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Van Bodh Workshop for content development on Forest Resources at Gadchiroli
by Admin — published Nov 06, 2018 — filed under: , , , ,
CIS-A2K has collaborated with Tribal Research and Training Institute (TRTI) to facilitate development of Open knowledge resources on Community Forest Resource and content development in Wikimedia projects with community participation. These contents will become a part of "Van Bodh Knowledge repository".
Located in Access to Knowledge / Events
Blog Entry Varsha Kavlekar on Konkani Wikipedia Incubator
by Nitika Tandon — published Dec 12, 2013 — last modified Dec 31, 2013 10:56 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) in collaboration with the Goa University is working to build Konkani Wikipedia. As part of this program it organised the Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Program recently.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry Voices from Goa: Frania Pereira tells Why She Writes Articles on Konkani Wikipedia
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Aug 27, 2013 — last modified Sep 05, 2013 09:24 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Konkani as a language has seen geographical, political and religious conflicts. Being the official language of Goa and spoken widely in the Indian states of Karnataka, Kerala and Maharashtra it is still trying to strengthen its base. Recently the Centre for Internet and Society's Access To Knowledge Programme (CIS-A2K) in collaboration with the Konkani department of Goa University organized a four-day Wikipedia workshop for MA, Konkani language students. This workshop involved 38 students creating 43 new articles on Konkani Wikipedia which is incubation. We’re hoping that these efforts will contribute towards bringing this 7 year old project out of incubation to a live Wikipedia project.
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Blog Entry Voices from Goa: Rusita Paryekar, a MA student writes articles on Konkani Wikipedia
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Aug 27, 2013 — last modified Sep 06, 2013 12:30 PM — filed under: , , , ,
Rusita Paryekar is one of the 38 students from the MA Konkani department of Goa University gathered at the State Central Library to learn writing and editing articles on Konkani Wikipedia. Currently Konkani Wikipedia is in incubation and needs more voluntary participation from enthusiasts who want their language, Konkani to strengthen its base in the digital knowledge domain.
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Blog Entry We are Wikipedia
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Aug 25, 2014 — last modified Sep 06, 2014 03:19 AM — filed under: , , ,
Wikimedia Deutchland has included a paragraph about WeAreWikipedia on their blog.
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Blog Entry What Indian Language Wikipedias can do for Greater Open Access in India
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Oct 22, 2016 — filed under: , , , ,
The number of internet users in India was expected to reach 460 million by 2015, as the growth in the previous year was 49 percent. The total number of users for Hindi content alone reached about 60 million last year.
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Blog Entry What is Wikimedia Education SAARC Conference?
by Sailesh Patnaik — published Jun 05, 2019 — last modified Jun 22, 2019 09:37 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
The Wikimedia Education SAARC conference is on 20th June 2019. A conference for Wikimedians, Wikimedia education leaders, educators and researchers engaged with Open Education and free knowledge movement.
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Whats & Hows of Wiki
by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 26, 2013 — last modified Oct 25, 2013 07:00 AM — filed under: , , ,
The Kings School students of class 10 were blessed to have Nitika Tandon & Subhashish Panigrahi of Wikipedia Foundation to conduct a workshop on the whats & hows of Wiki, creating & editing Wiki pages, etc. Our students also got a hands on experience, and they edited the Bibinca page on Wiki.
Located in News & Media
Why aren’t Indians using Wikipedia to hold the government to account?
by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 14, 2016 — filed under: , ,
Despite its popularity, the site's benefits are going unutilised.
Located in Access to Knowledge / News & Media
Blog Entry Why It's Essential To Grow Indian-Language Wikipedias
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jan 26, 2016 — last modified May 28, 2016 06:52 AM — filed under: , , ,
On 15 January, Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia celebrated its 15th birthday, meeting this milestone with 36 million articles in more than 290 languages (the English-language Wikipedia alone has crossed the 5-million article mark). But here I want to address some major questions that we need to ask as Indians.
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