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Odia Wikipedia Community Brings Wikipedia Education Program to IIMC, Dhenkanal
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/odia-wikipedia-education-program-iimc-dhenkanal
<b>The Odia Wikipedia community collaborated with the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal and hosted a pilot Odia Wikipedia Education Program. The program began in November 2012 and got over by January 2013. Sixteen student wikipedians signed up and took part in editing more than a dozen articles on Odia Wikipedia.</b>
<p align="JUSTIFY">Odia Wikimedia community is primarily active in three major cities: Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Nalconagar. There was a sustained growth in the community during August-October 2012 which inspired the comunity to initiate a long term program like <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Education_program">Wikipedia Education Program</a>. <a class="external-link" href="http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MKar">Mrutyunjaya Kar</a> from Nalconagar community reached out to several schools in Nalconagar and Phulbani to find a potential institute for such a program. <a class="external-link" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Psubhashish">Subhashish</a> from <a class="external-link" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge">Access To Knowledge</a> team of CIS supported the community for setting up a meeting with Prof. <a class="external-link" href="http://www.iimc.nic.in/mrinal-chatterjee.html">Mrinal Chatterjee</a> and few other faculty members of <a class="external-link" href="http://www.iimc.nic.in/branches-dhenkanal.html">Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal</a> followed by a workshop for the students.</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY">More than 45 students from both Odia and English department took part for the first introductory workshop. A <a class="external-link" href="http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ_ଶିକ୍ଷା_ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ/ଭାରତୀୟ_ଜନସଂଚାର_ସଂସ୍ଥାନ,_ଢେଙ୍କାନାଳ-୧">program page</a> was created on Odia Wikipedia for the detailed plan and discussion. 16 out of 45 students showed their interest to take part in the program and signed up on the project page. Teaching assistants Bhagaban and Sucharita supported the students in assessing and suggesting articles. A follow up session was organized in December by the Nalconagar Wiki-Community to teach the students about the typing and basic Wikipedia editing. Students continued to edit their chosen articles. Though initially the program was planned to be run for 3-4 months because of the course structure and exam announcement students requested for the closure of it.</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY">The articles were assessed and wiki-fied by the wikipedians. On January, 26 a celebratory event was organized for the student-wikipedians. Prof. Chatterjee addressed the students about the benefits of contributing to Wikipedia in their mother tongue Odia. Subhashish along with fellow Wikipedians Dr. Subas Rout, Mrutyunjaya Kar, Srikant Kedia and Manoranjan Behera took part in a discussion about “What students can gain by contributing to Odia Wikipedia”.</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY">Contribution details:</p>
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<li>Number of student participants for introductory session: 45</li>
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<li>Number of students took part in the Wikipedia workshop: 16</li>
<li>Number of students contributed: 12</li>
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<li>Number of mentor wikipedians: 4</li>
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<li>Number of articles edited: 12</li>
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<p align="JUSTIFY"><strong>Other details:</strong></p>
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<li>More details on <a class="external-link" href="http://or.wikipedia.org/s/cgj">Project</a> page.</li>
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<li>Photos, meeting podcasts and videos: <a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/YymQkn">http://bit.ly/YymQkn</a></li>
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<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Podcast of discussion among Odia Wikipedians with Prof. Mrinal Chatterjee and Subhashish Panigrahi</span></li>
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<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="23" src="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Discussion_about_the_plans_for_Odia_Wikipedia_Education_Program_at_IIMC,_Dhenkanal.ogg?embedplayer=yes" width="300"></iframe></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/odia-wikipedia-education-program-iimc-dhenkanal'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/odia-wikipedia-education-program-iimc-dhenkanal</a>
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No publishersubhaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-08-23T14:01:17ZBlog EntryOdia Wikipedia celebrates Odisha Day, brings 14 copyright-free Odia books and a free Odia font!
https://cis-india.org/news/brokenscooter-april-4-2014-odia-wikipedia-celebrates-odisha-day-brings-14-copyright-free-odia-books-and-free-odia-font
<b>Odisha Day 2014 was celebrated on March 29, 2014. Brokenscooter.com has published a report of the event in its website.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Read the original post <a class="external-link" href="http://thebrokenscooter.com/2014/04/odia-wikipedia-celebrates-odisha-day-brings-14-copyright-free-odia-books-and-a-free-odia-font/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=odia-wikipedia-celebrates-odisha-day-brings-14-copyright-free-odia-books-and-a-free-odia-font">here</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Odia Wikimedia community celebrated “<a href="http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:OD14">Odisha Day</a>” on 29th March at Jayadev Bhawan. Inaugurating this event, eminent linguist <a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debiprasanna_Pattanayak">Padmashree Dr. Debiprasanna Pattanayak</a> said, ‘Collaborative effort and open access to knowledge repositories will enrich our language an culture’. He also discussed about the efforts being laid for bringing Odia language as the sixth Indian classical language. Majority of the Odia publications are not available on the internet and readers are devoid of easily accessible. He discussed about the process of digitization for preserving valuable books that are out of print and the old palm leaf manuscripts.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Odia Wikipedia has been trying to popularize use of Odia language in the Internet since 2002. Available at <a href="http://or.wikipedia.org/">or.wikipedia.org</a> it is now 6000 articles rich and growing. More than 470,000 visitors visit Odia Wikipedia every month which also gives it the status of the largest Odia encyclopedia on the Internet. To enrich the online encyclopedia and getting more books digitized, Wikipedians organized a two day event at Jayadev Bhawan. Along with Dr. Debiprasanna Pattanayak, Professor Udayanath Sahu, The Odisha Review’s editor Dr. Lenin Mohanty, Odisha Bhaskar’s editor Pradosh Pattnaik, language researcher Subrat Prusty, Kalinga Institute of Social Science (KISS)’s principal Dr. Madan Mohan Sahu, Manik-Biswanath Smrutinyasa’s chairman Allhadmohini Mohanty along with the trust’s secretary Brajamohan Patnaik and senior members Sarojkanta Choudhury and Shisira Ranjan Dash.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">11 books of eminent Odia writer Dr. Jagannath Mohanty were released in Creative Commons 3.0 license that will allow anyone to reuse and even make commercial use of the content with attribution. KISS will be digitizing these books by training their students. Allhadmohini Mohanty formally gave written permission to Odia Wikimedia community for releasing and digitizing these books. Dr. Debiprasanna Pattanayak and Subrat Prusty from the Institute of Odia Studies and Research also fomally released three books in Creative Commons licenses: Two Odia ones-”<i>Bhasa O Jatiyata</i>” and “<i>Jati, Jagruti O Pragati</i>” and an English book “<i>Classical Odia”</i>. Guests released a DVD containing a new Odia Unicode free font, “Odia OT Jagannatha” designed by Sujata Patel from <a href="http://www.odialanguage.com/">OdiaLanguage.com</a>, a new Odia input tool, free softwares and offline Wikipedia. It was declared that the Odia WikiSource project will be active soon and would be available at wikisource.org.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Odia Wikipedia administrator Mrutyunjaya Kar gave the inaugural speech and hosted the event. Subhashish Panigrahi from the Centre for Internet and Society read the annual report and shared the vision for the Wikimedia movement. Active Odia Wikipedians Ansuman Giri, Diptiman Panigrahi, Dr. Subas Chandra Rout, Jnanaranjan Sahu, Sasanka Dash, Aditya Mahar and Srikant Kedia coordinated the event.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/brokenscooter-april-4-2014-odia-wikipedia-celebrates-odisha-day-brings-14-copyright-free-odia-books-and-free-odia-font'>https://cis-india.org/news/brokenscooter-april-4-2014-odia-wikipedia-celebrates-odisha-day-brings-14-copyright-free-odia-books-and-free-odia-font</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaWikimediaWikipediaOdia WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2014-04-08T06:16:15ZNews ItemOdia Wikipedia celebrates 13 years of free knowledge contribution at Bhubaneswar
https://cis-india.org/openness/news/orissa-dairy-june-2-2015-odia-wikipedia-celebrates-13-years-of-free-knowledge-contribution-at-bhubaneswar
<b>Odia Wikipedia, one of the first of several Indian language Wikipedia projects is ready to celebrate 13 glorious years of free knowledge contribution on June 3. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.orissadiary.com/CurrentNews.asp?id=59414">published in Orissadiary.com</a> on June 2, 2015. Also see <a href="http://odishan.com/14971">http://odishan.com/14971</a> (In Odia)</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Beginning in 2002 — a year after the world's largest online encyclopedia, the English Wikipedia, was launched — Odia Wikipedia has grown to be the largest content repository in the Odia language available in Unicode on the Internet at https://or.wikipedia.org. <br /><br />With about 17 active editors (also known as “uikiali”) spread across various parts of India and abroad, and over 8,800 articles, the project has become more than just an encyclopedia. The voluntary editor community has put its efforts into acquiring valuable Creative Commons (CC) licensed content by lobbying copyright holders/authors to relicense copyrighted content under CC licenses.<br /><br />Date and time: 3 June 2015, 5 pm<br />Venue: Institute of Physics, Near Apollo Hospital, Bhubaneswar, Odisha<br />Event details: https://or.wikipedia.org/s/sml<br /><br />It has also engaged with over 2,000 people by organizing various outreach programs including the globally accredited pedagogic program the Wikipedia Education Program (WEP). For its 13th anniversary the community is planning to release a character-encoding converter that promises to unlock massive amounts of content from government portals as well as journals, newspapers and magazines that have their content in non-Unicode character encoding that prevents user searching and reuse of digital-based content.<br /><br />May you have any further questions about the project or the event, please reach us in the contact details mentioned below:<br /><br />Mrutyunjaya Kar, Administrator, Odia Wikipedia (9437112371)<br />Sailesh Patnaik, Editor, Odia Wikipedia (7537097770)<br />Subhashish Panigrahi, Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge (CIS-A2K)<br />subhashish@cis-india.org. 08050515339</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/orissa-dairy-june-2-2015-odia-wikipedia-celebrates-13-years-of-free-knowledge-contribution-at-bhubaneswar'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/orissa-dairy-june-2-2015-odia-wikipedia-celebrates-13-years-of-free-knowledge-contribution-at-bhubaneswar</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KOdia Wikipedia2016-06-18T18:18:05ZNews ItemOdia Wikipedia Brings 14 Copyright Free Odia Books and a Free Odia Font
https://cis-india.org/news/odishabarta-march-29-2014-odia-wikipedia-brings-14-copyright-free-odia-books-and-free-odia-font
<b>Odia Wikimedia community has celebrated "Odisha Day" today at Jayadev Bhawan. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Subhashish Panigrahi from the Centre for Internet and Society read the annual report and shared the vision of the Wikimedia movement.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Read the complete story published by Odishabarta on March 29, 2014<a class="external-link" href="http://www.orissabarta.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15667:odia-wikipedia-brings-14-copyright-free-odia-books-and-a-free-odia-font&catid=35:top-stories"> here</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/odishabarta-march-29-2014-odia-wikipedia-brings-14-copyright-free-odia-books-and-free-odia-font'>https://cis-india.org/news/odishabarta-march-29-2014-odia-wikipedia-brings-14-copyright-free-odia-books-and-free-odia-font</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOdia WikipediaOpenness2014-04-06T06:18:22ZNews ItemOdia Wikipedia 10th anniversary at Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal
https://cis-india.org/events/odia-wikipedia-tenth-anniversary-indian-institute-of-mass-communication-dhenkanal
<b>The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team along with the Odia Wikipedia community invite you to the 10th anniversary of Odia Wikipedia at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication in Dhenkanal on January 29, 2014 from 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span><span class="fsl">ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ, ଅନଲାଇନରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାର ସର୍ବବୃହତ ମୁକ୍ତ ଜ୍ଞାନକୋଷର ୧୦ମ ବାର୍ଷିକ ଜନ୍ମତିଥି ୨୯ ଜାନୁଆରୀରେ ଢେଙ୍କାନାଳର ଭାରତୀୟ ଜନସଂଚାର ସଂସ୍ଥାନରେ ପୂର୍ବାହ୍ଣ ୧୧ ଘଟିକା ସମୟରେ ଅନୁଷ୍ଠିତ ହେବାକୁ ଯାଉଛି । ଏହି ଅବସରରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ପରିବାର ଆପଣମାନଙ୍କୁ ଏହି କାର୍ଯ୍ୟକ୍ରମରେ ଭାଗ ନେଇ ଏହାକୁ ସାଫଲ୍ୟମଣ୍ଡିତ କରିବାକୁ ଅନୁରୋଧ କରୁଛି ।<br /> <br /> ଏଥିରେ ଆମେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ଉପଯୋଗୀତା, ଏହାର ବ୍ୟବହାର ଓ ଆପଣ କିପରି ଏଥିରେ ଭାଗ ନେଇପାରିବେ ଓ ଜ୍ଞାନ ବିତରଣର ଏହି ମହାପ୍ରବାହରେ ସାମିଲ ହୋଇପାରିବେ ସେ ବାବଦରେ ଜାଣିପାରିବେ ।</span></span></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/events/odia-wikipedia-tenth-anniversary-indian-institute-of-mass-communication-dhenkanal'>https://cis-india.org/events/odia-wikipedia-tenth-anniversary-indian-institute-of-mass-communication-dhenkanal</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOdia WikipediaOpennessEvent2014-01-30T12:06:21ZEventOdia Wikipedia 9th Anniversary Celebration
https://cis-india.org/openness/events/odia-wikipedia-9th-anniversary-celebration
<b>The Centre for Internet & Society, New Delhi is celebrating the ninth anniversary of Odia Wikipedia. The event is being held at Academy of Media Learning, M-6, Samanta Vihar in Bhubaneswar from 10.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span><span class="fsl"> ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ, ଅନଲାଇନରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାର ଏକ ମୁକ୍ତ ଜ୍ଞାନକୋଷର ୯ମ ବାର୍ଷିକ ଜନ୍ମତିଥି ୨୯ ଜାନୁଆରୀରେ ଭୁବନେଶ୍ଵରର ଏକାଡେମି ଅଫ ମିଡ଼ିଆ ଲର୍ଣ୍ଣିଙ୍ଗରେ ଅପରାହ୍ଣ ୪ ଘଟିକା ସମୟରେ ଅନୁଷ୍ଠିତ ହେବାକୁ ଯାଉଛି । ଏହି ଅବସରରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ପରିବାର ଆପଣମାନଙ୍କୁ ଏହି କାର୍ଯ୍ୟକ୍ରମରେ ଭାଗ ନେଇ ଏହାକୁ ସାଫଲ୍ୟମଣ୍ଡିତ କରିବାକୁ ଅନୁରୋଧ କରୁଛି ।</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span><span class="fsl">ଏଥିରେ ଆମେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ଉପଯୋଗୀତା, ଏହାର ବ୍ୟବହାର ଓ ଆପଣ କିପରି ଏଥିରେ ଭାଗ ନେଇପାରିବେ ଓ ଜ୍ଞାନ ବିତରଣର ଏହି ମହାପ୍ରବାହ ସାମିଲ ହୋଇପାରିବେ ସେ ବାବଦରେ ଜାଣିପାରିବେ । ଏଥିରେ ଭାଗ ନେବା ପାଇଁ ଏହି ଅନଲାଇନ ଫର୍ମଟିକୁ ଭରନ୍ତୁ: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgoo.gl%2Fq5vnA&h=FAQEgTac3&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/q5vnA</a></span></span></p>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id=".E0.AC.AE.E0.AD.82.E0.AC.B3_.E0.AC.AA.E0.AD.8D.E0.AC.B0.E0.AC.B8.E0.AC.99.E0.AD.8D.E0.AC.97_.28Agenda.29">Agenda</span></h3>
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<li>Introducing Wikipedia</li>
<li>Celebrating Odia Wikipedia's 9th birthday!</li>
<li>Current status of Odia Wikipedia and <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86:Wikiprojects" title="ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:Wikiprojects">WikiProjects</a></li>
<li>Press meet</li>
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<p><a href="http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AD%8D%E0%AD%9F%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%B9%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%80:Odisha1" title="ବ୍ୟବହାରକାରୀ:Odisha1">ମନୋରଞ୍ଜନ ବେହେରା<br />ଶ୍ରୀକାନ୍ତ କେଡ଼ିଆ<br /><b></b></a><b><a href="http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AD%8D%E0%AD%9F%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%B9%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%80:Psubhashish" title="ବ୍ୟବହାରକାରୀ:Psubhashish"><span>ସୁଭାସିସ<span>ପାଣିଗାହି</span></span></a></b><b><a href="http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AD%8D%E0%AD%9F%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%B9%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%80:Psubhashish" title="ବ୍ୟବହାରକାରୀ:Psubhashish"><span><span></span></span></a></b></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Register for this event <a class="external-link" href="http://bitly.com/bbsrwiki">here</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/odia-wikipedia-9th-anniversary-celebration'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/odia-wikipedia-9th-anniversary-celebration</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaEventWikimedia2013-01-24T09:52:13ZEventOdia Wikipedia - Cuttack Community Meetup (March 16, 2013)
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/odia-wikipedia-cuttack-community-meetup-march-16-2013
<b>A meetup of Odia wikipedians was organised by the Access to Knowledge team of the Centre for Internet and Society and the Odia wikipedia community on March 16, 2013. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the meetup. </b>
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<th><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/copy_of_Katak.png" alt="Odia Wikipedia Community at Cuttack" class="image-inline" title="Odia Wikipedia Community at Cuttack" /><br /></th>
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<td style="text-align: center; ">Participants from the Wikipedia meetup held on March 16, 2013</td>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Recently <a href="https://cis-india.org/" class="external-link">Centre for Internet and Society</a>'s <a class="external-link" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge">Access To Knowledge Programme</a> members <a class="external-link" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Visdaviva">T. Vishnu Vardhan</a> and <a class="external-link" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Subha_WMF">Subhashish Panigrahi</a> met Odia Wikipedians in Cuttack to discuss about the current state of Odia Wikipedia and understand the community building strategies. Five active wikipedians from Cuttack and one from Bhubaneswar joined and discussed about various challenges the community is facing. New project ideas were discussed. Wikipedians also shared their stories and motivation. A <a class="external-link" href="http://or.wikipedia.org/s/8b">new project on articles about the Villages, Pachayats, Blocks of Odisha</a> was decided to be rolled as a key project on this day.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/odia-wikipedia-cuttack-community-meetup-march-16-2013'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/odia-wikipedia-cuttack-community-meetup-march-16-2013</a>
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No publishersubhaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2013-07-17T06:40:11ZBlog EntryOdia Wikipedia - Bhubaneswar Community Meetup (March 17, 2013)
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/odia-wikipedia-meet-up-bhubaneswar-march-17-2013
<b>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. </b>
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<td>A picture of Wikipedians from the Bhubaneswar meetup held on March 17, 2013</td>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The aim of this meetup was to discuss the current state of Odia Wikipedia and understand the community building strategies for this year. Wikipedians shared their motivation and experience for editing Wikipedia. Challenges, plans and new project ideas were discussed. A <a class="external-link" href="http://or.wikipedia.org/s/8b">new project on articles about the Villages, Pachayats, Blocks of Odisha</a> was decided to be rolled as a key project by the community. This would be useful to generate large volume of useful content on places of Odisha and involve new wikipedians from various places to contribute to articles of the their places.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/odia-wikipedia-meet-up-bhubaneswar-march-17-2013'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/odia-wikipedia-meet-up-bhubaneswar-march-17-2013</a>
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No publishersubhaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2013-04-30T03:52:05ZBlog EntryOdia Wikipedia (Coverage in Sanchar)
https://cis-india.org/news/odia-wikipedia-coverage-in-sanchar
<b>Sanchar published about Odia Wikipedia in their edition on January 31. Subhashish Panigrahi is quoted.</b>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/odia-wikipedia-coverage-in-sanchar'>https://cis-india.org/news/odia-wikipedia-coverage-in-sanchar</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOdia WikipediaOpenness2014-02-04T07:38:30ZNews ItemOdia Wikipedia
https://cis-india.org/news/the-telegraph-march-29-2014-odia-wikipedia
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The article was <a class="external-link" href="http://epaper.telegraphindia.com/detail/72062-12380765.html">published in the Telegraph</a> on March 29, 2014. Subhashish Panigrahi spoke about the Odia Wikipedia plan.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Detail" id="lblmatter">Odia Wikipedia community recently celebrated Odisha Day at Jayadev Bhavan. Inaugurating the event, linguist Debiprasanna Pattanayak said that that most of the Odia publications were not available on the Internet and readers were devoid of easy access to those. He discussed the process of digitisation for preserving valuable books that are out of print.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Detail"><span class="Detail" id="lblmatter">Odia wikipedia has been trying to popularise use of the language on the Internet since 2002. The aim of the gathering was to enrich the online encyclopaedia and get more books digitised. Eleven volumes of works of Jagannath Mohanty were released on the occasion.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Detail"><span class="Detail"><span class="Detail" id="lblmatter">The Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences will digitise these books by training their students.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Detail"><span class="Detail"><span class="Detail"><span class="Detail" id="lblmatter">Guests released a DVD containing a new Odia Unicode font designed by www. odialanguage. com.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Detail"><span class="Detail"><span class="Detail"><span class="Detail"><span class="Detail" id="lblmatter">Subhashish Panigrahi from the Centre for Internet and Society read out the annual report and the vision of Odia wikipedia.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/the-telegraph-march-29-2014-odia-wikipedia'>https://cis-india.org/news/the-telegraph-march-29-2014-odia-wikipedia</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOdia WikipediaOpenness2014-04-08T05:29:02ZNews ItemOdia WikiMeetup
https://cis-india.org/events/odia-wiki-meetup-january-11-2014
<b>CIS-A2K organized an Odia Wiki meetup in Bhubaneswar on January 11. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The event was attended by Odia Wikipedians Dr. Subas Chandra Rout, Shitikantha Dash, Jnanaranjan Sahu and Sailesh Patnaik. T. Vishnuvardhan, Programme Director and Subhashish Panigrahi, Programme Officer, CIS-A2K met Odia Wikipedians to discuss about various ongoing projects in Odia Wikipedia, potential projects and incubator projects.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/events/odia-wiki-meetup-january-11-2014'>https://cis-india.org/events/odia-wiki-meetup-january-11-2014</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOdia WikipediaOpennessEvent2014-02-03T06:46:33ZEventOdia Wikimedia community has celebrated Odisha day
https://cis-india.org/news/full-odisha-april-2-2014-odia-wikipedia-community-celebrated-odisha-day
<b>Odisha Day 2014 was held on March 29, 2014. A report was published in FullOrissa News on April 2, 2014. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Click to read the original <a class="external-link" href="http://news.fullodisha.com/odia-wikimedia-community-celebrated-odisha-day/">story here</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">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’. He also discussed about the efforts being laid for bringing Odia language as the sixth Indian classical language. Majority of the Odia publications are not available on the internet and readers are devoid of easily accessible. He discussed about the process of digitization for preserving valuable books that are out of print and the old palm leaf manuscripts.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Odia Wikipedia has been trying to popularize use of Odia language in the Internet since 2002. Available at or.wikipedia.org it is now 6000 articles rich and growing. More than 470,000 visitors visit Odia Wikipedia every month which also gives it the status of the largest Odia encyclopedia on the Internet. To enrich the online encyclopedia and getting more books digitized, Wikipedians organized a two day event at Jayadev Bhawan. Along with Dr. Debiprasanna Pattanayak, Professor Udayanath Sahu, The Odisha Review’s editor Dr. Lenin Mohanty, Odisha Bhaskar’s editor Pradosh Pattnaik, language researcher Subrat Prusty, Kalinga Institute of Social Science (KISS)’s principal Dr. Madan Mohan Sahu, Manik-Biswanath Smrutinyasa’s chairman Allhadmohini Mohanty along with the trust’s secretary Brajamohan Patnaik and senior members Sarojkanta Choudhury and Shisira Ranjan Dash.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">11 books of eminent Odia writer Dr. Jagannath Mohanty were released in Creative Commons 3.0 license that will allow anyone to reuse and even make commercial use of the content with attribution. KISS will be digitizing these books by training their students. Allhadmohini Mohanty formally gave written permission to Odia Wikimedia community for releasing and digitizing these books. Dr. Debiprasanna Pattanayak and Subrat Prusty from the Institute of Odia Studies and Research also fomally released three books in Creative Commons licenses: Two Odia ones-”Bhasa O Jatiyata” and “Jati, Jagruti O Pragati” and an English book “Classical Odia”. Guests released a DVD containing a new Odia Unicode free font, “Odia OT Jagannatha” designed by Sujata Patel from OdiaLanguage.com, a new Odia input tool, free softwares and offline Wikipedia. It was declared that the Odia WikiSource project will be active soon and would be available at wikisource.org.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Odia Wikipedia administrator Mrutyunjaya Kar gave the inaugural speech and hosted the event. Subhashish Panigrahi from the Centre for Internet and Society read the annual report and shared the vision for the Wikimedia movement. Active Odia Wikipedians Ansuman Giri, Diptiman Panigrahi, Dr. Subas Chandra Rout, Jnanaranjan Sahu, Sasanka Dash, Aditya Mahar and Srikant Kedia coordinated the event.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/full-odisha-april-2-2014-odia-wikipedia-community-celebrated-odisha-day'>https://cis-india.org/news/full-odisha-april-2-2014-odia-wikipedia-community-celebrated-odisha-day</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaWikimediaWikipediaOdia WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2014-04-08T06:21:38ZNews ItemOdia Wikimedia community celebrated Odisha day, bringing 14 copyright free Odia books
https://cis-india.org/news/orissa-diary-march-29-2014-odia-wikimedia-community-celebrated-odisha-day-bringing-14-copyright-free-odia-books
<b>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'.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.orissadiary.com/CurrentNews.asp?id=48883">published in Odishadiary</a> on March 29, 2014.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Odia Wikipedia has been trying to popularize use of Odia language in the Internet since 2002.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">To enrich the online encyclopedia and getting more books digitized Wikipedians are organizing a two day event. Along with Dr. Debiprasanna Pattanayak, Professor Udayanath Sahu, The Odisha Review's editor Dr. Lenin Mohanty, Odisha Bhaskar's editor Pradosh Pattnaik, language researcher Subrat Prusty, Kalinga Institute of Social Science (KISS)'s principal Dr. Madan Mohan Sahu, Manik-Biswanath Smrutinyasa's chairman Allhadmohini Mohanty along with the trust's secretary Brajamohan Patnaik and senior members Sarojkanta Choudhury and Shisira Ranjan Dash.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">11 volumes of eminent Odia writer Dr. Jagannath Mohanty were released in free Creative Commons licenses. KISS will be digitizing these books by training their students. Allhadmohini Mohanty formally gave written permission to Odia Wikimedia community for releasing and digitizing these books. Guests released a DVD containing a new Odia Unicode free font designed by OdiaLanguage.com, a new Odia input tool, free softwares and offline Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">It was declared that the Odia WikiSource project will be active soon. Odia Wikipedia admin Mrutyunjaya Kar gave the inaugural speech. Subhashish Panigrahi from the Centre for Internet and Society read the annual report and vision of Odia Wikipedia. Chief guest Dr. Debiprasanna Pattanayak discussed about the efforts being laid for bringing Odia language as the sixth Indian classical language. Majority of the Odia publications are not available on the internet and readers are devoid of easily accessible. He discussed about the process of digitization for preserving valuable books that are out of print and the old palm lead manuscripts.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/orissa-diary-march-29-2014-odia-wikimedia-community-celebrated-odisha-day-bringing-14-copyright-free-odia-books'>https://cis-india.org/news/orissa-diary-march-29-2014-odia-wikimedia-community-celebrated-odisha-day-bringing-14-copyright-free-odia-books</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOdia WikipediaOpenness2014-04-04T12:25:46ZNews ItemOdia waits for Google Translate debut - Nine Indian languages available
https://cis-india.org/openness/news/the-telepgrah-april-6-2015-anwesha-ambaly-odia-waits-for-google-translate-debut-nine-indian-languages-available
<b>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.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The article by Anwesha Ambaly was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.telegraphindia.com/1150406/jsp/frontpage/story_12966.jsp#.VUwOXPB8ifU">published in the Telegraph</a> on April 6, 2015. Subhashish Panigrahi was quoted.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Over 90 languages, including nine from India (Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Malayalam, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu) are part of the service.<br /><br />Odia, which is spoken by over 45 million people globally, is yet to debut here.<br /><br />Techies working in the field attribute the reason to the lack of web presence of the language.<br /><br />"Google has set parameters on the basis of which translations are available. Only those languages that have a wide use on the Internet and have enough online content are included in the list. The online presence of Odia is quite insignificant," said Subhashish Panigrahi, programme officer at Centre for Internet and Society and a regular contributor to Odia Wikipedia.<br /><br />Among the limited data in Odia available online, Odia Wikipedia and Odia Wikisource have emerged as important reference sources for all kinds of information.<br /><br />The Odia Wikipedia serves as an online encyclopaedia that was initiated in 2002 and hosts over 8,000 articles in Odia. The Odia Wikisource was launched in the state last year and is run by volunteers and communities. It is a sister concern of Odia Wikipedia that makes rare Odia books available on the Internet.<br /><br />However, a Google spokesperson said: "We value all Indic languages and search and Gmail are available in 16 Indian languages with more languages to follow"<br /><br />Recently, the entire Odia Bhagbata by Jagannath Das was made available on Wikisource. Also, Bhubaneswar-based organisation Srujanika, in collaboration with NIT, Rourkela, has digitized over 750 books. But these apart, there are no major online portals available in Odia.<br /><br />Panigrahi and his contributor friends are presently working at promoting the Google Translate community, which is a platform for language enthusiasts and volunteers interested in improving translation quality for their language or help Google add it to translate.<br /><br />"To ensure more availability of online content, people should be encouraged to share information on the web. More Odia content on the web will get a wider reach," said the techie.<br /><br />"We are quite hopeful that the translator would be available in Odia soon."<br /><br />The universal web-compatible Unicode font for Odia language was developed in 2000. Despite the Unicode standard having been made available over a decade ago, Odia language is not used actively on the Internet.<br /><br />"We are still stuck to using outdated fonts such as Akruti and Sreelipi for typing text in Odia and most of these are not compatible for using on the Internet. There are thousands of book and articles available in these fonts. Most of the important content available on the government portals also uses the older fonts. Unless content is available in Unicode, it will not be searchable, sharable and reusable on the Internet," said Panigrahi.<br /><br />One of the earliest websites in Odia was developed by Ganesh Mishra in 1999 for a popular Odia daily. But the website was shut down after six years when the concept of e-paper came into being.<br /><br />"These days, most of the publishers of Odia newspapers and magazines have come up with e-papers which are nothing but the scanned images of the original pages. But an online search won't display them as results. Online content in Unicode is accessible through search engines," said the website developer.<br /><br />He said that people have so many alternatives on the Internet that the absence of Odia language is not felt. "Customers often initiate commercial websites in Odia but soon request us to change it to English because it was inconvenient for users," said Mishra.<br /><br />Some youngsters in the state are coming up with online portals to promote Odia literature. Jyoti Prasad Patnaik, a doctor by profession, has been running an online Odia literary magazine since 2006.<br /><br />"The Internet is the most powerful medium of communication these days and there could be no better way to popularise our language other than this. When I started out, there were hardly any readers. Today my website has around 5,000 visitors every month. The number is growing slowly and I hope it will increase in the future," said Patnaik.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/the-telepgrah-april-6-2015-anwesha-ambaly-odia-waits-for-google-translate-debut-nine-indian-languages-available'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/the-telepgrah-april-6-2015-anwesha-ambaly-odia-waits-for-google-translate-debut-nine-indian-languages-available</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2015-05-08T01:27:21ZNews ItemOdia Loves Wikipedia
https://cis-india.org/news/rising-voices-april-10-2014-odia-loves-wikipedia
<b>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. </b>
<p>The article by Laura Morris was published in <a class="external-link" href="https://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/blog/2014/04/10/odia-loves-wikipedia/">Rising Voices</a> on April 10, 2014. Subhashish's article on Odia Wikipedia is mentioned.</p>
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<p>Recently, the<span> Odia Wikimedia community met to celebrate the language's new status in Bhubaneswar. </span></p>
<p><span>The following is an excerpt from a <a href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/04/08/odisha-dibasa-2014-14-books-released-under-cc-license/#more-28290">recent article</a> on the Wikimedia Foundation blog, by <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Psubhashish">Subhashish Panigrahi</a>, sharing information about the Odia WIki community:</span></p>
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<p><span>14 copyrighted books have been re-licensed under the Creative Commons license and the digitization project on </span><a href="https://wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page/%E0%AC%93%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86">Odia WikiSource</a><span> was formally initiated by an indigenous educational institute, the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) [...] </span><span>KISS is going to digitize some of these books and make them available on Odia Wikisource.</span></p>
<p>An OpenType Odia Unicode font, “<a href="http://www.odialanguage.com/Odia_fonts.html">Odia OT Jagannatha</a>” designed by Sujata Patel from <a href="http://odialanguage.com/">Odialanguage.com</a> was released under the OFL license. This is the first Odia OpenType font that the community actively tested.</p>
<p>A new Odia offline input tool called <a href="https://github.com/majnun1337/jquery.ime-Offline-input">“TypeOdia”</a> by Wikipedian <a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:TWO%5E0">Manoj Sahukar</a> was also released for public distribution. DVDs containing the font, the input tool, Odia language dictionaries, offline Odia Wikipedia in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwix">Kiwix</a>, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Odia_Wikipedia_learning_guide.pdf">Wikipedia editing guide</a>, ISCII to Unicode font converter, various free and open source software packages and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28operating_system%29">Ubuntu operating system</a> [...]</p>
<p>A large majority of Odia publications are not available on the internet and readers are devoid of easy accessibility. [Dr. Debiprasanna Pattanayak] discussed the process of digitization for preserving valuable books that are out of print and the old palm leaf manuscripts [...]</p>
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<p><span><span>The Odia fonts can be <a href="http://www.odialanguage.com/Odia_fonts.html">downloaded for free</a>. The developers of the font <a href="http://odialanguage.com/">say</a>: </span></span></p>
<blockquote class="quoted"><span><span><span>We advocate for the use of Odia language in true spirit, in the domain of day-to-day administration, justice delivery, apart from the field of teaching. Besides, we have undertaken the project for developing Odia lexicon,with inclusion of typical odia version of technical words ,so as to avoid dependence on English language.</span></span></span></blockquote>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/rising-voices-april-10-2014-odia-loves-wikipedia'>https://cis-india.org/news/rising-voices-april-10-2014-odia-loves-wikipedia</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaWikimediaWikipediaOdia WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2014-04-14T09:56:20ZNews Item