Dear all,

I'm writing with regard to Wikipatrika. For the folks who don't know, this is the community newsletter which has come out twice (in September 2010http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Wikimedia_India_Community_Newsletter_2010_September.pdf & June 2011 http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2011-06) It's a really wonderful way documenting and celebrating the amazing work done by so many community members across so many communities in the various projects. It helps share ideas with and helps pick up ideas from other communities.

I think Wikipatrika is something that could be more frequent - given the range of activities across communities - and I'd like to support it. In this regard, I approached all the editors who were involved in the previous 2 issues to ask their interest in bringing out the next one in end April covering Jan - Mar 2012, and to see if we can make it more regular (potentially every quarter.) 5 community members from different languages have already offered to help. Another community member will setup a template that all languages can use (on wiki.wikimedia.in) I have also started reaching out to editors who might not have been involved before, and hence this mail.

The template for Wikipatrika will be ready only by April 2nd week. In the meantime, can I ask whoever is interested to create a page on their respective languages wikipedias and start sharing stories and updates on this page. I'd encourage everyone to write these in whatever language they are comfortable in to begin with. (Once the template is set up on wiki.wikimedia.in, these individual pages could then be posted there.) To start off, you could start with the following sections (which I'm illustrating using the Bengalihttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2011-06/Community_News/bn page from a previous Wikipatrika), and just start adding content.

1. General overview 2. Bengali Wikipedia 3. Bengali Wikisource 4. Bengali Wiktionary 5. Bengali Wikibooks 6. News reports 7. Any other section(s) you want to add

Please do add as much as you want on

- Updates on the various projects - Landmarks, birthdays, celebrations, events, conferences, etc between Jan-Mar 2012 - Reports on outreach sessions conducted - Links to meetups and where to find the next ones - Please feel free to add sections that you think would be nice. I could suggest "Featured Wikimedians" and "Featured Newbies" as examples.

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If you would like to help but are not sure how, or if you are facing any kind of difficulties, please do not hesitate to contact me ( noopur@wikimedia.org)

Regards Noopur