Dear all,

As many of you may know Bengali Wikipedia completed 10 Years on March 2014. To celebrate this historic milestone the Bengali Wikimedia Community has planned to meet over for two days Bengali Wikipedia 10th Anniversary Celebration Conference during January 9 and 10, 2015 in Kolkata. We have also undertaken a series of On-Wiki and Off-Wiki activities. It will the gathering of users of two nation ( India & Bangladesh) and well wishers of Bengali Wikimedia projects. Please click here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/BN10 to go to the official page to see more details. .

This conference is our first attempt to invite and host selected members from other Indian Wikipedia communities. We are planning to invite our friends and well-wishers from most of all active Indic language wiki communities in India to this most auspicious occasion hosted by Bengali Wikimedia community! We are also planning to arrange few 30 scholarships for non-Bengali Indic Wikimedians who are interested in participating in this event. With all these, we expect coming year’s conference shall become the largest outreach program any Indian wiki community have ever attempted.

As a part of Conference, we are organizing edit-a-thons, a conference of students interested in Wikimedia projects, a meetup of youth interested in Wikimedia projects, photography contest and Workshop/Hackathon.

We cordially invite you to participate in Conference to share your experiences, to connect with your peers and create partnerships thereby strengthening the Indian Wikimedia community.

To participate in Conference, please register here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bengali%20Wikipedia%2010th%20Anniversary%20Celebration%20Kolkata/Registration

To participate in Conference as a speaker please submit your paper here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bengali_Wikipedia_10th_Anniversary_Celebration_Kolkata/Call_for_Participation .

To participate Photography Contest , click here https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bangla_Wikipedia_Photography_Contest_%28India%29

Looking forward to meeting you in Kolkata from 9-10 January, 2015!

On behalf of Bengali Wikimedia Community,

Jayanta Nath User: jayantanth on Wikimedia projects