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May 2014 Bulletin
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jun 12, 2014
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last modified
Jul 04, 2014 04:59 AM
Our newsletter for the month of May is below:
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Priyadarshini Tadkodkar on Konkani language
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Nov 17, 2013
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last modified
Jan 31, 2014 06:20 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Konkani Wikipedia,
Video,
Openness
CIS-A2K team interviewed Priyadarshini Tadkodkar about Konkani language. She speaks how editing/contributing to Konkani Wikipedia would help students.
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Blog
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CIS-A2K, KIIT University and Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences sign MoUs
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Jan 11, 2014
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last modified
Feb 03, 2014 06:24 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Odia Wikipedia,
Openness
KIIT University, Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences and the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoUs) for furthering Odia Wikipedia.
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Blog
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Odia Wikipedia: Three Years of Active Contributions Gives Life to a Ten Year Old Project
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Jan 31, 2014
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last modified
Feb 04, 2014 08:56 AM
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
Odia Wikipedia has carved its mark as the largest online encyclopedia in Odia language that is edited by a volunteer editor community.
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Bengaluru: A Hub for Kannada and Sanskrit Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects!
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Oct 16, 2012
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last modified
Nov 04, 2012 02:03 PM
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
Kannada Wikipedia is one of those Indic language wikipedias which has seen many readers coming up every month. Subhashish Panigrahi summarizes the experiences of some of the very active Kannada wikipedians from the recent Kannada Wikipedia meetup held in Bengaluru on October 7, 2012.
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Read Bengali, Malayalam classics online as free Wiki libraries grow
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 10, 2016
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last modified
Jan 29, 2016 03:51 PM
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filed under:
Wikimedia,
CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Content Includes Classics In Malayalam, Bengali.
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First ever Train-the-Trainer Program in India
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by
Nitika Tandon
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published
Dec 05, 2013
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last modified
Dec 31, 2013 12:18 PM
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
Access to Knowledge Programme at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS-A2K) organized the first ever Train the Trainer Program in India. 20 Wikimedians from 8 different language communities and 10 different cities across India attended CIS-A2K’s Train the Trainer (TTT).
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A Wiki Workshop at Raj Kumar Goel Institute of Technology, Ghaziabad
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Jan 22, 2013
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last modified
Jan 22, 2013 03:09 AM
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filed under:
Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team organized a Wikipedia workshop at Raj Kumar Goel Institute of Technology (RKGIT), Ghaziabad in collaboration with Metawings on January 17, 2013. Subhashish Panigrahi summarizes the happenings from the one-day workshop in this blog post.
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Openness
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Eight Challenges That Indian-Language Wikipedias Need to Overcome
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Mar 29, 2016
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last modified
Mar 29, 2016 05:05 PM
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Wikimedia,
CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Even after a decade of existence, Indian language Wikipedias are not yet known to many Indian language speakers. Wikipedia, being the largest available encyclopedia made in the human history, it what it is today because of the hundreds and thousands of volunteer-editors. But while native-language Wikipedias are becoming game-changers in other corners of the world, the scenario in India is skewed. In my experience, here are a number of challenges that Indian-language Wikipedias are currently facing.
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Changing the typographic landscape of a country: one letter at a time
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 20, 2016
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filed under:
Wikimedia,
CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
My interest in designing typefaces in Indian scripts grew out of years of disappointment with the way most Hindi books I came across looked. Apart from a few exceptions, they looked like poor cousins of English books. Whether it was a children’s story book or a novel or magazine, there was usually the same drab typeface.
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