The first community newsletter from the Wikimedia India community was released in September 2010. Since that time, various community members have been involved with creating a regular version of the newsletter; today, we are pleased to announce the commencement of WikiPatrika, a monthly newsletter of Wikimedia community, chapter and foundation updates from India.
'Patrika' is the closest pan-Indian word that has roughly similar meaning across the country that also conveys the right spirit; it has a multitude of meanings, but is broadly understood to mean 'journal' or 'magazine'.
The first edition of WikiPatrika is now released - Volume 2 , Issue 1 - 2011 June
Community News :
This month: hear what's happening from Wikimedians in Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Odia , Sanskrit, Tamil, Telegu
Meetups and Events :
Meetups in Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad and Mumbai
Press Coverages :
As usual, a flood of articles; check in to see where Wikimedia is covered and how
Free culture news :
Copyright law changes, government initiatives, and the latest in licensing
FOSS-MediaWiki Tech news :
Google Summer of Code, India and Mediawiki. Plus Berlin Hackathon, Wikimedia Commons and UploadWizard
WMIN Chapter News:
Chapter membership opens!
WMF India Office news :
Campus ambassadors hit Pune: find out all about it.
We are are also working on user talk page delivery to your home Wikis in future .
We hope that you find this useful. Going forward, this exercise will only be possible with *your* involvement, so if there is something you see that you would like to contribute to, change, or start - tell us!
Write to us at wikimedia-in-newsletter-editors [at] lists [dot] wikimedia [dot] org
Regards
WikiPatrika Newsletter Team