Hi Wikipedians, 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'.

WikiPatrika is an independent publication which is not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation or the Wikimedia India chapter. We sincerely thank the Wikimedia India chapter for allowing us to host this newsletter on wikimedia.in .

The *first edition of WikiPatrika is now released* - Volume 2 , Issue 1 - 2011 June *http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika *

*Community News : * This month: hear what's happening from Wikimedians in Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Odia , Sanskrit, Tamil, Telegu http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2011-06/Community_News

*Meetups and Events :* Meetups in Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad and Mumbai http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2011-06/Meetups_and_Events

*Press Coverages :* As usual, a flood of articles; check in to see where Wikimedia is covered and how http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2011-06/In_the_news

*Free culture news :* Copyright law changes, government initiatives, and the latest in licensing http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2011-06/Free_culture_news

*FOSS-MediaWiki Tech news :* Google Summer of Code, India and Mediawiki. Plus Berlin Hackathon, Wikimedia Commons and UploadWizard http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2011-06/Tech_News

*WMIN Chapter News:* Chapter membership opens! http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2011-06/WMIN_Chapter_News

*WMF India Office news :* Campus ambassadors hit Pune: find out all about it. http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2011-06/WMF_India_Office_News

You can subscribe to wikimedia-in-newsletter@lists.wikimedia.org to receive the WikiPatrika newsletters ( If you are not subscribed to wikimediaindia-l mailing list). 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