A quarter blamed other technical issues, including the lack of mobile input in Odia, for low editorship, while low interest for contributing in Odia language by native language speakers was blamed by eight percent of survey participants.Īditya Mahar, Wikimedian. More than a third instead blamed the lack of good quality content on Wikipedia and the Internet as a whole in the Odia language, in English related to Odia language, and in Odisha on the Internet.
Two-fifths of participants said that problems with the rendering of Odia characters in different operating systems, ignorance or lack of more documentation about enabling encoding for Odia, input methods and keyboard layouts, and other font- and keyboard-related issues as the major reason for low readership and contribution on Wikipedia. Photo by Subhashish Panigrahi, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. What challenges the Odia community is facing–an infographic based on the community survey during Odia Wikipeia 13 event. Participating Wikimedians were asked to brainstorm various problems they face in two major areas: editing and outreach. This allowed Odia Wikipedia administrator, and the most active Odia Wikimedian, Mrutyunjaya Kar and I to design a needs assessment survey. This was arguably the first time almost the entire community gathered in a physical space. This has been a major roadblock in the search for and reuse of digital content in the Odia language.ĭuring our thirteenth anniversary celebrations, the community spent a day assessing community needs, addressing issues, and identifying priority areas to focus on in the future. For its thirteenth anniversary, the community released a character-encoding converter that promises to unlock massive amounts of content-from government portals to journals, newspapers and magazines that have their content in various legacy encoding systems other than Unicode. The community has also engaged over 2,500 people through various outreach programs, such as the Wikipedia Education Program. Statistics showing monthly page view, active editors and new editors in Odia Wikipedia for February-July 2015.
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