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Hindustani Language: We Are Wikipedia
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by
Syed Muzammiluddin
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published
Mar 27, 2015
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last modified
Apr 10, 2015 04:20 PM
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Openness,
Hindi Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
In 2014, the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) embarked on a new social media-based initiative - WeAreWikipedia. The aim of the project was "One Wikimedian every week to tell untold community stories on Twitter".
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11th Century Kannada Literature Now on Wikisource
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Mar 30, 2014
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last modified
Apr 06, 2014 05:01 AM
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filed under:
Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
This blog post by Pavithra Hanchagaiah and Omshivaprakash HI was edited by Rohini Lakshane for DNA. It was first edited by Subhashish Panigrahi, CIS-A2K on the Wikimedia Foundation blog where it was first published.
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Software Freedom Day: The Importance of Free and Open Source Software
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Sep 18, 2016
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Openness,
FOSS,
Access to Knowledge
Software Freedom Day (SFD) on September 17 celebrates the liberty that free and open software and the philosophy of freedom brings into people’s lives. When SFD was started in 2004, only 12 teams from different places joined. It grew to a whooping 1000 by 2010 across the world. Explaining the aim of the celebration, SFD’s official website says,
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Odia Wikipedia meets Google Developer Group
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by
Sailesh Patnaik
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published
Jun 29, 2015
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last modified
Jul 16, 2015 01:17 PM
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filed under:
Openness,
Odia Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
This is a guest post by Wikimedian Sailesh Patnaik who has been a ardent contributor in Odia-language Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects and has led outreach and partnership building initiatives to grow the Wikimedia projects in Odia and other Indian languages. In this post Sailesh shares his personal experience from his interaction at the Google Extended I/O organised by Google Developer Group in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. All the views are author’s personal views.
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8 Challenges In Growing Indian-Language Wikipedias
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 31, 2016
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last modified
Jun 18, 2016 05:11 PM
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filed under:
Wikimedia,
CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
While speaking at BHASHA: Indian Languages Digital Festival, a day-long discourse at New Delhi on Indian languages and their state in new media, especially digital platforms, I touched upon Wikipedia in Indian languages. Most people, in fact, do not even know that Wikipedia exists in many Indian languages.
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Meet the Newly Born Tulu Wikipedia, the 23rd in a South Asian Language!
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Aug 30, 2016
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Tulu Wikipedia
The Tulu language Wikipedia became the latest entrant in the family of 294 world-language Wikipedia projects after the project went live from Wikimedia Incubator earlier this month.
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Vachana Sanchaya: 11th century Kannada literature to enrich Wikisource
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Mar 20, 2014
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filed under:
Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
Kannada Wikipedian Omshivaprakash, Pavithra and I co-authored this article on digitizing Vachana Sahitya, a 11th century Kannada literature on WikiSource.
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Developing Open Educational Resources in Indian Languages
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by
Sohnee Harshey*
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published
Jun 02, 2016
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last modified
Jun 10, 2016 01:50 AM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Malayalam Wikipedia,
Marathi Wikipedia,
Telugu Wikipedia,
Hindi Wikipedia
The Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education (CILHE), Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), in collaboration with the Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) programme at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), has been involved in organising workshops on developing open educational resources (OER) in Indian languages with undergraduate and postgraduate students across various partner institutions. The objective of these workshops is to introduce students to: a) tools of collaborative knowledge production on the Internet, and b) methods for generating new online content in Indian languages.
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Eight Challenges Indian-Language Wikipedias Need to Overcome
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Apr 30, 2016
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last modified
Jun 18, 2016 05:09 PM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge
Even after a decade of existence, Indian language Wikipedias are not yet known to many Indian language speakers. Wikipedia, the largest available encyclopedia made in the human history, is what it is today because of the hundreds and thousands of volunteer editors.
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‘A Good Day for the Internet Everywhere': India Bans Differential Data Pricing
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Feb 25, 2016
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filed under:
Net Neutrality,
Internet Governance
India distinguished itself as a global leader on network neutrality on February 8, when regulators officially banned “differential pricing”, a process through which telecommunications service providers could or charge discriminatory tariffs for data services offered based on content.
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