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Blog Entry 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: , , , ,
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.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry Non Unicode ISCII Text Can be Converted to Unicode Now!
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Dec 19, 2012 — last modified Dec 21, 2012 09:59 AM — filed under: , , ,
Odia Wikipedian Manoj Sahukar has designed a new tool which can convert non Unicode ISCII text to Odia Unicode text. A majority of the digitized text and web content of newspapers and books are in non unicode text which now could be used for Wikipedia and other Odia Wiki projects. This opens a new arena for digitized free license books in Odia language.
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Blog Entry A Wikipedia Workshop at NMAIT
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Dec 30, 2012 — last modified Jan 04, 2013 04:30 PM — filed under: , , ,
The Centre for Internet & Society, Delhi collaborated with Metawings Institute to spread the words about Wikipedia for Indian languages. A one-day workshop was organized to educated the students on contributing to Wikipedia on December 21, 2012. About 170 engineering students took part in this event.
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Blog Entry Celebrating the success of Wikipedia in Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jan 21, 2013 — last modified Apr 16, 2013 12:48 PM — filed under: , , , , , , , , ,
Wikipedia Club Pune, a local community based outreach user group in Pune has recently organized Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013 to spread words about “Spoken Wikipedia”, a project to add recorded audio for Indic language Wikipedia articles which will help the disabled to access Wikipedia and “Bridging Editor Gender Gap.”
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Blog Entry Celebrating Odia Wikipedia's Ninth Anniversary
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Feb 19, 2013 — last modified Feb 28, 2013 04:32 AM — filed under: , , ,
Odia Wikipedia saw its first edit on January 29, 2004. After a dormancy of many years it got revived in 2011. To commemorate the effort of many volunteer wikipedians, a celebratory event was organized on January 29, 2013 in Bhubaneswar. Subhashish Panigrahi participated in this event.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry Odia Wikipedia Community Brings Wikipedia Education Program to IIMC, Dhenkanal
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Feb 28, 2013 — last modified Aug 23, 2013 02:01 PM — filed under: , , , ,
The Odia Wikipedia community collaborated with the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal and hosted a pilot Odia Wikipedia Education Program. The program began in November 2012 and got over by January 2013. Sixteen student wikipedians signed up and took part in editing more than a dozen articles on Odia Wikipedia.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry FOSS, Wikimedia and Mozilla Under One Roof at GNUnify 2013, Pune
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Feb 28, 2013 — last modified Jul 17, 2013 06:55 AM — filed under: , , ,
GNUnify 2013 organized in the campus in Pune from February 15 to 17, 2013. The event was organized by Pune Linux/Unix User Group (PLUG) and Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies & Research (SICSR). Subhashish Panigrahi reports the outcomes in this blog post.
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Blog Entry Creative Commons comes to India
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Feb 28, 2013 — last modified Jul 17, 2013 06:49 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Creative Commons team visited four Indian cities to spread the word about CC free licenses and CC affiliate program. Wikimedia India chapter was approached to join hands with Creative Commons for research and community building.
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Blog Entry Odia Wikipedia - Bhubaneswar Community Meetup (March 17, 2013)
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Apr 04, 2013 — last modified Apr 30, 2013 03:52 AM — filed under: , , ,
The Access to Knowledge team from the Centre for Internet and Society and the Odia Wikipedia community held a meetup in Bhubaneswar on March 17, 2013. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi participated in this meet-up.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry Odia Wikipedia - Cuttack Community Meetup (March 16, 2013)
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Apr 03, 2013 — last modified Jul 17, 2013 06:40 AM — filed under: , , ,
A meetup of Odia wikipedians was organised by the Access to Knowledge team of the Centre for Internet and Society and the Odia wikipedia community on March 16, 2013. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the meetup.
Located in Openness / Blog
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