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Cultural institution AKA GLAM for more OER
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Feb 27, 2016
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Wikimedia,
CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
My submission titled "Cultural institution AKA GLAM for more OER" under the theme of "Innovative approaches to opening up cultural heritage collections for education" has been selected for the OER16 conference to be held in Edinburg, Scotland from 19 to 20 April 2016.
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Books at a Click
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 29, 2016
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last modified
Jun 18, 2016 05:52 PM
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CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Odia Wikisource,
Odia Wikipedia
The OdiaWikimedia community and Bhubaneswar-based Srujanika have come together to make rare science books available online for readers, students & science educators.
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Wikipedia initiative - Celebrating legacy of Bangalore Blue grapes online
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Prasad Krishna
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Jan 29, 2016
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Jan 29, 2016 03:44 PM
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Wikimedia,
CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Black is beautiful, and it can go places if it is well researched. When HL Omshivaprakash wrote a Wikipedia article about Karnataka's bidriware, the metal handicraft where gleaming black bowls and hookahs are dotted with delicate silver strips, he didn't expect it to be picked up by the French and Swedes.
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GI-tagged products to get Wiki pages
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Prasad Krishna
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Jan 27, 2016
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Wikimedia,
CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Ever realised that the famous, red hot Naga Mirchi (a special variety of chilli from Nagaland) doesn’t have a Wikipedia page?
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This Multilingual Edit-a-thon wants to Improve Indian Content on Wikipedia
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Jan 27, 2016
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last modified
Jan 28, 2016 07:23 AM
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CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Edit-a-thon
Ever wondered how many articles the Kannada Wikipedia or the Hindi Wikipedia have relating to India, its social history, literary and cultural heritage and the journey of over 1600 languages?
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Why It's Essential To Grow Indian-Language Wikipedias
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Jan 26, 2016
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May 28, 2016 06:52 AM
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Wikimedia,
CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
On 15 January, Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia celebrated its 15th birthday, meeting this milestone with 36 million articles in more than 290 languages (the English-language Wikipedia alone has crossed the 5-million article mark). But here I want to address some major questions that we need to ask as Indians.
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Geographical Indications in India Edit-a-thon
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 26, 2016
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CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Edit-a-thon,
Event
Between 25 January and 31 January 2016, CIS-A2K is organizing an edit-a-thon to celebrate India's republic day. The goal of this edit-a-thon is to create and improve Geographical Indications articles.
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Kannada Wikipedia edit-a-thon for Mechanical Engineering students of Sagara
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by
Ananth Subray
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published
Jan 23, 2016
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last modified
Mar 01, 2016 01:56 PM
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Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
CIS-A2K,
Kannada Wikipedia
In Sagara, Karnataka, a Kannada Wikipedia edit-a-thon is being planned to be organised during January 26-27.
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Read Bengali, Malayalam classics online as free Wiki libraries grow
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 10, 2016
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last modified
Jan 29, 2016 03:51 PM
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Wikimedia,
CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Content Includes Classics In Malayalam, Bengali.
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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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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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