Great job guys! The launching of Marathi Wikisource was a true landmark. The event was conducted superbly and it had multiple payoffs. May I now recommend that our first imortant WikiSource Book "Shyamchi Aaiee" also be released by a celebrity as suggested by Dr Radha Mishra in our last meetup?
Ashwin On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 1:54 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > This is a report on Symposium on Wikipedia and also on the launch of > Marathi Wikisource. > Sorry for the delay in sending the report. We were trying to get the > videos and some other URLs from the media. Somehow, the videos are > still not available and there is no point in waiting further. So, here > it is. > > > On the occasion of "Marathi Bhasha Divas” which was on 27th February, > a symposium on "Wikipedia" was conducted on 25th February. The program > was conducted by jointly by Journalism Department, Ranade Institute, > Pune University, Pune Union of Working Journalists along with Pune > Community of the Wikimedia India Chapter. > > Aim of symposium: Wikipedia has emerged as a major source of authentic > information and its versions in different languages (including > Marathi) are also getting popular. Journalism students and journalists > should not remain only consumers of this huge and resourceful > information, but they should also contribute to it as writers and > editors. This symposium aims to acquaint the participants with various > aspects of Marathi Wikipedia and Marathi Wikisrot. > > Marathi Wikisource (mr.wikisource.org) was also launched during the > event. Marathi community volunteers were working for launching the > Wikisource website for a long time. Well-known theatre and film > personality "Amol Palekar" was the "Chief Guest" for the program. > > The event was organised in the auditorium of Pune Union of Working > Journalists at Patrakar Bhavan, Navi Peth, Pune. About 150 people > attended the same. Participants were mainly students of Journalism > and mass communication departments from various colleges under Pune > University, working journalists, students of some other departments > and a lot of media people and the active Wikipedians from Pune. The > program started at about 2:15 pm and ended at about 5:30 pm. > The program started with the welcome message by Dr. Ujjwala Barve who > is the Head of the department. Initial session on “Introduction to > Wikipedia” was done by Sudhanwa Jogalekar. He gave an overview of > Wikipedia, related projects and also talked about the India Chapter > activities. At the end of his session, there were some interesting > questions about the business model and funding of Wikipedia > activities. > > Next session was done by Rahul Deshmukh who gave introduction to > Marathi Wikipedia. Rahul came from Mumbai just for this program!!! He > explained the journey so far and the road map ahead. His session was > also ended with some typical “Puneri” questions like why you do not > give various Government forms on wikipedia? > > Futher to this, Mandar Kulkarni gave a talk on Marathi Wikisource. He > explained the concept of Marathi Wikisource in details and the > difference between Wikisource and Wikipedia. He also explained what > content can be added and what not. > This was followed by Launch of “Marathi Wikisrot” website by Amol Palekarji. > > After the launch, Amol Palekar shared his thought on Wikipedia and > Wikisource. It was nice to know the views from a celebrity and how > they see the content about themselves on Wikipedia. > He also promised to help in adding the information regarding Marathi > Theature in Marathi Wikipedia and Marathi Wikisource. Marathi > theatre has a long history of about 150 years and this could be some > great project likely to come up soon!! > > The last and most. important session was taken care by Mahitgar and he > took the audience through the various editing practices of Marathi > Wikipedia.. He also showed the article of Amol Palekar and tried to > edit the same in front of him. He also informed him that after the > announcement of the this program, many Wikipedians started editing > Amol Palekar’s article in Marathi and English Wikipedia and it has > taken fairly a good shape now. > > This symposium has really helped to make the wikipedians come together > and share their views. It also gave a nice trigger for the journalism > students and also the working journalists to work on Wikipedia and > Wikisource. > > The event was very well covered by Marathi print and electronic media. > Video coverage by SAAM TV channel was shown on 25th itself and > IBNLokmat channel gave coverage for almost all the day on 26 and also > partially on 27th. > News was published about the event in Daily Sakal, Maharashtra times > and some other papers too. > > Here are some URLs for the pictures and media coverage. > > Photos available here: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Marathi_Wikisrot_Launch > > Recording of IBNLokmat channel here: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvRjALxKwho > > Coverage in Maharatratimes here: > http://maharashtratimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/12037016.cms > Coverage in Sakal here: > http://72.78.249.107/Sakal/26Feb2012/Normal/PuneCity/page3.htm > Coverage in Navashakti newspaper here: http://navshakti.co.in/?p=42780 > > A followup session was conducted in Ranade Institure on 10th March and > a few more hands on sessions are being planned in the coming weeks. > > Overall, this was a very successful and well received event with a lot > of interest generated in journalists and media students. Some new > editors are also in the making from this event. > > Warm regards, > -Wikipedians from Pune community > (with Rahul and his IITB team in Mumbai) > > > ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! > web: www.sudhanwa.com blog: www.sudhanwa.in > Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-IN-PUN mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-pun -- Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-IN-PUN mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-pun
