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Rise of the bot: all you need to know about the latest threat online
by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 05, 2014 — last modified Jan 31, 2014 07:16 AM — filed under: , , ,
In the last week of December, 2013, former union railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal lodged a police complaint in Chandigarh after witnessing “an unusual rise in his online fan following”. The former minister told the police that his Facebook page had received more than 10,000 likes, within a span of 24 hours. While his allegation that the ‘likes’ were “fabricated” may be true, information technology experts believe a bot was at work.
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Introductory talk about "Wikipedia in Academics"
by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 13, 2014 — last modified Feb 03, 2014 06:48 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Subhashish Panigrahi gave a talk on Wikipedia in Academics. Subhashish spoke about the use the Wikipedia in academics, students' role as contributors to Wikipedia to keep the facts correct and editing Wikipedia articles in Indic languages.
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Odisha: KISS to create tribal languages and heritage repository
by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 20, 2014 — last modified Feb 03, 2014 08:33 AM — filed under: , , ,
World' largest tribal residential institute Kalinga Institute of Social Studies (KISS) is going to initiate a project in collaboration with Centre for Internet and Society's Access To Knowledge program (CIS-A2K) to gather academic and research resources on tribal languages and diverse cultural heritage.
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Odia Wikipedia (Coverage in Sanchar)
by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 31, 2014 — last modified Feb 04, 2014 07:38 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Sanchar published about Odia Wikipedia in their edition on January 31. Subhashish Panigrahi is quoted.
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Blog Entry Campaign for relicensing copyrighted books under Creative Commons licenses
by Pavan Santhosh S. & Subhashish Panigrahi — published Aug 30, 2016 — last modified Sep 20, 2016 12:43 PM — filed under: , , , , ,
A campaign has been started to relicense Telugu-language books of several noted authors from "all rights reserved" to Creative Commons Share-Alike (CC-BY-SA) license.
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Blog Entry Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015 round2/The Centre for Internet and Society/Impact report form
by Tanveer Hasan — published Oct 09, 2016 — filed under: , , ,
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).
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Blog Entry Querying Wikipedia Data
by U.B.Pavanaja — published Oct 21, 2016 — last modified Oct 21, 2016 02:51 PM — filed under: , , ,
Recently I wrote a blog about the stub article length of Wikipedia articles. I mentioned the difference in actual number of characters and the number of bytes used to define stub articles between English and Indian language Wikipedias. One can open any language Wikipedia, type Special:ShortPages in the search box to get the list of articles which have less than 2048 bytes.
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‘Entrepreneurship will become a common, respectable profession’ – 25 quotes from Indian startup journeys
by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 25, 2016 — filed under: ,
From success to status, witness the memorable journey of Indian entrepreneurship in these excerpts and stories! StoryBites is a weekly feature from YourStory, featuring notable quotable quotes in our articles of this past week (see the previous post here). Share these 25 gems and insights from the week of October 16-22 with your colleagues and networks, and check back to the original articles for more insights!
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Blog Entry Wikipedia Asian Month — 2016 iteration starts on 1 November
by Tito Dutta — published Oct 30, 2016 — last modified Jun 28, 2017 10:05 AM — filed under: , ,
The second iteration of Wikipedia Asian Month (WAM), a month-long edit-a-thon to create and improve Asia-related articles on Wikipedia, is going to start on 1 November 2016. In this blog post we'll revisit the stats of the 2015 iteration of the event. We'll also talk to Addis Wang, an organizer of WAM, to know more about their progress and preparation.
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Blog Entry An Article on Kannada Wikipedia
by U.B.Pavanaja — published Nov 14, 2014 — last modified Dec 05, 2014 01:22 AM — filed under: , , , ,
I wrote an article on Kannada Wikipedia which was published in the Yojana magazine on November 2014 issue.
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