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Wikipedia
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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
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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 …
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 …
29 Feb 2016
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Can Wikipedia revive dying Indian languages?Yes, by encouraging content and involvement, Wikipedia language communities keep languages relevant.
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 …
26 Feb 2016
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ମାତୃଭାଷା ଦିବସ: ଆଜିର ସମସ୍ୟା ଓ ଆହ୍ୱାନThe article was published in the editorial section of Odia newspaper the Sambad on February 21, 2016. This piece explains about the challenges of expanding a knowledge base in Odia language and helping it grow beyond just the literature and …
26 Feb 2016
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The Intellects holds 2nd International Conclave of Odia LanguageThe Intellects, a Delhi-based progressive forum of intellectuals, held the 2nd International Conclave of Odia Language at the India International Centre in New Delhi today.
14 Feb 2016
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Why aren’t Indians using Wikipedia to hold the government to account?Despite its popularity, the site's benefits are going unutilised.
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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Odia Wikipedia progress from July to December, 2015Odia Wikipedia, one of the very active Wikipedias in Indian languages has been showing a negative rate of growth for the last 6 months. We will try to analyse, what has been happening and how can that be improved.
30 Dec 2015
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Odia Wikipedia workshop in Puri, Odisha sparks creation of informal Wikipedia group WikiTungiThe first ever Odia Wikipedia workshop in Odisha's historic town of Puri finally shaped in on this December 20. With 25 participants contributing to Odia Wikipedia this day, more Wikipedia outreach in the city were planned.
15 Dec 2015
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Kannada Wikipedia edit-a-thon in St. Agnes College, Mangaluru to bridge gender gap in WikipediaAs part of a series of workshops to mark the 13th anniversary, Kannada Wikipedia, a Kannada Wikipedia edit-a-thon was organised during this 10th-12th in St. Agnes College, Mangaluru to address the issue of gender gap in Wikipedia.
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.
29 Nov 2015
28 Nov 2015
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'महाराष्ट्र ग्रंथोत्तेजक' होणार लोकाभिमुख, महाराष्ट्र टाईम्सCoverage of Marathi Wikipedia in Maharashtra Times.
27 Nov 2015
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भाषाई कंप्यूटिंग के मानक बनाने के लिए चेन्नई में हुआ तीसरा फ्यूल जिल्ट“मूसलाधार बारिश से जूझ रही चेन्नई में तीसरा फ़्यूल ज़िल्ट कॉन्फरेंस 2015 सफलतापूर्वक रविवार 22 नवंबर को संपन्न हुआ। भाषाई कंप्यूटिंग के लिए मानक भाषाई संसाधन और औज़ार बनाने में पिछले सात सालों से जुटी फ़्यूल परियोजना के द्वारा 2013 में आरंभ …