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Hindustani Language: We Are Wikipedia
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by
Syed Muzammiluddin
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published
Mar 27, 2015
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last modified
Apr 10, 2015 04:20 PM
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Openness,
Hindi Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
In 2014, the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) embarked on a new social media-based initiative - WeAreWikipedia. The aim of the project was "One Wikimedian every week to tell untold community stories on Twitter".
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GoI body National Mission for Manuscripts has digitised 3 million manuscripts
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 13, 2015
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last modified
Apr 05, 2015 03:20 AM
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filed under:
Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Twelve-year-old government body National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM) has digitised over thirty lakh manuscripts and 185,88,390 pages in all as of 31 December 2014, Mahesh Sharma, Union Minister of State for Culture, Tourism & Civil Aviation said in the Rajya Sabha this week. He added that the National Archives of India (NAI) is set to digitise another 1,100,000 historic records. The government has spent over Rs 25 lakhs on digitisation as of January 2015 as compared to ~ Rs 36 lakhs in 2012-13.
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Right to Education and the Future of Our Languages
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 12, 2015
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last modified
May 27, 2015 02:00 PM
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filed under:
Openness,
Wikipedia
The Department of Linguistics, University of Mumbai and Dr. Rakhmabai Educational Resource and Research Centre in association with ICSSR (WRC) organized a National Symposium on Right to Education and the Future of Our Languages at Pherozeshah Mehta Bhavan from March 9 to 11, 2015. Tanveer Hasan was a speaker.
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More articles for Tulu Wikipedia
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 10, 2015
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last modified
Apr 05, 2015 04:33 AM
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Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Openness,
Tulu Wikipedia
In all, 100 more articles will be uploaded to the Tulu Wikipedia by teachers and students in Udupi shortly, according to Janaki M. Brahmavara, president, Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy.
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Women's History Month, India-2015
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 08, 2015
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filed under:
Openness,
Wikipedia,
Wikimedia
CIS-A2K is supporting the Indian Wikimedia volunteers organize Wikipedia Women's History Month, India- 2015.
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Train the Trainer — Report in Udayavani
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 02, 2015
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last modified
Apr 04, 2015 04:20 PM
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
As part of the Train The Trainer program, on Feb 28, all the participants (Wikipedians from all over India) were taken to Janapada Loka, near Ramanagara. There was a report in Udayavani, Ramanagara edition on March 2, 2015 about this event.
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Train the Trainer Program
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Feb 27, 2015
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Openness,
Event
The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) welcomes you to attend the "Train the Trainer Program" in Bangalore.
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Hindi Wiki Community Baithak in Delhi
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Feb 27, 2015
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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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Telugu Wikipedia Winter Camp at Andhra Loyola College
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by
Rahmanuddin Shaikh
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published
Feb 26, 2015
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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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Washington Meet on Open Data Principles
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Feb 24, 2015
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last modified
Mar 09, 2015 02:05 AM
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Open Data,
Openness
Sunil Abraham was invited to discuss the common international open data principles on February 24, 2015. The meeting took place at the World Bank office in Washington.
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