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Blog Entry Eight Challenges Indian-Language Wikipedias Need to Overcome
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Apr 30, 2016 — last modified Jun 18, 2016 05:09 PM — filed under: ,
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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Blog Entry Eight Challenges That Indian-Language Wikipedias Need to Overcome
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Mar 29, 2016 — last modified Mar 29, 2016 05:05 PM — filed under: , , ,
Even after a decade of existence, Indian language Wikipedias are not yet known to many Indian language speakers. Wikipedia, being the largest available encyclopedia made in the human history, it what it is today because of the hundreds and thousands of volunteer-editors. But while native-language Wikipedias are becoming game-changers in other corners of the world, the scenario in India is skewed. In my experience, here are a number of challenges that Indian-language Wikipedias are currently facing.
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English and Telugu Wikipedia edit-a-thon in Hyderabad
by Pavan Santosh — published Dec 18, 2015 — last modified Dec 31, 2015 07:49 AM — filed under: , , ,
After a long time, a collaborative Telugu and English Wikipedia edit-a-thon is being organised in Hyderabad on December 20.
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English Wikipedia and the Telugu Wikipedia joint meetup and edit-a-thon: Andhra Jyoti
by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 29, 2015 — last modified Jan 05, 2016 06:33 AM — filed under: , ,
The article was published in Andhra Jyoti on December 20, 2015. A scanned version of the article is below.
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English Wikipedia and the Telugu Wikipedia joint meetup and edit-a-thon: Sakshi
by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 29, 2015 — last modified Jan 05, 2016 06:31 AM — filed under: , ,
The article was published in Sakshi on December 20, 2015. A scanned version of the article is given below.
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Exercise to Correct articles in Tulu Wikipedia begins
by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 28, 2016 — last modified May 01, 2016 10:37 AM — filed under: , , , ,
It will go on till Saturday at the Ramakrishna pre-university college.
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Focus on India—WikiConference produces new apps; state government adopts free licenses
by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 20, 2016 — last modified Aug 22, 2016 03:15 AM — filed under: , ,
WikiConference India and its productive hackathon
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FUEL GILT Conference 2015
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 06, 2015 — last modified Dec 15, 2015 08:03 AM — filed under: , , ,
Subhashish Panigrahi will be speaking at the FUEL GILT Conference 2015 to be held at Tamil Virtual Academy, Anna University Campus, Gandhi Mandapam Road, Kottur in Chennai from November 20 to 22, 2015. Subhashish will also be participating in the Mozilla L10N hackathon.
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Geographical Indications in India Edit-a-thon
by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 26, 2016 — filed under: , , , , ,
Between 25 January and 31 January 2016, CIS-A2K is organizing an edit-a-thon to celebrate India's republic day. The goal of this edit-a-thon is to create and improve Geographical Indications articles.
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GI-tagged products to get Wiki pages
by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 27, 2016 — filed under: , , ,
Ever realised that the famous, red hot Naga Mirchi (a special variety of chilli from Nagaland) doesn’t have a Wikipedia page?
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