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Blog Entry Localisation experiences in Kannada and Tulu Wikipedias
by U.B.Pavanaja — published Oct 06, 2016
It has become a fashion to talk about the digital divide in India. These talks are going on for more than 2 decades now. Nevertheless there is no doubt about the need of taking the benefits of Information Communication Technology (ICT) for common man.
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Blog Entry UTF-8, Indic and Stub Length Article in Wikipedia
by U.B.Pavanaja — published Oct 20, 2016 — filed under: , ,
One of the activities conducted as part of Wiki Conference India 2016 was the Punjab Editathon. It was about adding articles related to Punjab to Indian language Wikipedias and English Wikipedia. There was also an announcement made about some award for highest contribution.
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Blog Entry Querying Wikipedia Data
by U.B.Pavanaja — published Oct 21, 2016 — last modified Oct 21, 2016 02:51 PM — filed under: , , ,
Recently 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 can open any language Wikipedia, type Special:ShortPages in the search box to get the list of articles which have less than 2048 bytes.
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Blog Entry An Article on Kannada Wikipedia
by U.B.Pavanaja — published Nov 14, 2014 — last modified Dec 05, 2014 01:22 AM — filed under: , , , ,
I wrote an article on Kannada Wikipedia which was published in the Yojana magazine on November 2014 issue.
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Image Shri Kagodu Thimmappa inaugurating the workshop
by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified Aug 01, 2013 11:19 AM
Blog Entry A Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Sagara
by U.B.Pavanaja — published Jul 31, 2013 — last modified Mar 25, 2014 08:51 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
On Sunday, July 28, 2013, a day-long Kannada Wikipedia workshop was conducted at Sagara, Shimoga Dist, Karnataka by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team. In this post, I share with you the happenings from the workshop.
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Blog Entry A Kannada Wikipedia brochure for newbies
by U.B.Pavanaja — published Oct 19, 2015 — last modified Oct 19, 2015 10:46 AM — filed under: , ,
This brochure has been created keeping readers and new Wikipedia editors in mind. This would come handy to learn editing Kannada Wikipedia and creating/editing articles in Kannada.
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Blog Entry A 'Kannada' Wikipedia Workshop for Bloggers
by U.B.Pavanaja — published Jun 28, 2013 — last modified Jul 03, 2013 10:19 AM — filed under: , , , ,
On Sunday, June 23, 2013, a day-long Kannada Wikipedia workshop was conducted at Suchitra, Bengaluru for Kannada bloggers by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team. This blog post gives a report on the workshop.
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Blog Entry A Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Hubli
by U.B.Pavanaja — published Jul 23, 2013 — last modified Jul 31, 2013 09:28 AM — filed under: , , ,
On Sunday, July 21, 2013, a day-long Kannada Wikipedia workshop was conducted at Hubli by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team. This blog post throws more light on the workshop.
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Blog Entry A Kannada Wikipedia Workshop in Mysore
by U.B.Pavanaja — published Aug 13, 2013 — last modified Oct 04, 2013 04:40 AM — filed under: , , , ,
On Tuesday, August 6, 2013, a day-long Kannada Wikipedia workshop was conducted at the Centre for Proficiency Development and Placement Services (CPDPS), Manasa Gangotri campus, University of Mysore, Karnataka by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team. Dr. U.B.Pavanaja conducted the workshop.
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The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is a non-profit organisation that undertakes interdisciplinary research on internet and digital technologies from policy and academic perspectives. The areas of focus include digital accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge, intellectual property rights, openness (including open data, free and open source software, open standards, open access, open educational resources, and open video), internet governance, telecommunication reform, digital privacy, and cyber-security. The research at CIS seeks to understand the reconfiguration of social processes and structures through the internet and digital media technologies, and vice versa.

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