[Wikimediaindia-l] Growing and sharing together: Kannada Wikipedia turns 9 years old

[Omshivaprakash | Wikimedia]

*Press release*
Growing and sharing together: Kannada Wikipedia turns 9 years old

(Bangalore, May 29 2012): Kannada Wikipedia
(*kn
. 
wikipedia
. 
org
*), the Kannada version of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia is all
set to complete 9 years on 12th June. A meet up of Wikipedians will be held
to celebrate this landmark day.

Wikipedia is the free online encyclopedia with almost 40 lakh articles on
different subjects – and is read by 48.9 crore people, which makes it the 5
th most visited website in the world. It also exists in 20 major Indian
languages including Kannada. Kannada Wikipedia has over 12,000 articles and
has 11.5 lakh page views per month. A lesser known fact about Wikipedia is
that all the content is contributed by volunteers. Currently, 27 volunteers
from all over the world contribute to the content on Kannada Wikipedia.

In this community members collaborate with each other to add and enhance
content on a wide variety of topics. Depending on their interests, they
edit articles on Kannada cuisine, culture, traditions, music and much more.
Some write about physics, biology, chemistry, medicine and other subjects
so that fellow Kannadigas don't have to learn English to know more about
any subject in the world!

However, the journey has only just begun. Omshivaprakash HL, an active
member of the project explains, “In order to cover the incredibly diverse
and rich culture in Karnataka from *Dharwad peda* to Bandipur forests to
Coorg coffee estates, we welcome as many fellow lovers of Kannada to our
project. All you need to know is how to read and write Kannada – and follow
some basic principles such as writing about notable subjects, writing from
a neutral point of view and adding references for any facts that you
include. You can start by clicking the 'edit' (ಸಂಪಾದಿಸಿ) button you see on
any article and start adding useful information on that topic. You can
reference content from newspapers, journals or books.”

To celebrate their 9th anniversary, the Kannada Wikipedia Community has
planned a get together at XXX on 9th June 2012 at XX pm. They will explore
ways in which Kannada Wikipedia can be improved and also plan to teach new
folks on how they can add content. All those passionate about sharing
knowledge and who want to celebrate Kannadiga heritage are invited to join
in - students, professionals, housewives, etc. As Tejas Jain, another
Wikipedian from Bangalore puts it, “There is nothing more satisfying than
sharing knowledge for free, that too in your mother tongue. So many of the
nearly 5 crore Kannada speakers can gain from these efforts! ”

Hisham Mundol, who heads the Wikimedia Foundation’s India Program (which is
the initiaitive to support Wikipedia in India) adds, “Wikipedia’s dream is
to make all knowledge available to everyone for free. We invite Kannadigas
to join the small but wonderful community of Kannada Wikipedians so that
this is realised to benefit crores of people whose mother tongue is
Kannada.”

To know more about the 9th anniversary celebrations and to attend, you can
join them on Facebook (*https
:// 
www
. 
facebook
. 
com
/ 
groups
/ 
kannadawikipedia
/ *) or write to
wikik...@lists.wikimedia.org.


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[Wikimediaindia-l] Growing and sharing together: Kannada Wikipedia turns 9 years old

[Omshivaprakash | Wikimedia]

Press release
Growing and sharing together: Kannada Wikipedia turns 9 years old

(Bangalore, May 29 2012): Kannada Wikipedia
(*kn
. 
wikipedia
. 
org
*), the Kannada version of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia is all
set to complete 9 years on 12th June. A meet up of Wikipedians will be held
to celebrate this landmark day.

Wikipedia is the free online encyclopedia with almost 40 lakh articles on
different subjects – and is read by 48.9 crore people, which makes it the 5
th most visited website in the world. It also exists in 20 major Indian
languages including Kannada. Kannada Wikipedia has over 12,000 articles and
has 11.5 lakh page views per month. A lesser known fact about Wikipedia is
that all the content is contributed by volunteers. Currently, 27 volunteers
from all over the world contribute to the content on Kannada Wikipedia.

In this community members collaborate with each other to add and enhance
content on a wide variety of topics. Depending on their interests, they
edit articles on Kannada cuisine, culture, traditions, music and much more.
Some write about physics, biology, chemistry, medicine and other subjects
so that fellow Kannadigas don't have to learn English to know more about
any subject in the world!

However, the journey has only just begun. Omshivaprakash HL, an active
member of the project explains, “In order to cover the incredibly diverse
and rich culture in Karnataka from *Dharwad peda* to Bandipur forests to
Coorg coffee estates, we welcome as many fellow lovers of Kannada to our
project. All you need to know is how to read and write Kannada – and follow
some basic principles such as writing about notable subjects, writing from
a neutral point of view and adding references for any facts that you
include. You can start by clicking the 'edit' (ಸಂಪಾದಿಸಿ) button you see on
any article and start adding useful information on that topic. You can
reference content from newspapers, journals or books.”

To celebrate their 9th anniversary, the Kannada Wikipedia Community has
planned a get together at Center for Internet & Society, Bangalore  on
17thJune 2012 at 10 AM. They will explore ways in which Kannada
Wikipedia can
be improved and also plan to teach new folks on how they can add content.
All those passionate about sharing knowledge and who want to celebrate
Kannadiga heritage are invited to join in - students, professionals,
housewives, etc. As Tejas Jain, another Wikipedian from Bangalore puts it,
“There is nothing more satisfying than sharing knowledge for free, that too
in your mother tongue. So many of the nearly 5 crore Kannada speakers can
gain from these efforts! ”

Hisham Mundol, who heads the Wikimedia Foundation’s India Program (which is
the initiaitive to support Wikipedia in India) adds, “Wikipedia’s dream is
to make all knowledge available to everyone for free. We invite Kannadigas
to join the small but wonderful community of Kannada Wikipedians so that
this is realised to benefit crores of people whose mother tongue is
Kannada.”

To know more about the 9th anniversary celebrations and to attend, you can
join them on Facebook (*https
:// 
www
. 
facebook
. 
com
/ 
groups
/ 
kannadawikipedia
/ *) or write to
wikik...@lists.wikimedia.org.


-- 
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Kannada SIG
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] HT City, New Delhi : Wiki meet for Delhi tomorrow

[Theo10011]

On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Anirudh Bhati  wrote:

> Published in HT City, New Delhi
> June 8, 2012
>
> Wiki meet for Delhi tomorrow
>
> If you think Wikipedia doesn’t have the real good stuff on Delhi or
> just doesn’t get the city right, tomorrow is your chance to change
> that. The open source knowledge website is holding a meet-up in Hauz
> Khas on Sunday, and everyone is welcome to pump up the information on
> the Capital in there. And not just the boring stuff. The
> representatives say they’re looking for bright, young people to join
> them in adding up more on the city’s cultural hubs, new landmarks,
> hangouts and historical hotspots.
>
>  “People still have the wrong notion that Wikipedia has a set of
> permanent editors who put all the information there. Everything in
> there is written by users, and the more people we have from Delhi, the
> better a knowledge bank we’ll have on the city. Abroad, they have a
> page on each street and every good place,” says Abhishek Suryawanshi,
> Wiki ambassador. So, existing editors — ordinary users, that is, will
> guide the new editors who wish to debut at the meet. The informal
> session, which will be held at Wikipedia’s Delhi office — the only one
> in the world outside of the United States — will also see an open
> debate and discussion on what needs to be done to make Delhi look up
> on the website. “For example, we recently had a meet in Ahmedabad and
> discovered that there are not too many pictures of the city on the
> site. Within a week of the session, we had over a thousand photos up
> there!” says Suryawanshi.
>
> For all the questions on the credibility of the information on the
> encyclopedia, Suryawanshi has one answer. “Wikipedia is just a
> collection of quality references. We go ahead and put a fact in there
> irrespective of the contributor, as long as there’s a citable,
> reliable reference to go back to. Students and other users often say
> they’ve checked this or that on Wiki, but Wikipedia should not be
> quoted that way. It’s a start point to any research, not the end
> point,” he says.
>
> Catch it here
> What: Delhi Wikipedia Meetup
> When: June 10
> Timings: 3pm - 6pm
> Entry: Free
> Where: Top floor, G-15, behind Hauz Khas G-Block Mkt (NOT the main
> Hauz Khas market)
> Nearest Metro Station: Hauz Khas on Yellow Line
>
> http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/Print/867948.aspx
>
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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.

The story is filled with a lot of errors "Wikipedia's Delhi office", the
generalized "Wiki Ambassador".

Regards
Theo
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Minutes of the meeting

[Jyoti Prakash Nath]

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
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] HT City, New Delhi : Wiki meet for Delhi tomorrow

[Anirudh Bhati]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Theo10011  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. :)

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Minutes of 3rd Assamese Wikipedia Wikimeetup.

[Prabhakar Sarma Neog]

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
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 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
Picture
   2. Second : Jugal Bharali for this
Picture
   3. Third  : Anirudha Burhagohain for this
Picture
   4. Special: Nitul
Bora
for
   maximum number of photos.
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