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Bangla Wiki turns 10
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Prasad Krishna
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Mar 29, 2015
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Apr 04, 2015 04:10 PM
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
The 10th anniversary of Bengali Wikipedia was marked with a a gathering of Wikipedians of vernacular languages from across the country and beyond at Jadavpur University. Bengali is one of 20 Indian languages to have a Wikipedia presence. The event also celebrated 14 years of the mother edition in English of the open-access, crowd-sourced online encyclopaedia.
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Barcamp Bangalore
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Oct 13, 2014
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Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team participated in a Barcamp at SAP Labs, Bangalore on October 12, 2014. Dr. U.B.Pavanaja and Rahmanuddin Shaik participated in the event.
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Bargarh Manuscript Digitisation Project
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by
Sailesh Patnaik
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Feb 12, 2017
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Apr 16, 2017 08:08 PM
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CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Odia Wikipedia,
Openness
The digitisation of temple manuscripts at the Dadhivamana Temple, Bargarh in Western Odisha followed by a workshop for the students of Imperial College took place between 11- 12 February, 2017.
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Bengaluru: A Hub for Kannada and Sanskrit Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects!
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by
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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Beyond Editor Count: Assessing Quality on Wikipedia
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by
Tejaswini Niranjana
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Jun 12, 2016
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Wikimedia,
CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Since Wikipedia is considered as the go-to source for different kinds of knowledge by anyone starting off in a particular field of study, and since Indian languages (IL) are often the default languages of the classroom in India, strengthening the quality of the material available on IL Wikipedias is certain to have widespread tangible and intangible impact.
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Bharat Majhi Writings Now Available Under a Creative Commons License
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Oct 14, 2014
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Nov 07, 2014 03:34 PM
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Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Video,
Openness,
Odia Wikipedia
Before the advent of Odia Wikisource becoming live, Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) got in touch with notable Odia author Bharat Majhi for bringing his writings on the Internet.
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BHASHA - Indian Languages Digital Festival
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Mar 31, 2016
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Jun 18, 2016 05:14 PM
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Wikimedia,
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Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Subhashish Panigrahi gave a talk at the Bhasha- India Languages Digital Festival a conference organized by news media YourStory, at New Delhi on March 11, 2016. In the panel "The challenges of making regional language content available on the Web and on mobiles" Panigrahi spoke about some of the challenges in growing the Indian-language Wikipedia projects and the communities.
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Bhuvana Meenakshi elected Mozilla Rep for July 2019
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Admin
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Sep 25, 2019
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Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Bhuvana Meenakshi was selected as a Rep of the Month (July 2019) by Mozilla for my active contributions.
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Bodh: a new tool for Wikidata lexicographical data
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Bodhisattwa Mandal
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published
Jun 28, 2021
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filed under:
Wikimedia,
CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia
We are happy to announce that a new tool, named Bodh, has been developed by Jay Prakash, as a CIS-A2K assignment, to add or modify statements for lexemes, senses and forms.
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Books and More are Relicensed to Creative Commons
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
May 02, 2014
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May 28, 2014 06:29 AM
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This blog post is cross-posted from Opensource.com. It was published on May 2, 2014.
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