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Data Xgen launches paid Hindi email service: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 30, 2016 — filed under: CIS-A2K, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
Jaipur based Enterprise email provider Data Xgen Technologies has launched a paid email service in Hindi Devnagari script. This is especially for .bharat domain names, but can also be used for other domains. As of now, the company offers email packages starting at Rs 99, Rs 499, Rs 999 and Rs 1,499, which look like monthly plans.
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Meet the Newly Born Tulu Wikipedia, the 23rd in a South Asian Language!: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Aug 30, 2016 — filed under: CIS-A2K, Access to Knowledge, Tulu Wikipedia
The Tulu language Wikipedia became the latest entrant in the family of 294 world-language Wikipedia projects after the project went live from Wikimedia Incubator earlier this month.
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Press coverage about Punjab edit-a-thon & Telugu Wikipedia success: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 26, 2016 — filed under: Telugu Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
Andhra Jyothi, one of the leading news papers in Telugu covered Punjab edit-a-thon & Telugu wikipedia success in national level with the angle of Pranaraj involvement in it.
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Community Digest: Tulu Wikipedia Goes Live after Eight Years in Incubator; News in Brief: by Subhashish Panigrahi and Ting-Yi Chang — published Aug 26, 2016 — filed under: CIS-A2K, Access to Knowledge, Tulu Wikipedia
Eight years after being created in the Wikimedia Incubator, the Tulu-language Wikipedia is now live as the 23rd Indic language Wikipedia.
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Preserving Languages and Cultures in India: The Birth of the Tulu Wikipedia: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Aug 26, 2016 — last modified Sep 07, 2016 03:35 PM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Access to Knowledge, Tulu Wikipedia
After eight years of effort and outreach, the Tulu language Wikipedia has gone live. Wikimedia contributors play a key role in preserving languages and cultures, and tools like the Wikimedia Incubator help new projects like the Tulu Wikipedia get started.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
International Conference on Innovation for Shared Prosperity: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 25, 2016 — filed under: Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Knowledge, ICT
Rohini Lakshane attended a conference on IP Rights, Competition and Standard Setting in the IT industry on August 20 and 21, 2016. The conference was organized by O.P. Jindal Global University and Jindal Initiative on Research in IP & Competition.
Located in Access to Knowledge / News & Media
ଓଡ଼ିଆ ପାଇଁ ଓସିଆର: ଛପା ଲେଖାର ଛବିରୁ ଡିଇଟାଲ ଲେଖା: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Aug 23, 2016 — filed under: CIS-A2K, Odia Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
Though not an open source solution, Google's OCR works really well for Odia and other Indian languages. My column in the Odia daily the Samaja that was published last Saturday briefs about how the OCR works and has a step-by-step process to use it. There is also a little bit of background of Tesseract-based OCR that Debayan Banerjee worked in the past and Nasim Ali from the Odia Wikimedia community is currently working.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Tulu gets official Wikipedia page, but Mumbai linguists say more is needed: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 22, 2016 — filed under: CIS-A2K, Access to Knowledge, Tulu Wikipedia
Sitting in his Sunkadakatte home in Bengaluru, Dr UB Pavanaja still recalls the moment when he was at the WikiConference India 2016 in Chandigarh earlier this month. Academicians from all over India had gathered at the event, to share their views about issues related to India on Wikipedia. While the talks were still in progress, Katherine Maher, executive director, Wikimedia Foun-dation, USA, paused to make an announcement.
Located in Access to Knowledge / News & Media
Tulu takes a major Wiki leap, all thanks to a dedicated team: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 22, 2016 — last modified Aug 22, 2016 04:38 PM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Access to Knowledge, Tulu Wikipedia
Tulu is one of the five Dravidian languages but it has the least number of speakers. Though it has a script, lack of usage has made it almost obsolete, forcing Tulu writers to write in Kannada. This has, however, benefited Tulu today, allowing it to boast of its own Wikipedia
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Focus on India—WikiConference produces new apps; state government adopts free licenses: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 20, 2016 — last modified Aug 22, 2016 03:15 AM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
WikiConference India and its productive hackathon
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