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Google Gives Wikimedia Millions—Plus Machine Learning Tools
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by
Admin
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Jan 22, 2019
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last modified
Feb 02, 2019 12:52 PM
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Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Google is pouring an additional $3.1 million into Wikipedia, bringing its total contribution to the free encyclopedia over the past decade to more than $7.5 million, the company announced at the World Economic Forum Tuesday.
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CIS Signs MoU with Odia Virtual Academy
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by
Sailesh Patnaik
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published
Dec 19, 2018
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last modified
Dec 20, 2018 12:24 AM
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filed under:
Open Educational Resources,
CIS-A2K,
Open License,
Access to Knowledge,
Open Data,
Wikipedia,
Open Content,
Odia Wikipedia,
Open Access,
Wikimedia
On October 26, 2018, the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Odia Virtual Academy (OVA) to work on drafting an open content policy for the state, to promote use of Wikimedia projects by various user types and to ensure sustainability of Wikimedia projects, and to facilitate development of relevant free and open source software projects. This partnership between OVA and CIS will be carried out from December 2018 to November 2019, and we are sharing an overview of the activities and their objectives in this post.
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Aditya 365
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by
Pavan Santhosh
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Nov 07, 2018
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CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Telugu Wikipedia
Telugu Wikimedian Aditya Pakide successfully completed 365 Wiki Commons Days. Aditya started contributing to project after a Facebook comment by A2K community advocate suggesting that the same picture would get more utilization in Commons and a brief training followed.
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Van Bodh Workshop for content development on Forest Resources at Gadchiroli
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by
Admin
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Nov 06, 2018
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Event
CIS-A2K has collaborated with Tribal Research and Training Institute (TRTI) to facilitate development of Open knowledge resources on Community Forest Resource and content development in Wikimedia projects with community participation. These contents will become a part of "Van Bodh Knowledge repository".
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Community Toolkit for Greater Diversity
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by
Admin
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published
Oct 30, 2018
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Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
P.P. Sneha participated in a 3 day programme organized by Wikipedia community in Mandrem, Goa from October 5 - 7, 2018. The event was a peer training programmeto strengthen the work in the direction of building greater diversity and inclusion in the Wikimedia community.
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Odia Virtual Academy launched
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Admin
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published
Oct 29, 2018
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filed under:
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Odia Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday launched a new web portal of ‘Odia Virtual Academy’ (www.ova.gov.in) to promote the Odia language and literature at the Secretariat here.
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History of Wikipedia Education programme at Christ (Deemed to be University)
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by
Ananth
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published
Oct 29, 2018
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last modified
Oct 29, 2018 02:20 AM
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filed under:
Wikipedia Education Program,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
This article gives the insight of Christ Wikipedia Education Program, how students are involved in different capacities in the program and shares the best practices of the Education Program.
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Digital Technology Engaging Pedagogy through Hindi Wikipedia - A Case Study
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by
Dr. George Joseph,Dr. Sebastian K.A, and Kavitha A
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published
Oct 28, 2018
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Openness,
Hindi Wikipedia
We have published an article in International Journal of English Language, Literature in Humanities. The article is titled "Digital Technology Engaging Pedagogy through Hindi Wikipedia - A Case Study". The authors of the article are Hindi faculty members of Christ University and Ananth Subray from the Centre for Internet & Society provided research assistance.
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South India Copyright Workshop
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by
Subodh Kulkarni
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published
Oct 21, 2018
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Nov 06, 2018 01:25 AM
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Wikimedia,
CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
A workshop on Copyright was organized by CIS-A2K at Hotel Bhagini Icon in Bengaluru from 19th to 21st October 2018. Seventeen members from 5 language communities (Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Tulu) participated in the workshop. Yann Forget was the master trainer for the workshop.
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Christ (DU) students enrolls for 3rd Wikipedia certificate course
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by
Ananth Subray
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published
Sep 23, 2018
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filed under:
Wikimedia,
CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Students of Christ (Deemed to be University) enrolled themselves for the third Wikipedia certificate course for the academic year of 2018-19, to understand the usage of Wikimedia projects.
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