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    <title>Online space for Odia</title>
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        &lt;b&gt;From a few hundred articles in 2002 to over 10,600 articles on various aspects of Odisha today, Odia Wikipedia has certainly made a mark as far as promotion of the language is concerned. Wikipedia, the volunteer driven web-based multilingual encyclopedia project, is an important reference source on the Internet for all kinds of information.
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        &lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;The article by Diana Sahu was &lt;a class="external-link" href="http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/odisha/Online-space-for-Odia/2016/06/10/article3475870.ece"&gt;published in New Indian Express&lt;/a&gt; on June 10, 2016. Subhashish Panigrahi was quoted.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Recently, Odia Wikipedia (https://or.wikipedia.org) celebrated its 14th anniversary in Bhubaneswar where the focus was on capacity building of Wikipedia contributors, volunteers and enhancing the content.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;While the event brought all the active contributors under one roof, it also provided a platform to new users to learn the basics of Wikipedia editing, technical aspects, uploading and adding images to articles and dealing with copyright issues on Wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Odia Wikipedia is free for anyone to create articles on notable topics related to Odisha, edit and enhance them. Topics covered so far are varied, from elaborate rituals in Jagannath temple of Puri to medical science.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Sister Projects&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Currently, there are two sister projects of Odia Wikipedia - Odia Wikisource (an online library that already has over 300 volumes of text) and Odia Wiktionary, an online dictionary that has over one lakh entries in the language.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;With these two projects, the community is bringing a digital revolution in Odia by sharing valuable content online and many language tools. Odia Wikipedia, the flagship project was started as one of the first four Indian language Wikipedias along with Assamese, Malayalam and Punjabi Wikipedia in 2002, a year after the English Wikipedia went live.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;The project remained dormant for more than nine years till a group of youths revived it in 2011. Subsequently, the project became popular among Odias and they joined in writing and editing articles on different subject areas in the language.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;"Odia Wikipedia is part of the 292 language Wikipedia family and a larger global family of hundreds of other free knowledge projects that are collectively known as Wikimedia projects," said Mrutyunjaya Kar, one of the administrators of the project, during the event.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Tools for Writers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Apart from writing and editing articles, the Wikipedia contributors have created several tools and resource manuals over the years. The script encoding converters that they have built is helping online users to share their Odia writings.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;"Before these converters were built, people were stuck with outdated encoding systems like Shreelipi and Akruti," says Subhashish Panigrahi, Wikipedian, and Programme Officer at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 style="text-align: justify; "&gt;New Projects&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;"The next big goal is to enhance the quality of the existing articles by adding more images, references from external sources and expanding small articles by adding more information," said a contributor, Shitikantha Dash. Dash, who is also an administrator of Odia Wiktionary said, "It is important that more people contribute to the Odia Wiktionary so that words of all genres, especially the technical and burrowed words, make their way into this free multilingual dictionary. A 10-day campaign will be organised soon to celebrate the 11th anniversary of Odia Wiktionary. "This time, our focus will be that every Wikipedia editor adds at least one word to the Odia Wiktionary. We are also using these words to create a spell check facility in Odia Wikipedia that will be freely available for everyone to use," he added.&lt;/p&gt;
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        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/new-indian-express-june-10-2016-diana-sahu-online-space-for-odia'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/new-indian-express-june-10-2016-diana-sahu-online-space-for-odia&lt;/a&gt;
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    <dc:creator>praskrishna</dc:creator>
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        <dc:subject>CIS-A2K</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Odia Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Access to Knowledge</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2016-06-12T15:39:21Z</dc:date>
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    <title>ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ: ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ବିଶାଳତମ ଅନଲାଇନ ଜ୍ଞାନକୋଷ ଗଢ଼ିବାର ଅଭିଯାନ</title>
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        &lt;b&gt;ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଏନସାଇକ୍ଲୋପିଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆକୁ ଆଜି ୧୪ ବର୍ଷ ପୂରିଲା । ଏ ଅବସରରେ ଏହି ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ ଓ ତାକୁ ଗଢୁଥିବା ସ୍ୱେଚ୍ଛାସେବୀ ଉଇକିଆଳିଙ୍କ ବାବଦରେ ଏକ ଆଲେଖ ।&lt;/b&gt;
        
&lt;p&gt;This article. that details about the journey of the Odia Wikipedia in the last 14 years appeared in &lt;a class="external-link" href="http://odia.yourstory.com/read/9ce83817a8/-"&gt;YourStory Odia&lt;/a&gt; on on June 3.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;ଜଣାଶୁଣା ବ୍ୟକ୍ତି, ବିଷୟ, ଘଟଣା, ସ୍ଥାନ ଆଦି ବିଷୟରେ ସଂକ୍ଷେପରେ ଲେଖିବା ପାଇଁ ଏନସାଇକ୍ଲୋପିଡ଼ିଆ ବା ଜ୍ଞାନକୋଷର ପରିକଳ୍ପନା । ତାକୁ ପୁଣି ଇଣ  ୍ଟରନେଟର ଉପଲବ୍ଧ କରିବା ପାଇଁ ୨୦୦୧ରେ ଆରମ୍ଭ ହେଲା &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/"&gt;ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ (Wikipedia)&lt;/a&gt; । ପ୍ରଥମେ ଇଂରାଜୀରେ ଆରମ୍ଭ ହୋଇ ପରେ ବିଭିନ୍ନ ଭାଷାକୁ ଏହା ବଢ଼ିଲା । ଆଉ ଇଂରାଜୀ  ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ଆରମ୍ଭ ହବାର ବର୍ଷଟିଏ ପରେ ୨୦୦୨ ମସିହାରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ, ଅହମିୟା, ପଞ୍ଜାବୀ ଓ  ମାଲାୟାଲାମ ଭାଷାରେ ମଧ୍ୟ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ଆରମ୍ଭ ହେଲା । ପ୍ରଥମ ଚାରୋଟି ଭାରତୀୟ ଭାଷାରେ  ତିଆରି ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ଭିତରୁ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଗୋଟେ ବୋଲି ଅନେକଙ୍କୁ ଆଜି ବି ଅଜଣା ।  ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ &lt;a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/"&gt;https://or.wikipedia.org&lt;/a&gt; ରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ପାଖାପାଖି ୯ ବର୍ଷ ଧରି ସକ୍ରିୟ ସମ୍ପାଦନାର ଅଭାବରୁ  ୨୦୧୧ ଯାଏ ଏକ ରକମ ନିଷ୍କ୍ରିୟ ହୋଇ ପଡ଼ିରହିଥିଲା । ୨୦୧୧ରେ ଏ ିରେ ଅନେକ ସ୍ୱେଚ୍ଛାସେବୀ ସମ୍ପାଦକ ବା ଉଇକିଆଳିମାନେ ଯୋଡ଼ିହୋଇ ଲେଖିବା ଆରମ୍ଭ  କରିବା ଫଳରେ ଅଧୁନା ଏଥିରେ ୧୦,୬୧୯ ସଂଖ୍ୟକ ପ୍ରସଙ୍ଗ ଲେଖାସରିଲାଣି । ଆଉ ନିତି ନୂଆ  ନୂଆ ଲେଖା ଏଥିରେ ଯୋଡ଼ିହୋଇ ଚାଲିଛି ।&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;ତେବେ  ଜଣେ ସାଧାରଣ ପାଠକ ପାଇଁ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ କଣ ରହିଛି ତାହା ଜାଣିବା ବେଶି ଜରୁରୀ ।  ଜ୍ଞାନ ଆହରଣର ବାଟ ପିଢ଼ିରୁ ପିଢ଼ିକୁ ବଦଳେ । ଆମ ପିଲାବେଳେ   ଆମେ କାଁ ଭାଁ କମ୍ପ୍ୟୁଟର ଓ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟର ସୁବିଧା ପାଉଥିଲୁ । ଆଉ ସେତେବେଳେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ  ମିଡ଼ିଅମ ସ୍କୁଲର ପାଠାଗାର କିଛି ଗପ ଉପନ୍ୟାସ ବହି ଭିତରେ ସୀମିତ ଥିଲା । ନୂଆ ବହିଟିଏ  ଦେଖିବା ଆଗରୁ କାନ୍ଥରୁ ଚୂନ ଝଡ଼ିପଡୁଥିଲା । ହେଲେ ଏବେ ଘରେ ଘରେ ଏକାଧିକ ମୋବାଇଲ ଆଉ  ସେସବୁ ପୁଣି ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ ସୁବିଧା ଥିବା ସ୍ମାର୍ଟଫୋନ ଆସିଲାଣି । ସ୍କୁଲ ପିଲାଏ ଆଉ  କିଛି କରନ୍ତୁ ନ କରନ୍ତୁ କିନ୍ତୁ ଗେମ ଖେଳିବା କି ଫେସବୁକ ଆଦିରେ ସାଙ୍ଗମାନଙ୍କ ସଙ୍ଗେ  ଚାଟିଂ ଆଦି କରିବାରେ ପକ ହେଲେଣି । ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ କମ୍ପୁଟରରୁ ସମ୍ପୂର୍ଣ୍ଣ ମୋବାଇଲମୁଖୀ ହୋଇଗଲାଣି ।  ପିଲାଙ୍କଠୁ ବଡ଼ ଯାଏ କାହା ପାଖେ ଆଉ ଏନସାଇକ୍ଲୋପିଡ଼ିଆ ବ୍ରିଟାନିକା ଭଳି ଓଜନିଆ ପୋଥି  ଦେଇ କିଛି ଖୋଜିବା ପାଇଁ ବେଳ ନାହିଁ । ତେଣୁ ଏଭଳି ପରିସ୍ଥିତିରେ କୌଣସି ବିଷୟକୁ  ଅଧିକ ଲୋକାଭିମୁଖୀ କରିବାର ସୁବିଧା ବାଟ ହେଉଛି ସେସବୁକୁ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ କରାଇବା  । ତେବେ ବହି ବା ଜର୍ଣ୍ଣାଲର ବିକଳ୍ପ ନୁହେଁ ବରଂ ବହି ସଙ୍ଗେ ଭିନ୍ନ ଏକ ମାଧ୍ୟମରେ  ଜ୍ଞାନ ବିତରଣର ବାଟ ରୂପରେ ଇଣଟରନେଟ ଅଧିକରୁ ଅଧିକ ଲୋକଙ୍କ ପାଖେ ପହଞ୍ଚିପାରୁଛି ।&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;ବିଭିନ୍ନ ଭାଷାରେ  ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଜ୍ଞାନ ଆହରଣର ସ୍ଥିତି ଭିନ୍ନ । ତେବେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ପାଇଁ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟର ଅବସ୍ଥା  ଯେତେ ଚିନ୍ତାଜନକ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାକୁ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଅଧିକ ବ୍ୟବହାର ଉପଯୋଗୀ କରିବା ସେତେ  ଅଧିକ ଲୋଡ଼ା । ୨୦୧୧ ଜନଗଣନା ତଥ୍ୟ ଅନୁସାରେ ଓଡ଼ିଶାରେ ମାତ୍ର ୧.୪ ଭାଗ ଲୋକଙ୍କ ପାଖେ  ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟର ସୁବିଧା ଥିଲା । ଏହି ପାଞ୍ଚ ବର୍ଷ ଭିତରେ ଏହା ବହୁ ଅଧିକ ବଢ଼ିଥିବ ।  ହେଲେ ସେ ସଭିଏଁ କଣ ସତରେ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟର ବ୍ୟବହାର କରୁଛନ୍ତି ନାଁ ସୀମ  ିତ କେତୋଟି ସାଇଟ ଭିତରେ ସୀମିତ । ଅଧିକାଂଶ ତଥାକଥିତ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ ବ୍ୟବହାରକାରୀ  ଫେସବୁକରେ ସାଙ୍ଗମାନଙ୍କ ସଙ୍ଗେ ଭାବ ଦିଆନିଆ କି ହୁଆଟସଆପରେ ପରିଚିତଙ୍କ ସଙ୍ଗେ ଆଳାପ  ଅଥବା ଇଉଟିଉବରୁ ଗୀତ ଶୁଣିବା ବାହାରେ ବେଶୀ କିଛି ଜାଣନ୍ତି ନାହିଁ । ଏହାର ମୁଖ୍ୟ  କାରଣ ହେଉଛି ସେମାନଙ୍କ ପାଇଁ ସବୁଠୁ ବେଶୀ ପରିଚିତ ଭାଷା ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ବେଶୀ ୱେବସାଇଟ  ନାହିଁ । ଖବର ପଢ଼ାଳିଙ୍କ ପାଇଁ ନାଁ ଭଲ ଖବର ୱେବସାଇଟଟିଏ ରହିଛି ନାଁ ଗବେଷକଙ୍କ ପାଇଁ  ଆମ ଐତିହ୍ୟ ଓ ପୁରୁଣା ଶିଳ୍ବାବଦରେ ପଢ଼ିବା ପାଇଁ ଆମ ମିଉଜିଅମ ୱେବସାଇଟରେ ସମସ୍ତ କଳାକୃତିର ତଥ୍ୟ ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ  ଦିଆଯାଇଛି । ସେମିତି ଭିନ୍ନ ଭିନ୍ନ ବିଷୟରେ ବିଭିନ୍ନ ବିଷୟ ଜାଣିବା ପାଇଁ ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ  ନିହାତି ଦରକାରୀ ବିଷୟ ମଧ୍ୟ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ନାହିଁ । ଏଭଳି ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ପ୍ରକାଶିତ କେଇଶହ  ଖବରକାଗଜ ଭିତରୁ କେବଳ ଗୋଟେ କାଗଜର ଖବରଗୁଡ଼ିକ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଖୋଜିପାଇହେବ । କାରଣ  ବାକି ଖବରକାଗଜର ଲେଖା ଇଉନିକୋଡ଼ ଭଳି ଆନ୍ତର୍ଜାତିକ ମାନକକୁ ନ ଆପଣାଇ ଆକୃତି,  ଶ୍ରୀଲିପି ଆଦି ପୁରୁଣାକାଳିଆ   ଅଣ-ମାନକ ସଫ୍ଟଓଏରରେ ଲେଖି ଛବି ଭାବେ କିମ୍ବା ପିଡିଏଫ ଡକୁମେଣ୍ଟ ଭାବେ ସେମାନଙ୍କ  ସାଇଟରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ । ସେଗୁଡ଼ିକ ଦେଖିବାକୁ ଭିନ୍ନ ନ ଲାଗିଲେ ମଧ୍ୟ ଗୁଗୁଲ ବା ସର୍ଚ  ଇଞ୍ଜିନରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ଟାଇପ କରି ଖୋଜିହୁଏନାହିଁ କିମ୍ବା ମୋବାଇଲ ଆଦିରେ ସଳଖେ  ପଢ଼ିହୁଏନାହିଁ ।&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ  ୧୯୩୦ ମସିହାରେ ପୂର୍ଣ୍ଣଚନ୍ଦ୍ର ଭାଷାକୋଷ ଭଳି ବିଶାଳ ଜ୍ଞାନକୋଷ ରଚନା କାମ ଆଜିଯାଏ  ଆଉ କିଛି ହୋଇପାରିନାହିଁ । ଆଧୁନିକ ଟେକନୋଲୋଜି ବ୍ୟବହାର କରି ଏବେ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ଅତୀତ  ସହ ସନ୍ଧିଟିଏ ତିଆରି କରିପାରିବ ।   ଏହା ସମ୍ପୂର୍ଣ୍ଣ ଭାବେ ଅଣ-ଲାଭକାରୀ ଓ ଏଥିରେ ବିଜ୍ଞାପନ ନ ଥାଏ । ଏଥିରେ  ଲେଖାଗୁଡ଼ିକ ଲେଖୁଥିବା ଉଇକିଆଳିଏ ସଭିଏଁ ସ୍ୱେଚ୍ଛାସେବୀ ଓ ଲେଖାସବୁ ସେମାନଙ୍କ  ସ୍ୱତ୍ୱାଧୀକାରରେ ପ୍ରକାଶିତ । ତେବେ ଜ୍ଞାନ ବିତରଣ ଉଦ୍ଦେଶ୍ୟରେ ତିଆରି ହୋଇଥିବାରୁ  ଲେଖାସବୁ କପିରାଇଟ ଦେଇ ନ ରୋକିବା ଲାଗି ସେସବୁ କ୍ରିଏଟିଭ କମନ୍ସ ସେଆର-ଏଲାଇକ  ଲାଇସେନ୍ସରେ ବିତରିତ । ଫଳରେ ସଭିଏଁ ମାଗଣାରେ ପଢ଼ିପାରିବେ, ପ୍ରସଙ୍ଗଗୁଡ଼ିକ  ପୁନବ୍ୟବହାର କରିପାରିବେ ଓ ଉଭୟ ଲାଭକାରୀ ଓ ଅଣ  ଲାଭକାରୀ କାମରେ ବ୍ୟବହାର କରିପାରିବେ । ଏଥି ସହିତ କୌଣସି ଲେଖାରେ ଭୁଲ ପାଇଲେ ଜଣେ  ଲେଖା ସମ୍ପାଦନା କରି ସୁଧାରିପାରିବେ । ଏଥିରେ ଲେଖା ଓ ସମ୍ପାଦନା ପଦ୍ଧତି ଏତେ ଖୋଲା  ଯେ ପ୍ରାୟ ସବୁ ଲେଖା ଏକ ନୁହେଁ ଅନେକ ଲୋକଙ୍କ ଦେଇ ଏକାଠି ଲିଖିତ । ତେବେ ଲେଖାର  ମାନରେ ସମତା ରଖିବା ନିମନ୍ତେ କେତେଗୁଡ଼ିଏ ନିୟମାବଳୀ ଅକ୍ରିୟ ସଭ୍ୟମାନେ ମିଶି ତିଆରି  କରିଛନ୍ତି । ଏଗୁଡ଼ିକ ୨୯୩ଟି ଭାଷାରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ସବୁ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ପାଇଁ ମୋଟାମୋଟି ଏକା  ହେଲେ ମଧ୍ୟ ଭିନ୍ନ ଭିନ୍�  � ଭାଷାଭାଷୀ ଉଇକିଆଳିଗଣ ନିଜ ଭାଷା ଓ ସମାଜର ଆବଶ୍ୟକତାକୁ ଆଖିରେ ରଖି ସେଗୁଡ଼ିକୁ  ସାମାନ୍ୟ ବଦଳାଇଛନ୍ତି । ବିଭିନ୍ନ ବ୍ୟକ୍ତିବିଶେଷଙ୍କ ବାବଦରେ କିମ୍ବା ଘଟଣା ବାବଦରେ  ଲିଖିତ ପ୍ରସଙ୍ଗ ଏକପାଖିଆ ନ ହୋଇ ନିରପେକ୍ଷ ଭାବେ ଲେଖିବା ଏହି ନିୟମାବଳୀ ମଧ୍ୟରୁ ଏକ  ମୁଖ୍ୟ ନିୟମ । ସେହି ଭଳି ନିଜ ବ୍ୟକ୍ତିଗତ ମତ ବଦଳରେ କେବଳ ପ୍ରକାଶିତ ତଥ୍ୟ ଲେଖିବା  ଆଉ ଏକ ନିୟମ । ସବୁଠାରୁ ମଜାର କଥା ହେଲା ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ କୌଣସି ଦେଶ ବା ସଙ୍ଗଠନ ଅଧୀନରେ  ନ ଥାଇ ଏହା ଉପରେ ପ୍ରତ  ିଟି ଉଇକିଆଳିଙ୍କ ସମାନ ଅଧିକାର ରହିଛି । ପୁଣି ସେମାନଙ୍କ ଭିତରେ ସେମାନଙ୍କ କାମକୁ  ନେଇ ଦାୟିତ୍ୱ ବଣ୍ଟାଯାଇଛି । ବିବାଦ ଉପୁଜିଲେ ବି ସୁଧାରିବାକୁ ରହିଛି କିଛି  ସ୍ୱେଚ୍ଛାସେବୀଙ୍କୁ ନେଇ ତିଆରି କମିଟିମାନ ।&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;ତେବେ  ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ ଥିବା ସବୁଯାକ ଲେଖାକୁ ଆଖିବୁଜି ଗ୍ରହଣ କରାଯାଇପାରିବ ନାହିଁ । କାରଣ  ପ୍ୟାରିସ ଉପରେ ଥିବା ଲେଖାଟି ଶହେ କି ହଜାରେ ଲୋକ ମିଶି ଲେଖିଥିବା ବେଳେ ଭୁବନେଶ୍ୱର  ଉପରେ ଥିବା ଲେଖାଟି ହାତଗଣତି କେତେ ଜଣ ହୁଏତ ଲେଖିଥିବେ । ଯେଉଁ ଲେଖା ଯେତେ ଅଧିକ  ଅଭିଜ୍ଞତା   ଥିବା ଲୋକଙ୍କ ଦେଇ ଯେତେ ଘସା ମଜା ହୋଇ ଲେଖାହୋଇଥିବ ସେ ଲେଖା ସେତେ ଉଜ୍ଜଳ ହୋଇ  ଚମକୁଥିବ । ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଓ ଓଡ଼ିଶା ସମ୍ବନ୍ଧିତ ଲେଖାସବୁରୁ ଇଂରାଜୀ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ ମଧ୍ୟ ଭଲ  ଲେଖା ଖୋଜି ପାଇବା କଷ୍ଟ । ଆଉ ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ଲେଖୁଥିବା ଉଇକିଆଳିଙ୍କ ସଂଖ୍ୟା ପାଖାପାଖି  ୩୦ ଭିତରେ । ସାଢ଼େ ଚାରିକୋଟି ଓଡ଼ିଆଙ୍କ ଭିତରୁ ଯଦି ଏତେ କମ ଲୋକ ଏତେ ବଡ଼ କାମର ବୋଝ  ଉଠାଉଥିବେ ତେହେଲେ ସବୁ ଲେଖାର ମାନ ଯେ ଏକା ଭଳି ଓ ସବୁ ଲେଖାରେ ଆବଶ୍ୟକୀୟ ସବୁ ତଥ୍ୟ  ମିଳିବ ତା'ର ମାନେ ନାହିଁ ।   ତେଣୁ କେବେ କେବେ ବିଭିନ୍ନ ମେଳା ମଉଛବକୁ ଧରି ଲେଖାଳିଏ ମିଶି ଗୋଟେ ବିଷୟରେ ଅଧିକ  ଲେଖା ଲେଖିବା ପାଇଁ ଗଣ-ସମ୍ପାଦନା କରନ୍ତି । ଜଗନ୍ନାଥ ଚଳଣି ଉପରେ ଲିଖିତ ପ୍ରସଙ୍ଗସବୁ  ନବକଳେବର ସମୟରେ ବିଭିନ୍ନ ଖବରକାଗଜ ଓ ପତ୍ରିକା ଆଦିରୁ ତଥ୍ୟ ସଂଗ୍ରହ କରି ବହୁଭାବେ  ଉନ୍ନତ କରାଯାଇଥିଲା । ଏବେ ଏ ପ୍ରସଙ୍ଗସବୁ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ବାକି ପ୍ରସଙ୍ଗସବୁଠାରୁ ଅଧିକ  ତଥ୍ୟରେ ଭରା । ଏଥିରେ ଲେଖିବାକୁ ଆଗ୍ରହୀ ଓଡ଼ିଆମାନେ &lt;a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:CS"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ଏହି&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; ପୃଷ୍ଠାରେ ଦିଆଯାଇଥିବା ସରଳ ନିର୍ଦ୍ଦେଶ ପଢ଼ି ନିଜେ ମଧ୍ୟ ବିଭିନ୍ନ ସ୍ଥାନ ଓ ଅନ୍ୟାନ୍ୟ ବିଷୟରେ ଲେଖିପାରିବେ ।&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ  ହେଉଛି ଏକ ଯାତ୍ରା । ଆଉ ଏ ବାଟ ଅସରନ୍ତି । ଯେତେ ଲେଖିଲେ ବି ସ  ରିବନି କିନ୍ତୁ ଏ ଲେଖା ଚାଲିରହିଥିବ । ଆଜି ଓଡ଼ିଆଙ୍କ ଭିତରେ ଅଳପ ଜଣା ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ  ଜଗତର ବାକି ଭାଷାରେ ପ୍ରକାଶିତ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ଓ ବାକି ଜ୍ଞାନକୋଷ ସଙ୍ଗେ ସମକକ୍ଷ ହୋଇ  ଓଡ଼ିଆଙ୍କ ମଥାକୁ ଟେକି ଧରିବା ପାଇଁ ସପନ ଦେଖିବା ପାଇଁ ଲୋଡ଼ା ଅଧିକରୁ ଅଧିକ ହାତ ।  ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ଏ ଜୟଯାତ୍ରା ପାଳନ କରିବା ପାଇଁ ଭୁବନେଶ୍ୱରରେ ପାଳିତ ହେଉଛି ଏକ  ସାଧାରଣ ସଭା ଓ ସବିଶେଷ &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/s/xzj"&gt;ଏହି ପୃଷ୍ଠାରେ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; ପଢ଼ିପାରିବେ&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;।&lt;/p&gt;
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        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/your-story-odia-june-3-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-journey-of-odia-wikipedia-in-last-14-years'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/your-story-odia-june-3-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-journey-of-odia-wikipedia-in-last-14-years&lt;/a&gt;
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    <dc:creator>subha</dc:creator>
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        <dc:subject>Odia Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
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    <title>ଅନଲାଇନ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଜ୍ଞାନକୋଷ ଗଢ଼ା</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/samanya-kathan-subhashish-panigrahi-june-5-2016-article-on-journey-of-odia-wikipedia</link>
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        &lt;b&gt;I wrote this article in Samanya Kathan, an Odia-language portal on June 5, 2016. The article is about the journey of the Odia Wikipedia and was published on the day the contributor community was celebrating the 14th anniversary of the project.&lt;/b&gt;
        &lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Read the originally published article &lt;a class="external-link" href="http://www.samanyakathan.com/banner_page.php?hid=24"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;ଜଣାଶୁଣା ବ୍ୟକ୍ତି, ବିଷୟ, ଘଟଣା, ସ୍ଥାନ ଆଦି ବିଷୟରେ ସଂକ୍ଷେପରେ ଲେଖିବା ପାଇଁ ଏନସାଇକ୍ଲୋପିଡ଼ିଆ ବା ଜ୍ଞାନକୋଷର ପରିକଳ୍ପନା। ତାକୁ ପୁଣି ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟର ଉପଲବ୍ଧ କରିବା ପାଇଁ 2001ରେ ଆରମ୍ଭ ହେଲା ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ। ପ୍ରଥମେ ଇଂରାଜୀରେ ଆରମ୍ଭ ହୋଇ ପରେ ବିଭିନ୍ନ ଭାଷାକୁ ଏହା ବଢ଼ିଲା। ଆଉ ଇଂରାଜୀ ଉ ଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ଆରମ୍ଭ ହବାର ବର୍ଷଟିଏ ପରେ 2002 ମସିହାରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ, ଅହମିୟା, ପଞ୍ଜାବୀ ଓ ମାଲାୟାଲାମ ଭାଷାରେ ମଧ୍ୟ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ଆରମ୍ଭ ହେଲା। ପ୍ରଥମ ଚାରୋଟି ଭାରତୀୟ ଭାଷାରେ ତିଆରି ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ଭିତରୁ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଗୋଟେ ବୋଲି ଅନେକଙ୍କୁ ଆଜି ବି ଅଜଣା। ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ https://or.wikipedia.org ରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ। ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ପାଖାପାଖି 9 ବର୍ଷ ଧରି ସକ୍ରିୟ ସମ୍ପାଦନାର ଅଭାବରୁ 2011 ଯାଏ ଏକ ରକମ ନିଷ୍କ୍ରିୟ ହୋଇ ପଡ଼ିରହିଥିଲା। 2011ରେ ଏଥିରେ ଅନେକ ସ୍ବେଚ୍ଛାସେବୀ ସମ୍ପାଦକ ବଉଇକିଆଳିମାନେ ଯୋଡ଼ିହୋଇ ଲେଖିବା ଆରମ୍ଭ କରିବା ଫଳରେ ଅଧୁନା ଏଥିରେ 10,619 ସଂଖ୍ୟକ ପ୍ରସଙ୍ଗ ଲେଖାସରିଲାଣି। ଆଉ ନିତି ନୂଆ ନୂଆ ଲେଖା ଏଥିରେ ଯୋଡ଼ିହୋଇ ଚାଲିଛି।&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;ତେବେ ଜଣେ ସାଧାରଣ ପାଠକ ପାଇଁ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ କ’ଣ ରହିଛି ତାହା ଜାଣିବା ବେଶି ଜରୁରୀ। ଜ୍ଞାନ ଆହରଣର ବାଟ ପିଢ଼ିରୁ ପିଢ଼ିକୁ ବଦଳେ। ଆମ ପିଲାବେଳେ ଆମେ କାଁ ଭାଁ କମ୍ପ୍ୟୁଟର ଓ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟର ସୁବିଧା ପାଉଥିଲୁ। ଆଉ ସେତେବେଳେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ମିଡିୟମ ସ୍କୁଲର ପାଠାଗାର କିଛି ଗପ ଉପନ୍ୟାସ ବହି ଭିତରେ ସୀମିତ ଥିଲା। ନୂଆ ବହିଟିଏ ଦେଖିବା ଆଗରୁ କାନ୍ଥରୁ ଚୂନ ଝଡ଼ିପଡୁଥିଲା। ହେଲେ ଏବେ ଘରେଘେ ଏକାଧିକ ମୋବାଇଲ ଆଉ ସେସବୁ ପୁଣି ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ ସୁବିଧା ଥିବା ସ୍ମାର୍ଟଫୋନ ଆସିଲାଣି। ସ୍କୁଲ ପିଲାଏ ଆଉ କିଛି କରନ୍ତୁ ନ କରନ୍ତୁ କିନ୍ତୁ ଗେମ ଖେଳିବା କି ଫେସବୁକ ଆଦିରେ ସାଙ୍ଗମାନଙ୍କ ସଙ୍ଗେ ଚାଟିଂ ଆଦି କରିବାରେ ପୋକ ହେଲେଣି। ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ କମ୍ପ୍ୟୁଟରରୁ ସମ୍ପୂର୍ଣ୍ଣ ମୋବାଇଲମୁଖୀ ହୋଇଗଲାଣି। ପିଲାଙ୍କଠୁ ବଡ଼ ଯାଏ କାହା ପାଖେ ଆଉ ଏନସାଇକ୍ଲୋପିଡ଼ିଆ ବ୍ରିଟାନିକା ଭଳି ଓଜନିଆ ପୋଥି ଦେଇ କିଛି ଖୋଜିବା ପାଇଁ ବେଳ ନାହିଁ। ତେଣୁ ଏଭଳି ପରିସ୍ଥିତିରେୌଣସି ବିଷୟକୁ ଅଧିକ ଲୋକାଭିମୁଖୀ କରିବାର ସୁବିଧା ବାଟ ହେଉଛି ସେସବୁକୁ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ କରାଇବା। ତେବେ ଏହା ବହି ବା ଜର୍ଣ୍ଣାଲର ବିକଳ୍ପ ନୁହେଁ। ବରଂ ବହି ସଙ୍ଗେ ଭିନ୍ନ ଏକ ମାଧ୍ୟମରେ ଜ୍ଞାନ ବିତରଣର ବାଟ ରୂପରେ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ ଅଧିକରୁ ଅଧିକ ଲୋକଙ୍କ ପାଖେ ପହଞ୍ଚିପାରୁଛି।&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;ବିଭିନ୍ନ ଭାଷାରେ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଜ୍ଞାନ ଆହରଣର ସ୍ଥିତି ଭିନ୍ନ। ତେବେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ପାଇଁ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟର ଅବସ୍ଥା ଯେତେ ଚିନ୍ତାଜନକ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାକୁ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଅଧିକ ବ୍ୟବହାର ଉପଯୋଗୀ କରିବା ସେତେ ଅଧିକ ଲୋଡ଼ା। 2011 ଜନଗଣନା ତଥ୍ୟ ଅନୁସାରେ ଓଡ଼ିଶାରେ ମାତ୍ର 1.4 ଭାଗ ଲୋକଙ୍କ ପାଖେ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟର ସୁବିଧା ଥିଲା। ଏହି ପାଞ୍ଚ ବର୍ଷ ଭିତରେ ଏହା ବହୁ ଅଧିକ ବଢ଼ିଥିବ। ହେଲେ ସେ ସଭିଏଁ କ’ଣ ସତରେ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟର ବ୍ୟବହାର କରୁଛନ୍ତି ନା ସୀମିତ କେତୋଟି ସାଇଟ ଭିତରେ ସୀମିତ। ଅଧିକାଂଶ ତଥାକଥିତ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ ବ୍ୟବହାରକାରୀ ଫେସବୁକରେ ସାଙ୍ଗମାନଙ୍କ ସଙ୍ଗେ ଭାବ ଦିଆନିଆ କି ହୁଆଟସଆପରେ ପରିଚିତଙ୍କ ସଙ୍ଗେ ଆଳାପ ଅଥବା ଇଉଟିଉବରୁ ଗୀତ ଶୁଣିବା ବାହାରେ ବେଶୀ କିଛି ଜାଣନ୍ତି ନାହିଁ। ଏହାର ମୁଖ୍ୟ କାରଣ ହେଉଛି ସେମାନଙ୍କ ପାଇଁ ସବୁଠୁ ବେଶୀ ପରିଚିତ ଭାଷା ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ବେଶୀ ୱେବସାଇଟ ନାହିଁ। ଖବର ପଢ଼ାଳିଙ୍କ ପାଇଁ ନା ଭଲ ଖବର ୱେବସାଇଟଟିଏ ରହିଛି ନା ଗବେଷକଙ୍କ ପାଇଁ ଆମ ଐତିହ୍ୟ ଓ ପୁରୁଣା ଶିଳ୍ପ ବାବଦରେ ପଢ଼ିବା ପାଇଁ ଆମ ମିଉଜିଅମ ୱେବସାଇଟରେ ସମସ୍ତ କଳାକୃତିର ତଥ୍ୟ ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ଦିଆଯାଇଛି। ସେମିତି ଭିନ୍ନ ଭିନ୍ନ ବିଷୟରେ ବିଭିନ୍ନ ବିଷୟ ଜାଣିବା ପାଇଁ ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ନିହାତି ଦରକାରୀ ବିଷୟ ମଧ୍ୟ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ନାହିଁ। ଏଭଳି ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ପ୍ରକାଶିତ କେଇଶହ ଖବରକାଗଜ ଭିତରୁ କେବଳ ଗୋଟେ କାଗଜର ଖବରଗୁଡ଼ିକ ଇଣଟରନେଟରେ ଖୋଜି ପାଇହେବ। କାରଣ ବାକି ଖବରକାଗଜର ଲେଖା ଇଉନିକୋଡ଼ ଭଳି ଆନ୍ତର୍ଜାତିକ ମାନକକୁ ନ ଆପଣାଇ ଆକୃତି, ଶ୍ରୀଲିପି ଆଦି ପୁରୁଣାକାଳିଆ ଅଣ-ମାନକ ସଫ୍ଟଓଏରରେ ଲେଖି ଛବି ଭାବେ କିମ୍ବା ପିଡିଏଫ ଡକୁମେଣ୍ଟ ଭାବେ ସେମାନଙ୍କ ସାଇଟରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ। ସେଗୁଡ଼ିକ ଦେଖିବାକୁ ଭିନ୍ନ ନ ଲାଗିଲେ ମଧ୍ୟ ଗୁଗୁଲ ବା ସର୍ଚ ଇଞ୍ଜିନରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ଟାଇପ କରି ଖୋଜିହୁଏ ନାହିଁ କିମ୍ବା ମୋବାଇଲ ଆଦିରେ ସଳଖେ ପଢ଼ିହୁଏ ନାହିଁ।&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ 1930 ମସିହାରେ ପୂର୍ଣ୍ଣଚନ୍ଦ୍ର ଭାଷାକୋଷ ଭଳି ବିଶାଳ ଜ୍ଞାନକୋଷ ରଚନା କାମ ଆଜିଯାଏ ଆଉ କିଛି ହୋଇପାରିନାହିଁ। ଆଧୁନିକ ଟେକନୋଲୋଜି ବ୍ ୟବହାର କରି ଏବେ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ଅତୀତ ସହ ସନ୍ଧିଟିଏ ତିଆରି କରିପାରିବ। ଏହା ସମ୍ପୂର୍ଣ୍ଣ ଭାବେ ଅଣ-ଲାଭକାରୀ ଓ ଏଥିରେ ବିଜ୍ଞାପନ ନ ଥାଏ। ଏଥିରେ ଲେଖାଗୁଡ଼ିକ ଲେଖୁଥିବା ଉଇକିଆଳିଏ ସଭିଏଁ ସ୍ବେଚ୍ଛାସେବୀ ଓ ଲେଖାସବୁ ସେମାନଙ୍କ ସତ୍ବାଧ‍କାରରେ ପ୍ରକାଶିତ। ତେବେ ଜ୍ଞାନ ବିତରଣ ଉଦ୍ଦେଶ୍ୟରେ ତିଆରି ହୋଇଥିବାରୁ ଲେଖାସବୁ କପିରାଇଟ ଦେଇ ନ ରୋକିବା ଲାଗି ସେସବୁ କ୍ରିଏଟିଭ କମନ୍ସ ସେଆର-ଏଲାଇକ ଲାଇସେନ୍ସରେ ବିତରିତ। ଫଳରେ ସଭିଏଁ ମାଗଣାରେ ପଢ଼ିପାରିବେ , ପ୍ରସଙ୍ଗଗୁଡ଼ିକ ପୁନଃବ୍ୟବହାର କରିପାରିବେ ଓ ଉଭୟ ଲାଭକାରୀ ଓ ଅଣଲାଭକାରୀ କାମରେ ବ୍ୟବହାର କରିପାରିବେ। ଏଥି ସହିତ କୌଣସି ଲେଖାରେ ଭୁଲ ପାଇଲେ ଜଣେ ଲେଖା ସମ୍ପାଦନା କରି ସୁଧାରିପାରିବେ। ଏଥିରେ ଲେଖା ଓ ସମ୍ପାଦନା ପଦ୍ଧତି ଏତେ ଖୋଲା ଯେ ପ୍ରାୟ ସବୁ ଲେଖା ଏକ ନୁହେଁ ଅନେକ ଲୋକଙ୍କ ଦେଇ ଏକାଠି ଲିଖିତ। ତେବେ ଲେଖାର ମାନରେ ସମତା ରଖିବା ନିମନ୍ତେ କେତେଗୁଡ଼ିଏ ନିୟମାବଳୀ ତିଆରି ହୋଇଛି। ଏଗୁଡ଼ିକ 293ଟି ଭାଷାରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ସବୁ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ପାଇଁ ମୋଟାମଟି ଏକା ହେଲେ ମଧ୍ୟ ଭିନ୍ନ ଭିନ୍ନ ଭାଷାଭାଷୀ ଉଇକିଆଳିଗଣ ନିଜ ଭାଷା ଓ ସମାଜର ଆବଶ୍ୟକତାକୁ ଆଖିରେ ରଖି ସେଗୁଡ଼ିକୁ ସାମାନ୍ୟ ବଦଳାଇଛନ୍ତି। ବିଭିନ୍ନ ବ୍ୟକ୍ତିବିଶେଷଙ୍କ ବାବଦରେ କିମ୍ବା ଘଟଣା ବାବଦରେ ଲିଖିତ ପ୍ରସଙ୍ଗ ଏକପାଖିଆ ନ ହୋଇ ନିରପେକ୍ଷ ଭାବେ ଲେଖିବା ଏହି ନିୟମାବଳୀ ମଧ୍ୟରୁ ଏକ ମୁଖ୍ୟ ନିୟମ। ସେହି ଭଳି ନିଜ ବ୍ୟକ୍ତିଗତ ମତ ବଦଳରେ କେବଳ ପ୍ରକାଶିତ ତଥ୍ୟ ଲେଖିବା ଆଉ ଏକ ନିୟମ। ସବୁଠାରୁ ମଜାର କଥା ହେଲା ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ କୌଣସି ଦେଶ ବା ସଙ୍ଗଠ ଅଧୀନରେ ନ ଥାଇ ଏହା ଉପରେ ପ୍ରତିଟି ଉଇକିଆଳିଙ୍କ ସମାନ ଅଧିକାର ରହିଛି। ପୁଣି ସେମାନଙ୍କ ଭିତରେ ସେମାନଙ୍କ କାମକୁ ନେଇ ଦାୟିତ୍ବ ବଣ୍ଟାଯାଇଛି। ବିବାଦ ଉପୁଜିଲେ ବି ସୁଧାରିବାକୁ ରହିଛି କିଛି ସ୍ବେଚ୍ଛାସେବୀଙ୍କୁ ନେଇ ତିଆରି କମିଟିମାନ।&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;ତେବେ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ ଥିବା ସବୁଯାକ ଲେଖାକୁ ଆଖିବୁଜି ଗ୍ରହଣ କରାଯାଇପାରିବ ନାହିଁ। କାରଣ ପ୍ୟାରିସ ଉପରେ ଥିବା ଲେଖାଟି ଶହେ କି ହଜାରେ ଲୋକ ମିଶି ଲେଖିଥିବା ବେଳେ ଭୁବନେଶ୍ବର ଉପରେ ଥିବା ଲେଖାଟି ହାତଗଣତି କେତେ ଜଣ ହୁଏତ ଲେଖିଥିବେ। ଯେଉଁ ଲେଖା ଯେତେ ଅଧିକ ଅଭିଜ୍ଞତା ଥିବା ଲୋକଙ୍କ ଦେଇ ଯେତେ ଘସାମଜା ହୋଇ ଲେଖାହୋଇଥିବ ସେ ଲେଖା ସେତେ ଉଜ୍ଜଳ ହୋଇ ଚମକୁଥିବ। ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଓ ଓଡ଼ିଶା ସମ୍ବନ୍ଧିତ ଲେଖାସବୁରୁ ଇଂରାଜୀ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ ମଧ୍ୟ ଭଲ ଲେଖା ଖୋଜି ପାଇବା କଷ୍ଟ। ଆଉ ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ଲେଖୁଥିବା ଉଇକିଆଳିଙ୍କ ସଂଖ୍ୟା ପାଖାପାଖି 30 ଭିତରେ। ସାଢ଼େ ଚାରିକୋଟି ଓଡ଼ିଆଙ୍କ ଭିତରୁ ଯଦି ଏତେ କମ ଲୋକ ଏତେ ବଡ଼ କାମର ବୋଝ ଉଠାଉଥିବେ ତେହେଲେ ସବୁ ଲେଖାର ମାନ ଯେ ଏକା ଭଳି ଓ ସବୁ ଲେଖାରେ ଆବଶ୍ୟକ ସବୁ ତଥ୍ୟ ମିଳିବ ତା’ର ମାନେ ନାହିଁ। ତେଣୁ କେବେ କେବେ ବିଭିନ୍ନ ମେଳା ମଉଛବକୁ ଧ ରି ଲେଖାଳିଏ ମିଶି ଗୋଟେ ବିଷୟରେ ଅଧିକ ଲେଖା ଲେଖିବା ପାଇଁ ଗଣ-ସମ୍ପାଦନା କରନ୍ତି। ଜଗନ୍ନାଥ ଚଳଣି ଉପରେ ଲିଖିତ ପ୍ରସଙ୍ଗସବୁ ନବକଳେବର ସମୟରେ ବିଭିନ୍ନ ଖବରକାଗଜ ଓ ପତ୍ରିକା ଆଦିରୁ ତଥ୍ୟ ସଂଗ୍ରହ କରି ବହୁଭାବେ ଉନ୍ନତ କରାଯାଇଥିଲା। ଏବେ ଏ ପ୍ରସଙ୍ଗସବୁ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ବାକି ପ୍ରସଙ୍ଗ ସବୁଠାରୁ ଅଧିକ ତଥ୍ୟରେ ଭରା। ଏଥିରେ ଲେଖିବାକୁ ଆଗ୍ରହୀ ଓଡ଼ିଆମାନେ https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:CS ପୃଷ୍ଠାରେ ଦିଆଯାଇଥିବା ସରଳ ନିର୍ଦ୍ଦେଶ ପଢ଼ି ନିଜେ ମଧ୍ୟ ବିଭିନ୍ନ ସ୍ଥାନ ଅନ୍ୟାନ୍ୟ ବିଷୟରେ ଲେଖିପାରିବେ।&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ହେଉଛି ଏକ ଯାତ୍ରା। ଆଉ ଏ ବାଟ ଅସରନ୍ତି। ଯେତେ େଖିଲେ ବି ସରିବନି କିନ୍ତୁ ଲେଖା ଚାଲିରହିଥିବ। ଆଜି ଓଡ଼ିଆଙ୍କ ଭିତରେ ଅଳପ ଜଣା ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ଜଗତର ବାକି ଭାଷାରେ ପ୍ରକାଶିତ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ଓ ବାକି ଜ୍ଞାନକୋଷ ସଙ୍ଗେ ସମକକ୍ଷ ହୋଇ ଓଡ଼ିଆଙ୍କ ମଥାକୁ ଟେକି ଧରିବା ପାଇଁ ସପନ ଦେଖିବା ପାଇଁ ଲୋଡ଼ା ଅଧିକରୁ ଅଧିକ ହାତ।&lt;/p&gt;
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        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/samanya-kathan-subhashish-panigrahi-june-5-2016-article-on-journey-of-odia-wikipedia'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/samanya-kathan-subhashish-panigrahi-june-5-2016-article-on-journey-of-odia-wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
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    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>subha</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights></dc:rights>

    
        <dc:subject>CIS-A2K</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Odia Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Access to Knowledge</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2016-06-08T02:51:14Z</dc:date>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/samaja-subhashish-panigrahi-june-2-2016-article-on-odia-wikipedia">
    <title>ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ବିକାଶ</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/samaja-subhashish-panigrahi-june-2-2016-article-on-odia-wikipedia</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;The article on Odia Wikipedia was published in the Samaja on June 2, 2016.&lt;/b&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Samaja_June22016.jpg" alt="Samaja" class="image-inline" title="Samaja" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/samaja-subhashish-panigrahi-june-2-2016-article-on-odia-wikipedia'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/samaja-subhashish-panigrahi-june-2-2016-article-on-odia-wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>subha</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights></dc:rights>

    
        <dc:subject>CIS-A2K</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Odia Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Access to Knowledge</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2016-06-04T04:37:32Z</dc:date>
   <dc:type>Blog Entry</dc:type>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/suryaprava-subhashish-panigrahi-june-3-2016-article-on-odia-wikipedia-14-years-journey">
    <title>ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ: ଏକ ଅଭିଯାନ</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/suryaprava-subhashish-panigrahi-june-3-2016-article-on-odia-wikipedia-14-years-journey</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;The article which details Odia Wikipedia's 14 year-long journey was published in the Odia newspaper Suryaprava on June 3, 2016.&lt;/b&gt;
        &lt;p style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/SuryapravaJune2.jpg" alt="Suryaprava" class="image-inline" title="Suryaprava" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/suryaprava-subhashish-panigrahi-june-3-2016-article-on-odia-wikipedia-14-years-journey'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/suryaprava-subhashish-panigrahi-june-3-2016-article-on-odia-wikipedia-14-years-journey&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>subha</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights></dc:rights>

    
        <dc:subject>CIS-A2K</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Odia Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Access to Knowledge</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2016-06-04T04:26:38Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Developing Open Educational Resources in Indian Languages</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/openness/developing-open-educational-resources-in-indian-languages</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;The Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education (CILHE), Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), in collaboration with the Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) programme at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), has been involved in organising workshops on developing open educational resources (OER) in Indian languages with undergraduate and postgraduate students across various partner institutions. The objective of these workshops is to introduce students to: a) tools of collaborative knowledge production on the Internet, and b) methods for generating new online content in Indian languages.&lt;/b&gt;
        &lt;p id="docs-internal-guid-6a5cf4f0-34dc-8053-8ba7-e604a4aef120" dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; "&gt;During November 2015 - February 2016, four such workshops have been organised at TISS’ Mumbai and Tuljapur campuses, &lt;a href="http://www.srtt.org/casestudies/Pune_University_Case_Study%20-%202.pdf"&gt;Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule Women's Studies Centre&lt;/a&gt; (KSPWSC), Pune University, and at the &lt;a href="http://www.efluniversity.ac.in/"&gt;English and Foreign Languages University&lt;/a&gt; (EFLU), Hyderabad.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; "&gt;A one and half day workshop was organised at KSPWSC, Pune during January 22-23, 2016. A total of 20 students attended this workshop along with three faculty members from the Centre. This workshop is a part of CILHE's ongoing and sustained engagement with KSPWSC to generate and strengthen content pertaining to women's studies on the &lt;a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/"&gt;Marathi Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pune&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Day 1, after the opening address by Dr. Anagha Tambe from KSPWSC, Sohnee Harshey from CILHE, TISS spoke about the importance of creating open educational resources in Indian languages for social sciences and humanities. She sought responses from participants about the nature of their engagement with their research areas—which languages they used while collecting data, whether they had accessed reading material in languages other than English, and what were their sources of information. All the participants had used languages other than English in their learning process, some had even accessed Indian language Wikipedias, and all of them felt the need for more resources in Indian languages—especially in simpler and more accessible formats. Tanveer Hasan from CIS then spoke about the utility of Wikipedia for knowledge consumers and its immense potential for students to become knowledge producers, especially in the Indian languages.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; "&gt;In order to familiarize the participants with social sciences (specifically women's studies) terminology in Indian languages, an exercise was conducted, wherein they were asked to describe a concept (from a given list) without using the term itself. The idea behind this was to highlight what function a concept performs in a sentence and in the language context, and what assumptions are made while using this concept. This was followed up with another exercise where the participants were encouraged to choose two concepts and explain their denotation and connotation. This was done in order to familiarise them with the web of other concepts in which a concept is located. The concept of ‘labour’ or ‘shram’ (in Marathi) was chosen for discussion.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; "&gt;On Day 2 of the workshop, Abhinav Garule, Programme Associate with A2K-CIS, introduced the participants to the basics of Wikipedia editing through a hands-on activity. They navigated through both the English and Indian language Wikipedias to see how the edit, talk, and view history functions work, what the key characteristics of a good article are, and how one can read more about a certain topic through interwiki and external links and categories. This was interspersed with recalling the exercises done on the previous day and comparing the critical thinking process involved.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Since one of the simpler ways to populate Indian language Wikipedias is through translation of existing content in English, participants were encouraged to try this with an entry of their choice. They were asked to also list difficulties that they faced in the process of translation. At the end of this exercise, a range of ‘problems’ like lack of appropriate terminology for complex concepts, the dangers of oversimplification, differences between languages in terms of the structure of sentences, and lack of references in Indian languages, were highlighted by the participants. While they were still thinking about these problems, another challenge was put forth for them to look at two conflicting or opposing references for a topic (for example, a movie review, or reporting around an event) and come up with a ‘neutral’ write-up about it. Questions of what constitutes a valid reference, issues of plagiarism, personal opinion, codes of civility on Talk pages formed part of this discussion.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Following this, the participants chose one topic (each) on which they wished to create a Wikipedia article in an Indian language. Most of the participants worked on the Marathi Wikipedia. They worked in groups of 3-4 to edit and create a range of articles including ones on patriarchy, colonialism, masculinity, family, and tribes, among others. A total of 12 entries were created in this workshop. Participants also explored Wikimedia Commons, Meta, and Wikisource as allied repositories. The students have now become active as knowledge producers and will join the existing group of editors at KSPWSC in the wiki-sprints to generate new content every month.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hyderabad: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Similar exercises were also conducted during the two-day workshop at EFLU, Hyderabad in February 2016. The participants worked on the Malayalam, Telugu, and Hindi Wikipedias. Articles were written on geographical entities like Tamil Eelam and West Godavari district, on academic figures like M.S.S. Pandian and Maxine Berstein, academic and literary works such as My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk and Towards a World of Equals by Susie Tharu, among other topics. Since creating an article from scratch also involved deliberation regarding issues of translation, and the limits of concepts and their meanings in the Indian context, it is hoped that these new editors will find it useful for their own research to think critically about the process of generating content on the Indian language Wikipedias.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="discreet"&gt;&lt;em&gt;* Sohnee Harshey works at the&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt; Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education, Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Article edited by Subhashish Panigrahi of CIS-A2K.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/developing-open-educational-resources-in-indian-languages'&gt;https://cis-india.org/openness/developing-open-educational-resources-in-indian-languages&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>Sohnee Harshey*</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights></dc:rights>

    
        <dc:subject>CIS-A2K</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Malayalam Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Marathi Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Telugu Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Hindi Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2016-06-10T01:50:22Z</dc:date>
   <dc:type>Blog Entry</dc:type>
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    <title>ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଏନସାଇକ୍ଲୋପିଡ଼ିଆ "ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ" ବିକାଶ ପାଇଁ ଏକାଠି ହେଲେ ପୁରୀର ଛାତ୍ରଛାତ୍ରୀ </title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/b07b23b4db1fb30b28b47b1fb30b47-b13b21b3cb3fb06-b0fb28b38b3eb07b15b4db32b2ab3fb21b3cb3fb06-b09b07b15b3fb2ab3fb21b3cb3fb06-b2cb3fb15b3eb36-b2ab3eb07b01-b0fb15b3eb20b3f-b39b47b32b47-b2ab41b30b40b30-b1bb3eb24b4db30b1bb3eb24b4db30b40</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;ସଂସ୍କୃତିର ସହର ପୁରୀରେ ଛାତ୍ରଛାତ୍ରୀମାନେ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାକୁ ଅଧିକ ବ୍ୟବହାରଯୋଗ୍ୟ କରିବା ପାଇଁ ତଥା ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ଅଧିକ ପଠନଯୋଗ୍ୟ ଲେଖାର ବିକାଶ ଲାଗି ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ ସମ୍ପାଦନା କରିବା ଆରମ୍ଭ କରିଛନ୍ତି । ପୁରୀର ୫ଟି ଭିନ୍ନ ଭିନ୍ନ ଶିକ୍ଷାନୁଷ୍ଠାନର ପାଖାପାଖି ୧୨ ଜଣ ଛାତ୍ରଛାତ୍ରୀ ନିୟମିତ ଭେଟି କର୍ମଶାଳା ମାଧ୍ୟମରେ ବିଭିନ୍ନ ବିଷୟରେ ତଥ୍ୟଭିତ୍ତିକ ଲେଖାମାନ ତିଆରି ଓ ସମ୍ପାଦନା କରୁଛନ୍ତି । &lt;/b&gt;
        
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The article that came May 20 on &lt;a class="external-link" href="http://odia.yourstory.com/read/219505a2a9/-"&gt;YourStory Odia&lt;/a&gt;, is about WikiTungi Puri and highlights a female editor Adyasha Sahu. WikiTungi Puri is a collective of the Odia Wikimedia community members that are based in the city of Puri.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;ପୁରୀରେ ଆୟୋଜିତ ଏକ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ କର୍ମଶାଳା ପରେ ସେଠାରେ ଆଗରୁ ଗୁଗୁଲ ଡେଭଲପର୍ସ ଗ୍ରୁପରେ ସକ୍ରିୟ ଥିବା ସ୍ୱେଚ୍ଛାସେବୀ କର୍ମୀମାନେ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ ଯୋଗ ଦେଇ ବିଭିନ୍ନ ବିଷୟରେ ଲେଖିବା ଆରମ୍ଭ କଲେ । କେଇଟା ଦିନ ଭିତରେ ଆଗରୁ ଅବହେଳିତ ବିଭିନ୍ନ ବିଷୟ ଯଥା ମୋବାଇଲ, କମ୍ପ୍ୟୁଟର ଓ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ ସମ୍ବନ୍ଧିତ ଲେଖା, । ଏହି ୧୨ ଜଣିଆ ଦଳରେ ଥିବା ୪ ଜଣ ଝିଅ ଓଡ଼ିଶା ଓ ଓଡ଼ିଶା ବାହାରର ବିଭିନ୍ନ ଜଣାଶୁଣା ନାରୀଙ୍କ ସମ୍ବନ୍ଧରେ ଲେଖାସବୁ ତିଆରିବା ସହିତ ଆଗରୁ ଥିବା ଲେଖାଗୁଡ଼ିକ ଉନ୍ନତ କରିଆସୁଛନ୍ତି । ଏମାନଙ୍କ ଅବଦାନ ଫଳରେ ବିଭିନ୍ନ ଜଣାଅଜଣା ବିଷୟରେ ଉପାଦେୟ ଲେଖାସବୁ ପାଠକମାନଙ୍କ ପାଇଁ ଖୋଲାରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ହେଉଛି । ଆଗକୁ ଛାତ୍ର, ଶିକ୍ଷକମାନେ ବହି ବାହାରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ କିଛି ପଢ଼ିବାକୁ ଚାହିଁଲେ ଏସବୁ ବ୍ୟବହାରରେ ଲାଗିବ ।&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote style="text-align: justify;"&gt;ଏମାନଙ୍କ ଭିତରୁ ଜଣେ ଉଇକିଆଳି ଆଦ୍ଯାଶା କହନ୍ତି, "ମୁଁ ପ୍ରଥମେ ଲେଖିବା ଆରମ୍ଭ କଲାବେଳକୁ ରବୀନ୍ଦ୍ରନାଥ ଠାକୁରଙ୍କ ବାବଦରେ ଛୋଟ ଲେଖାଟେ ଥିଲା । ଆଉ ମୋର ତାଙ୍କ ବାବଦରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ କିଛି ପଢ଼ିବା ପାଇଁ ଇଚ୍ଛା ଥିଲେ ବି ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ କିଛି ଖୋଜି ପାଉଲି ନାହିଁ । ତେଣୁ ନିଜେ ଇଂରାଜୀରୁ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବା ଆରମ୍ଭ କଲି । ନିକଟରେ ଗୋଟେ ପରୀକ୍ଷାରେ ତାଙ୍କ ବିଷୟରେ ପଡ଼ିଥିଲା ଯେ ମୁଁ ମୋର ନିଜ ଲେଖା ଅନୁଭୂତି କେତେ କାମରେ ଆସିଲା ତାହା ଜାଣିଲି", ବଖାଣନ୍ତି ଆଦ୍ୟାଶା ।&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;blockquote style="text-align: justify;"&gt;ଆଉ ଜଣେ ମହିଳା ଉଇକିଆଳି ଅଲିଭା ସାହୁ କହନ୍ତି, "ମୁଁ କାକଟପୁର କଲେଜରେ ପଢ଼ିଲା ବେଳେ ବାଦ୍ୟଯନ୍ତ୍ର ଉପରେ ଲେଖାଟିଏ ଥିଲା । ସେତେବେଳେ ମୁଁ ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ବିଶେଷ କିଛି ପଢ଼ିବାକୁ ପାଇନଥିଲି । ଏମିତି ଖୋଜୁଖୋଜୁ ଦିନେ ସେ ବାବଦରେ ଲେଖାଟିଏ ପାଇଲି । ଇଂରାଜୀ ଲେଖା ଆଉ ହିନ୍ଦୀ ଲେଖା ଦୁଇଟିରୁ ମିଶାଇ ଓଡ଼ିଆକୁ ଅନୁବାଦ କଲି ।"&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;ଅନୁବାଦ ହେଉ କି ମୌଳିକ ଭାବେ ହେଉ, ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ ବିଭିନ୍ନ ପ୍ରକାଶିତ ଲେଖାର ଆଧାରରେ ଉଇକିଆଳିମାନେ ତିଆରିଚାଲିଛନ୍ତି ଭଳିକି ଭଳି ନୂଆ ଲେଖା ।&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h2&gt;Video &lt;br /&gt; &lt;iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TeljDyTF4n8" frameborder="0" height="315" width="560"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;ପୁରୀର ଏହି ଉଇକିଆଳିମାନେ ଏକାଠି ହୋଇ ଗଢ଼ିଛନ୍ତି "&lt;a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/s/xyc"&gt;ଉଇକିଟୁଙ୍ଗି ପୁରୀ&lt;/a&gt;" । ପୁରୀରେ ଯୁବପିଢ଼ିଙ୍କୁ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ସମ୍ପର୍କରେ ଅବଗତ କରାଇବା, ପୁରୀ ସାମନ୍ତ ଚନ୍ଦ୍ରଶେଖର ସ୍ୱୟଂଶାସିତ କଲେଜରେ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ପ୍ରଚାର ପ୍ରସାର କରାଇବା, ପୁରୀରେ କର୍ମଶାଳା ଓ ମେଳଣ ଅଧିକରୁ ଅଧିକ ଲୋକଙ୍କୁ ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ଟାଇପ ଶିଖାଇବା ଓ ସେମାନଙ୍କୁ ନିଜ ଅଞ୍ଚଳ ଓ ଆଗ୍ରହର ବିଷୟ ବାବଦରେ ଲେଖିବା ପାଇଁ ଆଗଭର କରାଇବା ଓ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଢଗଢମାଳି-ଲୋକକଥା ଆଦିକୁ ଗୋଟେ ସ୍ଥାନରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ କରାଇବା ପାଇଁ ଉଇକିକଥା ନାମରେ ଆଉ ଏକ ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପର ବିକାଶ କରାଇବା ହେଉଛି ଏହି ଦଳର ମୁଖ୍ୟ ଲକ୍ଷ୍ୟ ।&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;ବାକି ଭାରତୀୟ ଓ ଏସୀୟ ଭାଷା ଭିତରୁ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଏକ ପୁରୁଣା ଭାଷା ହୋଇ ସୁଦ୍ଧା ଓଡ଼ିଆର ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ବ୍ୟବହାର ଖୁବ ଊଣା । ଯଦିଓ ଓଡ଼ିଶାରେ ନିୟମିତ ପ୍ରକାଶିତ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଖବରକାଗଜ ଧୀରେ ଧୀରେ ବଢ଼ି ବଢ଼ି ଚାଲିଛି ସେସବୁ ଏଯାବତ ଇଉନିକୋଡ଼ରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଦ ହେଉନଥିବାରୁ ଲେଖାଗୁଡ଼ିକ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଖୋଜିଲେ ମିଳୁନାହିଁ । ଆଉ ସବୁ କାଗଜର ପୁରୁଣା ଅଭିଲେଖ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ହେଉନଥିବାରୁ ଜଣେ ଲୋଡ଼ାପଡ଼ିଲେ ଖବରଟେ ଖୋଜି ପାଇପାରିବ ନାହିଁ । ଏ ଦିଗରେ ପ୍ରକାଶନ ସଂସ୍ଥା, ବ୍ୟକ୍ତିବିଶେଷ ଓ ସରକାର ସଭିଏଁ ଚେଷ୍ଟା କଲେ ଯାଇ ଅଧିକରୁ ଅଧିକ ଲେଖା ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ହୁଅନ୍ତା । ଏଯାଏ ଗୁଗୁଲର ପ୍ରଧାନ ପୃଷ୍ଠାରେ ଯେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଆସୁନାହିଁ ବୋଲି ଅନେକେ ମତ ଦିଅନ୍ତି ତା'ର ମୁଖ୍ୟ କାରଣ ହେଲା ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଲେଖାର ଘୋର ଅଭାବ । ଏ ଦିଗରେ ଅଣଲାଭକାରୀ ସ୍ୱେଚ୍ଛାସେବୀଙ୍କ ଦ୍ୱାରା ପରିଚାଳିତ ସମୂହ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ଭୂମିକା ଉଲ୍ଲେଖଯୋଗ୍ୟ । ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ (Wikipedia) ୨୦୦୧ରେ ପ୍ରଥମେ ଇଂରାଜୀରେ ଆରମ୍ଭ ହୋଇ ଧୀରେ ଧୀରେ ବାକି ଭାଷାରେ ଆରମ୍ଭ ହେଲା । ଆନନ୍ଦର ବିଷୟ ଯେ ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ୨୦୦୨ ମସିହାରେ ପ୍ରଥମ ଭାରତୀୟ ଭାଷାର ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ଭାବେ ଅହମୀୟା, ମାଲାୟାଲାମ ଓ ପଞ୍ଜାବୀ ସହିତ ଗଢ଼ାହେଲା । ଅଧୁନା କେବଳ ଇଂରାଜୀ ନୁହେଁ ୨୮୭ରୁ ଅଧିକ ଭାଷାରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ଏହି ଖୋଲା ଅନଲାଇନ ଏନସାଇକ୍ଲୋପିଡ଼ିଆ । ଅନେକେ ଜାଣି କାବା ହେବେ ଯେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ ଲେଖୁଥିବା ସମ୍ପାଦକ ବା ଉଇକିଆଳିଙ୍କ ସଂଖ୍ୟା ପାଖାପାଖି ୨୫-୩୦ ହେଲେ ହେଁ ଏଥିରେ ଲେଖା ପ୍ରସଙ୍ଗ ସଂଖ୍ୟା ୧୦,୬୦୦ରୁ ଅଧିକ । ପୁରୀର ଉଇକିଆଳିମାନଙ୍କ ଆସିବା ପରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିଆଳିଙ୍କ ସଂଖ୍ୟା ପାଖାପାଖି ଦୁଇଗୁଣା ବଢ଼ିଛି ବୋଲି କହିହେବ ।&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ ଥିବା ପ୍ରସଙ୍ଗ &lt;a href="http://or.wikipedia.org/"&gt;http://or.wikipedia.org&lt;/a&gt; ରେ ପଢ଼ିପାରିବେ । ଏଥିରେ ସଭିଏଁ ଲେଖିପାରିବେ (ଲେଖିବା ବାବଦରେ &lt;a href="http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:CS"&gt;ଦରକାରୀ ସୂଚନା&lt;/a&gt;) ।&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;ଫଟୋ: &lt;a href="https://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:Th3snehasish"&gt;ସ୍ନେହାଶିଷ ନାୟକ&lt;/a&gt; (CC-BY-SA 4.0)&lt;/p&gt;

        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/b07b23b4db1fb30b28b47b1fb30b47-b13b21b3cb3fb06-b0fb28b38b3eb07b15b4db32b2ab3fb21b3cb3fb06-b09b07b15b3fb2ab3fb21b3cb3fb06-b2cb3fb15b3eb36-b2ab3eb07b01-b0fb15b3eb20b3f-b39b47b32b47-b2ab41b30b40b30-b1bb3eb24b4db30b1bb3eb24b4db30b40'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/b07b23b4db1fb30b28b47b1fb30b47-b13b21b3cb3fb06-b0fb28b38b3eb07b15b4db32b2ab3fb21b3cb3fb06-b09b07b15b3fb2ab3fb21b3cb3fb06-b2cb3fb15b3eb36-b2ab3eb07b01-b0fb15b3eb20b3f-b39b47b32b47-b2ab41b30b40b30-b1bb3eb24b4db30b1bb3eb24b4db30b40&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
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    <dc:creator>subha</dc:creator>
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        <dc:subject>Video</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>CIS-A2K</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Odia Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Access to Knowledge</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2016-06-18T16:21:07Z</dc:date>
   <dc:type>Blog Entry</dc:type>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/train-the-trainer-2016">
    <title>Train the Trainer 2016</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/train-the-trainer-2016</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;The Centre for Internet &amp; Society (CIS-A2K) team is organizing the Train the Trainer programme at its office in Bengaluru from June 15 to 17, 2016. &lt;/b&gt;
        &lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;After two successful iterations of Train the Trainer in 2013 and 2015, CIS-A2K is planning to organize the third iteration of the program. The exact dates and venue of the event have not been decided still, but like our previous iterations, this year also be a 3-days' residential program.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 style="text-align: justify; "&gt;What's new in TTT 2016&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul style="text-align: justify; "&gt;
&lt;li style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Extensive feedback gathering:&lt;/strong&gt; The planning of TTT 2016 started in mid-April when we started contacting TTT 2015 participants for their ideas and suggestions to design this year's Train-the-Trainer program. We asked them a number of questions such as "what could be improved in the last TTT?, how can be improve this year's TTT etc." We'll reach mailing lists and village pumps for for further inputs. Based on all these suggestions and feedback, this year's TTT will be designed.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MWT session:&lt;/strong&gt; Based on the feedback we have received, it seems the participants are interested to learn some topics which were previously discussed during MWT. So, MWT sessions many be included in this year's program.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3 style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Registration&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; Participants will be selected based on their on wiki and off wiki activities and their responses to the questions asked in the Google form. In order to fulfil this objectives, preference will be given to Wikimedians who are applying for the first time.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a class="text external" rel="nofollow" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1AmbA609Foy5gNLRw1SgK4r0YF8yFwcLLhNdvvrpC1z0/viewform"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;fill this form&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to apply to join this year's Train-the-Trainer event. Please write your answers in details. We may contact you if we need further details.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;dl style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;dt&gt;Clarification&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;In the Google form above you'll find these terms&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style="text-align: justify; "&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pre-event works:&lt;/strong&gt; The exact pre-event work has not been fixed yet, but it may something like preparing presentation or draft-plan to improve your Wikiprojects.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Post-event works:&lt;/strong&gt; Post-TTT you'll work to execute your plans, and conduct outreach activities. You will be in touch with CIS-A2K and share your progress and activities.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Program schedule has not been prepared yet. We expect to announce the program schedule at least 7 days before the event.&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/train-the-trainer-2016'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/train-the-trainer-2016&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
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    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>praskrishna</dc:creator>
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        <dc:subject>CIS-A2K</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Event</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Access to Knowledge</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2016-05-28T07:29:23Z</dc:date>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-sagara">
    <title>Kannada Wikipedia edit-a-thon organised at Sagara, Karnataka</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-sagara</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;A two-day-long Kannada Wikipedia edit-a-thon was organised at Sagara, Karnataka during January 26-27. A photowalk was also organised on the 25th to cover places of encyclopedic importance.&lt;/b&gt;
        
&lt;p&gt;The theme of this edit-a-thon was Mechanical Engineering. 12 editors including seven new editors participated in this event. 20 articles were created/improved and four media files were uploaded. This was first of its kinds of edit-a-thon in Sagara and was useful to improve articles related to the field of mechanical engineering in Kannada Wikipedia which otherwise did not much content nor many editors to contribute in this domain. Six full fledged articles were created during the event. It was planned to organise more such events at Sagara in the future to gather people interested in the same subject area and expand the reach of mechanical engineering in Kannada language.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
A day before the edit-a-thon, four active Kannada Wikimedians and I went on a photowalk and clicked about 100 images of places that are important and could be used for Wikipedia articles.&lt;/p&gt;

        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-sagara'&gt;https://cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-sagara&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>Ananth Subray</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights></dc:rights>

    
        <dc:subject>CIS-A2K</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Access to Knowledge</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikimedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Edit-a-thon</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Kannada Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2016-08-22T10:58:40Z</dc:date>
   <dc:type>Blog Entry</dc:type>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikimedia-blog-may-9-2016-bangla-translations-odia-womens-history">
    <title>Wikipedia’s 15th birthday inspires Bangla translators; Odia-language Women’s History Month edit-a-thons</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikimedia-blog-may-9-2016-bangla-translations-odia-womens-history</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;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.&lt;/b&gt;
        
&lt;p&gt;The article was &lt;a class="external-link" href="http://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/05/09/bangla-translations-odia-womens-history/"&gt;published on Wikimedia Blog&lt;/a&gt; on May 9, 2016.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;h3 style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Bangla Wikipedians conduct multi-month edit-a-thon&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/BengaliWikipedians.png" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Bengali Wikipedians" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;On 15 January, Wikipedia turned fifteen years old . To celebrate this special day, a &lt;a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE:%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A7%A7%E0%A7%AB/%E0%A6%85%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%A8"&gt;good article writing competition&lt;/a&gt; was organized on the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a title="w:bn:প্রধান পাতা" class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bn:%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%A7%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BE"&gt;Bangla Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; by&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="extiw" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Bangladesh"&gt;Wikimedia Bangladesh&lt;/a&gt;. Bangla Wikipedia has a total article count of over 42,000. Among these, only a handful of articles are rated as&amp;nbsp;“good” articles (&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_articles"&gt;English equivalent&lt;/a&gt;). In an attempt to enhance the content quality in the Bangla Wikipedia, a&amp;nbsp;competition was organized that&amp;nbsp;aimed to&amp;nbsp;increase the number of good articles. The competition lasted&amp;nbsp;from 1 November 2015 to 10 January 2016. The events received press coverage from around the country, including newspapers like &lt;em&gt;&lt;a title="w:Prothom Alo" class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prothom_Alo"&gt;Prothom Alo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;&lt;a title="w:The Daily Star (Bangladesh)" class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Star_(Bangladesh)"&gt;The Daily Star&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;In this contest, Bangla Wikipedians fully translated about 600 good articles from English Wikipedia. A total of 550 Bengali-speaking registered users from Bangladesh, India, Italy and South Korea participated in this two-month long competition; 130 of them were awarded a Wikipedia Badge, wristband, USB flash drive, and T-shirts by Wikimedia Bangladesh. A reviewing panel of 35 experienced and regular users evaluated the translated articles. Among all the participants of the competition, 86% were new to Wikipedia and contributed for the first time, 14% were frequent editors, and 12% were female.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;This contest increased the number of good quality articles in Bangla Wikipedia and, at the same time, engaged a huge number of new users in Wikipedia through this contest. S.M. Monir created the highest number of articles and was awarded the first prize, a bicycle, and a certificate in the 15th year celebration program.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a title="w:bn:উইকিপিডিয়া:উইকিপিডিয়া ১৫/অফলাইন" class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bn:%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE:%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A7%A7%E0%A7%AB/%E0%A6%85%E0%A6%AB%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%A8"&gt;Good article edit-a-thon day&lt;/a&gt; was another event in&amp;nbsp;this series of programs. Five edit-a-thons were organized in three different cities in the Dhaka, Sylhet and Chittagong divisions. Like the contest, the aim of the edit-a-thons was to increase the number of good articles on the Bangla Wikipedia. As a result of these edit-a-thons, the number of good articles are increased from 14 to 60. Besides those events, Wikipedia Workshops were held in three different Universities of Bangladesh. On an average, about 50 students attended in each workshop. The main goal of the workshops was to create awareness about Wikimedia projects. Another goal was to introduce Wikipedia (especially Bangla Wikipedia) to the audience and show the attendees how to edit the articles and contribute photographs to Wikimedia Commons.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The series programs ended on 15th January 2016 at &lt;a title="en:Bishwo Shahitto Kendro" class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishwo_Shahitto_Kendro"&gt;Bishwo Shahitto Kendro&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a title="en:Dhaka" class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhaka"&gt;Dhaka&lt;/a&gt; through the celebration of Wikipedia’s birthday. Noted filmmaker &lt;a title="en:Mostofa Sarwar Farooki" class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mostofa_Sarwar_Farooki"&gt;Mostofa Sarwar Farooki&lt;/a&gt; was present at the program as a special guest.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:NahidSultan"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nahid Sultan&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;, Secretary&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Bangladesh"&gt;Wikimedia Bangladesh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Odia-language contributors and the women they are inspired by&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/copy2_of_OdiaWikipedia.png" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Odia Wikipedian" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Last month, the second &lt;a title="or:ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:ଆନ୍ତର୍ଜାତିକ ମହିଳା ମାସ ଗଣ-ସମ୍ପାଦନା, ୨୦୧୬" class="extiw" href="https://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:%E0%AC%86%E0%AC%A8%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%A4%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%9C%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%A4%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%95_%E0%AC%AE%E0%AC%B9%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%B3%E0%AC%BE_%E0%AC%AE%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B8_%E0%AC%97%E0%AC%A3-%E0%AC%B8%E0%AC%AE%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%A6%E0%AC%A8%E0%AC%BE,_%E0%AD%A8%E0%AD%A6%E0%AD%A7%E0%AD%AC"&gt;Women’s History Month edit-a-thon&lt;/a&gt; began on Odia-language Wikimedia sites. With a theme of&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Women I am inspired &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt;, the event aimed to improve articles on these notable individuals. Twenty articles were created&amp;nbsp;and ten were improved, thanks to the dozens of participants—seven of which were women who went on to found an&amp;nbsp;&lt;a title="or:ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ମହିଳା ଉଇକିଆଳି" class="extiw" href="https://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:%E0%AC%93%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86_%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_%E0%AC%AE%E0%AC%B9%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%B3%E0%AC%BE_%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86%E0%AC%B3%E0%AC%BF"&gt;informal group for female editors&lt;/a&gt; on the Odia Wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Among the participants, eight were brand-new. We reached out to &lt;a title="or:u:Rajmishra757" class="extiw" href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/u:Rajmishra757"&gt;Rajalaxmi Mishra&lt;/a&gt; to talk about their experience. Rajalaxmi is a MCA student who began editing the Odia Wikipedia after a&amp;nbsp;&lt;a title="Utkal University workshop" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Utkal_University_workshop"&gt;Utkal University workshop&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a title="or:ଆନି ବେସାନ୍ତ" class="extiw" href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%86%E0%AC%A8%E0%AC%BF_%E0%AC%AC%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%B8%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%A8%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%A4"&gt;Annie Besant&lt;/a&gt;, an article she has been working on since the edit-a-thon (in part thanks to &lt;a href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/01/29/content-translation-50000-articles/"&gt;Content Translation&lt;/a&gt;), is now among the top ten longest articles on the site, and she has also put in time editing&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%B8%E0%AD%81%E0%AC%A7%E0%AC%BE_%E0%AC%9A%E0%AC%A8%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%A6%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%A8%E0%AD%8D"&gt;Sudha Chandran&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Rajalaxmi chose these articles because Besant “has always inspired me with her personality. Writing an article on her has helped me learn more from her life story. Chandran’s achievements have also inspired me, as she never let her problem [she lost a leg to gangrene in 1981] be a barrier—she is one of the most famous dancers in India.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a title="User:Saileshpat" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Saileshpat"&gt;Sailesh Patnaik&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="m:India Access To Knowledge" class="extiw" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge"&gt;Access To Knowledge&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a title="w:Centre for Internet and Society (India)" class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_Internet_and_Society_(India)"&gt;Centre for Internet and Society&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikimedia-blog-may-9-2016-bangla-translations-odia-womens-history'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikimedia-blog-may-9-2016-bangla-translations-odia-womens-history&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>Nahid Sultan and Sailesh Patnaik</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights></dc:rights>

    
        <dc:subject>CIS-A2K</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Odia Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Access to Knowledge</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2016-06-09T12:10:15Z</dc:date>
   <dc:type>Blog Entry</dc:type>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/cultural-institution-aka-glam-for-more-oer">
    <title>Cultural institution AKA GLAM for more OER </title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/cultural-institution-aka-glam-for-more-oer</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;The OER conference was held in Edinburgh, Scotland on April 19 and 20, 2016. Subhashish Panigrahi gave a talk at the event organised by the University of Edinburg. &lt;/b&gt;
        
&lt;p&gt;The vision for the conference was to focus&amp;nbsp;on the value proposition of embedding open culture in the context of institutional strategies for learning, teaching and research. The conference was chaired by&amp;nbsp;Melissa Highton, Director of Learning, Teaching and Web Services at the University of Edinburgh, and Lorna Campbell, OER Liaison at the University of Edinburgh and EDINA Digital Education Manager. The OER 16 conference primarily focused on:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The strategic advantage of open and creating a culture of openness.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Converging and competing cultures of open knowledge, open source, open content, open practice, open data and open access.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Hacking, making and sharing.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The reputational challenges of openwashing.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Openness and public engagement.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Innovative approaches to opening up cultural heritage collections for education.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/IwwO926qj1iFvX" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" height="485" width="595"&gt; &lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;a title="Subhashish Panigrahi - Cultural Institution aka GLAM for More OER (OER16, 19-20.04.2016)" href="http://www.slideshare.net/CIS_India/subhashish-panigrahi-cultural-institution-aka-glam-for-more-oer-oer16-1920042016" target="_blank"&gt;Subhashish Panigrahi - Cultural Institution aka GLAM for More OER (OER16, 19-20.04.2016)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/strong&gt; from &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.slideshare.net/CIS_India" target="_blank"&gt;The Centre for Internet and Society&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Resources&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OER16_-_Presentation_slides_of_Subhashish_Panigrahi.pdf"&gt;Presentation slides of the talk&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="external-link" href="https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Cultural%20institution%20AKA%20GLAM%20for%20more%20OER/1_m28pkox9"&gt;Video of the talk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="external-link" href="http://open.ed.ac.uk/event/oer16-conference-edinburgh/"&gt;More info on University of Edinburg website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;

        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/cultural-institution-aka-glam-for-more-oer'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/cultural-institution-aka-glam-for-more-oer&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>praskrishna</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights></dc:rights>

    
        <dc:subject>Wikimedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>CIS-A2K</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Access to Knowledge</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2016-06-09T12:51:46Z</dc:date>
   <dc:type>News Item</dc:type>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/a2k/nvvchar-1500-dyk">
    <title>Indian English Wikipedian Nvvchar completes 1500 Did You Know articles </title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/nvvchar-1500-dyk</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;Indian English Wikipedian Nvvchar has completed 1500 Did you know articles. This is the second highest on English Wikipedia. &lt;/b&gt;
        
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Indian English Wikipedian &lt;a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nvvchar"&gt;User:Nvvchar&lt;/a&gt; has completed 1500 Did you know (DYK) articles. DYK is a short piece of fact (hook) taken from Wikipedia's newest content and is showcased on the &lt;a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page#Did_you_know..."&gt;"Did you know" section on the Main Page&lt;/a&gt;. On English Wikipedia 18-24 hooks appear on the Main Page every day. Since mid-2012 Nvvchar has been diligently working on this DYK project and has created (or expanded) articles on a very wide range of subjects such as religion, history, geography, arts, literature, women's achievement, education etc.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;On 27 July 2011 Nvvchar completed 500 DYK articles. On 23 August 2013 his 1000th DYK appeared on the Main Page. The DYK nomination and review process need a lot of effort and sometimes it takes weeks to fully finish the process. However after the 1000th DYK in August 2013, in just 2 years 8 months Nvvchar touched another milestone. On 26 April 2016, his 1500th DYK appeared on the Main Page of Wikipedia and the fact was from an article &lt;a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudra_Mahalaya_Temple"&gt;Rudra Mahalaya Temple&lt;/a&gt;, an ancient ruined temple located Sidhpur in the Patan district of Gujarat.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;A few Wikipedians congratulated him for this achievement. User:Ijon, a Hebrew Wikipedian, appreciated him &lt;a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Nvvchar&amp;amp;diff=717546594&amp;amp;oldid=717546505#A_barnstar_for_you.21"&gt;saying&lt;/a&gt;-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Thank you for the persistent and quiet work you do to contribute much-needed knowledge to Wikipedia!&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;User:Victuallers, an English Wikipedia administrator, wrote on Nvvchar's &lt;a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Nvvchar&amp;amp;oldid=719321311#Wow_Nvvchar.21"&gt;talk page&lt;/a&gt;-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Lets just guess that the average DYK gets read by 100 people - that means you have a readership of 150,000 people. I think its more like 1000 per DYK appearance so that means that your words have been read by over 1 million people and thats just on the first day of publication! There must be multi-millions of people who know a little more about Asian settlements, buildings, people and artefacts then they would have done without the efforts of Nvvchar. . . . . . Great respect for your efforts. Thanks from the Wiki and its many readers&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;As of 9 May 2016, Nvvchar has 1503 DYKs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Image source:&lt;a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CIS-A2K_TTT_2015_145.jpg"&gt; Wikimedia Commons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/nvvchar-1500-dyk'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/nvvchar-1500-dyk&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>tito</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights></dc:rights>

    
        <dc:subject>Wikimedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>CIS-A2K</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Access to Knowledge</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2017-06-28T10:03:41Z</dc:date>
   <dc:type>Blog Entry</dc:type>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/openness/stats-for-march-2016">
    <title>Stats for March 2016</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/openness/stats-for-march-2016</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;CIS-A2K team closely works with 5 Indian languages, we call as focus language areas. 
Here are the stats for the month of March 2016.&lt;/b&gt;
        
&lt;p&gt;We generate stats for each of our focus language area month on month, and it has been used for designing and modifying our strategies from time to time. Though these stats were never published publicly, as we get them at stats.wikimedia.org already and publishing here is just repeating it; it was felt that some more metrics can be added and published month on month here at CIS blog. Also, the data here would be for the last month, while it takes two months for data to get updated at stats.wikimedia.org.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Stub articles created :&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Kannada - 3/131&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Konkani - 9/38&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Marathi - 50/176&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Odia - 8/89&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Telugu - 59/284&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In Kannada Wikipedia, about 131 new articles were created and of these only 3 are stub class articles. This is because Kannada Wikipedia is implementing a strict policy on not allowing a stub class article. There is an abuse filter created by one of the admins, Harish MG, which does not allow an editor to submit a smaller article than 1000 bytes. While Konkani showed a good progress in creation of new articles and only 9 of these 38 articles were stub class articles.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Marathi and Odia had a 28% and 9% share of total articles created as stubs respectively, while Telugu has about 21% of total articles created as stubs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Active editors count has gone up in Kannada with 133 active editors during March 2016 - this could be accounted to the post 13th anniversary activities. Four focused editathons were organised as part of the 13th anniversary celebrations. The number of active editors increased in Konkani too. While in Marathi, Odia and Telugu the number was consistent with the previous months' numbers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now. lets look at the editing activity.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Kannada had 3279 edits adding about 86.57 MB of data. Konkani Wikipedia saw 920 edits in all, adding 8.41 MB of data. Marathi Wikipedia had 2926 edits with 68.42 MB of data; Odia Wikipedia added 1106 edits and 15.28 MB of data and Telugu Wikipedia had 8559 edits with 122.17 MB of data.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Having a provision of local image upload, Telugu Wikipedia added 53 images to the project while Marathi, one image was added.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/stats-for-march-2016'&gt;https://cis-india.org/openness/stats-for-march-2016&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>rahim</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights></dc:rights>

    
        <dc:subject>CIS-A2K</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikimedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Marathi Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Konkani Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Odia Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Telugu Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Kannada Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2016-06-07T04:06:03Z</dc:date>
   <dc:type>Blog Entry</dc:type>
   </item>


    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/tulu-wikipedia-editathon-to-improve-quality-of-articles-in-tulu-wikipedia">
    <title>Tulu Wikipedia Editathon to Improve Quality of Articles in Tulu Wikipedia</title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/tulu-wikipedia-editathon-to-improve-quality-of-articles-in-tulu-wikipedia</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;The Centre for Internet &amp; Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) organized a Wikipedia editathon for improving Tulu Wikipedia. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja conducted the sessions.&lt;/b&gt;
        &lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Dr. Kishore Kumar Rai, Principal of Shri Ramakrishna PU College, who himself is an active Tulu and Kannada Wikipedian provided the lab for this activity. Any Wikipedian (Tulu/Kannada) can walk-in and make use of the lab to edit Wikipedia. He has also procured more than 100 Tulu books from Tulu Sahitya Academy which will be kept there for reference.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Agenda&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Improve the quality of articles in Tulu Wikipedia&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Increase the length of short articles&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Add inter-wiki links&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Add references&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Add images&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Add categories&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Improve language&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The event will continue in June. More details can be &lt;a class="external-link" href="https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/tcy/ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:ಕಜ್ಜಕೊಟ್ಯ-೮"&gt;accessed here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/tulu-wikipedia-editathon-to-improve-quality-of-articles-in-tulu-wikipedia'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/tulu-wikipedia-editathon-to-improve-quality-of-articles-in-tulu-wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>praskrishna</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights></dc:rights>

    
        <dc:subject>CIS-A2K</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Event</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Access to Knowledge</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Tulu Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2016-05-07T15:43:42Z</dc:date>
   <dc:type>Event</dc:type>
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    <item rdf:about="https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/new-indian-express-may-6-2016-promoting-online-content-through-wiki-malayalam">
    <title>Promoting Online Content Through 'Wiki Malayalam' </title>
    <link>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/new-indian-express-may-6-2016-promoting-online-content-through-wiki-malayalam</link>
    <description>
        &lt;b&gt;Practical sessions on using Wiki Malayalam as a medium to preserve the language and promote digital media were held on Thursday, the final day of the two-day workshop on ‘Wiki Malayalam.’&lt;/b&gt;
        &lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;The article was published by &lt;a class="external-link" href="http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/thiruvananthapuram/Promoting-Online-Content-Through-Wiki-Malayalam/2016/05/06/article3417585.ece"&gt;New Indian Express&lt;/a&gt; on May 6, 2016.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr style="text-align: justify; " /&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;The event was organised jointly by Swadeshabhimani Media Study Centre in conjuction with Centre for Internet and Society and the Wiki Malayalam Fraternity. The sessions were promising, enriching and a big help for promoting online content through Wiki Malayalam which is still in its infancy, the participants said.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Rahimuddhim Sheik of Centre for Internet and Society, and Manoj Karangimadathil, Wikipedia Fraternity, led the sessions on Wiki technicals. It was followed by an interactive practical session wherein participants learned to be an editor and reporter in Wiki Malayalam. Participants were taught to create articles on sandbox through observation of articles published on Wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Various aspects for making Wiki Malayalam presentable such as adding more images to the articles were imparted effectively.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Environmentalist Madhav Gadgil, speaking after inaugurating the two-day workshop,the other day, said, “Authenticity of the information in Wikipedia is often questioned but the discussion page offers the option to point out misleading information and to ensure true information and details.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;The introductory session by Madhav Gadgil incorporated various themes and ideas about the workshop, wikipedia commons, wikipedia projects, and its pillars and principles.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify; "&gt;In his session he briefed about how wikipedia gives an in-depth information on particular material on a chronological order and various external references for further extensive reading. As an examples Madhav Gadgil discussed about the Athirapilly Hydroelectric Project in Wikipedia. It sets out a chance for anyone to start a new article on any subject.&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;
        For more details visit &lt;a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/new-indian-express-may-6-2016-promoting-online-content-through-wiki-malayalam'&gt;https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/new-indian-express-may-6-2016-promoting-online-content-through-wiki-malayalam&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>
    <dc:creator>praskrishna</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights></dc:rights>

    
        <dc:subject>CIS-A2K</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Access to Knowledge</dc:subject>
    
    
        <dc:subject>Malayalam Wikipedia</dc:subject>
    

   <dc:date>2016-05-06T15:35:14Z</dc:date>
   <dc:type>News Item</dc:type>
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