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Konkani Wikipedia makes headway
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Prasad Krishna
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Aug 24, 2013
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Sep 17, 2013 06:07 AM
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The first floor of the Krishnadas Central Library has been bustling with activity for the last four days. A closer look reveals the concentration, thought and precision that is put into each letter of the Devnagri script Konkani they type. Still further and you realise it’s a Wikipedia site that final year MA Konkani students of Goa University are busy with.
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Konkani Wikipedia next?
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 30, 2013
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last modified
Aug 01, 2013 08:32 AM
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
A quarter of the world’s Konkani speakers live in Goa. Which is why it should cheer us up to know that a Konkani Wikipedia is being shaped up. But unless more and more of us contribute, the project might never go online.
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Konkani Wikipedia workshop at AIMIT, St Aloysius College
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Prasad Krishna
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Sep 12, 2013
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Sep 12, 2013 06:09 AM
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St. Aloysius College is organizing a Konkani Wikipedia workshop at AIMIT, St Aloysius College (Autonomous), Beeri, Mangalore on September 13, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja from the CIS-A2K team will participate in the event.
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Konknni Wikipedia Workshop
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Prasad Krishna
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Nov 15, 2013
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Nov 15, 2013 08:19 AM
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Dalgado Konknni Akademi in collaboration with Centre for Internet & Society’s Access to Knowledge Programme is organsing a 2 day Wikipedia editing workshop at the Goa Central State Library on November 16 and 17, 2013 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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KP Rao feted
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Prasad Krishna
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Apr 15, 2013
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Apr 15, 2013 04:47 PM
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KP Rao who had designed fonts for Indian languages including Kannada and devised the first phonetic keyboard driver for Indian languages, was felicitated at a programme organised at Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management on Tuesday, reports DHNS from Mangalore.
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Krishnarajapet Wikipedia Workshop (Coverage in Prajavani)
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Aug 12, 2013
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Sep 05, 2013 05:50 AM
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Prajavani covered the Kannada Wikipedia workshop organised by the CIS-A2K team and the Kannada Sahitya Parishat of KR Pet., on August 12, 2013. A scanned version of the report is produced below.
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Krishnarajapet Wikipedia Workshop (Coverage in Suvarna Times of Karnataka)
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Prasad Krishna
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Aug 12, 2013
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Sep 05, 2013 06:10 AM
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Suvarna Times of Karnataka covered the Kannada Wikipedia workshop organised by the CIS-A2K team and the Kannada Sahitya Parishat of KR Pet., on August 12, 2013. A scanned version of the report is produced below.
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Krishnarajapet Wikipedia Workshop (Coverage in Vijaya Vani)
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Aug 12, 2013
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Sep 05, 2013 06:45 AM
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Prajavani covered the Kannada Wikipedia workshop organised by the CIS-A2K team and the Kannada Sahitya Parishat of KR Pet., on August 12, 2013. A scanned version of the report is produced below.
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Launch of Assamese Wikipedia Education Program at Guwahati University
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by
Nitika Tandon
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Oct 22, 2012
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Jul 26, 2013 11:43 AM
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Video,
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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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Loyola Faculty Enlightened About Open Edn Resources
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Jun 25, 2014
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Jul 02, 2014 04:50 AM
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“The tremendous changes in the digital technology have introduced the newage faculty to certain open and collaborative tools like Wiki, termed as open educational resources (OER),” Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) progarmme director T Vishnu Vardhan has said.
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