<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div></div><div>Thanks for the information, Mayur. Good to learn about participation from neighbouring states as well.</div><div>Please upload any pictures taken during the event and share them with us.</div><div><br></div><div>- Sundar<br> </div>"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."<br>- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture<div><br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">From:</span></b> mayur <mayurdce@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. <wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>; wikihi-l@lists.wikimedia.org; wikimedia-in-del@lists.wikimedia.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tue, February 15, 2011 11:32:25 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Wikimediaindia-l] Hindi wiki workshop at New Delhi - report<br></font><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;" id="internal-source-marker_0.8784938742866589">Dear Wikimedians,</span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Here
is a short report of the first workshop for Hindi wiki projects that
was held on 2011 February 12 at Sarai-CSDS, Civil Lines, New Delhi. </span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The workshop was attended by more than 35 participants. The complete list of participants is available at </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE:%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF_%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%A8/%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%88_%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%80_%E0%A5%A7"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0,
153);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/विकिपीडिया:हिन्दी विकि कार्यशाला सम्मेलन/नई दिल्ली १</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The
workshop was divided into two sessions. The first session was an
Introductory presentation about wiki, Wikipedia, and Hindi wikiprojects.
In the second session we introduced wiki editing to the participants.
There was also a short introduction about WikiBhasha by the
representatives form Microsoft.</span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The
participants asked many questions about wiki, Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia, sister projects and so on. They also asked some queries
regarding featured articles, protected pages typing tools, policies of
Hindi wikipedia, and so on. The participants are introduced to wiki wiki
editing in a simple way.We also gave them information regarding
transliteration tool and taught them to write in Devanagari on Hindi
wikipedia. </span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">At
the end of the workshop all were introduced to WikiBhasha tool by
Microsoft representative, Ashwini. He demonstrated the tool by
translating an English Wikipedia article to Hindi.</span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Since
this is the first Wiki workshop for Hindi there were participants came
even from neighboring states like Punjab, UP, and so on.Hindi wiki
community is planning to organize many more workshops in the near
future.<br><br>With Regards<br>Mayur<br></span>
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