Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy/Implementation/Affiliate health criteria/Reports/2024/Odia Wikimedians User Group
| Affiliate basic information | ||
|---|---|---|
| What is the affiliate name? | Odia Wikimedians User Group | |
| Please list the languages supported by this affiliate | Odia | |
| Please list countries where this affiliate operates | India | |
| Reporting timeline (e.g. January-December) | July-June | |
| Reporting year (e.g. 2024 or 2024-2025) | 2024 | |
| Primary contact (user name) | Psubhashish | |
| Secondary contact (user name) | Jnanaranjan Sahu | |
| Goal delivery | ||
| What is the affiliate mission? | To grow a community and develop Wikimedia projects on topics related to Odia language, the Odia people, the Indian state of Odisha | |
| What are the affiliate goals? Link to the strategic plan, if there is one. | a. To grow the aforementioned Wikimedia projects and the contributor communities by providing them with resources; c. evaluate to find both the technical and other resources needed, and create open resources in collaboration with both global movement entities and beyond. | |
| Organizational development | ||
| How does the affiliate make decisions? How are decisions communicated? | Membership is open to all, the active members of the community use a consensus-based decision-making process | |
| What is the current state of the affiliate finances? Link to the latest financial report, if there is one. | ||
Affiliate health and resilience
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| How many people participate in the decision-making process in the affiliate? | All active members | |
| Has there been any significant changes in the level of the affiliate membership body (e.g. increase/decrease of number of dues-paying members)? | During the reporting period, 292 new editors joined Odia Wikipedia and 13 editors remained active; the editor community contributed 3K new articles and made a total of 27K edits; | |
| Are there any affiliate activities in the past year that were led by affiliate members? Please share the highlights. | Raj K. Mohapatra (Puri), a new editor who joined last year is one of the top-most contributors; Odia Wikimedian Dr Subas Chandra Rout was awarded the "2024 Cure Award" and "The 2024 Cure Translators Award" by the WikiProject Med for being the most prolific medical translator of 2024, with over 349 medicine-related articles created on Odia Wikipedia; Two Odia Wikimedians, Mrutyunjay Kar and Sangram Senapati, were invited by the language and culture department of the Odisha government, who, together, discussed future collaborations; ODW collaborated with the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge, hosting the 2024 Train-the-Trainer program during 18-20 October 2024; Sangram Senapati was invited to join the Indic Oral Culture Wiki 2024-25, uploading over 1.5 hours of videos related to folk plays and folk stories. He also presented about his audio data (using LinguaLibre) and video contributions. | |
| Leadership and inclusion | ||
Diverse, skilled, and accountable leadership
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| What kind of skills does the affiliate leadership possess? | Creation, translation and maintenance of high-quality thematic (medicine, literary, movie) content; MediaWiki and other technical skills; Audio/video creation | |
| Is there any kind of succession plan for the affiliate leadership? | No | |
| Are there any trainings that affiliate leadership undergo before they assume their leadership position? | Odia Wikimedians Chinmayee Mishra and Sangram Senapati participated in the national-level Wiki Technical training held at Chennai on 22-23 June gaining MediaWiki and other technical leadership training while Jananranjan Sahu joined as a trainer; Three members joined the third Wikimedia Technology Summit (WTS 2024) held at Hyderabad, India, during October 2024, of which two received event scholarships; ODW collaborated with the Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group, hosting the Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024 during 20-22 December 2024; Member Sangram Senapati received a scholarship to represent the Odia Wikisource community at the Wikisource Conference 2025 held at Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia where he presented about Odia Wikisource and learnt from other community leaders; | |
| Are there any requirements for affiliate leadership to disclose their conflict(s) of interests? | No | |
Diversity balance (especially gender)
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| What is the diversity level of the affiliate leadership and membership body? | We currently lack gender and geographical diversity and aim to strengthen on that area | |
| How is the affiliate leadership encouraging gender diversity in the decision-making process(es) of the affiliate? | Our overall disproportionate diversity does impact our decision-making | |
Universal Code of Conduct compliance
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| How does the affiliate leadership ensure, enforce, and evaluate compliance with the Universal Code of Conduct obligations? | Compliant | |
| Engagement and Collaboration | ||
| Please share the publicly available records of regular meetings, activities, events, or conference in the past year where the affiliate has participated. | https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Odia_Wikimedians_User_Group#Reports | |
| Community connection | ||
| How many affiliate members are active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | 13 | |
| How many affiliate members are not active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | ||
| How many affiliate members are active organizers (of projects, events, conferences, initiatives, etc) within the Wikimedia movement? | ||
| How many people have participated in affiliate projects, events, conferences, and/or initiatives in the past year? | See sections Members activities and Leadership trainings above | |
| Partnerships and collaboration | ||
| Please list all activities/initiatives that the affiliate has organized or co-organized in past 12 months. | Indian General Election 2024 edit-a-thon, Ratha Jatra sprints (Wikipedia edit-a-thon and Commons photo/video sprint), Wikipedia Asian Month 2024 edit-a-thon, Wiki Loves Language 2024 edit-a-thon, Feminism and Folklore 2025 edit-a-thon, Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2024 (local hosting), Odia Literature 2025 edit-a-thon, Classical Odia Language Week 2025 | |
| What would affiliate leadership list as the top 3 (three) capacities of the affiliate? (e.g. evaluation, community governance, programs and events, organizational governance and resource policies, conflict management, partnerships, fundraising, communication and media relations, contributor development, on-wiki technical skills, policy advocacy, etc) | Programme and events | |
| Thematic sprints | ||
| Technical leadership | ||
| What are the 3 (three) capacities that the affiliate would like to strengthen in the next 12 months? | Community-level diversity and inclusion | |
| Stretegic plans for new editor engagement | ||
| GLAM partnerships | ||
| What are the organizations, community projects, or groups that the affiliate had been working or seeking to work with to develop and support the 3 capacities? | Odia Language and Culture Department, Government of Odisha (potential partner) | |