I take special indulgence and pride in welcoming Abhishek and Konarak, the great discoveries of our photo walk :) I hope you guys stick around and contribute! thanks for keeping the Ahmedabad community going!
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:48 PM, Anirudh Bhati <anirudh...@gmail.com>wrote: > Thank you, Abhishek, for the post. Abhishek and Konarak are potential > long-term and high-quality contributors to Gujarati and English Wikipedia > projects. Please join me in welcoming them. > > anirudh > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Abhishek Joshi > <abhishek2...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> Let me give you a brief update on things we did in Ahmedabad Meet Up to >> celebrate Wikipedia's 11th birthday. >> >> *Our Main Agenda:* >> >> >> 1. Celebrating Wikipedia 11th Birthday >> 2. Spreading awareness of Wikipedia in Gujarat/Ahmedabad >> 3. Introducing Wikipedia project Gujarat to the Ahmedabad >> community >> >> >> >> >> On *11th Birthday of Wikipedia* Ahmedabad Wikimedia Community organize >> the Ahmedabad Second Meetup at Gandhi Ashram (Sabarmati Ashram). The >> meet up was organized by Anirudh Bhati & Abhishek Joshi. >> >> >> Due to the Sankrant festival a very few wikipedian’s turned out in the >> meet up so we met with few community members (Parag Patel, Konark Ratnakar >> and Nakul Chugan). As we were *5 members* we had gone to nearest >> restaurant for the celebration. >> >> >> Anirudh started with giving a presentation on Wikipedia Project India and >> Wikipedia Project Gujarat. >> >> >> He further mentioned the role they would play to bridge the gap between >> people who have the freedom to edit Wikipedia and those who actually do >> >> so. He encouraged them to join one of the finest groups of people in the >> world - Wikipedians. He outlined the sequence of events, the training they >> would receive. He said that due to the need to start off the program right >> away, the program would begin with those aspirants who already had the >> skills being looked for especially the knowledge of the Wikipedia world. >> >> Our main focus is on Wikipedia Project Gujarat and on improving the >> articles and spreading awareness of Wikipedia over Gujarat region. The >> aspirants responded with interest and a lot of questions. >> >> After some discussion we have celebrated the Wikipedia’s 11th Birthday >> by cutting the beautiful chocolate flavoured cake. >> >> This meetup was quite productive and the Ahmedabad community took the >> contact details of all participants, promising to get back to them soon >> with different meet ups. >> >> Below are the links of Ahmedabad Meet up Details and Photographs of the >> same. >> *Ahmedabad >> Meetup-2<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Ahmedabad/Ahmedabad2> >> * >> *Ahmedabad Meetup-2 >> Photographs<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ahmedabad_Meetup_Jan2012> >> * >> >> -- >> * >> >> Regards, >> >> Abhi >> * >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikipedia-gu mailing list > wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-gu > > -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690
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