Dear friends,
The photographs have been uploaded in the same, and next day but there is a
categorical problem occurred, that could not been solved yet. The link is
given below for the photographs:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=…
Regards.
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Kalyan Sarkar <kalyan.sarkar(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Let me share some of the highlights from the WP 11 celebrations at the 8th
> Kolkata Wikimedia Meetup on Sunday last.
>
> To begin with, we had the largest turnout in recent times, with as many as
> thirty Wikipedians attending the event. We had amongst us Bishakha di and
> Nikita as well. (Thank you to both for coming down to Kolkata for the
> event.) Our primary agenda besides our regular meetup and workshop
> activities was the celebration of 11 years of WP and 1st year of Wikimedia
> India Chapter. The other topic high on our priority list was to discuss the
> issues that we were facing in having a WP stall at the Kolkata Book Fair
> 2012.
>
> The session started off with a note from Nikita and the usual round of
> questions from newbies. Bishakha di gave a talk on SOPA and how it would
> affect WP. It was followed by Jayanta da's presentation on Bengali
> Wikipedia. Then we had our celebrations. A beautiful chocolate cake with a
> gel topping in the shape of the WP logo had been ordered for the purpose.
> Refreshment consisting of *singara *(*samosa *is called *singara *in
> Bengal), muffins and tea were served. After the break, we continued. I took
> over and gave a hands on demo on how to upload photos in Commons, then link
> it from a WP article and how to provide proper citations. Rangan da
> proposed a couple of Photo Walks on the occasion of Chinese New Year in
> Kolkata. Biswarup da, as usual, kept himself busy all through, capturing
> the moments of the event.
>
> After the main event Jayanta da and Nikita sat with Sucheta and some other
> students from NSEC, where our maiden Wiki Academy would be held on
> 25th. Jayanta da, Nikita and myself discussed about the possible courses of
> action on the Book Fair event.
>
> I would request Biswarup da to kindly share the pictures.
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Kalyan Sarkar
>