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An Odia Wikipedia Workshop at Academy of Media Learning: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Nov 10, 2012 — last modified Jul 17, 2013 07:06 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, WIPO, Openness
Odia Wikipedians were invited to Academy of Media Learning (AML), Bhubaneswar for a guest lecture and a workshop on contributing to Odia Wikipedia. The event was organised by the Centre for Internet & Society on November 10, 2012. This is a report about the activities in AML.
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Wikipedia: State of Tech — A Talk by Erik Moeller: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 02, 2012 — last modified Dec 18, 2012 06:51 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Openness, Lecture, Event Type
The Centre for Internet & Society, Bangalore is hosting a talk by Erik Moeller, Vice President of Engineering and Product Development at the Wikimedia Foundation at its office in Bangalore on November 12, 2012, from 11.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m., followed by a lunch discussion.
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Gujarati Wikipedia Article Competition – 10 schools, 200 students, 20 articles on Gujarati Wikipedia: by Noopur Raval — published Oct 31, 2012 — last modified Nov 04, 2012 02:12 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
This was a competition to raise Wikipedia awareness and help students discover the joy of writing articles in their native language and an attempt to connect producers having knowledge in Gujarati to a wide audience of more than four lakh readers.
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Gujarat Wikipedia Education Program: Rajkot: by Noopur Raval — published Oct 31, 2012 — last modified Oct 31, 2012 08:17 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Video, Openness
This report analyses a series of meetings and workshops held in Rajkot, a city in Gujarat, India during the month of October 2012.
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First Pune Odia Wikipedia Workshop Organized!: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Oct 31, 2012 — last modified Nov 30, 2012 12:44 PM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Video, Openness
The first Pune Odia Wikipedia workshop was organized in Pune on October 27, 2012. Subhashish Panigrahi recollects his experience about the events through this report.
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Malayalam Wikipedia Education Program: August to October Updates: by Shiju Alex — published Oct 29, 2012 — last modified Nov 09, 2012 06:18 PM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness
Three months back, I wrote a blog post (http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/07/06/wikipedia-education-a-model-from-malayalam-wikipedia/) about the inauguration of the Wikipedia education program in Malayalam Wikipedia. This program is the first of its kind in an Indic language, and Malayalam community is doing the program in collaboration with the IT@School, a project of the Department of General Education, Government of Kerala, setup in 2001, to foster the IT education in schools.
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Bridging Gender Gap in Pune: WikiWomenDay 2012 Celebrated with Success!: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Oct 29, 2012 — last modified Nov 10, 2012 08:30 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness
A2K team members Subhashish Panigrahi and Noopur Raval participated in the "WikiWomenDay" organized by Wikipedia Club Pune at PAI International Learning Solutions, Azam Campus on October 28, 2012. Subhashish unfolds the happenings of this full day free fun workshop.
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Wikipedia Hackathon at BITS Hyderabad: by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 25, 2012 — last modified Oct 25, 2012 08:42 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Openness, Event Type
CIS - A2K team and BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus are organizing a hackathon for their tech fest — ATMOS on October 26 - 27, 2012, from 6.00 p.m. on October 26 to 6.00 a.m. on October 27.
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Launch of Assamese Wikipedia Education Program at Guwahati University: by Nitika Tandon — published Oct 22, 2012 — last modified Jul 26, 2013 11:43 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Video, Openness
The Assamese Wikipedia community has shown a rapid growth in the past six months from 20 active editors in January 2012 to 29 active editors in June 2012. The absolute numbers might seem low but in terms of percentages its an overwhelming increment of 45 per cent.
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Wikipedia workshop @ Inmantec College, Ghaziabad: by Nitika Tandon — published Oct 19, 2012 — last modified Jan 07, 2013 04:30 PM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Video, Openness
The Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet & Society was approached by Gaurav Prashar, Assistant Dean at Inmantec College, Ghaziabad to organize a Wikipedia workshop. Accordingly, a workshop was organized on October 17, 2012.
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