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Developing Digital Open Knowledge Resources in Indian Languages
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Tejaswini Niranjana and Tanveer Hasan
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Sep 30, 2014
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Oct 12, 2014 03:52 AM
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
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Wikimedia
A two-day workshop for students was organized by Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule Women’s Studies Centre, University of Pune (KSPWSC), Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education (CILHE), Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and Access to Knowledge Programme, Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore (CIS-A2K) on September 11 and 12, 2014 in Pune. Tejaswini Niranjana and Tanveer Hasan summarize the developments from the workshop in this report.
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ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା ବିକାଶରେ ପ୍ରତିବନ୍ଧକ ଓ ସମ୍ଭାବନା
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Oct 13, 2014
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Oct 13, 2014 05:19 AM
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Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Odia Wikipedia,
Openness
I authored an editorial in today's Samaja (Odia daily). It talks about the hurdles Odia language has been facing and potential aspects of the language including it being used massively on the Internet in Wikipedia and other platforms.
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Samskrita Vaibhavam (Sanskrit Wiki Outreach Program)
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Shubha and Sayant Mahato
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Oct 30, 2014
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Oct 31, 2014 02:02 PM
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Access to Knowledge,
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Wikipedia,
Sanskrit Wikipedia,
Openness
To celebrate the revival of Sanskrit language, the Bangalore chapter of Samskrita Bharati organised a two-day mega event "Samskrita Vaibhavam" at VSR Kalyan Mantapa in Bangalore on August 9 and 10, 2014.
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Open access platform to save the Odia Indian language
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Oct 24, 2014
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Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Odia Wikipedia,
Openness
In February 2014, the Government of India declared the South Asian language Odia as the 6th classical language of India which is one among 22 scheduled languages of India and has a literary heritage of more than 5,000 years. There are documents for more than 3,500 years, and the rest are undocumented oral histories.
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Tulu Wikipedia Workshop cum Editathon at Udupi
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U.B.Pavanaja
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Oct 31, 2014
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Oct 31, 2014 02:54 PM
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Tulu Wikipedia
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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Converting from nonUnicode (Nudi, Baraha, ...) font encoding to Unicode Kannada
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U.B.Pavanaja
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Oct 31, 2014
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Oct 23, 2016 03:36 PM
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Kannada Wikipedia
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.
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ನಿರಂಜನರ ಕೃತಿಗಳು CC-BY-SA 4.0 ಪರವಾನಗಿಯೊಂದಿಗೆ ಮರುಪ್ರಕಟಗೊಳ್ಳಲಿವೆ
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by
Omshivaprakash and Tejas Jain
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published
Nov 03, 2014
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Nov 03, 2014 03:04 PM
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filed under:
Creative Commons,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Openness,
Kannada Wikipedia
ಕನ್ನಡ ರಾಜ್ಯೋತ್ಸವದ ಸಂದರ್ಭದಲ್ಲಿ ನಿರಂಜನರ ಬಹುಪಾಲು ಕೃತಿಗಳು CC-BY-SA 4.0 ಪರವಾನಗಿಯೊಂದಿಗೆ ಮರುಪ್ರಕಟಗೊಳ್ಳಲಿವೆಯೆಂದು ಸಿಐಎಸ್-ಎ೨ಕೆಯ ಸಹಯೋಗದೊಂದಿಗೆ ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಬಳಗವು ಹಂಚಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ಹರ್ಷಿಸುತ್ತದೆ.
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More Than 40 Million People Await the Launch of Odia Wikisource
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Oct 19, 2014
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Nov 04, 2014 01:58 PM
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Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Odia Wikipedia,
Openness
Speakers of Odia will soon have mountains of books to read online in their mother tongue, following the launch of the Odia Wikisource, which will make accessible many rare books that have entered the public domain.
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Bharat Majhi Writings Now Available Under a Creative Commons License
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Oct 14, 2014
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Nov 07, 2014 03:34 PM
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Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Video,
Openness,
Odia Wikipedia
Before the advent of Odia Wikisource becoming live, Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) got in touch with notable Odia author Bharat Majhi for bringing his writings on the Internet.
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Odia Littérateur Ramakrushna Nanda's 4 Books Now Available Under a Creative Commons License
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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Oct 22, 2014
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Nov 06, 2014 01:41 PM
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Wikipedia,
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Odia Wikipedia
Children literature in Odia language went through an ennoblement after the intervention of Ramakrushna Nanda's writings.
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