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India’s Indigenous Languages Drive Wikipedia’s Growth
by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 08, 2013 — last modified Aug 09, 2013 09:58 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Despite accommodating the world’s second largest English-speaking population behind the United States, it is India’s indigenous language speakers that are creating and consuming the content that is driving Wikipedia’s growth on the subcontinent.
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Blog Entry Indian English Wikipedian Nvvchar completes 1500 Did You Know articles
by Tito Dutta — published May 09, 2016 — last modified Jun 28, 2017 10:03 AM — filed under: , , ,
Indian English Wikipedian Nvvchar has completed 1500 Did you know articles. This is the second highest on English Wikipedia.
Located in Access to Knowledge
Indian Govt to Build Machine Translation System for 22 Indic Languages
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 14, 2013 — last modified Dec 11, 2013 07:14 AM — filed under: , , ,
National Translation Mission is preparing a Machine Translation System (MTS) to instantly translate texts from vernacular Indian languages to English, reports New Indian Express.
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Blog Entry Indian Language Wikipedia Statistics (September 2012 – April 2013)
by T.Vishnu Vardhan, Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jun 30, 2013 — last modified Aug 23, 2013 01:48 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
The Access to Knowledge team carried out a quantitative analysis to identify trends and growth patterns in Indian Language Wikipedias over the time period from September 2012 to April 2013.
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Blog Entry Indian Wikimedia community coordinates Women’s History Month
by Jeph Paul and Netha Hussain — published Mar 06, 2014 — filed under: , , ,
The Indian Wikimedia community is pleased to invite you to participate in Women’s History Month events, 2014. We started off with a pre-event Wikipedia workshop at Roshni Nilaya School of Social Work, in Mangalore on the 26th of February.
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Blog Entry Indian WikiWomen celebrate Women’s History Month
by Netha Hussain — published Apr 29, 2013 — filed under: , , , ,
March 2013 was a busy month for women Wikimedians in India, as we conducted various events, such as edit-a-thons and workshops to celebrate the presence of women in Wikimedia projects. The women Wikimedians, members of the Wikimedia India Chapter and the Access to Knowledge Team, brainstormed about the possible events, which we wanted to conduct to encourage women to participate and to increase the quality of articles related to Indian women in Wikipedias in English and the Indian languages.
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Indian Women Bureaucrats: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
by Admin — published Nov 08, 2017 — filed under: , ,
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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Indian Women in Science Wiki edit-a-thon
by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 13, 2014 — filed under: , , , ,
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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Blog Entry Indic Language Wikipedias — Statistical Report — 2012
by Shiju Alex — published Jan 21, 2013 — last modified Feb 03, 2013 02:40 AM — filed under: , , ,
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 Entry Indic Language Wikipedias as Open Educational Resources
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published May 27, 2014 — last modified Jun 04, 2014 03:32 AM — filed under: , , ,
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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