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Tenth Anniversary of Kannada Wikipedia
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 14, 2013 — last modified Nov 14, 2013 10:17 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
Kannada Wikipedia has completed 10 years. The Kannada Wikipedia community will be celebrating the tenth anniversary of Kannada Wikpedia on Nov 17, 2013 from 9.30 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. at H N Multimedia Hall, National College, Basavanagudi, Bangalore. CIS-A2K is a co-sponsor for the program.
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Tenth Anniversary of Kannada Wikipedia: Udayavani Coverage
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 15, 2013 — last modified Nov 20, 2013 07:25 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Udayavani, on November 15, 2013 published about the upcoming tenth anniversary of Kannada Wikipedia.
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Tenth Anniversary of Kannada Wikipedia: Vijayavani Coverage
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 14, 2013 — last modified Nov 20, 2013 07:16 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Vijayavani published a report of the forthcoming tenth anniversary celebration of Kannada Wikipedia on November 17.
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Blog Entry Tewiki 10th Anniversary
by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published Feb 15, 2014 — last modified Mar 19, 2014 11:01 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Tewiki 10th anniversary celebration 2014, started on February 15 in Vijayawada at Kakaraparti Bhavanarayana College. It was co-organized by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team and the Telugu Wikipedia community. Ch.Arjuna Rao expressed his happiness on Telugu Wikipedias completion of 10 years and 55000 articles in Telugu on the inauguration of decade celebrations.
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Blog Entry The Digital Classroom in the Time of Wikipedia
by Nishant Shah — published Mar 22, 2012 — last modified Oct 05, 2015 02:53 PM — filed under: , , ,
The digital turn in education comes across a wide range of initiatives and processes. The Wikipedia which is the largest user generated content website stands as a figurehead of such a digital turn, writes Nishant Shah.
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The Dynamics of Education to Employment Journey: Opportunities and Challenges
by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 04, 2014 — last modified Apr 14, 2014 09:40 AM — filed under: , , ,
KIIT School of Management, KIIT Univeristy is holding the 7th National Management Convention 2014 at its campus in Bhubaneswar on February 21 and 22, 2014. T. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi have been invited to address the students of KIIT University.
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The Intellects holds 2nd International Conclave of Odia Language
by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 26, 2016 — last modified Feb 27, 2016 05:35 AM — filed under: , ,
The Intellects, a Delhi-based progressive forum of intellectuals, held the 2nd International Conclave of Odia Language at the India International Centre in New Delhi today.
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The joys of being a Wikipedian
by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 30, 2014 — filed under: , , ,
Radha Krishna, an engineer, had always wanted to share information online so that people who wanted to learn more could just log in and benefit by reading his articles. Eight years ago he started his own website for this very purpose. But he found it hard to maintain the site. He then chanced upon Wikipedia, the largest open-source encyclopedia, which was then just becoming popular in the country.
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Blog Entry The Knowledge Base is Liberated
by Subodh Kulkarni and Madhav Gadgil — published Aug 05, 2019 — filed under: , ,
The article published in Sunday supplement of Loksatta newspaper of Express group, written jointly by Madhav Gadgil & Subodh Kulkarni summarises - the status of searchable open knowledge available on web, eagerness of youth generation across the social strata to access knowledge on new gadgets and the approaches to build resources in Marathi on web harnessing potential of Wikimedia projects. It also elaborates major three breakthroughs – Free & open source software movement, Unicode revolution and development of collaborative knowledge building and sharing free platforms like Wikimedia projects easily accessible to people in their own languages.
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Blog Entry The largest Wikipedia gathering in South Asia kicks off
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Aug 05, 2016 — last modified Aug 06, 2016 05:11 PM — filed under: , , ,
Wikimedia Conference 2016Wiki Conference India 2016 (WCI), the largest gathering of contributors to Wikipedia and its sister projects in South Asia, will be held during August 5-7 this year in Chandigarh, India.
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