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Blog Entry Report of Aaron Swartz Memorial Hacknight
by Zainab Bawa published Feb 06, 2013 last modified Mar 02, 2013 01:32 PM — filed under: ,
On 19th and 20th January, HasGeek organized a hacknight to commemorate the life and works of Aaron Swartz. Zainab Bawa from HasGeek shares with us the developments.
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Blog Entry Creative Commons comes to India
by Subhashish Panigrahi published Feb 28, 2013 last modified Jul 17, 2013 06:49 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Creative Commons team visited four Indian cities to spread the word about CC free licenses and CC affiliate program. Wikimedia India chapter was approached to join hands with Creative Commons for research and community building.
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Blog Entry Konkani Wikipedia Advances in 4 Days — From 90 Articles to 130 Articles!
by Nitika Tandon published Aug 31, 2013 last modified Sep 03, 2013 10:37 AM — filed under: , , , , , ,
There has been a rise of article contributions to the Konkani Wikipedia in a span of 4 days following a 4 day programme organized by the CIS-A2K team for M.A. students from the Konkani Department, Goa University at the Central State Library, Goa from August 21 to 24, 2013. Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahi conducted the event.
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Blog Entry Voices from Goa: Frania Pereira tells Why She Writes Articles on Konkani Wikipedia
by Subhashish Panigrahi published Aug 27, 2013 last modified Sep 05, 2013 09:24 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Konkani as a language has seen geographical, political and religious conflicts. Being the official language of Goa and spoken widely in the Indian states of Karnataka, Kerala and Maharashtra it is still trying to strengthen its base. Recently the Centre for Internet and Society's Access To Knowledge Programme (CIS-A2K) in collaboration with the Konkani department of Goa University organized a four-day Wikipedia workshop for MA, Konkani language students. This workshop involved 38 students creating 43 new articles on Konkani Wikipedia which is incubation. We’re hoping that these efforts will contribute towards bringing this 7 year old project out of incubation to a live Wikipedia project.
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Blog Entry Priyadarshini Tadkodkar on Konkani language
by Subhashish Panigrahi published Nov 17, 2013 last modified Jan 31, 2014 06:20 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
CIS-A2K team interviewed Priyadarshini Tadkodkar about Konkani language. She speaks how editing/contributing to Konkani Wikipedia would help students.
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Blog Entry Darshana Mandrekar speaks on Konkani Wikipedia
by Nitika Tandon published Dec 16, 2013 last modified Dec 31, 2013 10:38 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) in collaboration with the Goa University is working to build Konkani Wikipedia. As part of this program it organised the Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Program recently.
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Blog Entry Darshan Kandolkar on Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Process
by Nitika Tandon published Dec 13, 2013 last modified Dec 31, 2013 10:47 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) in collaboration with the Goa University is working to build Konkani Wikipedia. As part of this program it organised the Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Program recently.
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Blog Entry Varsha Kavlekar on Konkani Wikipedia Incubator
by Nitika Tandon published Dec 12, 2013 last modified Dec 31, 2013 10:56 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) in collaboration with the Goa University is working to build Konkani Wikipedia. As part of this program it organised the Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Program recently.
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Blog Entry Pooja Tople on Wikimedia Projects
by Nitika Tandon published Dec 17, 2013 last modified Dec 31, 2013 11:04 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) in collaboration with the Goa University is working to build Konkani Wikipedia. As part of this program it organised the Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Program recently.
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Blog Entry Bharat Majhi Writings Now Available Under a Creative Commons License
by Subhashish Panigrahi published Oct 14, 2014 last modified Nov 07, 2014 03:34 PM — filed under: , , , , ,
Before the advent of Odia Wikisource becoming live, Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) got in touch with notable Odia author Bharat Majhi for bringing his writings on the Internet.
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