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Blog Entry Marathi Wiki Workshop at Tata Institute of Social Sciences
by Nitika Tandon — published Dec 08, 2012 — last modified Feb 04, 2013 04:55 AM — filed under: , , , ,
The Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai is taking up a number of activities and conducting workshops focusing on Indian languages across cities. A series of workshops in Marathi, Kannada and Bangla have been planned with Wikipedia sessions in each of these events.
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Blog Entry New Avenues: Media Wiki Groups
by Noopur Raval — published Dec 27, 2012 — last modified Jan 05, 2013 01:46 AM — filed under: , , ,
This blog post is a brief recap and snippets of my conversation with Harsh Kothari, a volunteer on Gujarati Wikipedia on what we've been doing to help with MediaWiki groups.
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Blog Entry Two-day Wiki Workshop in Goa University: An Introduction
by Nitika Tandon — published Jan 14, 2013 — last modified Jan 25, 2013 06:30 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Last month, on December 12 and 13, 2012, the Access to Knowledge team from the Centre for Internet & Society along with Wikipedia community members organized a two-day workshop for M.A. and Ph.D. students at the Goa University. Nitika Tandon participated in the event and shares with us the developments.
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Blog Entry Celebrating the success of Wikipedia in Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jan 21, 2013 — last modified Apr 16, 2013 12:48 PM — filed under: , , , , , , , , ,
Wikipedia Club Pune, a local community based outreach user group in Pune has recently organized Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013 to spread words about “Spoken Wikipedia”, a project to add recorded audio for Indic language Wikipedia articles which will help the disabled to access Wikipedia and “Bridging Editor Gender Gap.”
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Blog Entry Promoting GLAM in Goa
by Nitika Tandon — published Jan 24, 2013 — last modified Jul 26, 2013 11:27 AM — filed under: , , , ,
We organised an introductory Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums (GLAM) session at Goa State Central Library on December 13, 2012. It was well attended by about 45 interested people coming from over 10 different GLAM institutes in Goa.
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Blog Entry Wikipedia in St. Xavier's College, Mapusa, Goa
by Nitika Tandon — published Jan 19, 2013 — last modified Jul 26, 2013 11:33 AM — filed under: , , , ,
A three hour Wikipedia workshop was organized by the Centre for Internet & Society, Delhi, in the morning of December 14, 2012 at St. Xavier's College in Mapusa, Goa. Over 30 participants attended the session.
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Blog Entry Bringing Konkani Encyclopedia in Public Domain
by Nitika Tandon — published Jan 22, 2013 — last modified Jul 26, 2013 11:35 AM — filed under: , , , ,
On December 14, 2012, a meeting was scheduled with the Vice Chancellor Dr. Satish R Shetye to discuss the possibility of bringing Konkani Encyclopedia in public domain. Nitika Tandon shares the development in this blog post.
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Blog Entry Access to Knowledge Report — September to December 2012
by Noopur Raval — published Jan 31, 2013 — filed under: , , ,
This post provides an overview of the activities done by the Access to Knowledge team under the grant provided by the Wikimedia Foundation from September 2012 to December 2012.
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Wikimedia Bangalore Meetup @ Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 14, 2013 — filed under: , , , ,
The Access to Knowledge team of the Centre for Internet & Society in partnership with Wikispeed and NASSCOM is organizing meetup at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore on February 25, 2013 at 2.00 p.m. Vishnu Vardhan will speak on the Access to Knowledge program.
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Blog Entry Odia Wikipedia Community Brings Wikipedia Education Program to IIMC, Dhenkanal
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Feb 28, 2013 — last modified Aug 23, 2013 02:01 PM — filed under: , , , ,
The Odia Wikipedia community collaborated with the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal and hosted a pilot Odia Wikipedia Education Program. The program began in November 2012 and got over by January 2013. Sixteen student wikipedians signed up and took part in editing more than a dozen articles on Odia Wikipedia.
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