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Blog Entry WikipediansSpeak: Piotr Konieczny
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Sep 18, 2013 — last modified Sep 18, 2013 12:22 PM — filed under: , , ,
WikipediansSpeak is a video interview show hosted by Subhashish Panigrahi at the Centre of Internet and Society. It brings you series of posts about Wikipedians across the globe. Wikipedians are those voluntary contributors who write Wikipedia articles, correct mistakes made by other wikipedians and share knowledge for free to the world.
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Blog Entry Wikipedia reaches Classrooms in Hyderabad
by Syed Muzammiluddin — published Sep 20, 2013 — last modified Sep 20, 2013 07:20 AM — filed under: , , , ,
The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Hyderabad organised a one-day workshop on editing Wikipedia in Indian languages. It was attended by participants who formed a small but proactive group of students who eagerly tried to register the first edits on four different Indian language wikipedias.
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Blog Entry CIS Signs MoU with Goa University
by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 25, 2013 — last modified Sep 25, 2013 10:57 AM — filed under: , , ,
The Access to Knowledge (A2K) team from the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) has signed a MOU with the Goa University.
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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 Making Wikipedia Better
by Pooja Saxena and Nirbheek Chauhan — published Oct 14, 2013 — last modified Oct 25, 2013 07:30 AM — filed under: , , ,
It wasn’t something that we set out to do when we started working on The Ballot, but one of the most satisfying unintentional side-effects of the project has been the chance to correct facts and figures, and remove inappropriate content from entries related to India and its politics on Wikipedia.
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Blog Entry Re-release of Konkani Vishwakosh under CC-BY-SA 3.0
by Nitika Tandon — published Oct 01, 2013 — last modified Nov 04, 2013 12:14 PM — filed under: , , , ,
Goa University re-released Konkani Vishwakosh under Creative Commons License CC-BY-SA 3.0. To celebrate and further the movement of open knowledge and open access Goa University in collaboration with Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge Programme (CIS-A2K) organised an event on September 26, 2013 at 10 a.m., at the Goa University Conference Hall.
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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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Blog Entry Train the Trainer Program
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Nov 18, 2013 — filed under: , , , , ,
Wikipedians, about 20 of them, from 10 different cities, speaking 8 different languages, joined together for the first ever four days "Train the Trainer Program" organised by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team in Bangalore from October 3 to 6, 2013.
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Blog Entry Train The Trainer Programme for Wikipedians
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Nov 18, 2013 — filed under: , , ,
Twenty Wikimedians from 10 cities speaking 8 languages attended the 4-day Train-The-Trainer (TTT) programme conducted last month by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access To Knowledge programme (CIS-A2K) at Bangalore. The programme aimed to improve and enhance Wikipedians' skills for outreach and community-building activities.
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Blog Entry ಅಂತರ್ಜಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ನೆಟ್ಟ ಸಸಿಗೆ ಈಗ ಹತ್ತು ವರ್ಷ
by U.B.Pavanaja — published Nov 20, 2013 — filed under: , , , ,
Dr. U.B. Pavanaja wrote an article highlighting 10 years of Kannada Wikipedia. Kannada Wikipedia started in the year 2003 and now it has completed 10 years. The article highlights the current status of the Kannada Wikipedia vis-a-vis number of articles, number of editors, active editors, and page views per month.
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