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Odia Wikipedia celebrates 13 years of free knowledge contribution at Bhubaneswar
https://cis-india.org/openness/news/orissa-dairy-june-2-2015-odia-wikipedia-celebrates-13-years-of-free-knowledge-contribution-at-bhubaneswar
<b>Odia Wikipedia, one of the first of several Indian language Wikipedia projects is ready to celebrate 13 glorious years of free knowledge contribution on June 3. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.orissadiary.com/CurrentNews.asp?id=59414">published in Orissadiary.com</a> on June 2, 2015. Also see <a href="http://odishan.com/14971">http://odishan.com/14971</a> (In Odia)</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Beginning in 2002 — a year after the world's largest online encyclopedia, the English Wikipedia, was launched — Odia Wikipedia has grown to be the largest content repository in the Odia language available in Unicode on the Internet at https://or.wikipedia.org. <br /><br />With about 17 active editors (also known as “uikiali”) spread across various parts of India and abroad, and over 8,800 articles, the project has become more than just an encyclopedia. The voluntary editor community has put its efforts into acquiring valuable Creative Commons (CC) licensed content by lobbying copyright holders/authors to relicense copyrighted content under CC licenses.<br /><br />Date and time: 3 June 2015, 5 pm<br />Venue: Institute of Physics, Near Apollo Hospital, Bhubaneswar, Odisha<br />Event details: https://or.wikipedia.org/s/sml<br /><br />It has also engaged with over 2,000 people by organizing various outreach programs including the globally accredited pedagogic program the Wikipedia Education Program (WEP). For its 13th anniversary the community is planning to release a character-encoding converter that promises to unlock massive amounts of content from government portals as well as journals, newspapers and magazines that have their content in non-Unicode character encoding that prevents user searching and reuse of digital-based content.<br /><br />May you have any further questions about the project or the event, please reach us in the contact details mentioned below:<br /><br />Mrutyunjaya Kar, Administrator, Odia Wikipedia (9437112371)<br />Sailesh Patnaik, Editor, Odia Wikipedia (7537097770)<br />Subhashish Panigrahi, Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge (CIS-A2K)<br />subhashish@cis-india.org. 08050515339</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/orissa-dairy-june-2-2015-odia-wikipedia-celebrates-13-years-of-free-knowledge-contribution-at-bhubaneswar'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/orissa-dairy-june-2-2015-odia-wikipedia-celebrates-13-years-of-free-knowledge-contribution-at-bhubaneswar</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KOdia Wikipedia2016-06-18T18:18:05ZNews ItemOdia Wikipedia Celebrates 13 Years of Free Knowledge Contribution at Bhubaneswar
https://cis-india.org/openness/news/fullodisha-june-3-2015-odia-wikipedia-13-years-of-free-knowledge-contribution
<b>The event was held at the Institute of Physics, Near Apollo Hospital, Bhubaneswar, Odisha on June 3, 2015, at 5 p.m.</b>
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<p>The article was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.fullodisha.com/odia-wikipedia-celebrates-13-years-of-free-knowledge-contribution-at-bhubaneswar/">published by FullOdisha.com</a> on June 3, 2015.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/fullodisha-june-3-2015-odia-wikipedia-13-years-of-free-knowledge-contribution'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/fullodisha-june-3-2015-odia-wikipedia-13-years-of-free-knowledge-contribution</a>
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No publishersubhaOdia WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-06-18T18:21:13ZNews ItemOdia Wikipedia Brings 14 Copyright Free Odia Books and a Free Odia Font
https://cis-india.org/news/odishabarta-march-29-2014-odia-wikipedia-brings-14-copyright-free-odia-books-and-free-odia-font
<b>Odia Wikimedia community has celebrated "Odisha Day" today at Jayadev Bhawan. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Subhashish Panigrahi from the Centre for Internet and Society read the annual report and shared the vision of the Wikimedia movement.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Read the complete story published by Odishabarta on March 29, 2014<a class="external-link" href="http://www.orissabarta.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15667:odia-wikipedia-brings-14-copyright-free-odia-books-and-a-free-odia-font&catid=35:top-stories"> here</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/odishabarta-march-29-2014-odia-wikipedia-brings-14-copyright-free-odia-books-and-free-odia-font'>https://cis-india.org/news/odishabarta-march-29-2014-odia-wikipedia-brings-14-copyright-free-odia-books-and-free-odia-font</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOdia WikipediaOpenness2014-04-06T06:18:22ZNews ItemOdia Wikipedia and Orientation Training Programme
https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/odia-wikipedia-and-orientation-training-programme
<b>An Odia Wikipedia orientation and training programme is being organized by the Centre for Internet & Society's (CIS-A2K) team on 31 January 2017 at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal in Odisha. </b>
<h3>Agenda</h3>
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<li>Bringing new editors on board.</li>
<li>Orientation programme for students of IIMC.</li>
<li>Finding possible partnership with the institute.</li>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/odia-wikipedia-and-orientation-training-programme'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/odia-wikipedia-and-orientation-training-programme</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KOdia WikipediaEventAccess to Knowledge2017-01-23T00:58:38ZEventOdia Wikipedia 10th anniversary at Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal
https://cis-india.org/events/odia-wikipedia-tenth-anniversary-indian-institute-of-mass-communication-dhenkanal
<b>The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team along with the Odia Wikipedia community invite you to the 10th anniversary of Odia Wikipedia at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication in Dhenkanal on January 29, 2014 from 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span><span class="fsl">ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ, ଅନଲାଇନରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାର ସର୍ବବୃହତ ମୁକ୍ତ ଜ୍ଞାନକୋଷର ୧୦ମ ବାର୍ଷିକ ଜନ୍ମତିଥି ୨୯ ଜାନୁଆରୀରେ ଢେଙ୍କାନାଳର ଭାରତୀୟ ଜନସଂଚାର ସଂସ୍ଥାନରେ ପୂର୍ବାହ୍ଣ ୧୧ ଘଟିକା ସମୟରେ ଅନୁଷ୍ଠିତ ହେବାକୁ ଯାଉଛି । ଏହି ଅବସରରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ପରିବାର ଆପଣମାନଙ୍କୁ ଏହି କାର୍ଯ୍ୟକ୍ରମରେ ଭାଗ ନେଇ ଏହାକୁ ସାଫଲ୍ୟମଣ୍ଡିତ କରିବାକୁ ଅନୁରୋଧ କରୁଛି ।<br /> <br /> ଏଥିରେ ଆମେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ଉପଯୋଗୀତା, ଏହାର ବ୍ୟବହାର ଓ ଆପଣ କିପରି ଏଥିରେ ଭାଗ ନେଇପାରିବେ ଓ ଜ୍ଞାନ ବିତରଣର ଏହି ମହାପ୍ରବାହରେ ସାମିଲ ହୋଇପାରିବେ ସେ ବାବଦରେ ଜାଣିପାରିବେ ।</span></span></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/events/odia-wikipedia-tenth-anniversary-indian-institute-of-mass-communication-dhenkanal'>https://cis-india.org/events/odia-wikipedia-tenth-anniversary-indian-institute-of-mass-communication-dhenkanal</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOdia WikipediaOpennessEvent2014-01-30T12:06:21ZEventOdia Wikipedia (Coverage in Sanchar)
https://cis-india.org/news/odia-wikipedia-coverage-in-sanchar
<b>Sanchar published about Odia Wikipedia in their edition on January 31. Subhashish Panigrahi is quoted.</b>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/odia-wikipedia-coverage-in-sanchar'>https://cis-india.org/news/odia-wikipedia-coverage-in-sanchar</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOdia WikipediaOpenness2014-02-04T07:38:30ZNews ItemOdia Wikipedia
https://cis-india.org/news/the-telegraph-march-29-2014-odia-wikipedia
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The article was <a class="external-link" href="http://epaper.telegraphindia.com/detail/72062-12380765.html">published in the Telegraph</a> on March 29, 2014. Subhashish Panigrahi spoke about the Odia Wikipedia plan.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Detail" id="lblmatter">Odia Wikipedia community recently celebrated Odisha Day at Jayadev Bhavan. Inaugurating the event, linguist Debiprasanna Pattanayak said that that most of the Odia publications were not available on the Internet and readers were devoid of easy access to those. He discussed the process of digitisation for preserving valuable books that are out of print.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Detail"><span class="Detail" id="lblmatter">Odia wikipedia has been trying to popularise use of the language on the Internet since 2002. The aim of the gathering was to enrich the online encyclopaedia and get more books digitised. Eleven volumes of works of Jagannath Mohanty were released on the occasion.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Detail"><span class="Detail"><span class="Detail" id="lblmatter">The Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences will digitise these books by training their students.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Detail"><span class="Detail"><span class="Detail"><span class="Detail" id="lblmatter">Guests released a DVD containing a new Odia Unicode font designed by www. odialanguage. com.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Detail"><span class="Detail"><span class="Detail"><span class="Detail"><span class="Detail" id="lblmatter">Subhashish Panigrahi from the Centre for Internet and Society read out the annual report and the vision of Odia wikipedia.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/the-telegraph-march-29-2014-odia-wikipedia'>https://cis-india.org/news/the-telegraph-march-29-2014-odia-wikipedia</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOdia WikipediaOpenness2014-04-08T05:29:02ZNews ItemOdia WikiMeetup
https://cis-india.org/events/odia-wiki-meetup-january-11-2014
<b>CIS-A2K organized an Odia Wiki meetup in Bhubaneswar on January 11. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The event was attended by Odia Wikipedians Dr. Subas Chandra Rout, Shitikantha Dash, Jnanaranjan Sahu and Sailesh Patnaik. T. Vishnuvardhan, Programme Director and Subhashish Panigrahi, Programme Officer, CIS-A2K met Odia Wikipedians to discuss about various ongoing projects in Odia Wikipedia, potential projects and incubator projects.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/events/odia-wiki-meetup-january-11-2014'>https://cis-india.org/events/odia-wiki-meetup-january-11-2014</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOdia WikipediaOpennessEvent2014-02-03T06:46:33ZEventOdia Wikimedia community meetup at Cuttack
https://cis-india.org/openness/odia-wikimedia-community-meetup-at-cuttack
<b>Odia Wikimedians are planning to gather in Cuttack and discuss about future project ideas for the community.</b>
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<ul><li>Discussion about existing projects and planning for future</li><li>Implementing the community's plans<br /></li><li>Responsibilities of CIS-A2K's new program Associate Sailesh Patnaik</li><li>Restarting monthly meetup plans in Cuttack and Bhubaneswar</li></ul>
More in the <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%AE%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%B3%E0%AC%A3/%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%9F%E0%AC%95/%E0%AD%A9">event page</a>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/odia-wikimedia-community-meetup-at-cuttack'>https://cis-india.org/openness/odia-wikimedia-community-meetup-at-cuttack</a>
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No publisherSailesh PatnaikWikipediaCIS-A2KOdia WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2015-12-29T12:07:56ZEventOdia Wikimedia community has celebrated Odisha day
https://cis-india.org/news/full-odisha-april-2-2014-odia-wikipedia-community-celebrated-odisha-day
<b>Odisha Day 2014 was held on March 29, 2014. A report was published in FullOrissa News on April 2, 2014. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Click to read the original <a class="external-link" href="http://news.fullodisha.com/odia-wikimedia-community-celebrated-odisha-day/">story here</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Odia Wikimedia community has celebrated “Odisha day” today at Jayadev Bhawan. Inaugurating this event eminent linguist Padmashree Dr. Debiprasanna Pattanayak said, ‘Collaborative effort and open access to knowledge repositories will enrich our language an culture’. He also discussed about the efforts being laid for bringing Odia language as the sixth Indian classical language. Majority of the Odia publications are not available on the internet and readers are devoid of easily accessible. He discussed about the process of digitization for preserving valuable books that are out of print and the old palm leaf manuscripts.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Odia Wikipedia has been trying to popularize use of Odia language in the Internet since 2002. Available at or.wikipedia.org it is now 6000 articles rich and growing. More than 470,000 visitors visit Odia Wikipedia every month which also gives it the status of the largest Odia encyclopedia on the Internet. To enrich the online encyclopedia and getting more books digitized, Wikipedians organized a two day event at Jayadev Bhawan. Along with Dr. Debiprasanna Pattanayak, Professor Udayanath Sahu, The Odisha Review’s editor Dr. Lenin Mohanty, Odisha Bhaskar’s editor Pradosh Pattnaik, language researcher Subrat Prusty, Kalinga Institute of Social Science (KISS)’s principal Dr. Madan Mohan Sahu, Manik-Biswanath Smrutinyasa’s chairman Allhadmohini Mohanty along with the trust’s secretary Brajamohan Patnaik and senior members Sarojkanta Choudhury and Shisira Ranjan Dash.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">11 books of eminent Odia writer Dr. Jagannath Mohanty were released in Creative Commons 3.0 license that will allow anyone to reuse and even make commercial use of the content with attribution. KISS will be digitizing these books by training their students. Allhadmohini Mohanty formally gave written permission to Odia Wikimedia community for releasing and digitizing these books. Dr. Debiprasanna Pattanayak and Subrat Prusty from the Institute of Odia Studies and Research also fomally released three books in Creative Commons licenses: Two Odia ones-”Bhasa O Jatiyata” and “Jati, Jagruti O Pragati” and an English book “Classical Odia”. Guests released a DVD containing a new Odia Unicode free font, “Odia OT Jagannatha” designed by Sujata Patel from OdiaLanguage.com, a new Odia input tool, free softwares and offline Wikipedia. It was declared that the Odia WikiSource project will be active soon and would be available at wikisource.org.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Odia Wikipedia administrator Mrutyunjaya Kar gave the inaugural speech and hosted the event. Subhashish Panigrahi from the Centre for Internet and Society read the annual report and shared the vision for the Wikimedia movement. Active Odia Wikipedians Ansuman Giri, Diptiman Panigrahi, Dr. Subas Chandra Rout, Jnanaranjan Sahu, Sasanka Dash, Aditya Mahar and Srikant Kedia coordinated the event.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/full-odisha-april-2-2014-odia-wikipedia-community-celebrated-odisha-day'>https://cis-india.org/news/full-odisha-april-2-2014-odia-wikipedia-community-celebrated-odisha-day</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaWikimediaWikipediaOdia WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2014-04-08T06:21:38ZNews ItemOdia Wikimedia community celebrated Odisha day, bringing 14 copyright free Odia books
https://cis-india.org/news/orissa-diary-march-29-2014-odia-wikimedia-community-celebrated-odisha-day-bringing-14-copyright-free-odia-books
<b>Odia Wikimedia community has celebrated “Odisha day” today at Jayadev Bhawan. Inaugurating this event eminent linguist Padmashree Dr. Debiprasanna Pattanayak said, 'Collaborative effort and open access to knowledge repositories will enrich our language an culture'.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.orissadiary.com/CurrentNews.asp?id=48883">published in Odishadiary</a> on March 29, 2014.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Odia Wikipedia has been trying to popularize use of Odia language in the Internet since 2002.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">To enrich the online encyclopedia and getting more books digitized Wikipedians are organizing a two day event. Along with Dr. Debiprasanna Pattanayak, Professor Udayanath Sahu, The Odisha Review's editor Dr. Lenin Mohanty, Odisha Bhaskar's editor Pradosh Pattnaik, language researcher Subrat Prusty, Kalinga Institute of Social Science (KISS)'s principal Dr. Madan Mohan Sahu, Manik-Biswanath Smrutinyasa's chairman Allhadmohini Mohanty along with the trust's secretary Brajamohan Patnaik and senior members Sarojkanta Choudhury and Shisira Ranjan Dash.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">11 volumes of eminent Odia writer Dr. Jagannath Mohanty were released in free Creative Commons licenses. KISS will be digitizing these books by training their students. Allhadmohini Mohanty formally gave written permission to Odia Wikimedia community for releasing and digitizing these books. Guests released a DVD containing a new Odia Unicode free font designed by OdiaLanguage.com, a new Odia input tool, free softwares and offline Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">It was declared that the Odia WikiSource project will be active soon. Odia Wikipedia admin Mrutyunjaya Kar gave the inaugural speech. Subhashish Panigrahi from the Centre for Internet and Society read the annual report and vision of Odia Wikipedia. Chief guest Dr. Debiprasanna Pattanayak discussed about the efforts being laid for bringing Odia language as the sixth Indian classical language. Majority of the Odia publications are not available on the internet and readers are devoid of easily accessible. He discussed about the process of digitization for preserving valuable books that are out of print and the old palm lead manuscripts.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/orissa-diary-march-29-2014-odia-wikimedia-community-celebrated-odisha-day-bringing-14-copyright-free-odia-books'>https://cis-india.org/news/orissa-diary-march-29-2014-odia-wikimedia-community-celebrated-odisha-day-bringing-14-copyright-free-odia-books</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOdia WikipediaOpenness2014-04-04T12:25:46ZNews ItemOdia Virtual Academy launched
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/new-indian-express-october-27-2018-odia-virtual-academy-launched
<b>Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday launched a new web portal of ‘Odia Virtual Academy’ (www.ova.gov.in) to promote the Odia language and literature at the Secretariat here.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The article was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/odisha/2018/oct/27/odia-virtual-academy-launched-1890628.html">published in the New Indian Express</a> on October 27, 2018.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Launching the web portal, the Chief Minister said, “It is a matter of pleasure that the new web portal of the ‘Odia Virtual Academy’ is being dedicated today. Odia language has received the classical status.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A lot of literature has also been created in Odia language. The Academy has taken the responsibility for promotion, preservation and digitisation of the Odia language and literature.” Naveen said the new website will be helpful in the promotion of Odia language at the international level, especially for the Non Resident Odias (NROs). He said youths will also benefit from the Academy.<br /><br />Three memoranda of understanding (MoUs) were signed by the State Government with the University of Chicago library, CDAC and Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru to expedite digitisation of Odia literature and development of Odia software. “This will go a long way in enhancing the visibility of Odia language and literature in the digital space,” he said.<br /><br />So far, as many as 170 books of Odia literature have been placed in the Academy website. The prime objective of the Academy is digitisation of about 2000 rare and copyright free Odia books and establishment of a free digital library, digitisation of various Odia dictionaries available presently for free access, promotion of Odia unicode font faces through standardisation of typing keyboards and making those affordable for public in coming six months and development of primers and uploading those for easy learning.<br /><br />Besides, the Academy’s purpose is to digitise and preserve Odia lexicon, ancient magazines and journals, traditional music, ancient documents, literature on science and history, folk culture, tribal language and literature, history-oriented essays, speech of great personalities, Sri Jagannath culture, temple and its architecture.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/new-indian-express-october-27-2018-odia-virtual-academy-launched'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/new-indian-express-october-27-2018-odia-virtual-academy-launched</a>
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No publisherAdminWikimediaWikipediaOdia WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2018-10-29T02:27:23ZNews ItemOdia Loves Wikipedia
https://cis-india.org/news/rising-voices-april-10-2014-odia-loves-wikipedia
<b>Odia is a 2,500 year old language native to the area of Odisha (formerly known as Orissa). The language has recently gained the status of an Indian classical language. </b>
<p>The article by Laura Morris was published in <a class="external-link" href="https://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/blog/2014/04/10/odia-loves-wikipedia/">Rising Voices</a> on April 10, 2014. Subhashish's article on Odia Wikipedia is mentioned.</p>
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<p>Recently, the<span> Odia Wikimedia community met to celebrate the language's new status in Bhubaneswar. </span></p>
<p><span>The following is an excerpt from a <a href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/04/08/odisha-dibasa-2014-14-books-released-under-cc-license/#more-28290">recent article</a> on the Wikimedia Foundation blog, by <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Psubhashish">Subhashish Panigrahi</a>, sharing information about the Odia WIki community:</span></p>
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<p><span>14 copyrighted books have been re-licensed under the Creative Commons license and the digitization project on </span><a href="https://wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page/%E0%AC%93%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86">Odia WikiSource</a><span> was formally initiated by an indigenous educational institute, the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) [...] </span><span>KISS is going to digitize some of these books and make them available on Odia Wikisource.</span></p>
<p>An OpenType Odia Unicode font, “<a href="http://www.odialanguage.com/Odia_fonts.html">Odia OT Jagannatha</a>” designed by Sujata Patel from <a href="http://odialanguage.com/">Odialanguage.com</a> was released under the OFL license. This is the first Odia OpenType font that the community actively tested.</p>
<p>A new Odia offline input tool called <a href="https://github.com/majnun1337/jquery.ime-Offline-input">“TypeOdia”</a> by Wikipedian <a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:TWO%5E0">Manoj Sahukar</a> was also released for public distribution. DVDs containing the font, the input tool, Odia language dictionaries, offline Odia Wikipedia in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwix">Kiwix</a>, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Odia_Wikipedia_learning_guide.pdf">Wikipedia editing guide</a>, ISCII to Unicode font converter, various free and open source software packages and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28operating_system%29">Ubuntu operating system</a> [...]</p>
<p>A large majority of Odia publications are not available on the internet and readers are devoid of easy accessibility. [Dr. Debiprasanna Pattanayak] discussed the process of digitization for preserving valuable books that are out of print and the old palm leaf manuscripts [...]</p>
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<p><span><span>The Odia fonts can be <a href="http://www.odialanguage.com/Odia_fonts.html">downloaded for free</a>. The developers of the font <a href="http://odialanguage.com/">say</a>: </span></span></p>
<blockquote class="quoted"><span><span><span>We advocate for the use of Odia language in true spirit, in the domain of day-to-day administration, justice delivery, apart from the field of teaching. Besides, we have undertaken the project for developing Odia lexicon,with inclusion of typical odia version of technical words ,so as to avoid dependence on English language.</span></span></span></blockquote>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/rising-voices-april-10-2014-odia-loves-wikipedia'>https://cis-india.org/news/rising-voices-april-10-2014-odia-loves-wikipedia</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaWikimediaWikipediaOdia WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2014-04-14T09:56:20ZNews ItemOdia Littérateur Ramakrushna Nanda's 4 Books Now Available Under a Creative Commons License
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/ramakrushna-nanda-four-books-under-cc-license
<b>Children literature in Odia language went through an ennoblement after the intervention of Ramakrushna Nanda's writings.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">His poetry “<a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahe_Dayamaya_Biswa_Bihari">Ahe Dayamaya Biswa Bihari</a>” has been sung in every school in Odisha. His work around Odia poetry, language and grammar, essays and encyclopaedia have been greatest resources for children for quite a few decades. CIS-A2K is honored to now bring four of his books under <a class="external-link" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Share Alike</a> (CC-by-SA 4.0) license:</p>
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<li>Biswa Parihay (Encyclopaedia)</li>
<li>Lekhanira Pathasala (Grammar)</li>
<li>Bhabi Dekhantu (Compilation of essays)</li>
<li>Pausa Sandhyara Gapa (Compilation of stories)</li>
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<p>The larger plans after this is to bring these books online on <a href="http://or.wikisource.org/">Odia Wikisource</a> by scanning and digitizing them.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/ramakrushna-nanda-four-books-under-cc-license'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/ramakrushna-nanda-four-books-under-cc-license</a>
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No publishersubhaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaVideoOpennessOdia Wikipedia2014-11-06T13:41:49ZBlog EntryOdia Language's Presence in Digital Media and Wikipedia's Role
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/the-samaja-subhashish-panigrahi-march-2-2014-odia-language-presence-in-digital-media
<b>କମ୍ପ୍ୟୁଟରରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା (Odia language in computer) is an essay published in Odia newspaper "The Samaja's Sunday supplement" on March 2. It is about the journey of Odia language in the digital era and the challenges faced during digitization of books and manuscripts. </b>
<p><span>It also focusses on the new technological advancements that allow users to interact and share knowledge on the internet in Odia language. It briefly explains about Odia Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia that is written by voluntary editors and the massive knowledge production by opening up platforms like these that allows real-time collaboration for editorship in regional languages. <br /><br /></span><span>A scanned version of the article is reproduced below. A higher resolution of this article could be read in <a class="external-link" href="http://samajaepaper.com/epaper/pdf/2014/03/02/20140302b_005101004.pdf">The Samaja e-Paper</a>.<br /></span></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/the-samaja-subhashish-panigrahi-march-2-2014-odia-language-presence-in-digital-media'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/the-samaja-subhashish-panigrahi-march-2-2014-odia-language-presence-in-digital-media</a>
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No publishersubhaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOdia WikipediaOpenness2014-03-05T11:36:46ZBlog Entry