Hi All,
I wanted to share an update of a fantastic weekend in Delhi.
Saturday morning, 8 community members (3 existing and 5 new editors) on
Hindi Wikipedia met up at Crafts Museum to meet each other and collaborate
on Crafts GLAM project. The meeting started with a round of introductions,
including short talks from the existing editors of how they got introduced
to Wikipedia and what keeps them motivated to edit and what kind of
articles they edit. There's a separate blog post about the Crafts Museum
GLAM project that's coming out shortly - but a quick summary of the meet
up. 4 of the 5 new editors edited. They improved the articles on a type
of sari, a kind of metal handicraft, a class of textile and added content
to the Crafts museum page on Hindi Wikipedia! Pictures are uploaded
here<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:GLAM_Crafts_Museum,_New_…12>.
User: अनिरुद्ध, User:Siddhartha_Ghai and User:Roboture inspired and guided
the new editors. User:Anilbhardwajnoida, a Museum staff member, was
specially congratulated for his really good contributions (after starting
to edit only a couple of months ago.)
Saturday afternoon, 17 community members (2 existing and 15 new editors) on
English Wikipedia met up at the British Council. This was the meeting of
the British Council Wikipedia Club members and this was a follow-up session
to the initial Wikipedia introduction sessions conducted a little while
earlier. 10 of the new editors edited - including creating a new article
of a locality in Delhi and Indian chewing gum brand, improving the articles
of a famous Delhi landmark and a Delhi school as well as building on the
articles of an Indian architectural element and a kind of darshan dating
back to Akbar's time! They also added content on a couple of local food
items and a couple of pictures on Commons! User:Theo10011 & User:Hisham
helped new editors on a whole host of queries they had.
Sunday morning, 5 community members (2 existing and 3 new editors) on Odia
Wikipedia met up at Hauz Khas. A WikiWorkship was conducted. A journalist
who attended covered it in the The Political and Business Daily.
Additional WikiWorkshops and press coverage were planned in Delhi.
Pictures are uploaded
here<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Delhi_Odia_Workshop_2012…29>.
A new editor created an article about a traditional Odia food.
User:Rashmirparida and User:Psubhashish conducted the session.
Sunday afternoon, 14 community members (2 existing and 12 new editors) on
Malayalam Wikipedia met up at Hauz Khas. A WikiWorkshop was conducted for
the participants who included 3 women, 1 school student and 1 retired
person. They also discussed a potential partnership with the Malayalam
Mission in New Delhi, as well as follow-up outreach session. This meet-up
was covered in the leading Malayalam newspapers, Malayalam Manorama and
Mathrubhumi. Pictures are uploaded
here<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Delhi_Malayalam_Workshop…08>.
User:Subeesh Balan and User:Shijualex conducted the workshop.
I hope there are more meet-ups in more languages in Delhi and other cities.
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*Subha*
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