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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.
Located in Openness / News & Media
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.
Located in Openness / Blog
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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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 Virtual Academy launched
by Admin — published Oct 29, 2018 — filed under: , , ,
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday launched a new web portal of ‘Odia Virtual Academy’ (www.ova.gov.in) to promote the Odia language and literature at the Secretariat here.
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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.
Located in Openness / News & Media
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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