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Tools orientation session for Telugu Wikimedians of Hyderabad
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by
Pavan Santhosh S.
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published
Aug 17, 2016
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last modified
Aug 17, 2016 02:35 PM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Telugu Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
A tools orientation session is being organised on July 10 at Hyderabad during the regular monthly meetup. Telugu Wikimedians who would be interested to learn about advanced editing tools like citation templates and Twinkle are welcome to join.
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Events
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Tulu takes a major Wiki leap, all thanks to a dedicated team
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 22, 2016
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last modified
Aug 22, 2016 04:38 PM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Tulu Wikipedia
Tulu is one of the five Dravidian languages but it has the least number of speakers. Though it has a script, lack of usage has made it almost obsolete, forcing Tulu writers to write in Kannada. This has, however, benefited Tulu today, allowing it to boast of its own Wikipedia
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News & Media
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Tulu gets official Wikipedia page, but Mumbai linguists say more is needed
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 22, 2016
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Tulu Wikipedia
Sitting in his Sunkadakatte home in Bengaluru, Dr UB Pavanaja still recalls the moment when he was at the WikiConference India 2016 in Chandigarh earlier this month. Academicians from all over India had gathered at the event, to share their views about issues related to India on Wikipedia. While the talks were still in progress, Katherine Maher, executive director, Wikimedia Foun-dation, USA, paused to make an announcement.
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News & Media
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Focus on India—WikiConference produces new apps; state government adopts free licenses
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 20, 2016
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last modified
Aug 22, 2016 03:15 AM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
WikiConference India and its productive hackathon
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News & Media
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Kannada Wikipedia edit-a-thon organised at Sagara, Karnataka
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by
Ananth Subray
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published
May 12, 2016
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last modified
Aug 22, 2016 10:58 AM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Edit-a-thon,
Kannada Wikipedia
A two-day-long Kannada Wikipedia edit-a-thon was organised at Sagara, Karnataka during January 26-27. A photowalk was also organised on the 25th to cover places of encyclopedic importance.
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ଓଡ଼ିଆ ପାଇଁ ଓସିଆର: ଛପା ଲେଖାର ଛବିରୁ ଡିଇଟାଲ ଲେଖା
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Aug 23, 2016
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Odia Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Though not an open source solution, Google's OCR works really well for Odia and other Indian languages. My column in the Odia daily the Samaja that was published last Saturday briefs about how the OCR works and has a step-by-step process to use it. There is also a little bit of background of Tesseract-based OCR that Debayan Banerjee worked in the past and Nasim Ali from the Odia Wikimedia community is currently working.
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Blogs
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International Conference on Innovation for Shared Prosperity
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 25, 2016
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filed under:
Intellectual Property Rights,
Access to Knowledge,
ICT
Rohini Lakshane attended a conference on IP Rights, Competition and Standard Setting in the IT industry on August 20 and 21, 2016. The conference was organized by O.P. Jindal Global University and Jindal Initiative on Research in IP & Competition.
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News & Media
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Preserving Languages and Cultures in India: The Birth of the Tulu Wikipedia
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Aug 26, 2016
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last modified
Sep 07, 2016 03:35 PM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Tulu Wikipedia
After eight years of effort and outreach, the Tulu language Wikipedia has gone live. Wikimedia contributors play a key role in preserving languages and cultures, and tools like the Wikimedia Incubator help new projects like the Tulu Wikipedia get started.
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Blogs
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Community Digest: Tulu Wikipedia Goes Live after Eight Years in Incubator; News in Brief
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi and Ting-Yi Chang
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published
Aug 26, 2016
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Tulu Wikipedia
Eight years after being created in the Wikimedia Incubator, the Tulu-language Wikipedia is now live as the 23rd Indic language Wikipedia.
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Blogs
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Press coverage about Punjab edit-a-thon & Telugu Wikipedia success
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 26, 2016
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filed under:
Telugu Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Andhra Jyothi, one of the leading news papers in Telugu covered Punjab edit-a-thon & Telugu wikipedia success in national level with the angle of Pranaraj involvement in it.
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