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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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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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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: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
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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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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Google's Optical Character Recognition Software Now Works with All South Asian Languages: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Sep 26, 2015 — filed under: Wikipedia, Accessibility, Access to Knowledge
The Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software by Google now works for more than 248 world languages, including all the major South Asian languages, and it's easy to use and works with over 90 percent accuracy for most languages.
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Guerrilla GLAMː An alternate way of doing GLAM in indie-way: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Nov 25, 2015 — last modified Dec 16, 2015 03:09 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
I have been working on a concept called the Guerrilla GLAM. Here is a very quick summary about the concept that was published in the GLAM-wiki newsletter for November.
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Hindi Wiki Community Baithak in Delhi: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Feb 27, 2015 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Openness, Hindi Wikipedia
Hindi Wikimedians met in New Delhi during February 14 and 15. This was the first meeting of the Hindi community. Subhashish Panigrahi attended the meetup.
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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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How the Odia Wikimedia community is enriching Wikipedia with character encoding technology: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jun 14, 2015
Last year, I wrote about the development of Odia language character encoding converters that the Wikipedia community was working on. These converted text into Unicode, a universal encoding standard. These converters have now been made available for use, just in time for today’s thirteenth anniversary of the Odia Wikipedia.
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How to do GuerillaGLAM: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published May 28, 2015 — last modified May 28, 2015 03:30 PM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
A proposal titled How to do GuerrillaGLAM" that I had submitted for the Wikimania 2015 has been accepted. I will be presenting this on July 18.
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