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Know your Users, Match their Needs!
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Rebecca Schild
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Nov 23, 2011
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Feb 27, 2012 03:06 PM
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As Free Access to Law initiatives in the Global South enter into a new stage of maturity, they must be certain not to lose sight of their users’ needs. The following post gives a summary of the “Good Practices Handbook”, a research output of the collaborative project Free Access to Law — Is it Here to Stay? undertaken by LexUM (Canada) and the South African Legal Institute in partnership with the Centre for Internet and Society.
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Punjabi Wikipedia Workshop at Punjabi University, Patiala
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Shiju Alex and Subhashish Panigrahi
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Sep 28, 2012
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Oct 04, 2012 12:18 PM
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Patiala is the home to the famous Punjabi University. A Wikipedia workshop was organized at the Punjabi University's Punjabi Department on August 16, 2012.
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Punjabi Wikipedia Workshop at Amritsar
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Shiju Alex
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Sep 30, 2012
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Oct 04, 2012 04:11 PM
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After Ludhiana and Patiala we came to Amritsar, which we all know is home to the Golden Temple and the spiritual centre of Sikh religion, to introduce Punjabi Wikipedia. The workshop was held at the Spring Dale Senior School, Amritsar on August 17, 2012.
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Wikipedia comes to Hyderabad!
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Noopur Raval
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Sep 30, 2012
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Feb 13, 2013 11:40 AM
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This post is a report on the series of Wikipedia meets organized in the city of Hyderabad on September 29-30, 2012. These workshops were a a part of the larger effort to help Wikipedia contributors in the same city to meet each other and strengthen the local community.
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Bengaluru: A Hub for Kannada and Sanskrit Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects!
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Oct 16, 2012
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Nov 04, 2012 02:03 PM
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Kannada Wikipedia is one of those Indic language wikipedias which has seen many readers coming up every month. Subhashish Panigrahi summarizes the experiences of some of the very active Kannada wikipedians from the recent Kannada Wikipedia meetup held in Bengaluru on October 7, 2012.
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Wikipedia workshop @ Inmantec College, Ghaziabad
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Nitika Tandon
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Oct 19, 2012
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Jan 07, 2013 04:30 PM
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The Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet & Society was approached by Gaurav Prashar, Assistant Dean at Inmantec College, Ghaziabad to organize a Wikipedia workshop. Accordingly, a workshop was organized on October 17, 2012.
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Launch of Assamese Wikipedia Education Program at Guwahati University
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Nitika Tandon
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Oct 22, 2012
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Jul 26, 2013 11:43 AM
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The Assamese Wikipedia community has shown a rapid growth in the past six months from 20 active editors in January 2012 to 29 active editors in June 2012. The absolute numbers might seem low but in terms of percentages its an overwhelming increment of 45 per cent.
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Malayalam Wikipedia Education Program: August to October Updates
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by
Shiju Alex
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Oct 29, 2012
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Nov 09, 2012 06:18 PM
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Three months back, I wrote a blog post (http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/07/06/wikipedia-education-a-model-from-malayalam-wikipedia/) about the inauguration of the Wikipedia education program in Malayalam Wikipedia. This program is the first of its kind in an Indic language, and Malayalam community is doing the program in collaboration with the IT@School, a project of the Department of General Education, Government of Kerala, setup in 2001, to foster the IT education in schools.
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Gujarat Wikipedia Education Program: Rajkot
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Noopur Raval
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Oct 31, 2012
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Oct 31, 2012 08:17 AM
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This report analyses a series of meetings and workshops held in Rajkot, a city in Gujarat, India during the month of October 2012.
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First Pune Odia Wikipedia Workshop Organized!
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Oct 31, 2012
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Nov 30, 2012 12:44 PM
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The first Pune Odia Wikipedia workshop was organized in Pune on October 27, 2012. Subhashish Panigrahi recollects his experience about the events through this report.
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