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Kannada Wikipedia edit-a-thon organised at Sagara, Karnataka
— by Ananth Subray — last modified Aug 22, 2016 10:58 AMA two-day-long Kannada Wikipedia edit-a-thon was organised at Sagara, Karnataka during January 26-27. A photowalk was also organised on the 25th to cover places of encyclopedic importance.
Training-the-trainer programme and Mediawiki training at Pune
— by Abhinav Garule — last modified Aug 18, 2016 11:14 AMA two-day long train-the-trainer and Mediawiki training programme was organised during May 28-29 in Pune to better capacity of Wikimedians both technically, and outreach and community building.
Tools orientation for Telugu Wikimedians of Hyderabad
— by Pavan Santhosh S — last modified Aug 17, 2016 02:58 PMTo help Wikimedians learn about essential tools that are used across Wikimedia projects, a tools orientation session was organised during the monthly meetup on July 10 at Hyderabad.
WikiConference India 2016 Submission: Gender Gap in Indian Language Wikipedias – Projects, Outreach and Outcome
— by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified Aug 17, 2016 02:43 AMIndia 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.
WikiConference India 2016 Submission: We, Men, Women: Collective Learning in Bridging Indic Wikipedia Gender Gaps
— by Elisachang — last modified Aug 17, 2016 02:37 AMThere 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.
WikiConference India 2016 Submission: How to better tell your Wikimedia Community Story using Media as a Tool
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Aug 17, 2016 02:24 AMThe 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.
Edit-a-thon at DSERT Bengaluru to improve Science-related articles in Kannada Wikipedia
— by Ananth Subray — last modified Aug 16, 2016 08:31 AMWe have been working with the Department of State Educational Research and Training of Karnataka (DSERT), a Government of Karnataka-run research and training institution headquartered in Bengaluru. With the hope of expanding the reach of Science-related content in Kannada Wikipedia, we organised an edit-a-thon spanning over three days from the 11th January through the 13th.
US Copyright law faces constitutional challenge
— by Anubha Sinha — last modified Aug 11, 2016 01:28 PMIn a major international development, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a lawsuit to strike down the provisions on Digital Rights Management(DRM) in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. In this post, I discuss DRMs, the EFF lawsuit, and then draw upon the differences between the US and Indian copyright regime on DRM protection.
Community digest: Konkani language speakers are separated by scripts but unite by Wikipedia; news in brief
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Aug 07, 2016 03:11 AMKonkani-language Wikipedians on what they think of Wikipedia as a binding factor for native speakers who speak in different variations of the same language and write in different scripts.
The largest Wikipedia gathering in South Asia kicks off
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Aug 06, 2016 05:11 PMWikimedia Conference 2016Wiki Conference India 2016 (WCI), the largest gathering of contributors to Wikipedia and its sister projects in South Asia, will be held during August 5-7 this year in Chandigarh, India.
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