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Wikipedia workshop for Konkani students conducted in Mangaluru
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by
Tito Dutta
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published
Dec 19, 2016
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last modified
Jun 28, 2017 09:57 AM
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filed under:
Konkani Wikipedia,
Wikipedia,
Workshop
A two days Wikipedia workshop "introduction to Wikipedia" was conducted at Besant College, Mangaluru. 16 undergraduate and post-graduate students from 3 different colleges participated in the event. Here is a report.
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Access to Knowledge
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Blogs
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Wikiwomen’s Meetup at St. Agnes College Explores Potentials and Plans of Women Editors in Mangalore, Karnataka
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by
Ting-Yi Chang
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published
Sep 01, 2016
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last modified
Sep 01, 2016 02:39 PM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Gender,
Konkani Wikipedia,
Kannada Wikipedia,
Event
Karnataka is known for its diverse linguistic cultures. Aside from Kannada, many are native speakers of Konkani, Tulu, and other languages. A small Wikiwomen's meetup was held on Saturday, August 27th at St. Agnes College, Mangalore, to invite female Wikipedians from the region. Many of them were new to the online encyclopedia but demonstrated strong interest in learning and contributing more Indic language content online.
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Community digest: Konkani language speakers are separated by scripts but unite by Wikipedia; news in brief
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Aug 07, 2016
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Konkani Wikipedia
Konkani-language Wikipedians on what they think of Wikipedia as a binding factor for native speakers who speak in different variations of the same language and write in different scripts.
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Stats for March 2016
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by
Rahmanuddin Shaikh
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published
May 08, 2016
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last modified
Jun 07, 2016 04:06 AM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Marathi Wikipedia,
Konkani Wikipedia,
Odia Wikipedia,
Telugu Wikipedia,
Kannada Wikipedia
CIS-A2K team closely works with 5 Indian languages, we call as focus language areas.
Here are the stats for the month of March 2016.
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Openness
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Report of Konkani Wikipedia's progress (July-December 2015)
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by
Rahmanuddin Shaikh
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published
Jan 01, 2016
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last modified
Feb 05, 2016 02:49 AM
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filed under:
Konkani Wikipedia,
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
Konkani language is one of the 22 languages recognized by Indian union in 8th schedule. As per the 2007 census there are about 7.4 million Konkani speakers.[1] Konkani language has its own Wikipedia created on 15th June 2015. This blog post will try to put out Konkani Wikipedia's growth from a perspective based on Wikimedia stats.
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Konkani-language books from Konkani-language culture center Mannd Sobhaann to enrich Konkani Wikipedia
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by
Rahmanuddin Shaik and Tanveer Hasan
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published
Oct 30, 2015
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last modified
Nov 12, 2015 01:08 PM
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filed under:
Konkani Wikisource,
Konkani Wikipedia,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Mangalore based cultural centre Maand Sobhaann has recently relicensed 3 of their publications under a free license so that the books could be digitised on Konkani Wikisource and enrich Konkani Wikipedia.
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Openness
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Konkani Wikipedia Goes Live After 'Nine Years' of Incubation
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Jul 18, 2015
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last modified
Jun 18, 2016 06:15 PM
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filed under:
Creative Commons,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Featured,
Konkani Wikipedia,
Homepage
Konkani Wikipedia is the second Wikimedia project after Odia Wikisource that has gone live out of incubation. The project stayed in the incubation for nine long years and the community has gone through a long debate to have a Wikipedia of their own. Here is a blog highlighting three Konkani Wikimedians and an advocate of the Wikipedia movement whose efforts finally paid off.
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Openness
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Blog
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Reading Devanagari script based sites like Konkani Wikipedia in Kannada Script
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by
U.B.Pavanaja
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published
Jul 13, 2015
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last modified
Jun 18, 2016 06:14 PM
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filed under:
Konkani Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
This is a small hack to read websites with Devanagari script (used for Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Maithili and a few more languages) based sites like Konkani Wikipedia in Kannada script.
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Openness
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Blog
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NIE Steps in to Grow Konkani Wikipedia
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by
T. Vishnu Vardhan
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published
Sep 06, 2014
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last modified
Oct 10, 2014 11:26 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Featured,
Konkani Wikipedia,
Openness,
Homepage
The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) signed a memorandum of agreement (MoU) with Nirmala Institute of Education, Goa to enhance digital literacy in Konkani in the education sector across Goa.
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Openness
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Blog
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Community led Konkani Wikipedia Outreach
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by
Nitika Tandon
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published
May 16, 2014
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last modified
Jun 10, 2014 08:44 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Konkani Wikipedia,
Openness
Goa University students organised the first ever community led Konkani Wikipedia outreach on May 14, 2014. Fifteen first year M.A. students from Konkani Department participated in the six hour long workshop.
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Blog