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Blog Entry Konkani Wikipedia — Climbing up the Indian Language Ladder?
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Aug 31, 2013 — last modified Oct 25, 2013 07:16 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 CIS-A2K in collaboration with Goa University organized a four-day 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 Konkani Wikipedia Advances in 4 Days — From 90 Articles to 130 Articles!
by Nitika Tandon — published Aug 31, 2013 — last modified Sep 03, 2013 10:37 AM — filed under: , , , , , ,
There has been a rise of article contributions to the Konkani Wikipedia in a span of 4 days following a 4 day programme organized by the CIS-A2K team for M.A. students from the Konkani Department, Goa University at the Central State Library, Goa from August 21 to 24, 2013. Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahi conducted the event.
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Konkani Wikipedia from Goa University in 6 months
by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 27, 2013 — filed under: , , , ,
Piles of the thick four volumes of Konkani vishwakosh or encyclopedia waiting to be picked up by users at the Goa University (GU) will now attain a modern avatar.
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Blog Entry Konkani Wikipedia Goes Live After 'Nine Years' of Incubation
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jul 18, 2015 — last modified Jun 18, 2016 06:15 PM — filed under: , , , , , ,
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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Konkani Wikipedia in the making
by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 30, 2013 — filed under: , , , ,
Process of uploading the four volumes of Konkani encyclopaedia will be completed in six months’ time.
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Konkani Wikipedia makes headway
by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 24, 2013 — last modified Sep 17, 2013 06:07 AM — filed under: , , , ,
The first floor of the Krishnadas Central Library has been bustling with activity for the last four days. A closer look reveals the concentration, thought and precision that is put into each letter of the Devnagri script Konkani they type. Still further and you realise it’s a Wikipedia site that final year MA Konkani students of Goa University are busy with.
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Konkani Wikipedia next?
by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 30, 2013 — last modified Aug 01, 2013 08:32 AM — filed under: , , ,
A quarter of the world’s Konkani speakers live in Goa. Which is why it should cheer us up to know that a Konkani Wikipedia is being shaped up. But unless more and more of us contribute, the project might never go online.
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Konkani Wikipedia workshop at AIMIT, St Aloysius College
by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 12, 2013 — last modified Sep 12, 2013 06:09 AM — filed under: , , , ,
St. Aloysius College is organizing a Konkani Wikipedia workshop at AIMIT, St Aloysius College (Autonomous), Beeri, Mangalore on September 13, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja from the CIS-A2K team will participate in the event.
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Blog Entry Konkani-language books from Konkani-language culture center Mannd Sobhaann to enrich Konkani Wikipedia
by Rahmanuddin Shaik and Tanveer Hasan — published Oct 30, 2015 — last modified Nov 12, 2015 01:08 PM — filed under: , , ,
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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Konknni Wikipedia Workshop
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 15, 2013 — last modified Nov 15, 2013 08:19 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Dalgado Konknni Akademi in collaboration with Centre for Internet & Society’s Access to Knowledge Programme is organsing a 2 day Wikipedia editing workshop at the Goa Central State Library on November 16 and 17, 2013 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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