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Blog Entry First Urdu Wikipedia Workshop at Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad
by Syed Muzammiluddin published Mar 04, 2014 last modified Apr 07, 2014 01:06 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
During the second week of February, Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Bangalore received a call from Dr Faheemuddin, Assistant Professor, Department of Translation Studies, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad requesting an Urdu Wikipedia Workshop in University. We were informed of special interest of Dr Zafaruddin , Head, Department of Translation studies in holding the event as any effort aimed at expanding the Urdu Wikipedia will benefit the Urdu language community across the world.
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Blog Entry Vachana Sanchaya: Bringing Access to 11th century Kannada Literature
by Subhashish Panigrahi published Apr 08, 2014 — filed under: , , ,
The blog post throws light on providing access to Vachana Sanchaya, a eleventh century Kannada literature.
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Blog Entry India Access To Knowledge/Draft Work plan July 2014 - June 2015
by T. Vishnu Vardhan published Mar 31, 2014 last modified Apr 08, 2014 09:51 AM — filed under: , , , ,
One of the key mandates of the Access to Knowledge (A2K) programme at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is to work towards catalysing the growth of the open knowledge movement in South-Asia and in Indic languages. CIS has been a steward of the Wikimedia movement in India since December 2008 when Jimmy Wales visited Bangalore. From September 2012 it has been actively involved in growing the movement in India through a grant received from the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF). Based on the 18-month experience of working with various Indic Wikimedia communities, CIS-A2K has developed its Work Plan for July 2014 to June 2015.
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Blog Entry Odisha Dibasa 2014: 14 Books Re-released under CC License
by Subhashish Panigrahi published Apr 14, 2014 — filed under: , , ,
Odisha became a separate state in British India on April 1, 1936. Odia, a 2,500 year old language recently gained the status of an Indian classical language. The Odia Wikimedia community celebrated these two occasions on March 29 in Bhubaneswar with a gathering of 70 people.
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Blog Entry CIS Signs MoU with Mysore University
by U.B.Pavanaja published Apr 16, 2014 last modified May 05, 2014 06:29 AM — filed under: , , , ,
CIS-A2K signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the University of Mysore for converting to Unicode and re-releasing their encyclopaedia under Creative Commons License. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja on behalf of the CIS-A2K team signed the MoU.
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Blog Entry Report from India: Relicensing books under CC
by Subhashish Panigrahi published Apr 19, 2014 last modified May 05, 2014 09:13 AM — filed under: , , ,
My name is Subhashish Panigrahi. I am an educator currently working in the community and communication front at The Centre for Internet and Society’s Access To Knowledge program (CIS-A2K), an India-based catalyst program to grow Indic language communities for Wikipedia and its sister projects. Prior to my work at CIS, I worked for the Wikimedia Foundation’s India Program, a predecessor to the current CIS-A2K project.
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Blog Entry ୭୯ ବର୍ଷରେ ସ୍ୱତନ୍ତ୍ର ଓଡ଼ିଶା: ଶାସ୍ତ୍ରୀୟ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଓ କମ୍ପ୍ୟୁଟରରେ ଏହାର ବ୍ୟବ‌ହାର
by Subhashish Panigrahi published Apr 04, 2014 last modified May 06, 2014 05:18 AM — filed under: , , , ,
This article was published in online Odia magazine "The Amalekha". It covers a brief history of the book digitization initiates in Odia language, problems with access available content in ISCII standard, scope of Unicode content and Open Access, Odia Wikipedia's further use for public and contribution.
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Blog Entry ଓଡ଼ିଅା ଭାଷାର ବିକାଶ ଓ କମ୍ପ୍ୟୁଟର
by Subhashish Panigrahi published Apr 08, 2014 last modified May 06, 2014 06:50 AM — filed under: , , ,
This article was published in Odia magazine "The Kadambini". It covers a brief history of the book digitization initiatives in Odia language, problems with access available content in ISCII standard, scope of Unicode content and Open Access, Odia Wikipedia's further use for public and contribution.
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Blog Entry 14 Odia books re-released under Creative Commons license
by Subhashish Panigrahi published Apr 26, 2014 last modified May 06, 2014 06:26 AM — filed under: , , ,
This blog entry by Subhashish Panigrahi (originally published in Wikimedia Foundation's Blog) was edited and re-published by Rohini Lakshane in DNA on April 26, 2014.
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Blog Entry GLAM in India: 10 tips for successful GLAM projects
by Subhashish Panigrahi published May 27, 2014 — filed under: , , ,
GLAM initiatives work as a gateway to unleash knowledge, decode archived documentation to build modern wonders and also educate people about their past cultural and scientific journey.
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