Centre for Internet & Society

Telugu Wikimedia Hackathon 2014

by Rahmanuddin Shaikh

Telugu Wikimedia (including their projects Telugu Wikipedia, Telugu Wikisource etc.) is one of the largest and most powerful Indian language Wikimedia projects, and it is growing and expanding everyday. In the last half of 2014, Telugu Wikimedia community members contacted CIS-A2K team with a request to organize a MediaWiki tutorial workshop for them. Following their request, on 28 December 2014, CIS-A2K team organized a MediaWiki hackathon event for Telugu Wikimedia community members to enhance their skills and understanding of technical matters related to MediaWiki usage. The theme of the workshop was “Mediawiki, its extensions and tools to work around” and it aimed at allowing Wikipedians to use MediaWiki tools more effectively.

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Wiki Winter Camp - Coverage in Eenadu

by Prasad Krishna

Media coverage of Wiki Winter Camp held at Andhra Loyola College.

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Wiki Winter Camp - Coverage in Sakshi

by Prasad Krishna

Media coverage for the Wiki winter camp held at Andhra Loyola College.

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Works of Veerasalingam Pantulu on web

by Prasad Krishna

Andhra Loyola College in association with Centre for Internet and Society (CIS- A2K) is conducting a six-day camp titled ‘Wiki Winter’ at Wikipedia Lab in the campus.

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Expanding the World of Telugu Wikipedia – CIS-A2K and ALC join hands

by T Vishnu Vardhan and Rahmanuddin Shaik

Students and faculty of Andhra Loyola College in Vijayawada aim to enhance Telugu Wikipedia through increased contributions to Wikipedia and make it available under free license.

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ALC signs MoU for better net access

by Prasad Krishna

Andhra Loyola College (ALC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Bangalore-based Centre for Internet and Society – Access to Knowledge (CSI-A2K) here on Thursday.

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Andhra Loyola College and the Centre for Internet & Society sign MoU for Better Net Access

by Rahmanuddin Shaikh

Andhra Loyola College (ALC) and the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to steward the growth of Telugu Wikipedia and to make available free knowledge in Telugu to all Telugus across the globe.

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Telugu Wikipedia struggles to stay afloat

by Prasad Krishna

For a language that is spoken by 10 crore people, content is sparse.

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Ten Telugu Books Re-released Under CC-BY-SA 3.0 License

by Rahmanuddin Shaikh

For the first time in the history of Indian books, 10 Telugu books by a single author were released under Creative Commons license (CC-BY-SA 3.0) on June 22, 2014 at 10 a.m. at Golden Threshold, Abids, Hyderabad.

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