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Impact of Odisha Government content donation on Wikimedia Projects

By Sailesh Patnaik

The Odia Wikimedians UG and The Centre for Internet and Society collaborated with some departments of Government of Odisha, an Indian state, to relicense their content under free license. As a part of this collaboration around eight social media accounts and five websites of the Government of Odisha were re-licensed phase wise. In July 2017, the website of 17th Asian Athletics Championship was licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0 license followed by Chief Ministers' office and Commerce and Transport department in September 2017 which was later followed by SCSTOdisha and Information & Public relations department in January 2018, which were re-licensed under CC-BY-4.0 license. All the departments that are under free license, are a huge producer of content and data from various subjects and fields.

We have added around 395 files into Commons of which 64.4% files are in use by March 2018. This has helped to add images to many Wikipedia articles; 41 language Wikipedias are using 254 images from this collaboration. Many politicians, sportsperson, journals, the state published magazines are in Commons and in use in various Wikimedia projects.

More about the collaboration in Wikimedia Blog


  • The Journal Collection of research papers in the field of Social Sciences, Applied Anthropology, Development Studies, and problems of indigenous communities of Odisha.
    The Journal Collection of research papers in the field of Social Sciences, Applied Anthropology, Development Studies, and problems of indigenous communities of Odisha.
  • Nayana James, Indian Long Jump Bronze Medalist of AAC 2017
    Nayana James, Indian Long Jump Bronze Medalist of AAC 2017
  • Indian 5000M Gold winner Laxshman
    Indian 5000M Gold winner Laxshman
  • Light and Sound show in UNESCO World heritage monument Konark Sun Temple
    Light and Sound show in UNESCO World heritage monument Konark Sun Temple
  • Deputy Chief Minister of Telangana
    Deputy Chief Minister of Telangana
  • Indian Men's Hockey Team
    Indian Men's Hockey Team


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