Hey Subhashish
I wanted to acknowledge and appreciate your efforts in organising and documenting this
meeting. It sounds like a very informative and engaging meetup.
Thank you and and thanks too to everyone else who participated.
Hisham Mundol
India Programs - Wikimedia Foundation
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On Apr 11, 2011, at 10:10 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi wrote:
The 32nd Bangalore Wikimedia Meetup was organized on
2011April10 at 3 PM in CIS, Bangalore. This meetup was headed by Subhashish Panigrahi
[[User:Psubhashish]] and attended by 7 Wikipedians. The speakers of this meetup were Arjun
Rao C, Achal Prabhala and Anirudh Bhati.
1st Talk: Arjun Rao C/ Experience in Berlin Wikimedia Conference, 2010
Arjun Rao talked about his participation in the Wikimedia conference held in Berlin. He
discussed about the new plans and ventures for Wikimedia projects which will be the
current focus for the chapters of several countries. He also briefed the audience about
the plans for the proposed projects under Wikimedia India such as:
Knowledge kiosks in public libraries, Academies, Projects for improvements in Indic
language tools, Indic Wiki CD/DVD, improve participation of women in Wiki communities,
Wikimania for Indian Wikipedians, etc. Arjun showed pictures of speakers from several
countries who he befriended and shared ideal structures of the the Wiki projects in those
all countries.
2nd Talk: Achal Prabhala/ “Open Citation” & its perpectives
Achal introduced the audience about his ongoing project on “Oral Citation”, its purpose,
authenticity, possible issues and their solutions. He explained the problems Malayalam
Wikipedians faced when they have created well constructed articles on several games played
in villages, but there was no proper citations as none ever tried to make literature based
documentations for them. Even he also stated the similar experiences he has with the
“Sapheri” speaking South African tribe where many traditional games were never put under
the modern documented rules and regulations but they are great resources for the
anthropologists. Many such important heritage related articles could be cited using oral
citation which is easier to create, transform, share and cite. He also explained how
credibility and authenticity were created by interviewing the people about the dance
form/game/any such intended aspect. Most of the verbal conversation could be translated
and added to the audio file itself and later can be translated to any other language. The
source and copyright info can also be explained in the audio file itself which would make
this a very simplistic approach, but potentially more accessible. Audio files would be
more self explanatory, easy to share in the form of podcasts and an elaborated audience
could be targeted.
3rd Talk: Anirudh Bhati/ “Outreach Campaign in North-East”
Wikimedia India member Anirudh Bhati has organized has visited to NREST (North-Eastern
Regional Institute), Arunanchal Pradesh in the festive season of “Mopin”, a regional
festival and “Srishti 2011”, NREST's institutional function. Anirudh along with
Wikipedian Nikhil Sheth introduced Wikipedia and other WMF projects to almost 110 students
and lecturers in CREST. They demonstrated them “Editing in Wikipedia” and students
themselves created articles based on the demonstration over there. Surya Vaigunth, a final
year student and a computer enthusiast personally took initiative to teach to masses and
bring out a set of persistent contributors. Though most of them were interested to see the
opportunities of Indic Wikipedias, majority of the critical mass was more interested for
English article speculated more about Arunanchal Pradesh and even uploading more picture
than content development. He also has demonstrated how to use Indic Wikipedias and editing
them. Srikanth added a note to uploading pictures and geotagging them using external maps
which would be useful for online searches. As a part of the outreach program Anirudh also
explained about the Offline package developed by taking selected Wikipedia articles for
school students as a part of SOS Children's Village where Ashwin helped for creating
list of important articles. 2 major software programs OpenZIM and Kiwix are used for
compilation and running of the offline package respectively where the total package (2.75
GB) could be burnt in a DVD. The team also had a video chat with Portugese Wikipedian
Beria Lima who had a talk about “Mirandese language and Gender Gap”, Mirandese, being one
of the dying languages needs collaborative efforts and Wikipedia could be one solution to
protect it. She also discussed abput the low contribution of women because of several
reasons like Lack of Confidence, Lack of detailed knowledge, Male oriented social set up ,
etc. Even she also connected thr same problem in the Indian context.
Nikhil introduced Wikipedia to Kendriya Vidyalaya students. Saibal Chatterjee, visiting
prof and Chief- Coordinator of Srishti 2011 also supported the event.
It was fun-filled and successful event with less audience but fruitful with new ideas
shared.
ସୁଭପାSubhashishPanigrahi
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