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Blog Entry "Free-license Wings To Your Books" in Vijayawada
by Pavan Santhosh — published Feb 08, 2017 — last modified Apr 16, 2017 10:38 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
"Free-license Wings To Your Books" event held at Andhra Loyola College, Vijayawada
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Blog Entry "Free-license Wings To Your Books" in Guntur
by Pavan Santhosh — published Feb 05, 2017 — last modified Apr 16, 2017 10:53 AM — filed under: , , , , , ,
"Free-license Wings To Your Books" event held at Annamayya Library, Guntur
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"Sau Dhuni Teen" project: Wikipedia workshop in TISS, Mumbai
by Abhinav Garule — published Sep 14, 2015 — last modified Mar 16, 2016 11:31 AM — filed under: , ,
A two-day multilingual Wikipedia workshop is being planned to be organised at the Women's Studies Department of Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai during the 22nd through the 24th August.
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Blog Entry "Sau Dhuni Teen" project: Wikipedia workshop in TISS, Mumbai
by Abhinav Garule — published Aug 28, 2015 — last modified Jun 18, 2016 06:08 PM — filed under: ,
A two-day multilingual Wikipedia workshop was organised at the Women's Studies Department of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai during the 22nd through the 24th August. This was one of the outreach events under the scope of the "Sau Dhuni Teen" project that aims at bringing digital content on 100 notable persons, 100 key books, and 100 key concepts relating to women's studies, gender studies, and more broadly, interdisciplinary social sciences, between January 2015 and March 2016.
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'महाराष्ट्र ग्रंथोत्तेजक' होणार लोकाभिमुख, महाराष्ट्र टाईम्स
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 28, 2015 — last modified Dec 15, 2015 07:55 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Coverage of Marathi Wikipedia in Maharashtra Times.
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'Help Konkani Wikipedia come out of incubation'
by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 17, 2013 — filed under: , , ,
The functioning of the free online encyclopedia, ‘Wikipedia,’ is like a true democracy. It is for the people and by the people, said The Centre for Internet and Society Programme Officer (Indian Languages) Pavanaja U B.
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'Trolled' from US Congress, Wikipedia bans edits
by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 28, 2014 — filed under: , , ,
Online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has issued a ten-day ban against an anonymous editor of its website located on the premises of the U.S. Congress, after the latter engaged in “disruptive editing,” on a wide range of subjects, from moon-landing conspiracy theories linked to Cuba to naming former U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as an alien wizard.
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2nd Odia Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 01, 2013 — filed under: , ,
The event is being organized today, April 1, 2013 online by the Odia Wikipedia Community, from 10.00 a.m. to 7.00 p.m. The Centre for Internet and Society is supporting this event.
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Blog Entry 3 Copyright Tips for Students and Educators
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Aug 31, 2016 — last modified Oct 07, 2016 12:42 AM — filed under: , ,
Copyright is a really complicated topic, and when it comes to online use of creative works, accidentally crossing the line between fair use and a copyright violation is easy. How do you know what is copyrighted? Recently Frederico Morando (Creative Commons, Italy) and I presented a training session on understanding copyright policies at Wikimania 2016, which was originally proposed by Wikipedian User:Jim Carter. We covered topics such as fundamentals of copyright, exclusive rights, Berne convention, copyleft, Creative Commons licenses, Public Domain, fair use, and copyfraud.
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Blog Entry 8 Challenges for Improving Indian Language Wikipedias
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Mar 29, 2016 — last modified Mar 29, 2016 05:05 PM — filed under: , , ,
After more than 10 years in existence, the Indian-language Wikipedias still are not known to many Indian language speakers. Wikipedia became the largest encyclopedia in history as a result of thousands of volunteer editors.
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