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Beyond the Language Tussle: by Tejaswini Niranjana — published Dec 10, 2014 — filed under: Openness, Access to Knowledge
It might be more productive to see the ongoing Sanskrit versus German controversy as a welcome opportunity to discuss the real and persistent problems of our education system, not all of which have to do with which languages children get to learn.
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Developing Open Knowledge Digital Resources in Indian Languages: by Tejaswini Niranjana — published Feb 20, 2015 — last modified Apr 22, 2015 06:09 PM
The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K), in collaboration with the Centre for Indian Languages (CILHE) at TISS Mumbai, conducted a two-day workshop at English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU) at Hyderabad on January 28-29, 2015. Titled ‘Developing Open Knowledge Digital Resources in Indian Languages’, the workshop was the third in this series during 2014-15.
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Beyond Editor Count: Assessing Quality on Wikipedia: by Tejaswini Niranjana — published Jun 12, 2016 — filed under: Wikimedia, CIS-A2K, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
Since Wikipedia is considered as the go-to source for different kinds of knowledge by anyone starting off in a particular field of study, and since Indian languages (IL) are often the default languages of the classroom in India, strengthening the quality of the material available on IL Wikipedias is certain to have widespread tangible and intangible impact.
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