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Wiki Media Foundation keen on developing Urdu Wikipedia
by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 31, 2014 — last modified Nov 01, 2014 01:29 PM — filed under: , , ,
The Wikipedia India Community Consultation 2014 was organized by the Wiki Media Foundation (WMF) and Wikipedia India Chapter in collaboration with Centre for Internet Society (CIS A2K) Bangalore on The venue was Movenpick Hotel and scheduled for October 4th and 5th here.
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Blog Entry Converting from nonUnicode (Nudi, Baraha, ...) font encoding to Unicode Kannada
by U.B.Pavanaja — published Oct 31, 2014 — last modified Oct 23, 2016 03:36 PM — filed under: , , , ,
People have been using computers for typing and printing Kannada text for more than 25 years. Most of the usage of Kannada on computers was limited to the DTP arena.
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Blog Entry Tulu Wikipedia Workshop cum Editathon at Udupi
by U.B.Pavanaja — published Oct 31, 2014 — last modified Oct 31, 2014 02:54 PM — filed under: , , , ,
A three-day programme was held at Udupi from October 15 to 17, 2014 with an aim to increase the presence of Tulu in the online world. The first day comprised the inauguration programme and a workshop to understand the Wiki markup. The next two days were devoted to the edit-a-thon where participants added articles to Tulu Wikipedia.
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Blog Entry Samskrita Vaibhavam (Sanskrit Wiki Outreach Program)
by Shubha and Sayant Mahato — published Oct 30, 2014 — last modified Oct 31, 2014 02:02 PM — filed under: , , , ,
To celebrate the revival of Sanskrit language, the Bangalore chapter of Samskrita Bharati organised a two-day mega event "Samskrita Vaibhavam" at VSR Kalyan Mantapa in Bangalore on August 9 and 10, 2014.
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Blog Entry Odia Wikisource Goes Live!
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Oct 26, 2014 — last modified Nov 07, 2014 01:30 PM — filed under: , , , ,
Odia netizens have more than one reason to celebrate this festive season.
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Wikipedia can establish Tulu in a wider way
by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 24, 2014 — filed under: , , , ,
In his predential address after inaugurating the three-day workshop on ‘The use of internet for promotion of Tulu language,’ organised by Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy, Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy President Janki M Brahmavar opined that internet media, especially Wikipedia, can contribute to a large extent towards the promotion of Tulu language. The president said there was a need for the effective use of Unicode for the digital interpretation of Tulu.
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Blog Entry Open access platform to save the Odia Indian language
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Oct 24, 2014 — filed under: , , , ,
In February 2014, the Government of India declared the South Asian language Odia as the 6th classical language of India which is one among 22 scheduled languages of India and has a literary heritage of more than 5,000 years. There are documents for more than 3,500 years, and the rest are undocumented oral histories.
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Blog Entry Odia Littérateur Ramakrushna Nanda's 4 Books Now Available Under a Creative Commons License
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Oct 22, 2014 — last modified Nov 06, 2014 01:41 PM — filed under: , , , , ,
Children literature in Odia language went through an ennoblement after the intervention of Ramakrushna Nanda's writings.
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Pushing women scientists
by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 21, 2014 — filed under: , , ,
Wikipedia edit-a-thon attempts to raise awareness of the contribution of Indian women to science.
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Blog Entry Second Draft of Open Access Policy of the Department of Biotechnology and Department of Science released
by Anubha Sinha — published Oct 19, 2014 — last modified Oct 30, 2014 12:33 AM — filed under: ,
The Department of Biotechnology and the Department of Science, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India drafted an Open Access Policy (“Policy”) in consultation with several open access experts, government officials and CIS. The second draft of the Policy released last week and is open for comments till 17th November, 2014.
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