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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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July 2016 Newsletter
by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 17, 2016 — last modified Sep 17, 2016 02:13 PM — filed under:
Welcome to the July 2016 newsletter of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS).
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Blog Entry South Asia's Largest Wikimedia Conference Kicks Off in India
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Aug 08, 2016 — filed under: , , ,
Wiki Conference India 2016, the largest gathering of the contributors of Wikipedia (the multilingual online encyclopaedia) and its sister projects called Wikimedia projects, begins August 5 in Landran, in the Indian state of Punjab.
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Blog Entry Community digest: Konkani language speakers are separated by scripts but unite by Wikipedia; news in brief
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Aug 07, 2016 — filed under: , , , ,
Konkani-language Wikipedians on what they think of Wikipedia as a binding factor for native speakers who speak in different variations of the same language and write in different scripts.
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Blog Entry The largest Wikipedia gathering in South Asia kicks off
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Aug 05, 2016 — last modified Aug 06, 2016 05:11 PM — filed under: , , ,
Wikimedia Conference 2016Wiki Conference India 2016 (WCI), the largest gathering of contributors to Wikipedia and its sister projects in South Asia, will be held during August 5-7 this year in Chandigarh, India.
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June 2016 Newsletter
by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 16, 2016 — last modified Aug 04, 2016 01:57 AM
Welcome to the June 2016 newsletter of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS).
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Blog Entry Online edit-a-thon on incidents in Telugu
by Subhashish Panigrahi and Pavan Santhosh — published Jul 11, 2016 — last modified Jul 11, 2016 04:23 PM — filed under: ,
A week-long online edit-a-thon was organised by the Telugu Wikipedia community to cover popular social, political and other events on the Telugu Wikipedia.
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Blog Entry Community celebrates birthday of Odia Wikipedia and Odia Wiktionary
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jul 09, 2016 — last modified Jul 09, 2016 03:25 AM — filed under: , , ,
This June, Odia Wikipedia turned 14 and Odia Wiktionary turned 11. Odia Wikimedia community member Chinmayee Mishra, CIS-A2K Programme Associate Sailesh Patnaik and I co-authored this blog in the Wikimedia Blog. The blog chronicles several major activities of the community and features quotes from many old and new community members.
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Blog Entry Open source effort gives indigenous language an official typeface
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jul 09, 2016 — last modified Aug 03, 2016 02:00 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Santali, an aboriginal South Asian language, has a brand new freely licensed font and set of cross-platform open source input tools on the way.
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Online space for Odia
by Prasad Krishna — published Jun 12, 2016 — last modified Jun 12, 2016 03:39 PM — filed under: , ,
From a few hundred articles in 2002 to over 10,600 articles on various aspects of Odisha today, Odia Wikipedia has certainly made a mark as far as promotion of the language is concerned. Wikipedia, the volunteer driven web-based multilingual encyclopedia project, is an important reference source on the Internet for all kinds of information.
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