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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Hi folks,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
My sincere apologies for the late writeup.<br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><br> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">The 36th Bangalore Wiki Meetup
was organized on 14 Aug 2011 at CIS, Bengaluru and attended by<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>8 Wikipedians.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><font size="4">Talks</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b>Shiju</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Shiju was
formally greeted by the Bangalore community for being appointed as a consultant
by the foundation for Indic initiatives. He shared his experience in
Wikimania-2011, Hafia, Israel, how he interacted with the attendees over there,
the motivation and interest and also the growth perspectives which could also
be part of his initiatives in the coming days. He spoke about the discussions
held over.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b>Hisham</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Hisham has
explained about the tidbits of the Pune pilot program to the Bangalore
community, the details of the outreach movement and its outcome. He also
explained about the mobo initiatives of the foundation to make Wikipedia
available for handheld mobile devices. Indic initiatives would be one of the
other prime focus of the foundation in terms of facilitating the growth of
Indian Wikipedias. Wikipedias of The Netherlands and Germany might be used as a
helping entity where the substantial growth and the strategy lying therein
would also help program new plans for Indian as well as English Wikipedia in
India. He also spoke about GLAM, successful initiatives in several museums in
the UK and how the same strategies could be applied here to guide people to
contribute more for Wikipedia. Hisham also talked about distribution of<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>90,000 laptops in Government schools in Assam
and helping the students use and contribute for Wikipedia. He showed the
glimpse of Pune programs, how Nikhil from the Pune community visited school to
school to bring out an active mass for the pilot program. He also mentioned the
statistics of the Pune how 20 Campus ambassadors with the guidance of 100
teachers brought out thousands of articles.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b>Nitika</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Hisham
introduced Nitika to the Bangalore community. She then was greeted by the
community and talked briefly about her new position, the motivation and
participation and interests.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><font size="4"><b>Doscussions:</b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b>Srikanth R.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Srikanth
spoke about the geo-tagging in commons, explained how it would help to locate
places in off and in-Wiki, demonstrated photo upload in Commons and spoke about
the benefits of uploading high quality photos in Commons with the commercial
tags attached by the photographer as most photographers about their photos
uploaded in Commons can never be sold by them.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">EC president
Arjuna interacted about the chapter and its coordination with the community
where Arun had interaction with the other members.</p>
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