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Blog Entry 8 Challenges for Improving Indian Language Wikipedias
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Mar 29, 2016 — last modified Mar 29, 2016 05:05 PM — filed under: , , ,
After more than 10 years in existence, the Indian-language Wikipedias still are not known to many Indian language speakers. Wikipedia became the largest encyclopedia in history as a result of thousands of volunteer editors.
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BHASHA - Indian Languages Digital Festival
by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 31, 2016 — last modified Jun 18, 2016 05:14 PM — filed under: , , ,
Subhashish Panigrahi gave a talk at the Bhasha- India Languages Digital Festival a conference organized by news media YourStory, at New Delhi on March 11, 2016. In the panel "The challenges of making regional language content available on the Web and on mobiles" Panigrahi spoke about some of the challenges in growing the Indian-language Wikipedia projects and the communities.
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Wikipedia: State of Tech — A Talk by Erik Moeller
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 02, 2012 — last modified Dec 18, 2012 06:51 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
The Centre for Internet & Society, Bangalore is hosting a talk by Erik Moeller, Vice President of Engineering and Product Development at the Wikimedia Foundation at its office in Bangalore on November 12, 2012, from 11.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m., followed by a lunch discussion.
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Wikipedia taps students for Kannada content
by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 24, 2014 — last modified Apr 03, 2014 10:01 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Conducts workshops in Ujire, Moodbidri for training in vernacular editing.
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Sessions on Kannada Wikipedia at Tumkur University
by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 27, 2014 — last modified Apr 06, 2014 04:50 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Dr. U.B. Pavanaja conducted a session on Kannada Wikipedia for students of M.Sc. Library and Information Sciences followed by an advanced Kannada Wikipedia session for students of M.A. Literature on March 27, 2014. The event was organized by Tumkur University.
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Community Capacity Building Workshop at KIIT University
by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 30, 2014 — last modified Apr 08, 2014 05:22 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team is organizing a workshop for community capacity building at KIIT University on March 30, 2014.
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Odisha Day 2014: Coverage in Sambad
by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 31, 2014 — last modified Apr 11, 2014 12:32 PM — filed under: , , , ,
Odia newspaper Sambad covered the Odisha Day 2014 and published a report on March 31, 2014.
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M'lore: Wikipedia Workshop held for Konkani writers
by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 14, 2014 — filed under: , , ,
A Wikipedia Workshop for Konkani writers writing in the Kannada script, was organised by All India Konkani Writers’ Organisation (AIKWO) in association with Wikipedia, on Apr 6, 2014, at Kalaangann, Mangalore.
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Emphasis on developing vernacular encyclopaedias
by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 30, 2014 — last modified Apr 15, 2014 10:22 AM — filed under: , , , ,
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AIKWO to organize Wikipedia Workshop
by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 03, 2014 — last modified May 05, 2014 03:49 AM — filed under: , ,
All India Konkani Writers’ Organisation (AIKWO) in association with Wikipedia is organising a one-day Wikipedia Workshop for Konkani writers writing in the Kannada script on Sunday, April 6 at Kalaangann, Mangalore.
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