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Indian Women Bureaucrats: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
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by
Admin
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published
Nov 08, 2017
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filed under:
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
We are all aware of the large reach and popularity of Wikipedia. However, what most people don’t know is that, according to a study conducted in 2011, globally only 9% of the editors on Wikipedia were women. And the percentage for India is even lower, just 3%.
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News & Media
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Indian Women in Science Wiki edit-a-thon
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Oct 13, 2014
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Openness,
Event
A Wikipedia edit-a-thon is being held at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore on October 11, 2014 from 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. The event is being organized by IndiaBioScience in collaboration with the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team.
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Indic Language Wikipedias – Statistical Report: January – June 2012
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by
Shiju Alex
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published
Sep 25, 2012
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last modified
Sep 28, 2012 03:41 PM
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filed under:
Openness,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
The following is a compilation of the statistical update of the Indic language Wikipedias from January to June 2012. The author provides perspectives on the health of various Indic language communities as well as the state of various Indic language Wikipedias during the period.
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Indic Language Wikipedias — Statistical Report — 2012
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by
Shiju Alex
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published
Jan 21, 2013
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last modified
Feb 03, 2013 02:40 AM
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filed under:
Openness,
Featured,
Wikipedia,
Wikimedia
I have compiled the statistical update of the Indic language Wikipedias for the year 2012. As usual, in this report, my aim is to provide my perspectives on the health of various Indic language communities as well as the state of various Indic language wikipedias.
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Blog
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Indic Language Wikipedias as Open Educational Resources
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
May 27, 2014
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last modified
Jun 04, 2014 03:32 AM
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filed under:
Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
The Open Education Working Group sees supporting multilingual activities such as translation to and from languages which are not often used as one of its key future roles. Subhashish Panigrahi’s post while dwelling upon the growth of Indic Wikimedia communities critically examines Wikipedia as an educational resource.
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Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project #1: Visualising Basic Parameters
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by
Sajjad Anwar and Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Mar 26, 2013
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last modified
Mar 26, 2013 10:04 AM
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Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Featured,
Openness
Sajjad Anwar and Sumandro Chattapadhyay bring you a visualisation of the growth of Indic Wikipedia in this first post on Indic Wikipedia Visualisation project. In doing so, the authors look into the different aspects of the past and present activities of Indic Wikipedias, and divide the visualisation into three different focus areas.
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Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project #2: Visualising Page Views and Project Pages
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by
Sajjad Anwar and Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Apr 22, 2013
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last modified
Apr 22, 2013 01:37 PM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Featured,
Openness
In this blog post, we bring you a visualisation of the page views statistics and the project specific pages that we created last month. The page views indicate the number of unique visits the Wikipedia project concerned has received in one month.
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Information & Communication Technology in Making a Healthy Information Society with special reference to use of ICTS in Educational Technology
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 18, 2014
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Internet Governance,
Openness,
Information Technology,
ICT
The Department of Computer Science, Andhra Loyola College in collaboration with the Department of Computer Science, Krishna University will be organizing a UGC-sponsored National Seminar on August 11 and 12, 2014 at Andhra Loyola College in Vijayawada.
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Infrastructural Needs of Indian Language Wikisource Projects
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Oct 21, 2022
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last modified
Oct 21, 2022 01:21 PM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
A2K Research,
Open Content
This is a short study on identifying the infrastructural gaps on Indian language Wikisource projects, and potential strategies to address the same. The study was undertaken by Jayantha Nath, Puthiya Purayil Sneha and Satdeep Gill, with writing and editorial oversight by Puthiya Purayil Sneha and an external review by Divyank Katira. This is part of a series of short-term studies undertaken by the CIS-A2K team in 2021-22.
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Institute for Internet & Society 2014, Pune
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by
Samantha Cassar
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published
Mar 07, 2014
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last modified
Apr 07, 2014 11:31 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Digital Natives,
Telecom,
Researchers at Work,
Wikipedia,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Featured,
Wikimedia,
Openness,
Homepage
Last month, activists, journalists, researchers, and members of civil society came together at the 2014 Institute for Internet & Society in Pune, which was hosted by CIS and funded by the Ford Foundation. The Institute was a week long, in which participants heard from speakers from various backgrounds on issues arising out of the intersection of internet and society, such as intellectual property, freedom of expression, and accessibility, to name a few. Below is an official reporting summarizing sessions that took place.
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