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CIS-A2K proposal to Wikimedia Foundation for 2019-2020

by Ananth — last modified Apr 15, 2019 08:05 AM

The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) has submitted its proposal form for the year 2019 - 2020 to the Wikimedia Foundation. CIS thanks all community members who gave valuable suggestions and inputs for drafting this proposal.

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Indic Wikisource speak : Ajit Kumar Tiwari

Indic Wikisource speak : Ajit Kumar Tiwari

by Jayanta Nath — last modified Apr 17, 2019 08:07 PM

"Wikisource is going to be as important as Wikipedia because it addresses the issues of citations and references inherently. I will make it as my key pedagogical tool to educate my students and make them a part of this great movement." - Hindi Wiki-librarian Ajit Kumar Tiwari ( अजीत कुमार तिवारी ) share his experience about Hindi Wikisource which approved by Language committee of Wikimedia Foundation Inc , US for separate domain on February 2019.

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Indic Wikisource Speak: Sushant Savla

Indic Wikisource Speak: Sushant Savla

by Jayanta Nath — last modified Apr 17, 2019 08:09 PM

Future is bright -- Sushant Savla (User:Sushant_savla) from Gujarati Wikisource community, share his experience & journey.

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SVG Translation Workshop at KBC North Maharashtra University

SVG Translation Workshop at KBC North Maharashtra University

by Subodh Kulkarni — last modified Apr 26, 2019 06:47 AM

The Centre for Internet & Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) wing organized an SVG translation workshop in collaboration with KBC North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon on 14-15 March 2019. The workshop was a part of India level campaign. Total 58 participants attended the workshop and contributed to Commons till 31 March 2019.

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Content Donation Sessions with Authors

by Subodh Kulkarni — last modified Apr 10, 2019 01:28 AM

CIS-A2K has adopted an integrated approach towards knowledge generation in Marathi language. With the involvement of various stakeholders in different programmes, CIS-A2K facilitated a comprehensive workshop for publishers, printers, designers and writers on 7 September 2018.

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Wikimedia projects orientation session at Tata Trust's Vikas Anvesh Foundation

by Subodh Kulkarni — last modified Apr 09, 2019 12:56 AM

Researchers in development sector produce a pool of training material and case studies. However, these do not trickle down to the society and many in the public domain are unaware of the same.

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Comments and Suggestions to the Draft Patent Manual March 2019

by Achal Prabhala, Feroz Ali, Ramya Sheshadri, Roshan John and Anubha Sinha — last modified Apr 05, 2019 02:15 AM
April 05, 2019

A coordinated civil society response to the consultation on the Patent Manual. CIS provided comments on patenting of computer related inventions.

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Indic Wikisource Speak: Dr. Hrishikes Sen

Indic Wikisource Speak: Dr. Hrishikes Sen

by Jayanta Nath — last modified Apr 26, 2019 06:42 AM

There are plenty of people engaged in digitising Bengali books. Plenty of pirated digitised books are available online. We need to tap into that catchment area. I think, if we can prepare high-grade pdf versions of our completed works and spread those to various online non-wiki reader communities, we are likely to get good contributors. -- User:Hrishikes from English and Bengali Wikisource community, share his journey.

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Indic Wikisource Speak: Dr. Gitartha Bordoloi

Indic Wikisource Speak: Dr. Gitartha Bordoloi

by Jayanta Nath — last modified Apr 17, 2019 08:10 PM

"People are more aware of Wikipedia than Wikisource." - Gitartha Bordoloi from Assamese Wikisource community, share his experience with CIS-A2K team.

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