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The Odia Wikipedia (Odia: ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ) (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[2][3] and reached 1,000 articles in May 2011.[4] This is one of the first four Indic Wikipedias started in 2002,[5] among over 20 Indic language Wikipedias.[6] The first edit on Odia Wikipedia occurred on 3 June 2002.[7]
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Growth, coverage and popularity
Started in June 2002, it reached one thousand articles in May 2011.[4][8][9] As of 2 August 2025, it has 19,683 articles, the 135th on the list of Wikipedias according to article count.[10] Odia Wikipedians have organized meetups and workshops in seven different cities like Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Anugul, Balasore, Bangalore and New Delhi[11] across India.[12] 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.[13][14]
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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.
The table below contains a details sorted by the number of edits per article.
Wikipedia Report Card: summaries for Odia
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