Thank you very much for this Pradeep. Best,
Gautam ________ http://social.prathambooks.org/ On 23 February 2011 23:07, Pradeep Mohandas <pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi, > We had a Wikipedia Mumbai Meetup today where the Mumbai Wikimedia community > was introduced to Hisham Mundol who has taken charge "WMF Consultant for > National Programs, India.". > We had a wide ranging conversation today on several things. Listed below are > the meeting notes (in no particular order, to the best of my ability): > 1. We had 13 attendees today at the historic Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, > Bandra. (Historic because the first Wikipedia Mumbai meetup took place here) > 2. Barry Newstead introduced Hisham Mundol with a brief about Hisham's > background work. > 3. Hisham had brief conversation with all the attendees explaining that his > work was primarily to network with the community and the chapter in India, > find out best practices (what worked/what did not work) and try to see if it > is duplicable on a larger scale across other Wikimedia projects. He also > talked about watching these practices over timelines to understand impact > etc. > 4. User:AroundtheGlobe made another brief comment about his idea of getting > pictures off Flickr of some of the unique situations that might not be > covered in a photowalk. He showed how he had approached users on flickr, > showed them how to upload images on Wikimedia Commons and also explained > licenses. > 5. There was Nikhil Sheth and Rekha Sankhala who spoke about working in a > village in Raigad, taking instances of the English and Marathi wikipedias > along with Wikipedia for Schools instance. They shared the excitement that > students in Raigad had in learning about the existence of the Marathi > Wikipedia and also learning about the content present there. Nagarjuna also > talked about how they saw the lack of content on a certain article and > expressed their desire to edit Wikipedia and improve the article! > 6. We discussed about how Wikipedia was present in school text books in > Maharashtra and Kerala. > 7. We discussed the Workshop for Women in Wikipedia. I asked for help in > making it happen in Mumbai. Bishaka suggested contacting a faculty member in > SNDT University and Nagarjuna offered help. Nagarjuna said that many > people's fear of editing Wikipedia was that they would make mistakes. > 8. Hisham asked about various ways in which people could be encouraged to > edit Wikipedia. We talked about small edits in places like English Wikipedia > if subjects of the person's interest was saturated or if the person was > afraid. These included simple stuff like categorising, making copy edits, > adding templates etc. There was also suggestions of contributing pictures to > Wikimedia Commons. > 9. Hisham then asked if there could be one thing that we could say to a new > editor what it would be. The community thought that the concept of being > bold on Wikipedia should be communicated better. The question of speedy > deletions arose and how these discouraged new editors. User:AroundtheGlobe > suggested the use of the "under construction" template. > 10. We had brief discussion on the work of the Salman Khan's Khan > Foundation. Some of us (me included :) ) thought it was Salman Khan, the > actor :). We stood corrected. > 11. Vickram said that discussion had centred around how to get students and > people in schools and universities involved. However, effort should also be > made to involve adults since they had access to certain knowledge that was > dying. > 12. Conversation turned to making the meetups more interesting. Barry > suggested mixing up the content and having topic-specific meetups like done > by the folks in Bangalore. I suggested having alternate meetups with > WikiAcademy. This meant that people coming for the meetup could be told > something concrete about there being an academy where they could learn how > to participate. > warm regards, > Pradeep Mohandas > user:Prad2609 > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
