+100 It was a lot of fun along with serious business. The club started on the 14th with over 40+ attendees. The greatest success was that almost 100% of all students returned the next day. Hence, we hope to have generated a lot of interest as well as made it clear to them, that editing an encyclopedia is serious business.
-- Regards, Debanjan* - Lets make this world a better and more informative place* On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Srikeit <srik...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello All > > This is a slightly belated report of the Wiki 11 celebrations in Pune on > January 15, 2012. > > The celebrations were coincided with the first gathering of Wikipedia > Club Pune <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Club_Pune>. > The Club had met on the 14th where participants were instructed on the > model, nature and basics of Wikipedia. > > The 15th saw 40+ participants gather in the computer lab at SICSR, Pune > for hands-on Wikipedia editing as well as the 11th anniversary > celebrations. The numbers therefore made this the *largest Wiki 11 > celebration in India*. The participants were largely high school and > college students. The morning session involved a detailed explanation of > the five pillars of > Wikipedia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars> stressing > the importance of contributing neutral and free content. Feedback for each > sessions was immediately gathered on the Wikipedia Club Pune Facebook > Page<https://www.facebook.com/WikipediaClubPune> > . > > The second session involved hands-on editing beginning with talk page > posting, signing of posts, sandbox editing, wiki-linking etc. Then > following a detailed explanation of referencing, the participants were > encouraged (under supervision) to reference articles related to Pune. > > The final session involved the business end of the Wiki-11 celebration > with a huge Wiki-globe > cake<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_Club_Pune_1.JPG>. > We were further buoyed by the presence of the WP English SIG chair Ashwin > who encouraged and helped the participants in editing and did the honours > cutting the cake. The participants and the organizers participated in a > Google+ Hangout with Hisham and the rest of the WMF office in Delhi and > Nitika and the WP 11 party in Kolkata. The participants were quite excited > with both Wikipedia and its community. Their enthusiasm was reflected in > both their editing as well as willingness to return for the next meeting of > the club. > > The pictures of the event have been uploaded to commons and can be found > here <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_11_in_India>. > The next meeting of the Wikipedia Club Pune will be on Saturday, 21st Jan. > > The Wikipedia Club and celebrations were quite excellently organized by > Abhishek Suryavanshi and several other Campus Ambassadors in Pune. > > Warm Regards > -- > Srikeit Tadepalli > +91-7709756798 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > >
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