+100<br><br>It was a lot of fun along with serious business. The club started on the 14th with over 40+ attendees. The greatest success was that almost 100% of all students returned the next day. Hence, we hope to have generated a lot of interest as well as made it clear to them, that editing an encyclopedia is serious business.<br>
<br>-- <br>Regards,<br>Debanjan<i><br><br>- Lets make this world a better and more informative place</i><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Srikeit <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:srikeit@gmail.com">srikeit@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello All<div><br></div><div>This is a slightly belated report of the Wiki 11 celebrations in Pune on January 15, 2012.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The celebrations were coincided with the first gathering of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Club_Pune" target="_blank">Wikipedia Club Pune</a>. The Club had met on the 14th where participants were instructed on the model, nature and basics of Wikipedia. </div>


<div><br></div><div>The 15th saw 40+ participants gather in the computer lab at SICSR, Pune for hands-on Wikipedia editing as well as the 11th anniversary celebrations. The numbers therefore made this the <b>largest Wiki 11 celebration in India</b>. The participants were largely high school and college students. The morning session involved a detailed explanation of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars" target="_blank">five pillars of Wikipedia</a> stressing the importance of contributing neutral and free content. Feedback for each sessions was immediately gathered on the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/WikipediaClubPune" target="_blank">Wikipedia Club Pune Facebook Page</a>. </div>


<div><br></div><div>The second session involved hands-on editing beginning with talk page posting, signing of posts, sandbox editing, wiki-linking etc. Then following a detailed explanation of referencing, the participants were encouraged (under supervision) to reference articles related to Pune.</div>


<div><br></div><div>The final session involved the business end of the Wiki-11 celebration with a <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_Club_Pune_1.JPG" target="_blank">huge Wiki-globe cake</a>. We were further buoyed by the presence of the WP English SIG chair Ashwin who encouraged and helped the participants in editing and did the honours cutting the cake. The participants and the organizers participated in a Google+ Hangout with Hisham and the rest of the WMF office in Delhi and Nitika and the WP 11 party in Kolkata. The participants were quite excited with both Wikipedia and its community. Their enthusiasm was reflected in both their editing as well as willingness to return for the next meeting of the club.</div>


<div><br></div><div>The pictures of the event have been uploaded to commons and can be found <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_11_in_India" target="_blank">here</a>. The next meeting of the Wikipedia Club Pune will be on Saturday, 21st Jan.</div>


<div><br></div><div>The Wikipedia Club and celebrations were quite excellently organized by Abhishek Suryavanshi and several other Campus Ambassadors in Pune.<br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>Warm Regards</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-- <br>
Srikeit Tadepalli<br>

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