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Blog Entry Odia Wikipedia Community Brings Wikipedia Education Program to IIMC, Dhenkanal
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Feb 28, 2013 — last modified Aug 23, 2013 02:01 PM — filed under: , , , ,
The Odia Wikipedia community collaborated with the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal and hosted a pilot Odia Wikipedia Education Program. The program began in November 2012 and got over by January 2013. Sixteen student wikipedians signed up and took part in editing more than a dozen articles on Odia Wikipedia.
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Blog Entry Digital Literacy Workshop at Department of Arts, Delhi University
by Nitika Tandon — published Feb 05, 2013 — last modified Mar 05, 2013 01:03 AM — filed under: , , ,
A digital literacy workshop was organised at the Department of Arts, Delhi University for students pursuing their masters in Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies on February 5, 2013. Nitika Tandon shares the developments.
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Blog Entry FOSS, Wikimedia and Mozilla Under One Roof at GNUnify 2013, Pune
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Feb 28, 2013 — last modified Jul 17, 2013 06:55 AM — filed under: , , ,
GNUnify 2013 organized in the campus in Pune from February 15 to 17, 2013. The event was organized by Pune Linux/Unix User Group (PLUG) and Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies & Research (SICSR). Subhashish Panigrahi reports the outcomes in this blog post.
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Blog Entry Fifty-fourth Bangalore Wikimedia Meet-up at IIM, Bangalore
by Noopur Raval — published Feb 28, 2013 — last modified Mar 06, 2013 09:09 AM — filed under: , , ,
The 54th Wikimedia meet-up in Bangalore was held at the Indian Institute of Management on February 25, 2013. The event was planned and organized by Radhakrishna Arvapally, SIG (Special Interest Group) Chair, Bangalore (a part of the Wikimedia India Chapter) with support from Solutions IQ, Wikimedia India Chapter and CIS.
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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.
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Blog Entry Ahmednagar — Marathi Wikipedia Workshop
by Tanveer Hasan — published Mar 18, 2013 — last modified Jul 26, 2013 09:34 AM — filed under: , , ,
Wikipedia Community members helped the Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications Programme (HEIRA), CSCS Bangalore organize a day-long workshop on ‘Digital Literacy’ at Ahmednagar College, Ahmednagar, Maharasthra on January 17, 2013. Tanveer Hasan of HEIRA shares with us the developments in this report.
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Blog Entry Introductory Wikipedia session at BITS Goa
by Nitika Tandon — published Mar 19, 2013 — last modified Jul 26, 2013 11:40 AM — filed under: , , , ,
The Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet and Society was invited by Nikhil Dixit, Public Relations Officer at the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani – Goa (BITS Goa) to organise Wikipedia session on March 7, 2013. Nitika Tandon participated in this workshop and shares with us the developments.
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Blog Entry Wiki Women's Day in Goa
by Nitika Tandon — published Mar 19, 2013 — last modified Mar 19, 2013 06:32 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
International Women's Day (IWD), also called International Working Women's Day, is celebrated on March 8, every year. There were a series of Wikipedia events organised this year with the aim of increasing participation of women contributing to Wikipedia. One such event was organised by the Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet and Society and the Wikimedia India Chapter at the Nirmala Institute of Education (NIE), a Secondary Teacher Education College in Panaji, Goa on March 8, 2013.
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Blog Entry Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project #1: Visualising Basic Parameters
by Sajjad Anwar and Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Mar 26, 2013 — last modified Mar 26, 2013 10:04 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Sajjad Anwar and Sumandro Chattapadhyay bring you a visualisation of the growth of Indic Wikipedia in this first post on Indic Wikipedia Visualisation project. In doing so, the authors look into the different aspects of the past and present activities of Indic Wikipedias, and divide the visualisation into three different focus areas.
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Blog Entry Wikipedia Indian Languages Workshop at IIT, Bombay
by Noopur Raval — published Mar 28, 2013 — filed under: , , ,
This is a brief report on the Wikipedia Indian languages workshop held on March 9, 2013 at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in partnership with Vaani, the Hindi bloggers' club at IIT, Bombay.
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