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WikipediansSpeak: Piotr Konieczny

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Sep 18, 2013 05:25 AM |

WikipediansSpeak is a video interview show hosted by Subhashish Panigrahi at the Centre of Internet and Society. It brings you series of posts about Wikipedians across the globe. Wikipedians are those voluntary contributors who write Wikipedia articles, correct mistakes made by other wikipedians and share knowledge for free to the world.

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Recap on Konkani Wikipedia Workshop

Recap on Konkani Wikipedia Workshop

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Sep 12, 2013 10:22 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.

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ଅବସର ପରର ଦ୍ବିତୀୟ ଜୀବନ, ଅବସର ପରେ ସକ୍ରିୟ ଭାବେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ ଲେଖାଲେଖି ଜାରୀ ରଖିଥିବା ଜଣେ ଡାକ୍ତରଙ୍କ ସ‌ହ ଭାବାଲୋଚନା

ଅବସର ପରର ଦ୍ବିତୀୟ ଜୀବନ, ଅବସର ପରେ ସକ୍ରିୟ ଭାବେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ ଲେଖାଲେଖି ଜାରୀ ରଖିଥିବା ଜଣେ ଡାକ୍ତରଙ୍କ ସ‌ହ ଭାବାଲୋଚନା

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Sep 10, 2013 06:05 PM |

This is a column about Dr. Subas Chandra Rout, a noteworthy wikipedian who started contributing to Wikipedia articles on Odia Wikipedia related to medical science after retiring as an Orthopedic Specialist-Assistant Professor of a Medical college.

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Selection of Programme Officer — Pilot Projects, CIS-A2K

Posted by Nitika Tandon at Sep 10, 2013 10:05 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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Konkani Wikipedia Advances in 4 Days — From 90 Articles to 130 Articles!

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

Posted by Nitika Tandon at Aug 31, 2013 07:00 PM |

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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An Odia Wikipedia Workshop at Sambalpur

An Odia Wikipedia Workshop at Sambalpur

Posted by Gorvachove Pothal at Aug 27, 2013 11:45 AM |

A training workshop for Odia Wikipedians was held in Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla, Sambalpur on July 26 and 27, 2013. The workshop was organized by Odia Wikipedian Gorvachove Pothal, with financial support from CIS-A2K programme. It was a part of the Access To Knowledge - Outreach Programs.

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Voices from Goa: Rusita Paryekar, a MA student writes articles on Konkani Wikipedia

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Aug 27, 2013 10:00 AM |

Rusita Paryekar is one of the 38 students from the MA Konkani department of Goa University gathered at the State Central Library to learn writing and editing articles on Konkani Wikipedia. Currently Konkani Wikipedia is in incubation and needs more voluntary participation from enthusiasts who want their language, Konkani to strengthen its base in the digital knowledge domain.

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Voices from Goa: Frania Pereira tells Why She Writes Articles on Konkani Wikipedia

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Aug 27, 2013 03:05 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 the Centre for Internet and Society's Access To Knowledge Programme (CIS-A2K) in collaboration with the Konkani department of Goa University organized a four-day Wikipedia 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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Wikimania 2013: Wikipedians represent Indian Languages in Hong Kong

Wikimania 2013: Wikipedians represent Indian Languages in Hong Kong

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Aug 19, 2013 09:00 AM |

The 7th, 8th and 9th of August 2013 saw over 600 Wikipedians across the world participating Wikimania at Hong Kong. The three day annual international conference for users and contributors of Wikipedia brought many debates about open educational research, open source technologies, gender gap, documenting the history of mankind in a free and open platform like Wikipedia and its sister sites in collaboration with Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums and all of these in 286 world languages. More and more volunteers are joining this movement and it is expanding the media of accessing and disseminating knowledge.

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A Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Krishnarajapet

A Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Krishnarajapet

Posted by U.B.Pavanaja at Aug 14, 2013 12:10 PM |

On Sunday, August 11, 2013, a day-long Kannada Wikipedia workshop was conducted at Shyam Computers, Krishnarajapet, Karnataka. The workshop was co-organized by the CIS-A2K team along with Kannada Sahitya Parishat of KR Pet. This report summarizes the proceedings of that workshop and subsequent research into relevant questions flowing from the discussions.

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A Kannada Wikipedia Workshop in Mysore

A Kannada Wikipedia Workshop in Mysore

Posted by U.B.Pavanaja at Aug 13, 2013 02:05 PM |

On Tuesday, August 6, 2013, a day-long Kannada Wikipedia workshop was conducted at the Centre for Proficiency Development and Placement Services (CPDPS), Manasa Gangotri campus, University of Mysore, Karnataka by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team. Dr. U.B.Pavanaja conducted the workshop.

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A Telegu Wiki Meetup @ CIS

Posted by SJ Veera (Telugu Wikipedian) at Aug 05, 2013 01:00 PM |

Telugu Wikipedians had their monthly meetup at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in Bangalore on Saturday, July 13, 2013, 2.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m.

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Open Access Dialogues - Report and Policy Recommendations

Posted by Sumandro Chattapadhyay at Aug 01, 2013 12:00 AM |

The Open Access Dialogues were a series of global electronic debates facilitated by Eve Gray and Kelsey Wiens, in partnership with The African Commons Project (South Africa) and the Centre for Internet and Society (India), during November 2012 to March 2013. It was supported by the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, and was hosted at WSIS Knowledge Communities Discussion Forum.

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A Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Sagara

Posted by U.B.Pavanaja at Jul 31, 2013 11:50 AM |

On Sunday, July 28, 2013, a day-long Kannada Wikipedia workshop was conducted at Sagara, Shimoga Dist, Karnataka by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team. In this post, I share with you the happenings from the workshop.

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A Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Hubli

A Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Hubli

Posted by U.B.Pavanaja at Jul 23, 2013 07:30 AM |

On Sunday, July 21, 2013, a day-long Kannada Wikipedia workshop was conducted at Hubli by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team. This blog post throws more light on the workshop.

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Telugu Wiki Academy at Centre for Good Governance

Telugu Wiki Academy at Centre for Good Governance

Posted by T. Vishnu Vardhan at Jul 12, 2013 05:45 AM |

An account of the Telugu Wiki Academy organized for the staff of Centre for Good Governance, Hyderabad on April 9, 2013 at their Jubilee Hills premises.

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Bangalore RHoKed to Create 8 Apps for a Better World!

Bangalore RHoKed to Create 8 Apps for a Better World!

Posted by Yogesh Londhe at Jun 30, 2013 04:00 AM |
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The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) on June 1 and 2, 2013 hosted a Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) event at its office. Yogesh Londhe shares with you a post-event report.

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A 'Kannada' Wikipedia Workshop for Bloggers

A 'Kannada' Wikipedia Workshop for Bloggers

Posted by U.B.Pavanaja at Jun 28, 2013 07:00 AM |

On Sunday, June 23, 2013, a day-long Kannada Wikipedia workshop was conducted at Suchitra, Bengaluru for Kannada bloggers by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team. This blog post gives a report on the workshop.

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Big Data, People's Lives, and the Importance of Openness

Big Data, People's Lives, and the Importance of Openness

Posted by Nishant Shah at Jun 24, 2013 06:00 AM |
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Openness has become the buzzword for everything in India right now. From the new kids on the block riding the wave of Digital Humanities investing in infrastructure of open knowledge initiatives to the rhetoric of people-centered open government data projects that are architected to create 'empowered citizens', there is an inherent belief that Opening up things will make everything good.

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My First Wikipedia Training Workshop – Theatre Outreach Unit, University of Hyderabad

My First Wikipedia Training Workshop – Theatre Outreach Unit, University of Hyderabad

On March 8, 2013, a day-long Telugu Wikipedia training workshop was organized by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team at the Golden Threshold, Nampally, Hyderabad in collaboration with Theatre Outreach Unit, University of Hyderabad. This blog post gives a concise account of the event.

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