Centre for Internet & Society

Odia Wikipedia Workshop in IIMC, Dhenkanal

by Sailesh Patnaik

An Odia Wikipedia Workshop was conducted at IIMC, Dhenkanal on 31 January, 2017

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Bargarh Manuscript Digitisation Project

by Sailesh Patnaik

The digitisation of temple manuscripts at the Dadhivamana Temple, Bargarh in Western Odisha followed by a workshop for the students of Imperial College took place between 11- 12 February, 2017.

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Imperial College Orientation Program, Bargarh

by Sailesh Patnaik

An Odia Wikipedia workshop was conducted at Imperial College, Bargarh on 12 February, 2017.

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Women’s History Month: Sambad collaborates with Odia Wikipedia for a Two Day Edit-a-thon

by Sailesh Patnaik

Sambad's 100 Women Edit-a-thon: Two day edit-a-thon to increase quantity and quality of women-related articles on Odia Wikipedia

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WikiTungi: Bhubaneswar City Wiki Community Turns 1

by Sailesh Patnaik

The Odia Wikipedia’s WikiTungi is an attempt at building a community of Wikimedians at the city level.

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Odia Wikipedia and Orientation Training Programme

by Prasad Krishna

An Odia Wikipedia orientation and training programme is being organized by the Centre for Internet & Society's (CIS-A2K) team on 31 January 2017 at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal in Odisha.

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Sambalpur University Workshop

by Sailesh Patnaik

An Odia Wikipedia Orientation program cum workshop was organized by CIS-A2K team in Sambalpur University on November 27, 2016. Sailesh Patnaik attended the workshop.

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ଆମ ହାତେ ଆମ କୋଡ୍ ଲେଖିବା

by Subhashish Panigrahi

I authored a column on writing our code in our own hands for the editorial of Odia-language daily the "Samaja". The piece is about the philosophy of software freedom and how free and open source software is making a significant difference in our lives. I have also shared a little bit about how anyone can celebrate the Software Freedom Day today by contributing to and sharing about to FOSS.

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ଓଡ଼ିଆ ପାଇଁ ଓସିଆର: ଛପା ଲେଖାର ଛବିରୁ ଡିଇଟାଲ ଲେଖା

by Subhashish Panigrahi

Though not an open source solution, Google's OCR works really well for Odia and other Indian languages. My column in the Odia daily the Samaja that was published last Saturday briefs about how the OCR works and has a step-by-step process to use it. There is also a little bit of background of Tesseract-based OCR that Debayan Banerjee worked in the past and Nasim Ali from the Odia Wikimedia community is currently working.

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ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିଅଭିଧାନରେ ଏକ ଲକ୍ଷ ଶବ୍ଦ

by Prasad Krishna

A news article on Odia Wiktionary's 11th anniversary that got published in Odia-language daily Sambad on June 18.

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