ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:ଜନ୍ମତିଥି/୧୬/ପ୍ରେସ

ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ‌ରୁ

The first edit of Odia Wikipedia happened on June 2, 2002, almost a year after English Wikipedia was created. Though this made a memorable moment for the project to become the first Indian language Wikipedia, it remained dormant for almost 8 years until 2011 when the community began to grow.

Since then it has sprawled to many areas of Open Science — from creating valuable OER for the reader and editor community, to open source tools that are now used widely by the Odia-language community, to working with lawmakers, authors and publishers to relicense valuable content under CC licenses.

The project turned 16 on June 3 this year. The community is getting together in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India during July 7 – 8 to look back and reflect on its activities so far, and build a plan for the future.