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Konkani Wikipedia Goes Live After 'Nine Years' of Incubation
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Jul 18, 2015
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last modified
Jun 18, 2016 06:15 PM
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Creative Commons,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Featured,
Konkani Wikipedia,
Homepage
Konkani Wikipedia is the second Wikimedia project after Odia Wikisource that has gone live out of incubation. The project stayed in the incubation for nine long years and the community has gone through a long debate to have a Wikipedia of their own. Here is a blog highlighting three Konkani Wikimedians and an advocate of the Wikipedia movement whose efforts finally paid off.
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Magic words in Wikipedia
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by
Tanveer Hasan
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published
Jun 25, 2015
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last modified
Sep 14, 2015 08:37 AM
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
Wikimedia
The struggle of finding solutions for replacing and retrieving content /words/facts and figures, in this day and age of machines that seem to know everything should ideally be a non-issue. Yet, for many of us who write reports based on the data available at that moment, it is nothing less than a nightmare to come to know that there has been a significant change in the data with which our reports have been written.
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Train the Trainer: Running effective outreach activities in India
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by
Tanveer Hasan
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published
Jun 24, 2015
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Jul 30, 2015 03:20 PM
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
It is heartening to report that many Wikimedia projects in Indian languages have sustained, and even experienced an upward trend in, editor engagement. However, in terms of content creation, the majority of these projects are still facing grave challenges that put their very existence at risk.
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Odia Wikipedia Turning 13 this June 3
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Jun 01, 2015
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last modified
Jun 18, 2016 06:19 PM
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Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Odia Wikipedia,
Event
The Odia Wikipedia is turning 13 this June 3. To celebrate this long time of the editor community's tireless effort to make it to the largest Odia-language online encyclopedia an event is being organised in Odisha' capital Bhubaneswar. Centre for Internet and Society's Access To Knowledge (CIS-A2K) is proudly sponsoring for this event. Subhashish Panigrahi and Rahmanuddin Shaik are representing CIS at this event.
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How to do GuerillaGLAM
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
May 28, 2015
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May 28, 2015 03:30 PM
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Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
A proposal titled How to do GuerrillaGLAM" that I had submitted for the Wikimania 2015 has been accepted. I will be presenting this on July 18.
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Wikipedia Campus at Oxford College
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Apr 28, 2015
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last modified
May 27, 2015 02:22 PM
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Openness,
Wikipedia
CIS-A2K collaborated with the Oxford College of Engineering, Bommanahalli, Bangalore on April 24, 2015 for introducing Wikimedia projects at their institution. Radhakrishna, a senior Wikimedian from Bangalore provided the crucial introduction and worked closely with the A2K team in conducting all the activities.
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Patterns of Gender Aggression and Harassment in Open Tech and Open Culture Communities Online
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by
Rohini Lakshané
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published
Apr 13, 2015
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Jun 01, 2015 02:13 AM
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Wikimedia
Report on the talk delivered by me at Adacamp held in Montreal, Canada on April 13-14, 2015.
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Odia waits for Google Translate debut - Nine Indian languages available
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Apr 06, 2015
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last modified
May 08, 2015 01:27 AM
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
Odia getting the "classical" status last year was certainly a proud moment for the people of the state, but, it is yet to feature among the languages available in Google's popular translation service.
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Bangla Wiki turns 10
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Mar 29, 2015
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Apr 04, 2015 04:10 PM
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
The 10th anniversary of Bengali Wikipedia was marked with a a gathering of Wikipedians of vernacular languages from across the country and beyond at Jadavpur University. Bengali is one of 20 Indian languages to have a Wikipedia presence. The event also celebrated 14 years of the mother edition in English of the open-access, crowd-sourced online encyclopaedia.
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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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Apr 05, 2015 03:20 AM
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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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