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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.
Located in Openness / Events
Blog Entry Community celebrates birthday of Odia Wikipedia and Odia Wiktionary
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jul 09, 2016 — last modified Jul 09, 2016 03:25 AM — filed under: , , ,
This June, Odia Wikipedia turned 14 and Odia Wiktionary turned 11. Odia Wikimedia community member Chinmayee Mishra, CIS-A2K Programme Associate Sailesh Patnaik and I co-authored this blog in the Wikimedia Blog. The blog chronicles several major activities of the community and features quotes from many old and new community members.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Blog Entry Community Digest—Estonians working on a new feedback system for Wikipedia articles
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Feb 27, 2016 — filed under: , , ,
Community digest is a weekly publication on Wikimedia Blog. This week, I have authored a section on the Kannada Wikipedia's 13th anniversary that is being celebrated today. It includes a small section from a longer interview with Kannada Wikipedian Vasanth S.N. The two blogs on creating Odia-language character encoding converters I had written before in the Huffington Post and the DNA are also featured in the digest.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Blog Entry Community digest: Konkani language speakers are separated by scripts but unite by Wikipedia; news in brief
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Aug 07, 2016 — filed under: , , , ,
Konkani-language Wikipedians on what they think of Wikipedia as a binding factor for native speakers who speak in different variations of the same language and write in different scripts.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Blog Entry Community led Konkani Wikipedia Outreach
by Nitika Tandon — published May 16, 2014 — last modified Jun 10, 2014 08:44 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Goa University students organised the first ever community led Konkani Wikipedia outreach on May 14, 2014. Fifteen first year M.A. students from Konkani Department participated in the six hour long workshop.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry Community Prioritisation of Content Donation: Kannada Wikisource
by Tanveer Hasan — published Dec 05, 2015 — last modified Dec 15, 2015 07:42 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
CIS-A2K has initiated a community consultation in order to prioritise and streamline the work on Wikisource projects across FLA. Due to the commitment of volunteers from the respective FLA and the institutional partnerships that A2K has developed we have been able to bring a large corpus of content under free licence into our Wikisource projects. CIS-A2K promotes both content donation and content acquisition strategies in order to bring in free licence content.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Community Toolkit for Greater Diversity
by Admin — published Oct 30, 2018 — filed under: , ,
P.P. Sneha participated in a 3 day programme organized by Wikipedia community in Mandrem, Goa from October 5 - 7, 2018. The event was a peer training programmeto strengthen the work in the direction of building greater diversity and inclusion in the Wikimedia community.
Located in Access to Knowledge / News & Media
Blog Entry Continuing community engagement: Communities of interest and Quarrying
by Manasa Rao — published Apr 18, 2017 — last modified May 19, 2017 03:23 PM — filed under: , , , ,
In telling the stories of Indian Wikipedians, we bring to you the story of Dr. Diptanshu Das, a doctor and avid Wikipedian, working with WikiProject Medicine who recently approached CIS-A2K with a technical request.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
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.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry Creative Commons comes to India
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Feb 28, 2013 — last modified Jul 17, 2013 06:49 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Creative Commons team visited four Indian cities to spread the word about CC free licenses and CC affiliate program. Wikimedia India chapter was approached to join hands with Creative Commons for research and community building.
Located in Openness / Blog
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