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.

[10] Odia Wikipedians have organized meetups and workshops in seven different cities like Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Anugul, Balasore, Bangalore and New Delhi[11] across India.

[13][14] 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.