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Blog Entry Rejuvenating India’s Rivers the Wiki Way
by Subodh Kulkarni — published Mar 07, 2019 — last modified Apr 01, 2019 01:18 PM — filed under: , , , , ,
Tarun Bharat Sangh (TBS), an organisation working on rejuvenation of rivers in India, has began documentation of rivers on Wiki, especially to draw attention to and mitigate the crisis of toxic deposits facing more than 40 rivers in India. The work was started by Jal Biradari, TBS’s Maharashtra based group, in Sangli district with the help of the Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team of CIS. Here is the report from the first pilot workshop conducted by CIS-A2K during 22-25 December 2018 at Tarun Bharat Sangh Ashram, in Alwar, Rajasthan.
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Blog Entry Indic Wikisource Speak: Sushant Savla
by Jayanta Nath — published Apr 10, 2019 — last modified Apr 17, 2019 08:09 PM — filed under: , , , , ,
Future is bright -- Sushant Savla (User:Sushant_savla) from Gujarati Wikisource community, share his experience & journey.
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Blog Entry Indic Wikisource speak : Shubha
by Jayanta Nath — published Apr 25, 2019 — filed under: , , , ,
As the texts are in the searchable format, many students and research scholars can make use of Wikisource. As we all know, Samskrit is a treasure trove of knowledge. There are many such books that can be uploaded and utilised by the public. For this, we are putting effort to upload more and more books and make our Wikisource a rich one. -- Shubha, a Samskrit Wiki-librarian share her experience
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Blog Entry Indic Wikisource speak : Ajit Kumar Tiwari
by Jayanta Nath — published Apr 11, 2019 — last modified Apr 17, 2019 08:07 PM — filed under: , , ,
"Wikisource is going to be as important as Wikipedia because it addresses the issues of citations and references inherently. I will make it as my key pedagogical tool to educate my students and make them a part of this great movement." - Hindi Wiki-librarian Ajit Kumar Tiwari ( अजीत कुमार तिवारी ) share his experience about Hindi Wikisource which approved by Language committee of Wikimedia Foundation Inc , US for separate domain on February 2019.
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Blog Entry CIS-A2K proposal to Wikimedia Foundation for 2019-2020
by Ananth — published Apr 15, 2019 — filed under: , , ,
The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) has submitted its proposal form for the year 2019 - 2020 to the Wikimedia Foundation. CIS thanks all community members who gave valuable suggestions and inputs for drafting this proposal.
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Blog Entry Indic Wikisource Speak: Dr. Hrishikes Sen
by Jayanta Nath — published Apr 10, 2019 — last modified Apr 26, 2019 06:42 AM — filed under: , , , ,
There are plenty of people engaged in digitising Bengali books. Plenty of pirated digitised books are available online. We need to tap into that catchment area. I think, if we can prepare high-grade pdf versions of our completed works and spread those to various online non-wiki reader communities, we are likely to get good contributors. -- User:Hrishikes from English and Bengali Wikisource community, share his journey.
Blog Entry Nichole Saad from the Wikimedia Foundation visits Christ University
by Manasa Rao — published Dec 12, 2017 — last modified Dec 17, 2017 07:01 PM — filed under: , , , ,
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Blog Entry Kannada Wikipedia Orientation Workshop at IISc, Bengaluru
by Gopalakrishna A — published Nov 27, 2017 — last modified Dec 19, 2017 04:16 PM — filed under: , , , , ,
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Blog Entry Marathi Wikipedia - Vishwakosh Workshop for Science writers in IUCAA, Pune
by Manasa Rao — published Oct 08, 2017 — last modified Dec 20, 2017 02:42 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
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Post More Articles on Kannada Wikipedia
by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 29, 2015 — last modified Jan 05, 2016 06:38 AM — filed under: , ,
The article was published in Indian Express, Mangaluru edition on December 12, 2015. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja was quoted. A scanned version of the article is given below.
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