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Why It's Essential To Grow Indian-Language Wikipedias: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jan 26, 2016 — last modified May 28, 2016 06:52 AM — filed under: Wikimedia, CIS-A2K, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
On 15 January, Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia celebrated its 15th birthday, meeting this milestone with 36 million articles in more than 290 languages (the English-language Wikipedia alone has crossed the 5-million article mark). But here I want to address some major questions that we need to ask as Indians.
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Wikipedia initiative - Celebrating legacy of Bangalore Blue grapes online: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 29, 2016 — last modified Jan 29, 2016 03:44 PM — filed under: Wikimedia, CIS-A2K, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
Black is beautiful, and it can go places if it is well researched. When HL Omshivaprakash wrote a Wikipedia article about Karnataka's bidriware, the metal handicraft where gleaming black bowls and hookahs are dotted with delicate silver strips, he didn't expect it to be picked up by the French and Swedes.
Located in Access to Knowledge / News & Media
Read Bengali, Malayalam classics online as free Wiki libraries grow: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 10, 2016 — last modified Jan 29, 2016 03:51 PM — filed under: Wikimedia, CIS-A2K, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
Content Includes Classics In Malayalam, Bengali.
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Why aren’t Indians using Wikipedia to hold the government to account?: by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 14, 2016 — filed under: CIS-A2K, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
Despite its popularity, the site's benefits are going unutilised.
Located in Access to Knowledge / News & Media
Krishnarajapet Wikipedia Workshop (Coverage in Suvarna Times of Karnataka): by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 12, 2013 — last modified Sep 05, 2013 06:10 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness
Suvarna Times of Karnataka covered the Kannada Wikipedia workshop organised by the CIS-A2K team and the Kannada Sahitya Parishat of KR Pet., on August 12, 2013. A scanned version of the report is produced below.
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Konkani Vishwakosh relaunch tomorrow: by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 25, 2013 — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
The Goa University in collaboration with Centre for Internet and Societies Access to Knowledge Programme (CIS-A2K) will relaunch its four-volume 3,632-page Konkani Vishwakosh (encyclopaedia) under Creative Commons License CC-BY-SA 3.0. to support the movement of open knowledge and open access on Thursday at 10 a.m. at a function at the conference hall of its administrative building at Taleigao plateau.
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Konkani Wikipedia from Goa University in 6 months: by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 27, 2013 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Konkani Wikipedia, Openness
Piles of the thick four volumes of Konkani vishwakosh or encyclopedia waiting to be picked up by users at the Goa University (GU) will now attain a modern avatar.
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Access to Knowledge Bulletin — June & July 2013: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 30, 2013 — last modified Oct 04, 2013 10:52 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
A2K newsletter for the months of June and July, 2013.
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Access to Knowledge Bulletin — August 2013: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 31, 2013 — last modified Oct 04, 2013 10:49 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
The Access to Knowledge (Wikipedia) newsletter for the month of August 2013:
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2nd Odia Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 01, 2013 — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Wikimedia
The event is being organized today, April 1, 2013 online by the Odia Wikipedia Community, from 10.00 a.m. to 7.00 p.m. The Centre for Internet and Society is supporting this event.
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