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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 Books and More are Relicensed to Creative Commons
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published May 02, 2014 — last modified May 28, 2014 06:29 AM — filed under: , , ,
This blog post is cross-posted from Opensource.com. It was published on May 2, 2014.
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Blog Entry Indic Language Wikipedias as Open Educational Resources
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published May 27, 2014 — last modified Jun 04, 2014 03:32 AM — filed under: , , ,
The Open Education Working Group sees supporting multilingual activities such as translation to and from languages which are not often used as one of its key future roles. Subhashish Panigrahi’s post while dwelling upon the growth of Indic Wikimedia communities critically examines Wikipedia as an educational resource.
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Blog Entry Community led Konkani Wikipedia Outreach
by Nitika Tandon — published May 16, 2014 — last modified Jun 10, 2014 08:44 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Goa University students organised the first ever community led Konkani Wikipedia outreach on May 14, 2014. Fifteen first year M.A. students from Konkani Department participated in the six hour long workshop.
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Blog Entry Twitter weekly Curation WeAreWikipedia brings one Wikipedian Every Week
by Diptiman Panigrahi — published Jun 16, 2014 — last modified Jun 16, 2014 06:16 AM — filed under: , , , ,
WeAreWikipedia is an initiative to bring in voices of Wikipedia contributors (known as Wikipedians). One Wikipedian curates the Twitter based handle for a week and tells interesting stories from his/her communities that are unheard to the rest of the globe. Started as a personal project by our program officer Subhashish Panigrahi it has brought 18 Wikipedians across the globe including 6 Indic language communities.
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Blog Entry Odia Language gets a new Unicode Font Converter
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jun 20, 2014 — last modified Jul 02, 2014 09:59 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Recently, I worked on designing a font encoding converter with a fellow Wikimedian Manoj Sahukar. We worked by taking the code of a converter that was made three years back and made it work for two fonts AkrutiOriSarala99 and AkrutiOriSarala that are used by the media industry for printing and publishing.
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Blog Entry This Twitter Account Puts a Face to the Unsung Volunteer Editors Behind Wikipedia
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jun 18, 2014 — last modified Jul 03, 2014 06:17 AM — filed under: , , ,
The life of a Wikipedia editor is an interesting one. Globally, about 100,000 editors edit the collaborative online encyclopedia's 30 million articles in 287 languages, including over 4.5 million in the English Wikipedia.
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Blog Entry Ten Telugu Books Re-released Under CC-BY-SA 3.0 License
by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published Jun 22, 2014 — last modified Jul 08, 2014 05:29 AM — filed under: , , , ,
For the first time in the history of Indian books, 10 Telugu books by a single author were released under Creative Commons license (CC-BY-SA 3.0) on June 22, 2014 at 10 a.m. at Golden Threshold, Abids, Hyderabad.
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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.
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Blog Entry State of Odia Language in Computing and Future Steps
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jul 07, 2014 — last modified Jul 28, 2014 07:03 AM — filed under: , , , ,
I participated in a "National Level Seminar on, Computer Application and Odia Language" organized by the Institute of Odia Studies and Research in Bhubaneswar on July 6, 2014 as a panelist to discuss about the state of Odia language in computing, work in progress highlighting CIS-A2K's work in the knowledge and education sector and further steps.
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