Wikipedia, arguably the largest online encyclopedia in Kannada language, celebrated its 13th anniversary on February 14, 2016 in Mangalore.
2 Apr 2016
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CIS - A2K Work Plan: July 2016 - June 2017One of the key mandates of the Access to Knowledge (A2K) program at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is to work towards catalyzing the growth of the free and open knowledge movement in Indic languages. CIS has been a steward of the …
31 Mar 2016
News
BHASHA - Indian Languages Digital FestivalSubhashish Panigrahi gave a talk at the Bhasha- India Languages Digital Festival a conference organized by news media YourStory, at New Delhi on March 11, 2016. In the panel "The challenges of making regional language content available on …
31 Mar 2016
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8 Challenges In Growing Indian-Language WikipediasWhile speaking at BHASHA: Indian Languages Digital Festival, a day-long discourse at New Delhi on Indian languages and their state in new media, especially digital platforms, I touched upon Wikipedia in Indian languages. Most people, in …