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Bangalore Wikipedia 10th Anniversary Celebrations -- Summary
by Srikanth Lakshmanan 16 Jan '11

16 Jan '11

Hi all, I am posting a detailed summary of the Bangalore celebrations, apologies for making it long to read, but hey it was 12 hours of celebration! It was a great start to the day with overwhelming response to see 10 volunteers 8 am at the venue willing to help and with that, the number of people coming in very slowly but steadily increasing. Around 9:30 AM we began the days proceedings at Lecture hall with Arunram welcoming the people with an Introduction of the event and we had informal round of introductions of people who were there(50 already!). We then had different Indic language wiki communities presenting reports with Bellayat joining over Skype from Dhaka being the first to provide an update on Bengali Wikipedia. Arjuna followed it with Telugu Wikipedia update.HP Nadig followed with update on Kannada Wikipedia. Sundar followed it with Tamil Wikipedia report and audience were very receptive so much that we needed to cut short the Q&A for time constraints.Kiran Gopi provided the Malayalam Wikipedia report followed by myself giving an update of WP:INDIA Project of English Wikipedia.We also had a small discussion on Five pillars,policies etc. We broke for tea around 11:30 AM and the crowd was 75 by then. Arunram continued with Sanskrit Wikipedia report and then there was an open discussion on way forward,future which was lively. The final number of people who attended morning session was close to around 100 people. Each language report contained information on stats, community, challanges, outreach activities and way forward. Just before breaking for lunch we took this picture http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia-10-celebrations-Bangalore-2011… showing ten as theme. We regrouped for Segment 2(Special Interest groups) around 2:15 PM and Arjuna quickly gave the format of the event.(Collaboration with Special Interest Groups). There was a Birds track lead by Shyamal and the bird watching community in Bangalore. The photography track was handled by HP Nadig covering commons. The technology track had myself presenting overview of technology / hacks possible with Wikipedia and then Kiran providing a hands on demo on mwclient and wiki-analysis project. Sundar joined in to give a brief session on Bots and pywikipediabot framework. The different language groups had discussions at the foyer area with Arjuna leading Telugu, Shiju / Kiran leading Malayalam, Sundar leading Tamil and HP Nadig leading Kannada Wikipedias respectively. The number of people who attended Segment 2 was around 150 people. We broke for a tea around 4:30 PM and regrouped ourselves at the main auditorium around 5:20 when we had a sudden change in the agenda after Jimmy wanted to have the Skype call earlier. It helped us in a better way with Jimmy addressing the audience and kickstarting the Segment 3 around 5:40 PM. Thanks a lot Jimmy :) . We then had Manish explained about how Wikipedia works, community, Foundation, Statistics, India specific stats and gave an overall Introductory talk on Wikipedia to the larger audience(Around 200 . We then played some videos from the WikimediaFoundation youtube channel with editors sharing their experiences. HP Nadig then formally announced the formation of the Chapter and did an interactive Session ''Namma Wikipedia'' with audience on How they used Wikipedia. Around 6:30 PM there was a talk by Lawrence Liang. We had a small break and at 7:10 PM Sundar anchored the audience session on "How I became a Wikipedian" with editors sharing their stories on how they became Wikipedians. Then we had a very interactive panel discussion with renowned people like Prof.Sadagopan - Founder Director IIIT-B, Writer Madanmohan Rao, Achal Prabhala - Wikimedia foundation advisory and Sunil Abraham - Executive Director Centre for Internet and Society, speaking on Wikipedia and its role moderated by Arunram. We called it a day by 8:15 PM and it was quite a day! [PS: I couldnt update evening session in detail since i was doing some running around] 230+ people attending the event on a festive day(Sankaranti) was quite an accomplishment and shows the amount of love people have for Wikipedia :). I would like to thank each one of them for making this event a success. I would like to thank Jimmy, Lawrence Liang and the panelists for making it to the event with their busy schedules. On behalf of Bangalore Wikipedians, I would like to thank our sponsors, National Institute of Advanced Sciences (NIAS) for providing an absolutely wonderful venue for the event free of cost, Microsoft Research India for sponsoring food,refreshments, Discovery India for sponsoring the publicity materials, Centre for Internet & Society for providing Wifi,sponsoring Videography at the event in a very short notice, being always there for Wikipedian community in Bangalore. [Yes most of the event is recorded and would be up on commons in a few days!] and Wikimedia Foundation for all those tees and nice goodies :) Last but the least the volunteers without which the day wouldnt have been what it was. Abu,Anoop,Arjuna Rao Chawla, Arunram, Arunganesh, Gautham, Harsha,HP Nadig, Kiran Gopi, Kiran Jonnalagadda, Manish, Melvin, Philip Tiju, Sundar, Suma, Srikanta, Sathyamurthy, Swaroop Rao, Tinucherian, Vishal Gayakvad, Vimal, Srinivas Gunta, Royson[CIS],Sunil,Ramesh[NIAS],Sashidharan[NIAS]. Sincere apologies if i had missed anyone on the list. Since i didnt have camera, there are no pictures from me, expect them from others soon on commons :) Let this be a new larger wave of community in Bangalore and hope our monthly meetup participation increases folds and more importantly more people join the movement and "edit the world". Regards Srikanth.L (User:Logicwiki) PS : This also happened to be my farewell wiki-meetup at Bangalore since am relocating, will miss Bangalore meetups :( :(

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One photo from this morning
by Hari Prasad Nadig 15 Jan '11

15 Jan '11

A group photo from this morning is here: http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia-10-celebrations-Bangalore-2011… Thanks to Royson for the click. -- Hari Prasad Nadig http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadig http://flickr.com/hpnadig

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Thanks
by Arjuna Rao Chavala 15 Jan '11

15 Jan '11

Hi all, Thanks for the great wikipedia Ten celebration event we had today. Wish to see the Bangalore community grow and represent every language of India. Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala

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An unplanned mystery!!
by Melvin Simon 15 Jan '11

15 Jan '11

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/14/wikipedia-unplanned-mir…

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Re: [Wikimedia-in-blr] [Wikimediaindia-l] Available to help at th Bangalore Event
by Arjuna Rao Chavala 15 Jan '11

15 Jan '11

Hi Moka, On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Moka Pantages <mpantages(a)wikimedia.org>wrote: > Hello, everyone. > > I'm really excited to attend the Bangalore event tomorrow. I plan to > be there all day, so if you need my help with anything at all, please > let me know. I'm happy to help with whatever is needed. > > We are glad to have you for Bangalore event representing Wikimedia Foundation. We will firm up the specific sessions where you can speak on the agenda in the morning. Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala

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200 signups and counting for the Bangalore W10 event
by Arun Ramarathnam 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

Dear all, We just crossed 200 signups on the wiki for the main public event. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore26 Let us hope for a good turnout at the event tomorrow! Thanks everyone for the active support and efforts to get the event organized. regards Arun

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Re: [Wikimedia-in-blr] Reminder for 10PM call tonight - All volunteers to please attend .
by BalaSundaraRaman 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

Can't take call, but will be online soon. - Sundar Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android

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Reminder for 10PM call tonight - All volunteers to please attend .
by Arun Ramarathnam 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

Dear all, Reminder for sync up call in the run up to the Bangalore Ten anniversary event. Date: *14 January 2011* Time: *10:00 PM IST* Subject: *Wikipedia Tenth anniversary planning call* Message from the organizer: *Please attend a telecon schedule tonight at 10 PM. We need take stock of preperations for the 15th Jan event.* And for more access numbers, click here<http://www.sabsebolo.com/site/access_numbers> Enter the following conference id and pin after the prompt: Conference id: *1587477* Pin: *4254* regards Arun

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[Press] : DNA : "Wikipedia India chapter to become a reality"
by CherianTinu Abraham 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

[Press] : DNA : "Wikipedia India chapter to become a reality" http://www.dnaindia.com/bangalore/report_wikipedia-india-chapter-to-become-… Please note some of the factual errors with the article : 1) The 10th anniversary gathering is on Saturday , not Thursday 2) I will forgive the journo for writing as Tinu Cheriyan instead of Cherian but perhaps not Hari Prasad Nadig as Nadek. 3) The Anniversary venue is NIAS ( National Institute of Advanced studies ) , an institution behind IISc and not IISc itself. NIAS is related to IISc, I think. 4) It is Wikimedia India Chapter , NOT Wikipedia India Chapter. Altough I wanted the article to emphasize on the anniversary event ( to drive people to participate in the event) , somehow the article focus went to chapter, which was still yet to be announced on its formation. The journalist is not the regular one in DNA newspaper ,whom I am usually in touch with for Wikimedia/Wikipedia news and had to be educated on our history , still he made some serious errors. I have already communicated the errors to the journalist and he promptly apologized. The *good thing* was that the article with emphasis on chapter came on the exact day of announcement on its formation. Regards Tinu Cherian

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Just sharing a link I came across
by Melvin Simon 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12171977

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