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Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:10:06 +0530
From: wikiodisha1(a)gmail.com
To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] 3rd Bangalore Odia Wiki Meetup- Odia Wikipedia reaches
1500 articles
thank you, subhashish bhai for the report
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi <psubhashish(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi folks,
Good morning from Odia Wiki Community.
Yesterday we had a small meetup to celebrate the "1500 articles Celebration"
attended by 6 old and 1 new Wikipedians.
Agenda:
Current status: The substantial growth and the initiatives taken to improve the status of
Odia Wikipedia was discussed. Odia Wikipedia was dormant for almost 8 years which just
started reviving itself in the beginning of this year and made a leap of almost 1000 well
written articles in this short span with the bandwidth of a small community with less
active members. Bangalore was the stepping stone for the revival of Odia Wikipedia and in
the 3rd Bangalore Wikipedia Meetup we have celebrated 1500 articles.
Projects:
Discussion regarding 2 ongoing projects.
Odia loves Wikipedia: An event in Commons to bring out media files uploaded by Odia
Wikians. This event has reached 351 media files.
Wikipedia for Odia Literature: An event which is created to uplift the presence of Odia
language and literature in Wikipedia, chronological documentations and media files
collection. This is running in both in the Wikipedia as well as Commons. Under this event
Odia Wikipedia has attained 131 articles in Odia Wikipedia and 37 images in Commons.
Further plans:
The next target was set up with attaining 500 more articles to beat Gurumukhi Wikipedia
which presently has 2003 articles as both of these Wikipedias took birth in the same
time.
We also have discussed to discourage creation of stubs without taking care of them for
further expansion, creation and used of templates, categories, good citaions.
Plans for more outreach programs by collaborating the Odia literature departments of
several known colleges and universities was also talked of.
Wikipedians debated how Wikipedia could be a fair and reliable source and at times how
much beneficial it'd be when most of today's generation are moving out of books
and internet has become a repository of unending knowledge and its regional context when
an ancient language like Odia is considered, whether or not it is needed to work for
Wikipedia, or find any better alternative.
Thank you all for reading. Expecting your valuable feedback and comments
ସୁଭପାSubhashishPanigrahi
ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ
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