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How the Odia Wikimedia community is enriching Wikipedia with character encoding technology
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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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
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
May 28, 2015
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last modified
May 28, 2015 03:30 PM
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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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How we celebrated Software Freedom Day
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Oct 07, 2016
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last modified
Oct 07, 2016 02:02 AM
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Openness,
FOSS
A small group of 6 FOSS contributors from communities such as Mozilla, Wikimedia, Mediawiki, Open Street Map and users of FOSS solutions gathered in Bengaluru to celebrate Software Freedom Day. Subhashish Panigrahi who was a part of the event, reports the developments.
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India's Supreme Court Axes Online Censorship Law, But Challenges Remain
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Mar 27, 2015
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last modified
Mar 27, 2015 02:38 AM
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IT Act,
Censorship,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance,
Chilling Effect
The Supreme Court of India took a remarkable step to protect free expression on March 24, 2015, striking down controversial section 66A of the IT Act that criminalized “grossly offensive” content online. In response to a public interest litigation filed by Indian law student Shreya Singhal, the court made this landmark judgement calling the section “vague”, “broad” and “unconstitutional”. Since Tuesday's announcement, the news has trended nationally on Twitter, with more than 50,000 tweets bearing the hashtags #Sec66A and #66A.
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Indian government includes open source in RFPs
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Jun 08, 2015
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last modified
Jun 18, 2016 06:18 PM
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Openness,
Open Source
The Government of India has implemented a remarkable new policy-level change for open source software (OSS) deployment.
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Indian Netizens Criticize Online Censorship of ‘Jihadi’ Content
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Jan 06, 2015
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last modified
Feb 10, 2015 02:43 AM
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
The article on online censorship by Subhashish Panigrahi was published in Global Voices on January 6, 2015.
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Indians Ask: Is Visiting a Torrent Site Really A Crime?
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Sep 06, 2016
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filed under:
Social Media,
Internet Governance
India has banned various large-scale torrent sites for a long time — this is old news. But under a new federal policy in India, one can be jailed for three years and fined 300,000 Indian Rupees (~US $4464) for downloading content on any of these blocked websites.
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Indic Language Wikipedias as Open Educational Resources
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
May 27, 2014
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last modified
Jun 04, 2014 03:32 AM
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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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Intellectuals stresses on need for revival of Bhagabat Tungi in Odisha villages as knowledge hub
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Apr 22, 2014
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last modified
May 06, 2014 07:03 AM
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filed under:
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Odia Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Odia Intellectuals stresses on need for revival of Bhagabat Tungi in Odisha villages as knowledge hub. This was expressed by the intellectuals at a seminar organized by ‘The Intellects’ at Tyagaraj Nagar Jaggnath Mandir, New Delhi.
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Introductory talk about "Wikipedia in Academics"
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 13, 2014
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last modified
Feb 03, 2014 06:48 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Openness,
Event
Subhashish Panigrahi gave a talk on Wikipedia in Academics. Subhashish spoke about the use the Wikipedia in academics, students' role as contributors to Wikipedia to keep the facts correct and editing Wikipedia articles in Indic languages.
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