I also can't agree more. We should focus on planning and spreading the word of Bangla Wikipedia. It can be a large ceremony or a week long series of small events on multiple venues on different cities, reaching out people from different places and cultures or maybe we can do both.

I specially feel for the people outside of Dhaka and Chittagong city. Most of out events are Dhaka based (for practical reasons). But this time we can include them and arrange a group of small events on divisional cities as well.

--- Shabab Mustafa

On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Vishnu t visdaviva@gmail.com wrote:

Dear Belayet,

Wonderful to hear this! I am glad that the preparation for the celebrations is initiated early. Let's make it *Grand*! Would be more than happy to help on this in any small way.

Cheers and best, Vishnu

Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 10:20:43 +0600

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From: Belayet Hossain bellayet@gmail.com To: Discussion list for Bangladeshi Wikimedians wikimedia-bd@lists.wikimedia.org, "Bengali Wikipedia<br/>(wikipedia-bn@lists.wikimedia.org)" wikipedia-bn@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikipedia-BN] 10 years of Bangla Wikipedia Message-ID: <CAEirUVFP5+zGSjt+7ExtH1DK95C9am2aLBBF-w_6pV_MH5Y= Yw@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

Dear Wikipedians!

Bangla Wikipedia is the largest encyclopedia in Bangla Wikipedia, also the largest encyclopedia in Bangladesh.

I am happy to let you know that the next year on January 27, 2014 Bangla Wikipedia will be 10[1] years old. All of you will agree with me that "10 years of Bangla Wikipedia" deserves a grand celebration. We have only 5 month to plan, design, arrangements and celebrate. I think this is the right time to start community discussion and set the plan how we will work on that and make celebrate this grand anniversary.

I've create a project page[2] on Bangla Wikipedia for the discussion and coordination of the events centrally. Tou can discuss in the mailing lists, But make sure that your idea goes to Wikipedia page as well.

I would like to invite you to join the discussion. Please write down your ideas, plans and suggestions to celebrate this unique occasion for Bangla Wikipedia.

[1]http://bn.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=info [2]http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/wp:10_years_of_Bangla_Wikipedia

Cheers,

Belayet Hossain http://www.facebook.com/bellayet http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:bellayet http://twitter.com/bellayet http://bellayet.wordpress.com (Bangla) Knowledge is universal ...so share it.