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Celebrating the success of Wikipedia in Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Jan 21, 2013
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Apr 16, 2013 12:48 PM
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Digital Activism,
Access to Knowledge,
Digital Access,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Youth,
Video,
Open Access,
Openness,
Event
Wikipedia Club Pune, a local community based outreach user group in Pune has recently organized Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013 to spread words about “Spoken Wikipedia”, a project to add recorded audio for Indic language Wikipedia articles which will help the disabled to access Wikipedia and “Bridging Editor Gender Gap.”
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Indic Language Wikipedias — Statistical Report — 2012
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by
Shiju Alex
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Jan 21, 2013
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Feb 03, 2013 02:40 AM
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Openness,
Featured,
Wikipedia,
Wikimedia
I have compiled the statistical update of the Indic language Wikipedias for the year 2012. As usual, in this report, my aim is to provide my perspectives on the health of various Indic language communities as well as the state of various Indic language wikipedias.
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Wikipedia in St. Xavier's College, Mapusa, Goa
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Nitika Tandon
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Jan 19, 2013
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Jul 26, 2013 11:33 AM
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Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Workshop,
Openness
A three hour Wikipedia workshop was organized by the Centre for Internet & Society, Delhi, in the morning of December 14, 2012 at St. Xavier's College in Mapusa, Goa. Over 30 participants attended the session.
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The Violence of Knowledge Cartels
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by
Nishant Shah
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Jan 18, 2013
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Openness,
Open Access
We are all struck with a sense of loss, grief and shock since we heard of the death of Aaron Swartz, by suicide. People who have been his friends have written heart-felt obituaries, saluting his dreams and visions and unwavering commitment to a larger social good.
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Aaron Swartz Memorial Hacknight
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Prasad Krishna
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Jan 17, 2013
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Jan 17, 2013 05:18 AM
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Openness,
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On Saturday, January 19, 2013, HasGeek and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) are organizing a hacknight to understand Aaron’s work and contribute to his projects. The event starts from 2.00 p.m. onwards and ends at 8.00 a.m., the next day morning.
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Two-day Wiki Workshop in Goa University: An Introduction
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by
Nitika Tandon
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Jan 14, 2013
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Jan 25, 2013 06:30 AM
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Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Workshop,
Openness
Last month, on December 12 and 13, 2012, the Access to Knowledge team from the Centre for Internet & Society along with Wikipedia community members organized a two-day workshop for M.A. and Ph.D. students at the Goa University. Nitika Tandon participated in the event and shares with us the developments.
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December 2012 Bulletin
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Dec 30, 2012
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Jan 16, 2013 05:15 AM
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Access to Knowledge,
Digital Natives,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Openness
We at the Centre for Internet & Society wish you all a great year ahead. In the December 2012 newsletter, we bring you the draft early chapters of our “National Resource Kit” project for persons with disabilities (covering four southern states); and accessibility-related comments on the Twelfth Five Year Plan; the draft research on pervasive technologies and access to knowledge that we presented at the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest in Brazil; our comments on the privacy implications of including RFID tags in the proposed Rule 138A of the Motor Vehicle Rules, a report on the open access lectures delivered by Prof. Leslie Chan during his tour of India, reports of Wikipedia-related workshops conducted across three cities, and news and media coverage.
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Open Access Champion Leslie Chan Delivers Five Talks in India
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Prasad Krishna
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Dec 30, 2012
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Jan 02, 2013 05:35 AM
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Openness
Professor Leslie Chan, a champion of Open Access (OA) and Associate Director of the Centre for Critical Development Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough visited Tiruvananthapuram and Mysore in December 2012 for a series of lectures. Well known advocate for OA in India and the developing world, Professor Subbiah Arunachalam, accompanied him on these tours.
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A Wikipedia Workshop at NMAIT
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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Dec 30, 2012
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Jan 04, 2013 04:30 PM
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
The Centre for Internet & Society, Delhi collaborated with Metawings Institute to spread the words about Wikipedia for Indian languages. A one-day workshop was organized to educated the students on contributing to Wikipedia on December 21, 2012. About 170 engineering students took part in this event.
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New Avenues: Media Wiki Groups
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Noopur Raval
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Dec 27, 2012
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Jan 05, 2013 01:46 AM
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Access to Knowledge,
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This blog post is a brief recap and snippets of my conversation with Harsh Kothari, a volunteer on Gujarati Wikipedia on what we've been doing to help with MediaWiki groups.
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