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This Twitter Account Puts a Face to the Unsung Volunteer Editors Behind Wikipedia
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Jun 18, 2014
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last modified
Jul 03, 2014 06:17 AM
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
The life of a Wikipedia editor is an interesting one. Globally, about 100,000 editors edit the collaborative online encyclopedia's 30 million articles in 287 languages, including over 4.5 million in the English Wikipedia.
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Three emerging market think tanks to collaborate on Good ID recommendations with Omidyar backing
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by
Admin
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published
May 14, 2019
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filed under:
Internet Governance
Omidyar Network has invested in a trio of organizations from different regions to support enhanced understanding of the appropriate use and limits of digital identity.
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Train the Trainer Program
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Feb 27, 2015
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Openness,
Event
The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) welcomes you to attend the "Train the Trainer Program" in Bangalore.
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Train the Trainer Program
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Nov 18, 2013
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Featured,
Openness,
Homepage
Wikipedians, about 20 of them, from 10 different cities, speaking 8 different languages, joined together for the first ever four days "Train the Trainer Program" organised by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team in Bangalore from October 3 to 6, 2013.
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Train The Trainer Programme for Wikipedians
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Nov 18, 2013
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
Twenty Wikimedians from 10 cities speaking 8 languages attended the 4-day Train-The-Trainer (TTT) programme conducted last month by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access To Knowledge programme (CIS-A2K) at Bangalore. The programme aimed to improve and enhance Wikipedians' skills for outreach and community-building activities.
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Twitter weekly Curation WeAreWikipedia brings one Wikipedian Every Week
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by
Diptiman Panigrahi
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published
Jun 16, 2014
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last modified
Jun 16, 2014 06:16 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Odia Wikipedia,
Openness
WeAreWikipedia is an initiative to bring in voices of Wikipedia contributors (known as Wikipedians). One Wikipedian curates the Twitter based handle for a week and tells interesting stories from his/her communities that are unheard to the rest of the globe. Started as a personal project by our program officer Subhashish Panigrahi it has brought 18 Wikipedians across the globe including 6 Indic language communities.
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Typing in Indic Languages from Mobiles made Easy!
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Nov 19, 2012
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last modified
Jul 17, 2013 09:02 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Openness,
Information Technology
A new app is up for typing in Indic languages from mobile phones. This is is available online at: http://bitly.com/indictyping and supports on iOS. Android version is to be released soon.
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Typography Day 2016
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Apr 24, 2016
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Odia Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Typography Day was organized for the 9th time at Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore in collaboration with the Industrial Design Centre (IDC), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) with support from India Design Association (InDeAs) and Aksharaya.
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News & Media
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Unable to read Odia on your android device? Don’t fret!
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 30, 2015
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last modified
Dec 15, 2015 08:04 AM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Odia Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
If you get only boxes in place of Odia fonts in your Android device then it does not support the language. So you need to install Odia font in your smart phone; one way is to root it, but it’s not without cons.
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Vachana Sanchaya: 11th century Kannada literature to enrich Wikisource
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Mar 20, 2014
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filed under:
Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
Kannada Wikipedian Omshivaprakash, Pavithra and I co-authored this article on digitizing Vachana Sahitya, a 11th century Kannada literature on WikiSource.
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