Dear All,

We had the second monthly Wiki meet up at Delhi last Sunday and here is the summary of the meet up. The details of the Meet up could be looked at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Delhi/Delhi6

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The 6th Delhi meet up (second monthly meet up) was organized on 12 February 2012 and attended by 15 Wikipedians.

The meet up started with self introduction by the 7 Wikipedians who were present from the beginning and rest all joined the meet up later. Then Nitika talked about few quick facts about Wikipedia for them who are not that familiar with Editing Wikipedia followed by an editing session. The new Wikipedians who have faces problems with editing explained and the experienced wikipedians solved the questions answered by them. A couple of articles were taken for demonstrating the editing and showed to them. The audience were also taught about uploading pictures and media files in Commons with a brief discussion of choosing licenses and categorizing them. Nitika tales about WikiProject India and explained how the Wikipedians can participate in it.

Noopur talked about the recent approval of a new GLAM project which is set to be started soon in the National Crafts Museum and how the wikipedians can volunteer for specific programs under it. Post to these discussion and editing session there was a Q&A session where the new wikipedians discussed common problems. Noopur, Shiju, Subha, Rajesh and Nitika helped them with solving them. Max, a Wikipedia regional ambassador from the US talked about his participation plans with the "Oral Citation" project and how Oral citation would be useful in India specific articles. He also led a discussion about India Education Program.

Wikipedians socialized and had a photo session after the event. Photos could be found at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Delhi_Meetup_2012_February

Subha