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Odisha: KISS to create tribal languages and heritage repository
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 20, 2014
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last modified
Feb 03, 2014 08:33 AM
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
World' largest tribal residential institute Kalinga Institute of Social Studies (KISS) is going to initiate a project in collaboration with Centre for Internet and Society's Access To Knowledge program (CIS-A2K) to gather academic and research resources on tribal languages and diverse cultural heritage.
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Odisha: Odia Wikipedia reaching 5000 article mark!
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 31, 2013
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Odia Wikipedia,
Openness
Many are not aware of the existence of Odia Wikipedia and other Indian language Wikipedias. But Odia Wikipedia has been growing gradually all these years and has become the most searched website and largest online encyclopedia in Odia language.
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Odisha: Wikipedia workshop at IIMC, Dhenkanal
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 30, 2013
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last modified
Oct 03, 2013 10:15 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Odia Wikipedia,
Openness
Wikipedia workshop was held at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal, on Monday. The workshop was inaugurated by Head of IIMC, Dhenkanal, Dr Mrinal Chatterjee.
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OdishaDiary conferred prestigious Odisha Youth Inspiration Award 2012 to Odia Wikipedia team
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Nov 23, 2012
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last modified
Dec 05, 2012 04:55 AM
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filed under:
Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
OdishaDiary (Orissadiary.com) conferred the prestigious Odisha Youth Inspiration Award 2012 to the team of contributors of Odia Wikipedia.
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News & Media
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One Thousand Books Online
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Oct 30, 2015
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last modified
Dec 15, 2015 08:16 AM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Marathi Wikisource
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News & Media
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Ongoing Proof-reading Effort by ALC Student Wikimedians in Telugu Wikisource
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by
Pavan Santosh & Ting-Yi Chang
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published
Dec 30, 2016
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last modified
Dec 30, 2016 11:00 AM
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filed under:
Telugu Wikisource,
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Wikipedia gender gap,
Workshop,
Telugu Wikipedia
Student Wikimedians at Andhra Loyola College, Vijayawada formatted and proof-read more than 1,900 folios in Telugu Wikisource during the last few weeks of November (2016). Each day, a group of twenty students uses the lab facility provided by the college after regular classes to make necessary formatting changes and fix spelling mistakes in the folios of books available in Telugu Wikisource. Till date, the student Wikipedians have proofread eight books.
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Access to Knowledge
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Blogs
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Online bid for Science in Marathi
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by
Admin
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published
Oct 18, 2017
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filed under:
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Pune scientists hold a workshop with Marathi Vishwakosh to thrash out how to provide more vocabulary for scientific discourse in the language, to cater to a vast majority that is not comfortable looking up info in English.
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Access to Knowledge
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News & Media
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Online Free Content in Telugu Wikipedia
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Feb 19, 2015
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Telugu Wikipedia,
Openness
Wikimedians gathered at Tirupati for a strategic meet. This was covered by the regional newspaper Andhra Jyothy
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Openness
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News & Media
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Only 8.5pc of Wikipedia Editors are Women. How do we fix the Gender Gap on the Internet?
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by
Ting-Yi Chang
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published
Feb 09, 2017
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Gender,
Wikipedia,
Wikimedia
Women-related articles are generally shorter, more prone to deletion, and more likely to be peripheral pieces under male-centric articles.
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Access to Knowledge
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Blogs
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Open access platform to save the Odia Indian language
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Oct 24, 2014
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Odia Wikipedia,
Openness
In February 2014, the Government of India declared the South Asian language Odia as the 6th classical language of India which is one among 22 scheduled languages of India and has a literary heritage of more than 5,000 years. There are documents for more than 3,500 years, and the rest are undocumented oral histories.
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