+1 to all comments :) Thanks to all :) On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi <psubhash...@gmail.com > 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 <ashwin.bain...@gmail.com>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 <rames...@gmail.com> 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 <sh...@wikimedia.org>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<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Odia/Discussions/2011> >>>> . >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> Shiju >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>>> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>>> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> >> > > > -- > * > ସୁ ଭା ସି ସ ପା ଣି ଗା ହି > ** > S u b h a s i s a P a n i g a h i > ** > 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 > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > -- Ansuman Giri * ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ * http://twitter.com/smileyansu * _______________________________________________ Wikipedia Odia (Oriya) mailing list wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or facebook.com/OdiaWiki Tweet @OdiaWiki *
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