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This little innovation is bringing a revolution in the Odia language
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Feb 03, 2016
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last modified
Feb 27, 2016 07:33 AM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Odia Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Depicting human language within computing environments has always been a challenge: a given language's script and alphabet needs to be mapped to a coding system that a computer can process digitally. This is done by way of an encoding system that basically maps each character to a unique numeric code.
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This Multilingual Edit-a-thon wants to Improve Indian Content on Wikipedia
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Jan 27, 2016
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last modified
Jan 28, 2016 07:23 AM
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CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Edit-a-thon
Ever wondered how many articles the Kannada Wikipedia or the Hindi Wikipedia have relating to India, its social history, literary and cultural heritage and the journey of over 1600 languages?
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This Twitter Account Puts a Face to the Unsung Volunteer Editors Behind Wikipedia
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Jun 18, 2014
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last modified
Jul 03, 2014 06:17 AM
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filed under:
Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
The life of a Wikipedia editor is an interesting one. Globally, about 100,000 editors edit the collaborative online encyclopedia's 30 million articles in 287 languages, including over 4.5 million in the English Wikipedia.
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Blog
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Thomas Abraham's Rebuttal on Parallel Importation
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Pranesh Prakash
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Feb 10, 2011
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last modified
Aug 04, 2011 04:47 AM
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Consumer Rights,
Copyright,
Access to Knowledge
We engaged in an e-mail conversation with Thomas Abraham, the managing director of Hachette India, on the issue of parallel importation of books into India. We thought it would be in the public interest to publish a substantive part of that conversation. In this post he points at great length how our arguments are faulty. While we still believe that he doesn't succeed, we hope this will clarify matters a bit.
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Time Out Bengaluru - Software Patenting
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Jan 11, 2010
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last modified
Jan 16, 2013 06:39 AM
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Openness,
Software Patents,
Access to Knowledge
An article by Akhila Seetharaman published as a precursor to the national public meeting on software patents held on 4th in Bangalore.
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To embed a tweet or not?
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Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 23, 2016
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Copyright,
Access to Knowledge
Experts say it would amount to copyright infringement if the fair use clause is exploited.
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News & Media
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Tools orientation for Telugu Wikimedians of Hyderabad
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Pavan Santhosh S
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published
Jul 31, 2016
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last modified
Aug 17, 2016 02:58 PM
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filed under:
Telugu Wikisource,
CIS-A2K,
Telugu Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
To help Wikimedians learn about essential tools that are used across Wikimedia projects, a tools orientation session was organised during the monthly meetup on July 10 at Hyderabad.
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Tools orientation session for Telugu Wikimedians of Hyderabad
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by
Pavan Santhosh S.
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Aug 17, 2016
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last modified
Aug 17, 2016 02:35 PM
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CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Telugu Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
A tools orientation session is being organised on July 10 at Hyderabad during the regular monthly meetup. Telugu Wikimedians who would be interested to learn about advanced editing tools like citation templates and Twinkle are welcome to join.
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Events
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Touch Point Report: Department of Tourism Studies, Christ University and St. Aloysius College, Managalore
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by
Tanveer Hasan
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published
Dec 05, 2015
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last modified
Dec 15, 2015 07:37 AM
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filed under:
Open Educational Resources,
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia
CIS-A2K conducts Wikipedia in Education programme at St. Aloysius colege, Mangalore. This partnership is unique as it provides to us a pool of editors for three Wikimedia projects, i.e: Kannada, Tulu and Konkani.
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Towards a Multi-Stakeholder Consultation on ‘Internet Rights, Accessibility, Regulation & Ethics’
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Prasad Krishna
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published
May 31, 2012
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last modified
May 31, 2012 07:14 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Accessibility,
Access to Knowledge
This event was organised by Digital Empowerment Foundation, National Internet Exchange of India and Association for Progressive Communications at Mirza Ghalib Hall, SCOPE Complex, New Delhi from 9.00 a.m. to 2.30 p.m. on May 3, 2012. Pranesh Prakash participated as a speaker in the session on Access to Internet: Right to Information.
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