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Blog Entry 8 Challenges In Growing Indian-Language Wikipedias
by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 31, 2016 — last modified Jun 18, 2016 05:11 PM — filed under: , , ,
While speaking at BHASHA: Indian Languages Digital Festival, a day-long discourse at New Delhi on Indian languages and their state in new media, especially digital platforms, I touched upon Wikipedia in Indian languages. Most people, in fact, do not even know that Wikipedia exists in many Indian languages.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
8th IBA International Conference
by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 26, 2016 — last modified Apr 04, 2016 03:32 PM — filed under: , , , ,
The 8th IBA International Conference was organized by Indus Business Academy in Bengaluru from March 24 to 26, 2016. The theme of the conference was Taking India to Greater Heights. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja gave a talk on Democratizing of Knowledge Access- Case of Regional Language Wikipedia.
Located in Access to Knowledge / News & Media
Otago Southland are the Coolest
by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 10, 2015 — last modified Dec 15, 2015 08:06 AM — filed under: , , , ,
LIANZA Otago Southland are delighted to announce our speaker, Subhashish Panigrahi (@subhapa), from the Centre for Internet and Society’s Access To Knowledge programme, will be tuning in via the interwebs from India to share his vision of Guerilla GLAM, describe case studies of these initiatives in India, as well as touching on the creation of documentaries, learning resources and promotional material from acquired content.
Located in Openness / News & Media
ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପାଠାଗାରର ଆବଶ୍ୟକତା ସମାଜ
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 04, 2015 — last modified Dec 15, 2015 08:11 AM — filed under: , ,
Odia Wikisource, a sister project of Odia Wikipedia and a free online Odia-language library is celebrating its first anniversary in Bhubaneswar tomorrow. Available online at or.wikisource.org, the project finally went live in last year on October 20 after being incubated over two years.
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Odia Wikisource Celebrates 1st Anniversary this 25th October
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 04, 2015 — last modified Dec 15, 2015 08:10 AM — filed under: , ,
ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପାଠାଗାର ୧ମ ଜନ୍ମତିିଥି (Odia Wikisource’s 1st anniversary):
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Odia Wikisource to Hold 1st Anniversary
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 04, 2015 — last modified Dec 15, 2015 08:09 AM — filed under: , ,
Odia Wikisource, a sister project of Odia Wikipedia and a free online Odia-language library will celebrate its first anniversary at the Indian Institute of Management of Agricultural Extension (IMAGE), Siripur here on Monday.
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Blog Entry ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପାଠାଗାରର ଆବଶ୍ୟକତା (Need for an Odia-language Wikisource)
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Oct 27, 2015 — last modified Dec 15, 2015 08:21 AM — filed under: , ,
This post is about the Odia library movement and the conventional archival, touch-bases on the problems with dissemination of knowledge with more public domain books that are entering into the "rare and perishing" category, a comparative study of the conventional and new medium--like Wikisource--for book archival. It sheds light on how Wikisource functions as a collaborative platform in engaging with readers for digitizing books that are yet to be digitized.
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Blog Entry Mini Train the Trainer 2018
by Subodh Kulkarni — published Feb 26, 2018 — last modified Mar 17, 2018 08:51 AM — filed under: , , , ,
A mini train the trainer 2018 (Mini TTT 2018) program was organized by CIS-A2K at Jnana Prabodhini & Bhave High School, Sadashiv Peth, Pune on 24 and 25 February 2018. Total 19 active editors from Marathi community participated. Experienced editors from community were also involved in the program.
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Blog Entry Orientation programme, Wikipedia workshop & Action Plan meeting in PAH Solapur University
by Subodh Kulkarni — published Jul 19, 2019 — last modified Aug 05, 2019 03:21 PM — filed under: , ,
CIS-A2K representatives visited PAH Solapur University, Solapur (PAHSUS) to finalise the action plan and MoU for the year 2019-20.
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Blog Entry Wikimedia Workshop on Rivers under Project Jalbodh
by Subodh Kulkarni — published Jul 30, 2019 — last modified Aug 05, 2019 03:28 PM — filed under: , ,
The Indian National Trust for Art & Heritage Pune Chapter is working with various organisations to preserve the natural heritage places like rivers in Pune district of Maharashtra, India. After the presentation of 'Project Jalbodh' by CIS-A2K in River Dialogue organised by INTACH in April 2018, several organisations shown keen interest in collaboration.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
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