On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi <psubhash...@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 > ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ > _______________________________________________ > Wikipedia Odia (Oriya) mailing list > wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or > facebook.com/OdiaWiki > Tweet @OdiaWiki > * > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >
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