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Wikipedia edit-a-thon in Mangalore to bring Tulu Wikipedia live
— by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified Sep 15, 2015 09:07 AMA Wikipedia edit-a-thon was organised in Mangalore, Karnataka this 14th to encourage more Tulu-language speakers to contribute to Tulu Wikipedia. Tulu Wikipedia is is currently in the Incubator but the enthusiastic editor community is putting their best effort to bring it live out of Incubator. This edit-a-thon is one of the many activities the Tulu Wikimedia community has organised.
Talamaddale on August 23
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 20, 2015 03:57 PMA talamaddale ‘Karna Chedana’ and ‘Shalya Nirgamana’ will be organised at Abhisheka mandira on the premises of Manjunatha temple at Kadri on August 23 at 2.30 p.m. Yakshagana playback singers Balipa Narayana Bhagawatha and Puttige Raghurama Holla will take part.
ಬೆಳ್ತಂಗಡಿ:ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಕಾಲಕ್ಕೂ ಲಭ್ಯ ಇರುವ ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರ ಹಾಗೂ ಮುಕ್ತ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಾ-ಪವನಜ
— by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified Sep 06, 2015 12:09 PMThe Centre for Internet & Society (CIS-A2K) has ongoing partnership with SDM College, Ujire. Students of Masters in Communication and Journalism will be writing articles in Kannada Wikipedia. This academic year’s programme was inaugurated on August 12. It was followed by hands-on workshop. SahilOnline has reported this on August 14, 2015.
International Open Data Charter, Consultation Meeting, Bengaluru, July 28, 5:30 pm
Jul 28, 2015 from 05:30 PM to 07:30 PM — The Centre for Internet & Society, No. 194, 2nd 'C' Cross, Domlur, 2nd Stage, Bangalore 560071 (opposite Domlur Club and near the TERI building), — by Sumandro ChattapadhyayInternational Open Data Charter, Consultation Meeting, Delhi, July 09, 5:30 pm
Jul 09, 2015 from 05:30 PM to 07:00 PM — The Centre for Internet & Society, G 15, Behind Hauz Khas G Block Market, New Delhi 110016, — by Sumandro ChattapadhyayUpload More Kannada Articles on Wikipedia
— by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified Sep 13, 2015 06:09 AMUploading information in Wikipedia helps to develop language, said Indian Languages Programme Manager U B Pavanaja here on Saturday. The article was published in Indian Express (Mangaluru edition) on July 5, 2015.
Kannada Wikipedia Workshop in Mangaluru (Coverage in Udayavani)
— by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified Sep 13, 2015 06:17 AMAs part of its ongoing partnership with St Aloysius College Mangaluru, CIS-A2K co-organized a workshop with the Kannada wikipedia community on Kannada Wikipedia. Udayavani covered this in their edition on July 5.
Not many contributors for Kannada-centric Wiki page
— by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified Sep 13, 2015 05:42 AMWikipedia, which has over 60,000 contributing editors in India, has only 33 Kannadigas contributing to the Kannada section, said Pavanaja U B, programme manager, The Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru.
Odia Wikipedia meets Google Developer Group
— by Sailesh Patnaik — last modified Jul 16, 2015 01:17 PMThis is a guest post by Wikimedian Sailesh Patnaik who has been a ardent contributor in Odia-language Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects and has led outreach and partnership building initiatives to grow the Wikimedia projects in Odia and other Indian languages. In this post Sailesh shares his personal experience from his interaction at the Google Extended I/O organised by Google Developer Group in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. All the views are author’s personal views.
Magic words in Wikipedia
— by Tanveer Hasan — last modified Sep 14, 2015 08:37 AMThe struggle of finding solutions for replacing and retrieving content /words/facts and figures, in this day and age of machines that seem to know everything should ideally be a non-issue. Yet, for many of us who write reports based on the data available at that moment, it is nothing less than a nightmare to come to know that there has been a significant change in the data with which our reports have been written.
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