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Hindustani Language: We Are Wikipedia: by Syed Muzammiluddin — published Mar 27, 2015 — last modified Apr 10, 2015 04:20 PM — filed under: Openness, Hindi Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
In 2014, the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) embarked on a new social media-based initiative - WeAreWikipedia. The aim of the project was "One Wikimedian every week to tell untold community stories on Twitter".
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ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା ପାଇଁ ଡିଜିଟାଲ ଅସୁବିଧା: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Apr 15, 2015 — last modified May 27, 2015 03:22 PM — filed under: Openness, Odia Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
This paper was presented at the 2nd National Language Seminar by CIS-A2K Pogramme Officer Subhashish Panigrahi. In the paper, Panigrahi discusses about the hindrances of mass use of Odia language on the internet and how that is impacting in overall contribution of people in the language.
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Creating Free Software Environment at Andhra Loyola College: by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published Dec 13, 2014 — last modified May 27, 2015 12:54 AM — filed under: Openness, Telugu Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
Andhra Loyola college has signed an MoU with CIS-A2K and as part of it CIS-A2K team has provided a free and open software environment at Andhra Lyola College's Computer Center. Thirty machines have been installed with free software Operating system and some useful applications such as GIMP, Inkscape, firefox, libreoffice, etc.
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How to do GuerillaGLAM: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published May 28, 2015 — last modified May 28, 2015 03:30 PM — 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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Patterns of Gender Aggression and Harassment in Open Tech and Open Culture Communities Online: by Rohini Lakshané — published Apr 13, 2015 — last modified Jun 01, 2015 02:13 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
Report on the talk delivered by me at Adacamp held in Montreal, Canada on April 13-14, 2015.
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Odia Language Wikipedia Page Grows to 800K Page Views A Month: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published May 31, 2015 — last modified Jun 18, 2016 06:20 PM — filed under: Odia Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
Odia Wikipedia is one of the first few Indian language Wikipedia projects celebrating such an old age. The Wikimedia community will gather in Odisha's capital of Bhubaneswar on June 3 to celebrate Odia Wikipedia's 13th anniversary.
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Odia Wikipedia Set to Celebrate 13 Years of Volunteer Contributions: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published May 13, 2015 — last modified Aug 22, 2015 04:54 PM — filed under: Openness, Odia Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
Odia Wikipedia, one of the first of several Indian language Wikipedia projects, is ready to celebrate 13 glorious years of free knowledge contribution on June 3.
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ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡିଆ: ନୂତନ ଯୁଗର ଆରମ୍ଭ: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published May 31, 2015 — last modified Jun 18, 2016 06:19 PM — filed under: Odia Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
My op-ed on Odia Wikipedia and its journey of 13 years was published in Odia daily "The Samaja".
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Odia Wikipedia meets Google Developer Group: by Sailesh Patnaik — published Jun 29, 2015 — last modified Jul 16, 2015 01:17 PM — filed under: Openness, Odia Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
This is a guest post by Wikimedian Sailesh Patnaik who has been a ardent contributor in Odia-language Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects and has led outreach and partnership building initiatives to grow the Wikimedia projects in Odia and other Indian languages. In this post Sailesh shares his personal experience from his interaction at the Google Extended I/O organised by Google Developer Group in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. All the views are author’s personal views.
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Konkani Wikipedia Goes Live After 'Nine Years' of Incubation: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jul 18, 2015 — last modified Jun 18, 2016 06:15 PM — filed under: Creative Commons, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Featured, Konkani Wikipedia, Homepage
Konkani Wikipedia is the second Wikimedia project after Odia Wikisource that has gone live out of incubation. The project stayed in the incubation for nine long years and the community has gone through a long debate to have a Wikipedia of their own. Here is a blog highlighting three Konkani Wikimedians and an advocate of the Wikipedia movement whose efforts finally paid off.
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