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India's 23rd Regional Wikipedia Launches
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 09, 2016
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CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Tulu Wikipedia
A Tulu version has gone live on Wikipedia, making it the 23rd one in an Indian language to do so.
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News & Media
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Wikipedia launches in Tulu, its 23rd Indic language
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 09, 2016
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Tulu Wikipedia
Wikipedia has launched in Tulu, making it the 23rd Indian language Wiki, reports domain-b. The announcement was made at the Wikiconference India 2016 held in Chandigarh last weekend.
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News & Media
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US Copyright law faces constitutional challenge
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by
Anubha Sinha
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published
Aug 11, 2016
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filed under:
Copyright,
Access to Knowledge
In a major international development, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a lawsuit to strike down the provisions on Digital Rights Management(DRM) in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. In this post, I discuss DRMs, the EFF lawsuit, and then draw upon the differences between the US and Indian copyright regime on DRM protection.
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Blogs
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Wikipedia WikiMeetup at Bangalore
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 11, 2016
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last modified
Aug 12, 2016 01:31 PM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Event
Bangalore based Wikipedians will gather for a meeting at the Centre for Internet and Society on Sunday, August 14, 2016 at 3.00 p.m.
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Events
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Telugu Wikipedians create Articles on Punjab in Telugu Wikipedia
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 12, 2016
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Telugu Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Telugu Wikipedians created articles on Punjab in a national level contest. Telugu Wikipedians received a trophy during the closing ceremony of Wiki conference India at Chandigarh.
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News & Media
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Edit-a-thon at DSERT Bengaluru to improve Science-related articles in Kannada Wikipedia
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by
Ananth Subray
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published
Jul 14, 2016
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last modified
Aug 16, 2016 08:31 AM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Edit-a-thon,
Workshop,
Kannada Wikipedia
We have been working with the Department of State Educational Research and Training of Karnataka (DSERT), a Government of Karnataka-run research and training institution headquartered in Bengaluru. With the hope of expanding the reach of Science-related content in Kannada Wikipedia, we organised an edit-a-thon spanning over three days from the 11th January through the 13th.
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Openness
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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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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Aug 17, 2016
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filed under:
Wikimedia,
CIS-A2K,
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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Blogs
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WikiConference India 2016 Submission: We, Men, Women: Collective Learning in Bridging Indic Wikipedia Gender Gaps
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by
Elisachang
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published
Aug 17, 2016
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filed under:
Wikimedia,
CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
There is no denying that non-English Wikipedias are disproportionally underrepresented in scholarly focus despite the significant role of an open knowledge society can play in smaller linguistic groups – local collaboration and communication, knowledge dissemination, as well as preservation of local language resources.
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Blogs
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WikiConference India 2016 Submission: Gender Gap in Indian Language Wikipedias – Projects, Outreach and Outcome
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by
U.B.Pavanaja
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published
Aug 17, 2016
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filed under:
Wikimedia,
CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
India is not much different from the global statistics when it comes to gender gap issues in Wikipedia. Indian language Wikipedias are known to have similar ratio of male to female editors.
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Blogs
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Tools orientation for Telugu Wikimedians of Hyderabad
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by
Pavan Santhosh S
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published
Jul 31, 2016
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last modified
Aug 17, 2016 02:58 PM
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filed under:
Telugu Wikisource,
CIS-A2K,
Telugu Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
To help Wikimedians learn about essential tools that are used across Wikimedia projects, a tools orientation session was organised during the monthly meetup on July 10 at Hyderabad.
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Blog