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Voices from Goa: Rusita Paryekar, a MA student writes articles on Konkani Wikipedia
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Aug 27, 2013
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Sep 06, 2013 12:30 PM
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Rusita Paryekar is one of the 38 students from the MA Konkani department of Goa University gathered at the State Central Library to learn writing and editing articles on Konkani Wikipedia. Currently Konkani Wikipedia is in incubation and needs more voluntary participation from enthusiasts who want their language, Konkani to strengthen its base in the digital knowledge domain.
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Voices from Goa: Frania Pereira tells Why She Writes Articles on Konkani Wikipedia
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Aug 27, 2013
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Sep 05, 2013 09:24 AM
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Konkani as a language has seen geographical, political and religious conflicts. Being the official language of Goa and spoken widely in the Indian states of Karnataka, Kerala and Maharashtra it is still trying to strengthen its base. Recently the Centre for Internet and Society's Access To Knowledge Programme (CIS-A2K) in collaboration with the Konkani department of Goa University organized a four-day Wikipedia workshop for MA, Konkani language students. This workshop involved 38 students creating 43 new articles on Konkani Wikipedia which is incubation. We’re hoping that these efforts will contribute towards bringing this 7 year old project out of incubation to a live Wikipedia project.
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Wikimania 2013: The International Wikimedia Conference
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Prasad Krishna
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Aug 26, 2013
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Aug 29, 2013 06:30 AM
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Wikimania is the annual international conference of the Wikimedia movement. It's organized by a different local team each year. In 2013 the conference took place in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Wikimania allows the community and the general public to learn about and share their experiences with free knowledge initiatives all over the world. T. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the event.
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Wikipedia writes a new script
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Prasad Krishna
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Aug 24, 2013
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Sep 04, 2013 06:27 AM
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Wikipedia is available in over 30 Indian languages. Add Konkani to that list. The Centre for Internet and Society has just completed a programme of training students to write for Konkani Wikipedia.
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Workshop on e-Content Development
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Prasad Krishna
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Aug 24, 2013
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Sep 04, 2013 05:56 AM
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T. Vishnu Vardhan, A2K Programme Director at CIS will be teaching at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad from September 4 to 6, 2013.
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Konkani Wikipedia makes headway
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Prasad Krishna
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Aug 24, 2013
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Sep 17, 2013 06:07 AM
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The first floor of the Krishnadas Central Library has been bustling with activity for the last four days. A closer look reveals the concentration, thought and precision that is put into each letter of the Devnagri script Konkani they type. Still further and you realise it’s a Wikipedia site that final year MA Konkani students of Goa University are busy with.
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A Workshop on Editing Wikipedia in Mumbai
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Prasad Krishna
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Aug 23, 2013
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The Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS-A2K) is holding a workshop on Wikipedia editing at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai on August 24, 10.00 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.
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Copyrights and Copywrongs Why the Government Should Embrace the Public Domain
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Pranesh Prakash
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Aug 21, 2013
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Sep 06, 2013 04:56 AM
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Each of you reading this article is a criminal and should be jailed for up to three years. Yes, you. "Why?," you may ask.
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Wikimania 2013: Wikipedians represent Indian Languages in Hong Kong
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Aug 19, 2013
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Sep 13, 2013 06:03 AM
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The 7th, 8th and 9th of August 2013 saw over 600 Wikipedians across the world participating Wikimania at Hong Kong. The three day annual international conference for users and contributors of Wikipedia brought many debates about open educational research, open source technologies, gender gap, documenting the history of mankind in a free and open platform like Wikipedia and its sister sites in collaboration with Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums and all of these in 286 world languages. More and more volunteers are joining this movement and it is expanding the media of accessing and disseminating knowledge.
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A Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Krishnarajapet
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U.B.Pavanaja
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Aug 14, 2013
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Sep 05, 2013 06:46 AM
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On Sunday, August 11, 2013, a day-long Kannada Wikipedia workshop was conducted at Shyam Computers, Krishnarajapet, Karnataka. The workshop was co-organized by the CIS-A2K team along with Kannada Sahitya Parishat of KR Pet. This report summarizes the proceedings of that workshop and subsequent research into relevant questions flowing from the discussions.
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