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Fifty-fourth Bangalore Wikimedia Meet-up at IIM, Bangalore

Fifty-fourth Bangalore Wikimedia Meet-up at IIM, Bangalore

Posted by Noopur Raval at Feb 28, 2013 02:50 PM |

The 54th Wikimedia meet-up in Bangalore was held at the Indian Institute of Management on February 25, 2013. The event was planned and organized by Radhakrishna Arvapally, SIG (Special Interest Group) Chair, Bangalore (a part of the Wikimedia India Chapter) with support from Solutions IQ, Wikimedia India Chapter and CIS.

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FOSS, Wikimedia and Mozilla Under One Roof at GNUnify 2013, Pune

FOSS, Wikimedia and Mozilla Under One Roof at GNUnify 2013, Pune

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Feb 28, 2013 02:30 PM |

GNUnify 2013 organized in the campus in Pune from February 15 to 17, 2013. The event was organized by Pune Linux/Unix User Group (PLUG) and Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies & Research (SICSR). Subhashish Panigrahi reports the outcomes in this blog post.

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Odia Wikipedia Community Brings Wikipedia Education Program to IIMC, Dhenkanal

Odia Wikipedia Community Brings Wikipedia Education Program to IIMC, Dhenkanal

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Feb 28, 2013 02:20 PM |

The Odia Wikipedia community collaborated with the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal and hosted a pilot Odia Wikipedia Education Program. The program began in November 2012 and got over by January 2013. Sixteen student wikipedians signed up and took part in editing more than a dozen articles on Odia Wikipedia.

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Celebrating Odia Wikipedia's Ninth Anniversary

Celebrating Odia Wikipedia's Ninth Anniversary

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Feb 19, 2013 04:05 PM |

Odia Wikipedia saw its first edit on January 29, 2004. After a dormancy of many years it got revived in 2011. To commemorate the effort of many volunteer wikipedians, a celebratory event was organized on January 29, 2013 in Bhubaneswar. Subhashish Panigrahi participated in this event.

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Report of Aaron Swartz Memorial Hacknight

Posted by Zainab Bawa at Feb 06, 2013 07:05 AM |
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On 19th and 20th January, HasGeek organized a hacknight to commemorate the life and works of Aaron Swartz. Zainab Bawa from HasGeek shares with us the developments.

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Digital Literacy Workshop at Department of Arts, Delhi University

Posted by Nitika Tandon at Feb 05, 2013 09:00 AM |

A digital literacy workshop was organised at the Department of Arts, Delhi University for students pursuing their masters in Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies on February 5, 2013. Nitika Tandon shares the developments.

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Access to Knowledge Report — September to December 2012

Posted by Noopur Raval at Jan 31, 2013 10:14 AM |

This post provides an overview of the activities done by the Access to Knowledge team under the grant provided by the Wikimedia Foundation from September 2012 to December 2012.

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Remembering Aaron Swartz, Taking Up the Fight

Remembering Aaron Swartz, Taking Up the Fight

Posted by Nishant Shah at Jan 28, 2013 04:50 AM |
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I encountered the Aaron Swartz memorial the other day that helps ‘liberate’ a randomly selected article from JSTOR, as an act of civil disobedience, to commemorate both the legacy that Swartz leaves behind, but also the high-profile witch-hunt case which was a crucial factor in him taking his own life.

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Konkani in Wikipedia Incubator — Taking it to the Next Level

Konkani in Wikipedia Incubator — Taking it to the Next Level

Posted by Nitika Tandon at Jan 25, 2013 07:34 AM |
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An introductory session on Konkani in Wikipedia was organized by the Centre for Internet and Society, Delhi in the Konkani Department at Goa University on December 12, 2012. About 30 participants took part in the event.

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Aaron Swartz: The First Martyr of the Free Information Movement

Posted by Lawrence Liang at Jan 24, 2013 12:26 PM |
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Well known American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist died on January 11, 2013. Lawrence Liang from the Alternative Law Forum discusses with Newsclick the tragic loss. The interview was conducted by Prabir Purkayastha.

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Promoting GLAM in Goa

Promoting GLAM in Goa

Posted by Nitika Tandon at Jan 24, 2013 09:00 AM |

We organised an introductory Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums (GLAM) session at Goa State Central Library on December 13, 2012. It was well attended by about 45 interested people coming from over 10 different GLAM institutes in Goa.

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Bringing Konkani Encyclopedia in Public Domain

Bringing Konkani Encyclopedia in Public Domain

Posted by Nitika Tandon at Jan 22, 2013 07:30 AM |

On December 14, 2012, a meeting was scheduled with the Vice Chancellor Dr. Satish R Shetye to discuss the possibility of bringing Konkani Encyclopedia in public domain. Nitika Tandon shares the development in this blog post.

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A Wiki Workshop at Raj Kumar Goel Institute of Technology, Ghaziabad

A Wiki Workshop at Raj Kumar Goel Institute of Technology, Ghaziabad

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Jan 22, 2013 03:10 AM |

The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team organized a Wikipedia workshop at Raj Kumar Goel Institute of Technology (RKGIT), Ghaziabad in collaboration with Metawings on January 17, 2013. Subhashish Panigrahi summarizes the happenings from the one-day workshop in this blog post.

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Celebrating the success of Wikipedia in Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013

Celebrating the success of Wikipedia in Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013

Wikipedia Club Pune, a local community based outreach user group in Pune has recently organized Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013 to spread words about “Spoken Wikipedia”, a project to add recorded audio for Indic language Wikipedia articles which will help the disabled to access Wikipedia and “Bridging Editor Gender Gap.”

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Indic Language Wikipedias — Statistical Report — 2012

Posted by Shiju Alex at Jan 21, 2013 05:30 AM |

I have compiled the statistical update of the Indic language Wikipedias for the year 2012. As usual, in this report, my aim is to provide my perspectives on the health of various Indic language communities as well as the state of various Indic language wikipedias.

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Wikipedia in St. Xavier's College, Mapusa, Goa

Wikipedia in St. Xavier's College, Mapusa, Goa

Posted by Nitika Tandon at Jan 19, 2013 07:00 AM |

A three hour Wikipedia workshop was organized by the Centre for Internet & Society, Delhi, in the morning of December 14, 2012 at St. Xavier's College in Mapusa, Goa. Over 30 participants attended the session.

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The Violence of Knowledge Cartels

Posted by Nishant Shah at Jan 18, 2013 07:33 AM |
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We are all struck with a sense of loss, grief and shock since we heard of the death of Aaron Swartz, by suicide. People who have been his friends have written heart-felt obituaries, saluting his dreams and visions and unwavering commitment to a larger social good.

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Two-day Wiki Workshop in Goa University: An Introduction

Posted by Nitika Tandon at Jan 14, 2013 11:00 PM |

Last month, on December 12 and 13, 2012, the Access to Knowledge team from the Centre for Internet & Society along with Wikipedia community members organized a two-day workshop for M.A. and Ph.D. students at the Goa University. Nitika Tandon participated in the event and shares with us the developments.

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Open Access Champion Leslie Chan Delivers Five Talks in India

Open Access Champion Leslie Chan Delivers Five Talks in India

Posted by Prasad Krishna at Dec 30, 2012 07:10 AM |
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Professor Leslie Chan, a champion of Open Access (OA) and Associate Director of the Centre for Critical Development Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough visited Tiruvananthapuram and Mysore in December 2012 for a series of lectures. Well known advocate for OA in India and the developing world, Professor Subbiah Arunachalam, accompanied him on these tours.

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A Wikipedia Workshop at NMAIT

A Wikipedia Workshop at NMAIT

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Dec 30, 2012 05:00 AM |

The Centre for Internet & Society, Delhi collaborated with Metawings Institute to spread the words about Wikipedia for Indian languages. A one-day workshop was organized to educated the students on contributing to Wikipedia on December 21, 2012. About 170 engineering students took part in this event.

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