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Access to Knowledge Bulletin — May 2013
by Prasad Krishna published May 01, 2013 last modified Jul 04, 2013 04:17 AM — filed under: , , ,
In this issue of our newsletter for 2013, we are pleased to bring you updates about the open exhibition held at our office for celebrating five years of our existence, Access to Knowledge work plan (2013-14), and the revised budget (September 2012 - February 2013).
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Blog Entry ଓଡ଼ିଆ ପାଇଁ ଓସିଆର: ଛପା ଲେଖାର ଛବିରୁ ଡିଇଟାଲ ଲେଖା
by Subhashish Panigrahi published Aug 23, 2016 — filed under: , ,
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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Blog Entry Twitter weekly Curation WeAreWikipedia brings one Wikipedian Every Week
by Diptiman Panigrahi published Jun 16, 2014 last modified Jun 16, 2014 06:16 AM — filed under: , , , ,
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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Blog Entry Net Neutrality Advocates Rejoice As TRAI Bans Differential Pricing
by Subhashish Panigrahi published Feb 23, 2016 — filed under: , , , ,
India would not see any more Free Basics advertisements on billboards with images of farmers and common people explaining how much they benefited from this Facebook project.
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Blog Entry Train the Trainer Program
by Subhashish Panigrahi published Nov 18, 2013 — filed under: , , , , ,
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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May 2014 Bulletin
by Prasad Krishna published Jun 12, 2014 last modified Jul 04, 2014 04:59 AM
Our newsletter for the month of May is below:
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Blog Entry Community Digest—Estonians working on a new feedback system for Wikipedia articles
by Subhashish Panigrahi published Feb 27, 2016 — filed under: , , ,
Community digest is a weekly publication on Wikimedia Blog. This week, I have authored a section on the Kannada Wikipedia's 13th anniversary that is being celebrated today. It includes a small section from a longer interview with Kannada Wikipedian Vasanth S.N. The two blogs on creating Odia-language character encoding converters I had written before in the Huffington Post and the DNA are also featured in the digest.
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Blog Entry First ever Train-the-Trainer Program in India
by Nitika Tandon published Dec 05, 2013 last modified Dec 31, 2013 12:18 PM — filed under: , , ,
Access to Knowledge Programme at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS-A2K) organized the first ever Train the Trainer Program in India. 20 Wikimedians from 8 different language communities and 10 different cities across India attended CIS-A2K’s Train the Trainer (TTT).
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Blog Entry WikiSangamotsavam 2013 brings Indian Wikimedians together
by Netha Hussain and Subhashish Panigrahi published Jan 14, 2014 last modified Feb 03, 2014 06:57 AM — filed under: , , , ,
WikiSangamotsavam, the annual conference of Malayalam Wikimedians, took place in Alappuzha, Kerala from December 21 to 23, 2013. The conference brought together around 200 Wikimedians and well-wishers from all over India.
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Wikimania 2013: The International Wikimedia Conference
by Prasad Krishna published Aug 26, 2013 last modified Aug 29, 2013 06:30 AM — filed under: , , ,
Wikimania is the annual international conference of the Wikimedia movement. It's organized by a different local team each year. In 2013 the conference took place in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Wikimania allows the community and the general public to learn about and share their experiences with free knowledge initiatives all over the world. T. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the event.
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