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Blog Entry Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Project
by Nitika Tandon — published Sep 25, 2013 — last modified Oct 01, 2013 12:23 PM — filed under: , , , ,
The Centre for Internet and Society in collaboration with the University of Goa invite you to a two-month project on digitization of Konkani Vishwakosh. Please send in your applications by October 5, 2013.
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Blog Entry Konkani Vishwakosh Under CC-BY-SA
by Nitika Tandon — published Nov 13, 2013 — last modified Nov 30, 2013 10:47 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Upon CIS-A2K's explicit request, Goa University has approved the re-release of Konkani Vishwakosh under the Creative Commons License (CC-BY-SA 3.0) to make it freely available to public and giving them the right to share, use and even build upon the work that has already been done. This is a huge step to help preserve Konkani language and culture in digital era and will also feed into building of Konkani Wikipedia.
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Konkani Wikipedia from Goa University in 6 months
by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 27, 2013 — filed under: , , , ,
Piles of the thick four volumes of Konkani vishwakosh or encyclopedia waiting to be picked up by users at the Goa University (GU) will now attain a modern avatar.
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Blog Entry 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: , , , , , ,
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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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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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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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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Mangalore: Konkani writers resolve to form all-India forum at JKS conference
by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 01, 2013 — last modified Oct 14, 2013 01:36 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Jagotik Konknni Songhotton (JKS) organized an All-India Konkani Writers’ Conference on Sunday, September 29 at Kalaangann.
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Blog Entry NIE Steps in to Grow Konkani Wikipedia
by T. Vishnu Vardhan — published Sep 06, 2014 — last modified Oct 10, 2014 11:26 AM — filed under: , , , , , ,
The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) signed a memorandum of agreement (MoU) with Nirmala Institute of Education, Goa to enhance digital literacy in Konkani in the education sector across Goa.
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Panaji: DKA organizes two day Konkani Wikipedia workshop
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 18, 2013 — filed under: , , , ,
In order to showcase Romi Konknni on a global platform, Dalgado Konknni Akademi (DKA) organized a two day Konkani Wikipedia workshop November 16 and November 17 for Romi Konknni writers in collaboration with Centre for Internet and Society’s Access to Knowledge Programme, Bangalore.
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