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Blog Entry WikipediansSpeak: Odia Wikisourcer Shares her Journey and Goals
by Subhashish Panigrahi and Nasim Ali — published Jan 30, 2016 — last modified Feb 05, 2016 08:49 PM — filed under: , , ,
The most active editor on the Odia Wikisource is Pankajmala Sarangi, a native of Odisha who now lives in New Delhi, where she works at a non-profit. As a leader in a broad community that is dominated by males—indeed, she is the most active contributor to the Odia-language Wikisource—we asked her to share her journey and her goals to grow the project and community as part of the “WikipediansSpeWell, I think I would work on creating a database of all the Odia speakers living in New Delhi and the city organizations that work in propagating Odia language and culture, and plan Wikisource outreach programs for them.k” interview series.
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Blog Entry WikipediansSpeak: Telugu Language Library Catalog Project Helps Wikipedia Grow
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Oct 11, 2015 — last modified Dec 15, 2015 08:06 AM — filed under: , ,
In 2013, the interview project “WikipediansSpeak” was launched in response to observations that many noteworthy Wikimedians were being underrepresented both locally and globally. Not just them personally—their work, and the communities they represent, were also unknown to the Wikimedia community and the outside world.
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Blog Entry WikiSangamotsavam 2016
by [email protected] — published Jan 18, 2017 — last modified Feb 06, 2017 12:47 PM — filed under: , ,
The Malayalam Wikipedia community jointly held its anniversary celebrations and annual gathering in Kasaragod district, Kerala from 26 to 28 December, 2016. The Centre for Internet and Society was invited to partake in the event.
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Blog Entry Wikisource Handbook for Indian Communities
by Bodhisattwa Mandal and Ananth Subray P. V. — published Sep 19, 2018 — filed under: , , , , ,
Wikisource is one of the trending Wikimedia projects. Many new editors and new books to Indic language Wikisource's get added over a period of time. However, new editors as well as existing editors face numerous problems while working with the content online. The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team, to help the editors, has created this Handbook. CIS invites feedback to the first draft of this Handbook. CIS-A2K will continue to work with the Wikipedia communities to improve their efforts towards developing Wikisource.
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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 WikiTungi: Bhubaneswar City Wiki Community Turns 1
by Sailesh Patnaik — published Feb 27, 2017 — filed under: , ,
The Odia Wikipedia’s WikiTungi is an attempt at building a community of Wikimedians at the city level.
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Blog Entry Wikiwomen’s Meetup at St. Agnes College Explores Potentials and Plans of Women Editors in Mangalore, Karnataka
by Ting-Yi Chang — published Sep 01, 2016 — last modified Sep 01, 2016 02:39 PM — filed under: , , , , ,
Karnataka is known for its diverse linguistic cultures. Aside from Kannada, many are native speakers of Konkani, Tulu, and other languages. A small Wikiwomen's meetup was held on Saturday, August 27th at St. Agnes College, Mangalore, to invite female Wikipedians from the region. Many of them were new to the online encyclopedia but demonstrated strong interest in learning and contributing more Indic language content online.
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Blog Entry Women's Day Edit-a-thon at Jeewan Jyoti Women's Empowerment Centre, Pune
by Subodh Kulkarni — published Mar 10, 2017 — last modified Apr 10, 2017 04:04 PM — filed under: , , , , ,
Sterlite Tech Foundation and Jnana Prabodhini joined hands with the Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team to hold a Wikipedia edit-a-thon at Jeewan Jyoti Women's Empowerment Centre, Ambawane in Pune on March 10, 2017. Subodh Kulkarni was one of the trainers. The edit-a-thon was attended by 28 students.
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Blog Entry Women's Day Edit-a-thon at Jnana Prabodhini
by Subodh Kulkarni — published Mar 09, 2017 — last modified Apr 15, 2017 07:31 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
A Marathi Wikipedia Women's Day edit-a-thon was conducted in collaboration with Jnana Prabodhini to commemorate the celebration of International Women's Day.
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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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