Thanks, Subhashish for the note. It was fun talking to you, Srikanth and Ralph. An important clarification, however: It was Nikhil Sheth who focused and took the lead on Wikipedia for Schools Offline Edition. I will be sending in a report soon. :-)
Thanks again! Yours sincerely, Anirudh Bhati 00 91 9328712208 Skype: anirudhsbh On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi < psubhash...@gmail.com> wrote: > The 32nd Bangalore Wikimedia Meetup was organized on 2011April10 at 3 PM in > CIS, Bangalore. This meetup was headed by Subhashish Panigrahi > [[User:Psubhashish]] and attended by 7 Wikipedians. The speakers of this > meetup were Arjun Rao C, Achal Prabhala and Anirudh Bhati. > > 1st Talk: Arjun Rao C/ Experience in Berlin Wikimedia Conference, 2010 > > Arjun Rao talked about his participation in the Wikimedia conference held > in Berlin. He discussed about the new plans and ventures for Wikimedia > projects which will be the current focus for the chapters of several > countries. He also briefed the audience about the plans for the proposed > projects under Wikimedia India such as: > Knowledge kiosks in public libraries, Academies, Projects for improvements > in Indic language tools, Indic Wiki CD/DVD, improve participation of women > in Wiki communities, Wikimania for Indian Wikipedians, etc. Arjun showed > pictures of speakers from several countries who he befriended and shared > ideal structures of the the Wiki projects in those all countries. > > 2nd Talk: Achal Prabhala/ “Open Citation” & its perpectives > > Achal introduced the audience about his ongoing project on “Oral Citation”, > its purpose, authenticity, possible issues and their solutions. He explained > the problems Malayalam Wikipedians faced when they have created well > constructed articles on several games played in villages, but there was no > proper citations as none ever tried to make literature based documentations > for them. Even he also stated the similar experiences he has with the > “Sapheri” speaking South African tribe where many traditional games were > never put under the modern documented rules and regulations but they are > great resources for the anthropologists. Many such important heritage > related articles could be cited using oral citation which is easier to > create, transform, share and cite. He also explained how credibility and > authenticity were created by interviewing the people about the dance > form/game/any such intended aspect. Most of the verbal conversation could be > translated and added to the audio file itself and later can be translated to > any other language. The source and copyright info can also be explained in > the audio file itself which would make this a very simplistic approach, but > potentially more accessible. Audio files would be more self explanatory, > easy to share in the form of podcasts and an elaborated audience could be > targeted. > > 3rd Talk: Anirudh Bhati/ “Outreach Campaign in North-East” > > Wikimedia India member Anirudh Bhati has organized has visited to NREST > (North-Eastern Regional Institute), Arunanchal Pradesh in the festive season > of “Mopin”, a regional festival and “Srishti 2011”, NREST's institutional > function. Anirudh along with Wikipedian Nikhil Sheth introduced Wikipedia > and other WMF projects to almost 110 students and lecturers in CREST. They > demonstrated them “Editing in Wikipedia” and students themselves created > articles based on the demonstration over there. Surya Vaigunth, a final year > student and a computer enthusiast personally took initiative to teach to > masses and bring out a set of persistent contributors. Though most of them > were interested to see the opportunities of Indic Wikipedias, majority of > the critical mass was more interested for English article speculated more > about Arunanchal Pradesh and even uploading more picture than content > development. He also has demonstrated how to use Indic Wikipedias and > editing them. Srikanth added a note to uploading pictures and geotagging > them using external maps which would be useful for online searches. As a > part of the outreach program Anirudh also explained about the Offline > package developed by taking selected Wikipedia articles for school students > as a part of SOS Children's Village where Ashwin helped for creating list of > important articles. 2 major software programs OpenZIM and Kiwix are used for > compilation and running of the offline package respectively where the total > package (2.75 GB) could be burnt in a DVD. The team also had a video chat > with Portugese Wikipedian Beria Lima who had a talk about “Mirandese > language and Gender Gap”, Mirandese, being one of the dying languages needs > collaborative efforts and Wikipedia could be one solution to protect it. She > also discussed abput the low contribution of women because of several > reasons like Lack of Confidence, Lack of detailed knowledge, Male oriented > social set up , etc. Even she also connected thr same problem in the Indian > context. > > Nikhil introduced Wikipedia to Kendriya Vidyalaya students. Saibal > Chatterjee, visiting prof and Chief- Coordinator of Srishti 2011 also > supported the event. > > It was fun-filled and successful event with less audience but fruitful with > new ideas shared. > > * > ସୁଭପାSubhashishPanigrahi > ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ > _______________________________________________ > Wikipedia Odia (Oriya) mailing list > wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or > facebook.com/OdiaWiki > Tweet @OdiaWiki > _______________________________________________ > "Wikimedia India Community list > wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > * > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-in-blr mailing list > wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-blr > >
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