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Blog Entry How Open Access Content helps Fuel Growth in Indian-language Wikipedias
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Oct 25, 2016 — filed under: , , , ,
Mobile Internet connectivity is growing rapidly in rural India, and because most Internet users are more comfortable in their native languages, websites producing content in Indian languages are going to drive this growth. In a country like India in which only a handful of journals are available in Indian languages, open access to research and educational resources is hugely important for populating content for the various Indian language Wikipedias.
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Blog Entry Mapping Content on Gender and Sexuality in Indian Languages
by Yashashwini Srinivas — published Oct 21, 2022 — last modified Oct 21, 2022 01:03 PM — filed under: , , , , ,
This research study explores content production processes on gender and sexuality in Indian languages, its digital documentation and factors that affect its availability and use on open access platforms. The research was undertaken by Yashashwini Srinivas, with editorial inputs by Puthiya Purayil Sneha, and Torsha Sarkar. This research was part of short-term studies undertaken at the CIS-A2K programme 2021-22.
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Blog Entry Digitisation of O Bharat, a bilingual biweekly published in Goa from 1912 to 1949
by Subodh Kulkarni — published Oct 11, 2022 — filed under: , , , , , ,
It all started like this. During the Wikimedia session at Goa University in October 2021, it was realised that there is very little documentation about the ‘Goa Liberation Struggle’ on Wikimedia projects. So, in the meeting Prof. Vinay Madgaonkar from the Marathi language department took the lead to develop a project around this theme.
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Blog Entry Digitisation of O Bharat, a bilingual biweekly published in Goa from 1912 to 1949
by Subodh Kulkarni — published Oct 11, 2022 — filed under: , , , , , , ,
The digitization project of O Bharat, a historic biweekly published between 1912 to 1949 in Goa was completed through collaboration of different organizations. The trustees of Bharatkar Hegde Desai Trust initiated the project in collaboration with Marathi department of Goa University, Bhakti Dnyan Marg Sanstha and Goa Central Library. The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge Programme facilitated the project with technical and financial assistance. Two local students scanned 12000 pages in 8 days. The year wise volumes of O Bharat are now freely available on Wikimedia Commons in the form of archive.
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Blog Entry Research Studies on Indian Language Wikimedia Projects 2019-21
by Sneha PP — published Dec 31, 2020 — last modified Oct 21, 2022 12:59 PM — filed under: , , , ,
This is a compilation of the final reports from a series of short-term studies undertaken by the CIS-A2K team in 2019-2021, on an array of topics related to Indian language Wikimedia projects. The projects were undertaken by Subodh Kulkarni, Bodhisattwa Mandal, Bhuvana Meenakshi Koteeswaran, Ananth Subray, Satpal Dandiwal and Nitesh Gill, with research oversight and editorial support by Puthiya Purayil Sneha, and internal review by Sumandro Chattapadhyay and Ambika Tandon.
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Knowledge and Openness in the Digital Era
by Prasad Krishna — published Jun 18, 2014 — last modified Jul 04, 2014 11:28 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Andhra Loyola College and the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team invite you to a two-day national workshop on knowledge and openness in the digital era.
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Soon, all 14 volumes of Kannada encyclopaedia to be online
by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 16, 2014 — filed under: , , ,
Four volumes have been uploaded so far on a pilot basis.
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Open Access: Students help revive and digitize rare books for Malayalam Wiki Library
by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 15, 2014 — last modified Jul 28, 2014 08:50 AM — filed under: , , ,
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Blog Entry Marathi Wikipedia Workshop in Sangli, Maharashtra
by Subodh Kulkarni — published Aug 01, 2017 — last modified Aug 16, 2017 08:40 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
A Marathi Wikipedia workshop was recently held in Sangli, Maharashtra
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FUEL GILT Conference 2015
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 06, 2015 — last modified Dec 15, 2015 08:03 AM — filed under: , , ,
Subhashish Panigrahi will be speaking at the FUEL GILT Conference 2015 to be held at Tamil Virtual Academy, Anna University Campus, Gandhi Mandapam Road, Kottur in Chennai from November 20 to 22, 2015. Subhashish will also be participating in the Mozilla L10N hackathon.
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