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Blog Entry Preliminary research result on Wikipedia gender gap in India
by Ting-Yi Chang — published May 22, 2017 — last modified May 23, 2017 11:09 AM — filed under: , , , , , ,
Since June 2016, Ting-Yi Chang from the University of Toronto has worked with the CIS-A2K team to conduct action research on the Wikipedia gender gap in India. The research aims to improve the understanding of the gender gap (imbalance) issue in the Indian Wikipedia communities while examining local interventions.
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Blog Entry Thematic Edit-a-thon at J.P.Naik Centre for Education & Development, Pune
by Subodh Kulkarni — published May 10, 2017 — last modified Jun 07, 2017 08:59 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
A Marathi Wikipedia workshop was held at the J.P. Naik Centre for Education and Development in Pune recently.
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Blog Entry Wiki Loves Mayabazaar
by Pavan Santhosh — published May 01, 2017 — last modified Jun 07, 2017 09:24 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
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Blog Entry Marathi Wikipedia Symposium at Gokhale Institute Of Politics & Economics
by Subodh Kulkarni — published Apr 30, 2017 — last modified Jun 07, 2017 08:45 AM — filed under: , , , , , ,
A strategic symposium on Marathi Wikipedia and its sister projects was conducted on 29 April, 2017
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Blog Entry Continuing community engagement: Communities of interest and Quarrying
by Manasa Rao — published Apr 18, 2017 — last modified May 19, 2017 03:23 PM — filed under: , , , ,
In telling the stories of Indian Wikipedians, we bring to you the story of Dr. Diptanshu Das, a doctor and avid Wikipedian, working with WikiProject Medicine who recently approached CIS-A2K with a technical request.
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Blog Entry Marathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at Savitribai Phule Mahila Ekatma Samaj Mandal, Aurangabad
by Subodh Kulkarni — published Apr 13, 2017 — last modified Apr 19, 2017 11:44 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
A Marathi Wikipedia edit-a-thon was conducted at Savitribai Phule Mahila Ekatma Samaj Mandal in Aurangabad
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Blog Entry Digitisation, Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource Orientation Workshop at Vigyan Ashram, Pabal, Pune District
by Subodh Kulkarni — published Apr 04, 2017 — last modified Jun 07, 2017 08:37 AM — filed under: , , , , , ,
A digitization workshop was held at Vigyan Ashram, following the success of the introductory workshop in February.
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Blog Entry Wikisource:Internship Project at New Law College, Pune
by Subodh Kulkarni — published Mar 28, 2017 — filed under: , , , ,
This Wiki - internship project is being conducted for New Law College (Pune),under the guidance of Prof.Dr.Mukund Sarda, Dean and Principal of NLC by CIS A2K as part of this project at en wikisource; teams of students will acomplish proof reading, validation, compilation annotation etc. of Indian Laws and to begin with Copyright laws and Intellectual property laws at Portal:Copyright law/Copyright law of India.
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Blog Entry Sambad 100 Women Edit-a-thon
by Ting Yi Chang and Sailesh Patnaik — published Mar 20, 2017 — last modified Apr 18, 2017 10:05 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
A two-day 100 Women Edit-a-thon was held on March 18 and 19, 2017 in collaboration with Odisha’s biggest newspaper publisher Sambad. The event was inspired by BBC’s 100 Women series and edit-a-thons with the same name in December 2016. More than 20 female journalists participated and registered as new Odia Wikipedians. The event served as a highlight of the Women’s History Month in Indian language Wikipedias as well as in the global movement.
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Blog Entry Women’s History Month: Sambad collaborates with Odia Wikipedia for a Two Day Edit-a-thon
by Sailesh Patnaik — published Mar 16, 2017 — last modified Mar 17, 2017 05:36 AM — filed under: , ,
Sambad's 100 Women Edit-a-thon: Two day edit-a-thon to increase quantity and quality of women-related articles on Odia Wikipedia
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