https://cis-india.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 261 to 275. https://cis-india.org/openness/news/right-to-education-and-future-of-our-languages <b>The Department of Linguistics, University of Mumbai and Dr. Rakhmabai Educational Resource and Research Centre in association with ICSSR (WRC) organized a National Symposium on Right to Education and the Future of Our Languages at Pherozeshah Mehta Bhavan from March 9 to 11, 2015. Tanveer Hasan was a speaker. </b> <p style="text-align: justify; ">Prof. Ganesh Devy gave the inaugural address and Prof. Anita Rampal gave the keynote address. Tanveer Hasan spoke about the importance of Free and Open Resources of Knowledge and how these resources could be harnessed in providing access to knowledge and subsequently claim the right to education. The event was organized as an effort to understand the effect of RTE act on the primary and high school education standards across India with special reference to Maharashtra. The workshop also provided an opportunity to meet several like minded institutions and individuals.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="http://www.mu.ac.in/arts/ling_lang/linguistics/RTE%20website%20ad.pdf">More information on the event here</a>.</p> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/right-to-education-and-future-of-our-languages'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/right-to-education-and-future-of-our-languages</a> </p> No publisher praskrishna Openness Wikipedia 2015-05-27T14:00:44Z News Item https://cis-india.org/openness/news/the-hindu-ravi-prasad-kamila-more-articles-for-tulu-wikipedia <b>In all, 100 more articles will be uploaded to the Tulu Wikipedia by teachers and students in Udupi shortly, according to Janaki M. Brahmavara, president, Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy.</b> <p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">The article by Ravi Prasad Kamila was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/more-articles-for-tulu-wikipedia/article6976954.ece">published in the Hindu</a> on March 10, 2015.</p> <hr style="text-align: justify; " /> <p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">She told <i>The Hindu</i> that more than 700 articles have been uploaded to the Tulu Wikipedia, which is still in its incubation stage, by different persons now.</p> <p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">Last year, the academy had conducted a training programme on uploading contents to Wikipedia for students at Mahatma Gandhi Memorial College, Udupi. In all, 17 students had been trained.</p> <p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">Now three teachers of Government Girls’ Pre-University College, Nagaraja, Dayananda and Yadava Karkera, have come forward to upload 100 articles with the help of 17 trained students, at the government pre-university college which had computer facilities.</p> <p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">The articles would be on varied subjects like culture, life, places. She said that the academy has set a target of ensuring 1,000 articles on Wikipedia shortly.</p> <p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">U.B. Pavanaja, Wikipedia representative and programme officer, said The Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru, uploading contents to the Tulu Wikipedia had begun since 2007.</p> <p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">If one wants to write articles in Tulu, he or she would have to log on to bilty.com/tuluwiki and register there to write, edit or read articles written in Tulu using Kannada script.</p> <p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">Ms. Janaki said that some college teachers have also begun uploading contents to Tulu Wikipedia now.</p> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/the-hindu-ravi-prasad-kamila-more-articles-for-tulu-wikipedia'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/the-hindu-ravi-prasad-kamila-more-articles-for-tulu-wikipedia</a> </p> No publisher praskrishna Access to Knowledge Wikimedia Wikipedia Openness Tulu Wikipedia 2015-04-05T04:33:02Z News Item https://cis-india.org/openness/news/womens-history-month-india-2015 <b>CIS-A2K is supporting the Indian Wikimedia volunteers organize Wikipedia Women's History Month, India- 2015. </b> <p>See the event <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_History_Month,_India-2015">meta page here</a></p> <hr /> <p style="text-align: justify; ">8th March is <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:International_Women%27s_Day" title="w:en:International Women's Day">International Women's Day</a> and to celebrate, women in India are organizing edit-a-thons and meetups to create and expand articles of importance to women in Wikipedia in English and various Indian languages. The goal of the month-long event is to encourage more women and transwomen to contribute to Wikipedia and increase the quality of articles related to women in Wikipedia. The event aims at creating new articles, expanding the existing stubs and translating English articles to various <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Indo-Aryan_languages" title="w:en:Indo-Aryan languages">Indic languages</a>. Everyone is welcome to <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_History_Month,_India-2015/Participants" title="Women's History Month, India-2015/Participants">join the event</a> as enthusiasts, editors, translators, bloggers or event managers. Anyone who identify themselves as women are particularly encouraged to participate.</p> <ul style="text-align: justify; "> <li><b>Events: <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_History_Month,_India-2015/Events" title="Women's History Month, India-2015/Events">Click here to see the list of online and offline events</a></b>.</li> <li><b>Participants: <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_History_Month,_India-2015/Participants" title="Women's History Month, India-2015/Participants">Sign up as a participant!</a></b></li> <li><b>List of articles : <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_History_Month,_India-2015/To_do_list" title="Women's History Month, India-2015/To do list">Click here to see the list of languages and articles</a></b>.</li> <li><b>Resources: <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_History_Month,_India-2015/Resources" title="Women's History Month, India-2015/Resources">Organize an event!</a></b></li> </ul> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/womens-history-month-india-2015'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/womens-history-month-india-2015</a> </p> No publisher praskrishna Openness Wikipedia Wikimedia 2015-03-08T09:18:19Z News Item https://cis-india.org/openness/news/train-the-trainer-event-report-march-2-2015-udayavani-report <b>As part of the Train The Trainer program, on Feb 28, all the participants (Wikipedians from all over India) were taken to Janapada Loka, near Ramanagara. There was a report in Udayavani, Ramanagara edition on March 2, 2015 about this event.</b> <table class="listing"> <tbody> <tr> <th><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/UdayavaniRamanagarMar022015.png" alt="Udayavani Edition Report" class="image-inline" title="Udayavani Edition Report" /></th> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/train-the-trainer-event-report-march-2-2015-udayavani-report'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/train-the-trainer-event-report-march-2-2015-udayavani-report</a> </p> No publisher praskrishna Openness Wikipedia Access to Knowledge Wikimedia 2015-04-04T16:20:49Z News Item https://cis-india.org/openness/events/train-the-trainer-program <b>The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) welcomes you to attend the "Train the Trainer Program" in Bangalore.</b> <h2></h2> <h2></h2> <h2></h2> <h2></h2> <h2></h2> <h2></h2> <h2></h2> <h2></h2> <h2></h2> <h2></h2> <h2></h2> <h2></h2> <h2></h2> <h2></h2> <h2></h2> <h2></h2> <h2></h2> <h2></h2> <h2></h2> <h2></h2> <h2></h2> <h2></h2> <h2></h2> <p style="text-align: justify; ">Train the Trainer (TTT) is a residential training workshop to groom leadership skills among the Indian Wikimedia community members. CIS-A2K is organizing the Wikipedia Train the Trainer Program 2015 (TTT 2015). This is the second iteration of this program. TTT 2015 will be conducted by CIS-A2K during 26 February to 1 March 2015 in Bangalore, India.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">Note: All selected participants will be expected to reach the event venue the previous night (i.e. February 25) and leave by the evening of March 1, 2015. <b><span>The selected participants are requested to kindly confirm their participation by writing to tanveer<img alt=" at " height="17" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/At_sign.svg/17px-At_sign.svg.png" title=" at " width="17" />cis-india.org. <b><span>Registration for TTT 2015 is closed. Please do not register.</span></b>. Please note that registration does not confirm participation. Selection by CIS-A2K will be final. Before registering here please go through the <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program#Selection_Criterion" title="India Access To Knowledge/Events/Train the Trainer Program">selection criterion</a>.</span></b></p> <h2>Programme Schedule</h2> <h3>Thursday, February 26, 2015</h3> <table class="grid listing"> <tbody> <tr> <th>Timing</th><th>Session</th><th>Topics to be Covered</th><th>Coordinator / Resource Person</th> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table class="grid listing"> <thead> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td> <p align="center">7:30am - 8:30am</p> </td> <td colspan="3"> <p align="center">Breakfast</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">8:30am - 9:00am</p> </td> <td colspan="3"> <p align="center">Registration</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">9:00am - 10.30am</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Welcome &amp; Introduction</p> </td> <td> <ul type="disc"> <li> Introductions (activity based) Creating name tags for yourself and your friends </li> <li> Energiser/Activity. Meet and greet Wikimedians </li> </ul> </td> <td> <p align="center">T. Vishnu Vardhan (VV) and Tanveer Hasan (TH)</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">10:30am - 11 am</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Why TTT?</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Design and Objectives of the TTT</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">VV</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">11 am - 11.30 am</p> </td> <td colspan="3"> <p align="center">☕ Tea/Coffee Break</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">☼ 11.30 am - 1 pm</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Participant presentations</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Individual presentation based on pre-work</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">TTT Participant</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">1 pm - 2 pm</p> </td> <td colspan="3"> <p align="center">Lunch</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">2 pm - 3.30 pm</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Participant presentations</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Individual presentation based on pre work</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">TTT Participant</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">3.30 pm - 4 pm</p> </td> <td colspan="3"> <p align="center">☕ Tea/Coffee Break</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">4 pm - 5 pm</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Presenting with impact</p> </td> <td> <ul type="disc"> <li> Effective Communication </li> <li> Forceful Introduction </li> <li> Organizing your speech (Opening, Body Closing) </li> <li> Get to the point (General purpose and specific purpose) </li> <li> Communicate clearly, accurately and vividly </li> <li> Body Language (Stance, Movement, Gestures, Facial expression and eye contact) </li> <li> Vocal Variety (Volume, Pitch, Rate and Quality) </li> </ul> </td> <td> <p align="center">TH</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">5.30 pm - 6.30 pm</p> </td> <td colspan="3"> <p align="center">Break</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">6.30 pm - 8 pm</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Parallel Sessions</p> </td> <td> <ul type="disc"> <li> Personal coaching on Presentation Skills using video recordings of Presentation <br /> or </li> <li> Multilingual Edit-a-thon (theme - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jnanpith_Award" title="en:Jnanpith Award">Jnanpith_Award</a>) </li> </ul> </td> <td> <ul type="disc"> <li> Sunil Abraham(SA) </li> <li> VV </li> <li> TH </li> <li> Rahmanuddin Shaik (RS) </li> <li> Subhashish Panigrahi (SP) </li> <li> U.B. Pavanaja (UBP) </li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">8:00 pm - 9:00 pm</p> </td> <td colspan="3"> <p align="center">Dinner</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3>Friday, February 26, 2015</h3> <table class="grid listing"> <tbody> <tr> <th>Timing</th><th>Session</th><th>Topics to be Covered</th><th>Coordinator / Resource Person</th> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table class="grid listing"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <p align="center">☾ 8 pm - 9 pm</p> </td> <td colspan="3"> <p align="center">Dinner</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">☼ 10.30 am - 11 am</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Internet research techniques (Session 2)</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Information literacy and Internet research techniques for Wikipedia editors <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/muscicapa/information-literacy-and-internet-research-wiki-workshop">slides</a></p> </td> <td> <p align="center">LS</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">9.15 am - 10 am</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Internet research techniques (Session 1)</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Information literacy and Internet research techniques for Wikipedia editors</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">LS</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">8:30 am - 9.15 am</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Copyright, CC and Wikimedia</p> </td> <td> <ul type="disc"> <li> Introduction to Copyright and Creative Commons <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/muscicapa/some-basic-ideas-on-copyright-law-for-wikipedia-users">slides</a> </li> <li> Creative Commons </li> <li> Wikimedia Applications </li> </ul> </td> <td> <p align="center">L. Shyamal (LS)</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">7:30 am - 8:30 am</p> </td> <td colspan="3"> <p align="center">Breakfast</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">7 pm - 8 pm</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Parallel sessions</p> </td> <td> <ul type="disc"> <li> Personal Coaching </li> <li> GLAM Projects Do's and Dont's </li> <li> FOSS Tools Support and Discussion </li> </ul> </td> <td> <ul type="disc"> <li> CIS-A2K Team </li> <li> RL </li> <li> RS </li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">6.30 pm - 7 pm</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">GLAM Projects in Indic Wikipedia Context</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Feasibility, Scalability and Scope</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Rohini Lakshane(RL)</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">6 pm - 6.30 pm</p> </td> <td colspan="3"> <p align="center">☕ Tea/Coffee Break</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">5 pm - 6 pm</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Essential Foss Tools for Wikimedians</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Hands on Session</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Rahamanuddin</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">4.30 pm - 5 pm</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Essential FOSS Tools</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Demonstration</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">RS</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">4 pm - 4.30 pm</p> </td> <td colspan="3"> <p align="center">☕ Tea/Coffee Break</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">3.30 pm - 4 pm</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Panel Discussion</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Importance of NPOV in Indian Languages</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Participant Panel (TBD)</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">2.45 pm - 3.30 pm</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Importance of NPOV</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">NPOV as an essential quality for Wikimedians with English Wikipedia as a case study</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">NVV Char and Tito Dutta</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">2 pm - 2.45 pm</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Spectogram</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Interactive activity to critically discuss the importance of NPOV</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">SA</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">11.45 am - 1 pm</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">DIY</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Digitisation Techniques for Wikimedians-Hands on Session</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Group Activity</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">11.30 am - 11.45 am</p> </td> <td colspan="3"> <p align="center">☕ Tea/Coffee Break</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">11 am - 11.30 am</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">DIY</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Digitisation Techniques for Wikimedians</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Viswa Prabha(VP)</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">10 am - 10.30 am</p> </td> <td colspan="3"> <p align="center">☕ Tea/Coffee Break</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">1 pm - 2 pm</p> </td> <td colspan="3"> <p align="center">Lunch</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3>Saturday, February 28, 2015</h3> <table class="grid listing"> <tbody> <tr> <th>Timing</th><th>Session</th><th>Topics to be Covered</th><th>Coordinator / Resource Person</th> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table class="grid listing"> <tbody> <tr> <td>7 am - 7.30am</td> <td colspan="3">Breakfast</td> </tr> <tr> <td>7:30am</td> <td colspan="3">Departure to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janapada_Loka" title="en:Janapada Loka">Janapada Loka</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>9 am - 9.30am</td> <td>Expectations from GLAM Activity</td> <td>Design,scope and expected outcomes</td> <td>TH</td> </tr> <tr> <td>9.30am - 1 pm</td> <td>* GLAM Activity</td> <td> <ul> <li> Interviewing Janapada Loka Staff </li> <li> Documentation of Janapada Loka exhibits </li> <li> Resource Collection for Wiki Commons </li> <li> Material collection for GLAM Edit-a-thon </li> </ul> </td> <td> <ul> <li> VP </li> <li> RL </li> <li> CIS-A2K </li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>1 pm - 2 pm</td> <td colspan="3">Lunch</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2 pm - 3.30 pm</td> <td>Group Activity</td> <td>GLAM Editathon in Indian Languages</td> <td>VP and VV</td> </tr> <tr> <td>3.30 pm - 4 pm</td> <td colspan="3">☕ Tea/Coffee Break</td> </tr> <tr> <td>4 pm - 4.30 pm</td> <td>Panel Discussion</td> <td>Need and importance of GLAM Activities</td> <td>TBD</td> </tr> <tr> <td>4.30 pm - 5.30 pm</td> <td>Focused Group Discussion</td> <td>GLAM Activities to be pursued (Individual and Community)</td> <td>Participant Groups</td> </tr> <tr> <td>5.30 pm - 6.30 pm</td> <td colspan="3">Departure to CEO Centre</td> </tr> <tr> <td>☾ 8 pm - 9 pm</td> <td colspan="3">Dinner at CEO Centre</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3>Sunday, March 1, 2015</h3> <table class="grid listing"> <tbody> <tr> <th>Timing</th><th>Session</th><th>Topics to be Covered</th><th>Coordinator / Resource Person</th> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table class="grid listing"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <p align="center">07:30 am - 08:30 am</p> </td> <td colspan="3"> <p align="center">Breakfast</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">08:30am - 9.30 am</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Media and Social Media Strategies for Wikimedians</p> </td> <td> <ul type="disc"> <li> Mobilizing mainstream media to cover Wikimedia success stories </li> <li> Best practices of Social Media </li> </ul> </td> <td> <p align="center">Tinu Cherian</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">9.30am - 10 am</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Building Communities for Wikimedia Movement</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Introduction to WMIN</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Ravishankar Ayyakkannu (RA)and Yohann Thomas (YT)</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">10am - 10.30 am</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Building Communities for Wikimedia Movement</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">CIS-A2K Trials and Success</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">VV</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">☼ 10.30 am - 11:00 am</p> </td> <td colspan="3"> <p align="center">☕ Tea/Coffee Break</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">11am - 11.30 am</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Group Discussion</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Challenges &amp; Opportunities in building an Indian Language Community online</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Participant Groups</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">11.30 pm - 12.30 pm</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Participant Presentation</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Participant Presentations</p> </td> <td><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">12.30 pm - 1 pm</p> </td> <td colspan="3"> <p align="center">Lunch</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">1.30 pm - 2 pm</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Focused Group Discussion</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Road Ahead for GLAM activities in India Languages</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Participant Presentations</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">2.30 pm - 3.30 pm</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Participant Presentation</p> </td> <td> <p align="center">Submission of Outreach and GLAM Draft Plans</p> </td> <td><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">3.30 pm - 3.45 pm</p> </td> <td colspan="3"> <p align="center">Feedback Session</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">3.45 pm - 4 pm</p> </td> <td colspan="3"> <p align="center">Closing Remarks</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p align="center">4:00 pm</p> </td> <td colspan="3"> <p align="center">Departures or Visit to CIS</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>For any further queries please email—</p> <ul> <li>tanveer<img alt=" at " height="17" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/At_sign.svg/17px-At_sign.svg.png" title=" at " width="17" />cis-india.org 09844439247</li> <li>ajoy <img alt=" at " height="17" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/At_sign.svg/17px-At_sign.svg.png" title=" at " width="17" />cis-india.org 09845492122</li> <li>vishnu<img alt=" at " height="17" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/At_sign.svg/17px-At_sign.svg.png" title=" at " width="17" />cis-india.org 09845207308</li> </ul> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/train-the-trainer-program'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/train-the-trainer-program</a> </p> No publisher praskrishna Access to Knowledge Wikimedia Wikipedia Openness Event 2015-02-27T02:37:10Z Event https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/how-the-first-time-face-to-face-interaction-helped-india-hindi-wikipedia-community <b>Hindi Wikimedians met in New Delhi during February 14 and 15. This was the first meeting of the Hindi community. Subhashish Panigrahi attended the meetup.</b> <div class="storify"><iframe frameborder="no" height="750" src="http://storify.com/psubhashish/how-the-first-time-face-to-face-interactions-helpe/embed?border=false" width="100%"></iframe></div> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/how-the-first-time-face-to-face-interaction-helped-india-hindi-wikipedia-community'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/how-the-first-time-face-to-face-interaction-helped-india-hindi-wikipedia-community</a> </p> No publisher subha Access to Knowledge Wikimedia Wikipedia Openness Hindi Wikipedia 2015-02-27T01:34:25Z Blog Entry https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/telugu-wikipedia-winter-camp-at-andhra-loyola-college <b>Students of physics, statistics and Telugu departments of Andhra Loyola College spent 5 days of their Christmas vacation of 2014 to edit and enrich Telugu Wikipedia and Wikisource. They worked on their respective subject areas and came up with more than 100 new articles on Telugu Wikipedia and about 300 pages of Veeresalingam's works were typed on Telugu Wikisource. </b> <p style="text-align: justify; "><span id="docs-internal-guid-7001bc56-0180-4b37-3473-0a5ddcc84e87">CIS-A2K has signed an </span><a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/expanding-the-world-of-telugu-wikipedia-cis-and-alc-join-hands">MoU</a> with <a href="http://andhraloyolacollege.ac.in/">Andhra Loyola College</a> to make available free knowledge in Telugu to all Telugus across the globe. In this approoach, a two month camp was organised in the college campus. In continuation to the two month camp, 5 days of students' Christmas vacation were marked as Wiki Winter Camp at Andhra Loyola College. 5 students from each of Physics, Statistics and Telugu showed interest to attend the camp. By the time, camp began, there were not 15 but 41 students from various disciplines who attended the camp.</p> <table class="plain"> <tbody> <tr> <th><img src="https://cis-india.org/ALC_Wiki_winter_camp_students.JPG/image_preview" alt="ALC Wiki Winer Camp students" class="image-inline image-inline" title="ALC Wiki Winer Camp students" /></th> </tr> <tr> <td>Students and faculty who attended the camp. Source :<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ALC_Wiki_winter_camp_students.JPG">Wikimedia Commons</a><br /></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p style="text-align: justify; ">For physics and statistics-department students, first day of the wiki winter camp involved students exploring English and Telugu Wikipedias, glancing through various reference websites such as JSTOR, IEEE Explorer, Google scholar, and their own textbooks in Telugu medium. New entrants created their user accounts on Telugu Wikipedia. Students got an essence of how an article on Wikipedia should look like, what should be there and what not. Few students came up with their own ray diagrams for physics (optics - mirrors) articles, uploaded them to Wkimedia Commons and then put them up in their articles. For some of the students, it was the first time they were typing in Telugu, and they felt very curious and excited. The rest of the three days students added about <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%81/%E0%B0%86%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%A7%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0_%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%8A%E0%B0%AF%E0%B1%8B%E0%B0%B2_%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B3%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2/%E0%B0%AD%E0%B1%8C%E0%B0%A4%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%82">103 articles on Telugu Wikipedia on physics</a>, and <a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%81/%E0%B0%86%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%A7%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0_%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%8A%E0%B0%AF%E0%B1%8B%E0%B0%B2_%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B3%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2/%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%96%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%95_%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%81#.E0.B0.95.E0.B1.8A.E0.B0.A4.E0.B1.8D.E0.B0.A4_.E0.B0.B5.E0.B1.8D.E0.B0.AF.E0.B0.BE.E0.B0.B8.E0.B0.BE.E0.B0.B2.E0.B1.81">a 10 articles on statistics</a>. By the end of 5 days camp, faculty and co-ordinator for physics, Dr. Sahaya Bhaskaran expressed happiness at his students' work, he affirmed that one can learn his respective subject only if he understands it in his native language, and if he could reproduce that in his native language, he would remember for long.</p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">For Telugu students the five-day camp was fun typing in works of Kandukuri Veeresaingam. First day, students who were new entrants learnt to type in Telugu, and were introduced to the Wikisource platform. In all, they typed about 300 pages of a compilation of Veeresalingam's works. Sri Kola Sekhar, faculty of Telugu a ALC and co-ordinator for Telugu wiki winter camp said he was confident of making students type entire Veeresalingam works in a year's time.</p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">At the end of the 5 day camp, students were given a review of their work, and students felicitated with certificates.</p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">Convener for the camp, Dr. B. Sivakumari, who is also a Wikipedia co-ordinator for Botany, expressed her gratitude to CIS-A2K team for organising the program.</p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; ">This event has also contributed in achieving the 60,000+ article count landmark at Telugu Wikipedia and 10,000+ pages landmark at Telugu Wikisource.</p> <table class="listing"> <tbody> <tr> <th> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; "><img src="https://cis-india.org/eenducenterspread6jan2015.jpg/image_preview" alt="Eenadu coverage of event" class="image-inline image-inline" title="Eenadu coverage of event" /></p> </th> </tr> <tr> <td>Media coverage in <a href="http://eenadu.net">Eenadu daily</a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/telugu-wikipedia-winter-camp-at-andhra-loyola-college'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/telugu-wikipedia-winter-camp-at-andhra-loyola-college</a> </p> No publisher rahim Access to Knowledge Wikimedia Wikipedia Telugu Wikipedia Openness 2015-02-26T02:27:05Z Blog Entry https://cis-india.org/openness/news/opensource-feburary-18-2015-jen-wike-huger-cultural-knowledge-needs-to-be-more-open <b>Subhashish Panigrahi is an educator and open source activist based in Bangalore, India. He is currently working at the Centre for Internet and Society's Access To Knowledge program where he builds partnership with universities, language researchers, and GLAM organizations. </b> <p style="text-align: justify; ">The blog post by Jen Wike Huger was published on the website of OpenSource.com. It can be <a class="external-link" href="https://opensource.com/community/15/2/contributor-spotlight-subhashish-panigrahi">read here</a>.</p> <hr /> <p style="text-align: justify; ">Their goal is to bring more scholarly and encyclopedic content under free licenses. During his work at the Wikimedia Foundation's India Program, Subha was involved in designing community sustaining and new contributor cultivation models.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">For his effort to share and spread open source far and wide, this year he was awarded a <a href="https://opensource.com/community/15/1/winners-2015-community-awards" target="_blank">2015 Opensource.com People's Choice Award</a>.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">His most recent articles include: <i><a href="https://opensource.com/life/14/3/wikipedia-project-hindu-poetry" target="_blank">Digitize any book in the public domain</a></i>, on his work to with Indian poetry important to the culture. <i><a href="https://opensource.com/education/14/5/odia-wikimedia" target="_blank">Books and more are relicensed to Creative Commons</a>, </i>about news from the Wikimedia Foundation. <i><a href="https://opensource.com/community/14/7/mozilla-brings-indian-communities-together" target="_blank">Mozilla brings Indian communities together</a></i>, about the Indic FirefoxOS L10n Sprint 2014. And, <i><a href="https://opensource.com/education/14/10/open-access-platform-odia-language" target="_blank">Open access platform to save the Odia Indian language</a></i>, on his work to preserve his native culture.</p> <h3 style="text-align: justify; ">The Basics</h3> <ul style="text-align: justify; "> <li><b>Name</b>: Subhashish Panigrahi ("Subha")</li> <li><b>Opensource.com username</b>: <a href="https://opensource.com/users/psubhashish" target="_blank">psubhashish</a></li> <li><b>Location</b>: India (Bengaluru and Odisha)</li> <li><b>Occupation/Employer/Position</b>: Programme Officer, Centre for Internet and Society</li> <li><b>Favorite open source tool or application</b>: Audacity</li> <li><b>Favorite Opensource.com channel</b>: Education</li> </ul> <h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Open up to us</h3> <p style="text-align: justify; ">I was away from home for my studies and was longing to read and write more in my native language of Odia. That led me to co-found eOdissa.com, a portal to tell stories to the rest of the world about my language, history, and cultural heritage. I was a sporadic editor on Wikipedia; anonymously since 2006. Then, in 2011, I was introduced to editing for Odia Wikipedia by my mentor Shiju Alex and friend Asutosh Kar.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">That was my entry point to the free software movement. And it was a trap I could never get out of!</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">I thankfully began a full-time job with the Wikimedia Foundation in 2012 for its India Program. The program is now housed with their Indian movement partner, Centre for Internet and Society, under the Access To Knowledge program. I work in the Bengaluru office but mostly travel to work with the communities. I work on building capacity for the Indian language Wikimedia communities, building institutional partnerships for long term outreach engagement, negotiating with publishers and copyright holders to bring more content relicensed under Creative Commons licenses, and taking part in policy level discourses around open access and enforcing free software for governance.</p> <h3 style="text-align: justify; ">What open tools and data help you get things done?</h3> <p style="text-align: justify; ">For my day job, I solely rely on Wikimedia Stats to collate data related to Wikimedia projects. I use some Python programming, jQery.ime, and JavaScript for other data-related work. But, I am a people's man and my interaction is mostly with humans rather than tools.</p> <h3 style="text-align: justify; ">What do you wish were more open?</h3> <p style="text-align: justify; ">GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) and many other cultural institutions have historically been the keepers of cultural knowledge. But I see possessiveness in not opening up their archival for public consumption. I wish more policy level negotiations and open collaborations were happening to open up cultural data.</p> <h3 style="text-align: justify; ">What are the biggest challenges to openness that you encounter, either at work or in your life?</h3> <p style="text-align: justify; ">Community and its growth. Working in a developing nation with historical, cultural, economic, and political hindrances pulls volunteerism down. It's is a huge challenge for me. Tapping into many existing networks and communities, and leveraging ongoing activities for the betterment for the free and open source movement, is something I am struggling for.</p> <h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Why choose the open source way?</h3> <p style="text-align: justify; ">I would like to quote a good friend and activist Michelle Thorne who says, "Human civilization has everything free and open from the beginning, but slowly the problems of restriction start beginning." Furthermore filmmaker Nina Paley says, "Knowledge is not created by us, rather shared by us."</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">If we are here to share knowledge, why to restrict its free flow?</p> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/opensource-feburary-18-2015-jen-wike-huger-cultural-knowledge-needs-to-be-more-open'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/opensource-feburary-18-2015-jen-wike-huger-cultural-knowledge-needs-to-be-more-open</a> </p> No publisher praskrishna Access to Knowledge Wikimedia Wikipedia Odia Wikipedia Openness 2015-03-12T16:41:05Z News Item https://cis-india.org/openness/news/andhra-jyothy-february-16-2015-online-free-content-in-telugu-wikipedia <b>Wikimedians gathered at Tirupati for a strategic meet. This was covered by the regional newspaper Andhra Jyothy </b> <p>Click to read the article published on the website of <a class="external-link" href="http://epaper.andhrajyothy.com/detailednews?box=aHR0cDovL2VjZG4uYW5kaHJhanlvdGh5LmNvbS9GaWxlcy8yMDE1MDIxNjAyMTYwMjQ3NDIyMDguanBn&amp;day=20150216">Andhra Jyothy</a>.</p> <hr /> <table class="grid listing"> <tbody> <tr> <th><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/copy_of_vishnu.png" alt="Online Telugu Wikipedia" class="image-inline" title="Online Telugu Wikipedia" /></th> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/andhra-jyothy-february-16-2015-online-free-content-in-telugu-wikipedia'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/andhra-jyothy-february-16-2015-online-free-content-in-telugu-wikipedia</a> </p> No publisher praskrishna Access to Knowledge Wikimedia Wikipedia Telugu Wikipedia Openness 2015-02-19T15:51:32Z News Item https://cis-india.org/openness/news/the-hindu-february-16-2015-ad-rangarajan-more-online-free-content-in-telugu-wikipedia-soon <b>Wikimedians gather at Tirupati for a strategy meet.</b> <p style="text-align: justify; ">The article by A.D. Rangarajan was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/more-online-free-content-in-telugu-wikipedia-soon/article6899801.ece">published in the Hindu </a>on February 16, 2015. T. Vishnu Vardhan gave his inputs.</p> <hr /> <p style="text-align: justify; ">While Wikipedia is emerging as the ‘knowledge corpus’ in various Indian and global languages, the Telugu version will no longer be left behind. With around 62,000 articles from an array of subjects like literature, cinema, science, language and culture, more online free content is expected to be made available in Unicode format very soon.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">For the first time, Telugu Wikimedians from across the country gathered in Tirupati for the 11th anniversary celebrations, which turned out to be a strategy meet on improving online content and also a forum to review the progress achieved thus far.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">Interestingly, most of the 55 participants, who have been actively writing on the forum, came face to face for the first time.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">Though there are 40,000 registered Telugu Wikipedians, hardly 80 of them are active writers, in a sense that they contribute for at least one hour a week. Unfortunately, there is not even a single writer from Tirupati, says T. Vishnu Vardhan, Programme Director (Access to Knowledge) of Bengaluru-based The Centre for Internet and Society, which is funded by the Wikimedia Foundation.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">“We have come to plant the seed here”, he told <i>The Hindu</i> . Titled ‘Andariki Annamayya’, a novel programme has been launched to digitise all the ‘Kirtans’ of the saint-poet, to be made available in searchable Unicode format for the benefit of surfers.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">Pawan Santosh of Hyderabad, T. Sujatha, a Chennai-based housewife, A. Rajasekhar, a pathologist from Hyderabad, Sultan Khader, a Bengaluru-based software engineer and Venkataramana, a Srikakulam-based government teacher bagged the ‘Komarraju Lakshman Rao Wikimedian Award’ for the year 2014, for editing, providing quality content, holding outreach programmes and their active role in policy decisions.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">Sakam Nagaraja, editor of Abhinava Prachuranalu, gave away the copyrights of his book ‘Pillala Pusthakam’, a compilation of 88 Aesop tales with exquisite art by Bapu, to Wikipedia.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">“Anybody can have free access to the content hereafter”, he announced.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">In a bid to encourage preservation of regional dialects, Mr. Nagaraja, who is also the founder president of Telugu Bhashodyama Samiti, presented them copies of the book ‘Pachanaku Sakshiga’ written by Namini Subramanyam Naidu, considered a masterpiece on dialects, as it is heavily loaded with Chittoor slang.</p> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/the-hindu-february-16-2015-ad-rangarajan-more-online-free-content-in-telugu-wikipedia-soon'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/the-hindu-february-16-2015-ad-rangarajan-more-online-free-content-in-telugu-wikipedia-soon</a> </p> No publisher praskrishna Openness Wikipedia Access to Knowledge Wikimedia 2015-02-19T15:18:33Z News Item https://cis-india.org/openness/news/open-glam-nominate-open-glam-project-today-for-2015-muse-awards <b>It's that time of the year again to nominate projects for the Muse Awards! This is like the Oscar of GLAM awards in the USA and welcomes international submissions. </b> <div style="text-align: justify; ">Our esteemed jury comprises of:</div> <div></div> <div> <ul> <li>Glen Barnes, Founder/CEO of MyTours and co-founder of Open New Zealand</li> <li>Dominic McDevitt-Parks, Digital Content Specialist, National Archives and Records Administration</li> <li>Subhashish Panigrahi, Programme Officer, Centre for Internet and Society</li> <li>Jane Park, Project Manager, Creative Commons</li> <li>Lieke Ploeger, Community Manager, Open Knowledge Foundation</li> <li>Merete Sanderhoff, Curator, National Gallery of Denmark</li> </ul> <div><b>Submissions are due Feb 23</b>.</div> </div> <div></div> <p style="text-align: justify; ">Please submit your OpenGLAM projects!!! This is a volunteer driven process, and we throw a big award ceremony with lots of champagne at the annual AAM conference.</p> <p><a class="external-link" href="http://aam-us.org/about-us/grants-awards-and-competitions/muse-awards">More details here</a>.</p> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/open-glam-nominate-open-glam-project-today-for-2015-muse-awards'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/open-glam-nominate-open-glam-project-today-for-2015-muse-awards</a> </p> No publisher praskrishna Openness Wikipedia Access to Knowledge 2015-05-27T14:08:55Z News Item https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/a-wikipedia-presentation-at-goa <b>Quark is one of India's largest science, technology and management festivals, held every February at BITS Pilani - K.K. Birla Goa Campus. This year in 2015, the event was held from February 6 to 8, 2015. This blog post captures the key moments. About 12 delegates attended the event.</b> <h3>How it Started?</h3> <p>For celebrating this annual event, "Quark 2015", <a class="external-link" href="http://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/goa/">BITS Pilani</a> invited speakers from all over India. Many parallel tracks happen during this event. I got an Invite to speak about Wikimedia projects.The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) supported my event participation.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">Dr. Sunil Kumar, a BITS physics professor who could not join the presentation due to conflicting meetings met me in the morning that day. He was curious to understand how Wikimedia projects work, how people collaborate to write the same article, how the conflicting views gets resolved among editors and how one can trust the content. He was excited to know the mechanics behind. We discussed about organizing a quiz for their students. He responded very positive and said that he will discuss this internally and get back to me later.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS team also helped me to establish contact with Luis Gomes, a local Konkani Wikipedian. We met at the event and shared our thoughts. It was a good learning for me to understand how Konkani Wikipedia is progressing.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">I gave my speech in the afternoon. The participants showed great enthusiasm to learn about Wikipedia projects. The session was very interactive. The participants tried answering open ended questions like — As on today, what are the possible ways to preserve unique knowledge and skill? The participants also asked questions on the source of knowledge contribution to Wikipedia and how it survives?</p> <p style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="https://prezi.com/a2qogoowdy2a/wikimedia-projects/">My presentation</a> showcased how anyone could contribute to Wikipedia and also explore greater possibilities of exploring existing frame work with examples like <a class="external-link" href="http://qrpedia.org/">QRpedia</a>, <a class="external-link" href="http://www.wikiwand.com/">WikiWand</a>, and many more.</p> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/a-wikipedia-presentation-at-goa'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/a-wikipedia-presentation-at-goa</a> </p> No publisher Radhakrishna Arvapally Openness Wikipedia Access to Knowledge Wikimedia 2015-03-09T01:21:43Z Blog Entry https://cis-india.org/openness/news/international-conclave-odia-language <b>Subhashish Panigrahi is participating in this event.</b> <p>See the <a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/invitation-letter-panigrahi.pdf" class="external-link">invitation letter</a> and the <a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/concept-letter.pdf" class="external-link">concept letter</a>.</p> <hr /> <p style="text-align: justify; ">The Odia language traces its roots back to 4th Century BC. Odisha was the first state to be carved out as a separate state on the basis of the language. The dawn of 20th February 2014 was a proud moment for all Odias as Odia language was accorded the ‘Classical language’ status of our country and occupied the 6th position. This achievement was due to the relentless effort of many scholars and activists. Now it becomes the responsibility of all the Odias to preserve, propagate and carry forward the legacy of the Odia language which is spoken by around 40 million people in India and around 45 million people globally. We will see that a day will come when it will be used as the first language in all government offices for official communications.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">THE INTELLECTS, a forum of progressive individuals and intellectuals in Delhi, believes it as an utmost duty and responsibility to promote Odia identity in India and abroad. In its bid to impart our language to Pravasi Odias living in and around Delhi, THE INTELLECTS is on a missionary zeal. It has started its mission called “ASA SIKHIBA AMARI BHASHA” in National Capital region.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">And now, the forum in association with SHRI JAGANNATH MANDIR, TYAGRAJNAGAR is organizing a two days conclave, on 20th &amp; 21st February 2015, to celebrate the 1st anniversary of Classical status to Odia language &amp; the World Mother tongue Day with a special focus on our mother tongue Odia.</p> <h3 style="text-align: justify; ">The Event</h3> <p style="text-align: justify; "><b>International Conclave of Odia Language</b>:<br />The event will be a two days festival showcasing the Odia identity in the national Capital and bringing some best minds of the country to discuss on various issues of immense need on language and culture of Odisha. Around 200 eminent people from across the world including many renowned experts from various walks of life are the invited speakers.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">It will be our proud privilege to have you with us for the occasion.<br />With Kind Regards</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">Debendra Rout<br />Convener of the conclave &amp; Chairman of The Intellects<br />Email: cm.intellects@gmail.com<br />Mob: +91-9350127370</p> <hr /> <h3>Programme</h3> <p>Celebration of 1st Anniversary of Classical status of Odia language<br />Date: 20th February, Friday, Time: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.</p> <p>Venue: Constitution Club, Rafi Marg, New Delhi</p> <p>Welcome<br />Inauguration of Conclave<br />Inauguration of Special Report on the Conclave<br />Felicitation of prominent personalities for their contribution to<br />Odia language<br />Addresses<br />Vote of Thanks<br />Cultural Programme<br />Dinner</p> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/international-conclave-odia-language'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/international-conclave-odia-language</a> </p> No publisher praskrishna Openness Wikipedia Access to Knowledge Wikimedia 2015-03-08T05:06:14Z News Item https://cis-india.org/openness/news/opensource-2015-award-winners <b>Every year, Opensource.com awards people from our community who have excelled in contributing and sharing stories about open source.</b> <p>These stories are about open source as we use it in our everyday lives as well as how it helps to build a better world and future in technology. This year, we present to you the 2015 Opensource.com Community Awards in the following categories.</p> <h3>People's Choice Awards</h3> <p><b><a class="external-link" href="http://opensource.com/users/psubhashish" target="_blank">Subhashish Panigrahi</a></b></p> <p><b><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/copy_of_Subhashish.jpg" alt="Subhashish" class="image-inline" title="Subhashish" /></b></p> <p>An educator and open source activist, based in Bangalore, India.</p> <h2 style="text-align: left; "><i>Reader's Choice Awards</i></h2> <p style="text-align: left; "><i>Recognizes the community's favorite articles from 2014. Voted on by the community.</i></p> <p><b><br /></b></p> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/opensource-2015-award-winners'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/opensource-2015-award-winners</a> </p> No publisher praskrishna Openness Wikipedia Odia Wikipedia Wikimedia 2015-02-12T01:23:44Z News Item https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/op-ed-samaja-jan-2015 <b>This is an op-ed I authored for Odia newspaper the "Samaja" that got published on January 30, 2015. Through this post I intend to highlight the needs for taking the Odia language to international fora instead of keeping it confined within the books. I have covered the focus area of 3 free and open source projects: Odia Wikipedia, Odia Wikisource and Global Voices Odia in the column highlighting the need for more people to contribute. </b> <p style="text-align: justify; ">The Unicode version of the post is below. Interestingly 10 new accounts got created on Odia Wikipedia so far which seem to be an impact of the portion explaining about Wikipedia.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">ଭାଷାଟି ଆମର ଏ ଦେଶର ମୋଟ ୬୦୦ରୁ ଅଧିକ ଭାଷା ଓ ତହିଁରୁ ୬ଟି ପୁରୁଣା ଭାଷା ଭିତରୁ ଗୋଟିଏ ବୋଲି ମାନ୍ୟତା ପାଇଲା । ଆମ ଭାଷା ମୂଳ ବିଶାଳ କଳିଙ୍ଗ ଭୂଖଣ୍ଡର ସତ୍ତାକୁ ଧରି ରଖିଥିବା ବୋଧେ ଏକଇ ଭାଷା । ଏତେ ସବୁ ପରେ ମଧ୍ୟ ଆମ ଭାଷା ଆନ୍ତର୍ଜାତିକ ସ୍ତରରେ କେତେ ପରିଚିତ, ତାହା ନକହିବା ଭଲ । ଯେଉଁଠି ନିଜ ରାଜ୍ୟର ଲୋକେ ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ କଥା ହେବାକୁ ନାରାଜ ସେଠି ଦେଶବିଦେଶରେ ପତିଆରା କଥା କହିବା ତୁଚ୍ଛା ପାଗଳାମି ବୋଲି ପାଠକେ ହୁଏତ ଭାବୁଥିବେ । ତେବେ ଏ ପ୍ରସଙ୍ଗ ଆଲୋଚନା କରିବା ପଛରେ ରହିଛି ଆମ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଜାତିର ମାନସିକତା ବିଦେଶରୁ ଆସିଥିବା ଲୋକଟେ ଅଧିକ ଆଦର ପାଏ, ନିଜ ଲୋକେ ବିଦେଶ ଯାଇ ବାହୁଡ଼ିଲେ ଅଧିକ ସମ୍ମାନର ଅଧିକାରୀ ହୁଅନ୍ତି, ଏମିତି ଲୋକେ ମଦ ପିଇଲେ ବିଦେଶୀ ଭାଷାରେ ବକନ୍ତି ବୋଲି ଶୁଣାଯାଏ! ଏଣୁ ନିଜ ରାଇଜ ଆଉ ଦେଶରେ ଯେବେ ଆମ ଭାଷାଟି ଗାଁ କନିଆଁ, କାଳେ ବିଦେଶରେ କାଟ୍‍ତି ବଢ଼ିଲେ, ଭାଷାଟି ଏକ ଅନ୍ତର୍ଜାତୀୟ ଭାଷା ବୋଲି ବିଖ୍ୟାତ ହେବ ଆଉ ନିଜ ଲୋକଙ୍କ ତା' ପ୍ରତି ଆଦର ବଢ଼ି ।ରେ ବୋଲି ବିଚାରିବା । କେଇଦିନ ତଳେ ଇଟାଲିରୁ ଜଣେ ସାଙ୍ଗ ଜଣାଇଲେ "ଓଡ଼ିଆ' ଶବ୍ଦଟି (ସେମାନେ, ପର୍ତ୍ତୁଗୀଜ ଓ ସ୍ପାନିସ ଭାଷାଏ "ଓଦିଆ' ବୋଲି ଉଚ୍ଚାରଣ କରନ୍ତି) ଘୃଣା କରିବା ପାଇଁ ବ୍ୟବହାର ହୁଏ । ମୁହଁରେ କହିଲି ନାହିଁ, ହେଲେ ମନରେ ଭାଜିଲି ଆମ ଲୋକେ ନିଜ ଭାଷାକୁ କ'ଣ କମ ହୀନିମାନ କରନ୍ତି! ଯଦି ଆମ ଭାଷା ଜଗତର ଛାମୁଆଁ ଭାଷା ଭିତରୁ ଗୋଟେ ହୋଇପାରନ୍ତା ତା'ହେଲେ ଏ "ଘୃଣାର ଭାଷା' ହୋଇ ଆଉ ରହନ୍ତା ନାହିଁ । ତେବେ ଆମ ଭିତରୁ କେତେଜଣ ଜଗତର ଆଉ ଭାଷା ଗବେଷାଳିଙ୍କ ସଙ୍ଗେ ନିଜ ଭାଷା କଥା ପକାଉଛୁ? ଓଡ଼ିଶା ସୀମା ଡେଇଁଲେ ଓଡ଼ିଆମାନେ ଏତେ ଅନର୍ଗଳ ହିନ୍ଦୀ କହିବେ ଆପଣଙ୍କୁ ବୋଧ ହେବ ବୋଧେ ଏମାନେ ମାଆ ପେଟରୁ ହିନ୍ଦୀ ଶିଖିଥିଲେ । ଅଧିକ ଭାଷା ଶିଖିଲେ ଭଲ, କାମରେ ଆସେ । ହେଲେ ନିଜ ଭାଷାକୁ ତୁଚ୍ଛକରି କିଏ ନୂଆ ଭାଷାରେ ଏତେ ପାରଙ୍ଗମ ହୁଏନା । ଆଜି ଯାଏ ଆମ ଭାଷାର ଏତେ ସାହିତ୍ୟ ଯେ ଗଢ଼ା, ତା'ଭିତରୁ କେତେ ଅନ୍ୟ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ ହୋଇଛି? ଯେଉଁମାନେ ଆମ ସାହିତ୍ୟର ମୁଖିଆ ବୋଲାଇ କାଳକାଳ ଧରି ଗାଦି ମାଡ଼ି ବସିଛନ୍ତି, ସେମାନଙ୍କୁ ପୁଚ୍ଛିବାର ବେଳ ଆସିଛି କାହିଁକି ଆମେ ଖାଲି ଅନ୍ୟ ଭାଷାରୁ ଅନୁବାଦ କରୁଛୁ, କାହିଁକି ଆମର କାଳଜୟୀ ଲେଖାମାନ ଦେଶ ଓ ଦେଶ ବାହାରେ ପଢ଼ାଯାଉନାହିଁ? ଭାରତୀୟ ଭାଷା ଭିତରୁ କେବଳ ତାମିଲ ଭାଷା କଥା ଚର୍ଚ୍ଚା ହୁଏ ଦେଶବିଦେଶରେ । କାରଣ କ'ଣ ଜାଣନ୍ତି? ବାକିସବୁ କାରଣ ବାଦ୍‍ ସବୁଠୁ ବଡ଼ କାରଣଟି ହେଲା ସେ ଭାଷାର ପୁରୋଧାମାନେ ରାଜ୍ୟ କି ଦେଶ ଭିତରେ ବାନ୍ଧି ନହୋଇ ନିଜ ଭାଷାକୁ ସାରା ଜଗତକୁ ନେଇଛନ୍ତି । ଖାଲି ପଇସାର ଟାଣରେ ଏ କାମ ହୋଇନାହିଁ, ଏଥିରେ ଧନ, ରାଜନୀତି ଆଉ କୂଟନୀତି ଲାଗିଛି । ଆମ ସାହିତ୍ୟିକମାନେ ଥରୁଟେ ବିଦେଶ ଗଲେ ସେଠି ନିଜ ଭାଷା, ରାଇଜ କଥା କେତେ ଯେ ଗପନ୍ତି ତା ମା' ଗଙ୍ଗେଇଙ୍କି ଜଣା । ଗପୁଥିଲେ ତାଙ୍କ ପରିଚିତ ମହଲରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା ବାବଦରେ ମଞ୍ଜିଟିଏ ପୋତା ହୋଇଥାନ୍ତା, ଅନ୍ତତଃ କିଛି ଭାଷାରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ବହି ଅନୁଦିତ ହୋଇଥାନ୍ତା, ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାର ପୁରୁଣାପଣ ବାବଦରେ ବିଦେଶୀ ବ୍ଲଗରେ, ଖବରକାଗଜରେ, ଟେଲିଭିଜନରେ ଚର୍ଚ୍ଚା ହୋଇଥାନ୍ତା । ହୋଇଛି କି ଏଥିରୁ କାଣିଚାଏ? ଆଜିର ପିଢ଼ି ଯାହାଦେଇ ଶିଖୁଛନ୍ତି, ତାଙ୍କୁ ସେଇ ମାଧ୍ୟମରେ ଶିଖାଇପାରିଲେ ସିନା ସେମାନେ ଶିଖିବେ । ଖାଲି ଏବର ପିଢ଼ିକୁ ଦୋଷ ଦେଇ ଭାଷା ମରିଯାଉଛି ବୋଲି କୁମ୍ଭୀର କାନ୍ଦଣା କାନ୍ଦିଲେ କି ହେବ କି ଆମେ ନିଜ ଭାଷାର ବିଶ୍ୱବିଦ୍ୟାଳୟ କଥା ବିଚାରୁଛୁ, ହେଲେ ଆକାଶ କଇଆଁ ସ୍ୱରୂପ "ଶାସ୍ତ୍ରୀୟ ମାନ୍ୟତା କେନ୍ଦ୍ର ଅନୁଦାନ ରାଶି' ଆସିବାକୁ ନଚାହିଁ ବିଦେଶରୁ ରାଶି କେମିତି ଆସି ଏ କାମରେ ଲାଗିବ ତା ପାଇଁ ବାଟ ତିଆରୁଛୁ କି? ତେବେ ଏ ଦୁଃଖ ବଖାଣିଲେ ନସରେ । ଚୋରକୁ ମାନ ମାରି ଖପରାରେ ଖାଇଲେ ଏଠି ଘରବୁଡ଼ି ଆଣ୍ଠୁଏ ହେବ । ତେଣୁ ବେଳ ଥାଉଁଥାଉଁ କିଛି ନିଅଁ ପୋତା ଚାଲୁ, ତେଣିକି ଘର ଯେବେ ଗଢ଼ାଯିବ ଏ ସାହା ହେବ । ଓଡ଼ିଆର ପରିଚିତି ଦେଶବିଦେଶରେ ଯେତିକି ଉଣା, ଜଗତର ବାକି ଭାଷା ପାଇଁ ତିଆରି ହୋଇଥିବା ବିଭିନ୍ନ ଜ୍ଞାନର ଭଣ୍ଡାରରେ ମଧ୍ୟ ସେତିକି ଅଜଣା । ଇଂରାଜୀ ବାଦ୍‍ ଅନ୍ୟାନ୍ୟ ଭାଷାର ଲେଖାର ପ୍ରକାଶନ ପାଇଁ ଅନେକ ସ୍ଥାନ ରହିଛି । ତେବେ ଏମିତି କେତୋଟି ଜାଗତିକ ସ୍ଥାନରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆର ଚିହ୍ନଟେ ଯେ ରହିବା ଲୋଡ଼ା ତା କହିବା ବାହୁଲ୍ୟ । କାନ୍ଦିବୋବାଳି ରାମମୋହନ ଲାଇବ୍ରେରି ସକାଶେ କେଇଶହ ବହି ଛାପି ଯେଉଁମାନେ ନିଜର ବା ଭାଷାର ଉନ୍ନତି କରିବେ ବୋଲି ସାଧି ବସିଥିବେ ତାଙ୍କ ପାଇଁ ନାକରା ଖବର- ଆଉ ପିଲେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ପଢ଼ୁନାହାନ୍ତି । ଓଡ଼ିଆ କଥା ଛାଡ଼ନ୍ତୁ, ପିଲେ ବହି ପଢ଼ୁନାହାନ୍ତି । ତାଙ୍କୁ ଆଜିକାଲି ଲୋଡ଼ା ଭଳିକି ଭଳି ଗେମ, ଆନିମେସନ ଆଉ ଗ୍ରାଫିକ୍‍ ନଭେଲ (କମିକ୍ସ ଭଳି ଛବି ସମ୍ବଳିତ ବହି) । ପୁଣି ପିଲାଏ ମୋବାଇଲ ଆଉ କମ୍ପ୍ୟୁଟରରୁ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଖୋଜି ବସିୁଛନ୍ତି ନୂଆନୂଆ କଥା । ଆଜିର ପିଢ଼ି ଯାହା ଦେଇ ଶିଖୁଛନ୍ତି ତାଙ୍କୁ ସେଇ ମାଧ୍ୟମରେ ଶିଖାଇପାରିଲେ ସିନା ସେମାନେ ଶିଖିବେ । ଖାଲି ଏବର ପିଢ଼ିକୁ ଦୋଷ ଦେଇ ଭାଷା ମରିଯାଉଛି ବୋଲି କୁମ୍ଭୀର କାନ୍ଦଣା କାନ୍ଦିଲେ କି ହେବ? ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ: ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ପହଞ୍ଚôଲେ କୌଣସି ବିଷୟ ଖୋଜିବାକୁ ପ୍ରଥମେ ଖୋଲାହୁଏ ଗୁଗୁଲ କି ୟାହୁ ଭଳି ସର୍ଚ୍ଚ ଇଞ୍ଜିନ । ଖୋଜିଲାପରେ ଯାହା ପ୍ରଥମ ଲିଙ୍କ୍‍ରେ ଆସେ ସେ ହେଲା ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ । ଏଇଟି ଜଗତର ବିଶାଳତମ ଜ୍ଞାନକୋଷ । ୨୦୦୧ରେ ଇଂରାଜୀ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ ପରେ ପ୍ରଥମ ଭାରତୀୟ ଭାଷା ଭାବେ ପଞ୍ଜାବୀ ଓ ଅହମିୟା ସହ ଯେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଏଥିରେ ସ୍ଥାନ ପାଇଲା ତା' ଅନେକ ଜାଣିନଥିବେ । ୨୦୦୨ରେ ତିଆରି ସିନା ହୋଇଗଲା । ହେଲେ ଏଥିରେ ଲେଖିବ କିଏ? ଇଂରାଜୀର ପାଠକ ଓ ଲେଖକ ଅଧିକ । ଆଉ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ ଲେଖିଲେ କଉଡ଼ିଟିଏ ମିଳେନାହିଁ । ସ୍ୱେଚ୍ଛାରେ ଲେଖିବାକୁ ବିଦେଶରେ ଯେମିତି ଲୋକ ବାହାରନ୍ତି ଆମର ସେ ଅବସ୍ଥା ନାହିଁ । ତଥାପି ୨୦୧୧ ବେଳକୁ ଓଡ଼ିଶା ବାହାରେ ଥିବା କିଛି ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଏ ତିମିରରେ କିଛି ଆଲୁଅ ଜଳାଇଲେ । ଧୀରେଧୀରେ ଓଡ଼ିଶାରେ ଥିବା ଓଡ଼ିଆମାନେ ମଧ୍ୟ ସେଥିରେ ଯୋଡ଼ିହେଲେ । ଆଉ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାର ବିଶାଳତମ ଅନଲାଇନ ଜ୍ଞାନକୋଷ । <a href="http://or.wikipedia.org" target="_blank">or.wikipedia.org</a> ରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ଏ ଏନସାଇକ୍ଲୋପିଡ଼ିଆ ସୀମିତ ସ୍ୱେଚ୍ଛାସେବୀଙ୍କ ଦେଇ ସମ୍ପାଦିତ ହେଉଥିବାରୁ ସେତେ ବିଶାଳ ନୁହେଁ ସତ, କିନ୍ତୁ ଏହା ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ବିଶାଳତମ ୱେବସାଇଟ । ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ମାସିକ ପାଠକ ୫ ଲକ୍ଷରୁ ଅଧିକ । ବହିର ପାଠ ବହି ବାହାରେ ବ୍ୟବହାର ହେବାରେ ପୁଣି ଟାଇପ କରିବାର ଯେଉଁ ବାଧକ ତା' ଏଥିରେ ନାହିଁ । ମଜାର କଥା ଯେ ଅନେକ ସମୟରେ ବିଭିନ୍ନ ଭାଷାଭାଷୀ ଉଇକିଆଳିଗଣ (ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ସମ୍ପାଦକ) ବେଳେବେଳେ ଆପୋଷରେ ଏକ ଆଉଜଣଙ୍କ ଦେଶ-ଭାଷା-ଚଳଣି-ବ୍ୟକ୍ତିତ୍ୱଙ୍କ ସମ୍ବନ୍ଧରେ ଲେଖିବା ଦେଖାଯାଏ । ୨୮୮ରୁ ଅଧିକ ଭାଷାଭାଷୀ ଏମିତି ଅଗଣିତ ଲୋକ ଯେଉଁଠି ମିଶି ଲେଖନ୍ତି ସେଠି ଭାଷାଟିଏ ଯୋଜନଯୋଜନ ଡେଇଁ ଜଗତର କୋଣ ଅନୁକୋଣ କେଡ଼େ ସହଜରେ ପହଞ୍ଚିପାରେ ଏ ତା'ର ଏକ ଉଦାହରଣ । ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପାଠାଗାର: ଆମ ଭାଷାରେ ଏଯାବତ୍‍ କେଇ ଲକ୍ଷ ବହି ଛପାଯାଇସାରିବଣି । ହେଲେ ଏ ସବୁ ବହି କ'ଣ ସଭିଁଏ ପଢ଼ିବାର ସୁଯୋଗ ପାଆନ୍ତି? କାହାପାଖରେ ପାଠାଗାର ଯିବାପାଇଁ ବେଳ ନାହିଁ ତ ହାତପାହାନ୍ତାରେ ବହି ନଥିବାରୁ କିଏ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଛାଡ଼ି ବାକି ଭାଷାର ଲେଖାପଢ଼ା ଆଦରୁଛି । ଆମ ଭାଷାର ପାଠକ କମିକମି ଯାଉଛନ୍ତି । ସମାଧାନର ପନ୍ଥା କ'ଣ ହୋଇପାରେ? ଆମ ଭାଷା ଖାଲି କ'ଣ ସାହିତ୍ୟ ଆଉ ସାହିତ୍ୟକଙ୍କ ଭାଷା କି ଲୋକମୁଖର କଥିତ ଭାଷା ହୋଇ ରହିଯିବ? ଆଜିର ପିଢ଼ି ପାଖରେ ପହଞ୍ଚôବାଲାଗି ତାକୁ ମନ ପଢ଼ିବାକୁ, ଜିଣିବାକୁ ହେବ । ଏଥି ।ଇଁ ପ୍ରାଥମିକ କାମଟି ହେଲା ବିରଳ ଓ ଛପା ହେଉନଥିବା ଅନେକ ପୁରାତନ ବହି ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ ଜରିଆରେ ପାଠକମାନଙ୍କ ନିକଟକୁ ନେବା । ଯଦି ପାଠାଗାରରୁ କୌଣସି କାରଣରୁ ବହିଟି ଚୋରିହୁଏ କି ପୋକ ଖାଇଯାଏ ତା'ହେଲେ ଲେଖକର ଶ୍ରମର ଦେଉଳ ଭୁଶୁଡ଼ି ଡ଼େ । ତାକୁ ସାଇତିବାର ସବୁଠୁ ବଡ଼ ବାଟ ହେଉଛି ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ୍‍ । ପୁରୁଣା ଓ ବିରଳ ବହିମାନ ଛପାଇବାରେ ଭୁବନେଶ୍ୱରର ସୃଜନିକା ଅନୁଷ୍ଠାନର କାମ ଏକ ଐତିହାସିକ ପଦକ୍ଷେପ । ୧୮୪୦- ୧୯୪୦ ଭିତରେ ପ୍ରକାଶିତ ପତି୍ରକା, ୨୫ରୁ ଅଧିକ ଅଭିଧାନ ତଥା ପୂର୍ଣ୍ଣଚନ୍ଦ୍ର ଭାଷାକୋଷ ଭଳି ପୋଥିକୁ ମିଶାଇ ୭୪୦ରୁ ଅଧିକ ବହିକୁ ଡିଜିଟାଲ ରୂ ଦେବାରେ ସେମାନଙ୍କ ଅବଦାନ କାହିଁରେ କେତେ । ହେଲେ ଏ ବହିର ଲେଖାସବୁ ଆଉଥରେ ବ୍ୟବହାର ହେବା, ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ୍‍ରେ ଖୋଜିପାଇବା ତଥା ମୋବାଇଲ ଆଦିରେ ପଢ଼ିବା ପାଇଁ ଆଉଥରେ ଟାଇପ ହେବା ଜରୁରୀ । ସବୁଯାକ ବହିକୁ ଟାଇପ କରିବା ସମ୍ଭବ ନୁହେଁ, ହେଲେ କିଛିକିଛି ବହି ଧୀରେଧୀରେ ଟାଇପ ହୋଇପାରିବ । ସେ କାମଟି ଅଧୁନା ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିାଠାଗାରରେ ଆରମ୍ଭ ହୋଇଛି । ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ <a href="http://or.wikisosurce.org" target="_blank">or.wikisosurce.org</a> ରେ ପାଠକେ ଏହାକୁ ଖୋଲି ପଢ଼ିପାରିବେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଗବତଠୁ ଆରମ୍ଭ କରି ଭଞ୍ଜ ସାହିତ୍ୟ ଏବଂ ଗୋପବନ୍ଧୁଙ୍କ ପରି ଏ ଯୁଗର ମହାନ ସାହିତ୍ୟିକଙ୍କ ରଚନାବଳୀ । ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପଟି ଅଣଲାଭକାରୀ, ଆଉ କପିରାଇଟ ନଥିବାରୁ ବହି ସବୁ ଖୋଲାରେ ପାଠକଙ୍କ ପାଇଁ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ । <br /><br />ଗ୍ଲୋବାଲ ଭଏସେସ: ଉପର ଦୁଇ ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ ତ ଗଲା ବହିର ରକ୍ଷଣାବେକ୍ଷଣ ଆଉ ଜ୍ଞାନକୋଷ ବା ଏନସାଇକ୍ଲୋପିଡ଼ିଆ ଗଢ଼ିବାର କଥା । ହେଲେ ଘଟୁଥିବା ଘଟଣା ଆଉ ଜନମତର ମହତ ମଧ୍ୟ ଊଣା ନୁହେଁ । ଘଟୁଥିବା ଘଟଣାବଳୀ ଓ ତହିଁରେ ଜନ-ଅଭିମତକୁ ଭରିବା ଲକ୍ଷ୍ୟରେ ଏକ ବିଶ୍ୱବ୍ୟାପୀ ଆନ୍ଦୋଳନ ହେଉଛି ଗ୍ଳୋବାଲ ଭଏସେସ । ସୌଭାଗ୍ୟର କଥା ଯେ ହିନ୍ଦୀ ଓ ବଙ୍ଗଳା ପରେ ଏଥିରେ ୩ୟ ଭାରତୀୟ ଭାଷା ଭାବେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ସ୍ଥାନୀତ । ଓଡ଼ିଆ ପାଠକଙ୍କ ପାଇଁ ଖବର ବୋଲି ଯାହା ଖବରକାଗଜରେ ଆସେ ତା ବାହାରେ ଘଟୁଥିବା ଘଟଣା ସହ ପରିଚିତ ଲାଭ ପାଇଁ ଏ ଏକ ବଡ଼ ମାଧ୍ୟମ ହୋଇପାରେ । ଏହା <a href="http://or.globalvoicesonline.org" target="_blank">or.globalvoicesonline.org</a> ରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ । ଏ ମଧ୍ୟ ଏକ ସ୍ୱେଚ୍ଛାସେବୀ ପରିଚାଳିତ ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ ଯାହାର ଦୁଆର ଭାଷା ଦକ୍ଷତା ଥିବା ଲେଖକଙ୍କ ପାଇଁ ଖୋଲା ।<br clear="all" /></p> <hr /> <p>Click to read a copy of the original article published by the <a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/samaja-op-ed-jan-2015.pdf" class="external-link">Samaja here</a></p> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/op-ed-samaja-jan-2015'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/op-ed-samaja-jan-2015</a> </p> No publisher subha Access to Knowledge Wikimedia Wikipedia Odia Wikipedia Openness 2015-01-31T04:51:15Z Blog Entry