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Blog Entry Hindustani Language: We Are Wikipedia
by Syed Muzammiluddin published Mar 27, 2015 last modified Apr 10, 2015 04:20 PM — filed under: , ,
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".
Located in Openness / Blog
GoI body National Mission for Manuscripts has digitised 3 million manuscripts
by Prasad Krishna published Mar 13, 2015 last modified Apr 05, 2015 03:20 AM — filed under: , ,
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
by Prasad Krishna published Mar 12, 2015 last modified May 27, 2015 02:00 PM — filed under: ,
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
by Prasad Krishna published Mar 10, 2015 last modified Apr 05, 2015 04:33 AM — filed under: , , , ,
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
by Prasad Krishna published Mar 08, 2015 — filed under: , ,
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
by Prasad Krishna published Mar 02, 2015 last modified Apr 04, 2015 04:20 PM — filed under: , , ,
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.
Located in Openness / News & Media
Train the Trainer Program
by Prasad Krishna published Feb 27, 2015 — filed under: , , , ,
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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Blog Entry Hindi Wiki Community Baithak in Delhi
by Subhashish Panigrahi published Feb 27, 2015 — filed under: , , , ,
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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Blog Entry Telugu Wikipedia Winter Camp at Andhra Loyola College
by Rahmanuddin Shaikh published Feb 26, 2015 — filed under: , , , ,
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
by Prasad Krishna published Feb 24, 2015 last modified Mar 09, 2015 02:05 AM — filed under: ,
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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