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Frederick Noronha

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Aug 18, 2026, 3:03:02 AM (yesterday) Aug 18
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From a note from Subodh Kulkarni: "As you know, Goa University is working on Wikimedia projects. Now, they have started digitisation, re-licensing and Wikidata. They have also started working on multilingual Wikisource. A workshop has been planned on the occasion of Konkani Manyata Diwas, 20-21st August (2026)." Subodh can be contacted at +91 94229 07330

From a Wikipedia perspectivedigitisation means converting books, photographs, newspapers, manuscripts or other physical/analogue materials into digital files that can be preserved, searched and potentially uploaded or linked through Wikimedia projects; re-licensing means obtaining permission from the copyright holder, or otherwise establishing a suitable free licence such as CC BY-SA, so that copyrighted material can legally be reused, edited and redistributed on Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons—simply digitising something does not make it freely usable; and Wikidata is Wikimedia’s structured-data repository: instead of merely having information buried in a Wikipedia article, facts about a person, book, place, organisation, etc. are stored as machine-readable items and properties (for example, author, date of birth, publication date, language), allowing information to be shared and queried across different-language Wikipedias and other applications.

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