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Blog Entry CIS Signs MoU with Odia Virtual Academy
by Sailesh Patnaik published Dec 19, 2018 last modified Dec 20, 2018 12:24 AM — filed under: , , , , , , , , ,
On October 26, 2018, the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Odia Virtual Academy (OVA) to work on drafting an open content policy for the state, to promote use of Wikimedia projects by various user types and to ensure sustainability of Wikimedia projects, and to facilitate development of relevant free and open source software projects. This partnership between OVA and CIS will be carried out from December 2018 to November 2019, and we are sharing an overview of the activities and their objectives in this post.
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Blog Entry Indic Wikisource Community Consultation 2018
by Jayanta Nath published Dec 08, 2018 last modified Dec 08, 2018 06:22 PM — filed under: , , , , , , , , , , , ,
A group of Indian Wikisource leader from 12 different language communities gathered in Kolkata to attend the Indic Wikisource Community Consultation 2018
Indic Wikisource Community Consultation 2018 report at Asomiya Pratidin ePaper- Highest Circulated Assamese Daily
by Jayanta Nath published Dec 06, 2018 last modified Dec 10, 2018 03:08 PM — filed under: , , , , , , , ,
Indic Wikisource Community Consultation 2018 report at Asomiya Pratidin ePaper- Highest Circulated Assamese Daily
Blog Entry Aditya 365
by Pavan Santhosh published Nov 07, 2018 — filed under: , , , ,
Telugu Wikimedian Aditya Pakide successfully completed 365 Wiki Commons Days. Aditya started contributing to project after a Facebook comment by A2K community advocate suggesting that the same picture would get more utilization in Commons and a brief training followed.
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Van Bodh Workshop for content development on Forest Resources at Gadchiroli
by Admin published Nov 06, 2018 — filed under: , , , ,
CIS-A2K has collaborated with Tribal Research and Training Institute (TRTI) to facilitate development of Open knowledge resources on Community Forest Resource and content development in Wikimedia projects with community participation. These contents will become a part of "Van Bodh Knowledge repository".
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Blog Entry South India Copyright Workshop
by Subodh Kulkarni published Oct 21, 2018 last modified Nov 06, 2018 01:25 AM — filed under: , , ,
A workshop on Copyright was organized by CIS-A2K at Hotel Bhagini Icon in Bengaluru from 19th to 21st October 2018. Seventeen members from 5 language communities (Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Tulu) participated in the workshop. Yann Forget was the master trainer for the workshop.
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Blog Entry Christ (DU) students enrolls for 3rd Wikipedia certificate course
by Ananth Subray published Sep 23, 2018 — filed under: , , ,
Students of Christ (Deemed to be University) enrolled themselves for the third Wikipedia certificate course for the academic year of 2018-19, to understand the usage of Wikimedia projects.
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Blog Entry Wikisource Handbook for Indian Communities
by Bodhisattwa Mandal and Ananth Subray P. V. published Sep 19, 2018 — filed under: , , , , ,
Wikisource is one of the trending Wikimedia projects. Many new editors and new books to Indic language Wikisource's get added over a period of time. However, new editors as well as existing editors face numerous problems while working with the content online. The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team, to help the editors, has created this Handbook. CIS invites feedback to the first draft of this Handbook. CIS-A2K will continue to work with the Wikipedia communities to improve their efforts towards developing Wikisource.
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Blog Entry Workshop of Publishers and Writers on Unicode, Open Source and Wikimedia Projects
by Admin published Aug 11, 2018 — filed under: , , ,
CIS-A2K team organized a workshop on unicode, open source and wikimedia projects at Pune on July 25, 2018.
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Blog Entry వాట్సాప్ సాహిత్య వేదిక నుంచి వికీసోర్సుకు
by Pavan Santhosh published Jul 31, 2018 last modified Jul 31, 2018 11:33 PM — filed under: ,
పద్యసౌందర్యం గ్రూపు సభ్యులకు వికీసోర్సు పరిచయం
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