This is really progressive and unusual.
Years ago when The Centre for Internet & Society began focused outreach to the Odia community I did not expect great progress and precedents. This is a big deal beyond what I imagined could happen so quickly. Everyone involved should be proud.
This is good for all of India even though it is for a regional language, because it will make it for other organizations and government offices to follow the model.
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 8:35 AM, Tito Dutta trulytito@gmail.com wrote:
Awesome news. :)
Thanks Tito Dutta Note: If I don't reply to your email in 2 days, please feel free to remind me over email or phone call.
On 19 September 2017 at 21:00, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
Amazing and exciting changes. Congrats :-)
J
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 9:09 AM, Sailesh Patnaik < sailesh.patnaik007@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I am glad to share a recent collaboration of Odia Wikipedia community
with
the Government of Odisha.
After releasing the content of 2017 Asian Athletics Championships ( https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/07/28/digest-asia-
athletics-championships/
) another initiative by the Government of Odisha to bridge the dearth
of
Information about Odisha on Wikipedia by releasing its social media accounts under CC-BY 4.0.
Earlier this week, the community members met the Government officials regarding this, and after understanding the value of Open Content, it
took
only 24hrs to release the social media channels under CC-BY 4.0
license.
As a pilot project, 8 social media accounts from Government of Odisha
are
under CC-BY 4.0,Now, the content is free for everyone to use, share,
and
build upon their work. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/09/18/odisha-social-
media-free-license/
The community is also planning to take the collaboration further and relicense some of the websites under CC-BY 4.0.
--
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