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Blog Entry Eight Challenges That Indian-Language Wikipedias Need to Overcome
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Mar 29, 2016 — last modified Mar 29, 2016 05:05 PM — filed under: , , ,
Even after a decade of existence, Indian language Wikipedias are not yet known to many Indian language speakers. Wikipedia, being the largest available encyclopedia made in the human history, it what it is today because of the hundreds and thousands of volunteer-editors. But while native-language Wikipedias are becoming game-changers in other corners of the world, the scenario in India is skewed. In my experience, here are a number of challenges that Indian-language Wikipedias are currently facing.
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Blog Entry 8 Challenges In Growing Indian-Language Wikipedias
by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 31, 2016 — last modified Jun 18, 2016 05:11 PM — filed under: , , ,
While speaking at BHASHA: Indian Languages Digital Festival, a day-long discourse at New Delhi on Indian languages and their state in new media, especially digital platforms, I touched upon Wikipedia in Indian languages. Most people, in fact, do not even know that Wikipedia exists in many Indian languages.
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Blog Entry Telugu Wikisource Workshop
by Pavan Santhosh — published Jul 24, 2017 — last modified Aug 16, 2017 08:40 AM — filed under: , , , , , ,
Recently, a Telugu Wikisource Workshop was conducted in Hyderabad between 22- 23 July, 2017
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A Workshop on Editing Wikipedia in Mumbai
by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 23, 2013 — filed under: , , , , ,
The Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS-A2K) is holding a workshop on Wikipedia editing at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai on August 24, 10.00 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.
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వికీపీడియా:సమావేశం/హైదరాబాద్/ఆగష్టు
by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 29, 2013 — filed under: , , , ,
T.Vishnu participated in the Telugu meet-up held in Hyderabad on August 25, 2013, via Skype.
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Workshop on e-Content Development
by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 24, 2013 — last modified Sep 04, 2013 05:56 AM — filed under: , , ,
T. Vishnu Vardhan, A2K Programme Director at CIS will be teaching at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad from September 4 to 6, 2013.
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Telugu Wiki Mahotsavam 2013
by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 08, 2013 — last modified Apr 08, 2013 04:43 AM — filed under: , , , ,
The Telugu Wikipedia Community is organizing the Telegu Wiki Mahotsavam from April 9 to 11, 2013 in Hyderabad. The Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet and Society is supporting and co-organizing the event.
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Digitising contest to preserve rare books in Malayalam
by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 04, 2014 — last modified Jan 31, 2014 06:33 AM — filed under: , , , ,
The Malayalam Wiki Grandhasala has announced a competition in digitally preserving rare books in Malayalam.
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Tech-savvy students given tips to enter IT field
by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 31, 2014 — last modified Feb 02, 2014 04:48 PM — filed under: , , ,
Students from any academic background, but having computer knowledge and common sense, can land a job in the IT sector, said U B Pavanaja, programme officer (Indian languages) at Centre for Internet and Society (Bangalore).
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KIIT University to lead building free knowledge repository initiative
by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 20, 2014 — last modified Feb 03, 2014 09:57 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Centre for Internet and Society is a Bangalore based Non profit organization which works primarily in the broader domains ofinternet and policy research, accessibility, open knowledge and open education.
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The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is a non-profit organisation that undertakes interdisciplinary research on internet and digital technologies from policy and academic perspectives. The areas of focus include digital accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge, intellectual property rights, openness (including open data, free and open source software, open standards, open access, open educational resources, and open video), internet governance, telecommunication reform, digital privacy, and cyber-security. The research at CIS seeks to understand the reconfiguration of social processes and structures through the internet and digital media technologies, and vice versa.

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