Glad to see the great progress by Odia Wikipedia. Another proof of the need of building active Wiki communities for the growth of the Wikimedia projects.
Well done, Odia Wikipedians ! -Tinu Cherian On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 8:19 PM, ansuman <ansum...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for all the nice feedback, comments. > Especially thanks to Shiju, Hisham, Tinu, Arjuna, Goutam, CIS and the India > chapter. > You all been very supportive and kind. Thanks again. > > ansuman > > > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Shiju Alex <shijualexonl...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Good work Subhasish and other Odia wiki community members.. >> >> *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. >>> >> Next step would be requesting for Odia wikisource. >> >> Hope you will be able to rope in more new users from the Odisha state >> through various outreach programs. >> >> Shiju >> >> >> 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. >>> >>> 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 >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> >> > > > -- > Ansuman Giri > * > ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ > * > http://about.me/ansuman > * > _______________________________________________ > 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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