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How the Odia Wikimedia community is enriching Wikipedia with character encoding technology

How the Odia Wikimedia community is enriching Wikipedia with character encoding technology

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Jun 14, 2015 11:51 AM |

Last year, I wrote about the development of Odia language character encoding converters that the Wikipedia community was working on. These converted text into Unicode, a universal encoding standard. These converters have now been made available for use, just in time for today’s thirteenth anniversary of the Odia Wikipedia.

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The Newly Updated Indic Keyboard App Now Supports 22 Asian Languages

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Jun 12, 2015 09:00 PM |
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This blog post was written in my personal capacity.

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Indian government includes open source in RFPs

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Jun 08, 2015 04:00 PM |
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The Government of India has implemented a remarkable new policy-level change for open source software (OSS) deployment.

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Workshop on Open Data for Human Development

Posted by Sumandro Chattapadhyay at Jun 02, 2015 03:30 PM |

Sumandro Chattapadhyay and Sunil Abraham will take part in the workshop being organised for government officials from Bhutan, Maldives, Meghalaya, Sikkim, and Tripura, by the International Centre for Human Development (IC4HD) of UNDP India, during June 3-6, 2015. The workshop will be held at the National Institute of Advanced Studies Campus in Bengaluru. Sunil will be one of the panelists in the opening discussion on 'data and transparency in governance,' and Sumandro will provide input for and lead the sessions on developing the draft implementation plan for the Sikkim Open Data Acquisition and Accessibility Policy. Sumandro worked with the IC4HD team to design the objectives and the agenda of the workshop.

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ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡିଆ: ନୂତନ ଯୁଗର ଆରମ୍ଭ

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at May 31, 2015 09:00 AM |

My op-ed on Odia Wikipedia and its journey of 13 years was published in Odia daily "The Samaja".

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Odia Language Wikipedia Page Grows to 800K Page Views A Month

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at May 31, 2015 09:00 AM |

Odia Wikipedia is one of the first few Indian language Wikipedia projects celebrating such an old age. The Wikimedia community will gather in Odisha's capital of Bhubaneswar on June 3 to celebrate Odia Wikipedia's 13th anniversary.

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FOSS for Public Use: Free and Open Source Software for Digital India

Posted by Anubha Sinha at May 29, 2015 08:00 PM |
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I attended a round-table meeting on May 29, 2015 at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. The meeting was organized by SFLC in collaboration with the International Centre for Free and Open Source Software, and the Centre for Internet & Society.

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International Open Data Charter: First Public Draft

Posted by Sumandro Chattapadhyay at May 29, 2015 06:50 PM |
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The first public draft of the International Open Data Charter was released at the International Open Data Conference in Ottawa, Canada, May 28-29, 2015. It is being developed by a range of organisations led by the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Open Data Working Group (co-chaired by Government of Canada and the Web Foundation), the Government of Mexico, the Open Data for Development (OD4D) Network, and Omidyar Network. CIS has contributed comments to a previous version of the draft, and also took part in the pre-release meeting of potential stewards of the Charter on May 26 in Ottawa. Here is the text of the draft Charter. Please visit opendatacharter.net/charter/ to submit your comments.

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How to do GuerillaGLAM

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at May 28, 2015 03:20 PM |

A proposal titled How to do GuerrillaGLAM" that I had submitted for the Wikimania 2015 has been accepted. I will be presenting this on July 18.

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Open Street Map "Mapping Workshop"

Posted by Sumandro Chattapadhyay at May 13, 2015 09:05 PM |
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I conducted a workshop titled "OpenStreetMap Mapping Workshop" on Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at Phandeeyar. The workshop was attended by 20 enthusiasts. This involved organisations that work on resource issues, mostly on land grabbing, a start-up company that is planning to offer location-based local news feeds, a representative of MIDO, and an organisation that sells children’s books.

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Odia Wikipedia Set to Celebrate 13 Years of Volunteer Contributions

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at May 13, 2015 09:00 PM |

Odia Wikipedia, one of the first of several Indian language Wikipedia projects, is ready to celebrate 13 glorious years of free knowledge contribution on June 3.

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What is the Open Data Movement & Why Does it Matter?

Posted by Sumandro Chattapadhyay at May 13, 2015 09:00 AM |
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I gave a talk at this event organized by Phandeeyar on May 13, 2015 in Yangon. About 25 delegates attended the event.

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Wikipedia Campus at Oxford College

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Apr 28, 2015 03:00 PM |
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CIS-A2K collaborated with the Oxford College of Engineering, Bommanahalli, Bangalore on April 24, 2015 for introducing Wikimedia projects at their institution. Radhakrishna, a senior Wikimedian from Bangalore provided the crucial introduction and worked closely with the A2K team in conducting all the activities.

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ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା ପାଇଁ ଡିଜିଟାଲ ଅସୁବିଧା

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Apr 15, 2015 01:00 PM |

This paper was presented at the 2nd National Language Seminar by CIS-A2K Pogramme Officer Subhashish Panigrahi. In the paper, Panigrahi discusses about the hindrances of mass use of Odia language on the internet and how that is impacting in overall contribution of people in the language.

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Patterns of Gender Aggression and Harassment in Open Tech and Open Culture Communities Online

Posted by Rohini Lakshané at Apr 13, 2015 08:00 PM |

Report on the talk delivered by me at Adacamp held in Montreal, Canada on April 13-14, 2015.

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2nd National Language Conference, Bhubaneswar

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Mar 30, 2015 01:00 PM |

Institute of Odia Studies and Research organised 2nd National Language Conference beginning on Monday, March 30, 2015 and ending on April 2, 2015 at the Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar. This conference was organised in collaboration with the Department of Tourism and Culture. I presented a paper in Odia language in this conference as part of a panel discussion related to Odia language computing.

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Hindustani Language: We Are Wikipedia

Hindustani Language: We Are Wikipedia

Posted by Syed Muzammiluddin at Mar 27, 2015 09:00 PM |

In 2014, the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) embarked on a new social media-based initiative - WeAreWikipedia. The aim of the project was "One Wikimedian every week to tell untold community stories on Twitter".

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Hindi Wiki Community Baithak in Delhi

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Feb 27, 2015 01:34 AM |

Hindi Wikimedians met in New Delhi during February 14 and 15. This was the first meeting of the Hindi community. Subhashish Panigrahi attended the meetup.

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Telugu Wikipedia Winter Camp at Andhra Loyola College

Telugu Wikipedia Winter Camp at Andhra Loyola College

Posted by Rahmanuddin Shaikh at Feb 26, 2015 02:27 AM |

Students of physics, statistics and Telugu departments of Andhra Loyola College spent 5 days of their Christmas vacation of 2014 to edit and enrich Telugu Wikipedia and Wikisource. They worked on their respective subject areas and came up with more than 100 new articles on Telugu Wikipedia and about 300 pages of Veeresalingam's works were typed on Telugu Wikisource.

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Our Endangered Languages

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Feb 21, 2015 08:00 AM |

My op-ed (in Odia) about the endangered languages was published in the Samaja this 21st on the International Mother Language Day.

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