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Blog Entry New Avenues: Media Wiki Groups
by Noopur Raval — published Dec 27, 2012 — last modified Jan 05, 2013 01:46 AM — filed under: , , ,
This blog post is a brief recap and snippets of my conversation with Harsh Kothari, a volunteer on Gujarati Wikipedia on what we've been doing to help with MediaWiki groups.
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Blog Entry Nichole Saad from the Wikimedia Foundation visits Christ University
by Manasa Rao — published Dec 12, 2017 — last modified Dec 17, 2017 07:01 PM — filed under: , , , ,
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Blog Entry NIE Steps in to Grow Konkani Wikipedia
by T. Vishnu Vardhan — published Sep 06, 2014 — last modified Oct 10, 2014 11:26 AM — filed under: , , , , , ,
The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) signed a memorandum of agreement (MoU) with Nirmala Institute of Education, Goa to enhance digital literacy in Konkani in the education sector across Goa.
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Blog Entry Non Unicode ISCII Text Can be Converted to Unicode Now!
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Dec 19, 2012 — last modified Dec 21, 2012 09:59 AM — filed under: , , ,
Odia Wikipedian Manoj Sahukar has designed a new tool which can convert non Unicode ISCII text to Odia Unicode text. A majority of the digitized text and web content of newspapers and books are in non unicode text which now could be used for Wikipedia and other Odia Wiki projects. This opens a new arena for digitized free license books in Odia language.
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Now, Christ students will contribute to Wikipedia
by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 06, 2014 — filed under: , , ,
The department of languages at Christ University has set a precedent by including contribution to Wikipedia as a part of the undergraduate course work.
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Blog Entry Odia author Nirmala Kumari Mohapatra's 21 books relicensed under CC-by-SA 4.0
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Nov 17, 2014 — last modified Dec 06, 2014 02:49 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Twenty one books of renowned Odia author Nirmala Kumari Mohapatra will now be available under the Creative Commons License.
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Odia Education Program at IIMC, Dhenkanal
by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 24, 2013 — last modified Jan 24, 2013 10:23 AM — filed under: , , ,
The Centre for Internet & Society, Delhi is organizing a workshop on the Odia Education Program on January 26, 2013, from 3.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m.
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Blog Entry Odia Language gets a new Unicode Font Converter
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jun 20, 2014 — last modified Jul 02, 2014 09:59 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Recently, I worked on designing a font encoding converter with a fellow Wikimedian Manoj Sahukar. We worked by taking the code of a converter that was made three years back and made it work for two fonts AkrutiOriSarala99 and AkrutiOriSarala that are used by the media industry for printing and publishing.
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Blog Entry Odia Language's Presence in Digital Media and Wikipedia's Role
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Mar 05, 2014 — last modified Mar 05, 2014 11:36 AM — filed under: , , , ,
କମ୍ପ୍ୟୁଟରରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା (Odia language in computer) is an essay published in Odia newspaper "The Samaja's Sunday supplement" on March 2. It is about the journey of Odia language in the digital era and the challenges faced during digitization of books and manuscripts.
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Blog Entry Odia Littérateur Ramakrushna Nanda's 4 Books Now Available Under a Creative Commons License
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Oct 22, 2014 — last modified Nov 06, 2014 01:41 PM — filed under: , , , , ,
Children literature in Odia language went through an ennoblement after the intervention of Ramakrushna Nanda's writings.
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