Odia Wikimedians User Group/Meetings/Online

In 2025, the user group's monthly online call will continue on the last Sunday of every month, at 9.00 PM -9.30 PM IST.

29th Dec 2024

Attendees: Sangram Keshari Senapati, Jnanaranjan Sahu, Aliva Saoo, Chinmayee Mishra
Platform: Google meet
Agenda:

Experience from IMD UG Hackathon
January 2025 workplan

Notes:

User:Jnanaranjan sahu shared his experience and learnings from the Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024, that was organised at Bhubaneswar, Odisha from 20th-22nd Dec 2024. From the regional community Jnanaranjan (as the IMD UG member-Core organisers group), sailesh (as WMF staff), Abijeet(as WMF staff & mentor) and Chinmayee (as ODW UG member & participant) joined the event in-person.
Feedback: Participation from the ODW UG could have been better.
On day 2 of the hackathon, 21st Dec 2024, the participants here celebrated the 22nd birthday of Malayalam Wikipedia with the Wikimedians of Kerala UG members Ranjith, Jinoy and Athul VS, who were participating in the event.
During this 3 days event, several tools have been enhanced, new ideas were produced in regards to the existing challenges and bugs in different Wikimedia projects. More than 50 participants worked on their pre-selected projects / project groups and showcased their outcomes as live demos at the end of day 3.

Plan/ preparation for the upcoming activities:

Meeting with the state govt. officials

Resume working on the proposal for the project with state govt. of Odisha

Possible Collaboration with "Detour Odisha"

Initiating content donation drive to bring quality images and videos of different places & events from Odisha, to the Wikimedia Commons with proper attributions.

Documenting activities and event pages on meta too, not just Odia Wiki

For better reach and language inclusivity, going ahead we will keep our updated information on meta too along with the home wiki VP & project pages.