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ಪ್ರಶಾಂತವನ: by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 21, 2016 — last modified Mar 20, 2016 04:32 AM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Access to Knowledge
ಮಂಗಳೂರಿನ ಸಂತ ಅಲೋಷಿಯಸ್ ಕಾಲೇಜಿನ ಎರಿಕ್ ಮೆಥಾಯಿಸ್ ಸಭಾಂಗಣದಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆದ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ೧೩ನೇ ವರ್ಷಾಚರಣೆಯ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಒಂದು ವರದಿ
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Why aren’t Indians using Wikipedia to hold the government to account?: by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 14, 2016 — filed under: CIS-A2K, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
Despite its popularity, the site's benefits are going unutilised.
Located in Access to Knowledge / News & Media
Digitisation sprint at Andhra Loyola College Vijayawada to bring more books on Telugu Wikisource: by Pavan Santhosh — published Feb 12, 2016 — filed under: Telugu Wikisource, CIS-A2K, Telugu Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
This 12th, A digitisation sprint is being organised for student Wikipedians of Andhra Loyola College Vijayawada. Students will learn about scanning books, will use OCR engine and digitise books on Telugu Wikisource. The event is organised by CIS-A2K where Telugu Wikimedian Viswanadh will be participating to mentor the new Wikimedians.
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This little innovation is bringing a revolution in the Odia language: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Feb 03, 2016 — last modified Feb 27, 2016 07:33 AM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Odia Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
Depicting human language within computing environments has always been a challenge: a given language's script and alphabet needs to be mapped to a coding system that a computer can process digitally. This is done by way of an encoding system that basically maps each character to a unique numeric code.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Youth is responsible for protecting Telugu: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 31, 2016 — last modified Feb 05, 2016 08:49 PM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Telugu Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
G. Umamaheshwara Rao, head of linguist research at Hyderabad Central university observed that there is every possibility for Telugu to be extinct soon. Its responsibility of youth to protect and preserve the language. And it is Wikipedia which would help in doing so.
Located in Access to Knowledge / News & Media
Wikipedia Digital Centre now at Andhra Loyola College: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 30, 2016 — last modified Feb 05, 2016 08:49 PM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Telugu Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
Access to Knowledge programme (CIS-A2K) of the Centre for Internet and Society has opened up a Wikipedia Digital Centre at Andhra Loyola College in the city on Wednesday. The centre, which has trained a couple of students in contributing to Wikipedia earlier, has now set up a lab called ‘Wikipedia Digital Centre’ to continue the activity.
Located in Access to Knowledge / News & Media
WikipediansSpeak: Odia Wikisourcer Shares her Journey and Goals: by Subhashish Panigrahi and Nasim Ali — published Jan 30, 2016 — last modified Feb 05, 2016 08:49 PM — filed under: WikipediansSpeak, CIS-A2K, Odia Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
The most active editor on the Odia Wikisource is Pankajmala Sarangi, a native of Odisha who now lives in New Delhi, where she works at a non-profit. As a leader in a broad community that is dominated by males—indeed, she is the most active contributor to the Odia-language Wikisource—we asked her to share her journey and her goals to grow the project and community as part of the “WikipediansSpeWell, I think I would work on creating a database of all the Odia speakers living in New Delhi and the city organizations that work in propagating Odia language and culture, and plan Wikisource outreach programs for them.k” interview series.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Books at a Click: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 29, 2016 — last modified Jun 18, 2016 05:52 PM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Odia Wikisource, Odia Wikipedia
The OdiaWikimedia community and Bhubaneswar-based Srujanika have come together to make rare science books available online for readers, students & science educators.
Located in Access to Knowledge / News & Media
Wikipedia initiative - Celebrating legacy of Bangalore Blue grapes online: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 29, 2016 — last modified Jan 29, 2016 03:44 PM — filed under: Wikimedia, CIS-A2K, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
Black 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 strips, he didn't expect it to be picked up by the French and Swedes.
Located in Access to Knowledge / News & Media
Kannada Wikipedia not on top of the charts: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 28, 2016 — last modified Jun 18, 2016 04:23 PM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Kannada Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
It occupies the 10th place among Indian languages.
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