Hello All
This is a slightly belated report of the Wiki 11 celebrations in Pune on
January 15, 2012.
The celebrations were coincided with the first gathering of Wikipedia Club
Pune <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Club_Pune>. The Club
had met on the 14th where participants were instructed on the model, nature
and basics of Wikipedia.
The 15th saw 40+ participants gather in the computer lab at SICSR, Pune for
hands-on Wikipedia editing as well as the 11th anniversary celebrations.
The numbers therefore made this the *largest Wiki 11 celebration in India*.
The participants were largely high school and college students. The morning
session involved a detailed explanation of the five pillars of
Wikipedia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars>
stressing
the importance of contributing neutral and free content. Feedback for each
sessions was immediately gathered on the Wikipedia Club Pune Facebook
Page<https://www.facebook.com/WikipediaClubPune>
.
The second session involved hands-on editing beginning with talk page
posting, signing of posts, sandbox editing, wiki-linking etc. Then
following a detailed explanation of referencing, the participants were
encouraged (under supervision) to reference articles related to Pune.
The final session involved the business end of the Wiki-11 celebration with
a huge Wiki-globe
cake<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_Club_Pune_1.JPG>PG>.
We were further buoyed by the presence of the WP English SIG chair Ashwin
who encouraged and helped the participants in editing and did the honours
cutting the cake. The participants and the organizers participated in a
Google+ Hangout with Hisham and the rest of the WMF office in Delhi and
Nitika and the WP 11 party in Kolkata. The participants were quite excited
with both Wikipedia and its community. Their enthusiasm was reflected in
both their editing as well as willingness to return for the next meeting of
the club.
The pictures of the event have been uploaded to commons and can be found
here <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_11_in_India>.
The next meeting of the Wikipedia Club Pune will be on Saturday, 21st Jan.
The Wikipedia Club and celebrations were quite excellently organized by
Abhishek Suryavanshi and several other Campus Ambassadors in Pune.
Warm Regards
--
Srikeit Tadepalli
+91-7709756798
