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Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021/Report
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by
Nitesh Gill and Tito Dutta
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published
Aug 20, 2021
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Malayalam Wikipedia
In March 2020, the whole world came to a standstill. What many deemed as a regular ‘flu’ turned out to be the pandemic that brought everyone to their knees. The things that we always did, we could no longer do them. We were all confined to our homes with no choice but to work online. Hanging out with friends, attending weddings, and being a part of the conferences and seminars suddenly became a part of the past. We started using the word unprecedented a lot.
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Wikimedia Workshop at Ismailsaheb Mulla Law College, Satara
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by
Subodh Kulkarni
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published
Oct 24, 2017
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Marathi Wikipedia,
Marathi Wikisource
A Wikimedia Workshop was on 4 August 2017 at the Ismailsaheb Mulla Law College in Satara to introduce the Wikipedia and its sister projects to the students.
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Wikimedia Workshop on Rivers under Project Jalbodh
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by
Subodh Kulkarni
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published
Jul 30, 2019
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last modified
Aug 05, 2019 03:28 PM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
The Indian National Trust for Art & Heritage Pune Chapter is working with various organisations to preserve the natural heritage places like rivers in Pune district of Maharashtra, India. After the presentation of 'Project Jalbodh' by CIS-A2K in River Dialogue organised by INTACH in April 2018, several organisations shown keen interest in collaboration.
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Wikiorientation at Dr.GR Damodaran College of Science
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by
Bhuvana Meenakshi
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published
Dec 23, 2019
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last modified
Jan 18, 2020 08:11 AM
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filed under:
Wikimedia Education,
CIS-A2K,
Open Source,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikipedia Education Program,
women and internet,
Wikipedia gender gap,
teaching
An orientation session on Wikimedia projects was held on 6-7 December 2019 at Dr. GR Damodaran College of Science. This talk was part of the “Hour of Code” event, which is an International event celebrated across the globe to encourage students to develop their knowledge on Computer Science. This event was supported by Open Knowledge movements like Wikimedia, Mozilla, etc.which would help students to share their knowledge in the form of volunteerships and contributions. The highlights of gender gap research and women based projects such as Women in Red were covered as part of a focussed group discussion.
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Wikipedia Asian Month — 2016 iteration starts on 1 November
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by
Tito Dutta
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published
Oct 30, 2016
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last modified
Jun 28, 2017 10:05 AM
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filed under:
Edit-a-thon,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
The second iteration of Wikipedia Asian Month (WAM), a month-long edit-a-thon to create and improve Asia-related articles on Wikipedia, is going to start on 1 November 2016. In this blog post we'll revisit the stats of the 2015 iteration of the event. We'll also talk to Addis Wang, an organizer of WAM, to know more about their progress and preparation.
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Wikipedia assignments workshop for Post Graduate students in PAH Solapur University
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by
Subodh Kulkarni
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published
May 03, 2019
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last modified
Jun 22, 2019 03:21 AM
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filed under:
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia Education
On May 3, 2019, Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) along with PAH Solapur University conducted a Wikipedia workshop for students from the post-graduate stream in PAH Solapur University. Ten students from Mass Communication department and three faculty members participated in the workshop. Prof. Ravindra Chincholkar and Subodh Kulkarni were the facilitators for the workshop.
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Wikipedia at Avenir
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 11, 2013
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filed under:
Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
A 4 hours Wikipedia event at Avenir, 2013 is being held at Netaji Subhash Engineering College, Kolkata, West Bengal on 11th March 2013. The Centre for Internet and Society is supporting this event.
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Wikipedia at Forefront in Christ University
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by
Syed Muzammiluddin
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published
Jan 29, 2014
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last modified
Feb 04, 2014 05:08 AM
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filed under:
Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
Wikipedia has entered Indian undergraduate language classroom in Christ University, Bangalore. Recently the Access to Knowledge team from the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS-A2K) organized a series of events in Christ University. This blog post provides a brief analysis of the outcome.
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Wikipedia boom in Marathi, Malayalam and other desi languages
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 01, 2013
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filed under:
Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
A vibrant vernacular Wikipedia seems to be taking root in India. In the last eight months, the number of Wikipedia entries has grown substantially in 20 Indian languages, says a study by the Bangalore-based Centre for Internet and Society (CIS).
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Wikipedia boom in vernacular languages
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 01, 2013
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last modified
Aug 12, 2013 04:29 AM
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filed under:
Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
The number of Wikipedia entries in vernacular languages has grown substantially in the last eight months
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