wonderful news. way to go. Similar effort is required for the Marathi Vishwakosh project as well.
-- GN On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:47 PM, Nitika Tandon <[email protected]>wrote: > Greetings from CIS-A2K! > > We request the pleasure of your company at the event 'Re-releasing Konkani > Vishwakosh & Building Konkani Wikipedia' . The event will take place on the > 26th September, Thursday,10am - 11am at the Conference Hall, Goa > University, Taleigao. > > Upon CIS-A2K' explicit request, Goa University has approved the re-release > of Konkani Vishwakosh under Creative Commons License (CC‐BY‐SA 3.0) to make > it freely available to public and thus preserve Konkani language and > culture in the digital era. This encyclopedia will also serve as one of the > main sources of building and writing articles on Konkani Wikipedia (which > is currently under incubation). > > *This is a major win for the Wikimedia movement in India. This is, > probably, the first time ever a State run higher education institution has > re-released copyrighted content under Creative Commons.* *Hope more such > initiatives will be underway to "Let the Knowledge Go around"!* > > We'd like you to be a part of this event and help showcase Konkani > community and language on a global digital platform such as Konkani > Wikipedia. > > Please see the link for the invite.[1] We look forward to seeing you at > the event. > > Best, > Nitika Tandon > Program Manager > Access to Knowledge<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge> > The Centre for Internet & Society > > [1] > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Re-release_of_Konkani_Vishwakosh_under_Creative_Commons_License_CC-BY-SA_3.0_-_Invite.pdf > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-in-mum mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-mum > >
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