Thanks for the information, Mayur. Good to learn about participation from
neighbouring states as well.
Please upload any pictures taken during the event and share them with us.
- Sundar
"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for
the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
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Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Hindi wiki workshop at New Delhi - report
Dear Wikimedians,
Here is a short report of the first workshop for Hindi wiki projects that was
held on 2011 February 12 at Sarai-CSDS, Civil Lines, New Delhi.
The workshop was attended by more than 35 participants. The complete list of
participants is available at
http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/विकिपीडिया:हिन्दी विकि
कार्यशाला सम्मेलन/नई दिल्ली १
The workshop was divided into two sessions. The first session was an
Introductory presentation about wiki, Wikipedia, and Hindi wikiprojects. In the
second session we introduced wiki editing to the participants. There was also a
short introduction about WikiBhasha by the representatives form Microsoft.
The participants asked many questions about wiki, Wikimedia Foundation,
Wikipedia, sister projects and so on. They also asked some queries regarding
featured articles, protected pages typing tools, policies of Hindi wikipedia,
and so on. The participants are introduced to wiki wiki editing in a simple
way.We also gave them information regarding transliteration tool and taught
them to write in Devanagari on Hindi wikipedia.
At the end of the workshop all were introduced to WikiBhasha tool by Microsoft
representative, Ashwini. He demonstrated the tool by translating an English
Wikipedia article to Hindi.
Since this is the first Wiki workshop for Hindi there were participants came
even from neighboring states like Punjab, UP, and so on.Hindi wiki community is
planning to organize many more workshops in the near future.
With Regards
Mayur