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Blog Entry A Wikipedia Mini-hackathon in Delhi
by Yuvraj Pandian published Nov 11, 2012 last modified Dec 04, 2012 07:31 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Wikipedian Yuvaraj Pandian visited the CIS office in Delhi and helped the Access to Knowledge team conduct a super-ad-hoc mini-hackathon with two other volunteers, Sheel from Delhi and Harsh from Ahmedabad. The aim was to get them a kickstart in developing userscripts/gadgets, and get them to a point where the prior existing documentation makes sense to them.
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Blog Entry First Odia Wikipedia Education Program to be Rolled Out
by Subhashish Panigrahi published Nov 30, 2012 last modified Dec 14, 2012 12:17 PM — filed under: , , , , , ,
Odia Wikipedians gathered at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Dhenkanal on November 8, 2012 to start the first Odia Wikipedia Education Program. This program aims to bring students edit articles on Odia Wikipedia through a series of assessments by professors. The local community members from Nalconagar would be supporting the four month program.
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Blog Entry An Odia Wikipedia Workshop at KMBB College, Bhubaneswar
by Subhashish Panigrahi published Nov 19, 2012 last modified Dec 07, 2012 10:40 PM — filed under: , , , , , ,
The Centre for Internet and Society along with Odia Wikipedians in Bhubaneswar organized an Odia Wikipedia workshop on November 18, 2012. It was held in KMBB College of Engineering. Odia Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia in Odia language which everyone can edit.
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Blog Entry Follow up to Wikipedia Introductory Session at Bharati Vidyapeeth — More Interested and More Involved Participants
by Nitika Tandon published Nov 19, 2012 last modified Oct 30, 2013 09:17 AM — filed under: , , , ,
A Wikipedia introductory session was organised at Bharati Vidyapeeth Engineering College in Delhi early this year and a follow up session was organised by CIS on November 19, 2012. About 12 to 15 participants attended the follow up session. Although most of the participants had attended the introductory session there were a few who were coming over for the first time.
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Blog Entry A Wikipedia Workshop at SRM University, Chennai
by Noopur Raval published Dec 27, 2012 — filed under: , , , ,
The Centre for Internet & Society, Delhi in association with Metawings Institute organized a one-day workshop on contributing to Wikipedia at SRM University on December 17, 2012. About 40 students from different engineering colleges in Chennai participated in the workshop. Metawings coordinated for the logistics and for spreading the word among the students.
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Blog Entry Marathi Wiki Workshop at Tata Institute of Social Sciences
by Nitika Tandon published Dec 08, 2012 last modified Feb 04, 2013 04:55 AM — filed under: , , , ,
The Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai is taking up a number of activities and conducting workshops focusing on Indian languages across cities. A series of workshops in Marathi, Kannada and Bangla have been planned with Wikipedia sessions in each of these events.
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Blog Entry Two-day Wiki Workshop in Goa University: An Introduction
by Nitika Tandon published Jan 14, 2013 last modified Jan 25, 2013 06:30 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Last month, on December 12 and 13, 2012, the Access to Knowledge team from the Centre for Internet & Society along with Wikipedia community members organized a two-day workshop for M.A. and Ph.D. students at the Goa University. Nitika Tandon participated in the event and shares with us the developments.
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Blog Entry Promoting GLAM in Goa
by Nitika Tandon published Jan 24, 2013 last modified Jul 26, 2013 11:27 AM — filed under: , , , ,
We organised an introductory Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums (GLAM) session at Goa State Central Library on December 13, 2012. It was well attended by about 45 interested people coming from over 10 different GLAM institutes in Goa.
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Blog Entry Wikipedia in St. Xavier's College, Mapusa, Goa
by Nitika Tandon published Jan 19, 2013 last modified Jul 26, 2013 11:33 AM — filed under: , , , ,
A three hour Wikipedia workshop was organized by the Centre for Internet & Society, Delhi, in the morning of December 14, 2012 at St. Xavier's College in Mapusa, Goa. Over 30 participants attended the session.
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Blog Entry Bringing Konkani Encyclopedia in Public Domain
by Nitika Tandon published Jan 22, 2013 last modified Jul 26, 2013 11:35 AM — filed under: , , , ,
On December 14, 2012, a meeting was scheduled with the Vice Chancellor Dr. Satish R Shetye to discuss the possibility of bringing Konkani Encyclopedia in public domain. Nitika Tandon shares the development in this blog post.
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