Subject: Workshop on Assamese Wikipedia in NIT Silchar To: wikipedia-as@lists.wikimedia.org
Dear all, Sorry for being late in sharing this. Anyways, here are the minutes of the Assamese wikipedia workshop https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A7%B1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE:%E0%A6%85%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%80%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A7%B1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE,_%E0%A7%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B7%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F%E0%A7%8D%E0%A7%B0%E0%A7%80%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC_%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A7%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%97%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95_%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A5%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8,_%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%9A%E0%A7%B0
in National Institute of Technology, Silchar on 6 March, 2014
* The meeting started 10 minutes later at around 5:40 pm. Altogether 27 Assamese persons were present along with wikipeddian Professor of NIT Silchar Prabhakar Sharma Neog and Post Gratuate Student of NIT Silchar Faruque Aziz.
* All person were welcomed by Faruque Aziz.
* Then, a brief introduction of Wikipedia was given by Faruque Aziz. Again, he expalined the history of Assamese Wikipedia in brief and also he has given a presentation on how to use Assamese Unicode Software 'Rodali' and to use latest Assamese Word Processor 'Jahnobi'.
*Prabhakar Sharma Neog explained every details of creating a Wikipedia pages to all the students. He has started just from login of a new member in Wikipedia to give Refernces to a page,creating headline of a page to add a photograph. Again, he discussed about some copyright issues of the Wikipedia. His lecture last for about an hour.
*After that Prabhakar Sharma and Faruque Aziz has cleared many doubts that were arising on students mind.
*At the end, a combined project of converting many articles in Assamese languagee to unicode and stored as Wikipedia pages was announced ant students also responded positively to it.
*Then a group photo was taken and with that the workshop was concluded
*A few click from the workshop can be found in commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:NIT_Silchar_Meetup
Thank You
Faruque Aziz ( ফাৰুক আজিজ )
M. Tech scholar
NIT Silchar