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Blog Entry Wikisource Handbook for Indian Communities
by Bodhisattwa Mandal and Ananth Subray P. V. published Sep 19, 2018 — filed under: , , , , ,
Wikisource is one of the trending Wikimedia projects. Many new editors and new books to Indic language Wikisource's get added over a period of time. However, new editors as well as existing editors face numerous problems while working with the content online. The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team, to help the editors, has created this Handbook. CIS invites feedback to the first draft of this Handbook. CIS-A2K will continue to work with the Wikipedia communities to improve their efforts towards developing Wikisource.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Blog Entry Wikisource Workshop at Vigyan Ashram, Pabal
by Subodh Kulkarni published May 26, 2019 last modified Jun 23, 2019 03:26 AM — filed under: , ,
The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) organized a workshop in collaboration with Vigyan Ashram, Pabal on May 25-26, 2019 at Pabal. Total 12 participants attended sessions during this two days workshop. The basic skills in digitisation, uploading on Commons and Wikisource process were imparted in the workshop. Jayanta Nath was the facilitator.
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Blog Entry Wikisource:Internship Project at New Law College, Pune
by Subodh Kulkarni published Mar 28, 2017 — filed under: , , , ,
This Wiki - internship project is being conducted for New Law College (Pune),under the guidance of Prof.Dr.Mukund Sarda, Dean and Principal of NLC by CIS A2K as part of this project at en wikisource; teams of students will acomplish proof reading, validation, compilation annotation etc. of Indian Laws and to begin with Copyright laws and Intellectual property laws at Portal:Copyright law/Copyright law of India.
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Blog Entry WikiTungi: Bhubaneswar City Wiki Community Turns 1
by Sailesh Patnaik published Feb 27, 2017 — filed under: , ,
The Odia Wikipedia’s WikiTungi is an attempt at building a community of Wikimedians at the city level.
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Blog Entry Wikiwomen’s Meetup at St. Agnes College Explores Potentials and Plans of Women Editors in Mangalore, Karnataka
by Ting-Yi Chang published Sep 01, 2016 last modified Sep 01, 2016 02:39 PM — filed under: , , , , ,
Karnataka is known for its diverse linguistic cultures. Aside from Kannada, many are native speakers of Konkani, Tulu, and other languages. A small Wikiwomen's meetup was held on Saturday, August 27th at St. Agnes College, Mangalore, to invite female Wikipedians from the region. Many of them were new to the online encyclopedia but demonstrated strong interest in learning and contributing more Indic language content online.
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Will domain dot भारत spur the growth of Indian languages on the internet?
by Prasad Krishna published Aug 29, 2014 last modified Sep 08, 2014 05:50 AM — filed under: , ,
Modi's effort to promote the use of Hindi and e-governance has given hope to those who want to see more vernacular content online, but many challenges have to be overcome.
Located in Openness / News & Media
Will the Copyright Law Help the Starving Artist?
by Prasad Krishna published May 29, 2012 — filed under: ,
By law, producers are no longer allowed to keep all the royalties to songs, lyrics or other works of arts. Now, these rights will have to be shared with the artist who created them.
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Blog Entry WIPO Broadcast Treaty- SCCR 26 : Proposals Introduced
by Nehaa Chaudhari published Dec 17, 2013 last modified Dec 30, 2013 03:48 PM — filed under: ,
India and the United States introduced proposals for discussion at the ongoing session of the SCCR.
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WIPO Delegates Hear Concerns of NGOs on Exceptions for Libraries
by Prasad Krishna published Dec 19, 2014 last modified Dec 27, 2014 02:40 PM — filed under: , ,
As World Intellectual Property Organization member states launched into discussions on exceptions and limitations to copyright for the benefit of libraries and archives this week, non-governmental organisations were given the opportunity to present their views on the issue. They delivered vibrant, sometimes contradictory, statements on the opportunity for a treaty to preserve exceptions in the international copyright system.
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WIPO reaches agreement on treaty for blind
by Prasad Krishna published Jul 01, 2013 — filed under: , , ,
Officials at the World Intellectual Property Organisation have reached an agreement to provide wider access to books for the visually impaired in different countries, a long-pending demand of the World Blind Union and activist groups.
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