Re: [Wikimedia-l] Odia Wikimedia community documents Ratha Jatra on Wikimedia Commons.

2016-07-07 Thread Jane Darnell
What a great idea! We need this for so many recurring local festivals and personally I think we need these pictures every single year, but that is just my opinion. In the Netherlands we have a huge flower parade and yearly Mardi Gras parades and these are not considered notable enough to have photo

[Wikimedia-l] Odia Wikimedia community documents Ratha Jatra on Wikimedia Commons.

2016-07-07 Thread Sailesh Patnaik
Dear Wikimedians, Ratha Jatra is one of the longest running festivals of Odisha running for over a month. The festival starts from Akshaya Trutiya and ends after Bahuda Jatra.This festival dates back to more than 1000 years. This year, a few Wikimedians from Puri are documenting the process of bu