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Making Wikipedia Better: by Pooja Saxena and Nirbheek Chauhan — published Oct 14, 2013 — last modified Oct 25, 2013 07:30 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
It wasn’t something that we set out to do when we started working on The Ballot, but one of the most satisfying unintentional side-effects of the project has been the chance to correct facts and figures, and remove inappropriate content from entries related to India and its politics on Wikipedia.
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GFM 2013: by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 06, 2013 — filed under: Openness, Open Access
Nishant Shah participated in a panel discussion with Wendy Chun, Tom Levine and Geert Lovink , around 'The End of Bibliographies: New Media and Research'. Nishant also participated as a panelist in a panel discussion on 'Open Up: Pragmatism and Politics of Open Access'. The programme was held at the University of Luneberg in Germany from October 3 to 5, 2013.
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Mangalore: Konkani writers resolve to form all-India forum at JKS conference: by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 01, 2013 — last modified Oct 14, 2013 01:36 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Konkani Wikipedia, Openness
Jagotik Konknni Songhotton (JKS) organized an All-India Konkani Writers’ Conference on Sunday, September 29 at Kalaangann.
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Re-release of Konkani Vishwakosh under CC-BY-SA 3.0: by Nitika Tandon — published Oct 01, 2013 — last modified Nov 04, 2013 12:14 PM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Konkani Wikipedia, Openness
Goa University re-released Konkani Vishwakosh under Creative Commons License CC-BY-SA 3.0. To celebrate and further the movement of open knowledge and open access Goa University in collaboration with Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge Programme (CIS-A2K) organised an event on September 26, 2013 at 10 a.m., at the Goa University Conference Hall.
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Odisha: Wikipedia workshop at IIMC, Dhenkanal: by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 30, 2013 — last modified Oct 03, 2013 10:15 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Odia Wikipedia, Openness
Wikipedia workshop was held at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal, on Monday. The workshop was inaugurated by Head of IIMC, Dhenkanal, Dr Mrinal Chatterjee.
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Goa University Partners CIS India To Build Konkani Wikipedia: by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 30, 2013 — last modified Oct 03, 2013 09:44 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Konkani Wikipedia, Openness
The Goa university has entered into a three year memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) for building the Konkani Wikipedia, reports navhindtimes.
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September 2013 Bulletin: by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 30, 2013 — last modified Oct 24, 2013 06:48 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Telecom, Accessibility, Internet Governance, Openness, Researchers at Work
Our newsletter for the month of September 2013 can be accessed below.
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Goa University to make available online Konkani Wikipedia, within 6 months: by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 30, 2013 — last modified Oct 03, 2013 09:35 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Konkani Wikipedia, Openness
Thick heaps of the four volumes of Konkani language ‘vishwakosh’ or encyclopedia , till now available only in hard copy, will now attain a modern access.
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The Indian Council of Agricultural Research Adopts an Open Access Policy: by Nehaa Chaudhari — published Sep 30, 2013 — filed under: Openness
In this blogpost, Nehaa Chaudhari discusses the newly adopted Open Access Policy of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research.
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Konkani Wikipedia in the making: by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 30, 2013 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Konkani Wikipedia, Openness
Process of uploading the four volumes of Konkani encyclopaedia will be completed in six months’ time.
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