Hi all, On behalf of the Bangalore Wikipedia / Wikimedia Community, we would like to co-cordially invite you to attend the 43rd Bangalore Wikimeetup on*Sunday, 11 Mar 2012 3 PM * http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiMeetups/Bangalore/Bangalore43 *Date: *: Sunday, 11-March-2012 Time: 3:00 PM IST *Venue:* The Centre for Internet and Society ( Wikimedia India Office) No. 194, 2nd 'C' Cross, 4th Main Domlur 2nd Stage Opposite to Domlur Club Bangalore 560 071 Karnataka *Agenda*: - *Native language transliterations in English Wikipedia articles* - Swaroop G Rao (User:MikeLynch) In English Wikipedia articles, articles with strong non-English connections usually carry a transliteration (along with pronunciation) in the language of origin. There was many disputes regarding these transliterations. This presentation will focus primarily on these transliterations, exploring many possible points of view into the problem. Since India is a large country of over 28 states and 22 official languages (and hundreds of other recognized languages), we can expect this problem to be more pronounced in Indian articles. And not surprisingly, it is so. This is a contentious issue many a times; and more often than not, regional polarization occurs, even among established editors. Swaroop will speak about looking into these problems objectively, and in the meantime, also looking into possible solutions. Along the way, he will also present some case studies of contentious discussions/edit wars which have already taken place. - *NASSCOM Initiative - Engineering Services* - RadhaKrishna Arvapally (User:Arkrishna) NASSCOM (Under Human Resources Ministry) has few initiative of which one of them is Education Initiative: Under this initiative, NASSCOM aims to enhance graduate employability through appropriate skill enrichment and act as bridge between industry, academia and government. As being part of one of the working groups, RadhaKrishna made a framework to add WikiMedia to this course. He will be talking more about this. - *Kerala Sarvavijnanakosham and Malayalam Wikipedia *- Ramesh N G (User:Rameshng) This story is about an effort to increase the content of the Malayalam Wikipedia where the community is successful in getting the content from the Kerala Government officially published Encyclopedia called as SarvavijnanaKosham. In 2008, Kerala government Education minister announced about giving the content of SarvavijnanaKosham to Malayalam Wikipedia. The SarvavijnanaKosham contains nearly 21 volumes, each with ~1600 article; out of which four volumes are published online. The license of the website content is changed to GNU Free Documentation License 1.2. Malayalam wikipedian a groups 7 users started transferring the content from the website to Malayalam Wikipedia. Under the project while transferring the content the users make sure that it wikified, possible images added, interwiki given etc. This presentation is about the idea behind getting the content, the project coordination, current status and future of this project. This project is one of the motivating project and rich in content where we are getting the article content which are written by subject matter expert in SarvavijnanaKosham for last 70 years. - *Community activities and Outreach in Kannada Wikipedia* - Omshivaprakash H L(User:Omshivaprakash) Omshivaprakash will talk about the recent increase in the Community Activities around Kn-wiki and its future plans for outreach. He will be also taking on how kn-wiktionary has adopted its best projects and practices. If you are planning to attend , you can sign up here http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiMeetups/Bangalore/Bangalore43#Sign_Up or the facebook event page https://www.facebook.com/events/119678494824154/ ( Note that facebook page shows the wrong time due to some bug) If you need any help, feel free to contact us. See you all there ! Regards RadhaKrishna Arvapally & Tinu Cherian