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India and France to Digitise Manuscripts, Artworks & Archives: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 02, 2015 — last modified Dec 15, 2015 08:15 AM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, GLAM
The Indian and French governments have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) which will assist in technical knowledge sharing, competency, skill building and cultural exchange between the two countries, as per a PIB release.
Located in Openness / News & Media
India's 23rd Regional Language Wikipedia Goes Live in Tulu: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 09, 2016 — last modified Aug 09, 2016 03:02 AM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Access to Knowledge, Tulu Wikipedia
The Tulu Wikipedia has just gone live, giving another boost to yet another ancient Indian language otherwise struggling to keep up with the times and speedily changing technology.
Located in Access to Knowledge / News & Media
India's 23rd Regional Wikipedia Launches: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 09, 2016 — filed under: CIS-A2K, Access to Knowledge, Tulu Wikipedia
A Tulu version has gone live on Wikipedia, making it the 23rd one in an Indian language to do so.
Located in Access to Knowledge / News & Media
India's 23rd regional Wikipedia, in Tulu, goes live: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 07, 2016 — filed under: CIS-A2K, Access to Knowledge, Tulu Wikipedia
The Tulu Wikipedia has just gone live, giving another boost to yet another ancient Indian language otherwise struggling to keep up with the times and speedily changing technology.
Located in Access to Knowledge / News & Media
Indian English Wikipedian Nvvchar completes 1500 Did You Know articles: by Tito Dutta — published May 09, 2016 — last modified Jun 28, 2017 10:03 AM — filed under: Wikimedia, CIS-A2K, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
Indian English Wikipedian Nvvchar has completed 1500 Did you know articles. This is the second highest on English Wikipedia.
Located in Access to Knowledge
Indic Wikisource Community Consultation 2018: by Jayanta Nath — published Dec 08, 2018 — last modified Dec 08, 2018 06:22 PM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Odia Wikisource, Access to Knowledge, Commons, Indic Wikisource, Automation, Workshop, archives, Wikisource, Kannada Wikisource, Indic Scripts, Mobile Apps, Marathi Wikisource
A group of Indian Wikisource leader from 12 different language communities gathered in Kolkata to attend the Indic Wikisource Community Consultation 2018
Indic Wikisource Community Consultation 2018 report at Asomiya Pratidin ePaper- Highest Circulated Assamese Daily: by Jayanta Nath — published Dec 06, 2018 — last modified Dec 10, 2018 03:08 PM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Access to Knowledge, Indic Wikisource, Books, Digitisation, Wikisource, Indic Computing, Workshop, Indic Scripts
Indic Wikisource Community Consultation 2018 report at Asomiya Pratidin ePaper- Highest Circulated Assamese Daily
Indic Wikisource speak : Ajit Kumar Tiwari: by Jayanta Nath — published Apr 11, 2019 — last modified Apr 17, 2019 08:07 PM — filed under: Wikisource, CIS-A2K, Wiki-librarian speak, Access to Knowledge
"Wikisource is going to be as important as Wikipedia because it addresses the issues of citations and references inherently. I will make it as my key pedagogical tool to educate my students and make them a part of this great movement." - Hindi Wiki-librarian Ajit Kumar Tiwari ( अजीत कुमार तिवारी ) share his experience about Hindi Wikisource which approved by Language committee of Wikimedia Foundation Inc , US for separate domain on February 2019.
Located in Access to Knowledge
Indic Wikisource speak : Shubha: by Jayanta Nath — published Apr 25, 2019 — filed under: CIS-A2K, WikipedianSpeak, Wiki-librarian speak, Wikisource, WikipediansSpeak
As the texts are in the searchable format, many students and research scholars can make use of Wikisource. As we all know, Samskrit is a treasure trove of knowledge. There are many such books that can be uploaded and utilised by the public. For this, we are putting effort to upload more and more books and make our Wikisource a rich one. -- Shubha, a Samskrit Wiki-librarian share her experience
Located in Access to Knowledge
Indic Wikisource Speak: Dr. Gitartha Bordoloi: by Jayanta Nath — published Apr 10, 2019 — last modified Apr 17, 2019 08:10 PM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Access to Knowledge, WikipedianSpeak, Wiki-librarian speak, Wikisource, WikipediansSpeak
"People are more aware of Wikipedia than Wikisource." - Gitartha Bordoloi from Assamese Wikisource community, share his experience with CIS-A2K team.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs

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