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Typing in Indic Languages from Mobiles made Easy!
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Nov 19, 2012
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Jul 17, 2013 09:02 AM
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Information Technology
A new app is up for typing in Indic languages from mobile phones. This is is available online at: http://bitly.com/indictyping and supports on iOS. Android version is to be released soon.
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Vachana Sanchaya: 11th century Kannada literature to enrich Wikisource
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Mar 20, 2014
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
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Kannada Wikipedian Omshivaprakash, Pavithra and I co-authored this article on digitizing Vachana Sahitya, a 11th century Kannada literature on WikiSource.
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Vachana Sanchaya: Bringing Access to 11th century Kannada Literature
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Apr 08, 2014
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The blog post throws light on providing access to Vachana Sanchaya, a eleventh century Kannada literature.
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Voices from Goa: Frania Pereira tells Why She Writes Articles on Konkani Wikipedia
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Aug 27, 2013
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Sep 05, 2013 09:24 AM
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Konkani as a language has seen geographical, political and religious conflicts. Being the official language of Goa and spoken widely in the Indian states of Karnataka, Kerala and Maharashtra it is still trying to strengthen its base. Recently the Centre for Internet and Society's Access To Knowledge Programme (CIS-A2K) in collaboration with the Konkani department of Goa University organized a four-day Wikipedia workshop for MA, Konkani language students. This workshop involved 38 students creating 43 new articles on Konkani Wikipedia which is incubation. We’re hoping that these efforts will contribute towards bringing this 7 year old project out of incubation to a live Wikipedia project.
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Voices from Goa: Rusita Paryekar, a MA student writes articles on Konkani Wikipedia
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Aug 27, 2013
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Sep 06, 2013 12:30 PM
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Rusita Paryekar is one of the 38 students from the MA Konkani department of Goa University gathered at the State Central Library to learn writing and editing articles on Konkani Wikipedia. Currently Konkani Wikipedia is in incubation and needs more voluntary participation from enthusiasts who want their language, Konkani to strengthen its base in the digital knowledge domain.
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We are Wikipedia
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Aug 25, 2014
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Sep 06, 2014 03:19 AM
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Wikimedia Deutchland has included a paragraph about WeAreWikipedia on their blog.
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What Indian Language Wikipedias can do for Greater Open Access in India
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Oct 22, 2016
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Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Open Access
The number of internet users in India was expected to reach 460 million by 2015, as the growth in the previous year was 49 percent. The total number of users for Hindi content alone reached about 60 million last year.
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Why It's Essential To Grow Indian-Language Wikipedias
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Jan 26, 2016
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May 28, 2016 06:52 AM
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On 15 January, Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia celebrated its 15th birthday, meeting this milestone with 36 million articles in more than 290 languages (the English-language Wikipedia alone has crossed the 5-million article mark). But here I want to address some major questions that we need to ask as Indians.
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WikiConference India 2016 Submission: How to better tell your Wikimedia Community Story using Media as a Tool
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Aug 17, 2016
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Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
The Wikimedia community has constantly struggled to a) reach out to masses and tell them about their contribution, and motivate people to contribute to the Wikimedia projects. Media plays a very important role in spreading the word about Wikimedia projects and the contributor community, and at times, encouraging the audience to contribute.
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Wikimania 2013: Wikipedians represent Indian Languages in Hong Kong
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Aug 19, 2013
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Sep 13, 2013 06:03 AM
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The 7th, 8th and 9th of August 2013 saw over 600 Wikipedians across the world participating Wikimania at Hong Kong. The three day annual international conference for users and contributors of Wikipedia brought many debates about open educational research, open source technologies, gender gap, documenting the history of mankind in a free and open platform like Wikipedia and its sister sites in collaboration with Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums and all of these in 286 world languages. More and more volunteers are joining this movement and it is expanding the media of accessing and disseminating knowledge.
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