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Odia Wikisource has a new Wikisourcer, and he is the youngest in the Odia Wikimedia community!
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Jul 20, 2015
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last modified
Aug 21, 2015 05:40 PM
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Wikimedia,
Access to Knowledge
Prateek Pattanaik (User:Shrijagannatha on Odia Wikisource) is a young researcher of Odia literature and Odissi music. He has not just digitized as many as 54 Odia-language poetry dating early 18th century but has also annotated, both poetic and prosaic translation in his blogs “Sri Jagannatha” and “Utkal Sangeet”. He has also brought a complete book “Kisora chandranana champu” on Odia Wikisource. A recent entrant into the Odia Wikimedia community, Prateek is also the youngest Odia Wikimedian. He has also digitized 18-19th century 54 poem written by various poets.
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Odia Wikipedia Set to Celebrate 13 Years of Volunteer Contributions
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
May 13, 2015
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last modified
Aug 22, 2015 04:54 PM
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filed under:
Openness,
Odia Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Odia Wikipedia, one of the first of several Indian language Wikipedia projects, is ready to celebrate 13 glorious years of free knowledge contribution on June 3.
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Typing in Indic Languages from Mobiles made Easy!
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Nov 19, 2012
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last modified
Jul 17, 2013 09:02 AM
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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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4 tips for DIY makers
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Nov 22, 2016
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filed under:
Openness,
Open Source,
Creative Commons,
Wikimedia
I started learning stencil printing and hand lettering this year, and became quite enthralled with it. These age old techniques really add something special to postcards, which I usually send to myself, my wife, and my friends while traveling.
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Wikimedia contributor shares his Linux story
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Sep 27, 2015
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last modified
Jun 18, 2016 05:08 PM
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Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Computers have fascinated me since childhood, but my first encounter—like many others—was not with Linux. For me, it was with Microsoft Paint. Then, many years later in 2011, it was my Wikipedia mentor, Shiju Alex, who introduced me to Linux. Since then, it's been my life!
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January 2014 Bulletin
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Jan 30, 2014
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last modified
Apr 07, 2014 07:09 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Digital Natives,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Digital Humanities,
Openness
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) welcomes you to the first issue of its newsletter (January) for the year 2014:
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There is No Such Thing as Free Basics
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Feb 14, 2016
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filed under:
Free Basics,
TRAI,
Facebook,
Internet Governance
India would not see the rain of Free Basics advertisements on billboards with images of farmers and common people explaining how much they could benefit from this Firefox project. Because the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has taken a historical step by banning the differential pricing without discriminating services.
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Mozilla Brings Indian Communities Together
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Jul 23, 2014
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filed under:
Openness,
Access to Knowledge
I took part in two major events, Indic FirefoxOS L10n Sprint 2014 and MozCamp Beta – India organized by Mozilla in India as a voluntary contributor. In this blog post I am sharing with you my experience of the events.
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Kolkata: Tasting the Sweetness of Wikipedia!
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Nov 30, 2012
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last modified
Dec 04, 2012 07:19 AM
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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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Digitize any Book in the Public Domain
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Mar 27, 2014
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last modified
Apr 03, 2014 08:41 AM
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
The article is about a mass scale digitization project for Kannada WikiSource by two Wikipedians.
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