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55 Works of Iconic Indian writer released under Free Licence to benefit Wikisource: by T. Vishnu Vardhan — published Nov 13, 2014 — last modified Nov 14, 2014 01:29 PM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Openness, Kannada Wikipedia
Kannada is a language spoken by 40 million people in Karnataka – one of the four southern states of India.The Kannada Wikimedia community, in collaboration with CIS-A2K, are enthusiastic about having almost all of the works of Niranjana re-licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0 on the occasion of Kannada Rajyotsava.
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Odia Wikisource, its Potential: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Nov 17, 2014 — last modified Dec 05, 2014 01:47 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Odia Wikipedia, Openness
I wrote an editorial in Odia newspaper the "Samaja" on November 17, 2014. I have written about Odia Wikisource, its potential and how people can get involved in it with a short note about the digitization done already. I have also highlighted the authors and copyright holders who kindly have donated their work under CC-by-SA license.
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Odia author Nirmala Kumari Mohapatra's 21 books relicensed under CC-by-SA 4.0: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Nov 17, 2014 — last modified Dec 06, 2014 02:49 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Odia Wikipedia, Openness
Twenty one books of renowned Odia author Nirmala Kumari Mohapatra will now be available under the Creative Commons License.
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Teaching in the Age of Wikipedia: by T. Vishnu Vardhan — published Nov 22, 2014 — last modified Dec 28, 2014 04:04 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
This course is conceived by CIS-A2K. It is currently envisaged as an add-on Certificate Course jointly offered by CIS-A2K and the Nirmala Institute of Education (NIE)-a premier teacher training establishment in Goa, India.
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Odia Wikisource workshop at New Delhi: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Dec 30, 2014 — last modified Dec 30, 2014 01:08 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Video, Openness, Odia Wikipedia
The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team in collaboration with "The Intellects" organized a seminar in New Delhi on December 14, 2014. Subhashish Panigrahi gave a talk.
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ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା ପାଇଁ ଅନ୍ତର୍ଜାତୀୟ ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jan 31, 2015 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Odia Wikipedia, Openness
This is an op-ed I authored for Odia newspaper the "Samaja" that got published on January 30, 2015. Through this post I intend to highlight the needs for taking the Odia language to international fora instead of keeping it confined within the books. I have covered the focus area of 3 free and open source projects: Odia Wikipedia, Odia Wikisource and Global Voices Odia in the column highlighting the need for more people to contribute.
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A Wikipedia Presentation at BITS, Goa: by Radhakrishna Arvapally — published Feb 09, 2015 — last modified Mar 09, 2015 01:21 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
Quark is one of India's largest science, technology and management festivals, held every February at BITS Pilani - K.K. Birla Goa Campus. This year in 2015, the event was held from February 6 to 8, 2015. This blog post captures the key moments. About 12 delegates attended the event.
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Telugu Wikipedia Winter Camp at Andhra Loyola College: by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published Feb 26, 2015 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Openness
Students of physics, statistics and Telugu departments of Andhra Loyola College spent 5 days of their Christmas vacation of 2014 to edit and enrich Telugu Wikipedia and Wikisource. They worked on their respective subject areas and came up with more than 100 new articles on Telugu Wikipedia and about 300 pages of Veeresalingam's works were typed on Telugu Wikisource.
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Hindi Wiki Community Baithak in Delhi: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Feb 27, 2015 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Openness, Hindi Wikipedia
Hindi Wikimedians met in New Delhi during February 14 and 15. This was the first meeting of the Hindi community. Subhashish Panigrahi attended the meetup.
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Wikipedia Campus at Oxford College: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Apr 28, 2015 — last modified May 27, 2015 02:22 PM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia
CIS-A2K collaborated with the Oxford College of Engineering, Bommanahalli, Bangalore on April 24, 2015 for introducing Wikimedia projects at their institution. Radhakrishna, a senior Wikimedian from Bangalore provided the crucial introduction and worked closely with the A2K team in conducting all the activities.
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