Odia Wikipedia Projects
CIS Signs MoU with Odia Virtual Academy
— by Sailesh Patnaik — last modified Dec 20, 2018 12:24 AMOn October 26, 2018, the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Odia Virtual Academy (OVA) to work on drafting an open content policy for the state, to promote use of Wikimedia projects by various user types and to ensure sustainability of Wikimedia projects, and to facilitate development of relevant free and open source software projects. This partnership between OVA and CIS will be carried out from December 2018 to November 2019, and we are sharing an overview of the activities and their objectives in this post.
Indic Wikisource Community Consultation 2018
— by Jayanta Nath — last modified Dec 08, 2018 06:22 PMA group of Indian Wikisource leader from 12 different language communities gathered in Kolkata to attend the Indic Wikisource Community Consultation 2018
Odia Virtual Academy launched
— by Admin — last modified Oct 29, 2018 02:27 AMChief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday launched a new web portal of ‘Odia Virtual Academy’ (www.ova.gov.in) to promote the Odia language and literature at the Secretariat here.
Sambad Health and Women Edit-a-thon
— by Admin — last modified May 07, 2018 04:34 PMSambad Health and Women Edit-a-thon was an offline edit-a-thon held in the month of April in collaboration with the Sambad media house, Odia Wikimedia User Group and the Center for Internet and Society.
Chromebook for the Project Tiger- How it is helping me to contribute actively on Wikimedia projects!
— by Sangram Keshari Senapati — last modified Apr 20, 2018 06:21 AMProject Tiger is a collaboration project of Wikimedia Foundation with Centre for Internet and Society, Wikimedia India and other affiliates of India to improve and create high-quality content in Indic languages like Odia, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi etc.This project helps the active and experienced Wikipedia editors by supporting them with Internet charges for 6 months and Laptops to 50 volunteers to address existing Wikipedia content gaps.
Government of Odisha adopting Creative Commons License to Promote Transparency and Access to Knowledge
— by Sailesh Patnaik — last modified Jan 18, 2018 01:22 AMThis year started with an astonishing announcement by the Government of Odisha towards the free knowledge movement. On the Public Domain day, which is celebrated every year on 1st January, The Government of Odisha continuing its collaboration with the Odia Wikipedia community has announced to release the content of its two major departments under Creative Commons license.
Asian Athletics Championships 2017 Edit-a-thon
— by Sailesh Patnaik & Jnanaranjan Sahu — last modified Aug 01, 2017 05:23 AMOdia Wikipedians, in conjunction with Indian Athletics Federation and Sports and Youth Services collaborated to document the 2017 Asian Athletics Championships. Hundreds of photos were uploaded and new Wikipedia content added to inform the event’s fans.
Sambad 100 Women Edit-a-thon
— by Ting Yi Chang and Sailesh Patnaik — last modified Apr 18, 2017 10:05 AMA two-day 100 Women Edit-a-thon was held on March 18 and 19, 2017 in collaboration with Odisha’s biggest newspaper publisher Sambad. The event was inspired by BBC’s 100 Women series and edit-a-thons with the same name in December 2016. More than 20 female journalists participated and registered as new Odia Wikipedians. The event served as a highlight of the Women’s History Month in Indian language Wikipedias as well as in the global movement.
Odia Wikipedia: Sambalpur University Workshop
— by Sailesh Patnaik — last modified Apr 17, 2017 06:44 AMAn Odia Wikipedia orientation-cum-workshop program was organised for the students of Sambalpur University on 27 November, 2016.
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