Dear all,
Here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/IRC_meeting_2012-04-19are
the logs for the IRC that happened on 19th April, 2012.
This IRC was centered around Outreach in Indic languages and Communications
updates.
In Indic language outreach, we discussed translating documents that
support outreach in different languages. Another important point discussed
was the need to have more Indic langauge outreach sessions. Some members
from the Hindi, Telugu, Bengali and
http:%20//tiny.cc/odiaOdiahttp://tiny.cc/odia%20community have
already translated these documents.
In communications, we discussed
Wikipatrikahttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2012-05/Community_Newsand
the social
media
planhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Social_Mediafor
Odia community.
6 communities have created pages for Wikipatrika in their respective
Wikipedias so far and the social media pilot will begin in the next week.
If you were unable to attend the IRC and have any inputs or feedback,
please do reach out to Nitika (for outreach) and Noopur (for
communications). Here are our email ids: ntan...@wikimedia.org and
noo...@wikimedia.org.
Thanks
Noopur
[1]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/IRC_meeting_2012-04-19
[2]http://tiny.cc/odiahttp://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftiny.cc%2Fodiah=BAQECsOhBAQEu9u91dyqGvLzp4TyxuE4Pn0c0OnskmGvIGw
[3]http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2012-05/Community_News
[4]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Social_Media
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 8:53 PM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey guys, just a reminder. IRC starts in 15 minutes.
Regards
Noopur
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Noopur Raval nra...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Hey folks
The next India Program IRC (2nd for April) is scheduled for Thursday 19th
April at 9 p.m. IST. Do join us using this link:
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office.
We'll be discussing Outreach, Communications and Education in this one.
Here is what we plan to discuss this time:
*Outreach*
Over the past few months we have conducted several outreach sessions and
have been able to curate outreach standard presentation decks, best
practices and tips. Now we want to assist community members in
adopting/adapting these to conduct effective outreach sessions in their
respective cities/languages. We'll be soon working on 2 aspects for
increasing the number of outreach sessions we are doing on Indic languages
but we need your help on this:
1. Start translating outreach supporting documents to Indic languages -
To start with we want Indic language community members to help us translate
outreach documents and presentations to Indic languages.
2. Create opportunities for Indic outreach - We have been mailing/calling
a lot of institutes to organize a Wikipedia session (see list
herehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Outreach_Programs/Correspondence)[1]
in their regional language but we have not able to get as many outreach
sessions as we'd like since they feel more comfortable corresponding in
their own regional language. We want help from Indic langauge editors who
are interested to do more outreach in their regional languages/cities to
help us reach out to these institutes.
I'd request all the Indic language editors who want to help us out on
either of the two points mentioned above to show up on the IRC or write to
us offlist since we'll be discussing ways of doing effective outreach in
regional languages.
*Communications:* *Wikipatrika:*
6 communities (Assamese, Gujarati, Marathi, Nepali,Odia, Telugu ) have
already created Wikipatrika pages on their respective Wikipedias. The new
template for Wikipatrika is up
herehttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2012-05/Community_News.[2]
In tomorrow's outreach, we could discuss ideas and suggestions to make
Wikipatrika more useful. We could also discuss any problems that community
members maybe facing.
*Communications:* *Odia Social Media pilot:*
As proposed earlier,
here'shttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Social_Media[3]
the social media pilot to support the Odia community members. The end
result of this pilot is to attract more newbies and introduce them to the
Wikiverse. This pilot is to try out effective messaging strategies to use a
platform like Facebook optimally and try to recruit more editors to the
Odia Wikipedia. The most important nuance is that we have built a draft
social media messaging strategy and plan to work closely with the Odia
community to implement it - through the community members. We hope to
discuss this plan and get your inputs on it.
As always, the first 45 minutes will be focused on these and the last 15
minutes will be open to any other topic.
Hope you all can join us.
(For those who can't join, the logs will be put up the next morning at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/IRC_meeting_2012-04-19
