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Blog Entry A Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Krishnarajapet
by U.B.Pavanaja — published Aug 14, 2013 — last modified Sep 05, 2013 06:46 AM — filed under: , , , ,
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.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry ಅಂತರ್ಜಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ನೆಟ್ಟ ಸಸಿಗೆ ಈಗ ಹತ್ತು ವರ್ಷ
by U.B.Pavanaja — published Nov 20, 2013 — filed under: , , , ,
Dr. U.B. Pavanaja wrote an article highlighting 10 years of Kannada Wikipedia. Kannada Wikipedia started in the year 2003 and now it has completed 10 years. The article highlights the current status of the Kannada Wikipedia vis-a-vis number of articles, number of editors, active editors, and page views per month.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry CIS Signs MoU with Mysore University
by U.B.Pavanaja — published Apr 16, 2014 — last modified May 05, 2014 06:29 AM — filed under: , , , ,
CIS-A2K signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the University of Mysore for converting to Unicode and re-releasing their encyclopaedia under Creative Commons License. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja on behalf of the CIS-A2K team signed the MoU.
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Blog Entry CIS Signs MoU with Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara College
by U.B.Pavanaja — published May 27, 2014 — filed under: , , ,
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) has inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara (SDM) College on April 21, 2014. On behalf of CIS, Dr. U.B.Pavanaja signed the MoU.
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Blog Entry Aircel & Wikimedia Foundation announce Wikipedia Zero
by U.B.Pavanaja — published Jul 07, 2014 — last modified Jul 07, 2014 05:58 AM — filed under: , , ,
Aircel and Wikimedia Foundation came together to announce Wikipedia Zero. As per this, users of Aircel need not pay for data for accessing Wikipedia. Dr. U.B.Pavanaja wrote a report on this in Prajavani.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry University of Mysore Re-releases Kannada Vishwakosha (Encyclopaedia) under Creative Commons Free License
by U.B.Pavanaja — published Jul 24, 2014 — last modified Jul 24, 2014 07:03 AM — filed under: , , , , , ,
The University of Mysore and the Centre for Internet and Society co-organized the Open Knowledge Day in Mysore on July 15, 2014. On this occasion Mysore University released six volumes of Kannada Vishwakosha under the Creative Commons (CC) license.
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Blog Entry Tulu Wikipedia Workshop cum Editathon at Udupi
by U.B.Pavanaja — published Oct 31, 2014 — last modified Oct 31, 2014 02:54 PM — filed under: , , , ,
A 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.
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Blog Entry Converting from nonUnicode (Nudi, Baraha, ...) font encoding to Unicode Kannada
by U.B.Pavanaja — published Oct 31, 2014 — last modified Oct 23, 2016 03:36 PM — filed under: , , , ,
People 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.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry Reading Devanagari script based sites like Konkani Wikipedia in Kannada Script
by U.B.Pavanaja — published Jul 13, 2015 — last modified Jun 18, 2016 06:14 PM — filed under: ,
This is a small hack to read websites with Devanagari script (used for Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Maithili and a few more languages) based sites like Konkani Wikipedia in Kannada script.
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Blog Entry WikiConference India 2016 Submission: Gender Gap in Indian Language Wikipedias – Projects, Outreach and Outcome
by U.B.Pavanaja — published Aug 17, 2016 — filed under: , , ,
India is not much different from the global statistics when it comes to gender gap issues in Wikipedia. Indian language Wikipedias are known to have similar ratio of male to female editors.
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