January 15 is known as Wikipedia Day to Wikipedians. On this date in the year 2001, the wiki-based Wikipedia project went public after spending five days on Nupedia. A Wikipedia Day celebration is being planned in Bangalore on Saturday January 16, 2010.
* What: Wikipedia Day Bangalore — 16-Jan-2010 * When: Saturday, 16 Jan, 2010 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM * Where: The Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore * Who: Wikipedians from any part of India or the world and anyone who is interested in Wikipedia!
Meetup is open to members of all Wikimedia projects and Wikipedians from all languages.All are welcome, and we are especially interested in seeing newcomers to join the experienced Wikipedians/Wikimedians.
(from) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:MBL10
Venue: The Centre for Internet and Society No. D2, 3rd Floor, Sheriff Chambers 14, Cunningham Road, Bangalore, Karnataka 560052, India Phone: (+91)-80-4092-6283
-- Hari Prasad Nadig http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadig
Thanks Nadig for that post.
We need help towards the event too. Please check the link below and volunteer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/WikipediaDay2010#Hel...
We also need folks from the following wikipedia to share the "state of the wiki": Hindi
- Bengali - Manipuri - Hindi - Marathi
We have volunteers for Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Tamil already. Check page for details.
We are thinking of exploring possibilities to connect people remotely by telephone.
regards
Arunram Bangalore, India www.arunram.net | www.twitter.com/arunram
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Hari Prasad Nadig hpnadig@gmail.comwrote:
January 15 is known as Wikipedia Day to Wikipedians. On this date in the year 2001, the wiki-based Wikipedia project went public after spending five days on Nupedia. A Wikipedia Day celebration is being planned in Bangalore on Saturday January 16, 2010.
- What: Wikipedia Day Bangalore — 16-Jan-2010
- When: Saturday, 16 Jan, 2010 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
- Where: The Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore
- Who: Wikipedians from any part of India or the world and anyone
who is interested in Wikipedia!
Meetup is open to members of all Wikimedia projects and Wikipedians from all languages.All are welcome, and we are especially interested in seeing newcomers to join the experienced Wikipedians/Wikimedians.
(from) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:MBL10
Venue: The Centre for Internet and Society No. D2, 3rd Floor, Sheriff Chambers 14, Cunningham Road, Bangalore, Karnataka 560052, India Phone: (+91)-80-4092-6283
-- Hari Prasad Nadig http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadig
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