On the Second Anniversary
Editors’ Desk
As Xobdo reaches it third year, its time we did the maths on the last year- the gains
and the gains. As you all know, we have been growing really fast. We dedicate the accomplishments of the second year to our hard working contributors who made the ‘10K in 2007′ goal possible for Xobdo. In fact, our new logo designed by Rajib Kumar Dutta says it all. A beehive selflessly built by the hardworking bees of Xobdo to preserve their own kind, multiple colors representing linguistic diversity of Xobdo and a globe signifying the attempt to bring the languages of the North-East to the world stage through the internet.
The Xobdo journey in the last one year has been exciting and fulfilling by all means- with a new user interface replacing the old, number of contributors crossing the 500 mark and enthusiastic multilingual contributors enriching the diversity of Xobdo.
In the second year the total number of Assamese word contributors have reached 580 from 250 of the first year. More importantly we now have Banlam Warjri, Temsunungsang, Uttam Bathari, Naba Kumar Bodo, Dipak Tumung etc. who are responsible for the increase in the database for Khasi, Ao, Nagamese, Dimasa, Bodo and Karbi.
Figure 1: Increase in the number of Contributors for Assamese
So what made 10K possible for Assamese? Look at the words contributed month by month by our hardworking contributors in Figure 2.
Figure 2: Number of Assamese Words Contributed by Month
Apart from that we have been receiving consistent hits on our website as shown in figure 3 and 4 below.
Figure 3: Number of Visitors since March 2007
March 10th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
I can’t express properly how handy ‘Xobdo.org’ is for me. Continuation of this online dictionery forever is our great expectation