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Odia Wikisource, its Potential

by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Dec 05, 2014 01:47 AM

I wrote an editorial in Odia newspaper the "Samaja" on November 17, 2014. I have written about Odia Wikisource, its potential and how people can get involved in it with a short note about the digitization done already. I have also highlighted the authors and copyright holders who kindly have donated their work under CC-by-SA license.

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Odia author Nirmala Kumari Mohapatra's 21 books relicensed under CC-by-SA 4.0

by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Dec 06, 2014 02:49 AM

Twenty one books of renowned Odia author Nirmala Kumari Mohapatra will now be available under the Creative Commons License.

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Content co-ordination for the Panel Discussion on Crypto-Currencies

by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 05, 2014 01:35 AM
December 05, 2014

Sharath Chandra Ram was a panelist at this event organized by the Law and Technology Society on November 15, 2014 at the National Law School of India in Bangalore. His presentation was titled Scalability and Security Issues in Distributed Trust based Cryto-Currency Systems like BITCOIN.

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An Article on Kannada Wikipedia

by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified Dec 05, 2014 01:22 AM

I wrote an article on Kannada Wikipedia which was published in the Yojana magazine on November 2014 issue.

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Privacy vs. Transparency: An Attempt at Resolving the Dichotomy

by Sunil Abraham — last modified Mar 08, 2015 06:26 AM

The right to privacy has been articulated in international law and in some national laws. In a few countries where the constitution does not explicitly guarantee such a right, courts have read the right to privacy into other rights (e.g., the right to life, the right to equal treatment under law and also the right to freedom of speech and expression).

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55 Works of Iconic Indian writer released under Free Licence to benefit Wikisource

by T. Vishnu Vardhan — last modified Nov 14, 2014 01:29 PM

Kannada is a language spoken by 40 million people in Karnataka – one of the four southern states of India.The Kannada Wikimedia community, in collaboration with CIS-A2K, are enthusiastic about having almost all of the works of Niranjana re-licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0 on the occasion of Kannada Rajyotsava.

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Getting Strategic about Openness and Privacy

by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 09, 2014 09:19 AM
November 09, 2014

This blog post by Tim Davies, Open Data Research Lead at Web Foundation was published in Open Up? on November 3, 2014.

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ನಿರಂಜನರ ಕೃತಿಗಳು CC-BY-SA 4.0 ಪರವಾನಗಿಯೊಂದಿಗೆ ಮರುಪ್ರಕಟಗೊಳ್ಳಲಿವೆ

ನಿರಂಜನರ ಕೃತಿಗಳು CC-BY-SA 4.0 ಪರವಾನಗಿಯೊಂದಿಗೆ ಮರುಪ್ರಕಟಗೊಳ್ಳಲಿವೆ

by Omshivaprakash and Tejas Jain — last modified Nov 03, 2014 03:04 PM

ಕನ್ನಡ ರಾಜ್ಯೋತ್ಸವದ ಸಂದರ್ಭದಲ್ಲಿ ನಿರಂಜನರ ಬಹುಪಾಲು ಕೃತಿಗಳು CC-BY-SA 4.0 ಪರವಾನಗಿಯೊಂದಿಗೆ ಮರುಪ್ರಕಟಗೊಳ್ಳಲಿವೆಯೆಂದು ಸಿಐಎಸ್-ಎ೨ಕೆಯ ಸಹಯೋಗದೊಂದಿಗೆ ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಬಳಗವು ಹಂಚಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ಹರ್ಷಿಸುತ್ತದೆ.

ನಿರಂಜನರ ಕೃತಿಗಳು CC-BY-SA 4.0 ಪರವಾನಗಿಯೊಂದಿಗೆ ಮರುಪ್ರಕಟಗೊಳ್ಳಲಿವೆ - Read More…

Odia Wikisource Sabha 2014

Nov 28, 2014 from 03:00 PM to 07:00 PM Jayadev Bhawan, Bhubaneswar, by Prasad Krishna

The Odia Wikimedia community, a volunteer community that contributes to Odia Wikipedia and its sister projects, in collaboration with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), a Bengaluru based non-profit that works in domains like IP reforms, Accessibility, Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K), etc. are celebrating the launch of Odia Wikisource on November 28, 2014 at Jayadev Bhawan, Bhubaneswar.

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October 2014 Bulletin

by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 23, 2014 04:40 PM

Welcome to the tenth issue of the newsletter (October 2014).

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