The Odia Wikipedia () (also known as Oriya Wikipedia and orwiki) is the Odia edition of Wikipedia. It is a free, web-based, collaborative encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. 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 Indic 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, 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 4.38 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 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. Sl No. Language Language (local) Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active users Images Depth 175 Odia [ ଓଡ଼ିଆ] or [ 2,449] 15,252 81,640 4 3,346 63 27 146 All Wikipedias ordered by number of articles, List of Wikipedias.
The table below contains a details sorted by the number of edits per article. Sl No. Language Language (local) Wiki Edits / article Total / article Users / article Articles Edits Total Users 48 Odia [ ଓଡ଼ିଆ] or 12.78 1.40 0.20 528 6 749 739 108 List of Wikipedias by edits per article. Accessed 26 August 2007
Wikipedia Report Card: summaries for Odia Details Data Yearly change Monthly change Page views per month 484,698 -- -- Article count 1,642 +154% +7% New articles per day 4 -- -- Edits per month 1,780 +64% +9% Active editors 9 -- +50% Very active editors 2 -- +0% New editors 1 -- -- Speakers 31,000,000 -- -- Editors per million speakers 0.3 -- -- Oriya Wikipedia at a glance . September 2011
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External links
Odia Wikipedia Odia Wikipedia mobile Wikipedia.org multilingual portal Wikimedia Foundation