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The joys of being a Wikipedian: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 30, 2014 — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
Radha Krishna, an engineer, had always wanted to share information online so that people who wanted to learn more could just log in and benefit by reading his articles. Eight years ago he started his own website for this very purpose. But he found it hard to maintain the site. He then chanced upon Wikipedia, the largest open-source encyclopedia, which was then just becoming popular in the country.
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The largest Wikipedia gathering in South Asia kicks off: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Aug 05, 2016 — last modified Aug 06, 2016 05:11 PM — filed under: Wikimedia, CIS-A2K, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
Wikimedia Conference 2016Wiki Conference India 2016 (WCI), the largest gathering of contributors to Wikipedia and its sister projects in South Asia, will be held during August 5-7 this year in Chandigarh, India.
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The Relaunch of Creative Commons India: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 03, 2013 — last modified Dec 11, 2013 08:12 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Openness, Event
Wikimedia India, the Centre for Internet and Society, and Acharya Narendra Dev College invite you to the Relaunch of Creative Commons India in New Delhi on November 12, 2013 with the Minister of State for Human Resource Development Dr. Shashi Tharoor as the Chief Guest.
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Thematic Edit-a-thon at J.P.Naik Centre for Education & Development, Pune: by Subodh Kulkarni — published May 10, 2017 — last modified Jun 07, 2017 08:59 AM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia, Openness
A Marathi Wikipedia workshop was held at the J.P. Naik Centre for Education and Development in Pune recently.
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Thematic Edit-a-thon at Yashawantrao Chavan Institute of Science, Satara: by Subodh Kulkarni — published Jun 11, 2017 — last modified Jul 11, 2017 09:35 AM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia, Openness
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This Multilingual Edit-a-thon wants to Improve Indian Content on Wikipedia: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jan 27, 2016 — last modified Jan 28, 2016 07:23 AM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Edit-a-thon
Ever wondered how many articles the Kannada Wikipedia or the Hindi Wikipedia have relating to India, its social history, literary and cultural heritage and the journey of over 1600 languages?
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This Twitter Account Puts a Face to the Unsung Volunteer Editors Behind Wikipedia: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jun 18, 2014 — last modified Jul 03, 2014 06:17 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
The life of a Wikipedia editor is an interesting one. Globally, about 100,000 editors edit the collaborative online encyclopedia's 30 million articles in 287 languages, including over 4.5 million in the English Wikipedia.
Located in Openness / Blog
Touch Point Report: Department of Tourism Studies, Christ University and St. Aloysius College, Managalore: by Tanveer Hasan — published Dec 05, 2015 — last modified Dec 15, 2015 07:37 AM — filed under: Open Educational Resources, CIS-A2K, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia
CIS-A2K conducts Wikipedia in Education programme at St. Aloysius colege, Mangalore. This partnership is unique as it provides to us a pool of editors for three Wikimedia projects, i.e: Kannada, Tulu and Konkani.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Train the Trainer — Four-day long Residential Training Workshop in Bangalore: by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 03, 2013 — last modified Sep 27, 2015 09:59 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness, Event
Train the Trainer is a four-day long residential training workshop to enable Indian Wikipedia community members conduct outreach sessions effectively and independently. It is being conducted by the CIS-A2K team in Bangalore in the first week of October.
Located in Openness / Events
Train the Trainer — Report in Udayavani: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 02, 2015 — last modified Apr 04, 2015 04:20 PM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
As part of the Train The Trainer program, on Feb 28, all the participants (Wikipedians from all over India) were taken to Janapada Loka, near Ramanagara. There was a report in Udayavani, Ramanagara edition on March 2, 2015 about this event.
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