[Wikimediaindia-l] Report: 2nd Odia Wikipedia Workshop, Bhubaneswar, 2011April03 (୨କ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକି କର୍ମଶାଳା, ଭୁବନେଶ୍ଵର)

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

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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