[Wikimediaindia-l] 3rd Bangalore Odia Wiki Meetup- Odia Wikipedia reaches 1500 articles

[Arjuna Rao Chavala]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi <psubhashish at 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.
> --cut--
>
Nice to see how a bunch of motivated people were able  turn around one of
the oldest indic language wikis.

Congratulations and Best Wishes to all the people, participants behind this
milestone.


Cheers
Arjun



> 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<http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86:%E0%AC%AE%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%B3%E0%AC%A3/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%99%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%97%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B3%E0%AD%81%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%81/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%99%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%97%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B3%E0%AD%81%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%81%E0%AD%A7>and in the 3rd
> Bangalore Wikipedia Meetup<http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore3>we have celebrated 1500 articles.
> *
> Projects:*
> Discussion regarding 2 ongoing projects.
> *Odia loves Wikipedia<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category: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 <http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odia_sahitya> and
> 37 images in Commons.<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Odia_literature>
>
> *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
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