Hey guys, Just a reminder. IRC starts in 15 minutes. Do join in. Regards Noopur
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Noopur Raval <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey folks > > The next India Program IRC (2nd for April) is scheduled for Thursday 19th > April at 9 p.m. IST. Do join us using this link: > http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office. > > We'll be discussing Outreach, Communications and Education in this one. > Here is what we plan to discuss this time: > > *Outreach* > > Over the past few months we have conducted several outreach sessions and > have been able to curate outreach standard presentation decks, best > practices and tips. Now we want to assist community members in > adopting/adapting these to conduct effective outreach sessions in their > respective cities/languages. We'll be soon working on 2 aspects for > increasing the number of outreach sessions we are doing on Indic languages > but we need your help on this: > > 1. Start translating outreach supporting documents to Indic languages - To > start with we want Indic language community members to help us translate > outreach documents and presentations to Indic languages. > > 2. Create opportunities for Indic outreach - We have been mailing/calling > a lot of institutes to organize a Wikipedia session (see list > here<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Outreach_Programs/Correspondence>)[1] > in their regional language but we have not able to get as many outreach > sessions as we'd like since they feel more comfortable corresponding in > their own regional language. We want help from Indic langauge editors who > are interested to do more outreach in their regional languages/cities to > help us reach out to these institutes. > > I'd request all the Indic language editors who want to help us out on > either of the two points mentioned above to show up on the IRC or write to > us offlist since we'll be discussing ways of doing effective outreach in > regional languages. > > > *Communications:* *Wikipatrika:* > 6 communities (Assamese, Gujarati, Marathi, Nepali,Odia, Telugu ) have > already created Wikipatrika pages on their respective Wikipedias. The new > template for Wikipatrika is up > here<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2012-05/Community_News>.[2] > In tomorrow's outreach, we could discuss ideas and suggestions to make > Wikipatrika more useful. We could also discuss any problems that community > members maybe facing. > > *Communications:* *Odia Social Media pilot:* > As proposed earlier, > here's<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Social_Media>[3] > the social media pilot to support the Odia community members. The end > result of this pilot is to attract more newbies and introduce them to the > Wikiverse. This pilot is to try out effective messaging strategies to use a > platform like Facebook optimally and try to recruit more editors to the > Odia Wikipedia. The most important nuance is that we have built a draft > social media messaging strategy and plan to work closely with the Odia > community to implement it - through the community members. We hope to > discuss this plan and get your inputs on it. > > As always, the first 45 minutes will be focused on these and the last 15 > minutes will be open to any other topic. > Hope you all can join us. > > (For those who can't join, the logs will be put up the next morning at > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/IRC_meeting_2012-04-19 > > Thanks > > > > [1] > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Outreach_Programs/Correspondence > [2] http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2012-05/Community_News > [3] > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Social_Media > > > -- > Noopur Raval > -- Noopur Raval
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