hi,
We're delighted in welcoming you all to the tenth anniversary celebrations
of Wikipedia in Mumbai. The details have now been updated here:
http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai
Venue: VJTI, Matunga, Mumbai
Date: January 15, 2011
Time: 10 AM to 2 PM (IST)
Agenda:
1. Keynote Address by Barry Newstead (Chief Global Development Officer,
Wikimedia Foundation)
2. Talk on Indic Wikipedia by Kundan Amitabh (Wikipedia Ang Wiki
Administrator)
3. Cake Cutting Party
Hope to see you there!
warm regards,
Pradeep Mohandas,
on behalf of the Wikipedians in Mumbai.
Dear all:
We have just heard from the organisers of the World Sanskrit Book Fair in
Bangalore a few hours back, that they are willing to offer us a free stall
for wikipedia. As you may be aware we have a wikipedia in Sanskrit and this
presents a good opportunity to spread awareness amongs folks interested in
Sanskrit and the general public.
There are 10,000 delegates from India and many countries around the world.
Around 60,000 people (general public) are expected to attend the event. It
is being inaugurated by the Chief Minister of Karnataka tomorrow.
*Event brochure*
http://www.samskritbookfair.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/bookfair-brochur…
*Opportunity for us*
Make use of the free stall graciously provided by the organisers and spread
the work about wikipedia In Indian languages and more specifically in
Sanskrit.
*Call for wikipedia volunteers for stall*
If we get enough volunteers for the WIkipedia we can participate in the
event. *Please volunteer.*
Wikipedia stall details:
http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Projects:World_Sanskrit_Book_fair#Stall_details
Interested volunteers please register here.
http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Projects:World_Sanskrit_Book_fair#Volunteers_neede…
*
*
*Expectations from volunteers*
- Familiarity with Wikipedia
- Passion to spread the word about the wikipedia
regards
Arun
Hi all,
The Pune English and Marathi Wikipedia group has got a venue
http://www.symbiosiscomputers.com/v5/home/contactus.php and we are
meeting up at around 18:00 hrs. in the evening.
Please see http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pune for details.
Shortly, the schedule of activities to be held on that date would be
put up on the wiki and a formal notice may also be put on the India
list as well.
Please treat this as a notice and inform your friends and families who
may be in the vicinity of Pune or therabouts to meet, network,
evanglize and party as well on the above date .
We are also in the process of organizing some activities which
hopefully provide a platform and push to local wikipedia and
knowledge-sharing culture.
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Regards,
Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल
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City volunteers who had requested for merchandise for Ten, please take note.
- Sundar
"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for
the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
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>If you sent me your shipping information and created a public listing for your
>event, then your order has been given to Social Imprints (our fantastic
>merchandise company) and will ship contingent on any issues such as customs or
>incomplete addresses. I currently have a batch of tracking numbers from FedEx
>that I will be forwarding to you individually ASAP, and will forward more on
>once I receive them.
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>For anyone organizing an event who sent me their address after January 1 or has
>yet to, I can still ship to you, but it will not arrive until after the 15th. I
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hi,
2011 is the International Year of Forests as well. The idea is "to raise
awareness on sustainable management, conservation and sustainable
development of all types of forests". I guess the first step is to add
information about forests.
On Wikipedia, the entry on "forest" is part of a Wikiproject Ecology and
Wikiproject Plants and both have rated it as a class B. Perhaps we should
move towards improving this and articles on forests in India.
In January, I am hoping to improve the article on the Indian Forest
Service: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Forest_Service, the Indian
agency created in 1966 for the protection, conservation and regeneration of
forests.
Help is appreciated and welcome!
Pradeep
PS: I prefer editing these to editing articles on chemistry for
International Year of Chemistry - but I hope to do 1 chemical a month.
Dear Wikipedia/Wikimedia Friends,
Wikipedia, the encyclopedia that anyone can edit, turns ten on 15 January
2011!
Come celebrate this joyous occasion with us at:
*Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre
36C S. P. Mukherjee Road, Calcutta 700 025
Phone: 24556942/43
*Nearest Metro stop: Jatin Das Park
at *1630 hours* on *15 January 2011
*
The Wikipedia community is made up of everyday people from all walks of
life, and we’re all united by one common mission: a world in which every
single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.
Our birthday wish for our ten years is just this: We want more people from
all backgrounds to get involved, contribute, edit and grow wikipedias in all
the languages of the world in which we think, speak, and dream.
*Programme:*
*10 Things You May Not Know About Wikipedia
*Bishakha Datta, documentary filmmaker and member, board of trustees,
Wikimedia Foundation
*Know About the World's 6th Most Spoken Language: Bengali Wikipedia
*Jayanta Nath, administrator and editor, Bengali Wikipedia
*
Crowdsourcing 101: Wikipedia's Role in Teaching, and Vice Versa*
Rimi B Chatterjee, novelist, academic and editor, English wikipedia
*Open Discussions*
Interact each other
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb Wikipedian in
West Bengal Mailing List.
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Event Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Kolkata/W10_Kolkata -
Wikipedia Meetup Page
http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page -Wikipedia Global Meetup/Celebration
Page
*Jayanta Nath
Wikimedia India
* Calcutta,West Bengal
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প্রিয় উইকিপিডিয়া/উইকিমিডিয়ান সহকর্মীবৃন্দ,
আপনারা অনেকেই হয়তো জানেন যে আগামী ১৫ই জানুয়ারি ২০১১ তারিখে ভারতের কলকাতার
উইকিপিডিয়ানগণ একত্রিত হবেন ও উকিপিডিয়া ১০ বছর পূর্তী উৎযাপন করবেন। এই
অনুষ্ঠানে কে অন্যকে চেনা-জানা এবং উইকিপিডিয়া এবং উইকিমিডিয়া প্রকল্প সম্পর্কে
নিজের দৃষ্টিভঙ্গি, পরামর্শ, মতামত সেয়ার করাই এই একত্রিত হওয়ার উদ্দেশ্য। ১৫ই
জানুয়ারি ২০১১ উকিপিডিয়া ১০ বছর পূর্তী উৎযাপন/মিট আপ/কর্মশালা সম্পর্কে
বিস্তারিত জানতে[১] দেখুন। মিটআপে উপস্থিত থাকতে আগ্রহীদের [১] পাতায় নির্ধারিত
স্থানে নাম নিবন্ধন করুন বা ফেসবুক ইভেন্ট পেজে বার্তা দিন বা এই উইকিমিডিয়া
মেইলিং লিস্টে জানান।
আশা করি আপনাদের সাথে মিটআপে দেখা হবে, যেকোনো প্রকার পরামর্শ ও মতামত স্বাগতম।
জয়ন্ত
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Wikipedia Meetup Page
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Hello everyone,
The Pune Wikipedia Tenth Anniversary dates, venues, locations are finalised.
The information is placed below. The same information is listed online at :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Pune/W10_Pune
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Pune/W10_Pune>
http://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%…http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pune
These pages will kept upto date and you can lookup these for latest changes.
We request maximum participation.
Ashwin Baindur
Contributory activities
Four initiatives have crystallised to date (04 Jan 2010)
- Marathi Wikipedia meetup - 8th January, 1830 - 2000 hrs, SICSR, Atur
Centre, Model Colony. Room No 704. 7th floor ( room no. may change ). Mandar
Kulkarni (User:Mvkulkarni23 on Marathi
Wikipedia<http://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF:…>
is
coordinating.
- Improvement of bird articles by 7th Ornithology Course (run by Ela
Foundation and Abasaheb
Garware<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abasaheb_Garware> College
of Arts and Sciences). This will consist of a talk and editing session to
the course during their session on 13 Jan 2011. Three articles on Indian
bird species will be developed and uploaded on the 15 Jan function. Dr
Satish Pande and Dr Anand Padhye, the course organisers and mentors have
given full support.
(User:AshLin<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AshLin> is
coordinating).
- Pune photothon - Pune loves Wikimedia Commons - 09 Jan 2011, 9 AM
Shaniwar Wada gate. All interested photographers meet there. Sudhanwa
Jogalekar (User:Sudhanwa<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Sudhanwa&action=edit&redlink…>)
is coordinating.
- Evangelism in schools and colleges. This is being organised
independently by TEDxPUNE <http://www.facebook.com/TEDxPUNE> on 15 Jan in
the same premises as the meetup from around 9 AM to 5 PM. The Pune
Wikipedian community is supporting them with lecture/presentation/edit
session. Abhishek (TEDxPUNE on Facebook) is coordinating.
Main meetup schedule
The meetup will be conducted from 1830 - 2000 hrs, at Symbiosis Institue of
Computer Sciences and Research, Atur Centre, Model Colony. Room No 704. 7th
floor. (Directions to reach Atur
Centre<http://www.plug.org.in/images/map-to-aturcenter.jpg>
.)
Schedule will be as follows :
- Presentation on Wikipedia (ten minutes).
- Short talks on:
- Marathi Wikipedia (ten minutes).
- 7th Ornithology Course's contribution to Wikipedia with Uploading of
the three improved articles on Indian Birds (ten minutes).
- Talk on contribution to Wikimedia Commons with symbolic upload of
two photographs, one each of two TFs - Wikimedia Commons loves Pune, and
Hill-forts of Maharashtra (ten minutes).
- Talk on contribution made by TEDxPUNE's event for college students
on 15 Jan 2011 (ten minutes).
- Hallmark address by Mr Barry Newstead from Wikimedia Foundation.
- Vote of thanks.
- Refreshments.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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