[Wikimediaindia-l] Minutes of the meeting
The celebration ceremony of 10th anniversary of Assamese Wikipedia was held at the historic “Sudmersen Hall” of Cotton College Guwahati on 10th June 2012. The prizes of the Article and Photography competition were also distributed on the event. Besides of a Wikimeet it was basically an workshop and an outreach program to attract more Assamese netizens towards Wikipedia. More than 60 people attend the event including the media persons. Here are the minutes of the meeting 1:00 PM : Jyoti Prakash Nath the guests with reading the agenda of the workshop. 1:10 PM : Dr. Kulendu Pathak (Retired VC of Dibrugarh University) and Kamrupratna Jatin Giswami (Former Vice President of “Asom Sahity Sabha”, Researcher on Assamese language and script ) inaugurated the workshop by lightening the earthen lamp. (It was for the celebration of 10th anniversary of Assamese Wikipedia). 1:25 PM : Introduction of Noopur Raval and felicitated with a “Eri Chadar” by Anjana Tamuli. 1:30 PM : Gitartha Bordoloi gives a presentation about Wikipedia. His topic was “What is Assamese Wikipedia”. 1:50 PM : Questions from the guests. Answered by Gitartha Bordoloi. 2:00 PM : Banajit Pathak gives a presentation about Assamese typing tools. His topic was ”Unicode and various Assamese typing tools” . 2:20 PM : Questions from the guests. Answered by Banajit Pathak. 2:30 PM : Uddip Talukdar gives a presentation about necessity of Assamese wikipedia and his topic was “The necessity of Assamese wikipedia and its current state”. 2:50 PM : Questions from the guests. Answered by Uddip Talukdar. 3:00 PM : Bishnu Saikia gives a presentation about how to contribute to the Wikipedia. His topic was “How to contribute to Assamese Wikipedia”. Meanwhile a winner of the article competition Indranil Gayan edits his article (produced offline) Gunamala. 3:25 PM : The new “Betupat” (Main Page) of Assamese Wikipedia released by Bishnu Saikia and Gitartho Bordoloi. 3:30 PM : Dr. Kulendu Pathak and Shri Jatin Goswami shares their views about the outreach program and Assamese Wikipedia. 3:40 PM : Light Snacks served. 3:50 PM: Tridip Baruah (Designer of Inscript Assamese Keyboard Ramdhenu) speaks about “The future of Assamese typing tools”. 4:00 PM: The name of the winners of the Photography and Article competition declared and prizes are distributed by Kushol Kumar Rabha (Chief photographer of Indian Railway NFR) and Ananta Mohan Sharma (Professor, Botany, Bajali College, Pathsala) respectively. 4:15 PM : Noopur Raval gives a presentation about Wikimedia Foundation and talks about the policies of uploading media to Commons. 4:30 PM : Jyoti Prakash Nath give a small speech about conducting the event and declares the end of the workshop cum meetup and celebration ceremony of the 10th anniversary of Assamese Wikipedia. Winners of the Photography Competition 1. First : Mauchumi Bordoloi for the article Malita (Offline). 2. Second : Indranil Gayan for the article Gunamala (Offline). 3. Third : Upama Kalita for the article Mising Lokageet (Offline). 4. Special: Manjil Kownar for maximum number of articles (Online) Winners of the Article Competition 1. First : Akashdip Goswami for this Picture 2. Second : Jugal Bharali for this Picture 3. Third : Anirudha Burhagohain for this Picture 4. Special: Nitul Bora for maximum number of photos. Regards Jyoti Prakash Nath___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] HT City, New Delhi : Wiki meet for Delhi tomorrow
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: I'm confused here for a moment, so I have to ask- Who is Abhishek Suryawanshi? I have started and ran the first few Delhi meetups, and never met or heard of Abhishek. Is he on the list? or can anyone give me his username? I'm curious. He mentions Ahmadabad too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AbhiSuryawanshi The story is filled with a lot of errors Wikipedia's Delhi office, the generalized Wiki Ambassador. Nothing new about the confusion between Wikimedia and Wikipedia - looks like this is something we'll all have to live with. :) ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Minutes of 3rd Assamese Wikipedia Wikimeetup.
The following is the minutes of 3rd Assamese Wikipedia Wikimeetup. == The celebration ceremony of 10th anniversary of Assamese Wikipedia was held at the historic “Sudmersen Hall” of Cotton Collegehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_College Guwahati on 10th June 2012. The prizes of the Article and Photography competition were also distributed on the event. Besides of a Wikimeet it was basically an workshop and an outreach program to attract more Assamese netizenshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netizens towards Wikipedia. More than 60 people attend the event including the media persons. Here are the minutes of the meeting 1:00 PM : Jyoti Prakash Nathhttp://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF:Jpnath008 the guests with reading the agenda of the workshop. 1:10 PM : Dr. Kulendu Pathak (Retired VC of Dibrugarh University) and Kamrupratna Jatin Giswami (Former Vice President of “Asom Sahity Sabha”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asam_Sahitya_Sabha, Researcher on Assamese language and script ) inaugurated the workshop by lightening the earthen lamp. (It was for the celebration of 10th anniversary of Assamese Wikipedia). 1:25 PM : Introduction of Noopur Ravalhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Noopur28 and felicitated with a “Eri Chadar” by Anjana Tamuli. 1:30 PM : Gitartha Bordoloihttp://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF:Gitartha.bordoloi gives a presentation about Wikipedia. His topic was “What is Assamese Wikipedia”. 1:50 PM : Questions from the guests. Answered by Gitartha Bordoloi. 2:00 PM : Banajit Pathak gives a presentation about Assamese typing tools. His topic was ”Unicode and various Assamese typing tools” . 2:20 PM : Questions from the guests. Answered by Banajit Pathak. 2:30 PM : Uddip Talukdarhttp://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF:%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%80%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BE%E0%A7%B0 gives a presentation about necessity of Assamese wikipedia and his topic was “The necessity of Assamese wikipedia and its current state”. 2:50 PM : Questions from the guests. Answered by Uddip Talukdar. 3:00 PM : Bishnu Saikiahttp://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF:Bishnu_Saikia gives a presentation about how to contribute to the Wikipedia. His topic was “How to contribute to Assamese Wikipedia”. Meanwhile a winner of the article competition Indranil Gayan edits his article (produced offline) Gunamalahttp://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A3%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE . 3:25 PM : The new “Betupathttp://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9F%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A4” (Main Page) of Assamese Wikipedia released by Bishnu Saikia and Gitartho Bordoloi. 3:30 PM : Dr. Kulendu Pathak and Shri Jatin Goswami shares their views about the outreach program and Assamese Wikipedia. 3:40 PM : Light Snacks served. 3:50 PM: Tridip Baruah (Designer of Inscript Assamese Keyboard Ramdhenu) speaks about “The future of Assamese typing tools”. 4:00 PM: The name of the winners of the Photography and Article competition declared and prizes are distributed by Kushol Kumar Rabha (Chief photographer of Indian Railway NFR) and Ananta Mohan Sharma (Professor, Botany, Bajali College, Pathsala) respectively. 4:15 PM : Noopur Raval gives a presentation about Wikimedia Foundation and talks about the policies of uploading media to Commons. 4:30 PM : Jyoti Prakash Nath give a small speech about conducting the event and declares the end of the workshop cum meetup and celebration ceremony of the 10th anniversary of Assamese Wikipedia. Winners of the Article Competition 1. First : Mauchumi Bordoloi for the article Malita (Offline). 2. Second : Indranil Gayan for the article Gunamala (Offline). 3. Third : Upama Kalita for the article Mising Lokageet (Offline). 4. Special: Manjil Kownar for maximum number of articles (Online) Winners of the Photography Competition 1. First : Akashdip Goswami for this Picturehttp://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%9A%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A7%B0:Kolia_Bhomora_Setu.jpg 2. Second : Jugal Bharali for this Picturehttp://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%9A%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A7%B0:Mother_And_Calf.jpg 3. Third : Anirudha Burhagohain for this Picturehttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gargaon%27r_Kareng_Ghor_Side_View.JPG 4. Special: Nitul Borahttp://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF:%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%B2_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%B0%E0%A6%BE for maximum number of photos. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
