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Wikipedia boom in Marathi, Malayalam and other desi languages: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 01, 2013 — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
A vibrant vernacular Wikipedia seems to be taking root in India. In the last eight months, the number of Wikipedia entries has grown substantially in 20 Indian languages, says a study by the Bangalore-based Centre for Internet and Society (CIS).
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Wikipedia Gains Massive Traffic Thanks To Vernacular Languages: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 01, 2013 — last modified Aug 19, 2013 04:18 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
The blog post was published in Before It's News on August 1, 2013. T. Vishnu Vardhan is quoted.
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A Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Sagara: by U.B.Pavanaja — published Jul 31, 2013 — last modified Mar 25, 2014 08:51 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Video, Openness
On Sunday, July 28, 2013, a day-long Kannada Wikipedia workshop was conducted at Sagara, Shimoga Dist, Karnataka by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team. In this post, I share with you the happenings from the workshop.
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Access to Knowledge Bulletin — June & July 2013: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 30, 2013 — last modified Oct 04, 2013 10:52 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
A2K newsletter for the months of June and July, 2013.
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Konkani Wikipedia next?: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 30, 2013 — last modified Aug 01, 2013 08:32 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
A quarter of the world’s Konkani speakers live in Goa. Which is why it should cheer us up to know that a Konkani Wikipedia is being shaped up. But unless more and more of us contribute, the project might never go online.
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ଓଡିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର କର୍ମଶାଳା ଅନୁଷ୍ଠିତ ହୋଇଯାଇଛି ବୀର ସୁରେନ୍ଦ୍ର ସାଏ ବୈଷୟିକ ବିଶ୍ୱବିଦ୍ୟାଳୟ, ବୁର୍ଲାରେ: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 29, 2013 — last modified Aug 05, 2013 08:25 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
Odishan.com covered the Wikipedia event organized at Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla on July 26 and 27, 2013.
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Odia Wikipedia Workshop at VSSUT, Burla (Coverage in the Sambad): by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 29, 2013 — last modified Aug 19, 2013 08:51 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Odia Wikipedia, Openness
An Odia Wikipedia workshop was organized on July 26 and 27, 2013 at Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla. The Sambad (Sambalpur edition) covered the event.
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ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:ମେଳଣ/ବୁର୍ଲା (ସମ୍ବଲପୁର): by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 28, 2013 — last modified Aug 05, 2013 08:04 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness
There was a news coverage on The Sambad, Sambalpur edition about the Odia Wikipedia workshop organized on July 26 and 27, 2013 at Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla.
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Whats & Hows of Wiki: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 26, 2013 — last modified Oct 25, 2013 07:00 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
The Kings School students of class 10 were blessed to have Nitika Tandon & Subhashish Panigrahi of Wikipedia Foundation to conduct a workshop on the whats & hows of Wiki, creating & editing Wiki pages, etc. Our students also got a hands on experience, and they edited the Bibinca page on Wiki.
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Free Software: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 24, 2013 — last modified Jul 31, 2013 08:50 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
To spread awareness on free software and its philosophy, Free Software Movement of Karnataka (FSMK) in partnership with Jnana Vikas Institute of Technology, Bidadi, organized a 9-days workshop between July 20 and 28 at the Institute campus near Bidadi to focus on free software is real freedom to compute.
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