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Teaching in the Age of Wikipedia: by T. Vishnu Vardhan — published Nov 22, 2014 — last modified Dec 28, 2014 04:04 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
This course is conceived by CIS-A2K. It is currently envisaged as an add-on Certificate Course jointly offered by CIS-A2K and the Nirmala Institute of Education (NIE)-a premier teacher training establishment in Goa, India.
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Odia Wikisource workshop at New Delhi: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Dec 30, 2014 — last modified Dec 30, 2014 01:08 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Video, Openness, Odia Wikipedia
The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team in collaboration with "The Intellects" organized a seminar in New Delhi on December 14, 2014. Subhashish Panigrahi gave a talk.
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ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା ପାଇଁ ଅନ୍ତର୍ଜାତୀୟ ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jan 31, 2015 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Odia Wikipedia, Openness
This is an op-ed I authored for Odia newspaper the "Samaja" that got published on January 30, 2015. Through this post I intend to highlight the needs for taking the Odia language to international fora instead of keeping it confined within the books. I have covered the focus area of 3 free and open source projects: Odia Wikipedia, Odia Wikisource and Global Voices Odia in the column highlighting the need for more people to contribute.
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A Wikipedia Presentation at BITS, Goa: by Radhakrishna Arvapally — published Feb 09, 2015 — last modified Mar 09, 2015 01:21 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
Quark is one of India's largest science, technology and management festivals, held every February at BITS Pilani - K.K. Birla Goa Campus. This year in 2015, the event was held from February 6 to 8, 2015. This blog post captures the key moments. About 12 delegates attended the event.
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Telugu Wikipedia Winter Camp at Andhra Loyola College: by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published Feb 26, 2015 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Openness
Students of physics, statistics and Telugu departments of Andhra Loyola College spent 5 days of their Christmas vacation of 2014 to edit and enrich Telugu Wikipedia and Wikisource. They worked on their respective subject areas and came up with more than 100 new articles on Telugu Wikipedia and about 300 pages of Veeresalingam's works were typed on Telugu Wikisource.
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Hindi Wiki Community Baithak in Delhi: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Feb 27, 2015 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Openness, Hindi Wikipedia
Hindi Wikimedians met in New Delhi during February 14 and 15. This was the first meeting of the Hindi community. Subhashish Panigrahi attended the meetup.
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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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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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Magic words in Wikipedia: by Tanveer Hasan — published Jun 25, 2015 — last modified Sep 14, 2015 08:37 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Wikimedia
The struggle of finding solutions for replacing and retrieving content /words/facts and figures, in this day and age of machines that seem to know everything should ideally be a non-issue. Yet, for many of us who write reports based on the data available at that moment, it is nothing less than a nightmare to come to know that there has been a significant change in the data with which our reports have been written.
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