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A Telugu Wiki Meetup @ CIS, Bangalore

A Telugu Wiki Meetup @ CIS, Bangalore

Posted by SJ Veera at Jun 11, 2013 04:00 AM |

On June 2, 2013, the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) hosted a Telugu wiki meetup in its Bangalore office. Updates from the meetup is shared in this blog post.

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Wikipedia Introductory Session organized for Data and India portal consultants

Wikipedia Introductory Session organized for Data and India portal consultants

On May 13, 2013, the Access to Knowledge team led by Subhashish Panigrahi conducted a Wikipedia Introductory Session at the National Informatics Centre in New Delhi for the consultants working for Data and India portal. This session was aimed to emphasize how these portals and their useful data could be used on Wikipedia to create good quality articles.

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Use made of Open Access Journals by Indian Researchers to Publish their Findings

Posted by Madhan Muthu and Subbiah Arunachalam at May 28, 2013 07:00 AM |

Most of the papers published in the more than 360 Indian open access journals are by Indian researchers. But how many papers do they publish in high impact international open access journals? We have looked at India’s contribution to all seven Public Library of Science (PLoS) journals, 10 BioMed Central (BMC) ournals and Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports. Indian crystallographers have published more than 2,000 structure reports in Acta Crystallographica, second only to China in number of papers, but have a much better citations per paper average than USA, Britain, Germany and France, China and South Korea. India’s contribution to BMC and PLoS journals, on the other hand, is modest at best. We suggest that the better option for India is institutional self-archiving.

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Comments on the Draft ICAR Open Access Policy

Posted by Nehaa Chaudhari at May 28, 2013 06:44 AM |
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The following comments were submitted to the Indian Council for Agricultural Research on May 23, 2013.

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Use of Open Access Journals by Indian Researchers

Posted by Subbiah Gunasekaran and Subbiah Arunachalam at May 27, 2013 12:00 AM |
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Indian researchers have published more than 43,400 papers in over 4,600 journals in 2009 as seen from Science Citation Index (SCI) – Expanded. Of these, over 6,900 (or one in six) papers are published in 445 open access (OA) journals. The proportion of papers published by Indian researchers in OA journals is considerably higher than the world average, which is estimated to be 8.5–10.0%. Although India publishes well over a thousand journals, including about 360 OA journals, SCI Expanded indexed in 2009 only 101 Indian S&T journals including 46 OA journals. It is likely that the percentage of Indian papers in OA journals as seen from SCI will be higher if more Indian journals are indexed in SCI Expanded.

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Access to Knowledge Work Plan: Synopsis of Feedback by Wikipedians

Posted by Nitika Tandon at May 20, 2013 06:00 AM |
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The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team shared its annual work plan with the larger Wikipedia community. Over the last one month, Access to Knowledge team members were involved in receiving feedback from community members over mailing lists, private emails, Wikimedia Meta, IRC, and one-on-one conversations. In this post, we are sharing a brief summary of the feedback received.

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Odia Wikipedia: Needs Assessment

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at May 11, 2013 01:00 PM |

This blog encompasses the status of Odia Wikipedia and assessment of the needs for growth of the community.

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Analysis of Konkani Wikipedia: Facts & Challenges

Posted by Nitika Tandon at Apr 30, 2013 05:00 AM |

Nitika Tandon, in this blog post, provides an analysis of the Konkani Wikipedia. She reflects on the challenges faced by Konkani Wikipedia and identifies four possible solutions.

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Indian WikiWomen celebrate Women’s History Month

Indian WikiWomen celebrate Women’s History Month

Posted by Netha Hussain at Apr 29, 2013 09:21 AM |

March 2013 was a busy month for women Wikimedians in India, as we conducted various events, such as edit-a-thons and workshops to celebrate the presence of women in Wikimedia projects. The women Wikimedians, members of the Wikimedia India Chapter and the Access to Knowledge Team, brainstormed about the possible events, which we wanted to conduct to encourage women to participate and to increase the quality of articles related to Indian women in Wikipedias in English and the Indian languages.

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Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project #2: Visualising Page Views and Project Pages

Posted by Sajjad Anwar and Sumandro Chattapadhyay at Apr 22, 2013 10:50 AM |

In this blog post, we bring you a visualisation of the page views statistics and the project specific pages that we created last month. The page views indicate the number of unique visits the Wikipedia project concerned has received in one month.

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Odia Wikipedia - Bhubaneswar Community Meetup (March 17, 2013)

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Apr 04, 2013 04:00 AM |

The Access to Knowledge team from the Centre for Internet and Society and the Odia Wikipedia community held a meetup in Bhubaneswar on March 17, 2013. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi participated in this meet-up.

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Odia Wikipedia - Cuttack Community Meetup (March 16, 2013)

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Apr 03, 2013 05:00 AM |

A meetup of Odia wikipedians was organised by the Access to Knowledge team of the Centre for Internet and Society and the Odia wikipedia community on March 16, 2013. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the meetup.

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Wikipedia Indian Languages Workshop at IIT, Bombay

Posted by Noopur Raval at Mar 28, 2013 11:44 AM |

This is a brief report on the Wikipedia Indian languages workshop held on March 9, 2013 at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in partnership with Vaani, the Hindi bloggers' club at IIT, Bombay.

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Iraqi Public Data Scenario Workshop: A Summary

Posted by Sumandro Chattapadhyay at Mar 26, 2013 11:15 AM |
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A workshop on public data was conducted by Sunil Abraham and Sumandro Chattapadhyay for the officials of the Government of Iraq. It was organized by UNDP Iraq in Amman, Jordan from October 18 to 23, 2012. Sumandro Chattapadhyay shares with us the developments from the workshop held over five days.

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Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project #1: Visualising Basic Parameters

Posted by Sajjad Anwar and Sumandro Chattapadhyay at Mar 26, 2013 06:50 AM |

Sajjad Anwar and Sumandro Chattapadhyay bring you a visualisation of the growth of Indic Wikipedia in this first post on Indic Wikipedia Visualisation project. In doing so, the authors look into the different aspects of the past and present activities of Indic Wikipedias, and divide the visualisation into three different focus areas.

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Strategic Issues Emerging from Open Access Dialogues - Final Report

Posted by Sumandro Chattapadhyay at Mar 21, 2013 09:40 AM |

A series of discussions - on the Chat Literacy forum of ELDIS and on Twitter - was organised during November 2012 to March 2013 to identify the global challenges in 'Navigating the Complexities of Open Access'. The discussions were facilitated by Eve Gray and Kelsey Wiens, in partnership with The African Commons Project (South Africa) and the Centre for Internet and Society (India), through support from the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex. On behalf of CIS, Sumandro Chattapadhyay co-coordinated and contributed to these discussions.

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Wiki Women's Day in Goa

Wiki Women's Day in Goa

Posted by Nitika Tandon at Mar 19, 2013 06:35 AM |

International Women's Day (IWD), also called International Working Women's Day, is celebrated on March 8, every year. There were a series of Wikipedia events organised this year with the aim of increasing participation of women contributing to Wikipedia. One such event was organised by the Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet and Society and the Wikimedia India Chapter at the Nirmala Institute of Education (NIE), a Secondary Teacher Education College in Panaji, Goa on March 8, 2013.

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Introductory Wikipedia session at BITS Goa

Posted by Nitika Tandon at Mar 19, 2013 05:50 AM |

The Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet and Society was invited by Nikhil Dixit, Public Relations Officer at the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani – Goa (BITS Goa) to organise Wikipedia session on March 7, 2013. Nitika Tandon participated in this workshop and shares with us the developments.

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Ahmednagar — Marathi Wikipedia Workshop

Posted by Tanveer Hasan at Mar 18, 2013 10:50 AM |

Wikipedia Community members helped the Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications Programme (HEIRA), CSCS Bangalore organize a day-long workshop on ‘Digital Literacy’ at Ahmednagar College, Ahmednagar, Maharasthra on January 17, 2013. Tanveer Hasan of HEIRA shares with us the developments in this report.

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Creative Commons comes to India

Creative Commons comes to India

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Feb 28, 2013 02:55 PM |

Creative Commons team visited four Indian cities to spread the word about CC free licenses and CC affiliate program. Wikimedia India chapter was approached to join hands with Creative Commons for research and community building.

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