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Software Freedom Day: The Importance of Free and Open Source Software
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Sep 18, 2016
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Openness,
FOSS,
Access to Knowledge
Software Freedom Day (SFD) on September 17 celebrates the liberty that free and open software and the philosophy of freedom brings into people’s lives. When SFD was started in 2004, only 12 teams from different places joined. It grew to a whooping 1000 by 2010 across the world. Explaining the aim of the celebration, SFD’s official website says,
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Another 5 Years: What Have We Learned about the Wikipedia Gender Gap and What Has Been Done? (Part 1)
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by
Ting-Yi Chang
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published
Sep 18, 2016
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last modified
Sep 21, 2016 10:13 AM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Gender,
Wikipedia,
Wikimedia
Five years after Wikimedia Foundation’s 2011 editor survey was conducted and revealed the gender gap issue, scholars, practitioners, and communities around the globe have come a long way to address the gender imbalance of the online encyclopedia. This blog post series (of three parts) serve as a summary of movements and discoveries about Wikipedia gender gap on both local (India) and global scales.
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Another 5 Years: What Have We Learned about the Wikipedia Gender Gap and What Has Been Done? (Part 2)
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by
Ting-Yi Chang
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published
Sep 18, 2016
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last modified
Sep 22, 2016 07:55 AM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Gender,
Wikipedia,
Wikipedia gender gap,
Wikimedia
Five years after Wikimedia Foundation’s 2011 editor survey was conducted and revealed the gender gap issue, scholars, practitioners, and communities around the globe have come a long way to address the gender imbalance of the online encyclopedia. This blog post series (of three parts) serve as a summary of movements and discoveries about Wikipedia gender gap on both local (India) and global scales.
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Another 5 Years: What Have We Learned about the Wikipedia Gender Gap and What Has Been Done? (Part 3.)
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by
Ting-Yi Chang
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published
Sep 18, 2016
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last modified
Sep 22, 2016 07:54 AM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Gender,
Wikipedia,
Wikipedia gender gap,
Wikimedia
Five years after Wikimedia Foundation’s 2011 editor survey was conducted and revealed the gender gap issue, scholars, practitioners, and communities around the globe have come a long way to address the gender imbalance of the online encyclopedia. This blog post series (of three parts) serve as a summary of movements and discoveries in Wikipedia gender gap narrowing on both local (India) and global scales.
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Tulu Wikipedia Conference in Mangaluru
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 15, 2016
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last modified
Sep 22, 2016 11:50 PM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Tulu Wikipedia
A Tulu Wikipedia conference organized by the Times of Kudla (Tulu name for Mangaluru) newspaper was held at Malki, near Mangaluru on August 13 and 14, 2016. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja gave a presentation on Tulu Wikipedia.
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News & Media
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To embed a tweet or not?
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 23, 2016
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filed under:
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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Delhi High Court’s Ruling Against Publishers is a Triumph For Knowledge
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by
Anubha Sinha
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published
Sep 24, 2016
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last modified
Sep 26, 2016 03:07 PM
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filed under:
Copyright,
Access to Knowledge
The court conclusively stated that the reproduction of any work by a teacher or a pupil in the course of instruction would not constitute infringement.
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Indian language localization community meets in New Delhi
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Oct 03, 2016
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filed under:
Openness,
Open Source,
Access to Knowledge
Localization is one of the less glamorous aspects of computing. Despite the fact that less than 6% of the world speaks English, a majority of projects don't feel inclined to accommodate the rest of the population. One of the primary reasons for sticking to English is the steep learning curve and the lack of standardization in various aspects of the localization process.
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News & Media
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Changing Wikipedia’s (and society’s) male bias is work in progress
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Oct 04, 2016
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filed under:
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Shyamal Lakshminarayanan was on the trail of Maude Lina West Cleghorn, a little-known amateur British entomologist who lived in Calcutta in the early 1900s.
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News & Media
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Technical Alternative to Encrypted Media Extensions
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by
Harsh Gupta
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published
Oct 20, 2016
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filed under:
Encrypted Media Extensions,
Access to Knowledge
This post is an analysis of the various technical alternatives to EME (encyrpted media extensions) that have emerged from the discussions at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). These alternatives and the proposed EME specification along six dimensions are examined.
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