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Participants at Tewiki hackathon 2014: by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — last modified Feb 10, 2015 04:32 PM
Participants at Tewiki Hackathon 2014
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Telugu Wikimedia Hackathon 2014: by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published Jan 31, 2015 — last modified Feb 10, 2015 05:17 PM — filed under: Openness, Telugu Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
Telugu Wikimedia (including their projects Telugu Wikipedia, Telugu Wikisource etc.) is one of the largest and most powerful Indian language Wikimedia projects, and it is growing and expanding everyday. In the last half of 2014, Telugu Wikimedia community members contacted CIS-A2K team with a request to organize a MediaWiki tutorial workshop for them. Following their request, on 28 December 2014, CIS-A2K team organized a MediaWiki hackathon event for Telugu Wikimedia community members to enhance their skills and understanding of technical matters related to MediaWiki usage. The theme of the workshop was “Mediawiki, its extensions and tools to work around” and it aimed at allowing Wikipedians to use MediaWiki tools more effectively.
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Eenadu coverage of event: by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — last modified Jan 19, 2015 09:32 AM
Eenadu coverage of event
ALC Wiki Winer Camp students: by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — last modified Jan 13, 2015 07:03 AM
Students and Faculty who attended Wiki Winter Camp
ALC Wiki Winer Camp: by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — last modified Jan 13, 2015 06:34 AM
Students and Faculty who attended the Wiki winter camp.
Creating Free Software Environment at Andhra Loyola College: by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published Dec 13, 2014 — last modified May 27, 2015 12:54 AM — filed under: Openness, Telugu Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
Andhra Loyola college has signed an MoU with CIS-A2K and as part of it CIS-A2K team has provided a free and open software environment at Andhra Lyola College's Computer Center. Thirty machines have been installed with free software Operating system and some useful applications such as GIMP, Inkscape, firefox, libreoffice, etc.
Located in Openness / Blog
Andhra Loyola College and the Centre for Internet & Society sign MoU for Better Net Access: by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published Aug 19, 2014 — last modified Jan 20, 2015 06:47 PM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Openness
Andhra Loyola College (ALC) and the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to steward the growth of Telugu Wikipedia and to make available free knowledge in Telugu to all Telugus across the globe.
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Ten Telugu Books Re-released Under CC-BY-SA 3.0 License: by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published Jun 22, 2014 — last modified Jul 08, 2014 05:29 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Openness
For the first time in the history of Indian books, 10 Telugu books by a single author were released under Creative Commons license (CC-BY-SA 3.0) on June 22, 2014 at 10 a.m. at Golden Threshold, Abids, Hyderabad.
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Tewiki 10th Anniversary: by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published Feb 15, 2014 — last modified Mar 19, 2014 11:01 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Openness
Tewiki 10th anniversary celebration 2014, started on February 15 in Vijayawada at Kakaraparti Bhavanarayana College. It was co-organized by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team and the Telugu Wikipedia community. Ch.Arjuna Rao expressed his happiness on Telugu Wikipedias completion of 10 years and 55000 articles in Telugu on the inauguration of decade celebrations.
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Telugu Wikipedia completes 10 years: by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published Dec 31, 2013 — last modified Dec 31, 2013 04:40 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Openness
Telugu Wikipedia completed 10 years on December 10, 2013. Several training sessions, aka Wiki Academies, were planned by the Telugu Wikipedia community to mark the occasion.
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