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Odisha: Odia Wikipedia reaching 5000 article mark!
by Prasad Krishna published Dec 31, 2013 — filed under: , , , ,
Many are not aware of the existence of Odia Wikipedia and other Indian language Wikipedias. But Odia Wikipedia has been growing gradually all these years and has become the most searched website and largest online encyclopedia in Odia language.
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Odisha: Wikipedia workshop at IIMC, Dhenkanal
by Prasad Krishna published Sep 30, 2013 last modified Oct 03, 2013 10:15 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Wikipedia workshop was held at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal, on Monday. The workshop was inaugurated by Head of IIMC, Dhenkanal, Dr Mrinal Chatterjee.
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OdishaDiary conferred prestigious Odisha Youth Inspiration Award 2012 to Odia Wikipedia team
by Prasad Krishna published Nov 23, 2012 last modified Dec 05, 2012 04:55 AM — filed under: , , ,
OdishaDiary (Orissadiary.com) conferred the prestigious Odisha Youth Inspiration Award 2012 to the team of contributors of Odia Wikipedia.
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One Thousand Books Online
by Prasad Krishna published Oct 30, 2015 last modified Dec 15, 2015 08:16 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Located in Openness / News & Media
Blog Entry Ongoing Proof-reading Effort by ALC Student Wikimedians in Telugu Wikisource
by Pavan Santosh & Ting-Yi Chang published Dec 30, 2016 last modified Dec 30, 2016 11:00 AM — filed under: , , , , , , ,
Student Wikimedians at Andhra Loyola College, Vijayawada formatted and proof-read more than 1,900 folios in Telugu Wikisource during the last few weeks of November (2016). Each day, a group of twenty students uses the lab facility provided by the college after regular classes to make necessary formatting changes and fix spelling mistakes in the folios of books available in Telugu Wikisource. Till date, the student Wikipedians have proofread eight books.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Online bid for Science in Marathi
by Admin published Oct 18, 2017 — filed under: , ,
Pune scientists hold a workshop with Marathi Vishwakosh to thrash out how to provide more vocabulary for scientific discourse in the language, to cater to a vast majority that is not comfortable looking up info in English.
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Online Free Content in Telugu Wikipedia
by Prasad Krishna published Feb 19, 2015 — filed under: , , , ,
Wikimedians gathered at Tirupati for a strategic meet. This was covered by the regional newspaper Andhra Jyothy
Located in Openness / News & Media
Blog Entry Only 8.5pc of Wikipedia Editors are Women. How do we fix the Gender Gap on the Internet?
by Ting-Yi Chang published Feb 09, 2017 — filed under: , , , ,
Women-related articles are generally shorter, more prone to deletion, and more likely to be peripheral pieces under male-centric articles.
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Blog Entry Open access platform to save the Odia Indian language
by Subhashish Panigrahi published Oct 24, 2014 — filed under: , , , ,
In February 2014, the Government of India declared the South Asian language Odia as the 6th classical language of India which is one among 22 scheduled languages of India and has a literary heritage of more than 5,000 years. There are documents for more than 3,500 years, and the rest are undocumented oral histories.
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Open Access: Students help revive and digitize rare books for Malayalam Wiki Library
by Prasad Krishna published Jul 15, 2014 last modified Jul 28, 2014 08:50 AM — filed under: , , ,
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