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Odia #Wikipedia reaches 5000 Article Mark
by Prasad Krishna published Dec 30, 2013
For the online Odia, something very special happened this week. The ever-growing Odia edition of Wikipedia now has 5000+ quality articles on diverse topics. While many are not aware of the existence of such a Wiki, But Odia Wikipedia has been growing gradually all these years and has become the most searched website and largest online encyclopedia in Odia language.
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Odia Education Program at IIMC, Dhenkanal
by Prasad Krishna published Jan 24, 2013 last modified Jan 24, 2013 10:23 AM — filed under: , , ,
The Centre for Internet & Society, Delhi is organizing a workshop on the Odia Education Program on January 26, 2013, from 3.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m.
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Odia gets more space in e-world
by Prasad Krishna published Apr 24, 2016 — filed under: , ,
A survey conducted by the Odia Wikipedia community and the Centre for Internet and Society reveals that the online presence of Odia language is gradually increasing.
Located in Access to Knowledge / News & Media
Odia Language Classics could Now be Read from Phones, Tablets and of course from Computers!
by Prasad Krishna published Nov 04, 2015 last modified Dec 15, 2015 08:12 AM — filed under: , , ,
Odia Wikisource, a sister project of Odia Wikipedia and a free online Odia-language library is celebrating its first anniversary in Bhubaneswar tomorrow. Available online at or.wikisource.org, the project finally went live in last year on October 20 after being incubated over two years. In a nutshell, it not just provides free and open access to readers to access text that are out of copyright or available under free license, but also allows them to contribute in either digitizing copyright-free text or correcting mistakes made by others.
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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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Odia Loves Wikipedia
by Prasad Krishna published Apr 14, 2014 — filed under: , , ,
Odia is a 2,500 year old language native to the area of Odisha (formerly known as Orissa). The language has recently gained the status of an Indian classical language.
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Odia waits for Google Translate debut - Nine Indian languages available
by Prasad Krishna published Apr 06, 2015 last modified May 08, 2015 01:27 AM — filed under: , , ,
Odia getting the "classical" status last year was certainly a proud moment for the people of the state, but, it is yet to feature among the languages available in Google's popular translation service.
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Odia Wikimedia community celebrated Odisha day, bringing 14 copyright free Odia books
by Prasad Krishna published Mar 29, 2014 last modified Apr 04, 2014 12:25 PM — filed under: , , , ,
Odia Wikimedia community has celebrated “Odisha day” today at Jayadev Bhawan. Inaugurating this event eminent linguist Padmashree Dr. Debiprasanna Pattanayak said, 'Collaborative effort and open access to knowledge repositories will enrich our language an culture'.
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