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About project

Wikimedia Projects encompass a wide range of collaborative initiatives driven by the Wikimedia Foundation. These projects include Wikipedia, the world's largest encyclopedia; Wikimedia Commons, a repository for free media files; and Wikidata, a structured database of knowledge. Through the collective efforts of volunteers, these projects aim to provide free access to information and empower individuals to contribute, share, and expand the global knowledge base.

Odia Wikipedia is one of the many Wikipedia projects for Odia language. The aim of the project is to increase the Odia language content over internet as an updated Encyclopaedia.

Roles and Responsibilities

Odia Wikipedia

I was given the rollbacker privilege to revert spam edits in 2019.

I got admin access in 2022. As an admin, my role revolves around the following:

Harmony among the contributors
Resolving Technical issues
Representing Odia Wikipedia in world forums
Regulating the edits
Actively participating in resolving conflicts.

Social media accounts manager from April 2019 to Dec 2019.

Increase traffic flows to your Facebook page organically

I have been given the responsibility to manage the Odia Wikipedia Facebook page back in April 2019; actually, I asked for that.It had around 4600 likes, few posts here and there. My main task was to gain attention from the people that WE EXIST.

https://soumendrak.medium.com/increase-traffic-flows-to-your-facebook-page-organically-6c1084f9d8ca

Content creator to show on homepage and social media channels.

Wikimedia Commons

Uploading relevant photographs and videos regarding visited places with CC-BY-SA-4.0 license.

Uploading Odia words pronunciation audio files with CC-0 license, which later can be used for Speech technologies.

Wikidata

Starting out here to increased structured data presence.

Building up Lexeme for Odia words.

Tech stack

Editing

VS Code IDE

Google/Bing Translate

Monitoring

Javascript

Conferences atteneded

Year	Conference	Details
2020	TTT	Pan India-level participants came for Train The Trainer conference.
2023	WTS	2nd Wikimedia Technology Summit
2023	WCI	Participants from all over the world visited to Wikimedia Conference India.