Regards
Tinu Cherian
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar
<sudhanwa.com(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Some photos were taken at the end of the Pune
meeting.
Can someone post those pictures please.
Regards
-Sudhanwa
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia <
mahitgar(a)yahoo.co.in> wrote:
Dear Wikimedians ,
Thank you all for the overwhelming response to the 2010 Sept 18th Pune
Wikimedia meetup. 17 people had attended this meet. Special thanks to HOD &
staff of Women’s Studies Centre, University of Pune and visiting media and
open source movement fraternity for their active participation and guidance.
Mr Vijay Sirdeshpande (Mahitgar from Marathi wikipedia) and Ms Bishakha
Datta (trustee, Wikimedia Foundation) jointly chaired the meet . Ms. Datta
introduced herself . She talked about Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia
Foundation’s plans in India, the Wikimedia India Chapter, and difficulties
faced in completion of its registration process. She also talked about
Bangalore wiki meet-ups. She stressed the need to conduct wikipedia
academies and informed about the upcoming visits of Jimmy Wales to Mumbai at
the end of October. Other Wikimedia Foundation staff visit India in
December, includes Sue Gardner (executive director), Erik Moeller (deputy
director) and Danese Cooper (chief technical officer).
Then wikipedians introduced themselves. Mr. Amit Yadav raised the topics
of need for and lack of adequate references on Marathi wikipedia, quality of
content, and outreach. He was for most of the discussions to take place
online rather than offline. He stressed the need for initiative and
self-learning process for making contributions on part of wiki-admiring
people.On quality of content front, the success of Malayalam wikipedia was
discussed. Mr. Vijay explained the difference in the initial focus, and said
that now the focus is on making Marathi wikipedia reader-oriented. Everyone
agreed that for bringing better quality we need more active users. Mr.Vijay
also informed that Marathi wikipedians can request for various features and
get various features adopted in the user interface, including page rating
etc. for improvement in quality.
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