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Blog Entry Wikipedia’s 15th birthday inspires Bangla translators; Odia-language Women’s History Month edit-a-thons
by Nahid Sultan and Sailesh Patnaik — published May 10, 2016 — last modified Jun 09, 2016 12:10 PM — filed under: , ,
Bangla-language Wikipedians translated about 600 articles for their language’s Wikipedia; Odia-language Wikimedians hosted their second annual Women’s History Month edit-a-thon.
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Blog Entry WikipediansSpeak: Odia Wikisourcer Shares her Journey and Goals
by Subhashish Panigrahi and Nasim Ali — published Jan 30, 2016 — last modified Feb 05, 2016 08:49 PM — filed under: , , ,
The most active editor on the Odia Wikisource is Pankajmala Sarangi, a native of Odisha who now lives in New Delhi, where she works at a non-profit. As a leader in a broad community that is dominated by males—indeed, she is the most active contributor to the Odia-language Wikisource—we asked her to share her journey and her goals to grow the project and community as part of the “WikipediansSpeWell, I think I would work on creating a database of all the Odia speakers living in New Delhi and the city organizations that work in propagating Odia language and culture, and plan Wikisource outreach programs for them.k” interview series.
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Blog Entry WikipediansSpeak: Telugu Language Library Catalog Project Helps Wikipedia Grow
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Oct 11, 2015 — last modified Dec 15, 2015 08:06 AM — filed under: , ,
In 2013, the interview project “WikipediansSpeak” was launched in response to observations that many noteworthy Wikimedians were being underrepresented both locally and globally. Not just them personally—their work, and the communities they represent, were also unknown to the Wikimedia community and the outside world.
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Blog Entry WikiTungi: Bhubaneswar City Wiki Community Turns 1
by Sailesh Patnaik — published Feb 27, 2017 — filed under: , ,
The Odia Wikipedia’s WikiTungi is an attempt at building a community of Wikimedians at the city level.
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Winners of the Opensource.com 2015 Community Awards
by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 05, 2015 — last modified Feb 12, 2015 01:23 AM — filed under: , , ,
Every year, Opensource.com awards people from our community who have excelled in contributing and sharing stories about open source.
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Blog Entry Women’s History Month: Sambad collaborates with Odia Wikipedia for a Two Day Edit-a-thon
by Sailesh Patnaik — published Mar 16, 2017 — last modified Mar 17, 2017 05:36 AM — filed under: , ,
Sambad's 100 Women Edit-a-thon: Two day edit-a-thon to increase quantity and quality of women-related articles on Odia Wikipedia
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Works of Odisha litterateur JP Das to be available online free
by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 05, 2015 — last modified Jan 03, 2016 10:51 AM — filed under: , ,
The works of bureaucrat-turned-writer from Odisha, Jagannath Prasad Das, can be accessed free online after the digitisation process is complete.
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