Thank you, Subhashish and everyone else involved. I know you all have put in considerable
efforts. It's inspiring to note that 30-35 people attended your workshop. That's
pretty impressive! It's great to see that you folks have set in motion ongoing
outreach and content contribution activities - beyond the the workshop day.
It'll be really interesting and useful to see how those who attended this session are
getting along. If I could request you to share an update every once in a while, I think
it'll tell a fascinating tale.
All the very best to all those in the Odia Wikipedia community.
Hisham Mundol
India Programs - Wikimedia Foundation
skype: hisham.wikimedia
gtalk: hmundol(a)wikimedia.org
twitter: @mundol
On Apr 4, 2011, at 3:41 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi wrote:
Hi, here is the report of the 2nd Odia Wikipedia
Workshop, Bhubaneswar, 2011April03
The 2nd Odia Wikipedia Academy has been organized on 3April 2011 at Bharatiya Vidya
Bhavan, Bhubaneswar. This was the first outreach academy of Odia Wikipedia in Odisha to
bring an awareness andmotivate common mass from different educational and social
background. Odia Wikipedia was started way back in 2002 and was one of the four Indian
languages, Asamese, Malayalam, Odia, Punjabi. But because of the lack of proper awareness
and activism there was a snail movement for almost 8 years. Shiju introduced Odia Wiki
projects to many fellow Odias which later motivated them to bring the Wiki movement back
to the first Odia Wikipedia Academy, conducted in Bengaluru on. Odia Wikipedia is an
online encyclopedia in Odia language to make knowledge available freely for masses.
Dhanada Mishra of Human Resource Development Management Studies has formally inaugurated
this event. A FAQ Booket was released by and distributed among the first time participants
of the Wikipedia Workshop. Wikipedians Shiju Alex and Tinu Cherian were also took
active part in facilitating the event. The workshop was conducted by Odia Wikiali (Odia
version of an Wikipedian/User) Subha Pa. The whole Academy/Workshop was conducted in 2
main sections, Subha introduced Odia Wikipedia to the audience, said about the history and
the development and current status. The second session was focused on how to type in Odia
using the transliteration/Inscript tool which was newly incorporated, solving typing
issues, searching existing articles, creating articles and editing for enhancement of old
article. In this session he has demonstrated how to add content using the commonly used
syntaxes, adding pictures and other media files. This was an interactive session where the
audience interacted with the demonstrator and each other and several discussions went on
based on the major issues. Several participants from from the nearby management colleges,
engineering students, entrepreneurs, college students have also participated. At the end
of the session a lotion based core group of active users was formed which will be
promoting the Wikipedia movement and bringing more and more contributors to enhance it,
make it more user friendly and make it reach to masses. Contributors came with several
suggestions such as motivating more and more students and freelancers to contribute and
also monitor the ongoing activities and discussing them through the mailing list of Odia
Wikipedia. [
http://bit.ly/ormail ]. More and more such activism are expected in the
coming future with the involvement of people who are eager for the development of Odia
language on web. Odia Wikipedia can be accessed at
or.wikipedia.org and the Facebook page
for Odia Wikipedia is
facebook.com/OdiaWiki
As of now there are 700 articles in Odia Wikipedia, but many of them are to be enhanced
with more information and references. There was a discussion about how to build a strong
community to enhance the articles in both quality and standard wise, stop vandalism and
monitor the activities.
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