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Doctors and Translators Are Working Together to Bridge Wikipedia's Medical Language Gap
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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Jul 28, 2014
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Aug 04, 2014 03:29 AM
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
I interviewed Wikimedian User:CFCF who is managing the entire project to understand how it is going to work and wrote on Global Voices' Rising Voices about it.
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'Trolled' from US Congress, Wikipedia bans edits
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Jul 28, 2014
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
Online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has issued a ten-day ban against an anonymous editor of its website located on the premises of the U.S. Congress, after the latter engaged in “disruptive editing,” on a wide range of subjects, from moon-landing conspiracy theories linked to Cuba to naming former U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as an alien wizard.
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Open Knowledge Festival 2014
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 28, 2014
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last modified
Jul 28, 2014 10:17 AM
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
Subhashish Panigrahi represented India as the India Ambassador of OpenGLAM local in Berlin. The event was organized by Google, Omidyar, et.al., in Berlin from July 15 to 17, 2014.
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Telugu Wikipedia struggles to stay afloat
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 28, 2014
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Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Telugu Wikipedia,
Openness
For a language that is spoken by 10 crore people, content is sparse.
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Classical Odia Language in the Digital Age
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Jul 28, 2014
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Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Odia Wikipedia,
Openness
The essay was published in the June edition of Odisha Review, a magazine published by Government of Odisha's Department of Information and Public Relations.
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Wiki Loves Pride 2014 and Adding Diversity to Wikipedia
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by
Dorothy Howard
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published
Jul 25, 2014
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
Since Wikipedia’s gender gap first came to light in late 2010, Wikipedians have taken the issue to heart, developing projects with a focus on inclusivity in content, editorship and the learning environments relevant to new editors.
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University of Mysore Re-releases Kannada Vishwakosha (Encyclopaedia) under Creative Commons Free License
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by
U.B.Pavanaja
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Jul 24, 2014
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last modified
Jul 24, 2014 07:03 AM
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Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Homepage,
Wikipedia,
Featured,
Openness,
Kannada Wikipedia
The University of Mysore and the Centre for Internet and Society co-organized the Open Knowledge Day in Mysore on July 15, 2014. On this occasion Mysore University released six volumes of Kannada Vishwakosha under the Creative Commons (CC) license.
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Information & Communication Technology in Making a Healthy Information Society with special reference to use of ICTS in Educational Technology
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 18, 2014
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Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Internet Governance,
Openness,
Information Technology,
ICT
The Department of Computer Science, Andhra Loyola College in collaboration with the Department of Computer Science, Krishna University will be organizing a UGC-sponsored National Seminar on August 11 and 12, 2014 at Andhra Loyola College in Vijayawada.
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150 Rare Books Get New Lease of Life Online, Courtesy Students
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 18, 2014
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Malayalam Wikipedia,
Openness
You might have heard about Samkshepa Vedartham by Clement Pianius, the first book printed in Malayalam but might not have got a chance to read it.
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Six Kannada encyclopaedias released
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 18, 2014
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Openness,
Kannada Wikipedia
The first six online volumes of the University of Mysore's Kannada Encyclopaedia were launched on wikipedia's Creative Commons (CC) to mark the 'Muktha Jana Dina Dayu' (Dissemination of Knowledge) today.
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