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Blog Entry WikiConference India 2016 Submission: Gender Gap in Indian Language Wikipedias – Projects, Outreach and Outcome
by U.B.Pavanaja — published Aug 17, 2016 — filed under: , , ,
India is not much different from the global statistics when it comes to gender gap issues in Wikipedia. Indian language Wikipedias are known to have similar ratio of male to female editors.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Blog Entry WikiConference India 2016 Submission: How to better tell your Wikimedia Community Story using Media as a Tool
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Aug 17, 2016 — filed under: , , ,
The Wikimedia community has constantly struggled to a) reach out to masses and tell them about their contribution, and motivate people to contribute to the Wikimedia projects. Media plays a very important role in spreading the word about Wikimedia projects and the contributor community, and at times, encouraging the audience to contribute.
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Blog Entry WikiConference India 2016 Submission: We, Men, Women: Collective Learning in Bridging Indic Wikipedia Gender Gaps
by Elisachang — published Aug 17, 2016 — filed under: , , ,
There is no denying that non-English Wikipedias are disproportionally underrepresented in scholarly focus despite the significant role of an open knowledge society can play in smaller linguistic groups – local collaboration and communication, knowledge dissemination, as well as preservation of local language resources.
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Wikimania 2013: The International Wikimedia Conference
by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 26, 2013 — last modified Aug 29, 2013 06:30 AM — filed under: , , ,
Wikimania is the annual international conference of the Wikimedia movement. It's organized by a different local team each year. In 2013 the conference took place in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Wikimania allows the community and the general public to learn about and share their experiences with free knowledge initiatives all over the world. T. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the event.
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Blog Entry Wikimania 2013: Wikipedians represent Indian Languages in Hong Kong
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Aug 19, 2013 — last modified Sep 13, 2013 06:03 AM — filed under: , , , ,
The 7th, 8th and 9th of August 2013 saw over 600 Wikipedians across the world participating Wikimania at Hong Kong. The three day annual international conference for users and contributors of Wikipedia brought many debates about open educational research, open source technologies, gender gap, documenting the history of mankind in a free and open platform like Wikipedia and its sister sites in collaboration with Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums and all of these in 286 world languages. More and more volunteers are joining this movement and it is expanding the media of accessing and disseminating knowledge.
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Wikimedia Asia Meeting
by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 10, 2013 — last modified Aug 29, 2013 10:14 AM — filed under: , , ,
T.Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi from the Access to Knowledge team at CIS participated in the Wikimedia Asia meeting in Hong Kong on August 10, 2013.
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Wikimedia Bangalore Meetup @ Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 14, 2013 — filed under: , , , ,
The Access to Knowledge team of the Centre for Internet & Society in partnership with Wikispeed and NASSCOM is organizing meetup at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore on February 25, 2013 at 2.00 p.m. Vishnu Vardhan will speak on the Access to Knowledge program.
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Blog Entry Wikimedia contributor shares his Linux story
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Sep 27, 2015 — last modified Jun 18, 2016 05:08 PM — filed under: , ,
Computers have fascinated me since childhood, but my first encounter—like many others—was not with Linux. For me, it was with Microsoft Paint. Then, many years later in 2011, it was my Wikipedia mentor, Shiju Alex, who introduced me to Linux. Since then, it's been my life!
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Wikimedia Diversity Conference
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 09, 2013 — last modified Dec 02, 2013 06:40 AM — filed under: , , ,
T.Vishnu Vardhan participated in the conference organized by the German Wikipedia community in Berlin (GLS Campus) on November 9 and 10, 2013. He presented on So Many Languages- Challenges and Opportunities for the Wikimedia Movement in India and also led a Round-up session on Geographic diversity and Language pluralism on Wikimedia.
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Blog Entry Wikimedia Education SAARC Conference 2019
by Subodh Kulkarni — published Jun 22, 2019 — last modified Jul 04, 2019 02:48 AM — filed under: , , ,
Christ University in association with the Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) organized a conference, from 20 - 22 June 2019, at Christ University, Bengaluru. Forty-nine Wikimedians from four countries (Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, and India) participated in the event.
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