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Kannada Wikipedia workshop at Shree Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara (SDM) College Ujire, Karnataka
by U.B.Pavanaja — published Aug 11, 2015 — last modified Jun 18, 2016 06:12 PM — filed under: , , ,
A Kannada Wikipedia workshop is being planned to be organised in Shree Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara (SDM) College Ujire on the 13th August 2015. This is going to be part of the several outreach programmes in the institution.
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Kannada Wikipedia Workshop in Mangaluru (Coverage in Prajavani)
by U.B.Pavanaja — published Jul 05, 2015 — last modified Jun 18, 2016 06:14 PM — filed under: ,
As part of its ongoing partnership with St. Aloysius College, Mangaluru, CIS-A2K along with the Wikipedia community in Karnataka organized a workshop on Kannada Wikipedia. Prajavani reported this in their edition published on July 5, 2015.
Located in Openness / News & Media
Kannada Wikipedia Workshop in Mangaluru (Coverage in Udayavani)
by U.B.Pavanaja — published Jul 05, 2015 — last modified Sep 13, 2015 06:17 AM — filed under: , ,
As part of its ongoing partnership with St Aloysius College Mangaluru, CIS-A2K co-organized a workshop with the Kannada wikipedia community on Kannada Wikipedia. Udayavani covered this in their edition on July 5.
Located in Openness / News & Media
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.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Not many contributors for Kannada-centric Wiki page
by U.B.Pavanaja — published Jul 05, 2015 — last modified Sep 13, 2015 05:42 AM — filed under: , ,
Wikipedia, which has over 60,000 contributing editors in India, has only 33 Kannadigas contributing to the Kannada section, said Pavanaja U B, programme manager, The Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru.
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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.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Blog Entry Reading Devanagari script based sites like Konkani Wikipedia in Kannada Script
by U.B.Pavanaja — published Jul 13, 2015 — last modified Jun 18, 2016 06:14 PM — filed under: ,
This is a small hack to read websites with Devanagari script (used for Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Maithili and a few more languages) based sites like Konkani Wikipedia in Kannada script.
Located in Openness / Blog
Image Shri Kagodu Thimmappa inaugurating the workshop
by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified Aug 01, 2013 11:19 AM
Tulu Wikipedia edit-a-thon in Mangalore
by U.B.Pavanaja — published Sep 14, 2015 — last modified Jun 18, 2016 06:06 PM — filed under: , ,
This edit-a-thon is aimed to encourage more Tulu speakers to contribute to Tulu Wikipedia which is currently in incubator. The edit-a-thon is being organised by the Tulu Wikimedia community in Mangalore.
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Blog Entry Tulu Wikipedia Workshop cum Editathon at Udupi
by U.B.Pavanaja — published Oct 31, 2014 — last modified Oct 31, 2014 02:54 PM — filed under: , , , ,
A three-day programme was held at Udupi from October 15 to 17, 2014 with an aim to increase the presence of Tulu in the online world. The first day comprised the inauguration programme and a workshop to understand the Wiki markup. The next two days were devoted to the edit-a-thon where participants added articles to Tulu Wikipedia.
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