https://cis-india.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 241 to 255. https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/odisha-dibasa-2014 <b>Odisha became a separate state in British India on April 1, 1936. Odia, a 2,500 year old language recently gained the status of an Indian classical language. The Odia Wikimedia community celebrated these two occasions on March 29 in Bhubaneswar with a gathering of 70 people.</b> <p style="text-align: justify; ">Originally <a class="external-link" href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/04/08/odisha-dibasa-2014-14-books-released-under-cc-license/">published on the Wikimedia blog</a> on April 8, 2014. Media coverage of the event can be <a class="external-link" 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%B6%E0%AC%BE_%E0%AC%A6%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%B8_%E0%AD%A8%E0%AD%A6%E0%AD%A7%E0%AD%AA/%E0%AC%AA%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%B8#.E0.AC.AA.E0.AD.8D.E0.AC.B0.E0.AC.95.E0.AC.BE.E0.AC.B6.E0.AC.BF.E0.AC.A4_.E0.AC.B8.E0.AC.AE.E0.AD.8D.E0.AC.AC.E0.AC.BE.E0.AC.A6">accessed here</a>.</p> <hr /> <p style="text-align: justify; ">Linguists, scholars and journalists discussed the state of the Odia language in the digital era, initiatives for its development and steps that can be taken to increase accessibility to books and other educational resources. 14 copyrighted books have been re-licensed under the Creative Commons license and the digitization project on <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> was formally initiated by an indigenous educational institute, the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS). Professor Udayanath Sahu from Utkal University, The Odisha Review’s editor Dr. Lenin Mohanty, Odisha Bhaskar’s editor Pradosh Pattnaik, Odia language researcher Subrat Prusty, Dr. Madan Mohan Sahu, Allhadmohini Mohanty, Chairman Manik-Biswanath Smrutinyasa and trust’s secretary Brajamohan Patnaik along with senior members Sarojkanta Choudhury and Shisira Ranjan Dash spoke at the event.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">Eleven books from Odia writer Dr. Jagannath Mohanty were re-released under Creative Commons Share-Alike (CC-BY-SA 3.0) license by the “Manik-Biswanath Smrutinyasa” trust,  a trust founded by Dr. Mohanty for the development of the Odia language. Allhadmohini Mohanty formally gave written permission to Odia Wikimedia to release and digitize these books.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">The community will be training students and a group of six faculty members at KISS who will coordinate the digitization of these books. “Collaborative efforts and open access to knowledge repositories will enrich our language and culture,” said linguist Padmashree Dr. Debiprasanna Pattanayak as he inagurated the event. Dr. Pattanayak and Odia language researcher Subrat Prusty from the Institute of Odia Studies and Research also re-licensed three books based on their research on Odia language and cultural influence of the language on other societies under the same license. KISS is going to digitize some of these books and make them available on Odia Wikisource.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">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. 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 style="text-align: justify; ">Active Odia Wikipedian and Admin <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MKar" title="User:MKar">Mrutyunjaya Kar</a> gave the inaugural speech. <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Psubhashish" title="User:Psubhashish">Subhashish Panigrahi</a> from the <a href="https://cis-india.org/">Center for Internet and Society</a> read the annual report and vision of Odia Wikipedia. Chief guest Dr. Debiprasanna Pattanayak discussed about the efforts put forth that brought the Odia language as the sixth Indian classical language. A large majority of Odia publications are not available on the internet and readers are devoid of easy accessibility. He further discussed the process of digitization for preserving valuable books that are out of print and the old palm leaf manuscripts. Professor Udayanath Sahu presented on the process, progress and implementation of machine translation project in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utkal_University">Utkal University.</a></p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">Experienced Wikimedians conducted an advanced Wikipedia workshop on the second day of event at KIIT University, Bhubaneswar. It was attended by a majority of the existing Wikimedians from the community including new Wikipedians who signed up for the Odia Wikipedia Education Program at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal. Mrutyunjaya Kar <a 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%B6%E0%AC%BE_%E0%AC%A6%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%B8_%E0%AD%A8%E0%AD%A6%E0%AD%A7%E0%AD%AA/%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%B8%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%A5%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%A8%E0%AC%BE/%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%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%9F%E0%AC%BE">presented on WikiData</a> and various tools for linking and accessing information in multiple languages on various Wikimedia projects. Ansuman Giri discussed advanced technical aspects such as the use of various gadgets, proper categorization, how to use subpages, how to auto-list archive pages, customizing <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiLove">WikiLove feature</a>, user rights modification, including how important it is to cite <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:BLP">biographies of living persons</a> with secondary sources, etc. Shitikantha Dash <a 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%B6%E0%AC%BE_%E0%AC%A6%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%B8_%E0%AD%A8%E0%AD%A6%E0%AD%A7%E0%AD%AA/%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%B8%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%A5%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%A8%E0%AC%BE/%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%B0%E0%AD%87_%E0%AC%AB%E0%AC%9F%E0%AD%8B%E0%AC%9F%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%8F_%E0%AC%85%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%B2%E0%AD%8B%E0%AC%A1_%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AC%E0%AD%87_%3F">discussed copyright and issues regarding uploading images and other media files on Wikimedia Commons</a>. Dr. Subas Chandra Rout presented on “notability, referencing and creating citations for the notable topics.”  Subhashish Panigrahi discussed the <a 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%AC%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%B7%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%95_%E0%AC%AF%E0%AD%8B%E0%AC%9C%E0%AC%A8%E0%AC%BE_%28%E0%AC%9C%E0%AD%81%E0%AC%B2%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%87_%E0%AD%A8%E0%AD%A6%E0%AD%A7%E0%AD%AA_-_%E0%AC%9C%E0%AD%81%E0%AC%A8_%E0%AD%A8%E0%AD%A6%E0%AD%A7%E0%AD%AB%29">work plan for the year</a>, failure of program projects, collective learning and the dos and don’ts of community building.</p> <blockquote class="quoted" style="text-align: justify; ">We hope that more authors will come forward and re-release their books under CC-BY-SA license. The Odia community is excited to see or.wikisource.org go live. A few Wikipedians are even interested in typing their favorite free licensed books to make them available on Wikisource. I believe it’ll be challenging to train the KISS students to type and proof-read the written texts. In the CISA2K’s <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Draft_Work_plan_July_2014_-_June_2015/Odia_Wikisource_as_OER" title="India Access To Knowledge/Draft Work plan July 2014 - June 2015/Odia Wikisource as OER">draft plan</a>, the goal to have the number of editors seems overestimated. The students need to have some knowledge about Wikimedia and how it works in general before they start working. We hope that the books will be digitized properly and in coming days more users will join us in the process as we will have more free books in Odia Wikisource. I appeal to the Odia people to be a part of the Odia Wikimedia community and make Odia Wikisource a successful project, we need all the time you can devote. :-) <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ansumang" title="User:Ansumang">Ansuman Giri</a>, Odia Wikipedian</blockquote> <hr /> <p> </p> <table class="plain"> <tbody> <tr> <th><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/OdiaWikiKIIT.png" alt="Odia Wikipedia at KIIT" class="image-inline" title="Odia Wikipedia at KIIT" /></th> </tr> <tr> <td>A group picture of Odia Wikipedians (by <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jnanaranjan_sahu" title="User:Jnanaranjan sahu">Jnanaranjan Sahu</a>, CC-BY-SA 3.0)</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/odisha-dibasa-2014'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/odisha-dibasa-2014</a> </p> No publisher subha Wikimedia Wikipedia Odia Wikipedia Access to Knowledge 2014-04-14T10:57:43Z Blog Entry https://cis-india.org/news/sambad-march-31-2014-odisha-day-2014 <b>Odia newspaper Sambad covered the Odisha Day 2014 and published a report on March 31, 2014.</b> <table class="listing"> <tbody> <tr> <th><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/OdishaDay2014.png" alt="Odisha Day 2014" class="image-inline" title="Odisha Day 2014" /></th> </tr> <tr> <td>Above: Scanned version of the report <a class="external-link" href="http://sambadepaper.com/Details.aspx?id=84265&amp;boxid=23226203">published</a> in Sambad on March 31, 2014.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/sambad-march-31-2014-odisha-day-2014'>https://cis-india.org/news/sambad-march-31-2014-odisha-day-2014</a> </p> No publisher praskrishna Access to Knowledge Wikimedia Wikipedia Odia Wikipedia Openness 2014-04-11T12:32:39Z News Item https://cis-india.org/openness/events/odisha-day-2014 <b>CIS-A2K in collaboration with the Odia Wikipedia community is organizing this event on March 29, 2014 at Jayadev Bhawan, Bhubaneswar.</b> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/odisha-day-2014'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/odisha-day-2014</a> </p> No publisher praskrishna Access to Knowledge Wikimedia Wikipedia Odia Wikipedia Openness Event 2014-04-08T04:39:56Z Event https://cis-india.org/news/odishasamay-march-30-2014-odisha-2014-coverage <b>Odisha Samay published a report of the Odisha 2014 event on March 30, 2014.</b> <table class="plain"> <tbody> <tr> <th><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/OdishaSamay.png" alt="Odisha Samay" class="image-inline" title="Odisha Samay" /></th> </tr> <tr> <td>Above: A scanned version of the report published in Odisha Samay on March 30, 2014.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/odishasamay-march-30-2014-odisha-2014-coverage'>https://cis-india.org/news/odishasamay-march-30-2014-odisha-2014-coverage</a> </p> No publisher praskrishna Access to Knowledge Wikimedia Wikipedia Odia Wikipedia Openness 2014-04-08T05:48:13Z News Item https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/the-samaja-november-17-2014-subhashish-panigrahi-odia-wikisource-its-potential <b>I wrote an editorial in Odia newspaper the "Samaja" on November 17, 2014. I have written about Odia Wikisource, its potential and how people can get involved in it with a short note about the digitization done already. I have also highlighted the authors and copyright holders who kindly have donated their work under CC-by-SA license.</b> <p style="text-align: justify; ">The original article published by the Samaja in Odia on November 17 could be <a class="external-link" href="http://samajaepaper.com/epaper/svww_singleview.php?page=6&amp;section=20141117a_006100">read here</a>.<a href="http://samajaepaper.com/epaper/svww_singleview.php?page=6&amp;section=20141117a_006100"></a></p> <hr style="text-align: justify; " /> <h3 style="text-align: justify; ">ଓଡ଼ିଆ ବହି ପ୍ରକାଶନ ପାଇଁ ନୂଆ ରାହା<br />ଶୁଭାଶିଷ ପାଣିଗ୍ରାହୀ<br />ଓଡ଼ିଶାରେ ପ୍ରଥମ ଛାପାଖାନା ସ୍ଥାପିତ ହେବାଠୁ ଆଜିଯାଏ ବିତିଛି ଏକ ଲମ୍ବା କାଳ । ଏ କାଳ ଭିତରେ କେତେ ଲକ୍ଷ ପାଣ୍ଡୁଲିିପି ଲେଖା ହୋଇଥିବ, କେତେ ବହି ଛପା ହୋଇଥିବ । ଏ ଭିତରେ କେତେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଓଡ଼ିଶା ବାହାରକୁ ଯାଇଥିବେ । ତାଙ୍କ ଭିତରୁ ପଢ଼ାରଙ୍କୁଣା ଲୋକେ କ'ଣ ସବୁବେଳେ ସବୁ ବହି ପାଇପାରୁଥିବେ? ଓଡ଼ିଶାରେ ଥିବା ଅନେକ ମଧ୍ୟ ଲାଇବ୍ରେରୀ ଯାଇ ବହି ଖୋଜିବା ଅବସ୍ଥାରେ ସବୁବେଳେ ନଥାନ୍ତି । ଲୋକେ ବହି ପଢ଼ିବାର ସଳଖ ସୁବିଧାଟିଏ ନପାଇଲେ ଧୀରେ ପଠନ ଅଭ୍ୟାସ କମିଯାଏ । ଆଜି ଓଡ଼ିଶାର ଅଗଣିତ ପାଠକଙ୍କ ପାଠକୀୟ ରୁଚି କେବଳ ଖବରକାଗଜ, ସାପ୍ତାହିକୀ ଆଦି ପଢ଼ାକୁ ଖସି ଆସିଲାଣି । ଏ ବେଳା ଏକ ଭାଷା ପାଇଁ ଶୁଭ ନୁହେଁ । ଆଉ ଓଡ଼ିଆର ଶାସ୍ତ୍ରୀୟ ମାନ୍ୟତା ପାଇବା ପାଠକପଣ ବଢ଼ାଇବାରେ ମୁଖ୍ୟ ଭୂମିକାଟିଏ ନିଭାଇପାରିନାହିଁ । ତେବେ କେଉଁଥିରେ କିଛି ଊଣା ରହିଯାଇଛି କି? କାହିଁକି ଆଜି ଭାଷା-ସାହିତ୍ୟର ଶ୍ରୋତା-ବକତା ଉଭୟ ସମାନ? ବହି ଉନ୍ମୋଚନ ହୋଇ କେବଳ ଲେଖକ ମହଲରେ ବଣ୍ଟାହୋଇ ସମୀକ୍ଷା ହୋଇଯାଉଛି, ସଭା କିବା ବହିମେଳା ହତା ଡେଉଁନାହିଁ? <br /><br />ଆଧୁନିକ କାରିଗରି ବଳରେ ବହିକୁ ଅଧିକ ପାଠକଙ୍କ ପାଖକୁ ନେବାରେ ଏଯାବତ ଅଳ୍ପ କିଛି ଉଦ୍ୟମ କରାଯାଇଛି । ରାଜ୍ୟ ସରକାରଙ୍କ ସଂସ୍କୃତି ବିଭାଗ ପକ୍ଷରୁ ସାରଳା ମହାଭାରତ ଓ ଭାଗବତ ଆଦି କେତୋଟି ପୁରୁଣା ପୋଥିକୁ ଟାଇପ କରି ଡିଜିଟାଲ ସଂସ୍କରଣ ତିଆରି କରାଯାଇଥିଲା । (<a href="http://odia.org">ଓଡ଼ିଆ.ଓଆରଜି</a>) ୱେବସାଇଟ ଜରିଆରେ ବିଦେଶରେ ଥିବା କେତେଜଣ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଅନେକ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ବହିକୁ ଟାଇପ କରି ଏବଂ ସ୍କାନ କରି ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ କରାଇଥିଲେ । ପୁରୁଣା ବହିର ଡିଜିଟାଲ ଅଭିଲେଖ କରିବା କାମ ବିଧିବଦ୍ଧ ଭାବେ କିଛିବର୍ଷ ତଳେ ଭୁବନେଶ୍ୱରର ସୃଜନିକା ଅନୁଷ୍ଠାନ ତରଫରୁ ଏନଆଇଟି ରାଉରକେଲା ଓ ପ୍ରଗତି ଉକ୍ରଳ ସଂଘ ସହଯୋଗରେ ଏକ ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ "ଓପନ ଆକସେସ ଟୁ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ବୁକ୍ସ' ମାଧ୍ୟମରେ ଆରମ୍ଭ କରାଯାଇଥିଲା । ଏଥିରେ ସ୍କାନ ହୋଇଥିବା ମୋଟ ୭୪୦ଖଣ୍ଡ ବହି ଓ ପତ୍ରପତ୍ରିକା ଭିତରୁ ୨୦୦ରୁ ଅଧିକ ବହି ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଡାଉନଲୋଡ଼ କରିବା ପାଇଁ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ କରାଯାଇଛି । ଏସବୁ ପ୍ରମୁଖ କାମକୁ ବାଦ ଦେଇ ଆଉ କେତେକ ଉଦ୍ୟମ ମଧ୍ୟ ହୋଇଛି । ତେବେ ଏଯାବତ ହୋଇଥିବା ଏସବୁ କାମରେ ଲେଖାଖୋଜା ବା ଟେକ୍ସଟ ସର୍ଚ ସୁବିଧା ନାହିଁ । ଅର୍ଥାତ, ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ଟାଇପ କରି କିଛି ଭାଗବତର ପଦଟିଏ ଖୋଜିଲେ ସେ ପଦ ଥିବା ସ୍କନ୍ଧଟି ମିଳିବ ନାହିଁ । ପାଠକୁ ଲୋକଙ୍କ ପାଖରେ ପହଞ୍ଚାଇବା ପାଇଁ ଏ ଏକ ବିରାଟ ସମସ୍ୟା । ତେଣୁ ଆହୁରି ଲକ୍ଷେ ବହି ସ୍କାନ କରି ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ରଖିଲେ ମଧ୍ୟ ତାହାକୁ ପାଠକେ ଖୋଜି ପାଇବେ ନାହିଁ । <br /><br />ହେଲେ ସ୍କାନ କଲାପରେ ପୁରୁଣା ବହିର ଲେଖାକୁ ଟେକ୍ସଟରେ ରୂପାନ୍ତର କରିବା ଏତେ ସହଜ ନୁହେଁ । କମ୍ପ୍ୟୁଟର ଟେକନୋଲୋଜିରେ ନାନାଦି ସାଧନ ନିର୍ମାଣ କରାଯାଇଥିବା ଜଗତର ବହୁବିଧ ଭାଷାରେ ଏ ସ୍କାନ ଛବିରୁ ଟେକ୍ସଟ ରୂାନ୍ତର ଲାଗି <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20Character%20Recognition">ଅପ୍ଟିକାଲ କ୍ୟାରେକ୍ଟର ରେକଗନିସନ</a> (ଓସିଆର) ନାମକ କାରିଗରୀ ବ୍ୟବହାର କରାଯାଏ । ତେବେ ଛବିକୁ ଚିହ୍ନି ତାକୁ ଅକ୍ଷରରେ ରୂାନ୍ତର କରିବା ଦୁରୂହ ଓ କମ୍ପ୍ୟୁଟର ତାଲିମ ଦେବା ସମୟସାପେକ୍ଷ । କାମଟି କିନ୍ତୁ ଏ ଭାଷା ପାଇଁ ଏକ ବିଶାଳ ବରଦାନ । ତେବେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ସମେତ ଭାରତର ଅନ୍ୟାନ୍ୟ ଭାଷାରେ ଏଯାଏ ଓସିଆର ସେତେ ବେଶି ନିର୍ଭୁଲ ଭାବେ କାମ କରିନାହିଁ । କମ୍ପ୍ୟୁଟର ଜ୍ଞାନ ଥିବା କିଛି ଲୋକ ୬-୭ ମାସ ଲାଗିଲେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ପାଇଁ ଏ ଉପକରଣର ବିକାଶ କରାଯାଇପାରନ୍ତା । ବିକଳ୍ପ ସମାଧାନ ହେଲା ବହି ପାଠକୁ ଇଉନିକୋଡ଼ ନାମକ ମାନକରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଲିିରେ ଟାଇପ କରି ଟେକ୍ସଟ ରୂପେ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ କରାଇବା । ଏ କାମ କିନ୍ତୁ କେବଳ ମୂଲ୍ୟବାନ ବହିମାନଙ୍କ ପାଇଁ କରାଯିବା ଉଚିତ । ଧରାଯାଉ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଆଈମା କାହାଣୀ କି ଅବଲୋକରା କାହାଣୀ କିମ୍ବା ବାକି ଲୋକକାହାଣୀ ସବୁ ଏତେ ଉପାଦେୟ ଓ ଯୁଗୋପଯୋଗୀ ସେ ସବୁକୁ ଥରେ ଟାଇପ କଲେ ଅନେକ ଲୋକଙ୍କ କାମରେ ଲାଗିବ । <br /><br />ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ଇ-ବହି ବା ବହିର ଡିଜିଟାଲ ସଂସ୍କରଣ କରାଯିବାର ନୂଆ ରାହାଟିଏ ନିକଟରେ ଖୋଲିଛି । ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିିପିଡ଼ିଆର ସହଯୋଗୀ ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପଭାବେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପାଠାଗାର ନାମକ ଏକ ନୂଆ ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ ଆରମ୍ଭ ହୋଇଛି । ଏଥିରେ ଥିବା ବହିସବୁ <a href="http://or.wikisource.org">or.wikisource.org</a> ରେ ପଢ଼ିହେବ । ଭାରତରେ ପ୍ରକାଶକ କିମ୍ବା ସ୍ୱତ୍ୱାଧିକାରୀଙ୍କ ଦେହାନ୍ତର ୬୦ବର୍ଷ ପରେ ବହିର କପିରାଇଟ ଲୀନହୋଇ ବହିଟି ପବ୍ଲିକ ଡୋମେନରେ ଗଣାଯାଏ । ଏହି ଶ୍ରେଣୀର ଓଡ଼ିଆ ବହିସବୁକୁ ଓସିଆର କିମ୍ବା ଟାଇପ କରି ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିାଠାଗାରରେ ରଖାଯାଇପାରିବ । କିନ୍ତୁ ଏ ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପର ଏକ ବିଶେଷ ସୁବିଧା ଲେଖକ ଓ ପ୍ରକାଶକଙ୍କ ମଙ୍ଗଳ ଲାଗି ମଧ୍ୟ ରହିଛି । ନିଜ ବହିକୁ ଅନଲାଇନ ବିତରଣ କରିବାକୁ ଚାହୁଁଥିବା ପ୍ରକାଶକ କିମ୍ବା ଲେଖକ ନିଜର କପିରାଇଟର ସର୍ତ୍ତାବଳୀକୁ<br />ସମ୍ପୂର୍ଣ୍ଣ କପିରାଇଟରୁ ଆଂଶିକ କପିରାଇଟକୁ ମଧ୍ୟ ବଦଳାଇ ପାରିବେ । ଏହି ଆଂଶିକ କପିରାଇଟର ନାଁ ହେଲା କ୍ରିଏଟିଭ କମନ୍ସ ସେଆର-ଏଲାଇକ (ସିସି-ବାଇ-ଏସଏ) । ଏଥିରେ ଅନ୍ୟ ଜଣେ ଏକା ସର୍ତ୍ତରେ ପୂର୍ବ-ପ୍ରକାଶିତ ଲେଖାର ପୁନଃପ୍ରକାଶନ କରିାରିବ । ଏହା ବଳରେ ବହିଟିକୁ ଅନ୍ୟମାନେ ପଢ଼ିପାରିବା ସହ ବିତରଣ ମଧ୍ୟ କରିାରିବେ । ଏ ବିଶେଷ କପିରାଇଟ ଆଜିକାଲି ଏତେ ଜଣାଶୁଣା ହେଲାଣି ଯେ ଜଗତର ଅନେକ ଜଣାଶୁଣା ଶିକ୍ଷାନୁଷ୍ଠାନ ଓ ପ୍ରକାଶକ ନିଜର କିଛି ବହିକୁ ଏହି କପିରାଇଟରେ ବିତରଣ କରୁଛନ୍ତି । ଆହେ ଦୟାମୟ ବିଶ୍ୱବିହାରୀ ଓ ଅଗଣିତ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଶିଶୁକବିତା-ଗପର ରଚୟିତା ରାମକୃଷ୍ଣ ନନ୍ଦ, ସୁଶିକ୍ଷକ- ଭ୍ରାମଣିକ-ଦାର୍ଶନିକ ଡ.ଜଗନ୍ନାଥ ମହାନ୍ତି, ଭାଷା-ଗବେଷକ ଡ. ସୁବ୍ରତ ପୃଷ୍ଟି ଓ କବି ଭାରତ ମାଝୀଙ୍କ ବହିମାନ ସ୍ୱତ୍ୱାଧିକାରୀଙ୍କ ଅନୁମତି କ୍ରମେ ପୁନଃଲାଇସେନ୍ସ କରାଇ ଉଇକିାଠାଗାର ପରିସରକୁ ଅଣାଗଲାଣି ।<br /><br />ଓଡ଼ିଆ ପାଠକେ ଏହି ଉଇକିାଠାଗାର ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପରୁ ଆଉ ଏକ ସୁବିଧା ମଧ୍ୟ ପାଇପାରିବେ । ଏଥିରେ ଟାଇପ ହୋଇ ବହିସବୁ ସିନା ଗଚ୍ଛିତ ହେବ । ହେଲେ ସେସବୁକୁ ଟାଇପ କରିବ କିଏ? ଅନେକ ସମୟରେ ଯାହା ସରକାର କିମ୍ବା ଏକ ଅନୁଷ୍ଠାନ କରିନପାରେ ସେତେବେଳେ ଜନସାଧାରଣଙ୍କ ବଳର ଉପଯୋଗିତା ବୁଝାପଡ଼େ । ଆଉ ଉଇକିପାଠାଗାର ସମ୍ପୂର୍ଣ୍ଣ ଭାବେ ଏହି ସ୍ୱେଚ୍ଛାସେବୀଙ୍କ ବଳରେ ବଳୀୟାନ । ଜଣେ ଚାହିଁଲେ ଲେଖାର ଭୁଲଟିଏ ସୁଧାରିପାରିବ, ବାକିଥିବା ପୃଷ୍ଠା ଟାଇପ କରିାରିବ ଆଉ ଅସମ୍ପୂର୍ଣ୍ଣ ବହିଟିଏକୁ ସମ୍ପୂର୍ଣ୍ଣ କରି କୋଟିକୋଟି ପାଠକଙ୍କ ପାଇଁ ପଠନର ଏକ ନୂଆ ଝରକା ଖୋଲିଦେଇ ପାରିବ ।<br /><br />ଅନେକେ ବିରସି ଉଠନ୍ତି ଗୁଗୁଲରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ନାହିଁ ବୋଲି; ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ୍‍ରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାରେ ଲେଖାର ଅଭାବ ତା'ର ଏକ ବଡ଼ କାରଣ । ଯେଉଁ ଭାଷାରେ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ କାରବାର ଯେତେ ଅଧିକ ସେ ଭାଷା ନୂଆ ପିଢ଼ିର ସେତେ ନିଜର । ଆଉ ଯେଉଁ ଭାଷା ଏବେର ପିଢ଼ି ତୁଣ୍ଡରେ ଯେତେ ଅଧିକ କଥିତ, କାମରେ ଯେତେ ଅଧିକ ବ୍ୟବହୃତ, ସେ ଭାଷା ଭବିଷ୍ୟତରେ ସେତେ ଛାମୁଆ ହେବ । ଓଡ଼ିଆ ପାଇଁ ଉଇକିପାଠାଗାର ଭଳି ଏକ ବିଶ୍ୱମାନର ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ ଅଧିକ ଲେଖକଙ୍କ ସମାଗମରେ ଭରି ଆମ ଭାଷା ପାଇଁ ଏକ ବିଶାଳ ପାଠାଗାରରେ ପରିଣତ ହୋଇପାରିବ ।</h3> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/the-samaja-november-17-2014-subhashish-panigrahi-odia-wikisource-its-potential'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/the-samaja-november-17-2014-subhashish-panigrahi-odia-wikisource-its-potential</a> </p> No publisher subha Access to Knowledge Wikimedia Wikipedia Odia Wikipedia Openness 2014-12-05T01:47:37Z Blog Entry https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/odia-wikisource-workshop-new-delhi-december-14-2014 <b>The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team in collaboration with "The Intellects" organized a seminar in New Delhi on December 14, 2014. Subhashish Panigrahi gave a talk.</b> <p style="text-align: justify; ">The seminar was on the <a href="http://cis-india.org/news/relevance-of-bhagabat-tungi-in-evolution-of-odia-language">Relevance of Bhagabat Tungi in the evolution of Odia language from Buddha era to digital age</a>. After attending the event one of the participants Pankajmala Sarangi took great interest in <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/odia-wikisource-goes-live">Odia Wikisource</a> which was then an incubator project. Since then she has digitized three books and is now proofreading <a href="https://or.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%AC%93%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86_%E0%AC%AD%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%97%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%A4">Odia Bhagabata</a>, an Odia language classic from the 14th century. Having the <a href="https://or.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%B6%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%B7:%E0%AC%85%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%A6%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%A8/Pmsarangi">highest </a>number of edits in <a class="external-link" href="http://or.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AA%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%A7%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%A8_%E0%AC%AA%E0%AD%83%E0%AC%B7%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%A0%E0%AC%BE">Odia Wikisource</a>, Ms. Sarangi took interest to build a community in Delhi. Another Odia Wikilibrarian <a href="https://or.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%B6%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%B7:%E0%AC%85%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%A6%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%A8/Sitikantha_K">Sitikantha Kheti</a> also joined in to organise the first Odia Wikisource workshop in Delhi. These Wikimedians, a Delhi based group The Intellects  and CIS-A2K collaboratively conducted a workshop.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">The Intellect's president Debendra Rout addressed the participants and broadly spoke about the goal of the workshop and long term plans in Delhi. Both the Wikilibrarians shared their experience on Odia Wikisource. The workshop started with self introduction of the participants followed by screening of a documentary "Odia: Silalekharu Mobile".</p> <hr /> <h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Video</h2> <p><iframe frameborder="0" height="450" src="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Odia-Silalekharu_Mobile.webmhd.webm?embedplayer=yes" width="800"></iframe></p> <hr /> <p style="text-align: justify; ">A <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Odia_Wikisource_Handbook.pdf">handbook</a> with details on the project, Odia input and keyboard layout was distributed among all. Subhashish Panigrahi demonstrated Odia input and the process of digitization of books on Wikisource. Plans for more workshops and digitization sprints were also charted out.</p> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/odia-wikisource-workshop-new-delhi-december-14-2014'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/odia-wikisource-workshop-new-delhi-december-14-2014</a> </p> No publisher subha Access to Knowledge Wikimedia Wikipedia Video Openness Odia Wikipedia 2014-12-30T01:08:00Z Blog Entry https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/odia-wikisource-turns-3 <b></b> <p style="text-align: center;" dir="ltr">&nbsp;</p> <p dir="ltr">Odia Wikisource, the Odia language version of Wikisource, &nbsp;an online digital library of free content textual sources run by the Wikimedia Foundation, celebrates three years of contributing to the free knowledge movement this October. Odia Wikisource is a sister project of Odia Wikipedia, &nbsp;the oldest Indian language Wikipedia. The Odia Wikimedia community, a group of active contributors to Odia Wikimedia projects in India, has been working towards digitizing rare books that are no longer under copyright as well as encouraging authors and publishers to free-license their work under the Creative Commons ShareAlike License 4.0. This license allows anyone free use of the work with due attribution. The books are usually digitized into Unicode text by scanning them using Optical Character Recognition technique. This ensures their easy accessibility on the Internet so that people may easily copy, share and use these works for citations and references. If the books are damaged to a degree that they cannot be scanned, volunteers take the painstaking effort to manually type out whole books and manuscripts.</p> <p><strong><br /></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;" dir="ltr"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/baANy4HReecc9oOEVq2mtASuq-rbV7c24rH0qhk4vmurHt18vQPDs7Krvb9iGSgGTyGCycw5W1B2FD94zVDga2ZU9oahqvPIyqL56aOxZM1jfncrjPBwVQuOupm1XgOCHlKHCQA" alt="Odia_Wikisource_2_-_group_picture.jpg" height="355" width="602" /></p> <p style="text-align: center;" dir="ltr"> Odia Wikisource contributors/ CCBYSA4.0 User:Psubhashish</p> <p dir="ltr">&nbsp;</p> <p dir="ltr">The Odia Wikisource project was realized on 20 October, 2014 after a two-year incubation period. Says Pankajmala Sarangi, long time Odia Wikimedian active on Wikisource, "since [2014] more than 300 old and rare books have been digitised and made available online. Before that, searching [for] a book in Odia was not possible even if it existed in pdf or some other format. Now it has become easy and all the books available on Wikisouce are easily searchable." In addition to digitization, the Odia Wikimedia community members conduct regular quality checks of the content from time to time by ensuring proper licensing, attributions and other errors that may be avoided by thorough proof-reading. While these quality checks follow global guidelines that have been localised to help volunteers prevent vandalism of any form, it has not been without its challenges. Ms. Pankajmala explains that the lack of Odia text on operating systems is problematic for access and availability.&nbsp;</p> <p dir="ltr">Despite the challenges, Odia Wikisource counts amongst its accomplishments the digitization of a twelve volume 14th century Odia classic as well as 16th century palm leaf manuscripts from the Dadhibaman Temple in Bargarh, Odisha. Taking the movement to classrooms, Odia Wikisource was introduced to students of the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences to pique the interest of young minds in the preservation of Odia language texts online. The many advantages of Odia Wikisource has also been illustrated to institutions with the Utkal University library encouraging the digitization of their rare books and manuscripts by Odia Wikimedians.</p> <p dir="ltr">Sangram Keshari Senapati, another active Odia Wikimedian explains that Odia Wikisource is important for the preservation of those books which run a high risk of being lost in the coming years. He says, "our future generation must get a chance to read them." Adding to this, Ms. Pankajmala says, "Sky is the limit for Odia wikisource. We will try to digitise more books, most probably triple the number of existing books. We'll even try to reach more libraries and authors and get more books and further digitize them. The number of wikimedians may also flourish till that time."</p> <p dir="ltr">&nbsp;</p> <p><br /><br /></p> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/odia-wikisource-turns-3'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/odia-wikisource-turns-3</a> </p> No publisher manasarao CIS-A2K Access to Knowledge Wikimedia Wikipedia Odia Wikisource Odia Wikipedia Wikisource 2017-10-23T05:40:20Z Blog Entry https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/odia-wikisource-goes-live <b>Odia netizens have more than one reason to celebrate this festive season.</b> <p style="text-align: justify; ">Odia Wikisource went live just before Deepavali and is now available for Odia readers who are eager to access Odia books online. There are over 40 million native Odia speakers living in Odisha and diaspora in the US, UK, UAE and other parts of the world and yet <a href="http://or.wikipedia.org/">Odia Wikipedia</a> currently only has 8441 articles (October 2014) as compared to Malayalam which has a comparable number of speakers and over 30,000 articles on the <a href="http://ml.wikipedia.org/">Malayalam Wikipedia.</a> Internet is one of the largest sources of information.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">Wikisource is an online library that holds notable published works that are in the public domain or are freely licensed as <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/">Creative Commons Share-Alike</a>. Authors and publishers can now choose to donate their books and publications, and provide open access to readers.</p> <p>Odia is the 11th Indic language to have this project, and is available at <a href="http://or.wikisource.org/">or.wikisource.org</a>. Readers can now access many rare books, which are out of copyright, also reuse the content, and commercially reproduce the books with the power of.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">None of the state's government portals in Odia have content in Unicode to make them searchable and reusable. The largest digital archive in Odia, a joint initiative of Pragati Utkal Sangha a Bhubaneswar based non-profit and National Institute of Technology Rourkela, created under the project <a href="http://oaob.nitrkl.ac.in/">Open Access to Oriya Books</a> (OAOB) has over 740 books published between 1850 – 1950, which have been digitised. These are stored in a PDF format, which restricts searching of content.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">Odia Wikisource went through a thorough and long approval process after it was incubated in late 2012, first by the Language Committee and then the Wikimedia Foundation's Board. Amir Aharoni, Member, Language Committee and software engineer, Wikimedia Foundation was of the opinion that Odia Wikisource, had tremendous potential, especially in educating children: <i>"In schools in Odisha, are there lessons of Odia literature? If the answer is yes, then it can do a very simple thing - make these lessons more fun and help children learn more! Everybody says that in Kerala this worked very well with Malayalam literature."</i></p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">An<a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/cis-a2k-kiit-university-kaling-institute-of-social-sciences-mou"> MoU </a>was signed in January 2014 between <a href="http://cis-india.org/">Centre for Internet and Society</a>’s <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge">Access To Knowledge (CIS-A2K)</a> and <a href="http://www.kiss.ac.in/">Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS</a>), an educational non-profit that supports over 20,000 students from indigenous communities, to collaboratively spearhead open knowledge projects. However, it was later felt that students and faculty could use their time more effectively if they were taught to digitise Odia books on Odia Wikisource. Workshops have been conducted to train faculty, who in turn will teach students about typing more books on Wikisource. Nine faculty members and 45 students are chosen for this work in the first phase.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">Earlier this year, fourteen books (13 in Oriya and one in English) pertaining to a range of subjects have been relicensed under Creative Commons License will be made available on Odia Wikisource. At present, three books have been digitised and proofread, and another is in the process of being digitised. KISS is also digitizing 11 books of Odia author Dr. Jagannath Mohanty that were <span style="text-decoration: underline;">relicensed </span>under CC-BY-SA 3.0 earlier this year, due to CIS-A2K’s efforts. Pankajmala Sarangi, a<b> </b>Wikisource writer, who had digitised two books and has played a key role in getting approval for Odia Wikisource says, "I would be happy to contribute by typing more books on Odia so that they can be stored and available to all. We can take this to masses through social, print and audio &amp; visual media and organizing meetings/discussions." Five modern Odia poetry books from Odia poet <a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/bharat-majhi-writings-now-available-under-cc-license">Bharat Majhi</a> and four books including one encyclopedia from notable Odia children litterateur <a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/ramakrushna-nanda-four-books-under-cc-license">Ramakrushna Nanda</a> have been relicensed under CC-by-SA 4.0 recently. These books will soon see their digital versions on Odia Wikisource.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K has been instrumental in identifying four new Wikisource contributors to help to digitise the Odia Bhagabata, an Odia classic compiled in the 14th century. They will join five other Wikimedians who have been contributing on a regular basis to Odia Wikipedia. Wikipedia and Wikisource contributors are excited about this development and this is reflected in the quotes given below.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">“<i>Odias around the globe will have access to a vast amount of old as well as new books and manuscripts online in the tip of their finger. Knowing more about the long and glorious history of Odisha will become easier,” </i>says Mrutyunjaya Kar<b> </b>long time Wikimedian who proof-reads books on Odia Wikisource.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">Saswat Kumar Swain, a Wikisource contributor says, <i>“It is sad to see that there is not much information in Odia language even after it got the got classical status. This is a really nice initiative. I'd request all Odias to read Odia Wikisource and if possible contribute to make Odia Wikisource bigger &amp; better.” </i></p> <p style="text-align: justify; "><i>“As a contributor I find it is easier to edit in Wikisource than Wikipedia. I think common people will get more out of it than Wikipedia as the later is rather meant for people who need research type of article. The forgotten golden articles will surface to prove that old is gold,” </i>says Dr. Subas Chandra Rout, Odia Wikisource contributor.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">The project release took little more time because of various technical problems. <a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikisource.org/wiki/User:MF-Warburg">User:MF-Warburg</a>, admin of Wikisource who played a key role in helping to set the new wiki calmly tells the community, "glorious preparations take time" when Odia Wikimedian and Odia Wikisource's first admin Srikant Kedia pings him multiple times about the release of the project. Srikant, who has been active on Odia Wikipedia and done major work in connecting with the global community and fixing bugs says, "I speak Marwari at home as it is my mother-tongue, I studied in an English medium school as English is a common language worldwide and a need of today. And I am associated with Odia Wikiprojects as Odia is my <i>janmabhumi </i>(motherland) language. My great grandfather came to Odisha over 100 years ago and this language is very precious for me. It is my pleasure to promote Odisha and Odia language."</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">Preetinanda Roy, KISS's lecturer and coordinator of the KISS-Wikisource project feels that the students learn a lot during workshops and Wikisource write-a-thons. She is currently helping 8 of her colleagues at KISS to train 45 students to digitize books on Odia Wikisource.</p> <p>Odia Wikisource offers a breath of fresh air for online readers who are eager to access and make available free open content in Odia.</p> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/odia-wikisource-goes-live'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/odia-wikisource-goes-live</a> </p> No publisher subha Access to Knowledge Wikimedia Wikipedia Odia Wikipedia Openness 2014-11-07T13:30:46Z Blog Entry https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/hastac-january-31-2014-subhashish-panigrahi-odia-wikipedia <b>Odia Wikipedia has carved its mark as the largest online encyclopedia in Odia language that is edited by a volunteer editor community.</b> <hr /> <p style="text-align: justify; ">This was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.hastac.org/blogs/psubhashish/2014/01/31/odia-wikipedia-three-years-active-contributions-gives-life-ten-years-ol">published by HASTAC</a> on January 31, 2014.</p> <hr /> <p style="text-align: justify; ">By 29th of January this year it is 10 year old and 5000 articles rich. Though this was started as one of the first four Indic language Wikipedias. In 2011 there were only 550 articles with practically no contributors. The initial Wikipedians struggled to reach out to more people. Luckily, with more people coming on the Internet – primarily on social media platforms, collaboration became easier. Odia Wikipedia’s facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/OdiaWiki">page</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/OdiaWiki">group</a> became the social gateway to get used to working within the Odia language. This is one of the languages which has very little online presence when it comes to having content as Unicode text. Many people still struggle with the outdated pirated operating systems installed in their computers which added more hurdles in the way of all the community led Wikipedia outreach programs. There has been more developments in recent days in language input and online contribution in Odia. More people started searching for online content using Odia in Unicode. This is where Odia Wikipedia played a crucial role in promoting a massive growth in content which is reflected in the readership. Monthly page views which remained consistently low over the years started <a href="http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryOR.htm">growing from less than 1000 to more than 400,000</a> and at times hitting the 500,000 mark. This is the highest among all the websites that have Odia content. With a variety of new projects and more contributors than ever, Wikipedia Odia happily celebrated its its 10th anniversary over two days. Odia Wikipedians gathered in two different educational institutes; <a href="http://www.kiss.ac.in/">Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences</a> in Bhubaneswar on the 28th of January and <a href="http://www.iimc.nic.in/branches-dhenkanal.html‎">Indian Institute of Mass Communication</a> in Dhenkanal on the 29th.</p> <h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Day 1</h3> <p style="text-align: justify; ">First day of Odia Wikipedia 10 began with the traditional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chhena_Poda‎">Chhena poda</a> by noted linguist Padmashree Dr. Debiprasanna Patnaik. Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) has recently collaborated with The Centre for Internet and Society for the resource gathering, documentation and archival of 62 tribal communities of Odisha and neighboring eastern Indian states and initiating Wikipedia projects in the indigenous tribal languages. The first few phase of the workshop brought about 15 students pursuing their masters in Arts, Science and Commerce disciplines and 10 faculty members.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">This project also will also dovetail into the <a href="http://www.mle-india.net/search/label/Bernard%20van%20Leer%20Foundation">Mother Tongue based Multilingual Lab</a> that has been set up in the institute to foster educational materials in tribal languages. Dr. Patnaik spoke to these contributors about the native languages and the importance of documenting language and cultural heritage online. Subrat Prusty, General Secretary of Janasammilani and founding member of <a href="http://www.odiabiswabidyalaya.org/view-content/12/about-us.html">Odia Biswabidyalaya</a> gave a talk on the factors that have diminished the native languages and how collaborative efforts could revive dying languages through a 5000 word free-license dictionary in Odia. With the audio recording of Dr. Patnaik introducing himself, Odia Wikipedians inaugurated the <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Voice_intro_project">Voice intro project</a> as the first Indic language project. Odia Wikipedians interacted with the students and teachers at KISS to get their inputs on the kind of knowledge imparted by introducing Wikipedia editing. Later these will streamline the process of writing to the linguistic team for pledging for the classical language status of Odia.</p> <h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Day 2</h3> <p style="text-align: justify; ">The second day of Odia Wikipedia 10 was celebrated in the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) Dhenkanal campus . Students who had participated in the <a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:କର୍ମଶାଳା/ଢେଙ୍କାନାଳ/୪">series of Odia Wikipedia workshops</a> earlier in the year took part in this event. Sampad Mohapatra, a TV and print media journalist inaugurated the event by lighting <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diya_%28light%29">Dipa</a> and cutting a birthday Chenapoda. Mohapatra shared his experiences on how the entire media industry relies on Wikipedia for collecting information and how contribution in regional languages will benefit the students through more job availability in the regional media. Professor Dr. Mrinal Chatterjee who heads the institution shared the way accessing knowledge is slowly moving to internet based search. He discussed strategies of how bringing more online content in regional languages will help the academia and the students. Usha Padhee, Secretary of Mass Education Department, Odisha Government distributed awards to the top Wikipedia contributors. She later presented on the role of media in educating society and Open Educational Resources in new tools of imparting knowledge.</p> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/hastac-january-31-2014-subhashish-panigrahi-odia-wikipedia'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/hastac-january-31-2014-subhashish-panigrahi-odia-wikipedia</a> </p> No publisher subha Openness Wikipedia Access to Knowledge Wikimedia 2014-02-04T08:56:35Z Blog Entry https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/odia-wikipedia-sambalpur-university-workshop <b>An Odia Wikipedia orientation-cum-workshop program was organised for the students of Sambalpur University on 27 November, 2016.</b> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span id="docs-internal-guid-57c935f1-7aa4-2268-38e8-27623022a030">Over the last couple of years, the Odia Wikipedia community has been successful in organising workshops and outreach programs in different parts of coastal and central Odisha. With over 38 active Wikipedians (as of 2016), the Odia community is growing everyday and expanding across different parts of Odisha. The recent increase in the number of Wikipedians in western Odisha inspired the community members to conduct an introductory Wikipedia workshop in Sambalpur University.</span></p> <p><span id="docs-internal-guid-57c935f1-7aa4-4ad9-0835-7f6b5f11bb95"></span></p> <p dir="ltr">On 27th November 2016, an orientation-cum-workshop program for Odia Wikipedia was organised for the students of Computer Science and Application Department and the Odia Department in Sambalpur University. 57 participants, comprising 30 male and 27 female participants attended the event. 5 faculty members were also present. Dr. Chitta Ranjan Dash, the Vice Chancellor of the University was the Guest of Honour for the workshop. Three Odia Wikipedians- Mrutyunjay Kar, Jnanaranjan Sahu and Nistha Ranjan Dash facilitated the workshop as mentors.</p> <p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-57c935f1-7aa4-7b5a-8d06-34217967e458"></span></p> <p dir="ltr">The workshop began with an introduction to Odia Wikipedia and Odia Wikisource digitisation efforts by Dr. Sarada Baboo, a professor from the Computer Science and Application department. The first session introduced the various Wikimedia projects to the participants. The participants were given an introduction on how to contribute to the different Wiki projects. They were also given an orientation on Wikipedia policies and guidelines. After this, the participants were introduced to Odia Wikipedia and its development over the years. The post lunch session trained participants on creating user accounts, articles, and other basic dos and don’ts on Wikipedia. During the training session, over 20 Wikipedians were able to create accounts.</p> <p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-57c935f1-7aa4-a8ad-d5c7-f6bb586c1a79">The Wikipedia workshop in Sambalpur University was an important step to raise awareness about the Wikipedia movement in western Odisha, This was the first workshop in Sambalpur University and the second workshop in western Odisha after three years. Over <a href="http://suniv.ac.in/upload/List%20of%20Colleges%20_Aff.pdf">196 colleges </a>&nbsp;are affiliated to Sambalpur University, in seven different districts in western Odisha. A regular follow up with the University, the faculty and the students will help in furthering the free knowledge movement in western Odisha.</span></p> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/odia-wikipedia-sambalpur-university-workshop'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/odia-wikipedia-sambalpur-university-workshop</a> </p> No publisher Sailesh Patnaik CIS-A2K Access to Knowledge Wikimedia Wikipedia Odia Wikisource Odia Wikipedia Openness 2017-04-17T06:44:47Z Blog Entry https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/odia-wikipedia-needs-assessment <b>This blog encompasses the status of Odia Wikipedia and assessment of the needs for growth of the community.</b> <p><i>This blog is part of the annual work plan for Odia Wikipedia which was updated on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/or:ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:A2K_କାର୍ଯ୍ୟପନ୍ଥା_ଏପ୍ରିଲ_୨୦୧୩_-_ଜୁନ_୨୦୧୪">Odia Wikipedia</a> and <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_April_2013_-_June_2014/Odia">Meta Wiki</a>.</i></p> <hr /> <p style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriya_language">Odia</a> is one of the official languages of India. It is the official language of <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odisha">Odisha</a> and the second official language of Jharkhand. Odia is also spoken in parts of West Bengal, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh. By 2011 census there are 3.6 crore Odia speakers across the world. Literacy rate of Odisha is 73.45 per cent (82.4 per cent male, 64.36 per cent female).</p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">Majority of the computer users in Odisha were on Microsoft Windows platforms. Windows did not have a stable Odia language support until the release of Windows Vista. This would have forced majority of the computer users prefer English on Odia for internet communication. As per the 2011 census only 5.1 per cent of the 9,661,085 households of Odisha had computers and 1.4 per cent (357,460 households) of the households had access to internet. Odia Wikipedia has only 13 active contributors<a href="#fn1" name="fr1">[1] </a>who are based both in and out of Odisha and contributed to 3715 articles.<a href="#fn2" name="fr2">[2] </a></p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">Low computer/internet penetration, lack of promotion/outreach of Odia Wikipedia are some of the major factors which resulted in low Wikipedia participation. Odia Wikipedia celebrated its 9th anniversary on January 29, 2013 which is marked to be the date of its first edit in 2004.<a href="#fn3" name="fr3">[3] </a>The project was inactive for about 8 years until February 2011.<a href="#fn4" name="fr4">[4] </a></p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">Community building process slowly started by February-March 2011 by some of the active wikipedians in Bengaluru and gradually in six other cities in and out of Odisha.<a href="#fn5" name="fr5">[5]</a>The community so far has organized 18 meet-ups, 10 workshops and worked on a major media donation project on Wikimedia Commons.<a href="#fn6" name="fr6">[6]</a> Six on-wiki projects on various subjects<a href="#fn7" name="fr7">[7] </a>and rolled a Wikipedia education program.<a href="#fn8" name="fr8">[8] </a></p> <h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Fact Sheet</h3> <table class="listing"> <tbody> <tr> <th>Wikimedia projects</th><th>No. of Editors/Contributors (2011-12)</th><th>No. of Editors (2012-13)</th><th>No. of Active editors (2011-12)</th><th>No. of Active editors (2012-13)</th><th>No. of Articles/<br />entries (2011-12)</th><th>No. of Articles/<br />entries (2012-13)</th><th>No. of Page views per months</th> </tr> <tr style="text-align: right; "> <td>Wikipedia</td> <td>29</td> <td>64</td> <td>19</td> <td>14</td> <td>1951</td> <td>3209</td> <td>330161</td> </tr> <tr style="text-align: right; "> <td>Wiktionary</td> <td>6</td> <td>14</td> <td>1</td> <td>2</td> <td>98</td> <td>155</td> <td>30618</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3 id="_mcePaste">Identified Needs</h3> <p style="text-align: justify; ">This section gives a broad idea of the challenges for community/wikipedia growth for which there is a need of programatic and technical intervention.</p> <ul> <li><b>Lack of awareness</b></li> </ul> <ol> <li style="text-align: justify; ">Lack of media presence: Mainstream Odia language media is still unaware of the presence and importance of Odia Wikipedia. There is a need for wider media coverage about Odia Wikipedia.</li> <li style="text-align: justify; ">Lack of focussed meetups/outreach events due to dispersed community: Outreach events and meetups have not been customized for the target audience and have been done in a low scale because of the small community dispersed in six different cities. Physical meetups often have been more on technical issues and not much focus on designing strategies for growing content and community. Experienced wikipedians conducting outreach need to be trained properly to conduct productive outreach events.</li> <li style="text-align: justify; ">More city centric communities: Majority of community members are located in three major cities; Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Nalconagar. This has resulted in outreach events being more delimited to these three cities only. There is a need for taking Odia Wikipedia to more cities.</li> <li style="text-align: justify; ">Target age group for outreach: Till date the targeted audience for outreach are mostly engineering/other students based in cities where English is predominantly the language of communication in terms of written/computer communication and partly verbal communication. Many of the elderly masses are unaware of even the existence of Odia Wikipedia. More of young professionals, elderly and retired professionals need to be involved in the outreach.</li> </ol> <ul> <li><b>Accessibility issues</b></li> </ul> <p><i>Technical hindrance</i></p> <ol> <li style="text-align: justify; ">Lack of Unicode usage: Printing industry professionals still use non-Unicode fonts for typing. There are at least three major different typing schemes and font categories used across the industry (includes book/magazine/newspaper publishers, print/digital media). Font converter tools of high accuracy are needed for easy conversion of such available content and using them as primary resources.</li> <li style="text-align: justify; ">Lack of support in typing schemes: Those who are experienced in typing schemes other than the ones used on Odia Wikipedia (InScript, Transliteration, Phonetic) often fail to adapt the typing schemes of Odia Wikipedia. There is a need of new typing schema for simplifying typing in Odia.</li> </ol> <ul> <li><b>Content</b></li> </ul> <ol> <li style="text-align: justify; ">Lack of Open-Source culture: There is very little presence of the open source methodology across academia, media industry and public and private sector organization. A lot of resources produced are either not digitized and distributed or copyrighted. This has been a road block to the Wikipedia community to make use of any kind of archived and digitized resource. Wikipedians need to be connected to more open source communities, exchange ideas/information and spreading words across other communities.</li> <li style="text-align: justify; ">Lack of resource dissemination because of support: Some of the digitized resources are not being distributed because of shortage of manpower and resource.  A book digitization project initiated by Srujanika faced many hindrances during distribution including copyright issues, hosting and manpower for support. Such resources need to be gathered and distributed for community use.</li> </ol> <ul> <li><b>Community</b></li> </ul> <ol> <li style="text-align: justify; ">Role of experienced wikipedians: There is a need of more experienced wikipedians coming forward to take the lead of projects along with their primary contribution for articles. Wikipedia could be a platform for them to reach out to more people who are in the domain of knowledge dissemination and language resource building.</li> </ol> <hr /> <p class="sdfootnote">[<a href="#fr1" name="fn1">1</a>]. <a href="http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaOR.htm#editor_activity_levels"><span>Wikimedia stats. January 2013</span></a></p> <p>[<a href="#fr2" name="fn2">2</a>].<a class="external-link" href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics">https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics</a></p> <p>[<a href="#fr3" name="fn3">3</a>].<a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriya_Wikipedia">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriya_Wikipedia</a></p> <p>[<a href="#fr4" name="fn4">4</a>].<a class="external-link" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Tinucherian_and_Shijualex/Wiki_Community_development_in_India_and_newsletter/Report#Bhubaneshwar">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Tinucherian_and_Shijualex/Wiki_Community_development_in_India_and_newsletter/Report#Bhubaneshwar</a></p> <p>[<a href="#fr5" name="fn5">5</a>].<a class="external-link" href="http://shijualex.in/indic-language-wikipedias-statistical-report-2011/">http://shijualex.in/indic-language-wikipedias-statistical-report-2011/</a></p> <p>[<a href="#fr6" name="fn6">6</a>].<a class="external-link" href="https://or.wikipedia.org/s/ay">https://or.wikipedia.org/s/ay</a></p> <p>[<a href="#fr7" name="fn7">7</a>].<a class="external-link" href="https://or.wikipedia.org/s/jf">https://or.wikipedia.org/s/jf</a></p> <p>[<a href="#fr8" name="fn8">8</a>]. <a class="external-link" href="https://or.wikipedia.org/s/cgj">https://or.wikipedia.org/s/cgj</a></p> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/odia-wikipedia-needs-assessment'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/odia-wikipedia-needs-assessment</a> </p> No publisher subha Openness Wikipedia Access to Knowledge Wikimedia 2013-07-17T06:35:15Z Blog Entry https://cis-india.org/events/odia-wikipedia-tenth-anniversary-kalinga-institute-of-social-sciences-bhubaneswar <b>The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge along with the Odia Wikipedia community invite you to the tenth anniversary celebrations of Odia Wikipedia t Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences, Bhubaneswar on January 28, 2014 from 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.</b> <p style="text-align: justify; "><span><span class="fsl">କିଛି ଦିନ ତଳେ କଳିଙ୍ଗ ଇନଷ୍ଟିଚ୍ୟୁଟ ଅଫ ସୋସିଆଲ ସାଇନ୍ସେସଠାରେ କର୍ମଶାଳା ଓ ସ‌ହବନ୍ଧନ ପରେ ସେଠାର କର୍ତ୍ତୃପକ୍ଷ ଓ ଶିକ୍ଷକ ତ‌ଥା ଛାତ୍ରମାନେ ଆମ ସମସ୍ତଙ୍କୁ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ୧୦ମ ଜନ୍ମତିଥି ଅନୁଷ୍ଠାନ ପରିସରରେ କରିବା ପାଇଁ ଅନୁରୋଧ କରିଛନ୍ତି । ମୁଁ ଏଥିରେ କେତେଜଣ ବରିଷ୍ଠ ଭାଷା ଗବେଷକ ଓ ଭାଷାବିଦମାନଙ୍କୁ ଅନୁରୋଧ କରିଥିଲି । ଏଯାବତ ସେଣ୍ଟ୍ରାଲ ଇନଷ୍ଟିଚ୍ୟୁଟ ଅଫ ଇଣ୍ଡିଆନ ଲାଙ୍ଗୁଏଜେସ (CIIL), ମହୀଶୂରର ପ୍ରତିଷ୍ଠାତା ଓ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାବିଦ ପଦ୍ମଶ୍ରୀ ଦେବୀପ୍ରସନ୍ନ ପଟୃନାୟକ, ଓଡ଼ିଆ ସାହିତ୍ୟ ଏକାଡେମୀର ଅବାହକ ଓ ଭାଷାବିଦ ଡ. ଗୌରହରି ଦାସ ତ‌ଥା ଭାଷା ଗବେଷକ ସୁବ୍ରତ ପୃଷ୍ଟି ସମ୍ମତି ପ୍ରଦାନ କରିଛନ୍ତି । ଦୟାକରି ସମସ୍ତେ ନିଜ ତରଫରୁ ମଧ୍ୟ ଅଧିକ ବରିଷ୍ଠ ଗବେହକମାନଙ୍କୁ ଅନୁରୋଧ କରିବା ସ‌ହିତ ଏଥିରେ ଅଂଶଗ୍ରହଣ କରି ଏହି ସାମୁହିକ ଉଦ୍ୟମକୁ ଫଳବତୀ କରାଇବାରେ ସ‌ହ‌ଯୋଗ କରିବେ ।</span></span></p> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/events/odia-wikipedia-tenth-anniversary-kalinga-institute-of-social-sciences-bhubaneswar'>https://cis-india.org/events/odia-wikipedia-tenth-anniversary-kalinga-institute-of-social-sciences-bhubaneswar</a> </p> No publisher praskrishna Access to Knowledge Wikimedia Wikipedia Openness Event 2014-01-30T12:01:22Z Event https://cis-india.org/news/sambad-e-paper-january-30-2013-odia-wikipedia-workshop-coverage <b>The Centre for Internet & Society in collaboration with Odia-Wikipedia and Academy for Media Learning organized a workshop on January 29, 2013. This was covered in Sambad on January 30, 2013.</b> <hr /> <p>This was published in <a class="external-link" href="http://sambadepaper.com/epapermain.aspx?edcode=10&amp;eddate=1/30/2013%2012:00:00%20AM&amp;querypage=19">Sambad</a> on January 30, 2013.</p> <hr /> <table class="listing"> <tbody> <tr> <th><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Odia.png/@@images/4c970c5f-75ad-435c-8bd7-28554c6d62eb.png" alt="Odia Wikipedia Coverage" class="image-inline" title="Odia Wikipedia Coverage" /><br /></th> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/sambad-e-paper-january-30-2013-odia-wikipedia-workshop-coverage'>https://cis-india.org/news/sambad-e-paper-january-30-2013-odia-wikipedia-workshop-coverage</a> </p> No publisher praskrishna Openness Workshop Wikipedia Wikimedia 2013-01-31T03:10:05Z News Item https://cis-india.org/openness/odia-wikipedia-takes-puri <b>The first ever Odia Wikipedia workshop in Odisha's historic town of Puri finally shaped in on this December 20. With 25 participants contributing to Odia Wikipedia this day, more Wikipedia outreach in the city were planned.</b> <p>Organised at the Premier Institute of Computer Studies (PICS), this <a class="external-link" href="https://or.wikipedia.org/s/x0w">workshop</a> saw many students from technical background including four female participants. The Google Local Guides group of Bhubaneswar collaborated with us in organising this workshop. Thanks to long time Odia Wikimedian Dr Subas Chandra Rout to spare time and taking pain in coming all the way from Bhubaneswar to mentor the new editors. Only 10-12 participants could sign up on the spot because of IP address throttle that we could not fix beforehand. Otherwise the event went well and after a week, many of the participants have turned out to be active on Odia Wikipedia which is pretty exciting.<br /><br />We planned to organise a meetup once in two month at Puri with the focus on improving at least 20-25 articles related to to the city and district during the meetup. There was a three-minute coverage of the workshop on Odisha Television (OTV) and a brief report of the workshop was <a class="external-link" href="http://odishareporter.in/puri-internetre-odia/">published</a> on Odisha Reporter.</p> <p>As part our effort in chronicling the voice of the Wikipedia community in the <a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikipediansSpeak">WikipediansSpeak series</a>, we reached out to Wikimedians <a class="external-link" href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Subas_Chandra_Rout">Dr. Subas Chandra Rout</a> and <a class="external-link" href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Th3snehasish">Snehasish Nayak</a> after the workshop. Dr Rout shares his interactions and future plans to expand the Odia Wikimedia community:</p> <p class="callout"><strong>Subhashish Panigrahi (SP): Thank you so much for mentoring these new Wikimedians! How was your overall experience working with them?</strong><br />Subas Chandra Rout (SRR): The participants were, indeed, very enthusiastic. They not just were good listeners when we were presenting but contributed well after we demonstrated.</p> <p class="callout"><strong>SP: How often do you think we should come back here and work with the same set of participants?<br /></strong>SRR: I think one more visit to ensure that they feel more integrated with the larger Odia Wikimedia community and help them contribute more. Face-to-face interaction will also help them feel more comfortable to share the kind of problems they might have been facing.</p> <p class="callout"><strong>SP: What kind of problems did they face during the workshop? How did you help them with those problems?</strong><br />There were certain technical/logistics problems which kind of made us keep the workshop limited to more demonstration by us and less practice by them. Sailesh seems be following up with them as some of them have already started editing Wikipedia actively.</p> <p><em>Snehasish Nayak, organiser of the event and a new active Wikimedian of the Odia community—it is worth mentioning that Snehasish has 360 edits on Odia Wikipedia already—shares more about himself, his interests and ideas for future projects:</em></p> <p class="callout"><strong>Subhashish Panigrahi (SP): How and when you got introduced to Odia Wikipedia? Did you know about it before or heard from someone before you formally got an orientation?<br /></strong>Snehasish Nayak (SN): The first time I got to know about Odia Wikipedia was during the Google I/O 2015 event. It was Sailesh Pattnaik who introduced me to Odia Wikipedia. My Wikipedia journey started in December 2015, when Sailesh asked me for some help to conduct a Odia Wikipedia in my hometown Puri.&nbsp;</p> <p class="callout"><strong>SP: You graduated as an engineer. Many engineers in India do not even contribute much to language related work, especially the ones that are not paid for. What drives you to contribute so much that you have crossed 360 edits in just three weeks?<br /></strong>SN: From my school days, Wikipedia has been good friend to me. I don’t remember in how many projects Wikipedia has come to my rescue. And in return Wikipedia never asked for anything. I felt it would be the best platform to share free knowledge across the globe.Odia being my native language and it being a very old language needs contribution from the youth like me. In the era of digital revolution Odia Wikipedia has the potential of empowering every single Odia with the sum of the world's knowledge any time of in any place. If anyone asks me about what I am getting in return because of my contribution, my first answer would be "knowledge". I have learnt quite a lot after I started contributing to Odia Wikipedia. And after each contribution, it gives me a great feeling that I have done something useful for the world”. It inspires me to contribute more and more...</p> <p class="callout"><strong>SP: You have recently started working and promoting about WikiTungi Puri. Can you share little more about it? What it will do? How it will benefit the Odia language?</strong><br />SN: With the coming of our group, <a class="external-link" href="https://or.wikipedia.org/s/xgx">WikiTungi Puri</a>, we are going to organize more workshops, meetups and other outreach programs in and around Puri. But the work will never be limited only to the city. We are always ready to collaborate with the global community. At Puri, We have plans to design thematic outreach activities in some of the educational institutions of Puri and we would like to invite them to be part of WikiTungi Puri. We have plans to bring the "<a class="external-link" href="https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wq/or/%E0%AC%AA%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%A7%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%A8_%E0%AC%AA%E0%AD%83%E0%AC%B7%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%A0%E0%AC%BE">Odia Wikiquote</a>" live out of the Incubator wiki. We have started working on designing of training materials for the new editors. I have a great feeling that we are going to have more and more active contributors joining us in the near future.<br /><br />From the place where see it from, Odia Wikipedia is becoming a pioneer of bringing digital technology for taking our language to a whole new level!</p> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/odia-wikipedia-takes-puri'>https://cis-india.org/openness/odia-wikipedia-takes-puri</a> </p> No publisher Sailesh Patnaik Wikipedia CIS-A2K Odia Wikipedia WikipedianSpeak 2016-01-12T05:28:14Z Blog Entry https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/odia-wikipedia-workshop-in-iimc-dhenkanal <b>An Odia Wikipedia Workshop was conducted at IIMC, Dhenkanal on 31 January, 2017</b> <p><span id="docs-internal-guid-47782ce9-7a39-f103-835e-e62b1ba4da4b"></span></p> <p dir="ltr">Since 2013, the Odia Wikipedia community has collaborated with the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal for enabling students of the institution to partake in and contribute to the Wikimedia movement. An Odia Wikipedia workshop was conducted for the students of the institution on 31 January, 2017. The students were given an orientation on the basics of editing Wikipedia on the web and on their smart phones in addition to an explanation of Wikipedia policies, history of Wikipedia and Wiki News.</p> <p dir="ltr">The 45 English and Odia language students with a male: female ratio of 60: 40, who took part were given a live demonstration of these topics. Along with the help of supportive faculty members, the students were exposed to Commons and Incubator as well. Overall, the event saw the creation of 20 new editors on Odia Wikipedia. A follow-up workshop is also being planned for the students in the coming months.</p> <p dir="ltr">&nbsp;</p> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/odia-wikipedia-workshop-in-iimc-dhenkanal'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/odia-wikipedia-workshop-in-iimc-dhenkanal</a> </p> No publisher Sailesh Patnaik CIS-A2K Access to Knowledge Wikimedia Wikipedia Odia Wikipedia Openness 2017-04-17T06:31:41Z Blog Entry