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Odisha: Wikipedia workshop at IIMC, Dhenkanal
https://cis-india.org/news/odisha-diary-september-30-2013-odisha-wikipedia-workshop-at-iimc
<b>Wikipedia workshop was held at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal, on Monday. The workshop was inaugurated by Head of IIMC, Dhenkanal, Dr Mrinal Chatterjee. </b>
<p id="stcpDiv" style="text-align: justify; ">This post was <a class="external-link" href="http://orissadiary.com/CurrentNews.asp?id=44498">published in Odisha Diary</a> on September 30, 2013.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Inaugurating the workshop, Dr Chatterjee said, “We are always sourcing knowledge from Wikipedia. So now it becomes our duty to enrich it by writing articles for Wikipedia.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">He specifically asked Odiya Journalism students to write more in Odia Wikipedia as there is less content in Odia as compared to other Indian languages.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Subhashish Panigrahi, Program Officer, Access to Knowledge, Centre for Internet Society, coordinated the entire event along with members of Odia Wikipedia, Dr Subas Chandra Rout, Mrutyunjaya Kar and Sasanka Sekhar Das. They provided hands-on training about editing, styles and techniques of writing on Wikipedia to the students.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“Anybody can write and edit available articles on Wikipedia,” Panigrahi said while encouraging students to volunteer for Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Not only Odiya and English, students were also encouraged to contribute articles in various other Indian languages. Students of both Odiya and English Journalism were present during the day-long workshop.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Odiya Wikipedia team are planning to organise a series of workshop with IIMC, Dhenkanal in coming months.<br /><br /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/odisha-diary-september-30-2013-odisha-wikipedia-workshop-at-iimc'>https://cis-india.org/news/odisha-diary-september-30-2013-odisha-wikipedia-workshop-at-iimc</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOdia WikipediaOpenness2013-10-03T10:15:25ZNews ItemWomen’s History Month: Sambad collaborates with Odia Wikipedia for a Two Day Edit-a-thon
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/women2019s-history-month-sambad-collaborates-with-odia-wikipedia-for-a-two-day-edit-a-thon
<b>Sambad's 100 Women Edit-a-thon: Two day edit-a-thon to increase quantity and quality of women-related articles on Odia Wikipedia</b>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr"><a class="external-link" href="http://www.sambadepaper.com/epapermain.aspx">Sambad</a>, in collaboration with Odia Wikipedians, is organising a two day ‘edit-a-thon’ on March 18 and 19, 2017 to increase and improve articles on women in Odia Wikipedia. Sambad, a regional language daily newspaper in Odisha, is among the most widely circulated and published newspapers as it is from eight key cities in the state, including the capital city of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhubaneswar">Bhubaneswar</a>. The event will be organised in Sambad Bhawan Bhubaneswar with around 15-20 participants from different walks of life.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">In 2011<a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Editor_Survey_Report_-_April_2011.pdf">, a survey</a> carried out by the Wikimedia Foundation found that only 8.5 percent of Wikipedia editors were female. Since then, awareness has risen and many have found the editor demographic imbalance to be a strong reflection of what the encyclopaedia does or does not cover, including how written language and discourse were constructed on the pages and how discussion flows on article talk pages.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">The aim of this 100 Women Edit-a-thon is to create articles on 100 Women from Odisha, hailing from different fields of work. Mrutyunjaya Kar, Admin, Odia Wikipedia hopes that “through this edit-a-thon, Odia Wiki will get a new batch of female Wikimedians. I hope all the other Indic Wikipedias will replicate this to create and improve articles in their respective languages.” The Women’s Studies department of Utkal University and the archives of the Sambad newspaper are major resources for this edit-a-thon.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">The program will run for two days with a batch of journalists from Sambad and Eastern Media along with local Wikipedians from the city. Tanaya Patnaik, Director of Eastern Media says, “Odisha and Odias have such rich history and accomplishments, but information regarding the same is limited on the Internet. Wikipedia has emerged as the most popular go-to information site and it is essential that we Odias as a community get together to make our presence felt on the web. We loved the idea of collaborating with Odia Wikipedia for an edit-a-thon aiming at creating 100 Wikipedia articles on Odia women achievers. This would be an incredible learning experience for us.”</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">WikiTungi Bhubaneswar, the city based community of Odia Wikipedians is taking the lead in organising the event. The first day of this edit-a-thon is dedicated to introducing Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects to the participants. Participants will also be taught how to create user accounts. The second day of this edit-a-thon is to create or improve articles from the 100 Women list. Tanveer Hasan, Program Manager, CIS-A2K added, “It is vital that Wikimedians take the lead in contributing to a gender sensitive Wikipedia. Edit-a-thons such as these are instrumental in doing so. These events must be carefully nurtured and an effort to follow-up should be made. According to Wikidata, Odia Wikipedia is among the gender balanced Wikipedias in terms of content. <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ijon/Content_gap">20.6%</a> of articles on Odia Wikipedia are related to women. In collaboration with Sambad for this initiative, Odia Wikipedians strive to bridge the gender gap and create an example in this movement.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/women2019s-history-month-sambad-collaborates-with-odia-wikipedia-for-a-two-day-edit-a-thon'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/women2019s-history-month-sambad-collaborates-with-odia-wikipedia-for-a-two-day-edit-a-thon</a>
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No publisherSailesh PatnaikCIS-A2KOdia WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2017-03-17T05:36:25ZBlog EntryOdia 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 Itemଭୁବନେଶ୍ୱରରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ୧୩ ତମ ଜନ୍ମତିଥି ପାଳନ, ୨୦୧୫ ଜୁନ ୩ ତାରିଖ
https://cis-india.org/openness/news/b2db41b2cb28b47b36b4db71b30b30b47-b13b21b3cb3fb06-b09b07b15b3fb2ab3fb21b3cb3fb06b30-b67b69-b24b2e-b1cb28b4db2eb24b3fb25b3f-b2ab3eb33b28-b68b66b67b6b-b1cb41b28-b69-b24b3eb30b3fb16
<b>ତାରିଖ ଏବଂ ସମୟ: ୨୦୧୫ ଜୁନ ୩ ତାରିଖ, ସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା ୫ ଟା ସ୍ଥାନ: ପଦାର୍ଥ ବିଜ୍ଞାନ ପ୍ରତିଷ୍ଠାନ, ସଚିବାଳୟ ମାର୍ଗ, ଭୁବନେଶ୍ୱର, ଓଡ଼ିଶା କାର୍ଯ୍ୟକ୍ରମ ସବିଶେଷ: https://or.wikipedia.org/s/sml</b>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The article was <a class="external-link" href="http://odishan.com/14971">published in Odishan.com</a> on June 2, 2015.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">ପ୍ରଥମ ଭାରତୀୟ କେତୋଟି ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ (Wikipedia) ମଧ୍ୟରୁ ଅନ୍ୟତମ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ଏହି ମାସ ୩ ତାରିଖରେ ତାହାର ୧୩ ବର୍ଷ ବ୍ୟାପୀ ମୁକ୍ତ ଜ୍ଞାନ ବିତରଣର ମହୋତ୍ସବ ପାଳୁଛି । ଇଂରାଜୀ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ଆରମ୍ଭ ହେବାର ବର୍ଷେ ପରେ ୨୦୦୨ ମସିହାରେ ଆରମ୍ଭ ହୋଇଲା ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ । ଇଉନିକୋଡ଼ରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ଏ ଭିତରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାର ବିଶାଳତମ ଅନଲାଇନ ଜ୍ଞାନକୋଷ (ଏନସାଇକ୍ଲୋପିଡ଼ିଆ)ରେ ପରିଣତ ହୋଇଛି । ଭାରତର ବିଭିନ୍ନ ସ୍ଥାନରେ ରହୁଥିବା ପାଖାପାଖି ୧୭ ଜଣ ସକ୍ରିୟ ସମ୍ପାଦକ (“ଉଇକିଆଳି” ନାମରେ ପରିଚିତ)ଙ୍କ ଦେଇ ସମ୍ପାଦିତ ଓ ୮,୮୦୦ରୁ ଅଧିକ ପ୍ରସଙ୍ଗରେ ଭରା ଏହି ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପଟି ଏକ ଜ୍ଞାନକୋଷରୁ ଅନେକ ଉପରେ । ସ୍ୱେଚ୍ଛାରେ ସମ୍ପାଦନ କରୁଥିବା ସମ୍ପାଦକମାନଙ୍କ ଉଦ୍ୟମ ହେତୁ କପିରାଇଟ ଥିବା ଅନେକ ବହିର ଲାଇସେନ୍ସ କ୍ରିଏଟିଭ କମନ୍ସ ଭଳି ମୁକ୍ତ ଲାଇସେନ୍ସରେ ରୂପାନ୍ତରତିକ କରାଯାଇ ସେସବୁକୁ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ ଜରିଆରେ ଅଧିକ ପାଠକଙ୍କ ନିକଟରେ ପହଞ୍ଚାଇବାର ବାଟ ତିଆରି ହୋଇଛି । ଏହା ଛଡ଼ା ଲେଖକ ଓ ସତ୍ୱାଧୀକାରୀ (କପିରାଇଟ ମାଲିକ)ଙ୍କ ସହ ସନ୍ଧି କରି ଅନେକ ଉପାଦେୟ ରଚନା ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ କରାଯାଉଛି । or.wikipedia.org ରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ ସଭିଙ୍କୁ ସମ୍ପାଦନା କରିବାର ସୁଯୋଗ ଦିଆଯାଇଥାଏ ଯାହା ଫଳରେ ଖବରକାଗଜ, ପତ୍ରିକାଆଦିରେ ଅନେକ ଉପାଦେୟ ବିଷୟରେ ପ୍ରକାଶିତ ଲେଖାମାନଙ୍କ ଆଧାରରେ ନୂଆ ପ୍ରସଙ୍ଗ ତିଆରି ଓ ପୁରୁଣା ପ୍ରସଙ୍ଗର ଉନ୍ନତୀକରଣ କରାଯାଇପାରିବ ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ଉଇକିଆଳିମାନେ ଜଗତରେ ଜଣାଶୁଣା ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ଏଜୁକେସନ ପ୍ରୋଗ୍ରାମ ଭଳି ବିଭିନ୍ନ ଶିକ୍ଷଣ କାର୍ଯ୍ୟକ୍ରମ ହାତକୁ ନେଇ ପାଖାପାଖି ୨,୦୦୦ରୁ ଅଧିକ ଲୋକଙ୍କୁ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ ବିଭିନ୍ନ ବିଷୟରେ ଲେଖିବା ବାବଦରେ ଶିଖାଇଛନ୍ତି । ଏହାର ୧୩ ତମ ଜନ୍ମତିଥି ପାଳନ ନିମନ୍ତେ ଉଇକିଆଳି ସମୂହ ଏକ ବିଭିନ୍ନ ସରକାରୀ ଜର୍ଣ୍ଣାଲ, ଖବରକାଗଜ, ପତ୍ରିକା ଆଦିରେ ଥିବା ଅଣ-ଇଉନିକୋଡ଼ ଲେଖାରୁ ଇଉନିକୋଡ଼ରେ ରୂପାନ୍ତର କରିବା ପାଇଁ କ୍ୟାରେକ୍ଟର ଏନକୋଡିଙ୍ଗ କନଭର୍ଟର ବିତରଣ କରିବା ଯୋଜନା କରୁଛି । ଏହା ଫଳରେ ସର୍ଚ ଇଞ୍ଜିନରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ହୋଇନପାରୁଥିବା ଅନେକ ଉପାଦେୟ ଲେଖା ଡିଜିଟାଲ କଣ୍ଟେଣ୍ଟ ଭାବେ ଇଉନିକୋଡ଼ରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ହୋଇ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ ପାଠକମାନଙ୍କ ପଠନଯୋଗୀ ହୋଇପାରିବ ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ଯୋଗାଯୋଗ:<br />odiawiki@gmail.com<br />ମୃତ୍ୟୁଞ୍ଜୟ କର, ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ପରିଚାଳକ (ଫୋନ: 9437112371)<br />ଶୈଳେଶ ପଟ୍ଟନାୟକ, ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିଆଳି (ଫୋନ: 7537097770)<br />ସୁଭାସିସ ପାଣିଗ୍ରାହୀ, ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ପରିଚାଳକ ଓ ପ୍ରୋଗ୍ରାମ ଅଫିସର, ଆକସେସ ଟୁ ନଲେଜ-ସେଣ୍ଟର ଫର ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ ଏଣ୍ଡ ସୋସାଇଟି (08050515339)<br />subhashish@cis-india.org</p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KOdia Wikipedia2016-06-18T18:17:34ZNews ItemOdia Wikisource Sabha 2014
https://cis-india.org/openness/events/odia-wikisource-sabha-2014
<b>The Odia Wikimedia community, a volunteer community that contributes to Odia Wikipedia and its sister projects, in collaboration with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), a Bengaluru based non-profit that works in domains like IP reforms, Accessibility, Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K), etc. are celebrating the launch of Odia Wikisource on November 28, 2014 at Jayadev Bhawan, Bhubaneswar. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Odia Wikisource, a sister project of Odia Wikipedia, is a free online library that houses Odia language books online and is available for free at <a href="https://or.wikisource.org/" target="_blank">https://or.wikisource.org</a>. It is not just an online library but it focuses on bringing rare and old books that are out of copyright. CIS-A2K has been instrumental to also encourage many notable authors of Odisha to change their license terms to Creative Commons Share-Alike (CC-by-SA) license, a license that allows public access and ability to reuse the content to expand the knowledge base in Odia language on the Internet.</p>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">We are honoured to invite you to join us to take part in the discussion on “Setting a roadmap for Odia book digitization” during 3-5 pm, screening of documentary “Odia: Silalekharu Mobile”, the public meeting and award ceremony thereafter.</div>
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<li>3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Roundtable "Digital archive for Odia books" President: Dr Debiprasanna Pattanayak </li>
<li>4:30 p.m. - 5:00 pm: Screening of documentary "Odia: Silalekharu Mobile"</li>
<li>5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.: Public meeting</li>
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<p>Chief guest: Dr Soumya Ranjan Patnaik, Chairman, Eastern Media Ltd. & Editor, The Sambad<br />Chief speaker: Dr Debiprasanna Pattanayak<br />President: Dr Haraprasad Das</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/odia-wikisource-sabha-2014'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/odia-wikisource-sabha-2014</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessOdia WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2014-12-09T14:09:03ZEventOdia Wikisource Turns 3
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/odia-wikisource-turns-3
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<p dir="ltr">Odia Wikisource, the Odia language version of Wikisource, 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, 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>
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<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. </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>
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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>
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No publishermanasaraoCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOdia WikisourceOdia WikipediaWikisource2017-10-23T05:40:20ZBlog Entryବ୍ୟବହାରୀଙ୍କ ପାଇଁ ନିରାପତ୍ତା ଓ ଗୋପନୀୟତାର କୋକୁଆ ଆଣିବ ଫେସବୁକର ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସ
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/b2cb4db5fb2cb39b3eb30b40b19b4db15-b2ab3eb07b01-b28b3fb30b3eb2ab24b4db24b3e-b13-b17b2ab28b40b5fb24b3eb30-b15b15b41b06-b06b23b3fb2c-b2bb47b38b2cb41b15b30-b2bb4db30b3f-b2cb47b38b3fb15b4db38
<b>This opinion piece in Odia on Facebook's Free Basics App was published in Your Story. The post highlights several user security and privacy that Free Basics is violating apart from violating net neutrality. It also brings the parallel of Airtel Zero and Free Basics with the Grameenphone project by Mozilla in Bangladesh and the worldwide Wikipedia Zero projects.</b>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">This was published in <a class="external-link" href="http://odia.yourstory.com/read/3b6116b8ee/-">Your Story</a> on January 5, 2016.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ଫେସବୁକର ନୂଆ ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ (Free Basics) ଭାରତରେ ଆସିବା ଆଗରୁ ବ୍ୟବହାରୀଙ୍କ ଭିତରେ ନିଜ ନିରାପତ୍ତା ଓ ଗୋପନୀୟତାକୁ ନେଇ କୋକୁଆ ଭୟ ଖେଳିଲାଣି । ମାଗଣା ୩୦ଟି ଅଭାବୀ ଦେଶରେ ଫେସବୁକ, ଫେସବୁକର ସହପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ ଓ ବାକି କିଛି ୱେବସାଇଟ ମାଗଣାରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ କରାଇବାର ଆଳରେ ଫେସବୁକ ଏ ଅଭାବୀ ଦେଶର ଲୋକଙ୍କ ଅଭାବ ସଙ୍ଗେ ଖେଳୁନାହିଁ ତ? ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ ନାଆଁରେ ବ୍ୟବହାରୀଏ କେବଳ ଫେସବୁକର ପରିଧି ଭିତରେ ବାନ୍ଧି ହୋଇଯିବେ କି? ଏମିତି ଅଗଣିତ ପ୍ରଶ୍ନ ମନରେ ଉଙ୍କିମାରୁଥିବା ବେଳେ ଟେଲିକମ ରେଗୁଲେଟରି ଅଥରିଟି ଅଫ ଇଣ୍ଡିଆ ଏହାକୁ ଭାରତରେ ସାମୟିକ ଭାବେ ବାସନ୍ଦ କରିଛି ।</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">ଗତ ଦୁଇ ସପ୍ତାହ ସାରା ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ । ସାରା ଦେଶରୁ ଲୋକେ ନିଆଁରେ ପତଙ୍ଗ ଝାସ ଦେଲା ଭଳି ଫେସବୁକର ନୂଆ ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ “ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସ’ (Free Basics) ବିରୋଧରେ ଭିନ୍ନଭିନ୍ନ ଧରଣର ମତ ଦେଇଚାଲିଛନ୍ତି । ପ୍ରଧାନମନ୍ତ୍ରୀ ମୋଦିଙ୍କ ଆମେରିକା ଗସ୍ତକାଳରେ ସେ ସେଠାରେ ଜୁକରବର୍ଗଙ୍କ ସାଙ୍ଗେ ଭେଟି ଫେସବୁକର ମିଳିତ ସହଯୋଗରେ ଭାରତରେ ସାଧାରଣ ଲୋକଙ୍କ ପାଇଁ ଜ୍ଞାନ ବିତରଣ ଓ ସୂଚନା ପହଞ୍ଚାଇବା ବାବଦରେ ଆଲୋଚନା କରିଥିଲେ । ଆଉ ଫେସବୁକକୁ ଏହା ଭାରତରେ ନିଜର ଚେର ମୋଟା କରିବାକୁ ଏକ ଭଲ ବାଟ ଦେଖାଇଲା । ଫେସବୁକର ପ୍ରତିଷ୍ଠାତା ମାର୍କ ଜୁକରବର୍ଗ ଏ ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସ ବାବଦରେ ଘୋଷଣା କରିବାର ଦୁଇ ସପ୍ତାହ ନ ବିତୁଣୁ ଟେଲିକମ ରେଗୁଲେଟରି ଅଥରିଟି ଅଫ ଇଣ୍ଡିଆ (ଟ୍ରାଇ) ପାଖରେ ସାଢ଼େ ଚାରି ଲକ୍ଷ ପାଖାପାଖି ଇମେଲ ଏହାକୁ ରୋକିବା ଲାଗି ପହଞ୍ଚି ସାରିଲାଣି । ଜନନେତା ଓ ଇନଫୋସିସର ସହ ପ୍ରତିଷ୍ଠାତା ଙ୍କଠାରୁ ଆରମ୍ଭ କରି ମିଡ଼ିଆନାମାର ପ୍ରତିଷ୍ଠାତା , ଭେଞ୍ଚର କ୍ୟାପିଟାଲିଷ୍ଟ , ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ ଆକ୍ଟିଭିଷ୍ଟ , ଙ୍କ ଯାଏ ସଭିଏଁ ଏହା ପଛରେ ଫେସବୁକ ଲାଭକରୀ ମନୋଭାବ ନିହିତ ଅଛି ବୋଲି କଡ଼ା ନିନ୍ଦା କରି ଲେଖିଲେଣି । ତେବେ କ’ଣ ଏ ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସ? କାହିଁକି ଏତେ ବିବାଦ ଏ ସରଳ ସୁବିଧା ବିରୋଧରେ?</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">ଫେସବୁକ୍ ବ୍ୟବହାର କରୁଥିବା ଊଣା ଅଧିକେ ସଭିଏଁ ଜାଣୁଥିବେ ସେ କେଡ଼େ ଅଠାକାଠି! ଫେସବୁକର ପ୍ରାୟ ବ୍ୟବହାରୀ ହେଲେ ଯୁବବର୍ଗ । ତେବେ କି ଯୁବା କି ବୁଢ଼ା ଫେସବୁକରେ ପ୍ରାୟ ଲୋକେ କେବଳ ମଜାମଉଜ ଲାଗି ଆସିଥାନ୍ତି । ଆଉ ଏଥିରେ ଖୁବ୍ କମ୍ ସମୟରେ ଏତେ ଅଧିକ ଲୋକଙ୍କ ସଙ୍ଗେ ମିଶିବା, ଗପିବା ଓ ଏତେ ଅଧିକ ମଉଜ ପାଇ ଅନେକେ ଫେସବୁକ ପ୍ରେମରେ ପଡ଼ିଯାଆନ୍ତି । ସରଳ ଭାଷାରେ କହିଲେ ଫେସବୁକ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ଏକ ହାଟ ବଜାର । ଲୋକେ ସେଠି କିଛି ସମୟ କାଟିବା ପାଇଁ, ଚିହ୍ନା-ଅଚିହ୍ନା ଲୋକଙ୍କ ସହ ମିଶିବା ପାଇଁ, ଆଳାପ-ଆଲୋଚନା ପାଇଁ ଏକାଠି ହୁଅନ୍ତି । ଅଧିକାଂଶ ଆଲୋଚନା କେବଳ ମଉଜ ପାଇଁ ହେଲାବେଳେ କିଛି ଉପଯୋଗୀ ଆଲୋଚନା ମଧ୍ୟ ହୋଇଥାଏ । ଫେସବୁକ ଏକ ବିଶାଳ ଲାଭକରୀ କମ୍ପାନୀ । ଏହାର ଆଉ ଏକ ସହ ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ ହେଲା ହ୍ୱାଟସ୍ଅପ୍ । ଏହା ଅନଲାଇନ ଚାଟିଂ ପାଇଁ ବ୍ୟବହାର କରାଯାଏ । ଫଟୋ ଭିଡ଼ିଓରୁ ଆରମ୍ଭ କରି ସାଧାରଣ ଚାଟିଂ ନିମନ୍ତେ ଏହା ଖୁବ୍ ଜଣା ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ନିକଟରେ ଫେସବୁକ Internet.org ନାମକ ଏକ ସହ-ସଙ୍ଗଠନ ଆରମ୍ଭ କରିଛି । ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସ ହେଲା ଏ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ ଡଟ ଅର୍ଗ ଅଧୀନରେ ଏକ ଯୋଜନା । ତେବେ ଫେସବୁକ ଓ ଫେସବୁକର ସହ-ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ ସବୁକୁ ଅଭାବୀ ଦେଶମାନଙ୍କରେ ଅଧିକ ଲୋକପ୍ରିୟ କରିବା ଲାଗି ସେସବୁକୁ ବିନାମୂଲ୍ୟରେ ପହଞ୍ଚାଇବା ପାଇଁ ଏ ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସ । ଭାରତ ସମେତ ଜଗତର ୩୦ଟି ଦେଶରେ ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସ ଜରିଆରେ ମାଗଣା ସୀମିତ ଫେସବୁକ ସୁବିଧା ଦେବା ଏହାର ଉଦ୍ଦେଶ୍ୟ । ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସ ଜରିଆରେ ଆଉ କିଛି ମାଗଣା ୱେବସାଇଟ ମଧ୍ୟ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ହେବ । ତେବେ ଏଠାରେ ଅନେକ ପ୍ରଶ୍ନ ମନରେ ଉଙ୍କିମାରେ । ଏ ମାଗଣା ୱେବସାଇଟ ସବୁ ବ୍ୟବହାରୀଙ୍କ ପାଇଁ ଲୋଡ଼ା କି ନା ତା’ର ସିଦ୍ଧାନ୍ତ କିଏ ନେବ - ଫେସବୁକ ନା ବ୍ୟବହାରୀ? ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସ ଅଧୁନା କିଛି ଦେଶରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ହୋଇଥିବାବେଳେ ଫିଲିପାଇନ୍ସରେ ରହୁଥିବା ଜଣେ ଭାରତୀୟ ଜିତେଶ ଗୋସ୍ୱାମୀ ନିକଟରେ ନିଜେ ନିଜ ମୋବାଇଲରେ ସେଠାର ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସ ଇନଷ୍ଟଲ କରି ଯାହା ମତ ଦେଇଛନ୍ତି ତା’ ଭାରି ଚିନ୍ତାର ବିଷୟ । ସାଧାରଣ ଫେସବୁକର ଅଧାରୁ ଅଧିକ ସୁବିଧା ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସରେ ନାହିଁ । ଏଥିରେ ଫେସବୁକ ବାହାରେ ଥିବା ଭିଡ଼ିଓ ମାଗଣାରେ ଦେଖିହେବନି କି ଖବର ଆଦି ସମ୍ପୂର୍ଣ୍ଣ ପଢ଼ିହେବନି । ପୁଣି ମାଗଣାରେ ମିଳିବାକୁ ଥିବା ବାକି ୱେବସାଇଟ ସବୁ ବାଛିବାରେ ଫେସବୁକର ଏକଚାଟିଆ ଅଧିକାର ରହିବ । ବ୍ୟବହାରୀଏ କ’ଣ ଚାହାନ୍ତି ନ ଚାହାନ୍ତି ତାହା ଫେସବୁକ ନିର୍ଣ୍ଣୟ କରିବ ।</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">ଆଉ ‘ଗରିବ ମାଇପ ସବୁରି ଶାଳୀ’ ନ୍ୟାୟରେ ଗରିବଙ୍କୁ ମାଗଣା ତିଅଣର ସୁଆଦ ଚଖାଇ ଫେସବୁକ ସେମାନଙ୍କୁ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ ଯୋଗାଇବା ଆଳରେ କେବଳ ଫେସବୁକର ପରିଧି ଭିତରେ ବାନ୍ଧି ରଖିବ । ଫେସବୁକ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ, Mozilla ଭଳି ଖୋଲା ସଫ୍ଟଓଏର ବ୍ୟବହାର କରେନାହିଁ କି ଲୋକଙ୍କ ଉଦ୍ୟମରେ ତିଆରି ନୁହେଁ । ଏହା ସମ୍ପୂର୍ଣ୍ଣ ଭାବେ ଏକ ଲାଭକାରୀ କମ୍ପାନୀ । ତେଣୁ ଫେସବୁକର ସବୁ କାମ ଲୋକଙ୍କ ସ୍ୱାର୍ଥ ନୁହେଁ, ବରଂ ନିଜ ସ୍ୱାର୍ଥ ହାସଲ ପାଇଁ । ଅଭାବୀ ଦେଶର ଲୋକଙ୍କ ମନ ଜିଣିବା ପାଇଁ ଓ ନିଜର ବ୍ୟବହାରୀ ସଂଖ୍ୟା ବଢ଼ାଇବା ପାଇଁ ଏହା ଫେସବୁକର ଏକ ମସୁଧା ବୋଲି ଅନେକ ଚିନ୍ତାଶୀଳ ଲୋକେ ମତ ଦେଇଛନ୍ତି । ଫେସବୁକର ଏହି ଏକଚାଟିଆ କାମ ନେଟ ନିଉଟ୍ରାଲିଟି ବା ନେଟ ସମାନତାର ପକ୍ଷପାତୀ । ପକ୍ଷପାତ ନ କରି ସବୁ ୱେବସାଇଟକୁ ସମାନ ଭାବେ ଗଣିବା ନେଟ ସମାନତା ନାମରେ ଜଣା ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସରେ ଥିବା ନାନାଦି ଭୁଲ ବିଷୟକୁ ଭଲ ଭାବେ ତନଖି କରିବା ପାଇଁ ନିକଟରେ ଟେଲିକମ ରେଗୁଲେଟରି ଅଥରିଟି ଅଫ ଇଣ୍ଡିଆ (ଟ୍ରାଇ) ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସକୁ କିଛିକାଳ ପାଇଁ ବାସନ୍ଦ କରିଛି । ଚତୁର ଫେସବୁକ କେବେ ଚାଷୀମାନଙ୍କୁ ପାଣିପାଗ ଜାଣିବାରେ ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରିବ ତ କେବେ ଅଭାବୀ ଭାରତୀୟଙ୍କୁ ପରସ୍ପର ସହ ଯୋଡ଼ିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରିବ ବୋଲି ଦେଶସାରା ସହର ବଜାର ସବୁଠି ଜୋରଦାର ପ୍ରଚାର ଚଳାଇଥିଲା । ସବୁ ଖବରକାଗଜରେ ପୂରା ଫରଦ ବିଜ୍ଞାପନ ଆଉ ସବୁ ବସ୍ ରହିବା ସ୍ଥାନରେ ବଡ଼ବଡ଼ ହୋର୍ଡିଂ । ଆଉ ଏଥିରେ ସଭିଙ୍କୁ ଅନୁରୋଧ ଥିଲା ଏକ ନମ୍ବରକୁ ମିସକଲ ଦେଇ ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସକୁ ସମର୍ଥନ କରିବା ପାଇଁ । ଏ ପ୍ରଚାର ପ୍ରସାରରେ ୧୦୦ କୋଟିରୁ ଅଧିକ ବୋଧେ ଖର୍ଚ୍ଚ ହୋଇଥିବ । କେଉଁଠୁ ଆଦାୟ ହେବ ଏ ପଇସା ?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସର ମାଗଣା ଫେସବୁକ ଓ ବାକି ୱେବସାଇଟକୁ ସୁବିଧା ଦେବାର ଏ ଆଳ ବିରୋଧରେ ଝଡ଼ ଉଠିଛି । ଫେସବୁକର ମିସକଲ୍ ଅଭିଯାନର କଡ଼ା ଜବାବ ଦେବା ପାଇଁ <a href="http://savetheinternet.in/">http://savetheinternet.in</a> ଓ <a href="http://fsmi.in/">http://fsmi.in</a> ନାମକ ଦୁଇଟି ୱେବସାଇଟ ପକ୍ଷରୁ ଜନସାଧାରଣଙ୍କୁ ସଚେତନ କରାଯାଇ ଟ୍ରାଇ ପାଖକୁ ଇମେଲ ପଠାଇବା ପାଇଁ ଅନୁରୋଧ କରାଯାଇଥିଲା। ଫେସବୁକର କୋଟିକୋଟି ଟଙ୍କା ଖର୍ଚ୍ଚର ମିସକଲ ଅଭିଯାନରୁ ୧୦ଲକ୍ଷ ସମର୍ଥନ ମିଳିଥିବାବେଳେ ବିନା ପଇସାରେ ସାଢ଼େ ଚାରିଲକ୍ଷରୁ ଅଧିକ ଲୋକ ଇମେଲ ଜରିଆରେ ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସକୁ ବିରୋଧ କରି ଟ୍ରାଇକୁ ଇମେଲ କରିଛନ୍ତି । ତେବେ ଫେସବୁକର ଏହି ସମର୍ଥନ ସଂଗ୍ରହକୁ ଟ୍ରାଇର ସଭାପତି ଆରଏସ୍ ଶର୍ମା ଘୋର ନିନ୍ଦା କରି କହିଛନ୍ତି, ଏଯାବତ୍ ଫେସବୁକ ଯେଉଁ ୧୪ ଲକ୍ଷ ଲୋକଙ୍କୁ ପ୍ରଭାବିତ କରି ସେମାନଙ୍କୁ ମିସକଲ୍ ଜରିଆରେ ସମର୍ଥନ ଆଣିଛି ତା’ ମୂଲ୍ୟହୀନ । ୧୦୦ କୋଟି ଟଙ୍କାର କି ଅପଚୟ! ସେତିକି ପଇସାରେ ଶହେ ହଜାର ଲୋକଙ୍କୁ ମାଗଣାରେ କିଛି ଉପଯୋଗୀ ସାଇଟ ଦେଖିବା ସୁଯୋଗ ଦେଇଥିଲେ ଆହୁରି ଭଲ ହୋଇଥାନ୍ତା ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସରେ ଲୁଚି ରହିଥିବା ସବୁଠୁ ବଡ଼ ବିପଦଟି ହେଲା ଫେସବୁକର ତଥ୍ୟ ସଂଗ୍ରହ କାରସାଦି । ବ୍ୟବହାରୀଏ କି କି ସାଇଟ ଦେଖିଲେ, କାହା ସଙ୍ଗେ ଗପିଲେ ସେସବୁ ବ୍ୟବହାରୀଙ୍କ ଅଗୋଚରରେ ଟିକିନିଖି କରି ହିସାବ ରଖିଥାଏ । ସଳଖେ କହିଲେ ଫେସବୁକରେ ବ୍ୟବହାରୀ ବାପୁଡ଼ାର ବ୍ୟକ୍ତିଗତ ବୋଲି କିଛି ରହିବ ନାହିଁ । ଫେସବୁକ ଆରମ୍ଭରୁ ଶବ୍ଦସମ୍ଭାରରେ ଭରା ଏକ ଲମ୍ବା ବିବରଣୀରେ ତଥ୍ୟ ସଂଗ୍ରହରେ ବ୍ୟବହାରୀଙ୍କ କୌଣସି ଅଭିଯୋଗ ନାହିଁ ବୋଲି ଖୁବ୍ ଚତୁର ଭାବେ ତାଙ୍କଠୁ ଅନୁମତି ନେଇଯାଏ । ଅନଭିଜ୍ଞ ବ୍ୟବହାରୀଟିର ପାଠଘର ଯାହା ସେଥିରେ ସେ ଏ ଫିକର ବୁଝିବ ବା କିପରି? ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ ଓକିଲ ଇବେନ ମଗଲେନ ଓ ମିସି ଚୌଧୁରୀ ଏକ ଲେଖାରେ ଦୁହେଁ ତନ୍ନ ତନ୍ନ କରି ବିଶ୍ଳେଷଣ କରିଛନ୍ତି ଏ କଥା । ପ୍ରଶ୍ନ ଉଠେ ଯେ ଫେସବୁକ ଧନୀ ଦେଶରେ ଏଭଳି ବେପରୁଆ ଅପସାହସ କରିବ କି ?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ଏହିଭଳି ଆଉ ଏକ କୁଟିଳ ବିଷୟ ଥିଲା ଏଆରଟେଲ ଜିରୋ । ଏଆରଟେଲ ଜିରୋ ଆଉ ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସ ଭିତରେ ବଡ଼ ସମାନତା ହେଉଛି ଉଭୟ କମ୍ପାନୀ କିଛି ୱେବସାଇଟଙ୍କଠାରୁ ବିପୁଳ ପରିମାଣରେ ପଇସା ନେଇ ସେ ୱେବସାଇଟ ସବୁକୁ ବ୍ୟବହାରୀଙ୍କ ପାଇଁ ମାଗଣା ଯୋଗାଇଥାନ୍ତି । ଏଥିରେ ସେବା ଯୋଗାଣକାରୀ ଓ ମାଗଣାରେ ବ୍ୟବହାରୀଙ୍କ ପାଖେ ପହଞ୍ଚୁଥିବା ୱେବସାଇଟ ସବୁଙ୍କ ସିଧାସଳଖ ସ୍ୱାର୍ଥ ନିହିତ ଥାଏ । ପାଠକଙ୍କୁ ଜ୍ଞାନ ବିତରଣ କରିବାର ତୁଚ୍ଛା ବିଜ୍ଞାପନ ତଳେ ଯେ ଏତେ ଫନ୍ଦି ରହିଛି ତାହା ପାଠକ ବାପୁଡ଼ା ବା ଜାଣିବ କେମନ୍ତେ ? ଆଉ ଧନୀ ଦେଶରେ ଏଭଳି ଫିକର ସହଜେ ଧରାପଡ଼ିବ ବୋଲି ଫେସବୁକ ଭଳି କମ୍ପାନୀ ୩୦ଟି ଅଭାବୀ ଦେଶକୁ ଥୋପ କରିଛି ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ତେବେ ମାଗଣାରେ କିଛି ୱେବସାଇଟ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ କରାଇବା କିଛି ନୂଆ ନୁହେଁ । ଅତୀତରେ ବାଂଲାଦେଶରେ Mozilla (ଫାୟାରଫକ୍ସ ଭଳି ନାନାଦି ଖୋଲା ଓଫ୍ଟଓଏର ପରିଚାଳନା କରୁଥିବା ସଙ୍ଗଠନ) <a href="http://m.grameenphone.com/bn/node/2757">ଗ୍ରାମୀଣଫୋନ</a> ନାମକ ଯୋଜନା ଜରିଆରେ ୫ ଲକ୍ଷରୁ ଅଧିକ ଲୋକଙ୍କୁ ଦିନକୁ ୨୦ ଏମ୍ବିର ଡାଟା ଦେବା ସାରା ଜଗତରେ ଆଲୋଚନା ବିଷୟ ହୋଇଥିଲା । Mozilla ଓ ମୋବାଇଲ ସେବା ଯୋଗାଣକାରୀ ଟେଲିନର ଏଥିପାଇଁ ପ୍ରଶଂସାର ପାତ୍ର ହୋଇଥିଲେ । ଅନେକ ଦେଶରେ ସାଧାରଣ ଲୋକେ ବିଭିନ୍ନ ବିଷୟରେ ଜାଣିବାକୁ ପାଉନଥିବାରୁ ଏସ୍ଏମ୍ଏସ୍ ଓ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ ଯୋଗେ ସାଧାରଣ ଲୋକଙ୍କ ଦ୍ୱାରା ସମ୍ପାଦିତ ଅନ୍ଲାଇନ ଜ୍ଞାନକୋଷ <a href="http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:CS">ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ</a>, <a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero">ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ଜିରୋ</a> ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ ଜରିଆରେ ମାଗଣାରେ ଯୋଗାଇଦିଆଯାଉଛି । ଭାରତରେ ମଧ୍ୟ ପରୀକ୍ଷାମୂଳକ ଭାବେ ଏହି ସୁବିଧା କେତେକ ସ୍ଥାନରେ ଦିଆଯାଇଛି । ତେବେ ଜ୍ଞାନ ବିତରଣ ପାଇଁ ଏହିଭଳି ଉଦ୍ୟମ ସବୁରି ଆଦର ପାଆନ୍ତି । କିନ୍ତୁ ନିଜ ସ୍ୱାର୍ଥ ହାସଲ ନିମନ୍ତେ ଜଗତର ହିତ ନାମରେ ଗରିବଙ୍କ ଗରିବୀକୁ ଥୋପ କରି ଫେସବୁକ୍ର ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସ କେବଳ ନିନ୍ଦା ପାଇଛି ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ନିକଟରେ ଭର୍ଜରେ ପ୍ରକାଶିତ <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/4/10712026/facebook-android-research-trust">ଏକ ଲେଖା</a>ରେ ଫେସବୁକ କାଳିମାଭରା ଆଉ ଏକ କଥା ନଜରକୁ ଆସିଛି । ଫେସବୁକ ଅତୀତରେ ବ୍ୟବହାରୀଙ୍କ ନିଉଜ ଫିଡ଼ରେ ଅଲଗା ଅଲଗା ଅନୁଭୂତିର ନିଉଜ ଫିଡ଼ ଛାଡ଼ିଥାଏ । ଅର୍ଥାତ ଜଣଙ୍କ ନିଉଜ ଫିଡ଼ରେ କେବଳ ତାଙ୍କ ସାଙ୍ଗମାନଙ୍କ ଦୁଃଖଭରା ପୋଷ୍ଟସବୁ ଲଗାତର ଆସୁଥିବ । ବ୍ୟବହାରୀଙ୍କ ମୁଡ଼ ଜାଣିବା ଗବେଷଣା ନାଁରେ ଏ କୁଟିଳ ଚିନ୍ତା ଯେ କେତେ ଘାତକ ତାହା ସହଜେ ଅନୁମେୟ । ଫେସବୁକର ବିଭିନ୍ନ ଏମିତି ନୀତି ଅନେକଙ୍କୁ ଅଜଣା ଓ ଏସବୁ ବ୍ୟବହାରୀଙ୍କ ଗୋପନୀୟତା, ବ୍ୟକ୍ତିଗତ ତଥ୍ୟ ଓ ନିରାପତ୍ତାକୁ ପାଦରେ ଦଳି ଦେଲାଭଳି । <strong>ଲୋକଙ୍କ ସମର୍ଥନ ପାଇବାକୁ ହେଲେ କିଛି ପରିମାଣରେ ସଚ୍ଚା ହେବାକୁ ଯେ ପଡ଼ିବ ଏ କଥାଟି ଫେସବୁକ ଏବେଠୁ ହେଜିଲେ ଆଗକୁ ମଙ୍ଗଳ ହେବ ।</strong></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/b2cb4db5fb2cb39b3eb30b40b19b4db15-b2ab3eb07b01-b28b3fb30b3eb2ab24b4db24b3e-b13-b17b2ab28b40b5fb24b3eb30-b15b15b41b06-b06b23b3fb2c-b2bb47b38b2cb41b15b30-b2bb4db30b3f-b2cb47b38b3fb15b4db38'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/b2cb4db5fb2cb39b3eb30b40b19b4db15-b2ab3eb07b01-b28b3fb30b3eb2ab24b4db24b3e-b13-b17b2ab28b40b5fb24b3eb30-b15b15b41b06-b06b23b3fb2c-b2bb47b38b2cb41b15b30-b2bb4db30b3f-b2cb47b38b3fb15b4db38</a>
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No publishersubhaFree BasicsOdia WikipediaNet NeutralityAccess to Knowledge2016-01-28T07:24:19ZBlog EntryBooks at a Click
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/new-indian-express-january-9-2016-diana-sahu-books-at-a-click
<b>The OdiaWikimedia community and Bhubaneswar-based Srujanika have come together to make rare science books available online for readers, students & science educators.
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<p style="text-align: justify;">The article by Diana Sahu was <a class="external-link" href="http://epaper.newindianexpress.com/m/687837/The-New-Indian-Express-Bhubaneswar/09012016#issue/18/1">published in the New Indian Express</a> on January 9, 2016.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Readers can now access rare science books in Odia language at Odia Wikisource, an online library of popular books in the language. The Odia Wikimedia community and Bhubaneswar-based Srujanika have come together to make these books available online for readers, students and science educators. This apart, books of Sahitya Akademi award winning writer Jagannath Prasad Das have been added to the library. Srujanika's co-founder Puspashree Pattnaik recently provided 700 popular science books that were published by the organisation to the Wikimedia community for digitisation. “These books were appreciated by many and even in demand after going out of print. Hence, we thought if these can be shared under free licence then they can reach a wider population. Wikipedia contributors can use these as resources and enhance science content in Odia Wikipedia as well", says Puspashree, a former teacher. She along with her husband Nikhil Pattnaik, a former scientist with the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, had published several science books as part of their project to popularise the subject among children. With support from Vigyan Prasar in New Delhi, the couple had also documented rare works of science published in books, magazines, periodicals and newspapers from 1850 to 1950 in electronic format, a few years back. Around science 765 articles written over a century have been put on CDs and DVDs according to the names of authors and year of publication. The science books have been digitised by volunteers of the Odia Wikimedia community and the Centre for Internet and Society, a non-profit working for supporting Indian language Wikipedia projects and the communities.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Similarly, the Wikimedia community has re-licensed 30 books of Das under a free license CC-by-SA 4.0. His books can now be accessed at https://orwikisource.org and anyone can use them for academic or research work. “My tryst with internet started very late. I was introduced to digital books through Srujanika's online version of Purnachandra Odia Bhashakosha - comprising 9,500 pages in seven volumes- which was impossible to handle on the writing table. That made me think how convenient it would be to have Odia books avail. able on the internet. As a beginning. I decided to put my own writings on the internet", said Das. Prior to Das, eminent writers and litterateurs Debi Prasanna Pattanayak, Manoj Panda, Subrat Prusty, Bharat Majhi and organisations like 'Manik Biswanath Smrutinyasa' and Aama Odisha' had come forward to make their books available online for free using Odia Wikisource as a platform. At present, Odia Wikisource has 280 Odia books and all are either under Public Domain or Creative Commons Share Alike licences. A team of 10 active contributors, known as "Uikiali' in Odia, are digitising books of various genres ranging from science writing, fiction to 0dia classics. “Apart from the science writ. ings, we are also working on digitising the biography of Nandini Satpathy which has been published by Ashisa Ranjan Mohapatra of Srimati Nandini Satpathy Memorial Trust,” says Mrutyunjaya Kar, administrator of Odia Wikisource and Odia Wikipedia who has been contributing to the Wikimedia projects in Odia, Hindi, Sanskrit and English for the last four years. Odia Wikisource is a sister project of Odia Wikipedia.</p>
<p class="callout">These books were appreciated by many and going out of print. If these can be shared under free licence then they can reach a wider population.<br /><strong>Pushpashree Pattnaik</strong></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/new-indian-express-january-9-2016-diana-sahu-books-at-a-click'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/new-indian-express-january-9-2016-diana-sahu-books-at-a-click</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOdia WikisourceOdia Wikipedia2016-06-18T17:52:06ZNews Itemଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା ପାଇଁ କିଛି ଅନ୍ତର୍ଜାତୀୟ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/b13b21b3cb3fb06-b2db3eb37b3e-b2ab3eb07b01-b15b3fb1bb3f-b05b28b4db24b30b4db1cb3eb24b40b5f-b07b23b4db1fb30b28b47b1f-b2ab4db30b15b33b4db2a
<b>With more free and open software coming in, more people are coming together and collaborating. The ownership of various projects are coming from bigger corporations to the hands of people. It is essential to learn about the global, collaborative and multilingual projects in our language so that it come out of the four walls of literature and become the language of economy and knowledge. In this piece, I have discussed about three open knowledge projects Odia Wikipedia, Odia Wikisource and Global Voices Odia, how they work and how anyone can contribute in these projects.
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<p style="text-align: justify;">The article was published in <a class="external-link" href="http://odia.yourstory.com/read/9fc7c70a93/-">Your Story</a> on January 14, 2016.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">ଭାଷାଟି ଆମର ଏ ଦେଶର ମୋଟ ୬୦୦ରୁ ଅଧିକ ଭାଷା ଓ ତହିଁରୁ ୬ଟି ପୁରୁଣା ଭାଷା ଭିତରୁ ଗୋଟିଏ ବୋଲି ମାନ୍ୟତା ପାଇଲା । ଭାଷା ଭିତ୍ତିରେ ରାଜ୍ୟ ହେବାରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ହେଉଛି ଏସିଆରେ ପ୍ରଥମ । ଆମ ଭାଷା ମୂଳ ବିଶାଳ କଳିଙ୍ଗ ଭୁଖଣ୍ଡର ସତ୍ତାକୁ ଧରି ରଖିଥିବା ବୋଧେ ଏକୋଇ ଭାଷା । ଏତେ ସବୁ ପରେ ମଧ୍ୟ ଆମ ଭାଷା ଆନ୍ତର୍ଜାତିକ ସ୍ତରରେ କେତେ ପରିଚିତ ତାହା ନ କହିବା ଭଲ ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="callout">ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭଳି ଏତେ ପୁରାତନ ଭାଷା ଜଗତରେ ରହିଛି ବୋଲି କେଇ ଶହ ବର୍ଷ ତଳେ ଆମ ନିଜର ଥିବା ଆମ ପଡ଼ିଶା ବଙ୍ଗ, ବିହାରର ଲୋକେ ମଧ୍ୟ ଜାଣିଥିବେ କି ନାଁ ସନ୍ଦେହ । ଯେଉଁଠି ନିଜ ରାଜ୍ୟର ଲୋକେ ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ କଥା ହେବାକୁ ନାରାଜ ସେଠି ଦେଶବିଦେଶରେ ପତିଆରା କଥା କହିବା ତୁଚ୍ଛା ପାଗଳାମି ବୋଲି ପାଠକେ ହୁଏତ ଭାବୁଥିବେ ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ତେବେ ଏ ପ୍ରସଙ୍ଗ ଆଲୋଚନା କରିବା ପଛରେ ରହିଛି ଆମ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଜାତିର ମାନସିକତା । ବିଦେଶରୁ ଆସିଥିବା ଲୋକଟେ ଅଧିକ ଆଦର ପାଏ, ନିଜ ଲୋକେ ବିଦେଶ ଯାଇ ବାହୁଡ଼ିଲେ ଅଧିକ ସମ୍ମାନର ଅଧିକାରୀ ହୁଅନ୍ତି, ଏମିତିକି ଲୋକେ ମଦ ପିଇଲେ ବିଦେଶୀ ଭାଷାରେ ବକନ୍ତି ବୋଲି ଶୁଣାଯାଏ! ଏଣୁ ନିଜ ରାଇଜ ଆଉ ଦେଶରେ ଯେବେ ଆମ ଭାଷାଟି ଗାଁ କନିଆଁ, କାଳେ ବିଦେଶରେ କାଟତି ବଢ଼ିଲେ, ଭାଷାଟି ଏକ ଆନ୍ତର୍ଜାତୀୟ ଭାଷା ବୋଲି ବିଖ୍ୟାତ ହେବ ଆଉ ନିଜ ଲୋକଙ୍କ ତା ପ୍ରତି ଆଦର ବଢ଼ିପାରେ ବୋଲି ବିଚାରିବା । ଏ କଥାଟି ଯେ ଆମ ବିଲାତ ଫେରନ୍ତା ବାବୁ ମାନେ ହେଜିନଥିବେ ତା' ନୁହେଁ, ହେଲେ ଯେଉଁଠି ଖଣ୍ଡି ଇଂରାଜୀ ଓ ହିନ୍ଦିରେ କାମ ଚଳି ଯାଉଛି ସେଠି ସେମାନେ କାହିଁକି କଷଣ ସହି ଯେ ପ୍ରାଞ୍ଜଳ ଇଂରାଜୀ ଶିଖିବେ ଆଉ ପାଞ୍ଚ ଦେଶର ଲୋକଙ୍କ ଆଗରେ ନିଜ କଥା ସଳଖେ ବଖାଣିବେ? କାମ ତ ଚଳିଯାଉଛି!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">କେଇଦିନ ତଳେ ଇଟାଲିରୁ ଜଣେ ସାଙ୍ଗ ଜଣାଇଲେ "ଓଡ଼ିଆ" ଶବ୍ଦଟି (ସେମାନେ, ପର୍ତ୍ତୁଗୀଜ ଓ ସ୍ପାନିସ ଭାଷୀଏ "ଓଦିଆ" ବୋଲି ଉଚ୍ଚାରଣ କରନ୍ତି) "ଘୃଣା କରିବା" ପାଇଁ ବ୍ୟବହାର ହୁଏ । ମୁହଁରେ କହିଲି ନାହିଁ, ହେଲେ ମନରେ ଭାଜିଲି ଆମ ଲୋକେ ନିଜ ଭାଷାକୁ କଣ କମ ହିନିମାନ ନ କରନ୍ତି । ଯଦି ଆମ ଭାଷା ଜଗତର ଛାମୁଆଁ ଭାଷା ଭିତରୁ ଗୋଟେ ହୋଇପାରନ୍ତା ତାହେଲେ ଏ "ଘୃଣାର ଭାଷା" ହୋଇ ଆଉ ନ ରହନ୍ତା । ତେବେ ଆମମାନଙ୍କ ଭିତରୁ କେତେ ଜଣ ଜଗତର ଆଉ ଭାଷା ଗବେଷାଳିଙ୍କ ସଙ୍ଗେ ନିଜ ଭାଷା କଥା ପକାଉଛୁ? ଆମେ ଯେଡ଼େ ବଡ଼ ଆଁ କରି ଆଉ ଜଳପ୍ରପାତକୁ ଟିଭିରେ ଦେଖୁଛୁ ଆମ ଖଣ୍ଡାଧାର କି ବରେହିପାଣିର ଛିଟିକାଏ ପାଣି ନିଜ ଦେହରେ ବଜେଇ ଚାଖୁଛୁ କି ତା'ର ମଜା?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="callout">ଓଡ଼ିଶା ସୀମା ଡେଇଁଲେ ଓଡ଼ିଆମାନେ ଏତେ ଅନର୍ଗଳ ହିନ୍ଦୀ କହିବେ ଆପଣଙ୍କୁ ବୋଧ ହେବ ବୋଧେ ଏମାନେ ଅଭିମନ୍ୟୁ ହୋଇ ବୋଉ ପେଟରୁ ହିନ୍ଦୀ ଶିଖିଥିଲେ ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ଅଧିକ ଭାଷା ଶିଖିଲେ ଭଲ, କାମରେ ଆସେ । ହେଲେ ନିଜ ଭାଷାକୁ ତୁଚ୍ଛ କରି, ତା' ଉପରେ ମଳ ଅଜାଡ଼ି ଦେଇ କିଏ ନୂଆ ଭାଷାରେ ଏତେ ପାରଙ୍ଗମ ହୁଏନା । ଆଜି ଯାଏ ଆମ ଭାଷାର ଏତେ ସାହିତ୍ୟ ଯେ ଗଢ଼ା, ତା ଭିତରୁ କେତେ ଅନ୍ୟ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ ହୋଇଛି । ଯେଉଁମାନେ ଆମ ସାହିତ୍ୟର ମୁଖିଆ ବୋଲାଇ କାଳ କାଳ ଧରି ଗାଦି ମାଡ଼ି ବସିଛନ୍ତି ସେମାନଙ୍କୁ ପୁଚ୍ଛିବାର ବେଳ ଆସିଛି କାହିଁକି ଆମେ ଖାଲି ଅନ୍ୟ ଭାଷାରୁ ଅନୁବାଦ କରୁଛୁ, କାହିଁକି ଆମର କାଳଜୟୀ ଲେଖାମାନ ଦେଶ ଓ ଦେଶ ବାହାରେ ପଢ଼ାଯାଉନାହିଁ? ଭାରତୀୟ ଭାଷା ଭିତରୁ କେବଳ ତାମିଲ ଭାଷା କଥା ଚର୍ଚ୍ଚା ହୁଏ ଦେଶ ବିଦେଶରେ । କାରଣ କଣ ଜାଣନ୍ତି? ବାକି ସବୁ କାରଣ ବାଦେ ସବୁଠୁ ବଡ଼ କାରଣଟି ହେଲା ସେ ଭାଷାର ପୁରୋଧାମାନେ ରାଜ୍ୟ କି ଦେଶ ଭିତରେ ବାନ୍ଧି ନ ହୋଇ ନିଜ ଭାଷାକୁ ସାରା ଜଗତକୁ ନେଇଛନ୍ତି । ଖାଲି ପଇସାର ଟାଣରେ ଏ କାମ ହୋଇନାହିଁ, ଏଥିରେ ଧନ, ରାଜନୀତି ଆଉ ଡିପ୍ଲୋମାସି ଲାଗିଛି । ଆମ ସାହିତ୍ୟିକମାନେ ଥରୁଟେ ବିଦେଶ ଗଲେ ସେଠି ନିଜ ଭାଷା, ରାଇଜ କଥା କେତେ ଯେ ଗପନ୍ତି ତା' ମା' ଗଙ୍ଗେଇଙ୍କି ଜଣା । ଗପୁଥିଲେ ତାଙ୍କ ପରିଚିତ ମହଲରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା ବାବଦରେ ମଞ୍ଜିଟିଏ ପୋତା ହୋଇଥାନ୍ତା, ଅନ୍ତତ କିଛି ଭାଷାରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ବହି ଅନୁଦିତ ହୋଇଥାନ୍ତା, ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାର ପୁରୁଣାପଣ ବାବଦରେ ବିଦେଶୀ ବ୍ଲଗରେ, ଖବରକାଗଜରେ, ଟେଲିଭିଜନରେ ଚର୍ଚ୍ଚା ହୋଇଥାନ୍ତା । ହୋଇଛି କି ଏଥିରୁ କାଣିଚାଏ? ଆମେ ନିଜ ଭାଷାର ବିଶ୍ୱବିଦ୍ୟାଳୟ କଥା ବିଚାରୁଛୁ, ହେଲେ ଆକାଶ କଇଆଁ ସ୍ୱରୂପ "ଶାସ୍ତ୍ରୀୟ ମାନ୍ୟତା କେନ୍ଦ୍ର ଅନୁଦାନ ରାଶି" ଆସିବାକୁ ନ ଚାହିଁ ବିଦେଶରୁ ରାଶି କେମିତି ଆସି ଏ କାମରେ ଲାଗିବ ତା' ପାଇଁ ବାଟ ତିଆରୁଛୁ କି? ତେବେ ଏ ଦୁଃଖ ବଖାଣିଲେ ନ ସରେ । ଚୋରକୁ ମାନ ମାରି ଖପରାରେ ଖାଇଲେ ଏଠି ଘରବୁଡ଼ି ଆଣ୍ଠୁଏ ହେବ । ତେଣୁ ବେଳ ଥାଉଁ ଥାଉଁ କିଛି ନିଅଁ ପୋତା ଚାଲୁ, ତେଣିକି ଘର ଯେବେ ଗଢ଼ାଯିବ ଏ ସାହା ହେବ ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ଓଡ଼ିଆର ପରିଚିତି ଦେଶବିଦେଶରେ ଯେତିକି ଉଣା ଜଗତର ବାକି ଭାଷା ପାଇଁ ତିଆରି ହୋଇଥିବା ବିଭିନ୍ନ ଜ୍ଞାନର ଭଣ୍ଡାରରେ ମଧ୍ୟ ସେତିକି ଅଜଣା । ଇଂରାଜୀ ବାଦ ଅନ୍ୟାନ୍ୟ ଭାଷାର ଲେଖାର ପ୍ରକାଶନ ପାଇଁ ଅନେକ ସ୍ଥାନ ରହିଛି । ତେବେ ଏମିତି କେତୋଟି ଜାଗତିକ ସ୍ଥାନରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆର ଚିହ୍ନଟେ ଯେ ରହିବା ଲୋଡ଼ା ତା' କହିବା ବାହୁଲ୍ୟ । କାନ୍ଦି ବୋବାଳି ରାମମୋହନ ଲାଇବ୍ରେରି ସକାଶେ କେଇ ଶହ ବହି ଛାପି ଯେଉଁମାନେ ନିଜର ବା ଭାଷାର ଉନ୍ନତି କରିବେ ବୋଲି ସାଧି ବସିଥିବେ ତାଙ୍କ ପାଇଁ ନାକରା ଖବର ଆଉ ପିଲେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ପଢ଼ୁନାହାନ୍ତି । ଓଡ଼ିଆ କଥା ଛାଡ଼ନ୍ତୁ, ପିଲେ ବହି ପଢ଼ୁନାହାନ୍ତି । ତାଙ୍କୁ ଆଜିକାଲି ଲୋଡ଼ା ଭଳିକି ଭଳି ଗେମ, ଆନିମେସନ ଆଉ ଗ୍ରାଫିକ ନଭେଲ (କମିକ୍ସ ଭଳି, ଛବି ସମ୍ବଳିତ ବହି) । ପୁଣି ପିଲାଏ ମୋବାଇଲ ଆଉ କମ୍ପ୍ୟୁଟରରୁ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଖୋଜି ବସୁଛନ୍ତି ନୂଆ ନୂଆ କଥା । ଆଜିର ପିଢ଼ି ଯାହା ଦେଇ ଶିଖୁଛନ୍ତି ତାଙ୍କୁ ସେଇ ମାଧ୍ୟମରେ ଶିଖାଇପାରିଲେ ସିନା ସେମାନେ ଶିଖିବେ । ଖାଲି ଏବର ପିଢ଼ିଙ୍କୁ ଦୋଷ ଦେଇ ଭାଷା ମରିଯାଉଛି ବୋଲି କୁମ୍ବୀର କାନ୍ଦଣା କାନ୍ଦିଲେ କି ହେବ? ତେବେ ଆସନ୍ତୁ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାକୁ ଅଧିକ ବିଶ୍ୱସ୍ତରୀୟ କରିବା ଲାଗି ତିଆରି କିଛି ଓଡ଼ିଆ ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ ବାବଦରେ ଆଲୋଚନା କରିବା ।</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ପହଞ୍ଚିଲେ କୌଣସି ବିଷୟ ଖୋଜିବାକୁ ପ୍ରଥମେ ଖୋଲାହୁଏ ଗୁଗୁଲ କି ୟାହୁ ଭଳି ସର୍ଚ ଇଞ୍ଜିନ । ଖୋଜିଲା ପରେ ଯାହା ପ୍ରଥମ ଲିଙ୍କରେ ଆସେ ସେ ହେଲା ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ (Wikipedia) । ହାବାଇ ଭାଷାରେ "ଉଇକି"ର ମାନେ ସହଳ । ଆଙ୍ଗୁଳି ଛୁଆଁରେ ଝଅଟ ମିଳିଯାଉଥିବାରୁ ତା' ନାଁ "ଉଇକି" ଦିଆଯାଇଛି । ଏଇଟି ଜଗତର ବିଶାଳତମ ଜ୍ଞାନକୋଷ । ୨୦୦୧ରେ ଇଂରାଜୀ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ ପରେ ପ୍ରଥମ ଭାରତୀୟ ଭାଷା ଭାବେ ପଞ୍ଜାବୀ ଓ ଅହମିୟା ସହ ଯେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଏଥିରେ ସ୍ଥାନ ପାଇଲା ତା' ଅନେକେ ଜାଣି ନଥିବେ । ୨୦୦୨ରେ ତିଆରି ସିନା ହୋଇଗଲା । ହେଲେ ଏଥିରେ ଲେଖିବ କିଏ? ଇଂରାଜୀର ପାଠକ ଓ ଲେଖକ ଅଧିକ । ଆଉ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ ଲେଖିଲେ କଉଡ଼ିଟିଏ ମିଳେନାହିଁ । ସ୍ୱେଚ୍ଛାରେ ଲେଖିବାକୁ ବିଦେଶରେ ଯେମିତି ଲୋକ ବାହାରନ୍ତି ଆମର ସେ ଅବସ୍ଥା ନାହିଁ । ତଥାପି ୨୦୧୧ ବେଳକୁ ଓଡ଼ିଶା ବାହାରେ ଥିବା କିଛି ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଏ ତିମିରରେ କିଛି ଆଲୁଅ ଜଳାଇଲେ । ଧୀରେ ଧୀରେ ଓଡ଼ିଶାରେ ଥିବା ଓଡ଼ିଆମାନେ ମଧ୍ୟ ସେଥିରେ ଯୋଡ଼ିହେଲେ । ଆଉ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାର ବିଶାଳତମ ଅନଲାଇନ ଜ୍ଞାନକୋଷ । or.wikipedia.org ରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ଏ ଏନସାଇକ୍ଲୋପିଡ଼ିଆ ସୀମିତ ସ୍ୱେଚ୍ଛାସେବୀଙ୍କ ଦେଇ ସମ୍ପାଦିତ ହେଉଥିବାରୁ ସେତେ ବିଶାଳ ନୁହେଁ ସତ, କିନ୍ତୁ ଏହା ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ବିଶାଳତମ ୱେବସାଇଟ । ବିଭିନ୍ନ ବହି, ଖବରକାଗଜ ଓ ପତ୍ରପତ୍ରିକାରୁ ଖୋଜି ଲୋଡ଼ି ଏଥିରେ ସ୍ଥାନ, ବ୍ୟକ୍ତିତ୍ୱ, ଐତିହାସିକ ସ୍ଥଳୀ ଓ ଜଣାଶୁଣା ଅନେକ ବିଷୟରେ ପ୍ରସଙ୍ଗ ଗଢ଼ିବା ଏବଂ ଆଗରୁ ଥିବା ପ୍ରସଙ୍ଗରେ ଅଧିକ ତଥ୍ୟ ଯୋଡ଼ି କଳେବର ବଢ଼ାଇବା ଲାଗି ଲୋଡ଼ା ଆହୁରି ଅନେକ ହାତ । ବିଶାଳାକାର ଏନସାଇକ୍ଲୋପିଡ଼ିଆସବୁ ପାଠାଗାର ଭିତରେ ଆଉ ସେଠାକୁ ଯାଉଥିବା ପାଠକଙ୍କ ଭିତରେ ବାନ୍ଧି ହୋଇ ରହିଯାଇଥିଲା । ତାକୁ ଖୋଲିବାର କଞ୍ଚିକାଠି ସାଜିଲା ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ । ଏକ ସମୟରେ ଲକ୍ଷ ଲକ୍ଷ ପାଠକଙ୍କ କତିରେ ପହଞ୍ଚିବାର ସରଳ ପନ୍ଥା ଆଉ କଣ ହୋଇପାରେ? ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ପ୍ରସଙ୍ଗ ସଂଖ୍ୟା ୧୦ ହଜାରରୁ ଅଧିକ ଓ ମାସିକ ପାଠକ ୫ ଲକ୍ଷରୁ ଅଧିକ । ବହିର ପାଠ ବହି ବାହାରେ ବ୍ୟବହାର ହେବାରେ ପୁଣି ଟାଇପ କରିବାର ଯେଉଁ ବାଧକ ତା' ଏଥିରେ ନାହିଁ । ମଜାର କଥା ଯେ ଅନେକ ସମୟରେ ବିଭିନ୍ନ ଭାଷାଭାଷୀ ଉଇକିଆଳିଗଣ (ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ସମ୍ପାଦକ)ବେଳେ ବେଳେ ଆପୋଷରେ ଏକ ଆଉଜଣଙ୍କ ଦେଶ-ଭାଷା-ଚଳଣି-ବ୍ୟକ୍ତିତ୍ୱଙ୍କ ସମ୍ବନ୍ଧରେ ଲେଖିବା ଦେଖାଯାଏ । ୨୯୦ରୁ ଅଧିକ ଭାଷାଭାଷୀ ଏମିତି ଅଗଣିତ ଲୋକ ଯେଉଁଠି ମିଶି ଲେଖନ୍ତି ସେଠି ଭାଷାଟିଏ ଯୋଜନ ଯୋଜନ ଡେଇଁ ଜଗତର କୋଣ ଅନୁକୋଣ କେଡ଼େ ସହଜରେ ପହଞ୍ଚିପାରେ ଏ ତା'ର ଏକ ଉଦାହରଣ ।</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପାଠାଗାର</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ଆମ ଭାଷାରେ ଏଯାବତ କେଇ ଲକ୍ଷ ବହି ଛପାଯାଇସାରିବଣି । ହେଲେ ଏ ସବୁ ବହି କଣ ସଭିଏଁ ପଢ଼ିବାର ସୁଯୋଗ ପାଆନ୍ତି? କାହାପାଖରେ ପାଠାଗାର ଯିବା ପାଇଁ ବେଳ ନାହିଁ ତ ହାତପାହାନ୍ତାରେ ବହି ନ ଥିବାରୁ କିଏ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଛାଡ଼ି ବାକି ଭାଷାର ଲେଖା ପଢ଼ା ଆଦରୁଛି । ଆମ ଭାଷାର ପାଠକ କମି କମି ଯାଉଛନ୍ତି । ସମାଧାନର ପନ୍ଥା କଣ ହୋଇପାରେ? ଆମ ଭାଷା ଖାଲି କଣ ସାହିତ୍ୟ ଆଉ ସାହିତ୍ୟିକଙ୍କ ଭାଷା କି ଲୋକମୁଖର କଥିତ ଭାଷା ହୋଇ ରହିଯିବ? ଆଜିର ପିଢ଼ିଙ୍କ ପାଖରେ ପହଞ୍ଚିବା ଲାଗି ତା'କୁ ମନ ପଢ଼ିବାକୁ, ଜିଣିବାକୁ ହେବ । ଏଥି ପାଇଁ ପ୍ରାଥମିକ କାମଟି ହେଲା ବିରଳ ଓ ଛପା ହେଉନଥିବା ଅନେକ ପୁରାତନ ବହି ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ ଜରିଆରେ ପାଠକମାନଙ୍କ ନିକଟକୁ ନେବା । ଆମ ଦେଶରେ ଲେଖକଙ୍କ ଦେହାନ୍ତର ୬୦ ବର୍ଷ ପରେ ବହିର କପିରାଇଟ ଚାଲିଯାଏ । ଏଭଳି ପବ୍ଲିକ ଡୋମେନରେ (କପିରାଇଟ ନଥିବା) ବହିସବୁ କେବେ କେବେ ସୀମିତ ସଂଖ୍ୟାରେ ପାଠାଗାରରେ ଥାଏ । ଯଦି ପାଠାଗାରରୁ କୌଣସି କାରଣରୁ ବହିଟି ଚୋରିହୁଏ କି ପୋକ ଖାଇଯାଏ ତାହେଲେ ଲେଖକର ଶ୍ରମର ଦେଉଳ ଭୁସୁଡ଼ିପଡ଼େ । ଯଦି ବହିଟି ଏକରୁ ଅଧିକ ଥର ପ୍ରକାଶ ପାଇଥାଏ ତାହେଲେ ସେକଥା ଭିନ୍ନ । କିନ୍ତୁ ଅନେକ ବହି ଦ୍ୱିତୀୟଥର ଛପାହୁଏନା । ତାକୁ ସାଇତିବାର ସବୁଠୁ ବଡ଼ ବାଟ ହେଉଛି ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ । ପୁରୁଣା ଓ ବିରଳ ବହିମାନ ଛପାଇବାରେ ଭୁବନେଶ୍ୱରର ସୃଜନିକା ଅନୁଷ୍ଠାନର କାମ ଏକ ଐତିହାସିକ ପଦକ୍ଷେପ । ୧୮୪୦-୧୯୪୦ ଭିତରେ ପ୍ରକାଶିତ ପତ୍ରିକା, ୨୫ରୁ ଅଧିକ ଅଭିଧାନ ତଥା ପୂର୍ଣ୍ଣଚନ୍ଦ୍ର ଭାଷାକୋଷ ଭଳି ପୋଥିକୁ ମିଶାଇ ୭୪୦ରୁ ଅଧିକ ବହିକୁ ଡିଜିଟାଲ ରୂପ ଦେବାରେ ସେମାନଙ୍କ ଅବଦାନ କାହିଁରେ କେତେ । ହେଲେ ଏ ବହିର ଲେଖାସବୁ ଆଉଥରେ ବ୍ୟବହାର ହେବା, ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଖୋଜିପାଇବା ତଥା ମୋବାଇଲ ଆଦିରେ ପଢ଼ିବା ପାଇଁ ଆଉଥରେ ଟାଇପ ହେବା ଜରୁରୀ । ସବୁଯାକ ବହିକୁ ଟାଇପ କରିବା ସମ୍ବବ ନୁହେଁ, ହେଲେ କିଛି କିଛି ବହି ଧୀରେ ଧୀରେ ଟାଇପ ହୋଇପାରିବ । ସେ କାମଟି ଅଧୁନା ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପାଠାଗାରରେ ଆରମ୍ଭ ହୋଇଛି । ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ or.wikisource.org ୱେବସାଇଟ ଖୋଲି ପାଠକେ ଏହାକୁ ଖୋଲି ପଢ଼ିପାରିବେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଗବତଠୁ ଆରମ୍ଭ କରି ଭଞ୍ଜ ସାହିତ୍ୟ ଏବଂ ଗୋପବନ୍ଧୁଙ୍କ ପରି ଏ ଯୁଗର ମହାନ ସାହିତ୍ୟିକଙ୍କ ରଚନାବଳୀ । ଏହାର ଲେଖା ସଂଖ୍ୟା ଅଧୁନା ୨୮୫ରୁ ଅଧିକ । ଖାଲି ସେତିକି ନୁହେଁ, ଆଗରୁ ସ୍କାନ ହୋଇ ରହିଥିବା ଅନେକ ବହିକୁ ଆଉଥରେ ଟାଇପ କରିବା କାମ ସଭିଙ୍କ ପାଇଁ ଖୋଲା । ତେଣୁ ପୁରାତନ ରଚନାର ବିଦଗ୍ଧ ପାଠକଜଣେ ପୂଜୁଥିବା ଲେଖକଙ୍କ ରଚନା ଏଥିରେ ଟାଇପ କରି ସ୍ଥାନୀତ କରିପାରିବ । ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପଟି ଅଣଲାଭକାରୀ, ଆଉ କପିରାଇଟ ନଥିବାରୁ ବହି ସବୁ ଖୋଲାରେ ପାଠକଙ୍କ ପାଇଁ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ।</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">ଉପର ଦୁଇ ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ ତ ଗଲା ବହିର ରକ୍ଷଣାବେକ୍ଷଣା ଆଉ ଜ୍ଞାନକୋଷ ବା ଏନସାଇକ୍ଲୋପିଡ଼ିଆ ଗଢ଼ିବାର କଥା । ହେଲେ ଘଟୁଥିବା ଘଟଣା ଆଉ ଜନମତର ମହତ ମଧ୍ୟ ଉଣା ନୁହେଁ । ଲେଖିବାକୁ କଷ୍ଟ ହେଉ ପଛେ ଆମ ଲୋକେ ଏବେ ଯାଏ ଇଂରାଜୀକୁ କମ୍ପୁଟରର ଭାଷା ମାନି ମୋବାଇଲ ବା ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ କେବଳ ଇଂରାଜୀରେ ଲେଖନ୍ତି । ସାଧାରଣ ଲୋକେ କିପରି ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଲେଖିବେ ତା'ର ସଳଖ ବାଟ ଅନେକଙ୍କ ପାଖେ ପହଞ୍ଚି ନଥିବାରୁ ଏ ଅସୁବିଧା । ଘଟୁଥିବା ଘଟଣାବଳୀ ଓ ତହିଁରେ ଜନ-ଅଭିମତକୁ ଭରିବା ଲକ୍ଷରେ ଏକ ବିଶ୍ୱବ୍ୟାପୀ ଆନ୍ଦୋଳନ ହେଉଛି ଗ୍ଲୋବାଲ ଭଏସେସ । ସୌଭାଗ୍ୟର କଥା ଯେ ହିନ୍ଦୀ ଓ ବଙ୍ଗଳା ପରେ ଏଥିରେ ୩ୟ ଭାରତୀୟ ଭାଷା ଭାବେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ସ୍ଥାନୀତ । ଅନେକ ସମୟରେ ନଜର ଆଢ଼ୁଆଳରୁ ଛପି ଯାଉଥିବା ଘଟଣା ଏଥିରେ ପଦାକୁ ଆସେ । ଜଗତର ଅନେକ ଲୋପ ପାଇଯାଉଥିବା ଭାଷା, ଚଳଣିଠୁ ଯୁଦ୍ଧଭୂଇଁରେ ଯୁଝୁଥିବା ଲୋକଙ୍କ କାହାଣୀ ତଥା ସାଧାରଣ ମଣିଷର ସ୍ୱର ଫୁଟିଉଠେ ଏଥିରେ । ଓଡ଼ିଆ ପାଠକଙ୍କ ପାଇଁ ଖବର ବୋଲି ଯାହା ଖବରକାଗଜରେ ଆସେ ତା ବାହାରେ ଘଟୁଥିବା ଘଟଣା ସହ ପରିଚିତି ଲାଭ ପାଇଁ ଏ ଏକ ବଡ଼ ମାଧ୍ୟମ ହୋଇପାରେ । ଏହା or.globalvoices.org ରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ । ଏ ମଧ୍ୟ ଏକ ସ୍ୱେଚ୍ଛାସେବୀ ପରିଚାଳିତ ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ ଯାହାର ଦୁଆର କିଛି ପରିମାଣରେ ଭାଷା ଦକ୍ଷତା ଥିବା ଲେଖକଙ୍କ ପାଇଁ ଖୋଲା ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ଏ ତିନୋଟି ମୁଖ୍ୟ ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ ବାଦ ଆହୁରି ଅନେକ ଅଣ-ଲାଭକାରୀ ଓ ଖୋଲା ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ ରହିଛି । ଓଡ଼ିଆକୁ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଅଧିକ ଜନପ୍ରିୟ କରିବାକୁ ଇଚ୍ଛୁକ ଓଡ଼ିଆଏ <a href="https://or.wiktionary.org">ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିଅଭିଧାନ</a>ରେ ବିଭିନ୍ନ ଭାଷାର ଶବ୍ଦ ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ଲେଖିପାରିବେ ଆଉ ନିତିଦିନ ବ୍ୟବହାର କରୁଥିବା ଫାୟାରଫକ୍ସ ବ୍ରାଉଜରର ସମ୍ପୂର୍ଣ୍ଣ ଇଣ୍ଟରଫେସ <a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Teams:or">ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ଅନୁବାଦ</a> କରିପାରିବେ । ଆଉ ନୂଆ ଘଟଣା ବାବଦରେ <a href="http://odia.yourstory.com">YourStory ଓଡ଼ିଆ</a>ରେ ମଧ୍ୟ ଲେଖିପାରିବେ ।</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/b13b21b3cb3fb06-b2db3eb37b3e-b2ab3eb07b01-b15b3fb1bb3f-b05b28b4db24b30b4db1cb3eb24b40b5f-b07b23b4db1fb30b28b47b1f-b2ab4db30b15b33b4db2a'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/b13b21b3cb3fb06-b2db3eb37b3e-b2ab3eb07b01-b15b3fb1bb3f-b05b28b4db24b30b4db1cb3eb24b40b5f-b07b23b4db1fb30b28b47b1f-b2ab4db30b15b33b4db2a</a>
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No publishersubhaCIS-A2KOdia WikipediaOdia WikisourceAccess to Knowledge2016-06-18T16:24:21ZBlog EntryWikipediansSpeak: Odia Wikisourcer Shares her Journey and Goals
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikipediansspeak-odia-wikisourcer-shares-her-journey-and-goals
<b>The most active editor on the Odia Wikisource is Pankajmala Sarangi, a native of Odisha who now lives in New Delhi, where she works at a non-profit. As a leader in a broad community that is dominated by males—indeed, she is the most active contributor to the Odia-language Wikisource—we asked her to share her journey and her goals to grow the project and community as part of the “WikipediansSpeWell, I think I would work on creating a database of all the Odia speakers living in New Delhi and the city organizations that work in propagating Odia language and culture, and plan Wikisource outreach programs for them.k” interview series.</b>
<p>Odia Wikisourcer Pankajmala Sarangi shares her experience and future plans to grow the community. Video by Pankajmala Sarangi (original video) and Subhashish Panigrahi (post production), freely licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 license. The video can be <a class="external-link" href="http://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/01/29/odia-wikisourcer-journey-goals/">viewed here</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>What is the community like on the Odia Wikisource?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Pankajmala feels that the community is like her home. “I can’t tell how happy I am after seeing that this one year-old project has already digitized over 200 books. With more and more youth coming on the internet, the internet won’t disappoint them when the type and search in Odia language.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>What are projects that you would like to start or get help from the existing community to grow?</strong></p>
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<li>Forming expert /resource groups to increase the thematic group structure in the community so that each group could work collaboratively for specific goals.</li>
<li>We can also create groups through the help of the resident welfare associations in Odisha cities where <a title="w:or:ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:ଉଇକି ଟୁଙ୍ଗି" class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/or:%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%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF_%E0%AC%9F%E0%AD%81%E0%AC%99%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%97%E0%AC%BF">Odia WikiTungis</a> (in Odia Wikimedia community city based informal groups have been started that actively organize outreach and engage with new Wikimedians) are already working. They can work hand-in-hand. This will help us expand this program to more new places.</li>
<li>We can tie up with basic computer training institutes where their students and new Wikimedians who do not have access to computer/internet could learn about Odia Wikipedia editing as a vocational training. These institutes remain idle during day time and get busy after 4 pm as schools and college students come to learn about computer basics after their class hours.</li>
<li>One idea could be involving veterans whose expertise could help improve the quality of the articles which is otherwise going in vain after retirement. Post retirement life is otherwise lonely and many feel worthless who could enjoy the company of many new friends. The senior citizens groups could train new Wikimedians using these institutional facilities.</li>
<li>Summer vacation Wikipedia outreach for school/college students:
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<li>It has became mandatory in all private schools and colleges to do voluntary work for a few hours every day for six months to finish up a program. We can ask these private institutions to include editing and contributing to Odia Wikipedia and other Odia Wikimedia projects in their syllabus. They would not only get Wikipedians as facilitators without spending any money but will become part of such a global and multilingual group. We can involve students for both editing Wikipedia articles, and digitizing and correcting typos and other mistakes on Odia Wikisource. If a manual with the above details is available then it would be better to refer it while working. When we are discussing something in our community then the users (who are eligible for giving suggestions) should automatically get a message saying your suggestion/input is required on this (with that link to the page).</li></ul>
<blockquote class="pullquote"><strong>According to a 2011 survey, Wikipedia editors are only about <a title="w:Gender bias on Wikipedia" class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_bias_on_Wikipedia">nine percent female</a>. The Wikisource statistics is not yet known, but I would theorize that it is similar. How do you think we could bridge this gap in Odia?</strong></blockquote>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">We surely have less women. We could reorient our current work to bring in a few other aspects like more focused outreach in women’s college and schools, creating a network of women who are interested to contribute to Wikimedia projects, making Twitter lists and Facebook groups for women for more friendly conversation and support, inviting and involving more women participants in Wikimedia outreach. I also wonder how we can gift the top contributors some gifts as a token of appreciation. We could also organize field trips for them to a public library, museum or art gallery so that they get to see how Wikimedia projects could grow by imbibing available resources.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>What are your personal plans to build a community for Odia Wikisource in New Delhi?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Well, I think I would work on creating a database of all the Odia speakers living in New Delhi and the city organizations that work in propagating Odia language and culture, and plan Wikisource outreach programs for them.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>This post is part of the <a class="text external" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikipediansSpeak">WikipediansSpeak series</a>, which aims to chronicle the voices of the Wikipedia community. You can find more of these posts on the <a class="text external" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikipediansSpeak">Wikimedia Commons</a>.</em></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikipediansspeak-odia-wikisourcer-shares-her-journey-and-goals'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikipediansspeak-odia-wikisourcer-shares-her-journey-and-goals</a>
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No publisherSubhashish Panigrahi and Nasim AliWikipediansSpeakCIS-A2KOdia WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-02-05T20:49:36ZBlog Entryକେତେ ମାଗଣା "ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସ
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/b15b47b24b47-b2eb3eb17b23b3e-b2bb4db30b3f-b2cb47b38b3fb15b4db38
<b>This op-ed was published in Odia newspaper "The Samaja" on January 4, 2016. Sunil Abraham and Pranesh Prakash were quoted.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Facebook has set its foot in 30 developing countries with its app Free Basics to provide free access to Facebook, Facebook’s products like WhatsApp and a few websites Facebook has partnered with. This has raised eyebrows all over India as Free Basics compromises with user security and privacy and it violates Net Neutrality. This piece quotes from Eben Moglen and Mishi Choudhury’s <a href="http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/facebook-myths-and-the-facts-about-free-basics-distortion-again-292590.html" target="_blank">post</a> where they detail about the security concerns with the app. This piece also tells why projects like Mozilla’s GrameenPhone project in Bangladesh and Wikipedia Zero across many nations got wider acceptance and support for their noble humanitarian effort where Facebook is getting severe heat across all the 30 nations. Could Facebook dare to launch such a project in rich nations or it is easy to make poor nations easy targets with poor services?</p>
<p>Read the original <a class="external-link" href="http://psubhashish.com/post/136609149720/free-basics">here</a>.</p>
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<p>A scanned version of the original article is below:</p>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/FreeBasicsSamaja4012016.png" alt="Free Basics Samaja" class="image-inline" title="Free Basics Samaja" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/b15b47b24b47-b2eb3eb17b23b3e-b2bb4db30b3f-b2cb47b38b3fb15b4db38'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/b15b47b24b47-b2eb3eb17b23b3e-b2bb4db30b3f-b2cb47b38b3fb15b4db38</a>
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No publishersubhaFree BasicsCIS-A2KOdia WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-01-30T11:05:02ZBlog EntryOdia Wikipedia progress from July to December, 2015
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/the-sad-state-of-odia-wikipedia
<b>Odia Wikipedia, one of the very active Wikipedias in Indian languages has been showing a negative rate of growth for the last 6 months. We will try to analyse, what has been happening and how can that be improved. </b>
<p>Odia language is one of the 22 languages recognized by Indian union in 8th schedule. It has 31 million population as per 2001 census. Odia language has its own Wikipedia created on 3rd June 2002. This blog post will try to put out Odia Wikipedia's growth from a perspective based on Wikimedia stats.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Odia Wikipedia started on 3rd June 2002 and for almost 4 years, it survived with only one <a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%AC%AA%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%A7%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%A8_%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%A4%E0%AC%BE&oldid=2">page</a> in the project. Until an IP edit created the <a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%AC%AA%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%A7%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%A8_%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%A4%E0%AC%BE&oldid=766">home page mimicking</a> Sanskrit Wikipedia's homepage. This continued for over a year and then from an IP address, a word to word translation of home page was made into Odia. Around the same time, an entry for an article - (ଭାରତ)India was <a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%AC%AD%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%A4&oldid=2172">created</a>. The homepage of Odia Wikipedia and other articles continued to be edited by IP address users until <a>ଓଡ଼ିଆ</a> created his/her account and started modifying the homepage.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Today, Odia Wikipdia has 10,187 articles in article namespace, 47,291 pages in all (including article namespace pages); 10,574 registered users which includes bots. Of these registered users, as of November 2015, 63 users have done at least one edit in November, 13 is the number of users flagged as bots. There are 4 administrators on Odia Wikipedia.</p>
<p>When we look at the stats table of Odia Wikipedia taken from stats.wikimedia.org, below,</p>
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<tbody>
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<th><br /></th> <th>Total Editors</th> <th>New Editors</th> <th>Active Editors</th> <th>Very Active Ediors</th> <th>Articles</th> <th>New Articles per day</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left">July, 2015</td>
<td align="right">127</td>
<td align="right">2</td>
<td align="right">12</td>
<td align="right">2</td>
<td align="right">8,800<br /></td>
<td align="right">1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left">August, 2015</td>
<td align="right">129</td>
<td align="right">2</td>
<td align="right">15</td>
<td align="right">6</td>
<td align="right">8,900<br /></td>
<td align="right">3</td>
</tr>
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<td align="left">September, 2015</td>
<td align="right">131</td>
<td align="right">2</td>
<td align="right">15</td>
<td align="right">6</td>
<td align="right">9,100<br /></td>
<td align="right">5</td>
</tr>
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<td align="left">October, 2015</td>
<td align="right">136</td>
<td align="right">5</td>
<td align="right">21</td>
<td align="right">4</td>
<td align="right">10,100<br /></td>
<td align="right">36</td>
</tr>
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<td align="left">November, 2015</td>
<td align="right">136</td>
<td align="left"></td>
<td align="right">11</td>
<td align="right">2</td>
<td align="right">10,500<br /></td>
<td align="right">2</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Some of the direct observations are : Over a 5 month period, only 9 people joined Odia Wikipedia, average Indian count for this is 9 per month.</p>
<p>The active editors count, which is about 20% of Total editors is at 10% or less for most of the months.</p>
<p>The very active editors count, again 40-50% of active editors is still low.</p>
<p>There have been no new editors who have come to Odia Wikipedia and registered for the month of November.</p>
<p>Though the articles per day count has been at rise, we need to analyze what kind of content it is and what is the size of articles being added.</p>
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<colgroup span="3" width="85"> </colgroup>
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<td align="left"><br /></td>
<td align="left">Bytes added</td>
<td align="left">Files/ images added</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left">July 2015</td>
<td align="right">6656008</td>
<td align="right">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left">August 2015</td>
<td align="right">28507493</td>
<td align="right">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left">September 2015</td>
<td align="right">12403456</td>
<td align="right">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left">October 2015</td>
<td align="right">25281989</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
</tr>
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<td align="left">November 2015</td>
<td align="right">5442630</td>
<td align="right">0</td>
</tr>
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<td align="left">December</td>
<td align="right">8492735</td>
<td align="right">4</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>The above table shows the overall bytes added to Odia Wikipedia (both added and removed) and he files uploaded.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The bytes added is generally an indicative of how much content is being added to the project. If an average good article has, say 10kb length on Odia Wikipedia, then what th above table interprets is that a good amount of content is added to Odia Wikipedia for thee months of August, and October, but same thing did not happen in July, September, October and December.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The files/images added to the project is not a direct indicative of any quality change on the wiki. As all file uploads happen on commons. But this is of course and indicative of non-free fair use images being added, and if that is the usability, then Odia Wikipedians do not seem to be utilizing it properly or Odia Wikipedia has content that does not depend on such images.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/the-sad-state-of-odia-wikipedia'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/the-sad-state-of-odia-wikipedia</a>
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No publisherrahimWikipediaCIS-A2KOdia WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-02-05T02:45:19ZBlog EntryThis little innovation is bringing a revolution in the Odia language
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/dna-february-3-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-little-innovation-is-bringing-revolution-in-odia-language
<b>Depicting human language within computing environments has always been a challenge: a given language's script and alphabet needs to be mapped to a coding system that a computer can process digitally. This is done by way of an encoding system that basically maps each character to a unique numeric code.</b>
<p>The article was published by <a class="external-link" href="http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report-this-little-innovation-is-bringing-a-revolution-in-the-odia-language-2173325">DNA</a> on February 3, 2016.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">This was a standard approach for dealing with languages in the computing context. However, over time, many such encoding systems mushroomed. In 2012, Odisha-based non-profit Srujanika, with help from colleagues, created<strong> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://bitbucket.org/rebati/rebati/downloads" target="_blank">two text encoding converters</a> </strong>that could convert two different legacy non-Unicode based script encoding systems to the universally accepted Unicode. I personally tested and found a lot of typos. It seemed to me that one would take more time to convert and proofread than just typing the text.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a rel="nofollow" href="http://unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html" target="_blank"><strong>Unicode</strong></a> is a computing industry standard that provides a unique number for every character of the alphabet irrespective of the platform, program or script. Before the onset of Unicode there existed several other standards—such as <strong><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.asciitable.com/" target="_blank">American Standard Code for Information Interchange</a></strong> (ASCII) and <strong><a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Script_Code_for_Information_Interchange" target="_blank">Indian Script Code for Information Interchange</a></strong> (ISCII)—that defined the manner in which letters of a particular language were depicted on a computer. The text encoding converters generally are used to convert them from one encoding systems to another.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">However, as proprietary and legacy encoding systems were so popular among the desktop publishing (DTP) operators, most Indian language media houses remained tied to their existing encoding systems even after Unicode was introduced. This led to editors, journalists, writers and many native language users having to reliable and intuitive way to input in their own language. For example, Unicode Odia resulted in a huge gap of Odia-language content online with users that depended on earlier, disjointed standards.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The converters I explained before could solve this problem partially as they could convert only two encoding systems with about 80% linguistic accuracy. While seeking help to enhance and scale up these existing converters, three Wikimedian-developers came forward to work on the available converters and create more foolproof ones. We worked together for hours spanning over a few months to make the converters better. When I asked my writer and journalist friends to test it, the result literally thrilled me as they all had started writing in Odia on Facebook the very next day.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">More blogs started coming in Odia and more social media interaction in Odia. Interestingly, popular newspaper Sarbasadharana.com and an online portal Odisha.com used it. Many even started contributing to blogs and online portals. It became much easier for Wikimedians to use existing resources from portals, newspapers and magazines to enrich Wikipedia. Some of the available soft copies of public domain books acquired and books that were relicensed to CC licenses could easily be used on Wikisource.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Though it is difficult to measure the exact percentage of growth for online Odia-language content on the Internet, a significant change is seen today as compared to the state of the Odia language on the internet six months ago. Almost all the federal entities that were stuck with two non-Unicode encoding systems finally moved to Unicode, with official portal odia.odisha.gov.in including adoption of Unicode in their core policy. As a gesture of support to the development, the federal department has included Odia Wikipedia on the top of their <strong><a rel="nofollow" href="http://odia.odisha.gov.in/it-tool-for-viewing-odia-in-browser.html" target="_blank">resources page</a></strong>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Recently, <strong><a rel="nofollow" href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jnanaranjan_sahu" target="_blank">Jnanaranjan Sahu</a></strong>, one of core contributors to the project combined all the converters into a standalone on-wiki converter that is available both on <strong><a rel="nofollow" href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Converter" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></strong> and <strong><a rel="nofollow" href="https://or.wikisource.org/wiki/WS:Converter" target="_blank">Wikisource</a></strong>. Many of the larger Odia language community have contributed in finding errors which were fixed. Jyanaranjan has made available a free <strong><a rel="nofollow" href="http://gyan111.github.com/" target="_blank">online responsive converter</a></strong> that not just works from a computer but also seamlessly work from any smartphone. The converter has indeed helped to widely use Odia on the Internet. The <strong><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.telegraphindia.com/1150406/jsp/frontpage/story_12966.jsp#.Vq7OahjMNE4" target="_blank">bigger dream</a></strong> of an Odia version of Google is closer to becoming real.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/dna-february-3-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-little-innovation-is-bringing-revolution-in-odia-language'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/dna-february-3-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-little-innovation-is-bringing-revolution-in-odia-language</a>
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No publishersubhaCIS-A2KOdia WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-02-27T07:33:06ZBlog EntryCultural knowledge needs to be more open
https://cis-india.org/openness/news/opensource-feburary-18-2015-jen-wike-huger-cultural-knowledge-needs-to-be-more-open
<b>Subhashish Panigrahi is an educator and open source activist based in Bangalore, India. He is currently working at the Centre for Internet and Society's Access To Knowledge program where he builds partnership with universities, language researchers, and GLAM organizations. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The blog post by Jen Wike Huger was published on the website of OpenSource.com. It can be <a class="external-link" href="https://opensource.com/community/15/2/contributor-spotlight-subhashish-panigrahi">read here</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Their goal is to bring more scholarly and encyclopedic content under free licenses. During his work at the Wikimedia Foundation's India Program, Subha was involved in designing community sustaining and new contributor cultivation models.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">For his effort to share and spread open source far and wide, this year he was awarded a <a href="https://opensource.com/community/15/1/winners-2015-community-awards" target="_blank">2015 Opensource.com People's Choice Award</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">His most recent articles include: <i><a href="https://opensource.com/life/14/3/wikipedia-project-hindu-poetry" target="_blank">Digitize any book in the public domain</a></i>, on his work to with Indian poetry important to the culture. <i><a href="https://opensource.com/education/14/5/odia-wikimedia" target="_blank">Books and more are relicensed to Creative Commons</a>, </i>about news from the Wikimedia Foundation. <i><a href="https://opensource.com/community/14/7/mozilla-brings-indian-communities-together" target="_blank">Mozilla brings Indian communities together</a></i>, about the Indic FirefoxOS L10n Sprint 2014. And, <i><a href="https://opensource.com/education/14/10/open-access-platform-odia-language" target="_blank">Open access platform to save the Odia Indian language</a></i>, on his work to preserve his native culture.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">The Basics</h3>
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<li><b>Name</b>: Subhashish Panigrahi ("Subha")</li>
<li><b>Opensource.com username</b>: <a href="https://opensource.com/users/psubhashish" target="_blank">psubhashish</a></li>
<li><b>Location</b>: India (Bengaluru and Odisha)</li>
<li><b>Occupation/Employer/Position</b>: Programme Officer, Centre for Internet and Society</li>
<li><b>Favorite open source tool or application</b>: Audacity</li>
<li><b>Favorite Opensource.com channel</b>: Education</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Open up to us</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">I was away from home for my studies and was longing to read and write more in my native language of Odia. That led me to co-found eOdissa.com, a portal to tell stories to the rest of the world about my language, history, and cultural heritage. I was a sporadic editor on Wikipedia; anonymously since 2006. Then, in 2011, I was introduced to editing for Odia Wikipedia by my mentor Shiju Alex and friend Asutosh Kar.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">That was my entry point to the free software movement. And it was a trap I could never get out of!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">I thankfully began a full-time job with the Wikimedia Foundation in 2012 for its India Program. The program is now housed with their Indian movement partner, Centre for Internet and Society, under the Access To Knowledge program. I work in the Bengaluru office but mostly travel to work with the communities. I work on building capacity for the Indian language Wikimedia communities, building institutional partnerships for long term outreach engagement, negotiating with publishers and copyright holders to bring more content relicensed under Creative Commons licenses, and taking part in policy level discourses around open access and enforcing free software for governance.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">What open tools and data help you get things done?</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">For my day job, I solely rely on Wikimedia Stats to collate data related to Wikimedia projects. I use some Python programming, jQery.ime, and JavaScript for other data-related work. But, I am a people's man and my interaction is mostly with humans rather than tools.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">What do you wish were more open?</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) and many other cultural institutions have historically been the keepers of cultural knowledge. But I see possessiveness in not opening up their archival for public consumption. I wish more policy level negotiations and open collaborations were happening to open up cultural data.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">What are the biggest challenges to openness that you encounter, either at work or in your life?</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Community and its growth. Working in a developing nation with historical, cultural, economic, and political hindrances pulls volunteerism down. It's is a huge challenge for me. Tapping into many existing networks and communities, and leveraging ongoing activities for the betterment for the free and open source movement, is something I am struggling for.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Why choose the open source way?</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">I would like to quote a good friend and activist Michelle Thorne who says, "Human civilization has everything free and open from the beginning, but slowly the problems of restriction start beginning." Furthermore filmmaker Nina Paley says, "Knowledge is not created by us, rather shared by us."</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">If we are here to share knowledge, why to restrict its free flow?</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/opensource-feburary-18-2015-jen-wike-huger-cultural-knowledge-needs-to-be-more-open'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/opensource-feburary-18-2015-jen-wike-huger-cultural-knowledge-needs-to-be-more-open</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOdia WikipediaOpenness2015-03-12T16:41:05ZNews ItemSambalpur University Workshop
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/sambalpur-university-workshop
<b>An Odia Wikipedia Orientation program cum workshop was organized by CIS-A2K team in Sambalpur University on November 27, 2016. Sailesh Patnaik attended the workshop.</b>
<p>The workshop agenda included:</p>
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<li>Increasing the reach of Odia Wikipedia in western Odisha</li>
<li>Bringing new editors on board</li>
<li>Orientation of students from Sambalpur University</li>
<li>Exploring possibilities of CIS partnership with Sambalpur University</li>
<li>Getting in place an active community on WikiTungi in Sambalpur</li>
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<p><a class="external-link" href="https://goo.gl/34LcmF">More information on the event</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/sambalpur-university-workshop'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/sambalpur-university-workshop</a>
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No publisherSailesh PatnaikOdia WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-12-02T02:31:53ZBlog Entry