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Goa University Partners CIS India To Build Konkani Wikipedia
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Prasad Krishna
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Sep 30, 2013
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Oct 03, 2013 09:44 AM
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Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Konkani Wikipedia,
Openness
The Goa university has entered into a three year memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) for building the Konkani Wikipedia, reports navhindtimes.
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Goa university re-releasing Konkani encyclopaedia on Sept 26
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 25, 2013
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Sep 25, 2013 05:59 AM
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
The Goa University in collaboration with Centre for Internet and Societie's Access to Knowledge Programme (CIS-A2K) is re-releasing its four volume 3632 page Konkani Vishwakosh (encyclopaedia).
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Goa University students update ‘Goa’ Marathi articles on Wikipedia
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Admin
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Feb 22, 2019
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CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Openness
Faculty and students of Goa University’s Marathi department have updated 164 Marathi articles on Wikipedia related to Goa recently.
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Goa University to make available online Konkani Wikipedia, within 6 months
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Sep 30, 2013
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Oct 03, 2013 09:35 AM
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Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Konkani Wikipedia,
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Thick heaps of the four volumes of Konkani language ‘vishwakosh’ or encyclopedia , till now available only in hard copy, will now attain a modern access.
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GoI body National Mission for Manuscripts has digitised 3 million manuscripts
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Prasad Krishna
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Mar 13, 2015
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Apr 05, 2015 03:20 AM
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Twelve-year-old government body National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM) has digitised over thirty lakh manuscripts and 185,88,390 pages in all as of 31 December 2014, Mahesh Sharma, Union Minister of State for Culture, Tourism & Civil Aviation said in the Rajya Sabha this week. He added that the National Archives of India (NAI) is set to digitise another 1,100,000 historic records. The government has spent over Rs 25 lakhs on digitisation as of January 2015 as compared to ~ Rs 36 lakhs in 2012-13.
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Google Gives Wikimedia Millions—Plus Machine Learning Tools
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Admin
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Jan 22, 2019
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Feb 02, 2019 12:52 PM
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Google is pouring an additional $3.1 million into Wikipedia, bringing its total contribution to the free encyclopedia over the past decade to more than $7.5 million, the company announced at the World Economic Forum Tuesday.
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Google's Optical Character Recognition Software Now Works with All South Asian Languages
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Sep 26, 2015
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Wikipedia,
Accessibility,
Access to Knowledge
The Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software by Google now works for more than 248 world languages, including all the major South Asian languages, and it's easy to use and works with over 90 percent accuracy for most languages.
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Google-translated Telugu articles prioritisation exercise: February iteration
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by
Pavan Santhosh
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Feb 08, 2017
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Apr 18, 2017 05:02 AM
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CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Telugu Wikipedia,
Openness
The February iteration of the Google-translated Telugu articles prioritisation exercise took place online.
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Google-translated Telugu articles prioritisation exercise: January iteration
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by
Pavan Santhosh
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Jan 10, 2017
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Apr 15, 2017 05:47 PM
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Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Telugu Wikipedia,
Openness
The January iteration of the Google-translated Telugu articles prioritisation exercise took place online.
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Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015 round2/The Centre for Internet and Society/Impact report form
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by
Tanveer Hasan
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Oct 09, 2016
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Wikimedia,
CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
This form is for organizations receiving Annual Plan Grants to report on their results to date. For progress reports, the time period for this report will the first 6 months of each grant (e.g. 1 January - 30 June of the current year). For impact reports, the time period for this report will be the full 12 months of this grant, including the period already reported on in the progress report (e.g. 1 January - 31 December of the current year).
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