Thats good news Nikita, keeping in touch with the newbies is very important.. Keep up the good work..:)
Best, Deepon On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 1:04 PM, nikita belavate <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All, > > We had the '17th Wikipedia Mumbai Community Meetup' on 14th July,Sat. at > Flarepath office in Bandra, who were generous in providing us their place > on the weekend. > It started with informal introductions since there were new members > attending Wiki-meetup for the very first time. > > There were 17 attendees in all, including members from Flarepath team, an > Odia-Wiki contributor-Manoranjan Bahera (who also attended the meetup for > the first time in Mumbai !),Vikram Crishna ji, Karthik, Vikram Vincent ( > from Banglore community), myself and some more new folks. > > We had planned for an editing session this time followed by a brief about > Wiki Loves Monuments.The session was decided to progress depending on the > understanding and knowledge of attendees about Wikipedia, and was focussed > more on a basic level. Also the meetup was just the day after Eng. > Wikipedia crossed the milestone of 4-million articles ! Alot of people > present did not know about it, and so we made it an initiation point, > further into, > > - How Wikipedia managed to gather so many articles? > - Who create these articles(it was not a one day task)? > - Anyone can do it and How? > > They did not have an account or had one but hardly used or edited. So, the > basic question of why you should have an account as well as how wikipedia > respects anonymity was discussed. It was interactive and people were very > enthusiastic about getting first hand insights and begin editing. Also, > there was discussion regarding how a 'company' page should be like in > wikipedia which would not be speedily deleted ! Vikram Crishna ji was > present and we got to hear from him as well ! > We also created an account for a new-comer and did few edits from her > account. > > Then we discussed briefly about Wikimedia commons. We categorised some of > the Mumbai Photowalk images using cat-a-lot. A brief about WLM was also > made; they are willing to volunteer/help and wanted to know more. It was > post 5pm by this time. Snacks and Coffee were sponsored by Flarepath, a Big > Thanks to them ! > > I want to Thank Ashwin (user:AshLin) here :) for taking an editing sesson > in WCI-2011, which was the first session I had attended, very organised > wherein he had given each of the attendees a printout/handout explaining > the basics of editing etc. We took some more printouts of that and > distributed at the end as the summary of the past 2- 21/2 hours. > Thank you Noopur for suggesting Flarepath as well as connecting us ! > Thanks to Abhishek Suryawanshi, who was going to come to Mumbai, only for > the meetup, however owing to something urgent, he could not; However he > and Srikanth Ramakrishnan did support offline. Thanks Alot ! > Few pictures of the meetup are > here<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mumbai_Meetup_July2012> ! > We hope to keep in touch with the newbies and make them regular editors and > have regular gatherings ! > > -- > > Warm Regards, > Nikita Belavate. > > +91 99-20-30-9661 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >
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