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Odisha Dibasa 2014: 14 Books Re-released under CC License: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Apr 14, 2014 — filed under: Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Odia Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
Odisha became a separate state in British India on April 1, 1936. Odia, a 2,500 year old language recently gained the status of an Indian classical language. The Odia Wikimedia community celebrated these two occasions on March 29 in Bhubaneswar with a gathering of 70 people.
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Report from India: Relicensing books under CC: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Apr 19, 2014 — last modified May 05, 2014 09:13 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
My name is Subhashish Panigrahi. I am an educator currently working in the community and communication front at The Centre for Internet and Society’s Access To Knowledge program (CIS-A2K), an India-based catalyst program to grow Indic language communities for Wikipedia and its sister projects. Prior to my work at CIS, I worked for the Wikimedia Foundation’s India Program, a predecessor to the current CIS-A2K project.
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୭୯ ବର୍ଷରେ ସ୍ୱତନ୍ତ୍ର ଓଡ଼ିଶା: ଶାସ୍ତ୍ରୀୟ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଓ କମ୍ପ୍ୟୁଟରରେ ଏହାର ବ୍ୟବ‌ହାର: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Apr 04, 2014 — last modified May 06, 2014 05:18 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Odia Wikipedia, Openness
This article was published in online Odia magazine "The Amalekha". It covers a brief history of the book digitization initiates in Odia language, problems with access available content in ISCII standard, scope of Unicode content and Open Access, Odia Wikipedia's further use for public and contribution.
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ଓଡ଼ିଅା ଭାଷାର ବିକାଶ ଓ କମ୍ପ୍ୟୁଟର: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Apr 08, 2014 — last modified May 06, 2014 06:50 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
This article was published in Odia magazine "The Kadambini". It covers a brief history of the book digitization initiatives in Odia language, problems with access available content in ISCII standard, scope of Unicode content and Open Access, Odia Wikipedia's further use for public and contribution.
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14 Odia books re-released under Creative Commons license: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Apr 26, 2014 — last modified May 06, 2014 06:26 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
This blog entry by Subhashish Panigrahi (originally published in Wikimedia Foundation's Blog) was edited and re-published by Rohini Lakshane in DNA on April 26, 2014.
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GLAM in India: 10 tips for successful GLAM projects: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published May 27, 2014 — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
GLAM initiatives work as a gateway to unleash knowledge, decode archived documentation to build modern wonders and also educate people about their past cultural and scientific journey.
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Books and More are Relicensed to Creative Commons: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published May 02, 2014 — last modified May 28, 2014 06:29 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
This blog post is cross-posted from Opensource.com. It was published on May 2, 2014.
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Indic Language Wikipedias as Open Educational Resources: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published May 27, 2014 — last modified Jun 04, 2014 03:32 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
The Open Education Working Group sees supporting multilingual activities such as translation to and from languages which are not often used as one of its key future roles. Subhashish Panigrahi’s post while dwelling upon the growth of Indic Wikimedia communities critically examines Wikipedia as an educational resource.
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Odia Language gets a new Unicode Font Converter: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jun 20, 2014 — last modified Jul 02, 2014 09:59 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Odia Wikipedia, Openness
Recently, I worked on designing a font encoding converter with a fellow Wikimedian Manoj Sahukar. We worked by taking the code of a converter that was made three years back and made it work for two fonts AkrutiOriSarala99 and AkrutiOriSarala that are used by the media industry for printing and publishing.
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This Twitter Account Puts a Face to the Unsung Volunteer Editors Behind Wikipedia: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jun 18, 2014 — last modified Jul 03, 2014 06:17 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
The life of a Wikipedia editor is an interesting one. Globally, about 100,000 editors edit the collaborative online encyclopedia's 30 million articles in 287 languages, including over 4.5 million in the English Wikipedia.
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