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Goa university re-releasing Konkani encyclopaedia on Sept 26: by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 25, 2013 — last modified Sep 25, 2013 05:59 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
The Goa University in collaboration with Centre for Internet and Societie's Access to Knowledge Programme (CIS-A2K) is re-releasing its four volume 3632 page Konkani Vishwakosh (encyclopaedia).
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Konkani Vishwakosh relaunch tomorrow: by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 25, 2013 — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
The Goa University in collaboration with Centre for Internet and Societies Access to Knowledge Programme (CIS-A2K) will relaunch its four-volume 3,632-page Konkani Vishwakosh (encyclopaedia) under Creative Commons License CC-BY-SA 3.0. to support the movement of open knowledge and open access on Thursday at 10 a.m. at a function at the conference hall of its administrative building at Taleigao plateau.
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Re-releasing Konkani Vishwakosh & Building Konkani Wikipedia: by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 25, 2013 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Openness, Event
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS-A2K) in partnership with the University of Goa invites you to this event on Thursday, September 26, 2013, 10.00 a.m. The one-hour event will be followed by a press conference.
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Wikipedia reaches Classrooms in Hyderabad: by Syed Muzammiluddin — published Sep 20, 2013 — last modified Sep 20, 2013 07:20 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Openness
The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Hyderabad organised a one-day workshop on editing Wikipedia in Indian languages. It was attended by participants who formed a small but proactive group of students who eagerly tried to register the first edits on four different Indian language wikipedias.
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WikipediansSpeak: Piotr Konieczny: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Sep 18, 2013 — last modified Sep 18, 2013 12:22 PM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
WikipediansSpeak is a video interview show hosted by Subhashish Panigrahi at the Centre of Internet and Society. It brings you series of posts about Wikipedians across the globe. Wikipedians are those voluntary contributors who write Wikipedia articles, correct mistakes made by other wikipedians and share knowledge for free to the world.
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'Help Konkani Wikipedia come out of incubation': by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 17, 2013 — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
The functioning of the free online encyclopedia, ‘Wikipedia,’ is like a true democracy. It is for the people and by the people, said The Centre for Internet and Society Programme Officer (Indian Languages) Pavanaja U B.
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Recap on Konkani Wikipedia Workshop: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Sep 12, 2013 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness
Konkani as a language has seen geographical, political and religious conflicts. Being the official language of Goa and spoken widely in the Indian states of Karnataka, Kerala and Maharashtra it is still trying to strengthen its base. Recently CIS-A2K in collaboration with Goa University organized a four-day workshop for MA, Konkani language students.
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Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at SDM: by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 12, 2013 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness
The Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, SDM College, Ujire is holding a wiki workshop on September 15, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja from CIS-A2K team is participating in this workshop.
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Konkani Wikipedia workshop at AIMIT, St Aloysius College: by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 12, 2013 — last modified Sep 12, 2013 06:09 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness
St. Aloysius College is organizing a Konkani Wikipedia workshop at AIMIT, St Aloysius College (Autonomous), Beeri, Mangalore on September 13, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja from the CIS-A2K team will participate in the event.
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ଅବସର ପରର ଦ୍ବିତୀୟ ଜୀବନ, ଅବସର ପରେ ସକ୍ରିୟ ଭାବେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ ଲେଖାଲେଖି ଜାରୀ ରଖିଥିବା ଜଣେ ଡାକ୍ତରଙ୍କ ସ‌ହ ଭାବାଲୋଚନା: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Sep 10, 2013 — last modified Sep 13, 2013 08:38 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
This is a column about Dr. Subas Chandra Rout, a noteworthy wikipedian who started contributing to Wikipedia articles on Odia Wikipedia related to medical science after retiring as an Orthopedic Specialist-Assistant Professor of a Medical college.
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