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Odia Wikipedia - Bhubaneswar Community Meetup (March 17, 2013)
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Apr 30, 2013 03:52 AMThe Access to Knowledge team from the Centre for Internet and Society and the Odia Wikipedia community held a meetup in Bhubaneswar on March 17, 2013. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi participated in this meet-up.
Indian WikiWomen celebrate Women’s History Month
— by Netha Hussain — last modified Apr 29, 2013 09:21 AMMarch 2013 was a busy month for women Wikimedians in India, as we conducted various events, such as edit-a-thons and workshops to celebrate the presence of women in Wikimedia projects. The women Wikimedians, members of the Wikimedia India Chapter and the Access to Knowledge Team, brainstormed about the possible events, which we wanted to conduct to encourage women to participate and to increase the quality of articles related to Indian women in Wikipedias in English and the Indian languages.
CIS Intervention on the Treaty for the Visually Impaired at SCCR/SS/GE/2/13
— by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Apr 25, 2013 11:57 AMThe informal session and special session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights was organised by WIPO in Geneva from April 18 to April 20, 2013. Pranesh Prakash participated in the session and spoke about the rights of the visually impaired. An abridged version of this was read out during the meeting on Saturday, April 20, 2013, at 22:15 due to time restrictions.
Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project #2: Visualising Page Views and Project Pages
— by Sajjad Anwar and Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Apr 22, 2013 01:37 PMIn this blog post, we bring you a visualisation of the page views statistics and the project specific pages that we created last month. The page views indicate the number of unique visits the Wikipedia project concerned has received in one month.
Wikipedia Indian Languages Workshop at IIT, Bombay
— by Noopur Raval — last modified Mar 28, 2013 11:44 AMThis is a brief report on the Wikipedia Indian languages workshop held on March 9, 2013 at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in partnership with Vaani, the Hindi bloggers' club at IIT, Bombay.
Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project #1: Visualising Basic Parameters
— by Sajjad Anwar and Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Mar 26, 2013 10:04 AMSajjad Anwar and Sumandro Chattapadhyay bring you a visualisation of the growth of Indic Wikipedia in this first post on Indic Wikipedia Visualisation project. In doing so, the authors look into the different aspects of the past and present activities of Indic Wikipedias, and divide the visualisation into three different focus areas.
Wiki Women's Day in Goa
— by Nitika Tandon — last modified Mar 19, 2013 06:32 AMInternational Women's Day (IWD), also called International Working Women's Day, is celebrated on March 8, every year. There were a series of Wikipedia events organised this year with the aim of increasing participation of women contributing to Wikipedia. One such event was organised by the Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet and Society and the Wikimedia India Chapter at the Nirmala Institute of Education (NIE), a Secondary Teacher Education College in Panaji, Goa on March 8, 2013.
Introductory Wikipedia session at BITS Goa
— by Nitika Tandon — last modified Jul 26, 2013 11:40 AMThe Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet and Society was invited by Nikhil Dixit, Public Relations Officer at the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani – Goa (BITS Goa) to organise Wikipedia session on March 7, 2013. Nitika Tandon participated in this workshop and shares with us the developments.
Ahmednagar — Marathi Wikipedia Workshop
— by Tanveer Hasan — last modified Jul 26, 2013 09:34 AMWikipedia Community members helped the Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications Programme (HEIRA), CSCS Bangalore organize a day-long workshop on ‘Digital Literacy’ at Ahmednagar College, Ahmednagar, Maharasthra on January 17, 2013. Tanveer Hasan of HEIRA shares with us the developments in this report.
Creative Commons comes to India
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Jul 17, 2013 06:49 AMCreative Commons team visited four Indian cities to spread the word about CC free licenses and CC affiliate program. Wikimedia India chapter was approached to join hands with Creative Commons for research and community building.
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