Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Sharing insights and experiences from Indian language wiki communities - Odia (Oriya)

[Ramesh N G]

Odia wikipedia is one of the shining example of how really active
wikipedians can make the the growth of wikipedia.
The outreach programs which they have conducted has shown the results in
the last 15 months.

User:Rameshng



On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Shiju Alex  wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Today I am sharing you the summary of discussions I had with Odia wiki (
> http://or.wikipedia.org/) community. It is available here:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Odia/Discussions/2011
>
> Odia is a shining example of how a wiki project can be revived and build a
> community around it, if few wonderful users with a vision for building free
> knowledge in their mother language arrive in their mother language wiki.
>
> Odia wikipedia was started in 2002. In fact it is one of the first Indic
> language wikipedia. Nothing much had happened in Odia wiki till 2010
> December. But the progress made by Odia wiki project (
> http://or.wikipedia.org/) during the past one year is note worthy and it
> is an example that can be replicated in some of the inactive Indic language
> wikipedias. Odia was having just 600 articles (which were created over the
> past 8 years) and no active users at the start of this year. Now 10 months
> later, it has close to 1600 articles and 10 active users. The online and
> offline outreach initiatives took by Odia wiki community for building the
> community is showing positive result.
>
> I was actively involved in the community building for Odia wikipedia. I
> still remember the day (2011 January 15) when I introducted Odia wikipedia
> and Odia tying tool (developed by Junaid) to an Odia speaker (Ashuthosh
> Kar) during Wiki X celebration at Bangalore. Through him very soon we got a
> wonderful wikipedian (Subhashish) who is leading the efforts for Odia wiki
> now. Initially Subhasish and I used to meet at my home and work on the
> basic things for Odia wiki. I remember us working on the Odia wikipedia
> logo, FAQ booklet, Translate wiki, and so on. Soon Odia got more members to
> the team through the few Odia wiki workshops happened at Bangalore. Along
> with workshops, Odia wikipedians translated the FAQ booklet to Odia and
> took efforts to integrate the Odia typing solution to Odia wikipedia. Later
> with the support of Dhanada Mishra (the chairman of Human Development
> Foundation (http://www.hdf.org.in/)) and a young student Odia wikipedian
> Srikanth Kedia a wiki workshop is conducted at Bhubaneshwar. Odia
> wikipedians from Bangalore are doing an excellent job and now many of them
> are participating in Wikimedia India chapter activities also.
>
> Odia wiki community is effectively making use of various social networking
> sites to reach out to Odia speakers.
>
> Odia wiki project picked up not because Odia has got huge speaker base,
> high literacy among Odia speakers, access to computers, or any thing else;
> it become active only because it has receieved the right volunteers who
> have passion and vision of developing a wikipedia in their mother language.
> We need similar volunteers for each Indic language wikipedia.
>
>
> Requesting you to place your comments on the talk 
> page
> .
>
>
> Regards
> Shiju
>
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Sharing insights and experiences from Indian language wiki communities - Odia (Oriya)

[Ashwin Baindur]

+1 to Ramesh's comment. Heartiest congratulations to Odia community on the
enormous effort, intensity and passion they have shown, Well done & please
keep up the great work. :)

Warm regards,

Ashwin Baindur
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On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Ramesh N G  wrote:

> Odia wikipedia is one of the shining example of how really active
> wikipedians can make the the growth of wikipedia.
> The outreach programs which they have conducted has shown the results in
> the last 15 months.
>
> User:Rameshng
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Shiju Alex  wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Today I am sharing you the summary of discussions I had with Odia wiki (
>> http://or.wikipedia.org/) community. It is available here:
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Odia/Discussions/2011
>>
>> Odia is a shining example of how a wiki project can be revived and build
>> a community around it, if few wonderful users with a vision for building
>> free knowledge in their mother language arrive in their mother language
>> wiki.
>>
>> Odia wikipedia was started in 2002. In fact it is one of the first Indic
>> language wikipedia. Nothing much had happened in Odia wiki till 2010
>> December. But the progress made by Odia wiki project (
>> http://or.wikipedia.org/) during the past one year is note worthy and it
>> is an example that can be replicated in some of the inactive Indic language
>> wikipedias. Odia was having just 600 articles (which were created over the
>> past 8 years) and no active users at the start of this year. Now 10 months
>> later, it has close to 1600 articles and 10 active users. The online and
>> offline outreach initiatives took by Odia wiki community for building the
>> community is showing positive result.
>>
>> I was actively involved in the community building for Odia wikipedia. I
>> still remember the day (2011 January 15) when I introducted Odia wikipedia
>> and Odia tying tool (developed by Junaid) to an Odia speaker (Ashuthosh
>> Kar) during Wiki X celebration at Bangalore. Through him very soon we got a
>> wonderful wikipedian (Subhashish) who is leading the efforts for Odia wiki
>> now. Initially Subhasish and I used to meet at my home and work on the
>> basic things for Odia wiki. I remember us working on the Odia wikipedia
>> logo, FAQ booklet, Translate wiki, and so on. Soon Odia got more members to
>> the team through the few Odia wiki workshops happened at Bangalore. Along
>> with workshops, Odia wikipedians translated the FAQ booklet to Odia and
>> took efforts to integrate the Odia typing solution to Odia wikipedia. Later
>> with the support of Dhanada Mishra (the chairman of Human Development
>> Foundation (http://www.hdf.org.in/)) and a young student Odia wikipedian
>> Srikanth Kedia a wiki workshop is conducted at Bhubaneshwar. Odia
>> wikipedians from Bangalore are doing an excellent job and now many of them
>> are participating in Wikimedia India chapter activities also.
>>
>> Odia wiki community is effectively making use of various social
>> networking sites to reach out to Odia speakers.
>>
>> Odia wiki project picked up not because Odia has got huge speaker base,
>> high literacy among Odia speakers, access to computers, or any thing else;
>> it become active only because it has receieved the right volunteers who
>> have passion and vision of developing a wikipedia in their mother language.
>> We need similar volunteers for each Indic language wikipedia.
>>
>>
>> Requesting you to place your comments on the talk 
>> page
>> .
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Shiju
>>
>>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Sharing insights and experiences from Indian language wiki communities - Odia (Oriya)

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

Thanks a lot Shiju, Ramesh and Ashwin, applauds for Gyana for his recent
hard work in a span of even less than a month.

We would like to take help from the existing communities to set up the
Gramapanchayat in Odia Wikipedia, please help us with the set up and
documentation.

Kind regards
Subha

On 29 November 2011 21:40, Ashwin Baindur  wrote:

> +1 to Ramesh's comment. Heartiest congratulations to Odia community on the
> enormous effort, intensity and passion they have shown, Well done & please
> keep up the great work. :)
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Ashwin Baindur
> --
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Ramesh N G  wrote:
>
>> Odia wikipedia is one of the shining example of how really active
>> wikipedians can make the the growth of wikipedia.
>> The outreach programs which they have conducted has shown the results in
>> the last 15 months.
>>
>> User:Rameshng
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Shiju Alex  wrote:
>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> Today I am sharing you the summary of discussions I had with Odia wiki (
>>> http://or.wikipedia.org/) community. It is available here:
>>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Odia/Discussions/2011
>>>
>>> Odia is a shining example of how a wiki project can be revived and build
>>> a community around it, if few wonderful users with a vision for building
>>> free knowledge in their mother language arrive in their mother language
>>> wiki.
>>>
>>> Odia wikipedia was started in 2002. In fact it is one of the first Indic
>>> language wikipedia. Nothing much had happened in Odia wiki till 2010
>>> December. But the progress made by Odia wiki project (
>>> http://or.wikipedia.org/) during the past one year is note worthy and
>>> it is an example that can be replicated in some of the inactive Indic
>>> language wikipedias. Odia was having just 600 articles (which were created
>>> over the past 8 years) and no active users at the start of this year. Now
>>> 10 months later, it has close to 1600 articles and 10 active users. The
>>> online and offline outreach initiatives took by Odia wiki community for
>>> building the community is showing positive result.
>>>
>>> I was actively involved in the community building for Odia wikipedia. I
>>> still remember the day (2011 January 15) when I introducted Odia wikipedia
>>> and Odia tying tool (developed by Junaid) to an Odia speaker (Ashuthosh
>>> Kar) during Wiki X celebration at Bangalore. Through him very soon we got a
>>> wonderful wikipedian (Subhashish) who is leading the efforts for Odia wiki
>>> now. Initially Subhasish and I used to meet at my home and work on the
>>> basic things for Odia wiki. I remember us working on the Odia wikipedia
>>> logo, FAQ booklet, Translate wiki, and so on. Soon Odia got more members to
>>> the team through the few Odia wiki workshops happened at Bangalore. Along
>>> with workshops, Odia wikipedians translated the FAQ booklet to Odia and
>>> took efforts to integrate the Odia typing solution to Odia wikipedia. Later
>>> with the support of Dhanada Mishra (the chairman of Human Development
>>> Foundation (http://www.hdf.org.in/)) and a young student Odia
>>> wikipedian Srikanth Kedia a wiki workshop is conducted at Bhubaneshwar.
>>> Odia wikipedians from Bangalore are doing an excellent job and now many of
>>> them are participating in Wikimedia India chapter activities also.
>>>
>>> Odia wiki community is effectively making use of various social
>>> networking sites to reach out to Odia speakers.
>>>
>>> Odia wiki project picked up not because Odia has got huge speaker base,
>>> high literacy among Odia speakers, access to computers, or any thing else;
>>> it become active only because it has receieved the right volunteers who
>>> have passion and vision of developing a wikipedia in their mother language.
>>> We need similar volunteers for each Indic language wikipedia.
>>>
>>>
>>> Requesting you to place your comments on the talk 
>>> page
>>> .
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Shiju
>>>
>>>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Sharing insights and experiences from Indian language wiki communities - Odia (Oriya)

[ansuman]

+1 to all comments :) Thanks to all :)

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi  wrote:

> Thanks a lot Shiju, Ramesh and Ashwin, applauds for Gyana for his recent
> hard work in a span of even less than a month.
>
> We would like to take help from the existing communities to set up the
> Gramapanchayat in Odia Wikipedia, please help us with the set up and
> documentation.
>
> Kind regards
> Subha
>
>
> On 29 November 2011 21:40, Ashwin Baindur wrote:
>
>> +1 to Ramesh's comment. Heartiest congratulations to Odia community on
>> the enormous effort, intensity and passion they have shown, Well done &
>> please keep up the great work. :)
>>
>> Warm regards,
>>
>> Ashwin Baindur
>> --
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Ramesh N G  wrote:
>>
>>> Odia wikipedia is one of the shining example of how really active
>>> wikipedians can make the the growth of wikipedia.
>>> The outreach programs which they have conducted has shown the results in
>>> the last 15 months.
>>>
>>> User:Rameshng
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Shiju Alex wrote:
>>>
 Dear All,

 Today I am sharing you the summary of discussions I had with Odia wiki (
 http://or.wikipedia.org/) community. It is available here:
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Odia/Discussions/2011

 Odia is a shining example of how a wiki project can be revived and
 build a community around it, if few wonderful users with a vision for
 building free knowledge in their mother language arrive in their mother
 language wiki.

 Odia wikipedia was started in 2002. In fact it is one of the first
 Indic language wikipedia. Nothing much had happened in Odia wiki till 2010
 December. But the progress made by Odia wiki project (
 http://or.wikipedia.org/) during the past one year is note worthy and
 it is an example that can be replicated in some of the inactive Indic
 language wikipedias. Odia was having just 600 articles (which were created
 over the past 8 years) and no active users at the start of this year. Now
 10 months later, it has close to 1600 articles and 10 active users. The
 online and offline outreach initiatives took by Odia wiki community for
 building the community is showing positive result.

 I was actively involved in the community building for Odia wikipedia. I
 still remember the day (2011 January 15) when I introducted Odia wikipedia
 and Odia tying tool (developed by Junaid) to an Odia speaker (Ashuthosh
 Kar) during Wiki X celebration at Bangalore. Through him very soon we got a
 wonderful wikipedian (Subhashish) who is leading the efforts for Odia wiki
 now. Initially Subhasish and I used to meet at my home and work on the
 basic things for Odia wiki. I remember us working on the Odia wikipedia
 logo, FAQ booklet, Translate wiki, and so on. Soon Odia got more members to
 the team through the few Odia wiki workshops happened at Bangalore. Along
 with workshops, Odia wikipedians translated the FAQ booklet to Odia and
 took efforts to integrate the Odia typing solution to Odia wikipedia. Later
 with the support of Dhanada Mishra (the chairman of Human Development
 Foundation (http://www.hdf.org.in/)) and a young student Odia
 wikipedian Srikanth Kedia a wiki workshop is conducted at Bhubaneshwar.
 Odia wikipedians from Bangalore are doing an excellent job and now many of
 them are participating in Wikimedia India chapter activities also.

 Odia wiki community is effectively making use of various social
 networking sites to reach out to Odia speakers.

 Odia wiki project picked up not because Odia has got huge speaker base,
 high literacy among Odia speakers, access to computers, or any thing else;
 it become active only because it has receieved the right volunteers who
 have passion and vision of developing a wikipedia in their mother language.
 We need similar volunteers for each Indic language wikipedia.


 Requesting you to place your comments on the talk 
 page
 .


 Regards
 Shiju


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