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Goa University to make available online Konkani Wikipedia, within 6 months
by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 30, 2013 — last modified Oct 03, 2013 09:35 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Thick heaps of the four volumes of Konkani language ‘vishwakosh’ or encyclopedia , till now available only in hard copy, will now attain a modern access.
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Konknni Wikipedia Workshop
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 15, 2013 — last modified Nov 15, 2013 08:19 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Dalgado Konknni Akademi in collaboration with Centre for Internet & Society’s Access to Knowledge Programme is organsing a 2 day Wikipedia editing workshop at the Goa Central State Library on November 16 and 17, 2013 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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For the love of Konkani: Preserving Goa's official language
by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 30, 2013 — filed under: , , , ,
With many local dialects on the brink of extinction, Joanna Lobo meets the language conservationists who have taken it upon themselves to preserve Goa's official language.
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Konkani Wikipedia in the making
by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 30, 2013 — filed under: , , , ,
Process of uploading the four volumes of Konkani encyclopaedia will be completed in six months’ time.
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Goa University announces plan to upload Konkani encyclopedia on Wikipedia
by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 27, 2013 — last modified Oct 03, 2013 09:14 AM — filed under: , , , ,
The Goa University, on Thursday, re-launched the four volumes of Konkani Vishwakosh (Konkani encyclopedia), and announced its ambitious plan to upload the same on Wikipedia – a free encyclopedia built collaboratively using Wiki software – so as to build the Konkani Wikipedia.
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Goa University Partners CIS India To Build Konkani Wikipedia
by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 30, 2013 — last modified Oct 03, 2013 09:44 AM — filed under: , , , ,
The Goa university has entered into a three year memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) for building the Konkani Wikipedia, reports navhindtimes.
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Blog Entry Report of Konkani Wikipedia's progress (July-December 2015)
by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published Jan 01, 2016 — last modified Feb 05, 2016 02:49 AM — filed under: , , ,
Konkani language is one of the 22 languages recognized by Indian union in 8th schedule. As per the 2007 census there are about 7.4 million Konkani speakers.[1] Konkani language has its own Wikipedia created on 15th June 2015. This blog post will try to put out Konkani Wikipedia's growth from a perspective based on Wikimedia stats.
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Blog Entry Wikipedia workshop for Konkani students conducted in Mangaluru
by Tito Dutta — published Dec 19, 2016 — last modified Jun 28, 2017 09:57 AM — filed under: , ,
A two days Wikipedia workshop "introduction to Wikipedia" was conducted at Besant College, Mangaluru. 16 undergraduate and post-graduate students from 3 different colleges participated in the event. Here is a report.
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Blog Entry Stats for March 2016
by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published May 08, 2016 — last modified Jun 07, 2016 04:06 AM — filed under: , , , , , , ,
CIS-A2K team closely works with 5 Indian languages, we call as focus language areas. Here are the stats for the month of March 2016.
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Blog Entry Konkani-language books from Konkani-language culture center Mannd Sobhaann to enrich Konkani Wikipedia
by Rahmanuddin Shaik and Tanveer Hasan — published Oct 30, 2015 — last modified Nov 12, 2015 01:08 PM — filed under: , , ,
Mangalore based cultural centre Maand Sobhaann has recently relicensed 3 of their publications under a free license so that the books could be digitised on Konkani Wikisource and enrich Konkani Wikipedia.
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