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Executive Summary[edit]

Key Initiatives[edit]

“ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା ସମ୍ମିଳନୀରେ 'ଡୋମ୍ ଅଫ୍ ଦ ଫ୍ୟୁଚର୍'ରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆକୁ ନେଇ ସଚେତନ କରାଯାଉଛି। ସାହିତ୍ୟ, ସଂସ୍କୃତି ଓ ରାଜନୀତି ଆଦି ଅନେକ ତଥ୍ୟ ଏଥିରେ ରହିଛି। ଏହା ଉପରେ ଅଧିକ ଜାଣିବା ପାଇଁ ଏହି ଲିଙ୍କରେ କ୍ଲିକ୍ କରନ୍ତୁ। or.wikipedia.org” (trans. “Awareness is being made about Odia Wikipedia in 'Dome of the Future' in Odia Language Conference. Literature, culture and politics etc. contains a lot of facts in this. Click on this link to know more about it. or.wikipedia.org.”)

— Electronics & Information Technology Department, Government of Odisha
  • 6th January 2024: Odia Wikimedian Dr. Subas Chandra Rout was awarded the "2023 Cure Award" by the WikiProject Med for being the most prolific medical translator of 2023 with 349 medicine-related articles created on Odia Wikipedia. The Odia Wikipedia articles remains the largest among all the Wikipedias in 32 languages where editors are contributing under the scope of this WikiProject, receiving 87,528 pageviews at the time of reporting.
  • Initiated by Wikimedian Sangram Keshari Senapati, the ODW User Group led the Param Vir Chakra Edit-a-thon to honour the military officers awarded with the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest military decoration that honours those who have shown distinguished acts of valour during wartime. The edit-a-thon saw an uptake in four other Wikipedias—Angika, Assamese, Kashmiri and Santali—in addition to Odia. Wikimedians created and improved articles about the 21 awardees and other related key articles.[1]

Other Initiatives[edit]

  • Monthly Online call on the last Sunday
The user group is organizing a monthly call on the last Sunday of every month, to discuss and share the work of the month, experiences and learnings.
The user group had restored the Ratha Jatra Edit-a-thon and Wiki Loves Ratha Jatra event on Wikimedia Commons. During this 9-days event, 3 people had created 11 articles on Wikipedia and a total of 312 photos and videos from different places of Odisha (Puri, Bhadrak, Sonepur, Kalahandi, Keonjhar, Baripada, Nilagiri, Koraput, etc.) as well as out of India (Cooksville, Maryland and Johannesburg). The twitter to Commons tool developed by Janaranjan Sahu was very useful during to this time for uploading photographs shared on the Twitter handles of Govt. of Odisha in CC-by-SA-4.0 license directly to Commons.
The Odia Wikimedians organized a 3-day long mini edit-a-thon during the Indian Independence day from 14 August to 16 August. 6 uses of the user group joined this event and a total of 27 articles about Indian activists created by translating from English Wikipedia.
Odia Wikipedia organized a 3-days long edit-a-thon to created articles related to Mahatma Gandhi from 30 September to 2 October. During this period, a total of 26 articles has been created by 3 users. During this period, the Mahatma Gandhi article on Odia Wikipedia has been improved by Janaranjan Sahu by adding 3,59,456 bytes, which become the longest article on Wikipedia and that article helped the school students of Odisha to know more about Gandhi in their local language.
The user group organized an offline meeting at Bhubaneswar on 29 October 2023 to celebrate the 11th Birthday of Wikidata. The users from Odia Wikimedians User Group joined this celebration.
  • Organized Wikipedia Asian Month 2023 edit-a-thon
The Odia Wikipedia community participated in the 2023 Wikipedia Asian Month edit-a-thon. However, the event did not see wider participation and only 2 articles by only 2 users.
  • Organized Feminism and Folklore 2024 edit-a-thon
Odia Wikipedia saw active community participation while returning to the 2023 edition of the annual Feminism and Folklore edit-a-thon. Ten Wikimedians created 156 new articles. Most of these articles were biographies of notable women helping bridge the gender gap on Odia Wikipedia.
  • Organized Odia Literature 2024 edit-a-thon
To improve articles related to Odia literature, the Odia Wikimedians user group had organized a 15 days long edit-a-thon from 1st April (Odisha Foundation Day) to 15th April (Odia New Year). Later, the timeline had increased to 7 more days and during this period, 3 users had created 31 articles on Odia Books, Odia writers and poets.
The Odia Wikipedia is the open and biggest online platform to provide detailed data about political history of Odisha. From the result declaration day, the Odia Wikimedians user group has started an edit-a-thon on Odia Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons to create and update data related to the 2024 Odisha Assembly election. The edit-a-thon is going and more then 200 Wikidata items has been updated/created. The target to to update/create more than 400 Wikipedia articles.
  • Participated in World Odia Language Conference by the Govt. of Odisha
The Govt. of Odisha had invited the Odia Wikimedians User Group to participate at the World Odia Language Conference held on 6-8 February in 2024 at Janata Maidan, Bhubaneswar. A few members from the user group attended this event and showcase about Odia Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects to create awareness among people and basically among school children and college students.
  • Timeline of Eminent Odia people
By collaborating with the Govt. of Odisha, the Odia Wiki UG had developed a timeline to showcase at the Future of dome at Odia Language Conference.
  • Wikipedia Awareness Survey Form
The Odia Wikimedians User Group had shared a Google form among the people visited the Future of Dome hall at the language conference, where more than 50 interested participants gook part of in this survey including some administrative officers of Odisha Govt and famous personalities like Padmashree Sudarshan Pattnaik.
Organized by Wikimedia Ukraine in cooperation with Ukrainian Institute and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, two Odia Wikimedians participated and created content for two articles on this theme.
  • Participated at Wiki Technical Training 2024
Organized by CIS-A2K, two Odia Wikimedians (Chinmayee Mishra and Ssgapu22) participated at the Wiki Technical training held at Chennai on 22-23 June and one user (Jananranjan Sahu) attended the event as a trainer Wikimedia Ukraine in cooperation with Ukrainian Institute and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, two Odia Wikimedians participated and created content for two articles on this theme.
  • Planning Ratha Jatra 2024 edit-a-thon on both Wikipedia and Commons

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Notes[edit]

  1. ↑ Senapati, Sangram Keshari (2023-09-05). "A three-day Edit-a-thon to remember the sacrifices of Indian freedom fighters". Diff. Retrieved 2023-09-05. 
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