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Project Tiger 2.0
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Suswetha Kolluru and Nitesh Gill
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published
Nov 24, 2019
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filed under:
Wikimedia,
CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
If you think that Indian languages are as important as international languages, like English, then, you are on the same page with this article. If not, then, let me explain, why it is a significant and much bigger issue than you think.
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Wikipedia Orientation Program at Rotary Club of Salem
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by
Manasa Rao
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Dec 11, 2017
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CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Openness
CIS-A2K in conjunction with the Rotary Club of Salem, Tamil Nadu conducted a two-day Wikipedia orientation workshop for student members of the club.
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Marathi Wikipedia workshop for Sandarbh Science magazine writers
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by
Manasa Rao
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Nov 19, 2017
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last modified
Dec 19, 2017 03:53 PM
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CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Marathi Wikipedia,
Openness
A Marathi Wikipedia workshop was recently conducted for the writers at Sandarbh Science magazine.
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Wikimedia Technical Workshop at Savitribai Phule Pune University
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by
Manasa Rao
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published
Nov 29, 2017
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last modified
Dec 19, 2017 04:03 PM
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CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Mediawiki training (MWT),
Wikipedia,
Marathi Wikipedia,
Openness
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The Knowledge Base is Liberated
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Subodh Kulkarni and Madhav Gadgil
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published
Aug 05, 2019
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CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
The article published in Sunday supplement of Loksatta newspaper of Express group, written jointly by Madhav Gadgil & Subodh Kulkarni summarises - the status of searchable open knowledge available on web, eagerness of youth generation across the social strata to access knowledge on new gadgets and the approaches to build resources in Marathi on web harnessing potential of Wikimedia projects. It also elaborates major three breakthroughs – Free & open source software movement, Unicode revolution and development of collaborative knowledge building and sharing free platforms like Wikimedia projects easily accessible to people in their own languages.
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Christ (DU) students enrolls for 3rd Wikipedia certificate course
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by
Ananth Subray
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Sep 23, 2018
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Wikimedia,
CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Students of Christ (Deemed to be University) enrolled themselves for the third Wikipedia certificate course for the academic year of 2018-19, to understand the usage of Wikimedia projects.
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Aditya 365
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by
Pavan Santhosh
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published
Nov 07, 2018
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CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Telugu Wikipedia
Telugu Wikimedian Aditya Pakide successfully completed 365 Wiki Commons Days. Aditya started contributing to project after a Facebook comment by A2K community advocate suggesting that the same picture would get more utilization in Commons and a brief training followed.
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CIS Signs MoU with Odia Virtual Academy
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Sailesh Patnaik
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published
Dec 19, 2018
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last modified
Dec 20, 2018 12:24 AM
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Open Educational Resources,
CIS-A2K,
Open License,
Access to Knowledge,
Open Data,
Wikipedia,
Open Content,
Odia Wikipedia,
Open Access,
Wikimedia
On October 26, 2018, the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Odia Virtual Academy (OVA) to work on drafting an open content policy for the state, to promote use of Wikimedia projects by various user types and to ensure sustainability of Wikimedia projects, and to facilitate development of relevant free and open source software projects. This partnership between OVA and CIS will be carried out from December 2018 to November 2019, and we are sharing an overview of the activities and their objectives in this post.
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Why It's Essential To Grow Indian-Language Wikipedias
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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Jan 26, 2016
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May 28, 2016 06:52 AM
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Wikimedia,
CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
On 15 January, Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia celebrated its 15th birthday, meeting this milestone with 36 million articles in more than 290 languages (the English-language Wikipedia alone has crossed the 5-million article mark). But here I want to address some major questions that we need to ask as Indians.
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କେତେ ମାଗଣା ଫେସବୁକର ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସ?
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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Jan 27, 2016
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last modified
Jan 28, 2016 07:23 AM
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CIS-A2K,
Odia Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
This opinion piece in Odia on Facebook's Free Basics App was published in Odisha.com. The post highlights several user security and privacy that Free Basics is violating apart from violating net neutrality. It also brings the parallel of Airtel Zero and Free Basics with the Grameenphone project by Mozilla in Bangladesh and the worldwide Wikipedia Zero projects.
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