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For the love of Konkani: Preserving Goa's official language
by Prasad Krishna published Sep 30, 2013 — filed under: , , , ,
With many local dialects on the brink of extinction, Joanna Lobo meets the language conservationists who have taken it upon themselves to preserve Goa's official language.
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Goa University announces plan to upload Konkani encyclopedia on Wikipedia
by Prasad Krishna published Sep 27, 2013 last modified Oct 03, 2013 09:14 AM — filed under: , , , ,
The Goa University, on Thursday, re-launched the four volumes of Konkani Vishwakosh (Konkani encyclopedia), and announced its ambitious plan to upload the same on Wikipedia – a free encyclopedia built collaboratively using Wiki software – so as to build the Konkani Wikipedia.
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Konkani Wikipedia from Goa University in 6 months
by Prasad Krishna published Sep 27, 2013 — filed under: , , , ,
Piles of the thick four volumes of Konkani vishwakosh or encyclopedia waiting to be picked up by users at the Goa University (GU) will now attain a modern avatar.
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Blog Entry CIS Signs MoU with Goa University
by Prasad Krishna published Sep 25, 2013 last modified Sep 25, 2013 10:57 AM — filed under: , , ,
The Access to Knowledge (A2K) team from the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) has signed a MOU with the Goa University.
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Blog Entry Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Project
by Nitika Tandon published Sep 25, 2013 last modified Oct 01, 2013 12:23 PM — filed under: , , , ,
The Centre for Internet and Society in collaboration with the University of Goa invite you to a two-month project on digitization of Konkani Vishwakosh. Please send in your applications by October 5, 2013.
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Goa university re-releasing Konkani encyclopaedia on Sept 26
by Prasad Krishna published Sep 25, 2013 last modified Sep 25, 2013 05:59 AM — filed under: , , ,
The Goa University in collaboration with Centre for Internet and Societie's Access to Knowledge Programme (CIS-A2K) is re-releasing its four volume 3632 page Konkani Vishwakosh (encyclopaedia).
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Konkani Vishwakosh relaunch tomorrow
by Prasad Krishna published Sep 25, 2013 — filed under: , , ,
The Goa University in collaboration with Centre for Internet and Societies Access to Knowledge Programme (CIS-A2K) will relaunch its four-volume 3,632-page Konkani Vishwakosh (encyclopaedia) under Creative Commons License CC-BY-SA 3.0. to support the movement of open knowledge and open access on Thursday at 10 a.m. at a function at the conference hall of its administrative building at Taleigao plateau.
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Re-releasing Konkani Vishwakosh & Building Konkani Wikipedia
by Prasad Krishna published Sep 25, 2013 — filed under: , , , ,
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS-A2K) in partnership with the University of Goa invites you to this event on Thursday, September 26, 2013, 10.00 a.m. The one-hour event will be followed by a press conference.
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Blog Entry Wikipedia reaches Classrooms in Hyderabad
by Syed Muzammiluddin published Sep 20, 2013 last modified Sep 20, 2013 07:20 AM — filed under: , , , ,
The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Hyderabad organised a one-day workshop on editing Wikipedia in Indian languages. It was attended by participants who formed a small but proactive group of students who eagerly tried to register the first edits on four different Indian language wikipedias.
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Blog Entry WikipediansSpeak: Piotr Konieczny
by Subhashish Panigrahi published Sep 18, 2013 last modified Sep 18, 2013 12:22 PM — filed under: , , ,
WikipediansSpeak is a video interview show hosted by Subhashish Panigrahi at the Centre of Internet and Society. It brings you series of posts about Wikipedians across the globe. Wikipedians are those voluntary contributors who write Wikipedia articles, correct mistakes made by other wikipedians and share knowledge for free to the world.
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