New subject: Bangalore Wikipedia WikiMeetup 43 on Sunday, 11 Mar 2012 , 3 PM

8 Mar 2012

Hi all,
       On behalf of the Bangalore Wikipedia / Wikimedia Community, we would
like to co-cordially invite you to attend the 43rd Bangalore
Wikimeetup on*Sunday, 11 Mar 2012 3 PM
*

http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiMeetups/Bangalore/Bangalore43

*Date: *: Sunday, 11-March-2012 Time: 3:00 PM IST

*Venue:*
The Centre for Internet and Society ( Wikimedia India Office)
No. 194, 2nd 'C' Cross,
4th Main
Domlur 2nd Stage
Opposite to Domlur Club
Bangalore 560 071
Karnataka

*Agenda*:

   - *Native language transliterations in English Wikipedia articles* -
   Swaroop G Rao (User:MikeLynch)

         In English Wikipedia articles, articles with strong non-English
connections usually carry a transliteration (along with pronunciation) in
the language of origin. There was many disputes regarding these
transliterations. This presentation will focus primarily on these
transliterations, exploring many possible points of view into the problem.
Since India is a large country of over 28 states and 22 official languages
(and hundreds of other recognized languages), we can expect this problem to
be more pronounced in Indian articles. And not surprisingly, it is so. This
is a contentious issue many a times; and more often than not, regional
polarization occurs, even among established editors. Swaroop will speak
about looking into these problems objectively, and in the meantime, also
looking into possible solutions. Along the way, he will also present some
case studies of contentious discussions/edit wars which have already taken
place.

   - *NASSCOM Initiative - Engineering Services* - RadhaKrishna Arvapally
   (User:Arkrishna)

 NASSCOM (Under Human Resources Ministry) has few initiative of which one
of them is Education Initiative: Under this initiative, NASSCOM aims to
enhance graduate employability through appropriate skill enrichment and act
as bridge between industry, academia and government. As being part of one
of the working groups, RadhaKrishna made a framework to add WikiMedia to
this course. He will be talking more about this.

   - *Kerala Sarvavijnanakosham and Malayalam Wikipedia *- Ramesh N G
   (User:Rameshng)

This story is about an effort to increase the content of the Malayalam
Wikipedia where the community is successful in getting the content from the
Kerala Government officially published Encyclopedia called as
SarvavijnanaKosham. In 2008, Kerala government Education minister announced
about giving the content of SarvavijnanaKosham to Malayalam Wikipedia. The
SarvavijnanaKosham contains nearly 21 volumes, each with ~1600 article; out
of which four volumes are published online. The license of the website
content is changed to GNU Free Documentation License 1.2. Malayalam
wikipedian a groups 7 users started transferring the content from the
website to Malayalam Wikipedia. Under the project while transferring the
content the users make sure that it wikified, possible images added,
interwiki given etc. This presentation is about the idea behind getting the
content, the project coordination, current status and future of this
project. This project is one of the motivating project and rich in content
where we are getting the article content which are written by subject
matter expert in SarvavijnanaKosham for last 70 years.

   - *Community activities and Outreach in Kannada Wikipedia* -
   Omshivaprakash H L(User:Omshivaprakash)

Omshivaprakash will talk about the recent increase in the Community
Activities around Kn-wiki and its future plans for outreach. He will be
also taking on how kn-wiktionary has adopted its best projects and
practices.

If you are planning to attend , you can sign up here
 http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiMeetups/Bangalore/Bangalore43#Sign_Up
or the facebook event page https://www.facebook.com/events/119678494824154/
( Note that facebook page shows the wrong time due to some bug)

If you need any help, feel free to contact us.

See you all there !

Regards

RadhaKrishna Arvapally & Tinu Cherian