Greetings Everyone,
This is a report of the Delhi Wikimeetup
7<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Delhi/Delhi7>conducted
on 11th March, 2012 in New Delhi.
The session started with introductions and with each person talking about
what they wanted to get out of the meet-up.
All except one of the participants had their user accounts on Wikipedia.
Noopur and Subha explained the basics of Wikipedia (nature of articles,
NPOV, copyright, etc). One of the attendees were invited to create his own
user account. Subha explained the basics of editing and invited one
participant to edit an article of his choice. The reason we did this was so
that interest levels were high and that the newbie could felt pride in his
contribution. The article they choose was "Pav
Bhaji<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pav_bhaji>."
Through the course of his editing, the audience learnt about basic edit and
referencing. Noopur then explained Commons, and showed how to upload a
picture and place it in a Wikipedia page.
Noopur talked about GLAM Project Crafts Museum,
Delhi<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/CM> and
requested participation, and a session at the Museum was planned on March
18th.
After the session, there was a Q&A session where questions were answered
about writing on Wikipedia, kind of images to upload and what to do to see
if an image available on Google can be uploaded.
Folks hung out and and they were (photo & video) graphed explaining their
experience of editing.
We have also scheduled a GLAM
meetup<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Delhi/Crafts_Museum…
18th March!
Here is a small sample of what we did:
http://youtu.be/a8Fdv3rt1NI
Thank You
Regards,
Piyush Aggarwal