Hi Jyothi/Gitartha/Uddip/Bishnu/Prabhakar,
Good to see Wikimedia movement is growing in Assam.
And Congratulations to all the Winners of Photography and Article
competition.
Thanks,
naveenpf.
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Jyoti Prakash Nath
<jpnath008(a)yahoo.co.in>wrote;wrote:
The celebration ceremony of 10th anniversary of
Assamese Wikipedia was
held at the historic “Sudmersen Hall” of Cotton
College<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_College>Guwahati on 10th June 2012. The
prizes of the Article and Photography
competition were also distributed on the event. Besides of a Wikimeet it
was basically an workshop and an outreach program to attract more Assamese
netizens <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netizens> towards Wikipedia. More
than 60 people attend the event including the media persons.
Here are the minutes of the meeting
1:00 PM : Jyoti Prakash
Nath<http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E…
guests with reading the agenda of the workshop.
1:10 PM : Dr. Kulendu Pathak (Retired VC of Dibrugarh University) and
Kamrupratna Jatin Giswami (Former Vice President of “Asom Sahity
Sabha”<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asam_Sahitya_Sabha>ha>,
Researcher on Assamese language and script ) inaugurated the workshop by
lightening the earthen lamp. (It was for the celebration of 10th
anniversary of Assamese Wikipedia).
1:25 PM : Introduction of Noopur
Raval<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Noopur28>and felicitated with a “Eri Chadar”
by Anjana Tamuli.
1:30 PM : Gitartha
Bordoloi<http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%…
a presentation about Wikipedia. His topic was “What is Assamese
Wikipedia”.
1:50 PM : Questions from the guests. Answered by Gitartha Bordoloi.
2:00 PM : Banajit Pathak gives a presentation about Assamese typing tools.
His topic was ”Unicode and various Assamese typing tools” .
2:20 PM : Questions from the guests. Answered by Banajit Pathak.
2:30 PM : Uddip
Talukdar<http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%…
a presentation about necessity of Assamese wikipedia and his topic
was “The necessity of Assamese wikipedia and its current state”.
2:50 PM : Questions from the guests. Answered by Uddip Talukdar.
3:00 PM : Bishnu
Saikia<http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D…
a presentation about how to contribute to the Wikipedia. His topic
was “How to contribute to Assamese Wikipedia”. Meanwhile a winner of the
article competition Indranil Gayan edits his article (produced offline)
Gunamala<http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A3%E0%A6%…
.
3:25 PM : The new
“Betupat<http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9F%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A4>”
(Main Page) of Assamese Wikipedia released by Bishnu Saikia and Gitartho
Bordoloi.
3:30 PM : Dr. Kulendu Pathak and Shri Jatin Goswami shares their views
about the outreach program and Assamese Wikipedia.
3:40 PM : Light Snacks served.
3:50 PM: Tridip Baruah (Designer of Inscript Assamese Keyboard Ramdhenu)
speaks about “The future of Assamese typing tools”.
4:00 PM: The name of the winners of the Photography and Article
competition declared and prizes are distributed by Kushol Kumar Rabha
(Chief photographer of Indian Railway NFR) and Ananta Mohan Sharma
(Professor, Botany, Bajali College, Pathsala) respectively.
4:15 PM : Noopur Raval gives a presentation about Wikimedia Foundation and
talks about the policies of uploading media to Commons.
4:30 PM : Jyoti Prakash Nath give a small speech about conducting the
event and declares the end of the workshop cum meetup and celebration
ceremony of the 10th anniversary of Assamese Wikipedia.
Winners of the Photography Competition
1. First : Mauchumi Bordoloi for the article "Malita" (Offline).
2. Second : Indranil Gayan for the article "Gunamala" (Offline).
3. Third : Upama Kalita for the article "Mising Lokageet" (Offline).
4. Special: Manjil Kownar for maximum number of articles (Online)
Winners of the Article Competition
1. First : Akashdip Goswami for this
Picture<http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%9A%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8…
2. Second : Jugal Bharali for this
Picture<http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%9A%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8…
3. Third : Anirudha Burhagohain for this
Picture<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gargaon%27r_Kareng_Ghor_S…
4. Special: Nitul
Bora<http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E…
maximum number of photos.
Regards
Jyoti Prakash
Nath<http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E…
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