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Krishnarajapet Wikipedia Workshop (Coverage in Prajavani)
by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 12, 2013 — last modified Sep 05, 2013 05:50 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Prajavani 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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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: , , , ,
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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Krishnarajapet Wikipedia Workshop (Coverage in Vijaya Vani)
by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 12, 2013 — last modified Sep 05, 2013 06:45 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Prajavani 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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Blog Entry Launch of Assamese Wikipedia Education Program at Guwahati University
by Nitika Tandon — published Oct 22, 2012 — last modified Jul 26, 2013 11:43 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
The Assamese Wikipedia community has shown a rapid growth in the past six months from 20 active editors in January 2012 to 29 active editors in June 2012. The absolute numbers might seem low but in terms of percentages its an overwhelming increment of 45 per cent.
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Loyola Faculty Enlightened About Open Edn Resources
by Prasad Krishna — published Jun 25, 2014 — last modified Jul 02, 2014 04:50 AM — filed under: , , ,
“The tremendous changes in the digital technology have introduced the newage faculty to certain open and collaborative tools like Wiki, termed as open educational resources (OER),” Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) progarmme director T Vishnu Vardhan has said.
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M'lore: Wikipedia Workshop held for Konkani writers
by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 14, 2014 — filed under: , , ,
A Wikipedia Workshop for Konkani writers writing in the Kannada script, was organised by All India Konkani Writers’ Organisation (AIKWO) in association with Wikipedia, on Apr 6, 2014, at Kalaangann, Mangalore.
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Blog Entry Magic words in Wikipedia
by Tanveer Hasan — published Jun 25, 2015 — last modified Sep 14, 2015 08:37 AM — filed under: , ,
The struggle of finding solutions for replacing and retrieving content /words/facts and figures, in this day and age of machines that seem to know everything should ideally be a non-issue. Yet, for many of us who write reports based on the data available at that moment, it is nothing less than a nightmare to come to know that there has been a significant change in the data with which our reports have been written.
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Blog Entry Making Wikipedia Better
by Pooja Saxena and Nirbheek Chauhan — published Oct 14, 2013 — last modified Oct 25, 2013 07:30 AM — filed under: , , ,
It wasn’t something that we set out to do when we started working on The Ballot, but one of the most satisfying unintentional side-effects of the project has been the chance to correct facts and figures, and remove inappropriate content from entries related to India and its politics on Wikipedia.
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Blog Entry Malayalam Wikipedia Education Program: August to October Updates
by Shiju Alex — published Oct 29, 2012 — last modified Nov 09, 2012 06:18 PM — filed under: , , , ,
Three months back, I wrote a blog post (http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/07/06/wikipedia-education-a-model-from-malayalam-wikipedia/) about the inauguration of the Wikipedia education program in Malayalam Wikipedia. This program is the first of its kind in an Indic language, and Malayalam community is doing the program in collaboration with the IT@School, a project of the Department of General Education, Government of Kerala, setup in 2001, to foster the IT education in schools.
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Mangalore: Konkani writers resolve to form all-India forum at JKS conference
by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 01, 2013 — last modified Oct 14, 2013 01:36 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Jagotik Konknni Songhotton (JKS) organized an All-India Konkani Writers’ Conference on Sunday, September 29 at Kalaangann.
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