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Gujarat Wikipedia Education Program: Rajkot

Gujarat Wikipedia Education Program: Rajkot

Posted by Noopur Raval at Oct 31, 2012 08:10 AM |

This report analyses a series of meetings and workshops held in Rajkot, a city in Gujarat, India during the month of October 2012.

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First Pune Odia Wikipedia Workshop Organized!

First Pune Odia Wikipedia Workshop Organized!

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Oct 31, 2012 05:15 AM |

The first Pune Odia Wikipedia workshop was organized in Pune on October 27, 2012. Subhashish Panigrahi recollects his experience about the events through this report.

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Super Cassettes v. MySpace

The Delhi High Court’s judgment in Super Cassettes v. MySpace last July is worrying for a number of reasons. The court failed to appreciate the working of intermediaries online and disregard all pragmatic considerations involved. The consequences for free expression and particularly for file sharing by users of services online are especially unfavourable.

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The Hathitrust Judgment and its impact on TVI negotiations at WIPO

Posted by Rahul Cherian at Oct 30, 2012 04:28 AM |

Those of you who have been following my earlier posts on the WIPO negotiations on the Treaty for the Visually Impaired will remember that one of the biggest concerns of the World Blind Union on the draft wording of the Treaty was with the definition of an “authorized entity” that can undertake conversion and distribution of accessible format copies.

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Malayalam Wikipedia Education Program: August to October Updates

Malayalam Wikipedia Education Program: August to October Updates

Posted by Shiju Alex at Oct 29, 2012 10:35 AM |

Three months back, I wrote a blog post (http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/07/06/wikipedia-education-a-model-from-malayalam-wikipedia/) about the inauguration of the Wikipedia education program in Malayalam Wikipedia. This program is the first of its kind in an Indic language, and Malayalam community is doing the program in collaboration with the IT@School, a project of the Department of General Education, Government of Kerala, setup in 2001, to foster the IT education in schools.

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Bridging Gender Gap in Pune: WikiWomenDay 2012 Celebrated with Success!

Bridging Gender Gap in Pune: WikiWomenDay 2012 Celebrated with Success!

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Oct 29, 2012 12:05 AM |

A2K team members Subhashish Panigrahi and Noopur Raval participated in the "WikiWomenDay" organized by Wikipedia Club Pune at PAI International Learning Solutions, Azam Campus on October 28, 2012. Subhashish unfolds the happenings of this full day free fun workshop.

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Launch of Assamese Wikipedia Education Program at Guwahati University

Launch of Assamese Wikipedia Education Program at Guwahati University

Posted by Nitika Tandon at Oct 22, 2012 10:30 AM |

The Assamese Wikipedia community has shown a rapid growth in the past six months from 20 active editors in January 2012 to 29 active editors in June 2012. The absolute numbers might seem low but in terms of percentages its an overwhelming increment of 45 per cent.

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Wikipedia workshop @ Inmantec College, Ghaziabad

Wikipedia workshop @ Inmantec College, Ghaziabad

Posted by Nitika Tandon at Oct 19, 2012 11:10 AM |

The Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet & Society was approached by Gaurav Prashar, Assistant Dean at Inmantec College, Ghaziabad to organize a Wikipedia workshop. Accordingly, a workshop was organized on October 17, 2012.

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Bengaluru: A Hub for Kannada and Sanskrit Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects!

Bengaluru: A Hub for Kannada and Sanskrit Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects!

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Oct 16, 2012 05:30 AM |

Kannada Wikipedia is one of those Indic language wikipedias which has seen many readers coming up every month. Subhashish Panigrahi summarizes the experiences of some of the very active Kannada wikipedians from the recent Kannada Wikipedia meetup held in Bengaluru on October 7, 2012.

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Access To Knowledge/Programme Plan

Posted by Prasad Krishna at Sep 30, 2012 01:25 PM |

Pursuant to the announcement made on July 30, 2012 and as reflected in the FAQ accompanying the announcement, the India Program will become a project of the Access to Knowledge (A2K) program of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) an established non-profit organisation working in India whose own goals and objectives are in close alignment with that of the Wikimedia movement.

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Wikipedia comes to Hyderabad!

Wikipedia comes to Hyderabad!

Posted by Noopur Raval at Sep 30, 2012 10:00 AM |

This post is a report on the series of Wikipedia meets organized in the city of Hyderabad on September 29-30, 2012. These workshops were a a part of the larger effort to help Wikipedia contributors in the same city to meet each other and strengthen the local community.

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Punjabi Wikipedia Workshop at Amritsar

Punjabi Wikipedia Workshop at Amritsar

Posted by Shiju Alex at Sep 30, 2012 09:35 AM |

After Ludhiana and Patiala we came to Amritsar, which we all know is home to the Golden Temple and the spiritual centre of Sikh religion, to introduce Punjabi Wikipedia. The workshop was held at the Spring Dale Senior School, Amritsar on August 17, 2012.

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Editor Growth & Contribution Program on Telugu Wikipedia

Posted by Nitika Tandon at Sep 29, 2012 12:13 PM |

Nitika Tandon tells us about the Editor Growth & Contribution Program on Telegu Wikipedia, how it will run, its necessity and the future steps.

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Feedback to Draft Copyright Rules, 2012

Posted by Pranesh Prakash at Sep 29, 2012 11:30 AM |

The Centre for Internet & Society submitted its written comments on the Draft Copyright Rules, 2012 to Mr. G.R. Raghavender, Registrar of Copyrights & Director (BP&CR), Ministry of Human Resource Development.

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Punjabi Wikipedia Workshop at Punjabi University, Patiala

Punjabi Wikipedia Workshop at Punjabi University, Patiala

Posted by Shiju Alex and Subhashish Panigrahi at Sep 28, 2012 11:10 AM |

Patiala is the home to the famous Punjabi University. A Wikipedia workshop was organized at the Punjabi University's Punjabi Department on August 16, 2012.

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WIPO Treaty for the Visually Impaired — Moving from a Treaty on Paper to a Treaty that is Workable on the Ground

Posted by Rahul Cherian at Sep 28, 2012 04:41 AM |

After many years of hard lobbying by the World Blind Union, it appears that the WIPO Treaty on limitations and exceptions for visually impaired persons/persons with print disabilities (TVI) could become a reality next year. However, due to pressure from the European Union and the United States, and their insistence on several untenable provisions, there is a real risk that the TVI could become unworkable on the ground.

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Wikipedia Workshop in British Library, Chandigarh

Wikipedia Workshop in British Library, Chandigarh

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Sep 27, 2012 10:10 AM |

A Wikipedia workshop was organized in Chandigarh by the British Library over two days on August 24 and 25, 2012. Bipin Kumar, Head of British Library and Christina, Deputy Manager had pivotal roles in designing this workshop with support from Piyush, a wikipedian.

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The First Punjabi Wikipedia Workshop

The First Punjabi Wikipedia Workshop

Posted by Shiju Alex and Subhashish Panigrahi at Sep 27, 2012 09:55 AM |

For those who might not be aware, Punjabi Wikipedia is one of the first Indic Wikipedias where community started editing way back in 2002. However, after the initial few edits all activities got stopped and it was inactive over the last decade. Recently we conducted a few workshops that led to the revival of Punjabi Wikipedia. This post is about the first Punjabi Wikipedia workshop held in Ludhiana, Punjab on July 28, 2012.

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Indic Language Wikipedias – Statistical Report: January – June 2012

Posted by Shiju Alex at Sep 25, 2012 09:45 AM |

The following is a compilation of the statistical update of the Indic language Wikipedias from January to June 2012. The author provides perspectives on the health of various Indic language communities as well as the state of various Indic language Wikipedias during the period.

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Pervasive Technologies: Access to Knowledge in the Marketplace — CIS’s Upcoming A2K Research Initiative

Posted by Jadine Lannon at Sep 25, 2012 06:45 AM |

Pervasive technologies have flooded the Indian market and are changing the ways in which the average Indian accesses knowledge but very little is understood about these technologies, particularly when it comes to their legality. The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) plans to begin a research project that aims to understand how pervasive technologies interact with Intellectual Property laws and what can be done to protect these technologies from being labelled “illegal” and eradicated from the Asian market.

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