- National Level Seminar on Computer Application and Odia Language (organized by Institute of Odia Studies and Research, July 6, 2014). Subhashish Panigrahi was a panelist.
- Open Knowledge Festival 2014
(organized by Google, Omidyar, et.al., Berlin, July 15 – 17, 2014).
Subhashish Panigrahi represented India as the India Ambassador of
OpenGLAM local and made a presentation.
- # NAMA: The Future of Indic Languages (organized by Medianama, The Oberoi Hotel, Bangalore, July 24, 2014). Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the event.
- Kannada Wikipedia Presentation for Kannada Science Writers
(organized by Karnataka Rajya Vijnana Parishath at PDA College of
Engineering, Gulbarga, July 29, 2014). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja gave the
presentation and demo. Thirty-two participants attended the workshop.
- Kannada Wikipedia Presentation for Students and Research Scholars
(organized by Central University of Karnataka, Gulbarga, July 30, 2014).
Dr. U. B. Pavanaja gave the presentation and demo. 37 participants
attended the presentation.
- Talk about Kannada Wikipedia (organized by District Kannada Sahithya
Parishath, S.M. Pandit Auditorium, Gulbarga, July 30, 2014). Dr. U.B.
Pavanaja gave a talk as inaugurator of the first session of the Jilla
Sahithya Sammelana (district literary festival). About 600 people
attended this talk.
News and Media Coverage
CIS-A2K team gave its inputs to the following media coverage:
- Wikipedia edit-a-thons to add content on LGBTs (by Renuka Phadnis, The Hindu, July 7, 2014).
- Font problem hits Odia (by Bibhuti Barik, The Telegraph, July 7, 2014).
- Four volumes of Kannada Encyclopaedia digitised (by R. Krishna Kumar, The Hindu, July 12, 2014).
- ‘ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ’ಕ್ಕೆ ಇನ್ನು ಲೈಸೆನ್ಸ್ ಹಂಗಿಲ್ಲ (Prajavani, July 14, 2014).
- Soon, all 14 volumes of Kannada encyclopaedia to be online (by R. Krishna Kumar, The Hindu, July 15, 2014).
- ವಿಕಿಪಿಡಿಯಾಗೆ ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ (Kannada Prabha, July 15, 2014).
- ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶದ ಆರು ಸಂಪುಟ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಾಗೆ (Udayavani, July 15, 2014).
- ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಾದಲ್ಲಿ kannada ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ : ಈಗ ಆನ್ ಲೈನ್ ನಲ್ಲಿ 6 ಸಂಪುಟಗಳು ಮುಕ್ತ…ಮುಕ್ತ……(Just Kannada, July 15, 2014).
- Six Kannada encyclopaedias released (Webindia 123, July 15, 2014).
- 150 Rare Books Get New Lease of Life Online, Courtesy Students (by Anila Backer, New Indian Express, July 15, 2014).
- Open Access: Students help revive and digitize rare books for Malayalam Wiki Library (Spicy IP, July 15, 2014).
- 'Trolled' from US Congress, Wikipedia bans edits (by Narayan Lakshman, The Hindu, July 25, 2014).
- Telugu Wikipedia struggles to stay afloat (by Renuka Phadnis, The Hindu, July 27, 2014).
- The joys of being a Wikipedian (by Svetlana Lasrado, New Indian Express, July 29, 2014).
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Kannada Wikipedia Presentation (Vijayavani, July 30, 2014).
- Kannada Wikipedia Presentation for Kannada Science Writers (Prajavani, July 31, 2014).
Wikimedia Foundation has funded A2K to anchor the growth of Wikimedia
movement in India. The A2K team consists of six members, four based in
Bangalore: T. Vishnu Vardhan, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja, Subhashish Panigrahi
and Rahmanuddin Shaikh. One team member Nitika Tandon is based in Delhi.
We also have one Advisor Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana working with us.
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organisationally and as individuals, to collaboratively engage with
Internet and society and improve our understanding of this new field. To
discuss the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive
Director, at sunil@cis-india.org or Nishant Shah, Director – Research,
at nishant@cis-india.org. To discuss collaborations on Indic language
wikipedia, write to T. Vishnu Vardhan, Programme Director, A2K, at
vishnu@cis-india.org.
CIS is grateful to its primary donor the Kusuma Trust founded by
Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin for its
core funding and support for most of its projects. CIS is also grateful
to its other donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy
International, UK, Hans Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and IDRC for
funding its various projects.
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