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.
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. 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. User:Subeesh Balan and User:Shijualex conducted the workshop.
I hope there are more meet-ups in more languages in Delhi and other cities.
--
Subha
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