Available in Odia Created by Odia wiki community | Owner Wikimedia Foundation Website or.wikipedia.org | |
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Type of site Internet encyclopedia project Slogan(s) Odia: ଏକ ଖୋଲା ଜ୍ଞାନକୋଷ (The Free Encyclopedia) | ||
The Odia Wikipedia (Odia: ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡିଆ) (a.k.a. Oriya Wikipedia and orwiki) is the Odia edition of Wikipedia, a free, web-based,collaborative encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. The project started in June 2002 and reached 1,000 articles in May 2011. This is one of the first four Indic Wikipedias started in 2002, among over 20 Indic language Wikipedias. The first edit on Odia Wikipedia occurred on 3 June 2002.
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Growth, coverage and popularity
Started in June 2002, it reached one thousand articles in May 2011. As of January 2013, it has 3,184 articles, the 161st on the list of Wikipedias according to article count. Odia Wikipedians have organized meetups and workshops in seven different cities like Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Anugul, Balasore, Bangalore and New Delhi across India. The readership has increased over 300% in the last six months. The page views per month is at 4.84 lakh. This Wikipedia ranks 134 among the 289 world language Wikipedias, as on August 23, 2015.
Statistics
The table below contains details of the official Wikipedia statistics under the auspices of the Wikimedia Foundation for Odia language; the given information is the current numbers. Test Wikipedias are listed at the Wikimedia Incubator Wiki project.
The table below contains a details sorted by the number of edits per article.
Wikipedia Report Card: summaries for Odia