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Edit-a-thon to improve Kannada-language science-related Wikipedia articles
— by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified Sep 04, 2015 08:25 AMA three-day Kannada Wikipedia edit-a-thon was conducted for science lecturers of institutions who gathered at the District Institute of Education and Training (DIET), Bengaluru this August 18. The idea of this event was to improve science-related articles that are part of the Government of Karnataka's high school syllabus.
The Newly Updated Indic Keyboard App Now Supports 22 Asian Languages
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Jun 18, 2016 06:21 PMThis blog post was written in my personal capacity.
Comparative Transparency Review of Collective Management Organisations in India, United Kingdom and the United States
— by Maggie Huang — last modified Aug 21, 2015 05:12 PMThis Transparency Review seeks to compare the publicly available information on the websites of music collective management organizations (“CMOs”) operating within India, the United States, and the United Kingdom. A total of 10 CMOs were selected, which included a range of non-profit, government registered organizations to for-profit, private organizations, managing works on behalf of record labels, publishers, composers, lyricists, and music performers. This exercise intends to contribute to the growing body of research on the relationship between transparency and effectiveness of CMOs. It concludes with recommendations and learnings which may lead to more transparent and effective functioning of copyright societies in India, and management of music copyright overall.
Odia Wikisource has a new Wikisourcer, and he is the youngest in the Odia Wikimedia community!
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Aug 21, 2015 05:40 PMPrateek Pattanaik (User:Shrijagannatha on Odia Wikisource) is a young researcher of Odia literature and Odissi music. He has not just digitized as many as 54 Odia-language poetry dating early 18th century but has also annotated, both poetic and prosaic translation in his blogs “Sri Jagannatha” and “Utkal Sangeet”. He has also brought a complete book “Kisora chandranana champu” on Odia Wikisource. A recent entrant into the Odia Wikimedia community, Prateek is also the youngest Odia Wikimedian. He has also digitized 18-19th century 54 poem written by various poets.
Reading Devanagari script based sites like Konkani Wikipedia in Kannada Script
— by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified Jun 18, 2016 06:14 PMThis is a small hack to read websites with Devanagari script (used for Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Maithili and a few more languages) based sites like Konkani Wikipedia in Kannada script.
National IPR Policy Series: What Have the Sectoral Innovation Councils Been Doing on IPR
— by Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified Aug 13, 2015 01:36 AMIn this post, Nehaa Chaudhari and Varun Baliga delve into the question of what the mandate of the Sectoral Innovation Councils is, what its activities are, and what vision for IPR development in India has it put forth. An RTI Application has been filed by CIS to attain information on these issues.
MHRD IPR Chair Series: Introduction
— by Amulya Purushothama — last modified Sep 03, 2015 03:17 PMIn this blog post, Amulya Purushothama announces our new MHRD IPR Chair Series and charts the sequence of events, starting from the establishment of the MHRD IPR Chairs, to discussions surrounding their purpose and functioning, to concerns surrounding the lack of information about the IPR Chairs, the first round of RTIs CIS had filed in regard to this and the responses received. This series will document and analyze further RTIs filed and responses received in this regard.
Train the Trainer: Running effective outreach activities in India
— by Tanveer Hasan — last modified Jul 30, 2015 03:20 PMIt is heartening to report that many Wikimedia projects in Indian languages have sustained, and even experienced an upward trend in, editor engagement. However, in terms of content creation, the majority of these projects are still facing grave challenges that put their very existence at risk.
Konkani Wikipedia Goes Live After 'Nine Years' of Incubation
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Jun 18, 2016 06:15 PMKonkani Wikipedia is the second Wikimedia project after Odia Wikisource that has gone live out of incubation. The project stayed in the incubation for nine long years and the community has gone through a long debate to have a Wikipedia of their own. Here is a blog highlighting three Konkani Wikimedians and an advocate of the Wikipedia movement whose efforts finally paid off.
Statement by the Centre for Internet and Society on the Broadcast Treaty at SCCR 30
— by Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified Jul 02, 2015 01:20 AMThe 30th Session of the World Intellectual Property Organization's ("WIPO") Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights ("SCCR") is underway in Geneva from 29 June, 2015 to 03 July, 2015. While CIS was unable to attend this meeting, we have the following statement to make on negotiations on the Proposed Treaty for Broadcasting Organizations.
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