The Odia Wikipedia ( or, ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ) (also known as Oriya Wikipedia and orwiki) is the Odia edition of

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. The project was started by Suneet Samaetha in June 2002 and reached 1,000 articles in May 2011. This is one of the first four

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Wikipedias started in 2002, among over 20 Indic language Wikipedias. The first edit on Odia Wikipedia occurred on 3 June 2002.

Growth, coverage and popularity

Started in June 2002, it reached one thousand articles in May 2011. As of , it has articles, the on the list of Wikipedias according to article count. Odia Wikipedians have organized meetups and workshops in seven different cities like

Bhubaneswar Bhubaneswar (; ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Odisha. The region, especially the old town, was historically often depicted as ''Ekamra Kshetra'' (area (''kshetra'') adorned with mango trees (''ekamra'')). Bhubaneswar is ...

Cuttack Cuttack (, or officially Kataka ) in Odia is the former capital and the second largest city in the Indian state of Odisha. It is the headquarters of the Cuttack district. The name of the city is an anglicised form of ''Kataka'' which literally ...

, Anugul, Balasore,

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and

New Delhi New Delhi (, , ''Naī Dillī'') is the capital of India and a part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT). New Delhi is the seat of all three branches of the government of India, hosting the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Parliament Ho ...

across India. The readership has increased over 300% in the last six months. The page views per month is at 4.38 million. This Wikipedia ranks 134 among the 289 world language Wikipedias, as of 23 August 2015.

Statistics

The table below contains details of the official

statistics under the auspices of the

for

Odia language Odia (, ISO: , ; formerly rendered Oriya ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Indian state of Odisha. It is the official language in Odisha (formerly rendered Orissa), where native speakers make up 82% of the population, and it is also ...

; 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. PlotEditorsOR

Wikipedia Report Card: ''summaries for Odia'' ''Oriya Wikipedia at a glance''
September 2011

References

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