Odia Wikipedia MeetUp
Workshop
1.5 hrs
September 29, 2012 4:00 pm Saturday

Most people who browse through wikipedia everyday never know wikipedia even exists in their own Indian languages and the articles are contributed by people like them. Wikipedia exists in 20+ Indic languages including Odia. Odia Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia in Odia language and one of the flagship projects of Wikimedia foundation. With 4.55 lakh visitors every month it is one of the most visited Odia site and the biggest online encyclopedia in Odia language. Enriched with 3000 articles on various topics on Arts, Science, Places and people of interest and lot more Odia Wikipedia has over 25 active contributors across the world. Odias in Odisha and of Odia diaspora have been educating more and more people in different places by organizing workshops. Hyderabad Odia Wikipedia workshop is going to the first Odia workshop in the city. This is an open event and anyone who can read and write Odia can join this.

Organizer
Swetapadma Satpathy
http://or.wikipedia.org/s/b9x