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29 Mar 2016
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Eight Challenges That Indian-Language Wikipedias Need to OvercomeEven after a decade of existence, Indian language Wikipedias are not yet known to many Indian language speakers. Wikipedia, being the largest available encyclopedia made in the human history, it what it is today because of the hundreds and …
29 Mar 2016
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8 Challenges for Improving Indian Language WikipediasAfter more than 10 years in existence, the Indian-language Wikipedias still are not known to many Indian language speakers. Wikipedia became the largest encyclopedia in history as a result of thousands of volunteer editors.
26 Mar 2016
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8th IBA International ConferenceThe 8th IBA International Conference was organized by Indus Business Academy in Bengaluru from March 24 to 26, 2016. The theme of the conference was Taking India to Greater Heights. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja gave a talk on Democratizing of …
27 Feb 2016
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Cultural institution AKA GLAM for more OERMy submission titled "Cultural institution AKA GLAM for more OER" under the theme of "Innovative approaches to opening up cultural heritage collections for education" has been selected for the OER16 conference to be held in Edinburg, …
27 Feb 2016
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Community Digest—Estonians working on a new feedback system for Wikipedia articlesCommunity digest is a weekly publication on Wikimedia Blog. This week, I have authored a section on the Kannada Wikipedia's 13th anniversary that is being celebrated today. It includes a small section from a longer interview with Kannada …
29 Jan 2016
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Wikipedia initiative - Celebrating legacy of Bangalore Blue grapes onlineBlack is beautiful, and it can go places if it is well researched. When HL Omshivaprakash wrote a Wikipedia article about Karnataka's bidriware, the metal handicraft where gleaming black bowls and hookahs are dotted with delicate silver …
29 Jan 2016
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Books at a ClickThe OdiaWikimedia community and Bhubaneswar-based Srujanika have come together to make rare science books available online for readers, students & science educators.
27 Jan 2016
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This Multilingual Edit-a-thon wants to Improve Indian Content on WikipediaEver wondered how many articles the Kannada Wikipedia or the Hindi Wikipedia have relating to India, its social history, literary and cultural heritage and the journey of over 1600 languages?
27 Jan 2016
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GI-tagged products to get Wiki pagesEver realised that the famous, red hot Naga Mirchi (a special variety of chilli from Nagaland) doesn’t have a Wikipedia page?
26 Jan 2016
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Why It's Essential To Grow Indian-Language WikipediasOn 15 January, Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia celebrated its 15th birthday, meeting this milestone with 36 million articles in more than 290 languages (the English-language Wikipedia alone has crossed the 5-million article mark). …
10 Jan 2016
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Read Bengali, Malayalam classics online as free Wiki libraries growContent Includes Classics In Malayalam, Bengali.
1 Jan 2016
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Report of Konkani Wikipedia's progress (July-December 2015)Konkani language is one of the 22 languages recognized by Indian union in 8th schedule. As per the 2007 census there are about 7.4 million Konkani speakers.[1] Konkani language has its own Wikipedia created on 15th June 2015. This blog post …
5 Dec 2015
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TTT 2015The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) conducted a four day training workshop for Wikimedians all over India in order to facilitate conducting and organising outreach activities for promotion of Wikimedia …
5 Dec 2015
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Touch Point Report: Department of Tourism Studies, Christ University and St. Aloysius College, ManagaloreCIS-A2K conducts Wikipedia in Education programme at St. Aloysius colege, Mangalore. This partnership is unique as it provides to us a pool of editors for three Wikimedia projects, i.e: Kannada, Tulu and Konkani.
5 Dec 2015
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Community Prioritisation of Content Donation: Kannada WikisourceCIS-A2K has initiated a community consultation in order to prioritise and streamline the work on Wikisource projects across FLA. Due to the commitment of volunteers from the respective FLA and the institutional partnerships that A2K has …
5 Dec 2015
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Analysis of Institutional Partnerships: University of Mysore and Guru G Learning LabsUniversity of Mysore considered to be one of the most prestigious institutions in the country has been famous for its innovative pedagogic techniques and opening up for students various avenues of knowledge acquisition.
3 Dec 2015
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Guru-G Learning Labs and CIS A2K Institutional PartnershipIncorporated in 2013, Guru-G is the world’s first gamified platform for teaching and teacher training.
28 Nov 2015
News
'महाराष्ट्र ग्रंथोत्तेजक' होणार लोकाभिमुख, महाराष्ट्र टाईम्सCoverage of Marathi Wikipedia in Maharashtra Times.
25 Nov 2015
Blog post
Guerrilla GLAMː An alternate way of doing GLAM in indie-wayI have been working on a concept called the Guerrilla GLAM. Here is a very quick summary about the concept that was published in the GLAM-wiki newsletter for November.
6 Nov 2015
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FUEL GILT Conference 2015Subhashish Panigrahi will be speaking at the FUEL GILT Conference 2015 to be held at Tamil Virtual Academy, Anna University Campus, Gandhi Mandapam Road, Kottur in Chennai from November 20 to 22, 2015. Subhashish will also be participating …
30 Oct 2015
10 Oct 2015
News
Otago Southland are the CoolestLIANZA Otago Southland are delighted to announce our speaker, Subhashish Panigrahi (@subhapa), from the Centre for Internet and Society’s Access To Knowledge programme, will be tuning in via the interwebs from India to share his vision of …
27 Sep 2015
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Wikimedia contributor shares his Linux storyComputers have fascinated me since childhood, but my first encounter—like many others—was not with Linux. For me, it was with Microsoft Paint. Then, many years later in 2011, it was my Wikipedia mentor, Shiju Alex, who introduced me to …
28 Aug 2015
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"Sau Dhuni Teen" project: Wikipedia workshop in TISS, MumbaiA two-day multilingual Wikipedia workshop was organised at the Women's Studies Department of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai during the 22nd through the 24th August. This was one of the outreach events under the scope of …
23 Aug 2015
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Wikipedia workshop in the theme of “Sau Dhuni Teen” in Pune UniversityA two-day Wikipedia workshop was organised in the Srimati Savitribai Phule Pune University on the 20th August 2015. The workshop was focused on enriching Wikipedia with 100 articles related to notable Indian women under the scope of the …
18 Aug 2015
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Wikipedia edit-a-thon in Mangalore to bring Tulu Wikipedia liveA Wikipedia edit-a-thon was organised in Mangalore, Karnataka this 14th to encourage more Tulu-language speakers to contribute to Tulu Wikipedia. Tulu Wikipedia is is currently in the Incubator but the enthusiastic editor community is …
18 Aug 2015
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Journalism Students of the SDM College Ujire Enrich Karnataka’s Folklore And Folk Art in Kannada WikipediaAs part of an ongoing partnership with the Shree Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara (SDM) College Ujjire, with active support from a few Kannada Wikipedia editors, CIS-A2K began an outreach programme so that the journalism students could help …
14 Aug 2015
News
ಬೆಳ್ತಂಗಡಿ:ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಕಾಲಕ್ಕೂ ಲಭ್ಯ ಇರುವ ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರ ಹಾಗೂ ಮುಕ್ತ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಾ-ಪವನಜThe Centre for Internet & Society (CIS-A2K) has ongoing partnership with SDM College, Ujire. Students of Masters in Communication and Journalism will be writing articles in Kannada Wikipedia. This academic year’s programme was inaugurated …
13 Aug 2015
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ವಿಕಿಪಿಡಿಯಾ ಬಳಕೆಯಿಂದ ನಮ್ಮ ಭಾಷೆ ಮತ್ತು ಶೈಲಿ ಸುಧಾರಣೆಯಾಗುತ್ತದೆ - ಡಾ. ಯು.ಬಿ. ಪವನಜThe Centre for Internet & Society (CIS-A2K) has ongoing partnership with SDM College, Ujire. Students of Masters in Communication and Journalism will be writing articles in Kannada Wikipedia. This academic year’s programme was inaugurated …
20 Jul 2015
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Odia Wikisource has a new Wikisourcer, and he is the youngest in the Odia Wikimedia community!Prateek Pattanaik (User:Shrijagannatha on Odia Wikisource) is a young researcher of Odia literature and Odissi music. He has not just digitized as many as 54 Odia-language poetry dating early 18th century but has also annotated, both poetic …