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Blog Entry Training-the-trainer programme and Mediawiki training at Pune
by Abhinav Garule — published Aug 17, 2016 — last modified Aug 18, 2016 11:14 AM — filed under: , , , , , , ,
A two-day long train-the-trainer and Mediawiki training programme was organised during May 28-29 in Pune to better capacity of Wikimedians both technically, and outreach and community building.
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Tools orientation session for Telugu Wikimedians of Hyderabad
by Pavan Santhosh S. — published Aug 17, 2016 — last modified Aug 17, 2016 02:35 PM — filed under: , , ,
A tools orientation session is being organised on July 10 at Hyderabad during the regular monthly meetup. Telugu Wikimedians who would be interested to learn about advanced editing tools like citation templates and Twinkle are welcome to join.
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Tulu takes a major Wiki leap, all thanks to a dedicated team
by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 22, 2016 — last modified Aug 22, 2016 04:38 PM — filed under: , ,
Tulu is one of the five Dravidian languages but it has the least number of speakers. Though it has a script, lack of usage has made it almost obsolete, forcing Tulu writers to write in Kannada. This has, however, benefited Tulu today, allowing it to boast of its own Wikipedia
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Tulu gets official Wikipedia page, but Mumbai linguists say more is needed
by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 22, 2016 — filed under: , ,
Sitting in his Sunkadakatte home in Bengaluru, Dr UB Pavanaja still recalls the moment when he was at the WikiConference India 2016 in Chandigarh earlier this month. Academicians from all over India had gathered at the event, to share their views about issues related to India on Wikipedia. While the talks were still in progress, Katherine Maher, executive director, Wikimedia Foun-dation, USA, paused to make an announcement.
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Focus on India—WikiConference produces new apps; state government adopts free licenses
by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 20, 2016 — last modified Aug 22, 2016 03:15 AM — filed under: , ,
WikiConference India and its productive hackathon
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Blog Entry Kannada Wikipedia edit-a-thon organised at Sagara, Karnataka
by Ananth Subray — published May 12, 2016 — last modified Aug 22, 2016 10:58 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
A two-day-long Kannada Wikipedia edit-a-thon was organised at Sagara, Karnataka during January 26-27. A photowalk was also organised on the 25th to cover places of encyclopedic importance.
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Blog Entry ଓଡ଼ିଆ ପାଇଁ ଓସିଆର: ଛପା ଲେଖାର ଛବିରୁ ଡିଇଟାଲ ଲେଖା
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Aug 23, 2016 — filed under: , ,
Though not an open source solution, Google's OCR works really well for Odia and other Indian languages. My column in the Odia daily the Samaja that was published last Saturday briefs about how the OCR works and has a step-by-step process to use it. There is also a little bit of background of Tesseract-based OCR that Debayan Banerjee worked in the past and Nasim Ali from the Odia Wikimedia community is currently working.
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International Conference on Innovation for Shared Prosperity
by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 25, 2016 — filed under: , ,
Rohini Lakshane attended a conference on IP Rights, Competition and Standard Setting in the IT industry on August 20 and 21, 2016. The conference was organized by O.P. Jindal Global University and Jindal Initiative on Research in IP & Competition.
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Blog Entry Preserving Languages and Cultures in India: The Birth of the Tulu Wikipedia
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Aug 26, 2016 — last modified Sep 07, 2016 03:35 PM — filed under: , ,
After eight years of effort and outreach, the Tulu language Wikipedia has gone live. Wikimedia contributors play a key role in preserving languages and cultures, and tools like the Wikimedia Incubator help new projects like the Tulu Wikipedia get started.
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Blog Entry Community Digest: Tulu Wikipedia Goes Live after Eight Years in Incubator; News in Brief
by Subhashish Panigrahi and Ting-Yi Chang — published Aug 26, 2016 — filed under: , ,
Eight years after being created in the Wikimedia Incubator, the Tulu-language Wikipedia is now live as the 23rd Indic language Wikipedia.
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