On
the eve of 11 years of sharing the sum of all knowledge with world
netizens, Hyderabad Wikipedians celebrated 11th birthday of Wikipedia at
the office of Wikipedian Rajasekhar in Domalguda, Hyderabad. CBRAo who
presided the meeting said that while Encyclopaedia of Britannica is a
paid service, Wikipedia with it's vast knowledge pages is totally free
to all the citizens of the world and one should encourage such
institutions. CBRao told the audience that Wikipedia gives quick, vast
amount of knowledge which is mostly reliable that is written and
verified by several Wikipedians. Rahimanuddin explained about the
objectives of Wiki and also the contents of first page of Wiki. Another
Wikipedian Veeven told about search techniques to extract info from
Wiki; how to register for wiki; what can be written in Wiki and which
is not a material for wiki. He further demonstrated how Telugu can be
seen and used in mobile phones. Though Wikipedia Wikimedia foundation
application software could not be demonstrated, it's use in Android
based phones was explained. The advantages which an user gets were well
presented by Veeven.
On
this occassion a call centre for direct help in using wikipedia was
declared opened by Wikipedian rajasekhar. Any one needing help or any
clarification regarding use of, how to write in Wikipedia can contact
him through his Cell no: 9246376622. Latter the names of wikipedians who
did highest number of edits either to articles or non articles in
Telugu were announced. The complete list can be seen at
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Telugu_Wikipedia_-_Overview2011.pdf
Rajasekhar
stood highest with 12411 edits of Wiki articles during the year 2011.
Wikipedians Veeven and CBRao stood in top 10 non article editors.
These three Wikipedians were presented gift coupons for e-books which
were sponsored by kinige.com. Outstation, outstanding Wikipedians will
be presented gift coupons for their valuable service through
e-mail.Wikipedian CBRao announced a programme "Wiki loves monuments" for
amatuer photographers. Historical monuments abound Hyderabad and
Secunderabad. He further said that a photo tour to these historical
monuments will be conducted to amatuer photogrphers and after a photo
evaluation by judges prizes will be given to best photos and selected
photos will be uploaded to Wikipedia. Veeven replied to the several
questions regarding use of Wikipedia that are posed by audience.
Rajasekhar and Rahimanuddin helped those people who are desiorous of
registering in Wikipedia.How editors are encouraged by Tamil Wikipedia?
This was explained clearly by Tamil Wikipedian Ravishankar, who further
told some of the highlights of Tamil Wiki. Rahimanuddin proposed vote
of thanks.
Another
highlight of the meeting is virtual participation of Wikimedia India
President Arjunarao C from Bengaluru and another outstanding Wikipedian
T.Sujatha from Chennai, in the meeting.
The photos of the event can be seen at the link given below.
https://picasaweb.google.com/115779731434350218592/WikiBirthdayCelebration2012HyderabadMeeting#
cbrao
Hyderabad.
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