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Celebrating Odia Wikipedia's Ninth Anniversary
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Feb 19, 2013
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Feb 28, 2013 04:32 AM
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Odia Wikipedia saw its first edit on January 29, 2004. After a dormancy of many years it got revived in 2011. To commemorate the effort of many volunteer wikipedians, a celebratory event was organized on January 29, 2013 in Bhubaneswar. Subhashish Panigrahi participated in this event.
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A Wiki Workshop at Raj Kumar Goel Institute of Technology, Ghaziabad
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Jan 22, 2013
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Jan 22, 2013 03:09 AM
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The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team organized a Wikipedia workshop at Raj Kumar Goel Institute of Technology (RKGIT), Ghaziabad in collaboration with Metawings on January 17, 2013. Subhashish Panigrahi summarizes the happenings from the one-day workshop in this blog post.
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Celebrating the success of Wikipedia in Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Jan 21, 2013
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Apr 16, 2013 12:48 PM
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Openness,
Event
Wikipedia Club Pune, a local community based outreach user group in Pune has recently organized Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013 to spread words about “Spoken Wikipedia”, a project to add recorded audio for Indic language Wikipedia articles which will help the disabled to access Wikipedia and “Bridging Editor Gender Gap.”
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A Wikipedia Workshop at NMAIT
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Dec 30, 2012
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Jan 04, 2013 04:30 PM
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The Centre for Internet & Society, Delhi collaborated with Metawings Institute to spread the words about Wikipedia for Indian languages. A one-day workshop was organized to educated the students on contributing to Wikipedia on December 21, 2012. About 170 engineering students took part in this event.
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Non Unicode ISCII Text Can be Converted to Unicode Now!
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Dec 19, 2012
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Dec 21, 2012 09:59 AM
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Odia Wikipedian Manoj Sahukar has designed a new tool which can convert non Unicode ISCII text to Odia Unicode text. A majority of the digitized text and web content of newspapers and books are in non unicode text which now could be used for Wikipedia and other Odia Wiki projects. This opens a new arena for digitized free license books in Odia language.
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Kolkata: Tasting the Sweetness of Wikipedia!
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Nov 30, 2012
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Dec 04, 2012 07:19 AM
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Interview,
Openness
Recently, Access to Knowledge team member Subhashish Panigrahi spent some time with wikipedians in Kolkata. Through this blog post he shares his experience and learning from the interaction. This post explores the journey of three wikipedians — Jayanta Nath, Deepon Saha and Ashwin.
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First Odia Wikipedia Education Program to be Rolled Out
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Nov 30, 2012
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Dec 14, 2012 12:17 PM
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Video,
Openness
Odia Wikipedians gathered at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Dhenkanal on November 8, 2012 to start the first Odia Wikipedia Education Program. This program aims to bring students edit articles on Odia Wikipedia through a series of assessments by professors. The local community members from Nalconagar would be supporting the four month program.
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An Odia Wikipedia Workshop at KMBB College, Bhubaneswar
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Nov 19, 2012
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Dec 07, 2012 10:40 PM
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Video,
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The Centre for Internet and Society along with Odia Wikipedians in Bhubaneswar organized an Odia Wikipedia workshop on November 18, 2012. It was held in KMBB College of Engineering. Odia Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia in Odia language which everyone can edit.
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Odia Wikipedia Gets a New Typing Solution!
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Nov 19, 2012
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Dec 12, 2012 12:28 PM
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Subhashish Panigrahi worked with Yuvi Panda to create a new typing scheme for Odia Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. This blog post gives a summary of this development and its outcome.
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Typing in Indic Languages from Mobiles made Easy!
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Nov 19, 2012
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Jul 17, 2013 09:02 AM
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Information Technology
A new app is up for typing in Indic languages from mobile phones. This is is available online at: http://bitly.com/indictyping and supports on iOS. Android version is to be released soon.
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