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Blog Entry Reading Devanagari script based sites like Konkani Wikipedia in Kannada Script
by U.B.Pavanaja published Jul 13, 2015 last modified Jun 18, 2016 06:14 PM — filed under: ,
This is a small hack to read websites with Devanagari script (used for Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Maithili and a few more languages) based sites like Konkani Wikipedia in Kannada script.
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Kannada Wikipedia Workshop in Mangaluru (Coverage in Prajavani)
by U.B.Pavanaja published Jul 05, 2015 last modified Jun 18, 2016 06:14 PM — filed under: ,
As part of its ongoing partnership with St. Aloysius College, Mangaluru, CIS-A2K along with the Wikipedia community in Karnataka organized a workshop on Kannada Wikipedia. Prajavani reported this in their edition published on July 5, 2015.
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Upload More Kannada Articles on Wikipedia
by U.B.Pavanaja published Jul 05, 2015 last modified Sep 13, 2015 06:09 AM — filed under: , ,
Uploading information in Wikipedia helps to develop language, said Indian Languages Programme Manager U B Pavanaja here on Saturday. The article was published in Indian Express (Mangaluru edition) on July 5, 2015.
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Kannada Wikipedia Workshop in Mangaluru (Coverage in Udayavani)
by U.B.Pavanaja published Jul 05, 2015 last modified Sep 13, 2015 06:17 AM — filed under: , ,
As part of its ongoing partnership with St Aloysius College Mangaluru, CIS-A2K co-organized a workshop with the Kannada wikipedia community on Kannada Wikipedia. Udayavani covered this in their edition on July 5.
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Not many contributors for Kannada-centric Wiki page
by U.B.Pavanaja published Jul 05, 2015 last modified Sep 13, 2015 05:42 AM — filed under: , ,
Wikipedia, which has over 60,000 contributing editors in India, has only 33 Kannadigas contributing to the Kannada section, said Pavanaja U B, programme manager, The Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru.
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Blog Entry Statement by the Centre for Internet and Society on the Broadcast Treaty at SCCR 30
by Nehaa Chaudhari published Jul 02, 2015 — filed under: ,
The 30th Session of the World Intellectual Property Organization's ("WIPO") Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights ("SCCR") is underway in Geneva from 29 June, 2015 to 03 July, 2015. While CIS was unable to attend this meeting, we have the following statement to make on negotiations on the Proposed Treaty for Broadcasting Organizations.
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Blog Entry Odia Wikipedia meets Google Developer Group
by Sailesh Patnaik published Jun 29, 2015 last modified Jul 16, 2015 01:17 PM — filed under: , ,
This is a guest post by Wikimedian Sailesh Patnaik who has been a ardent contributor in Odia-language Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects and has led outreach and partnership building initiatives to grow the Wikimedia projects in Odia and other Indian languages. In this post Sailesh shares his personal experience from his interaction at the Google Extended I/O organised by Google Developer Group in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. All the views are author’s personal views.
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Blog Entry Comments on the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations: Technical Background Paper Prepared by the WIPO Secretariat
by Nehaa Chaudhari and Amulya Purushothama published Jun 28, 2015 last modified Sep 03, 2015 01:47 AM — filed under: , ,
Technical Background Paper prepared by the WIPO Secretariat in relation to the Broadcast Treaty (“Technical Background Paper) provides information on new and emerging technologies and on legal developments in the broadcasting sector. This Technical Background Paper will be discussed at the upcoming 30th session of the SCCR in Geneva on 29th June- 3rd July 2015. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India had called for comments on the same. This is a submission made by Nehaa Chaudhari and Amulya Purushothama on behalf of the Centre for Internet and Society in this regard.
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Blog Entry National IPR Policy Series : Follow-up RTI to DIPP on the IPR Think Tank
by Nehaa Chaudhari published Jun 25, 2015 — filed under: ,
This RTI was prepared by Varun Baliga and Nehaa Chaudhari as a follow-up, based on the responses of the DIPP to our earlier RTI requests (available at http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/national-ipr-policy-series-rti-requests-by-cis-to-dipp-dipp-responses)
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Blog Entry Train the Trainer: Running effective outreach activities in India
by Tanveer Hasan published Jun 24, 2015 last modified Jul 30, 2015 03:20 PM — filed under: , ,
It is heartening to report that many Wikimedia projects in Indian languages have sustained, and even experienced an upward trend in, editor engagement. However, in terms of content creation, the majority of these projects are still facing grave challenges that put their very existence at risk.
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