Thanks for the report Kalyan, the first Kolkata Photowalk was a resounding success from what I gather. What is the Commons Category under which your uploading these pictures? Would love to see them. Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:01:47 +0530 From: kalyan.sarkar(a)gmail.com To: wikimedia-in-wb(a)lists.wikimedia.org CC: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Kolkata Photo Walk (Esplanade & Dalhousie) We met at the foot of Shahid Minar at 7AM in the morning. It was a bit foggy and chilly. We are enjoying an early winter chill and record low temperatures in Kolkata this year. After enjoying a steaming cup of tea at the CSTC Canteen and began our walk. ROUTEWe crossed the J.L.Nehru Road and Lenin Sarani crossing and took Bentinck Street. Then we took left along the Waterloo Street, reaching the Great Eastern Hotel, we took right along the Hemanta Basu Sarani to B.B.D.Bagh Square. Then we proceeded along B.B.D.Bagh Sarani and took left turn to Red Cross Place to reach the entrance of Raj Bhawan. From there we proceeded along the Government Place to St John's Church and took right along Council House Street and Netaji Subhash Road and ended at the Writers Buildings. MONUMENTSWe covered the following monuments.1. Shahid Minar2. Metropolitan Building3. Tipu Sultan Mosque4. Victoria House5. Statesman House 6. Aaykar Bhawan7. Great Eastern Hotel8. Central Telegraph Office9. National Assurance Building10. Junior Staff Quarters of the Governor11. Raj Bhawan 12. St. John's Church13. General Post Office14. Kolkata Collectorate15. Writers' Building16. St. Andrews Chapel STATUES1. Lenin 2. Asutosh Mookerjee3. Prafulla Chaki4. Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy5. Binay Badal Dinesh Please correct me if I missed out something. Thanks and regards, Kalyan Sarkar On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Jayanta Nath &lt;jayantanth(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Congratulation to all for our first step of success. Please anyone tell what we cover -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb>

missed it..:( On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:05 PM, &lt;wheredevelsdare(a)hotmail.com&gt; wrote:

Just went through the pictures. There are so many wonderful images from the firewood seller to the sugar cane juice machine to the road-side shave to the wonderful stained glass inside of St John to Kolkata's delightfully quaint trams! Thank you so much! I am guessing the thank you should be directed to everyone in this image http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Photowalk_-_Kolkata_2011-1… (and the photographer who took it!) You all look like you had a wonderful time! There's something cooking in the West Bengal community and it tastes sweet as sandesh! Warm Regards, hisham On Dec 21, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Kalyan Sarkar wrote:

Hi Hisham , The said image took by our Biswarup Ganguly( Gangulybiswarup<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gangulybiswarup&g… ), ( look at this image Biswarup Da teach his daughter Medha http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Photowalk_-_Kolkata_2011-1… ) On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Hisham &lt;hisham(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote:

Great effort. Congrats to all guys. :) Many hunts like this have to be done in cities across India. :) *$U®¥∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com <http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com> http://about.me/suryaceg On 21 December 2011 13:11, Hisham &lt;hisham(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote:

Surya, I'm planning a series of photo walks in the Salem-Erode-Coimbatore belt soon. Support would be appreciated. On 12/21/11, Surya Prakash &lt;suryasalem2010(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Great effort. Congrats to all guys. :) > > Many hunts like this have to be done in cities across India. :) > > *$U®¥∩* > http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com <http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com> > http://about.me/suryaceg > > > > On 21 December 2011 13:11, Hisham &lt;hisham(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: > >> Sweet! >> >> Thanks so much, Biswarup. (...and Medha!) >> >> Thanks for sharing, Jayanta. >> >> hisham >> >> On Dec 21, 2011, at 12:08 PM, Jayanta Nath wrote: >> >> Hi Hisham , >> >> The said image took by our Biswarup Ganguly( >> Gangulybiswarup<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gangulybiswarup&g… ), >> ( look at this image Biswarup Da teach his daughter Medha >> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Photowalk_-_Kolkata_2011-1… >> ) >> >> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Hisham &lt;hisham(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: >> >>> Just went through the pictures. There are so many wonderful images from >>> the firewood seller to the sugar cane juice machine to the road-side >>> shave >>> to the wonderful stained glass inside of St John to Kolkata's >>> delightfully >>> quaint trams! >>> >>> Thank you so much! >>> >>> I am guessing the thank you should be directed to everyone in this image >>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Photowalk_-_Kolkata_2011-1… >>> the photographer who took it!) You all look like you had a wonderful >>> time! >>> >>> There's something cooking in the West Bengal community and it tastes >>> sweet as sandesh! >>> >>> Warm Regards, >>> >>> hisham >>> >>> On Dec 21, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Kalyan Sarkar wrote: >>> >>> > I missed the following from my mention. >>> > >>> > 17. Metro Cinema >>> > 16. United Bank of India Building >>> > 18. Emerald House >>> > 19. Kolkata High Court >>> > 20. Town Hall >>> > 21. Hong Kong House (HSBC) >>> > >>> > Thanks and regards, >>> > Kalyan Sarkar >>> > >>> > >>> > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Deepon Saha &lt;hideeponhere(a)gmail.com&gt; >>> wrote: >>> > missed it..:( >>> > >>> > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:05 PM, &lt;wheredevelsdare(a)hotmail.com&gt; wrote: >>> > Thanks for the report Kalyan, the first Kolkata Photowalk was a >>> resounding success from what I gather. What is the Commons Category under >>> which your uploading these pictures? Would love to see them. >>> > >>> > Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:01:47 +0530 >>> > From: kalyan.sarkar(a)gmail.com >>> > To: wikimedia-in-wb(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> > CC: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> > Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Kolkata Photo Walk >>> (Esplanade & Dalhousie) >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > We met at the foot of Shahid Minar at 7AM in the morning. It was a bit >>> foggy and chilly. We are enjoying an early winter chill and record low >>> temperatures in Kolkata this year. After enjoying a steaming cup of tea >>> at >>> the CSTC Canteen and began our walk. >>> > >>> > ROUTE >>> > We crossed the J.L.Nehru Road and Lenin Sarani crossing and took >>> Bentinck Street. Then we took left along the Waterloo Street, reaching >>> the >>> Great Eastern Hotel, we took right along the Hemanta Basu Sarani to >>> B.B.D.Bagh Square. Then we proceeded along B.B.D.Bagh Sarani and took >>> left >>> turn to Red Cross Place to reach the entrance of Raj Bhawan. From there >>> we >>> proceeded along the Government Place to St John's Church and took right >>> along Council House Street and Netaji Subhash Road and ended at the >>> Writers Buildings. >>> > >>> > MONUMENTS >>> > We covered the following monuments. >>> > 1. Shahid Minar >>> > 2. Metropolitan Building >>> > 3. Tipu Sultan Mosque >>> > 4. Victoria House >>> > 5. Statesman House >>> > 6. Aaykar Bhawan >>> > 7. Great Eastern Hotel >>> > 8. Central Telegraph Office >>> > 9. National Assurance Building >>> > 10. Junior Staff Quarters of the Governor >>> > 11. Raj Bhawan >>> > 12. St. John's Church >>> > 13. General Post Office >>> > 14. Kolkata Collectorate >>> > 15. Writers' Building >>> > 16. St. Andrews Chapel >>> > >>> > STATUES >>> > 1. Lenin >>> > 2. Asutosh Mookerjee >>> > 3. Prafulla Chaki >>> > 4. Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy >>> > 5. Binay Badal Dinesh >>> > >>> > Please correct me if I missed out something. >>> > >>> > Thanks and regards, >>> > Kalyan Sarkar >>> > >>> > >>> > On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Jayanta Nath &lt;jayantanth(a)gmail.com&gt; >>> wrote: >>> > Congratulation to all for our first step of success. Please anyone tell >>> > what we cover >>> > >>> > -- >>> > With Warm Regards, >>> > *Jayanta Nath* >>> > Calcutta,West Bengal >>> > >>> > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb> >>> >

Hi, First of all many thanks to our Calcutta brethren for conducting this photo walk and many thanks for uploading the images to Commons. Such events will greatly help our country's herittage buildings, architecture, landmarks etc be preserved. After trying a quick & dirty look up with the results of your wonderful event, some points come to mind. 1.* NAMING OF IMAGES* - . The images with building names included in name are very useful & easily locatable eg : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aayakar_Bhawan_-_Kolkata_2011-12-18_… Images named in the following manner are not at all useful to find the building concerned eg : File:Wikimedia_Photowalk_-_Kolkata_2011-12-18_(32).JPG especially since about 150 of these are so named. 2. *CATEGORISATION* - Images need to be categorised otherwise the images cannot be located/used by those who dont know where to look for them. 3. *ARTICLE USAGE* - Tried to see what has stubs/images on English Wikipedia - 1. Shahid Minar - No link. [[Shaheed Minar]] of Bangladesh not India 2. Metropolitan Building - [[Metropolitan Building (Minneapolis0]] not Kolkata 3. Tipu Sultan Mosque - [[Tipu Sultan Mosque]], image already available 4. Victoria House - no article 5. Statesman House - no article but an image may be added (when located) to [[The_Statesman]] 6. Aaykar Bhawan - no stub 7. Great Eastern Hotel - can be added to [[Places_of_interest_in_Kolkata#Historic_hotels]] 8. Central Telegraph Office - page for CTO Colombo & London but not for Mumbai & Kolkata 9. National Assurance Building - no building 10. Junior Staff Quarters of the Governor 11. Raj Bhawan - can be added to [[Raj_Bhavan_(West_Bengal)]] 12. St. John's Church - Meerut & Secunderabad pictured for India only 13. General Post Office - can be added to [[General_Post_Office,_Kolkata]] 14. Kolkata Collectorate - no article 15. Writers' Building - [[Writers'_Building]] 16. St. Andrews Chapel - no article 4. *STUB IMPROVEMENT* - Many buildings have no stubs. These need to be made. Others need references, geo-code, images, etc. Hope this feedback is useful in some way. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------ On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Kalyan Sarkar &lt;kalyan.sarkar(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote;wrote: