[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Kolkata V

2016-01-20 Thread Santanu Chandra
Dear friends, On behalf of Wikipedia Kolkata Community, I am honoured to announce the event "Wikipedia Takes Kolkata V" on 24th January 2016. This is an annual event organised by Kolkata Community in the winter and this will be the fifth consecutive time. Please find the link here:

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Kolkata

2014-02-15 Thread Kalyan Sarkar
All, We are pleased to announce that the third edition of Wikipedia Takes Kolkata would be held on 23 February 2014. We are going to cover the following places. 1. Dargah of Manik Pir 2. Maniktala Kabarsthan 3. Pareshnath Mandir 4. Mohun Bagan Row 5. House of Nandalal Bose 6. House of Girish

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Kolkata 2

2013-02-10 Thread Kalyan Sarkar
All, We are happy to announce that we are going to organize Wikipedia Takes Kolkata 2 on 3rd March 2013. We are planning to cover the following - 1. Bow Barracks 2. Kapalitola Kali temple 3. Chinese temples 4. Magen David synagogue 5. Armenian Church 6. Greek Orthodox Church 7. Beth El

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Kolkata 2

2013-02-10 Thread Arnav Sonara
Hey, Fantastic job. Just take care about categorizing the images properly. To avoid confusion and complexities create one unique category like WP takes Kolkata. After photographing are you going to gather once again and upload the images at same time or individuals would later do it on their

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Kolkata 2

2013-02-10 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
All the very best Kalyan, do let me know if you need any assistance from the chapter. Ping me if you need help categorising images as well. On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Arnav Sonara sonara.ar...@gmail.comwrote: Hey, Fantastic job. Just take care about categorizing the images properly. To

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Kolkata 2

2013-02-10 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
Great news! Thanks Kalyan for sharing this with all of us! It would be good if Bangla newspapers publish this in their Today's event, this always brings a lot of enthusiasts who don't read about the announcements on mailing lists/wikipedia. All the best for this event! On 10-Feb-2013, at

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Kolkata 2

2013-02-10 Thread Niraj Suryawanshi
Great initiative! Let's hope you break Wikipedia Club Pune's record ;) good luck :) - Regards Thanks, Niraj Suryawanshi on behalf of Wikipedia Club Pune +91 8149920120 | niraj.suryawan...@gmail.com -- View this message in context:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Kolkata 2

2013-02-10 Thread Kalyan Sarkar
Arnav, In the first Wikipedia Takes Kolkata, we used the category Category:Wikipedia Takes Kolkatahttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_Takes_Kolkata. We are planning to use the same category. The participants of the event would be mix of of Commons contributors and newbies. A

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Kolkata 2

2013-02-10 Thread Ashwin Baindur
My contact number for all concerned is 9830617962 but would prefer to be called after 1500 hours when I usually leave my office, sms earlier if you need to. Ashwin (now in Kolkata) On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Kalyan Sarkar kalyan.sar...@gmail.com wrote: I don't have Ashwin's contact no.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Kolkata 2

2013-02-10 Thread Vishnu t
Dear Kalyan, All the very best. Please let know if we could chip in with any help. 'The Walls of Kolkata' are so rich and diverse, but are increasingly being painted on. Some of the graduate students at Media Lab, Jadavpur University had done Video documentation called 'Project Wall'. Probably

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Kolkata 2

2013-02-10 Thread Kalyan Sarkar
Ashwin, We do not have a list of the buildings that we photographed in our maiden Wikipedia Takes Kolkata. The photos are categorized under Category:Wikipedia Takes Kolkatahttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_Takes_Kolkata. Please have a look. The page itself doesn't contain

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Kolkata 2

2013-02-10 Thread Abhishek Suryawanshi
Wow! This is nice.. Working in team for single spot will add new dimension. For Wikipedia Takes Pune, we had group of 4 people for one location - After introductory session, we provided them Google Map and Wikipedia Article copy of same - So along with photograph they also learn about aspects of

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Kolkata 2

2013-02-10 Thread sankarshan
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Vishnu t visdav...@gmail.com wrote: 'The Walls of Kolkata' are so rich and diverse, but are increasingly being painted on. Hmm... this is an interesting perspective. Would you like to elaborate ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Kolkata 2

2013-02-10 Thread Niraj Suryawanshi
Yep I agree with Abhishek! the concept is very good, the participants should be guided about few things Where to click exactly What How to click also the Fun part in it! Organized effort leads to a precise outcome. Also about the working with strangers team building effort we here in Wikipedia