Good work subhashish,
Have you thought about organising article writing/participation contests?. It is a good way to attract new participants.
regards Bala
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Gautam John gautam@prathambooks.orgwrote:
Thank you, Subhashish, for the report.
Really great to see the growth of a Wikipedia once the community becomes active.
Best,
Gautam ________ http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html
On 29 August 2011 14:41, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhashish@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
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