Dear all,

Our sincere apologies for the delayed posts. Below are the newsletters for the months of October and November 2014.

OCTOBER

Odia Wikisource goes live!

After a long wait of the project in incubation, Odia Wikisource (https://or.wikisource.org) went live on October 20. Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) congratulates all the wikilibrarians whose persistent effort for bringing new contributors and digitizing books made this happen. CIS-A2K is also honored to be instrumental for bringing about more than 40 books relicensed under Creative Commons Share-Alike (CC-by-SA 4.0) license by reaching out to authors and copyright holders. The first Odia Wikipedia campus program at Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) was implemented where 43 students under the guidance of 9 faculty were trained to digitize books of iconic Odia author Dr Jagannath Mohanty that were relicensed earlier this year. Collaboration with Wikimedians Manoj Sahukar and Shitikantha Dash has resulted encoding converters that convert other encoding to Unicode. This has helped to bring new wikilibrarians to digitize Odia classic "Odia Bhagabata" on Wikisource.

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Subha