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Wiki Media Foundation keen on developing Urdu Wikipedia
- October 31, 2014
The Wikipedia India Community Consultation 2014 was organized by the Wiki Media Foundation (WMF) and Wikipedia India Chapter in collaboration with Centre for Internet Society (CIS A2K) Bangalore on The venue was Movenpick Hotel and scheduled for October 4th and 5th here.
Read more →Converting from nonUnicode (Nudi, Baraha, ...) font encoding to Unicode Kannada
- October 31, 2014
People have been using computers for typing and printing Kannada text for more than 25 years. Most of the usage of Kannada on computers was limited to the DTP arena.
Read more →Tulu Wikipedia Workshop cum Editathon at Udupi
- October 31, 2014
A three-day programme was held at Udupi from October 15 to 17, 2014 with an aim to increase the presence of Tulu in the online world. The first day comprised the inauguration programme and a workshop to understand the Wiki markup. The next two days were devoted to the edit-a-thon where participants added articles to Tulu Wikipedia.
Read more →Samskrita Vaibhavam (Sanskrit Wiki Outreach Program)
- October 15, 2014
To celebrate the revival of Sanskrit language, the Bangalore chapter of Samskrita Bharati organised a two-day mega event "Samskrita Vaibhavam" at VSR Kalyan Mantapa in Bangalore on August 9 and 10, 2014.
Read more →Odia Wikisource Goes Live!
- November 07, 2014
Odia netizens have more than one reason to celebrate this festive season.
Read more →Wikipedia can establish Tulu in a wider way
- October 24, 2014
In his predential address after inaugurating the three-day workshop on ‘The use of internet for promotion of Tulu language,’ organised by Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy, Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy President Janki M Brahmavar opined that internet media, especially Wikipedia, can contribute to a large extent towards the promotion of Tulu language. The president said there was a need for the effective use of Unicode for the digital interpretation of Tulu.
Read more →Open access platform to save the Odia Indian language
- October 24, 2014
In February 2014, the Government of India declared the South Asian language Odia as the 6th classical language of India which is one among 22 scheduled languages of India and has a literary heritage of more than 5,000 years. There are documents for more than 3,500 years, and the rest are undocumented oral histories.
Read more →Odia Littérateur Ramakrushna Nanda's 4 Books Now Available Under a Creative Commons License
- November 06, 2014
Children literature in Odia language went through an ennoblement after the intervention of Ramakrushna Nanda's writings.
Read more →Pushing women scientists
- October 21, 2014
Wikipedia edit-a-thon attempts to raise awareness of the contribution of Indian women to science.
Read more →Second Draft of Open Access Policy of the Department of Biotechnology and Department of Science released
- October 19, 2014
The Department of Biotechnology and the Department of Science, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India drafted an Open Access Policy (“Policy”) in consultation with several open access experts, government officials and CIS. The second draft of the Policy released last week and is open for comments till 17th November, 2014.
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