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Odia Wikipedia Community Brings Wikipedia Education Program to IIMC, Dhenkanal
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Feb 28, 2013
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Aug 23, 2013 02:01 PM
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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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Introductory Wikipedia session at BITS Goa
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Nitika Tandon
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Mar 19, 2013
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Jul 26, 2013 11:40 AM
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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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Wiki Women's Day in Goa
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Nitika Tandon
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Mar 19, 2013
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Mar 19, 2013 06:32 AM
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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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A 'Kannada' Wikipedia Workshop for Bloggers
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U.B.Pavanaja
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Jun 28, 2013
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Jul 03, 2013 10:19 AM
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On Sunday, June 23, 2013, a day-long Kannada Wikipedia workshop was conducted at Suchitra, Bengaluru for Kannada bloggers by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team. This blog post gives a report on the workshop.
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A Telugu Wiki Meetup @ CIS, Bangalore
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SJ Veera
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Jun 11, 2013
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Aug 19, 2013 06:53 AM
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On June 2, 2013, the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) hosted a Telugu wiki meetup in its Bangalore office. Updates from the meetup is shared in this blog post.
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A Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Krishnarajapet
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U.B.Pavanaja
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Aug 14, 2013
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Sep 05, 2013 06:46 AM
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On Sunday, August 11, 2013, a day-long Kannada Wikipedia workshop was conducted at Shyam Computers, Krishnarajapet, Karnataka. The workshop was co-organized by the CIS-A2K team along with Kannada Sahitya Parishat of KR Pet. This report summarizes the proceedings of that workshop and subsequent research into relevant questions flowing from the discussions.
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Konkani Wikipedia Advances in 4 Days — From 90 Articles to 130 Articles!
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Nitika Tandon
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Aug 31, 2013
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Sep 03, 2013 10:37 AM
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There has been a rise of article contributions to the Konkani Wikipedia in a span of 4 days following a 4 day programme organized by the CIS-A2K team for M.A. students from the Konkani Department, Goa University at the Central State Library, Goa from August 21 to 24, 2013. Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahi conducted the event.
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Voices from Goa: Rusita Paryekar, a MA student writes articles on Konkani Wikipedia
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Aug 27, 2013
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Sep 06, 2013 12:30 PM
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Rusita Paryekar is one of the 38 students from the MA Konkani department of Goa University gathered at the State Central Library to learn writing and editing articles on Konkani Wikipedia. Currently Konkani Wikipedia is in incubation and needs more voluntary participation from enthusiasts who want their language, Konkani to strengthen its base in the digital knowledge domain.
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Recap on Konkani Wikipedia Workshop
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Sep 12, 2013
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Konkani as a language has seen geographical, political and religious conflicts. Being the official language of Goa and spoken widely in the Indian states of Karnataka, Kerala and Maharashtra it is still trying to strengthen its base. Recently CIS-A2K in collaboration with Goa University organized a four-day workshop for MA, Konkani language students.
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Wikimania 2013: Wikipedians represent Indian Languages in Hong Kong
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Aug 19, 2013
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Sep 13, 2013 06:03 AM
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The 7th, 8th and 9th of August 2013 saw over 600 Wikipedians across the world participating Wikimania at Hong Kong. The three day annual international conference for users and contributors of Wikipedia brought many debates about open educational research, open source technologies, gender gap, documenting the history of mankind in a free and open platform like Wikipedia and its sister sites in collaboration with Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums and all of these in 286 world languages. More and more volunteers are joining this movement and it is expanding the media of accessing and disseminating knowledge.
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