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Konkani-language books from Konkani-language culture center Mannd Sobhaann to enrich Konkani Wikipedia: by Rahmanuddin Shaik and Tanveer Hasan — published Oct 30, 2015 — last modified Nov 12, 2015 01:08 PM — filed under: Konkani Wikisource, Konkani Wikipedia, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
Mangalore based cultural centre Maand Sobhaann has recently relicensed 3 of their publications under a free license so that the books could be digitised on Konkani Wikisource and enrich Konkani Wikipedia.
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Konknni Wikipedia Workshop: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 15, 2013 — last modified Nov 15, 2013 08:19 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Konkani Wikipedia, Event
Dalgado Konknni Akademi in collaboration with Centre for Internet & Society’s Access to Knowledge Programme is organsing a 2 day Wikipedia editing workshop at the Goa Central State Library on November 16 and 17, 2013 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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KP Rao feted: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 15, 2013 — last modified Apr 15, 2013 04:47 PM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Wikimedia
KP Rao who had designed fonts for Indian languages including Kannada and devised the first phonetic keyboard driver for Indian languages, was felicitated at a programme organised at Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management on Tuesday, reports DHNS from Mangalore.
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Krishnarajapet Wikipedia Workshop (Coverage in Prajavani): by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 12, 2013 — last modified Sep 05, 2013 05:50 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness
Prajavani covered the Kannada Wikipedia workshop organised by the CIS-A2K team and the Kannada Sahitya Parishat of KR Pet., on August 12, 2013. A scanned version of the report is produced below.
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Krishnarajapet Wikipedia Workshop (Coverage in Suvarna Times of Karnataka): by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 12, 2013 — last modified Sep 05, 2013 06:10 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness
Suvarna Times of Karnataka covered the Kannada Wikipedia workshop organised by the CIS-A2K team and the Kannada Sahitya Parishat of KR Pet., on August 12, 2013. A scanned version of the report is produced below.
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Krishnarajapet Wikipedia Workshop (Coverage in Vijaya Vani): by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 12, 2013 — last modified Sep 05, 2013 06:45 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness
Prajavani covered the Kannada Wikipedia workshop organised by the CIS-A2K team and the Kannada Sahitya Parishat of KR Pet., on August 12, 2013. A scanned version of the report is produced below.
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Launch of Assamese Wikipedia Education Program at Guwahati University: by Nitika Tandon — published Oct 22, 2012 — last modified Jul 26, 2013 11:43 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Video, Openness
The Assamese Wikipedia community has shown a rapid growth in the past six months from 20 active editors in January 2012 to 29 active editors in June 2012. The absolute numbers might seem low but in terms of percentages its an overwhelming increment of 45 per cent.
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Loyola Faculty Enlightened About Open Edn Resources: by Prasad Krishna — published Jun 25, 2014 — last modified Jul 02, 2014 04:50 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
“The tremendous changes in the digital technology have introduced the newage faculty to certain open and collaborative tools like Wiki, termed as open educational resources (OER),” Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) progarmme director T Vishnu Vardhan has said.
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M'lore: Wikipedia Workshop held for Konkani writers: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 14, 2014 — filed under: Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Kannada Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
A Wikipedia Workshop for Konkani writers writing in the Kannada script, was organised by All India Konkani Writers’ Organisation (AIKWO) in association with Wikipedia, on Apr 6, 2014, at Kalaangann, Mangalore.
Located in News & Media
Magic words in Wikipedia: by Tanveer Hasan — published Jun 25, 2015 — last modified Sep 14, 2015 08:37 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Wikimedia
The struggle of finding solutions for replacing and retrieving content /words/facts and figures, in this day and age of machines that seem to know everything should ideally be a non-issue. Yet, for many of us who write reports based on the data available at that moment, it is nothing less than a nightmare to come to know that there has been a significant change in the data with which our reports have been written.
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