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Odia Wikipedia - Cuttack Community Meetup (March 16, 2013)

By Subhashish Panigrahi · Published

A meetup of Odia wikipedians was organised by the Access to Knowledge team of the Centre for Internet and Society and the Odia wikipedia community on March 16, 2013. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the meetup.

Odia Wikipedia Community at Cuttack
Participants from the Wikipedia meetup held on March 16, 2013

Recently Centre for Internet and Society's Access To Knowledge Programme members T. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi met Odia Wikipedians in Cuttack to discuss about the current state of Odia Wikipedia and understand the community building strategies. Five active wikipedians from Cuttack and one from Bhubaneswar joined and discussed about various challenges the community is facing. New project ideas were discussed. Wikipedians also shared their stories and motivation. A new project on articles about the Villages, Pachayats, Blocks of Odisha was decided to be rolled as a key project on this day.