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Konkani Wikipedia workshop at AIMIT, St Aloysius College

by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 12, 2013 06:09 AM

St. Aloysius College is organizing a Konkani Wikipedia workshop at AIMIT, St Aloysius College (Autonomous), Beeri, Mangalore on September 13, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja from the CIS-A2K team will participate in the event.

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Selection of Programme Officer — Pilot Projects, CIS-A2K

by Nitika Tandon — last modified Oct 30, 2013 06:07 AM

The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) opened applications for the post of Programme Officer, Pilot Projects for its Access to Knowledge (A2K) Programme on 17th April 2013. The vacancy and call for applications was shared on all Indian language mailing lists, city mailing lists as well as Village Pumps.

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Digital Resources in Telugu: A Workshop for Research Scholars

Sep 13, 2013 from 10:00 AM to 05:00 PM English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, by Prasad Krishna

The Department of Cultural Studies, English and Foreign Languages University and the CIS-A2K invite you to a workshop for research scholars on September 13, 2013.

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Wikipedia Training in Telugu for Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad

Sep 06, 2013 05:40 AM by Prasad Krishna

CIS-A2K is conducting a Wikipedia training programme in Telugu for the faculty of Dr. B.R.Ambedkar Open University (Dr. BRAOU) in Hyderabad on September 5 and 6, 2013.

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Train the Trainer — Four-day long Residential Training Workshop in Bangalore

from Oct 03, 2013 09:00 AM to Oct 06, 2013 07:30 PM Bangalore, by Prasad Krishna

Train the Trainer is a four-day long residential training workshop to enable Indian Wikipedia community members conduct outreach sessions effectively and independently. It is being conducted by the CIS-A2K team in Bangalore in the first week of October.

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Konkani Wikipedia Advances in 4 Days — From 90 Articles to 130 Articles!

Konkani Wikipedia Advances in 4 Days — From 90 Articles to 130 Articles!

by Nitika Tandon — last modified Sep 03, 2013 10:37 AM

There has been a rise of article contributions to the Konkani Wikipedia in a span of 4 days following a 4 day programme organized by the CIS-A2K team for M.A. students from the Konkani Department, Goa University at the Central State Library, Goa from August 21 to 24, 2013. Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahi conducted the event.

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Konkani Wikipedia — Climbing up the Indian Language Ladder?

Konkani Wikipedia — Climbing up the Indian Language Ladder?

by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Oct 25, 2013 07:16 AM

Konkani as a language has seen geographical, political and religious conflicts. Being the official language of Goa and spoken widely in the Indian states of Karnataka, Kerala and Maharashtra it is still trying to strengthen its base. Recently CIS-A2K in collaboration with Goa University organized a four-day workshop for MA, Konkani language students. This workshop involved 38 students creating 43 new articles on Konkani Wikipedia which is incubation. We’re hoping that these efforts will contribute towards bringing this 7 year old project out of incubation to a live Wikipedia project.

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Access to Knowledge Bulletin — August 2013

by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 04, 2013 10:49 AM

The Access to Knowledge (Wikipedia) newsletter for the month of August 2013:

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August 2013 Bulletin

by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 13, 2013 06:26 AM

Our newsletter for the month of August 2013 can be accessed below.

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