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How Open Access Content helps Fuel Growth in Indian-language Wikipedias: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Oct 25, 2016 — filed under: CIS-A2K, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Open Access
Mobile Internet connectivity is growing rapidly in rural India, and because most Internet users are more comfortable in their native languages, websites producing content in Indian languages are going to drive this growth. In a country like India in which only a handful of journals are available in Indian languages, open access to research and educational resources is hugely important for populating content for the various Indian language Wikipedias.
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Open source in everyday life: How we celebrated the Software Freedom Day in Bengaluru: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Oct 27, 2016 — filed under: Openness, FOSS, Open Source
The free and open source software (FOSS) enthusiasts just celebrated the Software Freedom Day (SFD) on September 17 all across the world. This year, a small group of six of us gathered to celebrate SFD in the Indian city of Bengaluru. The group consisted of open source contributors from communities such as Mozilla, Wikimedia, Mediawiki, Open Street Map, and users of FOSS solutions.
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Wikipedians after the workshop: by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Nov 01, 2012 10:34 AM
Odia Wikipedians socializing after the workshop.
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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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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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Kolkata: Tasting the Sweetness of Wikipedia!: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Nov 30, 2012 — last modified Dec 04, 2012 07:19 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Video, Interview, Openness
Recently, Access to Knowledge team member Subhashish Panigrahi spent some time with wikipedians in Kolkata. Through this blog post he shares his experience and learning from the interaction. This post explores the journey of three wikipedians — Jayanta Nath, Deepon Saha and Ashwin.
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Typing in Indic Languages from Mobiles made Easy!: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Nov 19, 2012 — last modified Jul 17, 2013 09:02 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Openness, Information Technology
A new app is up for typing in Indic languages from mobile phones. This is is available online at: http://bitly.com/indictyping and supports on iOS. Android version is to be released soon.
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First Odia Wikipedia Education Program to be Rolled Out: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Nov 30, 2012 — last modified Dec 14, 2012 12:17 PM — filed under: Higher Education, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Video, Openness
Odia Wikipedians gathered at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Dhenkanal on November 8, 2012 to start the first Odia Wikipedia Education Program. This program aims to bring students edit articles on Odia Wikipedia through a series of assessments by professors. The local community members from Nalconagar would be supporting the four month program.
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An Odia Wikipedia Workshop at KMBB College, Bhubaneswar: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Nov 19, 2012 — last modified Dec 07, 2012 10:40 PM — filed under: Higher Education, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Video, Openness
The Centre for Internet and Society along with Odia Wikipedians in Bhubaneswar organized an Odia Wikipedia workshop on November 18, 2012. It was held in KMBB College of Engineering. Odia Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia in Odia language which everyone can edit.
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Odia Wikipedia Gets a New Typing Solution!: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Nov 19, 2012 — last modified Dec 12, 2012 12:28 PM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
Subhashish Panigrahi worked with Yuvi Panda to create a new typing scheme for Odia Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. This blog post gives a summary of this development and its outcome.
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