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Image New Wikipedians trying their hand on editing Odia Wikipedia
by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Nov 01, 2012 10:12 AM
Here is a picture of new Wikipedians editing Odia Wikipedia for the first time.
Blog Entry Nineteen Books Published by Ama Odisha Relicensed under CC-by-SA 4.0
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Nov 25, 2014 — last modified Dec 07, 2014 03:35 AM — filed under: , ,
Odisha's most circulated newspaper Sambad has collaborated with CIS-A2K to relicense 19 books published by its sister concern "Ama Odisha".
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry Non Unicode ISCII Text Can be Converted to Unicode Now!
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Dec 19, 2012 — last modified Dec 21, 2012 09:59 AM — filed under: , , ,
Odia Wikipedian Manoj Sahukar has designed a new tool which can convert non Unicode ISCII text to Odia Unicode text. A majority of the digitized text and web content of newspapers and books are in non unicode text which now could be used for Wikipedia and other Odia Wiki projects. This opens a new arena for digitized free license books in Odia language.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry OCR and OER – update
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Sep 25, 2015 — last modified Jun 18, 2016 05:09 PM — filed under: , ,
We welcome this short posting from Subhashish Panigrahi which updates a 2014 posting of his on Indic Language Wikipedias as Open Educational Resources at http://education.okfn.org/indic-language-wikipedias-as-open-educational-resources/
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Blog Entry Odia author Nirmala Kumari Mohapatra's 21 books relicensed under CC-by-SA 4.0
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Nov 17, 2014 — last modified Dec 06, 2014 02:49 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Twenty one books of renowned Odia author Nirmala Kumari Mohapatra will now be available under the Creative Commons License.
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Blog Entry Odia Language gets a new Unicode Font Converter
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jun 20, 2014 — last modified Jul 02, 2014 09:59 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Recently, I worked on designing a font encoding converter with a fellow Wikimedian Manoj Sahukar. We worked by taking the code of a converter that was made three years back and made it work for two fonts AkrutiOriSarala99 and AkrutiOriSarala that are used by the media industry for printing and publishing.
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Blog Entry Odia Language Wikipedia Page Grows to 800K Page Views A Month
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published May 31, 2015 — last modified Jun 18, 2016 06:20 PM — filed under: ,
Odia Wikipedia is one of the first few Indian language Wikipedia projects celebrating such an old age. The Wikimedia community will gather in Odisha's capital of Bhubaneswar on June 3 to celebrate Odia Wikipedia's 13th anniversary.
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Blog Entry Odia Language's Presence in Digital Media and Wikipedia's Role
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Mar 05, 2014 — last modified Mar 05, 2014 11:36 AM — filed under: , , , ,
କମ୍ପ୍ୟୁଟରରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା (Odia language in computer) is an essay published in Odia newspaper "The Samaja's Sunday supplement" on March 2. It is about the journey of Odia language in the digital era and the challenges faced during digitization of books and manuscripts.
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Blog Entry Odia Littérateur Ramakrushna Nanda's 4 Books Now Available Under a Creative Commons License
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Oct 22, 2014 — last modified Nov 06, 2014 01:41 PM — filed under: , , , , ,
Children literature in Odia language went through an ennoblement after the intervention of Ramakrushna Nanda's writings.
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Blog Entry Odia Wikipedia - Bhubaneswar Community Meetup (March 17, 2013)
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Apr 04, 2013 — last modified Apr 30, 2013 03:52 AM — filed under: , , ,
The Access to Knowledge team from the Centre for Internet and Society and the Odia Wikipedia community held a meetup in Bhubaneswar on March 17, 2013. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi participated in this meet-up.
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