Hey folks
The next India Program IRC (2nd for April) is scheduled for Thursday 19th April at 9 p.m. IST.
Do join us using this link:
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office.
We'll be discussing Outreach, Communications and Education in this one. Here is what we plan to discuss this time:
Outreach
Over the past few months we have conducted several outreach
sessions and
have been able to curate outreach standard presentation decks, best
practices and tips. Now we want to assist community members in
adopting/adapting these to conduct effective outreach sessions in their
respective cities/languages. We'll be soon working on 2 aspects for
increasing the number of outreach sessions we are doing on Indic
languages but we need your help on this:
1. Start translating
outreach supporting documents to Indic languages - To start with we want
Indic language community members to help us translate outreach
documents and presentations to Indic languages.
2. Create opportunities for Indic outreach - We have been
mailing/calling a lot of institutes to organize a Wikipedia session (
see
list here)[1] in their regional language but we have not able to get as many outreach sessions as we'd like since they feel more
comfortable corresponding in their own regional language. We want help
from Indic langauge editors who are interested to do more outreach in
their regional languages/cities to help us reach out to these
institutes.
I'd request all the Indic language
editors who want to help us out on either of the two points mentioned
above to show up on the IRC or write to us offlist since we'll be
discussing ways of doing effective outreach in regional languages.
Communications: Wikipatrika:
6 communities (Assamese, Gujarati, Marathi, Nepali,Odia, Telugu )
have already created Wikipatrika pages on their respective Wikipedias.
The new template for Wikipatrika is up
here.[2]
In tomorrow's outreach, we could discuss ideas and suggestions to make
Wikipatrika more useful. We could also discuss any problems that
community members maybe facing.
Communications: Odia Social Media pilot:As proposed earlier,
here's[3]
the social media pilot to support the Odia community members. The end
result of this pilot is to attract more newbies and introduce them to
the Wikiverse. This pilot is to try out effective messaging strategies
to use a platform like Facebook optimally and try to recruit more
editors to the Odia Wikipedia. The most important nuance is that we have
built a draft social media messaging strategy and plan to work closely
with the Odia community to implement it - through the community members.
We hope to discuss this plan and get your inputs on it.
As always, the first 45 minutes will be focused on these and the last 15 minutes will be open to any other topic.
Hope you all can join us.
(For those who can't join, the logs will be put up the next morning at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/IRC_meeting_2012-04-19
Thanks
[1]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Outreach_Programs/Correspondence
[2]
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2012-05/Community_News[3]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Social_Media
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Noopur Raval