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A Kannada Wikipedia Workshop in Udupi
by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 26, 2013 — filed under: , , , , ,
The Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet and Society is organizing a Kannada wikipedia workshop at the MGM college in Udupi. Govinda Pai Research Centre, MGM College Udupi is sponsoring the event.The workshop will begin at 10.00 a.m. and end by 5.00 p.m. Dr. U.B.Pavanaja will give a talk on Kannada wikipedia.
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Blog Entry Indian Language Wikipedia Statistics (September 2012 – April 2013)
by T.Vishnu Vardhan, Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jun 30, 2013 — last modified Aug 23, 2013 01:48 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
The Access to Knowledge team carried out a quantitative analysis to identify trends and growth patterns in Indian Language Wikipedias over the time period from September 2012 to April 2013.
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Blog Entry CIS Signs MOU with TISS, Mumbai
by Prasad Krishna — published May 31, 2013 — last modified Jul 04, 2013 04:15 AM — filed under: , , ,
The Access to Knowledge (A2K) team from the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) has signed a MOU with the Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS), Mumbai.
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Blog Entry Konkani Wikipedia — Climbing up the Indian Language Ladder?
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Aug 31, 2013 — last modified Oct 25, 2013 07:16 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 CIS-A2K in collaboration with Goa University organized a four-day 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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Wikipedia Live Phone-in Programme on HMTV
by Prasad Krishna — published Jun 10, 2013 — last modified Jun 18, 2013 05:54 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Vishnu Vardhan took part in a one hour live phone-in programme on Wikipedia. This was telecasted in HMTV on June 1, 2013.
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FDC recognition for the Centre for the Internet and Society
by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 30, 2014 — filed under: , , ,
The Wikimedia Foundation Board has published a resolution declaring the Centre for Internet and Society as eligible for funding through the Annual Plan Grants program.
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Odia Wikipedia 10th anniversary at Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal
by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 30, 2014 — filed under: , , , , ,
The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team along with the Odia Wikipedia community invite you to the 10th anniversary of Odia Wikipedia at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication in Dhenkanal on January 29, 2014 from 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.
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‘With Internet in every pocket, power to the people’
by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 12, 2014 — last modified Feb 03, 2014 06:05 AM — filed under: , , ,
Social media is set to grow in India in a big way with Google and Facebook gearing up to tap the regional languages market.
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Developing Digital Open Knowledge Resources in Indian Languages
by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 22, 2014 — filed under: , , , , ,
The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) in partnership with the School of Cultural Texts and Records, School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University, Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education, and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai is organizing a two-day workshop for students at Jadavpur University on August 25 and 26, 2014.
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Blog Entry Why It's Essential To Grow Indian-Language Wikipedias
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jan 26, 2016 — last modified May 28, 2016 06:52 AM — filed under: , , ,
On 15 January, Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia celebrated its 15th birthday, meeting this milestone with 36 million articles in more than 290 languages (the English-language Wikipedia alone has crossed the 5-million article mark). But here I want to address some major questions that we need to ask as Indians.
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