Centre for Internet & Society

A Telegu Wiki Meetup @ CIS

by SJ Veera (Telugu Wikipedian)

Telugu Wikipedians had their monthly meetup at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in Bangalore on Saturday, July 13, 2013, 2.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m.

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Wikipedia boom in vernacular languages

by Prasad Krishna

The number of Wikipedia entries in vernacular languages has grown substantially in the last eight months

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Wikipedia boom in Marathi, Malayalam and other desi languages

by Prasad Krishna

A vibrant vernacular Wikipedia seems to be taking root in India. In the last eight months, the number of Wikipedia entries has grown substantially in 20 Indian languages, says a study by the Bangalore-based Centre for Internet and Society (CIS).

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Open Access Dialogues - Report and Policy Recommendations

by Sumandro Chattapadhyay

The Open Access Dialogues were a series of global electronic debates facilitated by Eve Gray and Kelsey Wiens, in partnership with The African Commons Project (South Africa) and the Centre for Internet and Society (India), during November 2012 to March 2013. It was supported by the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, and was hosted at WSIS Knowledge Communities Discussion Forum.

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Wikipedia Gains Massive Traffic Thanks To Vernacular Languages

by Prasad Krishna

The blog post was published in Before It's News on August 1, 2013. T. Vishnu Vardhan is quoted.

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A Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Sagara

by U.B.Pavanaja

On Sunday, July 28, 2013, a day-long Kannada Wikipedia workshop was conducted at Sagara, Shimoga Dist, Karnataka by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team. In this post, I share with you the happenings from the workshop.

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July 2013 Bulletin

by Prasad Krishna

Our newsletter for the month of July 2013 can be accessed below.

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Konkani Wikipedia next?

by Prasad Krishna

A quarter of the world’s Konkani speakers live in Goa. Which is why it should cheer us up to know that a Konkani Wikipedia is being shaped up. But unless more and more of us contribute, the project might never go online.

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