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Blog Entry Guerrilla GLAMː An alternate way of doing GLAM in indie-way
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Nov 25, 2015 — last modified Dec 16, 2015 03:09 AM — filed under: , , ,
I have been working on a concept called the Guerrilla GLAM. Here is a very quick summary about the concept that was published in the GLAM-wiki newsletter for November.
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Blog Entry Kannada Wiki Workshop at Tumkur University
by Shiju Alex — published Sep 25, 2012 — last modified Oct 16, 2012 12:35 PM — filed under: ,
Tumkur University, Karnataka hosted a Kannada Wiki Workshop on September 15, 2012. This was the first Kannada Wikipedia workshop at Tumkur.
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Blog Entry Indic Language Wikipedias – Statistical Report: January – June 2012
by Shiju Alex — published Sep 25, 2012 — last modified Sep 28, 2012 03:41 PM — filed under: , ,
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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Odia Wikipedia Turning 13 this June 3
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jun 01, 2015 — last modified Jun 18, 2016 06:19 PM — filed under: , , , ,
The Odia Wikipedia is turning 13 this June 3. To celebrate this long time of the editor community's tireless effort to make it to the largest Odia-language online encyclopedia an event is being organised in Odisha' capital Bhubaneswar. Centre for Internet and Society's Access To Knowledge (CIS-A2K) is proudly sponsoring for this event. Subhashish Panigrahi and Rahmanuddin Shaik are representing CIS at this event.
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Telugu Wikipedia edit-a-thon at Annamacharya library to preserve rare Telugu literature text
by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published Aug 07, 2015 — last modified Jun 18, 2016 06:12 PM — filed under: , , ,
Telugu Wikipedia Community and the Centre for Internet & Society are conducting the Annamaya Library edit-a-thon on August 6, 2015 at Andhra Loyola College, Vijaywada.
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Blog Entry Celebrating the 13th anniversary of Kannada Wikipedia
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Apr 19, 2016 — last modified May 23, 2016 09:08 AM — filed under: , , , ,
The Kannada-language Wikipedia, arguably the largest online encyclopedia in Kannada language, celebrated its 13th anniversary on February 14, 2016 in Mangalore.
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Blog Entry Digital native: Control A, Backspace
by Nishant Shah — published Jun 05, 2016 — last modified Jun 05, 2016 02:25 AM — filed under: , ,
The rewriting of textbooks should not be compared to the collaborations on Wikipedia, which only goes by evidence.
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Blog Entry Beyond Editor Count: Assessing Quality on Wikipedia
by Tejaswini Niranjana — published Jun 12, 2016 — filed under: , , ,
Since Wikipedia is considered as the go-to source for different kinds of knowledge by anyone starting off in a particular field of study, and since Indian languages (IL) are often the default languages of the classroom in India, strengthening the quality of the material available on IL Wikipedias is certain to have widespread tangible and intangible impact.
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Wikipedia edit-a-thon at TEDSummit 2016, Banff, Canada
by Abhinav Garule — published Jun 13, 2016 — last modified Jun 13, 2016 06:44 AM — filed under: , , ,
The TEDSummit 2016, an annual conference of the TED community, is taking place during June 26-30, 2016 at Banff, Canada. Wikimedians Netha Hussain, Ayyappadas along with Abhinav Garule, Programme Associate, CIS-A2K will be conducting a 90-minute long workshop to educate the participants through Wikipedia's guidelines and help them write their first articles.
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Blog Entry Open source effort gives indigenous language an official typeface
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jul 09, 2016 — last modified Aug 03, 2016 02:00 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Santali, an aboriginal South Asian language, has a brand new freely licensed font and set of cross-platform open source input tools on the way.
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