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ALC Wiki Winer Camp: by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — last modified Jan 13, 2015 06:34 AM
Students and Faculty who attended the Wiki winter camp.
ALC Wiki Winer Camp students: by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — last modified Jan 13, 2015 07:03 AM
Students and Faculty who attended Wiki Winter Camp
Ammanudi my article.pdf: by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published Sep 06, 2016 — last modified Sep 06, 2016 02:15 PM
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Andhra Loyola College and the Centre for Internet & Society sign MoU for Better Net Access: by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published Aug 19, 2014 — last modified Jan 20, 2015 06:47 PM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Openness
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.
Located in Openness / Blog
Creating Free Software Environment at Andhra Loyola College: by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published Dec 13, 2014 — last modified May 27, 2015 12:54 AM — filed under: Openness, Telugu Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
Andhra Loyola college has signed an MoU with CIS-A2K and as part of it CIS-A2K team has provided a free and open software environment at Andhra Lyola College's Computer Center. Thirty machines have been installed with free software Operating system and some useful applications such as GIMP, Inkscape, firefox, libreoffice, etc.
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Eenadu coverage of event: by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — last modified Jan 19, 2015 09:32 AM
Eenadu coverage of event
Images and links matter quality: by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published May 04, 2016 — last modified Jun 08, 2016 09:54 AM — filed under: Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
Wikipedia articles are considered of a higher quality when they have illustrations. An article without images is considered dull. Wikipedia is all about references. Any information on Wikipedia is encouraged to have verifiable citations. Hence images and external links form a criterion for quality of articles on Wikipedias. This blog post tries to analyse the current scenario of CIS-A2K's Focus language areas with respect to images and links.
Located in Openness
Making Telugu Suitable for Internet: by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published Sep 06, 2016 — filed under: CIS-A2K, Telugu Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
In brief, the article speaks of steps in making a language other than English suitable for Internet and computers, what input methods, fonts and content are available in Telugu as on date and what challenges are ahead in making language fully available on Internet and in computers.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Odia Wikipedia progress from July to December, 2015: by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published Jan 01, 2016 — last modified Feb 05, 2016 02:45 AM — filed under: Wikipedia, CIS-A2K, Odia Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
Odia Wikipedia, one of the very active Wikipedias in Indian languages has been showing a negative rate of growth for the last 6 months. We will try to analyse, what has been happening and how can that be improved.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Participants at Tewiki hackathon 2014: by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — last modified Feb 10, 2015 04:32 PM
Participants at Tewiki Hackathon 2014
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