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Wikipedia
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19 Jan 2017
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Marathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at Shivaji University, KolhapurA Marathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon was held at Shivaji University, Kolhapur on 19 January, 2017
18 Jan 2017
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Marathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at Sangli, MaharashtraA Marathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon was conducted at Willingdon College, Sangli on 18 January, 2017
11 Jan 2017
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Telugu Wikipedia stall at Vijayawada Book FestivalThe Telugu Wikipedia community put up a stall at the Vijayawada Book Festival in January, in order to increase reach of the regional language encyclopaedia.
10 Jan 2017
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Google-translated Telugu articles prioritisation exercise: January iterationThe January iteration of the Google-translated Telugu articles prioritisation exercise took place online.
9 Jan 2017
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Mini TTT and MWT held in KolkataA regional version of Train The Trainer and MediaWiki Training was recently conducted in Kolkata.
8 Jan 2017
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Adikavi Nannaya University Telugu Wikipedia WorkshopA Telugu Wikipedia introductory workshop was conducted for the students of Adikavi Nannaya University, Rajahmundry between 6- 7 January, 2017.
4 Jan 2017
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Orientation & Training session of Jalbiradari ActivistsAn Orientation & Training session of Jalbiradari Activists was held on 4 January, 2017
30 Dec 2016
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Ongoing Proof-reading Effort by ALC Student Wikimedians in Telugu WikisourceStudent Wikimedians at Andhra Loyola College, Vijayawada formatted and proof-read more than 1,900 folios in Telugu Wikisource during the last few weeks of November (2016). Each day, a group of twenty students uses the lab facility provided …
20 Dec 2016
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విజ్ఞాన నిధి వికీపీడియా..The article about Telugu Wikipedia appeared in Namaste Telangana on December 11, 2016.
20 Dec 2016
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Changing the typographic landscape of a country: one letter at a timeMy interest in designing typefaces in Indian scripts grew out of years of disappointment with the way most Hindi books I came across looked. Apart from a few exceptions, they looked like poor cousins of English books. Whether it was a …
19 Dec 2016
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Wikipedia workshop for Konkani students conducted in MangaluruA two days Wikipedia workshop "introduction to Wikipedia" was conducted at Besant College, Mangaluru. 16 undergraduate and post-graduate students from 3 different colleges participated in the event. Here is a report.
18 Dec 2016
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వంద రోజులు.. వంద వ్యాసాలు - తెలుగు వికీపీడియాలో మోత్కూరు యువకుని రికార్డు (100 Days...100 Articles: Wikipedian from Motkur created record in Telugu Wikipedia)Pranay Raj Vangari of Motkur Padmashali colony created record in Telugu Wikipedia. "100 Days- 100 Articles" is already going on in many languages worldwide and Pranay Raj took challenge in Telugu Wikipedia, completed it successfully. Pranay …
18 Dec 2016
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Pranay Raj record in 100 days-100 articlesTelugu Theatre scholar Pranay Raj Vangari from Motkur of Yadadri District, Telangana created record by completing a challenge that is famous worldwide in Wikimedia community - "100 Days-100 Articles". Pranay Raj is a theatre scholar and …
16 Dec 2016
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Marathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon in KolhapurOn behalf of CIS-A2K team Subodh Kulkarni conducted a Marathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at Shivaji University in Kolhapur on 15 December 2016. The goal of the Wikipedia edit-a-thon was to build resources in the field of Political Science on …
15 Dec 2016
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Writing skills improve with Wikipedia editingPavan Santhosh said that contributing to Wikipedia and working in Wikimedia community improves our leadership qualities and writing skills. In an awareness session conducted about "You can edit Wikipedia" in JKC college, Guntur, Santhosh …
15 Dec 2016
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Mini TTT and MWT conducted in Hyderabad, IndiaMini Train-the-Trainer and MediaWiki Trainer program was conducted on 10 and 11 December 2016 in Hyderabad. 15 Wikipedians from 4 cities of Andhra pradesh and Telangana 2 Indic Wikimedia communities participated in the event. Here is a …
1 Dec 2016
28 Nov 2016
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Odia Wikipedia: Sambalpur University WorkshopAn Odia Wikipedia orientation-cum-workshop program was organised for the students of Sambalpur University on 27 November, 2016.
26 Nov 2016
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Improving Telugu Village ArticlesTelugu wikipedians on 6 October 2016 held a discussion on improving the quality of Telugu articles. The event was organized by IIIT, Hyderabad, CIS-A2K and OpenGeo.
26 Nov 2016
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Free Knowledge and Indian Government WorkIndian Government works are not available under free and open licenses. On the other hand a large number countries such as Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, …
23 Nov 2016
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100wikidays: the journey so farIn this article we'll chat with Bulgarian Wikipedian Vassia Atanassova (User:Spiritia) on the journey of 100wikidays so far, initial difficulties, and participation of Indian Wikipedia communities in the challenge.
21 Nov 2016
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CIIPC-NLUD Workshop on Wikipedia Editing and Open Source Knowledge SourcesCentre for Innovation, Intellectual Property, and Competition (CIIPC), National Law university, Delhi as part of its Open Science Project, had organised WikiEdit2016 a two day workshop regarding orientation on editing Wikipedia and …
30 Oct 2016
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Wikipedia Asian Month — 2016 iteration starts on 1 NovemberThe second iteration of Wikipedia Asian Month (WAM), a month-long edit-a-thon to create and improve Asia-related articles on Wikipedia, is going to start on 1 November 2016. In this blog post we'll revisit the stats of the 2015 iteration of …
30 Oct 2016
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Kannada Wikipedia Education Program at Christ university: Work so farAs you know we are working closely with Christ university in Bengaluru for the Education Programs in Kannada Wikipedia and Kannada Wikisource, we worked on redesigning the programme for this academic year 2016-17 based on the lessons …
25 Oct 2016
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How Open Access Content helps Fuel Growth in Indian-language WikipediasMobile Internet connectivity is growing rapidly in rural India, and because most Internet users are more comfortable in their native languages, websites producing content in Indian languages are going to drive this growth. In a country like …
25 Oct 2016
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‘Entrepreneurship will become a common, respectable profession’ – 25 quotes from Indian startup journeysFrom success to status, witness the memorable journey of Indian entrepreneurship in these excerpts and stories! StoryBites is a weekly feature from YourStory, featuring notable quotable quotes in our articles of this past week (see the …
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 …
4 Oct 2016
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Changing Wikipedia’s (and society’s) male bias is work in progressShyamal Lakshminarayanan was on the trail of Maude Lina West Cleghorn, a little-known amateur British entomologist who lived in Calcutta in the early 1900s.