Dear All,<div><br></div><div>Let me share some of the highlights from the WP 11 celebrations at the 8th Kolkata Wikimedia Meetup on Sunday last.</div><div><br></div><div>To begin with, we had the largest turnout in recent times, with as many as thirty Wikipedians attending the event. We had amongst us Bishakha di and Nikita as well. (Thank you to both for coming down to Kolkata for the event.) Our primary agenda besides our regular meetup and workshop activities was the celebration of 11 years of WP and 1st year of Wikimedia India Chapter. The other topic high on our priority list was to discuss the issues that we were facing in having a WP stall at the Kolkata Book Fair 2012.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The session started off with a note from Nikita and the usual round of questions from newbies. Bishakha di gave a talk on SOPA and how it would affect WP. It was followed by Jayanta da&#39;s presentation on Bengali Wikipedia. Then we had our celebrations. A beautiful chocolate cake with a gel topping in the shape of the WP logo had been ordered for the purpose. Refreshment consisting of <i>singara </i>(<i>samosa </i>is called <i>singara </i>in Bengal), muffins and tea were served. After the break, we continued. I took over and gave a hands on demo on how to upload photos in Commons, then link it from a WP article and how to provide proper citations. Rangan da proposed a couple of Photo Walks on the occasion of Chinese New Year in Kolkata. Biswarup da, as usual, kept himself busy all through, capturing the moments of the event. </div>
<div><br></div><div>After the main event Jayanta da and Nikita sat with Sucheta and some other students from NSEC, where our maiden Wiki Academy would be held on 25th. Jayanta da, Nikita and myself discussed about the possible courses of action on the Book Fair event. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I would request Biswarup da to kindly share the pictures.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks and regards,</div><div>Kalyan Sarkar</div><div><br></div>