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 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. Started in June 2002, it reached one thousand articles in May 2011. As of 27 March 2023, it has 16,567 articles, the 131st 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. More information...
According to PR-model, or.wikipedia.org is ranked 1,382,949th in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 357th in Odia Wikipedia.
The website is placed before italshop.hu and after openingdoors.eu in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
