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Converting from nonUnicode (Nudi, Baraha, ...) font encoding to Unicode Kannada
— by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified Oct 23, 2016 03:36 PMPeople have been using computers for typing and printing Kannada text for more than 25 years. Most of the usage of Kannada on computers was limited to the DTP arena.
Tulu Wikipedia Workshop cum Editathon at Udupi
— by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified Oct 31, 2014 02:54 PMA three-day programme was held at Udupi from October 15 to 17, 2014 with an aim to increase the presence of Tulu in the online world. The first day comprised the inauguration programme and a workshop to understand the Wiki markup. The next two days were devoted to the edit-a-thon where participants added articles to Tulu Wikipedia.
Samskrita Vaibhavam (Sanskrit Wiki Outreach Program)
— by Shubha and Sayant Mahato — last modified Oct 31, 2014 02:02 PMTo celebrate the revival of Sanskrit language, the Bangalore chapter of Samskrita Bharati organised a two-day mega event "Samskrita Vaibhavam" at VSR Kalyan Mantapa in Bangalore on August 9 and 10, 2014.
Odia Wikisource Goes Live!
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Nov 07, 2014 01:30 PMOdia netizens have more than one reason to celebrate this festive season.
Wikipedia can establish Tulu in a wider way
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 24, 2014 04:01 PMIn his predential address after inaugurating the three-day workshop on ‘The use of internet for promotion of Tulu language,’ organised by Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy, Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy President Janki M Brahmavar opined that internet media, especially Wikipedia, can contribute to a large extent towards the promotion of Tulu language. The president said there was a need for the effective use of Unicode for the digital interpretation of Tulu.
Open access platform to save the Odia Indian language
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Oct 24, 2014 03:32 PMIn February 2014, the Government of India declared the South Asian language Odia as the 6th classical language of India which is one among 22 scheduled languages of India and has a literary heritage of more than 5,000 years. There are documents for more than 3,500 years, and the rest are undocumented oral histories.
Odia Littérateur Ramakrushna Nanda's 4 Books Now Available Under a Creative Commons License
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Nov 06, 2014 01:41 PMChildren literature in Odia language went through an ennoblement after the intervention of Ramakrushna Nanda's writings.
Pushing women scientists
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 21, 2014 03:44 PMWikipedia edit-a-thon attempts to raise awareness of the contribution of Indian women to science.
Second Draft of Open Access Policy of the Department of Biotechnology and Department of Science released
— by Anubha Sinha — last modified Oct 30, 2014 12:33 AMThe Department of Biotechnology and the Department of Science, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India drafted an Open Access Policy (“Policy”) in consultation with several open access experts, government officials and CIS. The second draft of the Policy released last week and is open for comments till 17th November, 2014.
More Than 40 Million People Await the Launch of Odia Wikisource
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Nov 04, 2014 01:58 PMSpeakers of Odia will soon have mountains of books to read online in their mother tongue, following the launch of the Odia Wikisource, which will make accessible many rare books that have entered the public domain.
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