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Celebrating the success of Wikipedia in Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013

Celebrating the success of Wikipedia in Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013

by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Apr 16, 2013 12:48 PM

Wikipedia Club Pune, a local community based outreach user group in Pune has recently organized Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013 to spread words about “Spoken Wikipedia”, a project to add recorded audio for Indic language Wikipedia articles which will help the disabled to access Wikipedia and “Bridging Editor Gender Gap.”

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Two-day Wiki Workshop in Goa University: An Introduction

by Nitika Tandon — last modified Jan 25, 2013 06:30 AM

Last month, on December 12 and 13, 2012, the Access to Knowledge team from the Centre for Internet & Society along with Wikipedia community members organized a two-day workshop for M.A. and Ph.D. students at the Goa University. Nitika Tandon participated in the event and shares with us the developments.

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New Avenues: Media Wiki Groups

by Noopur Raval — last modified Jan 05, 2013 01:46 AM

This blog post is a brief recap and snippets of my conversation with Harsh Kothari, a volunteer on Gujarati Wikipedia on what we've been doing to help with MediaWiki groups.

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Marathi Wiki Workshop at Tata Institute of Social Sciences

by Nitika Tandon — last modified Feb 04, 2013 04:55 AM

The Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai is taking up a number of activities and conducting workshops focusing on Indian languages across cities. A series of workshops in Marathi, Kannada and Bangla have been planned with Wikipedia sessions in each of these events.

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A Wikipedia Workshop at NMAIT

A Wikipedia Workshop at NMAIT

by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Jan 04, 2013 04:30 PM

The Centre for Internet & Society, Delhi collaborated with Metawings Institute to spread the words about Wikipedia for Indian languages. A one-day workshop was organized to educated the students on contributing to Wikipedia on December 21, 2012. About 170 engineering students took part in this event.

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A Wikipedia Workshop at SRM University, Chennai

A Wikipedia Workshop at SRM University, Chennai

by Noopur Raval — last modified Dec 27, 2012 05:57 AM

The Centre for Internet & Society, Delhi in association with Metawings Institute organized a one-day workshop on contributing to Wikipedia at SRM University on December 17, 2012. About 40 students from different engineering colleges in Chennai participated in the workshop. Metawings coordinated for the logistics and for spreading the word among the students.

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An Odia Wikipedia Workshop at Academy of Media Learning

An Odia Wikipedia Workshop at Academy of Media Learning

by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Jul 17, 2013 07:06 AM

Odia Wikipedians were invited to Academy of Media Learning (AML), Bhubaneswar for a guest lecture and a workshop on contributing to Odia Wikipedia. The event was organised by the Centre for Internet & Society on November 10, 2012. This is a report about the activities in AML.

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Odia Wikipedia Gets a New Typing Solution!

by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Dec 12, 2012 12:28 PM

Subhashish Panigrahi worked with Yuvi Panda to create a new typing scheme for Odia Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. This blog post gives a summary of this development and its outcome.

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Follow up to Wikipedia Introductory Session at Bharati Vidyapeeth — More Interested and More Involved Participants

by Nitika Tandon — last modified Oct 30, 2013 09:17 AM

A Wikipedia introductory session was organised at Bharati Vidyapeeth Engineering College in Delhi early this year and a follow up session was organised by CIS on November 19, 2012. About 12 to 15 participants attended the follow up session. Although most of the participants had attended the introductory session there were a few who were coming over for the first time.

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An Odia Wikipedia Workshop at KMBB College, Bhubaneswar

An Odia Wikipedia Workshop at KMBB College, Bhubaneswar

by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Dec 07, 2012 10:40 PM

The Centre for Internet and Society along with Odia Wikipedians in Bhubaneswar organized an Odia Wikipedia workshop on November 18, 2012. It was held in KMBB College of Engineering. Odia Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia in Odia language which everyone can edit.

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