Hello all,
The tenth anniversary Wikipedia meetup went on successfully. I have posted a
brief summary here[1]. I would like to thank
Manian,Mahir,Parithimathi,Ravichandar,Theni Subramani for their efforts in
making the meetup successful.Keeping the momentum,at this juncture I would
like to propose monthly meetups focusing in detail on editing /
contributions apart from Introduction to Wikipedia. Meetups however small
will help in sharing ideas,experiences, how-tos in the Wiki world would be
useful for wikipedians.
I would like to share the success story of Bangalore meetups here. Every
second sunday Bangalore wikipedians meet and share things related to
Wiki-world activities. A typical meetup would have one / two persons doing a
talk for 30 minutes each and then will have discussions. We also had Skype
discussions from Wikipedians across the globe. The talks can be at any level
of expertise starting from getting introduced to editing or even advanced
topics like bot creation etc. The series of meetups helped us over a period
of one year to have ~25 people contributing to Wikipedia with additional
level of expertise. We would also have introduced to Wikipedia to over 200
people easily who attend one or the other meetups. I think its time we do a
similar exercise in Chennai as well.
I request someone from Chennai to take the lead and start the meetups. I
could help in getting a venue. All that is required is atleast 3 - 4 people
committing their Sunday afternoon for Wikipedia and am sure the initiative
will be a successful one :)
[1]
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-January/001761.h…
Regards
Srikanth.L
http://srik.me