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Focus on India—WikiConference produces new apps; state government adopts free licenses
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 20, 2016
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last modified
Aug 22, 2016 03:15 AM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
WikiConference India and its productive hackathon
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News & Media
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Tools orientation session for Telugu Wikimedians of Hyderabad
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by
Pavan Santhosh S.
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published
Aug 17, 2016
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last modified
Aug 17, 2016 02:35 PM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Telugu Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
A tools orientation session is being organised on July 10 at Hyderabad during the regular monthly meetup. Telugu Wikimedians who would be interested to learn about advanced editing tools like citation templates and Twinkle are welcome to join.
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Openness
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Events
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Training-the-trainer programme and Mediawiki training at Pune
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by
Abhinav Garule
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published
Aug 17, 2016
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last modified
Aug 18, 2016 11:14 AM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Train-the-trainer (TTT),
Mediawiki training (MWT),
Wikipedia,
Marathi Wikipedia,
WikipediansSpeak,
Marathi Wikisource
A two-day long train-the-trainer and Mediawiki training programme was organised during May 28-29 in Pune to better capacity of Wikimedians both technically, and outreach and community building.
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Blog
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WikiConference India 2016 Submission: Gender Gap in Indian Language Wikipedias – Projects, Outreach and Outcome
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by
U.B.Pavanaja
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published
Aug 17, 2016
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filed under:
Wikimedia,
CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
India is not much different from the global statistics when it comes to gender gap issues in Wikipedia. Indian language Wikipedias are known to have similar ratio of male to female editors.
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Blogs
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WikiConference India 2016 Submission: We, Men, Women: Collective Learning in Bridging Indic Wikipedia Gender Gaps
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by
Elisachang
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published
Aug 17, 2016
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filed under:
Wikimedia,
CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
There is no denying that non-English Wikipedias are disproportionally underrepresented in scholarly focus despite the significant role of an open knowledge society can play in smaller linguistic groups – local collaboration and communication, knowledge dissemination, as well as preservation of local language resources.
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Blogs
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WikiConference India 2016 Submission: How to better tell your Wikimedia Community Story using Media as a Tool
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Aug 17, 2016
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filed under:
Wikimedia,
CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
The Wikimedia community has constantly struggled to a) reach out to masses and tell them about their contribution, and motivate people to contribute to the Wikimedia projects. Media plays a very important role in spreading the word about Wikimedia projects and the contributor community, and at times, encouraging the audience to contribute.
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Blogs
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Tulu Wikipedia Conference in Mangaluru
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 15, 2016
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last modified
Sep 22, 2016 11:50 PM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Tulu Wikipedia
A Tulu Wikipedia conference organized by the Times of Kudla (Tulu name for Mangaluru) newspaper was held at Malki, near Mangaluru on August 13 and 14, 2016. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja gave a presentation on Tulu Wikipedia.
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News & Media
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Telugu Wikipedians create Articles on Punjab in Telugu Wikipedia
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 12, 2016
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Telugu Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Telugu Wikipedians created articles on Punjab in a national level contest. Telugu Wikipedians received a trophy during the closing ceremony of Wiki conference India at Chandigarh.
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News & Media
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Wikipedia WikiMeetup at Bangalore
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 11, 2016
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last modified
Aug 12, 2016 01:31 PM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Event
Bangalore based Wikipedians will gather for a meeting at the Centre for Internet and Society on Sunday, August 14, 2016 at 3.00 p.m.
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Events
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Wikipedia launches in Tulu, its 23rd Indic language
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 09, 2016
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Tulu Wikipedia
Wikipedia has launched in Tulu, making it the 23rd Indian language Wiki, reports domain-b. The announcement was made at the Wikiconference India 2016 held in Chandigarh last weekend.
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