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                                       South Asia's Largest Wikimedia Conference Kicks Off in India 
                                     
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                                              Subhashish Panigrahi
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              Aug 08, 2016
                                            
                                            
                                        
                                        
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Wiki Conference India 2016, the largest gathering of the contributors of Wikipedia (the multilingual online encyclopaedia) and its sister projects called Wikimedia projects, begins August 5 in Landran, in the Indian state of Punjab.
                                      
                                          
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                                      South India Copyright Workshop
                                     
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                                              Subodh Kulkarni
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              Oct 21, 2018
                                            
                                            
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A workshop on Copyright was organized by CIS-A2K at Hotel Bhagini Icon in Bengaluru from 19th to 21st October 2018. Seventeen members from 5 language communities (Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Tulu) participated in the workshop. Yann Forget was the master trainer for the workshop.
                                      
                                          
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                                      State Level Seminar on "Odia alphabet and order teaching in primary education"
                                    
 
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                                              Prasad Krishna
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              Sep 30, 2014
                                            
                                            
                                        
                                        
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Subhashish Panigrahi participated in a state-level seminar on "Number of Odia characters and order teaching in primary education" (ପ୍ରଥମ ଶ୍ରେଣୀରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଅକ୍ଷର ସଂଖ୍ୟା ଓ କ୍ରମଶିକ୍ଷା) co-organised by Institute of Odia Studies and Research, and Odia Bhasa Pratisthan in Bhubaneswar on September 14, 2014. 
                                      
                                          
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                                      State of Odia Language in Computing and Future Steps
                                     
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                                              Subhashish Panigrahi
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              Jul 07, 2014
                                            
                                            
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I participated in a "National Level Seminar on, Computer Application and Odia Language" organized by the Institute of Odia Studies and Research in Bhubaneswar on July 6, 2014 as a panelist to discuss about the state of Odia language in computing, work in progress highlighting CIS-A2K's work in the knowledge and education sector and further steps.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Stats for March 2016
                                     
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                                              Rahmanuddin Shaikh
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              May 08, 2016
                                            
                                            
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CIS-A2K team closely works with 5 Indian languages, we call as focus language areas. 
Here are the stats for the month of March 2016.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Stress on posting articles on Kannada Wikipedia
                                    
 
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                                              Prasad Krishna
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              Aug 02, 2013
                                            
                                            
                                        
                                        
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A workshop to be held on CPDPS premises on August 6.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Subhashish Panigrahi joins Open GLAM Working Group
                                    
 
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                                              Prasad Krishna
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              May 27, 2014
                                            
                                            
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Subhashish recently joined the OpenGLAM Working Group (a global network of people who work to open up cultural data and content.) as a member and OpenGLAM Local (a local affiliate of OKFN's OpenGLAM project) as an ambassador for India. Both the positions will be voluntary. 
                                      
                                          
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                                      Supporting Indian Language Wikipedias Program/Report
                                     
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                                              Gopala Krishna A
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              Apr 05, 2019
                                            
                                            
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CIS-A2K team submitted Project Tiger final report. 
                                      
                                          
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                                      T’puram to host Wikipedia workshop on May 4, 5
                                    
 
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                                              Prasad Krishna
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              May 01, 2016
                                            
                                            
                                        
                                        
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The workshop will be led by Prof. Madav Gadgil and a team of experienced Wikipedia editors. 
                                      
                                          
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                                      Tallapaka Pada Sahityam is now on Wikisource
                                     
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                                              Pavan Santhosh
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              Jun 10, 2017
                                            
                                            
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