This is really amazing Happy to see people of Delhi working on so many languages :)
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi All, > > I wanted to share an update of a fantastic weekend in Delhi. > Saturday morning, 8 community members (3 existing and 5 new editors) on > Hindi Wikipedia met up at Crafts Museum to meet each other and collaborate > on Crafts GLAM project. The meeting started with a round of introductions, > including short talks from the existing editors of how they got introduced > to Wikipedia and what keeps them motivated to edit and what kind of > articles they edit. There's a separate blog post about the Crafts Museum > GLAM project that's coming out shortly - but a quick summary of the meet > up. 4 of the 5 new editors edited. They improved the articles on a type > of sari, a kind of metal handicraft, a class of textile and added content > to the Crafts museum page on Hindi Wikipedia! Pictures are uploaded > here<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:GLAM_Crafts_Museum,_New_Delhi_7_July_2012>. > User: अनिरुद्ध, User:Siddhartha_Ghai and User:Roboture inspired and guided > the new editors. User:Anilbhardwajnoida, a Museum staff member, was > specially congratulated for his really good contributions (after starting > to edit only a couple of months ago.) > Saturday afternoon, 17 community members (2 existing and 15 new editors) > on English Wikipedia met up at the British Council. This was the meeting > of the British Council Wikipedia Club members and this was a follow-up > session to the initial Wikipedia introduction sessions conducted a little > while earlier. 10 of the new editors edited - including creating a new > article of a locality in Delhi and Indian chewing gum brand, improving the > articles of a famous Delhi landmark and a Delhi school as well as building > on the articles of an Indian architectural element and a kind of darshan > dating back to Akbar's time! They also added content on a couple of local > food items and a couple of pictures on Commons! User:Theo10011 & > User:Hisham helped new editors on a whole host of queries they had. > > Sunday morning, 5 community members (2 existing and 3 new editors) on Odia > Wikipedia met up at Hauz Khas. A WikiWorkship was conducted. A journalist > who attended covered it in the The Political and Business Daily. > Additional WikiWorkshops and press coverage were planned in Delhi. > Pictures are uploaded > here<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Delhi_Odia_Workshop_2012Jan29>. > A new editor created an article about a traditional Odia food. > User:Rashmirparida and User:Psubhashish conducted the session. > > Sunday afternoon, 14 community members (2 existing and 12 new editors) on > Malayalam Wikipedia met up at Hauz Khas. A WikiWorkshop was conducted for > the participants who included 3 women, 1 school student and 1 retired > person. They also discussed a potential partnership with the Malayalam > Mission in New Delhi, as well as follow-up outreach session. This meet-up > was covered in the leading Malayalam newspapers, Malayalam Manorama and > Mathrubhumi. Pictures are uploaded > here<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Delhi_Malayalam_Workshop_2012July08>. > User:Subeesh Balan and User:Shijualex conducted the workshop. > > I hope there are more meet-ups in more languages in Delhi and other cities. > > -- > > *Subha* > > *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share > in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!* > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-in-del mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-del > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------* *Sheel Sindhu Manohar ( शील सिंधु मनोहर )<http://c41db53236a3d5181bca7b9b2a79046a> *www.jmilug.org * Founder Linux Adda *www.linuxadda.org* -------------------------------------------------------------
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