Sorry I could not attend the event as I am out-of-Kolkata, and am missing it a lot. Hope to join something in the future.
Best Wishes, Krishnendu Das On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Jayanta Nath <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > *Update on Wiki11 Meet > up<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Kolkata/Kolkata8> > :* > We were about 28 people together in Kolkata celebrating Wikipedia's 11th > Anniversary. :) > > We started the meeting with a general introductory round. There were > students from Jadavpur > University<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadavpur_University>, > IIFT, Neetaji Subhash Chandra Bose Engineering College, some people who had > joined us for the Wiki Kolkata Photo walk, a reporter from Times of India, > an editor,Neelanjan > Dasgupta<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ne0Freedom>,(User:Ne0Freedom) > who has been contributing to Wikipedia since 2005 (but it was his first > Wiki meet ever), a lot of newbies who wanted to know more about Wikipedia > and our various projects amongst several others. It was great to see that > about 50% of the people were new to Wikipedia family and joined us on this > special day. > > Then Nitika (We are very proud where she have came first time in kolkata > and motivate us) spoke about various programs that the Trust is currently > involved in. Some of the new participants wanted to know more about Wiki > Loves Monuments competition, Chapters initiatives on GLAM projects, Offline > Project etc. Then Bishakha introduced herself and spoke about SOPA. > > The introductory talks were followed by me giving a small presentation > about the various programs, Wikimedia India Chapter, Bengala Wikipedia, > initiatives taken by the Bengali community members etc. There were some > questions about using translation tools for Wikipedia articles. > > We then celebrated Wikipedia 11 by cutting a yummy cake. :) This was > followed by Kalyanda giving a hands on training to newbies regarding how to > upload pictures on Commons, how to use a picture from Commons on Wikipedia > and basic Wikipedia editing. There were lots of questions about how to add > a reference, how to edit and Kalyanda addressed all these questions. > > We have collected names and email addresses of all the participants so > thats its easy for us to follow up with them and invite them to other Wiki > activites that will take place in Kolkata. > > *Next Steps:* > 1. We are planning to organise a Kolkata photothon on the Chinese New > Year, 23rd January. As you know Kolkata has the biggest China Town in India > where there will be lots of celebrations on this particuylar day. Hence we > have decided to go down to China town and click pictures that can be > uploaded on Commons. > 2. We'll try and organise a full WikiAcademy for all the newbies who > joined us for the celebrations to inform them more a about Wikipedia > editing. > 3. We'll soon organise a Kolkata Wiki meet up for Feb and invite all the > participants as plan of every month wiki meetup/workshop at Kolkata. > 4. We want to start with WP: Kolkata where we all will do collaborative > editing and improve/add articles about the pictures/monuments/buildings we > had clicked during the previous Kolkata photo walk. Just for information, > we contributed over 450 pictures on Commons as a result of this photowalk. > 5. Sucheta is organising a WikiAcademy in her college, Neetaji Subhash > Chandra Bose Engineering College on the 25th Jan. Over 70 students have > already registered for it. Jayantada and Kalyanda are supporting her for > this event. > 6. Deepon is also speaking with professors/Chairman at Jadavpur University > to figure out the possibility of conducting a WikiAcademy there. > > -- > With Warm Regards, > *Jayanta Nath* > Calcutta,West Bengal > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikipedia-BN mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-bn > >
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