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Bridging Gender Gap in Pune: WikiWomenDay 2012 Celebrated with Success!
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Oct 29, 2012
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A2K team members Subhashish Panigrahi and Noopur Raval participated in the "WikiWomenDay" organized by Wikipedia Club Pune at PAI International Learning Solutions, Azam Campus on October 28, 2012. Subhashish unfolds the happenings of this full day free fun workshop.
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Kolkata: Tasting the Sweetness of Wikipedia!
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Nov 30, 2012
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Dec 04, 2012 07:19 AM
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Recently, Access to Knowledge team member Subhashish Panigrahi spent some time with wikipedians in Kolkata. Through this blog post he shares his experience and learning from the interaction. This post explores the journey of three wikipedians — Jayanta Nath, Deepon Saha and Ashwin.
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Wikipedia Women's Workshop in Mumbai
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Noopur Raval
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Nov 21, 2012
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Dec 03, 2012 06:01 AM
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The Wiki Women Workshop was organized at the Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Wadala in Mumbai on November 4, 2012. It was attended by over 60 women participants who were taught how to contribute to Wikipedia articles and briefed about the knowledge gaps in Wikipedia — the free encyclopedia. Noopur Raval has prepared a report of the event.
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Report on Wikipedia Hackathon held in Hyderabad
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Yuvi Panda
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Nov 19, 2012
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Dec 03, 2012 06:37 AM
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BITS Hyderabad had a tech fest from October 25 to 27, 2012, and wanted to conduct a technical wiki hackathon. We decided to do it on October 26 — all night.
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A Wikipedia Mini-hackathon in Delhi
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Yuvraj Pandian
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Nov 11, 2012
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Dec 04, 2012 07:31 AM
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Wikipedian Yuvaraj Pandian visited the CIS office in Delhi and helped the Access to Knowledge team conduct a super-ad-hoc mini-hackathon with two other volunteers, Sheel from Delhi and Harsh from Ahmedabad. The aim was to get them a kickstart in developing userscripts/gadgets, and get them to a point where the prior existing documentation makes sense to them.
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Typing in Indic Languages from Mobiles made Easy!
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Nov 19, 2012
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Jul 17, 2013 09:02 AM
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A new app is up for typing in Indic languages from mobile phones. This is is available online at: http://bitly.com/indictyping and supports on iOS. Android version is to be released soon.
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First Odia Wikipedia Education Program to be Rolled Out
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Nov 30, 2012
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Dec 14, 2012 12:17 PM
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Odia Wikipedians gathered at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Dhenkanal on November 8, 2012 to start the first Odia Wikipedia Education Program. This program aims to bring students edit articles on Odia Wikipedia through a series of assessments by professors. The local community members from Nalconagar would be supporting the four month program.
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An Odia Wikipedia Workshop at KMBB College, Bhubaneswar
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Nov 19, 2012
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Dec 07, 2012 10:40 PM
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The Centre for Internet and Society along with Odia Wikipedians in Bhubaneswar organized an Odia Wikipedia workshop on November 18, 2012. It was held in KMBB College of Engineering. Odia Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia in Odia language which everyone can edit.
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Follow up to Wikipedia Introductory Session at Bharati Vidyapeeth — More Interested and More Involved Participants
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Nitika Tandon
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Nov 19, 2012
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Oct 30, 2013 09:17 AM
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A Wikipedia introductory session was organised at Bharati Vidyapeeth Engineering College in Delhi early this year and a follow up session was organised by CIS on November 19, 2012. About 12 to 15 participants attended the follow up session. Although most of the participants had attended the introductory session there were a few who were coming over for the first time.
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Odia Wikipedia Gets a New Typing Solution!
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Nov 19, 2012
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Dec 12, 2012 12:28 PM
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Subhashish Panigrahi worked with Yuvi Panda to create a new typing scheme for Odia Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. This blog post gives a summary of this development and its outcome.
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