Thank you for running the meetup Subhashish - it was a very worthwhile
and productive afternoon!
On Monday 11 April 2011 10:10 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi wrote:
The 32nd Bangalore Wikimedia Meetup was organized on
2011April10 at 3
PM in CIS, Bangalore. This meetup was headed by Subhashish Panigrahi
[[User:Psubhashish]] and attended by 7 Wikipedians. The speakers of
this meetup were Arjun Rao C, Achal Prabhala and Anirudh Bhati.
1st Talk: Arjun Rao C/ Experience in Berlin Wikimedia Conference, 2010
Arjun Rao talked about his participation in the Wikimedia conference
held in Berlin. He discussed about the new plans and ventures for
Wikimedia projects which will be the current focus for the chapters of
several countries. He also briefed the audience about the plans for
the proposed projects under Wikimedia India such as:
Knowledge kiosks in public libraries, Academies, Projects for
improvements in Indic language tools, Indic Wiki CD/DVD, improve
participation of women in Wiki communities, Wikimania for Indian
Wikipedians, etc. Arjun showed pictures of speakers from several
countries who he befriended and shared ideal structures of the the
Wiki projects in those all countries.
2nd Talk: Achal Prabhala/ “Open Citation” & its perpectives
Achal introduced the audience about his ongoing project on “Oral
Citation”, its purpose, authenticity, possible issues and their
solutions. He explained the problems Malayalam Wikipedians faced when
they have created well constructed articles on several games played in
villages, but there was no proper citations as none ever tried to make
literature based documentations for them. Even he also stated the
similar experiences he has with the “Sapheri” speaking South African
tribe where many traditional games were never put under the modern
documented rules and regulations but they are great resources for the
anthropologists. Many such important heritage related articles could
be cited using oral citation which is easier to create, transform,
share and cite. He also explained how credibility and authenticity
were created by interviewing the people about the dance form/game/any
such intended aspect. Most of the verbal conversation could be
translated and added to the audio file itself and later can be
translated to any other language. The source and copyright info can
also be explained in the audio file itself which would make this a
very simplistic approach, but potentially more accessible. Audio files
would be more self explanatory, easy to share in the form of podcasts
and an elaborated audience could be targeted.
3rd Talk: Anirudh Bhati/ “Outreach Campaign in North-East”
Wikimedia India member Anirudh Bhati has organized has visited to
NREST (North-Eastern Regional Institute), Arunanchal Pradesh in the
festive season of “Mopin”, a regional festival and “Srishti 2011”,
NREST's institutional function. Anirudh along with Wikipedian Nikhil
Sheth introduced Wikipedia and other WMF projects to almost 110
students and lecturers in CREST. They demonstrated them “Editing in
Wikipedia” and students themselves created articles based on the
demonstration over there. Surya Vaigunth, a final year student and a
computer enthusiast personally took initiative to teach to masses and
bring out a set of persistent contributors. Though most of them were
interested to see the opportunities of Indic Wikipedias, majority of
the critical mass was more interested for English article speculated
more about Arunanchal Pradesh and even uploading more picture than
content development. He also has demonstrated how to use Indic
Wikipedias and editing them. Srikanth added a note to uploading
pictures and geotagging them using external maps which would be useful
for online searches. As a part of the outreach program Anirudh also
explained about the Offline package developed by taking selected
Wikipedia articles for school students as a part of SOS Children's
Village where Ashwin helped for creating list of important articles. 2
major software programs OpenZIM and Kiwix are used for compilation and
running of the offline package respectively where the total package
(2.75 GB) could be burnt in a DVD. The team also had a video chat with
Portugese Wikipedian Beria Lima who had a talk about “Mirandese
language and Gender Gap”, Mirandese, being one of the dying languages
needs collaborative efforts and Wikipedia could be one solution to
protect it. She also discussed abput the low contribution of women
because of several reasons like Lack of Confidence, Lack of detailed
knowledge, Male oriented social set up , etc. Even she also connected
thr same problem in the Indian context.
Nikhil introduced Wikipedia to Kendriya Vidyalaya students. Saibal
Chatterjee, visiting prof and Chief- Coordinator of Srishti 2011 also
supported the event.
It was fun-filled and successful event with less audience but fruitful
with new ideas shared.
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