Wikipedia-gu February 2012

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Web Meeting 2
by Dhaval S. Vyas 29 Mar '12

29 Mar '12

Hi All, We have been planning a web meeting for which we initially planned this coming Sunday and then got suggestion for Sunday 5th February. It seems that some interested people can't make either first or second. So I have thought to do it on both these following sundays. Time remains the same, 11 am India time and we'll meet on skype ID gu.wikipedia. Can you please confirm who will be attending when? We'll be mainly focusing on editing, things to remember while editing/translating, etc. Hope to see as many of you as can. Tc, Dhaval

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વિકિપીડિયા:ચોતરો
by Gujarati Wikipedia 23 Feb '12

23 Feb '12

મિત્રો, ગુજરાતી અને અન્ય ભારતીય ભાષાઓમાં ટાઇપ કરવા માટેનું ટૂલ નારાયમ આપણા ગુજરાતી વિકિપીડિયામાં ઇન્સ્ટોલ કરવા માટેનો એક પ્રસ્તાવ મુક્યો છે. તેના વિષે ચર્ચા ચોતરા પર શરૂ કરવામાં આવી છે. આપ સૌને વિનંતી છે કે આપના વ્યસ્ત સમયમાંથિઇ થોડી પળો કાઢીને વિકિપીડિયા:ચોતરો પર મતદાન<http://gu.wikipedia.org/wiki/વિકિપીડિયા:ચોતરો_(અન્ય)#Extension:Narayam_.E0.…> ની મુલાકાત લઈને આપનો મત જણાવશો તો આપનો આભારી રહીશ. આભાર, ધવલ ----------- Hi Friends, For easy typing in Gujarati and other languages on wikipedia there is a tool developed, which is called Narayam. I have proposed installation of this tool on our gu.wiki and have started a discussion on Wikipedia:Chotaro. I request you all to take a few moments out of your busy schedule and please visit વિકિપીડિયા:ચોતરો મતદાન<http://gu.wikipedia.org/wiki/વિકિપીડિયા:ચોતરો_(અન્ય)#Extension:Narayam_.E0.…>and vote there. Thanks, Dhaval

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: [Cross-posting] Wikimedia India Chapter : Jan 2012 Report
by Tinu Cherian (Wikimedia India) 23 Feb '12

23 Feb '12

Cross posting across India related lists. Kindly ignore if you have read this on another mailing list. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [WMIN-Members] Wikimedia India Chapter : Jan 2012 Report Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:08:57 +0530 From: Naveen Francis <naveenpf(a)wikimedia.in> Reply-To: wmin-members(a)googlegroups.com To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, wmin-members <wmin-members(a)googlegroups.com> Dear all, Greetings from Wikimedia India !!! The Wikimedia Chapter (India) celebrated its first anniversary on 3rd January 2012. Organisational Updates Formation of Task Forces: The formation of the different task forces are still in progress. The various task forces are a) Fundraising, b) Special Projects, c) Administration, d) City and Language Special Interest Groups, and e) Communications, PR & Media Relations. We are seeking more volunteers for the task forces. If you are interested, please feel free to contact the respective task force stewards or find more information here [1] Membership: The Chapter membership stands at 196 members as of 31 January 2012. Six new members were added to the chapter membership in this month. We extend a very warm welcome to the family. Donations: Total donations received in Jan 2012 - INR 10700 Average donations in Jan 2012 - INR 3566 FCRA: Our application for prior permission under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act FCRA 2010, with the Government of India is under process. As the stated time for response is over recently, chapter will be following up with the authorities. [ As we write this report, our application was approved by the Government of India] Internet Relay Chat(IRCs): >From time to time, Wikimedia India conduct planned online IRC chat sessions. The IRC on Jan 05, 2011 was anchored by Sudhanwa Jogalekar with the focus on Chapter Specia Interest Groups (SIG) co-ordination [2]. The IRC on Jan 07, 2010, anchored by Arun Ramarathnam discussed on the Jan 15th Celebration plans, SIGs and GLAM projects. [3] Board Meetings: The Wikimedia Chapter Executive Committee had two tele-conference EC meetings (dated 04 Jan and 18 Jan, 2012) in the month of January.The Wikimedia India chapter and Wikimedia Foundation had one joint co-ordination call on 25 Jan 2012, which was attended by Arjuna Rao Chavala, Naveen Francis, Tinu Cherian and Hisham Mundol. The main agenda of the call was on Chapter - Foundation India programs Collaboration Framework . WikiConference 2011 The Chapter and Mumbai Conference organisers are working closely for the closure and audit of accounts related to WikiConference Mumbai 2011. Community & Special Interest Groups. SOPA and Wikipedia Blackout: The global community of volunteers who edit the English Wikipedia had decided to support the protest against the introduction of the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA) in the US House of Representatives and the “Protect IP Act” in the US Senate. To that end, the English Wikipedia was blacked out globally for a period of 24 hours on 18 January 2012. The black out in India commenced at 10.30am IST on 18 January 2012. The Press release and Communication to the members related to Wikipedia Blackout can found here [4],[5]. Wikipedia eleventh anniversary : Wikipedia turned eleven on the 15th of January 2012. The eleventh anniversary of Wikipedia was celebrated in different parts of the country [6]. More than 8 Indian cities and towns and over 200 Wikimedians & Wiki enthusiasts celebrated this occasion of Wikipedia anniversary, around the nation. Some of the meetups had a Wikipedia anniversary cake to celebrate the occasion. Google Hangout was also conducted between different cities celebrating at the same time. The New Wikimedia India portal ( wikimedia.in <http://wikimedia.in> ) was launched on this day. It is designed to provide quick and rapid access to Indic wikimedia projects - Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikiquote and Commons. A full collection of images related to the celebrations, around the nation, can be found here [7]. Events: A round-up of Wikimedia events, academies and initiatives around the nation is as follows. Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad (3 Jan 2012): Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad [8] is a scavenger hunt for free content photography in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, organised by Noopur Raval , Anirudh Bhati and Srikeit Tadepalli. The aim of this exercise is to encourage participants to compete to take photographs of as many local sights and city specific objects of cultural heritage as possible for Wikipedia articles. Over 75 participants attended and around 815 images were uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons as a part of this initiative [9]. Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II ( 28 Jan 2012) : This is the second photography drive in Mumbai. [10] The event was led by Nikita Belavate, Anshuman Fotedar and Karthik Nadar and other members of the Mumbai Community. Over 625 images were uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons as a part of this initiative [11] Wiki Academies/Workshops : Several Wiki Academies were held in different parts of the nation , organised and conducted by the Chapter, its members ,WMF India Programs and the Wikimedia community in India. . a) Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi , Kerala (05-Jan) [12] b) Workshop at Text100, Mumbai (webcast to Text100 Delhi and Bangalore) (06-Jan) [13] c) SSN College of Engineering, Chennai (11-Jan ) [14] d) P S R Rengasamy college of engineering for women, Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu. (20-Jan) [15] e) Netaji Subhash Engineering College, Kolkata, West Bengal (25-Jan) [16] f) Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal (25-Jan) [17] g) Amrita School of Communication, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu (28-Jan) (18) h) Jamia Millia Islamia, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Delhi (30-Jan) [19] i) Kerala Sahitya Academy, Trissur, Kerala (8-Jan) [20] j) Jnana Prabodhini - Wikiacademy, Pune (15-Jan) [21] A session on Commons was conducted for photography group called ‘Tassavurrati’. [22] They have successfully started uploading pictures of their trips (most recent: Surajkund Mela) to the Wkimedia Commons. Other News: * Telugu SIG celebrated the Wikipedia day on 29 Jan 2012 at Hyderabad. Top 10 contributors in the articles category and non article category were recognised at the function. [23] * Sanskrit Wikipedia saw an excellent editor growth (50%) compared to last month, and a 234% increase in the number of edits. * The 1st Delhi Odia Wikimeetup and Academy was conducted on 29 Jan 2012 by Odia SIG Chair and WMF India Programs Consultant , Subhashish Panigraphi. [24] * One of the first Assamese Wikipedia community meetup and Wikipedia Workshop was held on Jan 29 at Guwahati University, Guwahati, Assam [25] Milestones & Anniversaries January 2012 24 * TheSanskrit Wiktionary <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sa:>has reached 200 entries with the addition of over a dozen entries all apparently meaning "sun". 20 * TheDivehi Wikipedia <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Dv:&action=edit&redlink=1>has reached 100,000 page edits. * TheAssamese Wikipedia <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=As:&action=edit&redlink=1>has reached 500 uploaded files. 17 * TheBengali Wikipedia <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Bn:&action=edit&redlink=1>has reached 1,000 uploaded files. * TheOriya Wikipedia <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Or:&action=edit&redlink=1>has reached 2,000 articles. 15 * TheBengali Wikipedia <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Bn:&action=edit&redlink=1>has reached 1,000 uploaded files. * TheUrdu Wiktionary <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ur:>has reached 10,000 entries. 13 * Wikimedia Commons <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/>has reached 12,000,000 files. * TheTamil Wikibooks <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=B:ta:&action=edit&redlink=1>has reached 10,000 page edits. 10 * TheEnglish Wikibooks <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=B:&action=edit&redlink=1>has reached 40,000 book modules. 7 * TheMarathi Wikipedia <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Mr:&action=edit&redlink=1>has reached 100,000 total pages. * TheAssamese Wikipedia <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=As:&action=edit&redlink=1>has reached 1,000 articles. Media Coverage There was a huge coverage for Wikipedia on Indian media in this month, mainly related to Wikipedia Blackout. A comprehensive list of the coverage can be found here [24] We look forward to your continued support and active participation. Report compiled by Executive members,SIG chairs and The Communications team. Best, On behalf of Wikimedia Chapter (India) Naveen Francis Secretary Notes: 1) http://members.wikimedia.in/Main_Page#Task_forces 2) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/Jan_05,2012 3) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/Jan_07,2012 4) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Press_Releases/2012/_English_Wikipedia_to_go_dark_… 5) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Announcements/Communication_regarding_SOPA_and_Wik… 6) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Eleven 7) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_11_in_India 8) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Ahmedabad 9) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ahmedabad_1 10) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Mumbai_II 11) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_Takes_Mumbai_2 12) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Cochin_University_of_Science_and_Tech… 13) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Workshop/Mumbai_Workshop_2 14) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/SSN_College_of_Engineering,_Chennai 15) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/P_S_R_Rengasamy_college_of_engineering_for_women,_… 16) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Netaji_Subhash_Engineering_College 17) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Jadavpur_University 18) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Amrita_School_of_Communication,_Coimb… 19) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MDHJMI1 20) http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:WATSR2 21) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Pune/W11_celebration_Pune_wit… 22) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tassavurrati_1.jpg 23) http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%… 24) http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:MDEL1 25) http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A7%B1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%… 24) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news#Jan_2012

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Wiki Source Gujarati - 600 articles over
by sushant savla 22 Feb '12

22 Feb '12

Dear All, Just wish to share with you that Gujarati Wiki Source has completed yet another century. Now there are 600 articles on wiki source. Sushant

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Improving the Health of the Community
by Shiju Alex 22 Feb '12

22 Feb '12

Dear All, I am writing to share with you a very inspiring initiative regarding health and medicine articles on Wikipedia. Crores of Wikipedia readers read up about health related issues either when they or their loved ones fall ill or before or after they have consulted doctors or when they are curious about a particular disease or drug. In fact, quite a few doctors and nurses also read up these articles to improve their knowledge. Wikipedia's medical articles have 15-20 crore page views every month. The top 300 articles are viewed more than 1 lakh times every month. The challenge is that the majority of these articles are only available in English. This initiative ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_tas…) has been conceptualised by WikiProject Medicine, Wikimedia Canada and very interesting organisation called Translators Without Borders. It seeks to translate a set of 80 of the most important health care articles into as many languages as possible. Given the state of our health care system as well as the increasing readership of Indic language projects, there is huge positive impact that we can have if we participate in this initiative and have these articles in all Indic languages. The project page (referenced above) includes an outline of the project, FAQs, useful links and a sign up for interested volunteers. The ways that we can participate are as follows - English Editors to improve articles on en-wp - English Editors to convert articles into simple English Wikipedia (so that non-English editors who don't have a medical background can also help out) - Indic editors to help translating either by themselves or by helping the translators at Translators Without Borders Remember, you don't have to be a health care professional to help out. All you have to do is simply care. I am really happy to note that 5 editors from 5 Indic languages have already signed up<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_tas…> for this wonderful project. Of these 2 languages - Assamese and Malayalam - have already started wiki project and started working on articles (really big comprehensive articles) related to Medicine. Assamese wikipedia medicine project page: ৱিকিপিডিয়া:ৱিকিপ্ৰকল্প চিকিৎসাবিজ্ঞান<http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A7%B1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%…> Some of the articles created: - কৰ্কট ৰোগ<http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%9F_…> (Cancer) - সৰ্পদংশন<http://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%A6%…> (Snakebite) Malayalam wikipedia biology project page: വിക്കിപീഡിയ:വിക്കിപദ്ധതി/ജീവശാസ്ത്രം<http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%…> Some of the articles created: - ആസ്മ (Asthma) <http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asthma> - ന്യുമോണിയ (Pneumonia) <http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonia> - മസ്തിഷ്കാഘാതം (Stroke) <http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroke> Please note that this project do not involve machine translation or bots. It is really happy to note that both in Assamese and Malayalam wiki these projects are run by doctor (or medicine students) wikipedians :) Yes, Indic wikipedias has editors from all wakes of life. There is so much potential on the articles related to medicine both in Indic and English. I encourage interested wikipedians to join this project by adding your name here<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_tas…> . I welcome and invite everyone to join in. Healthy Editing Shiju Alex

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Wikipedia Ahmedabad Meetup 3 - Report
by Konarak Ratnakar 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

Hi everyone, The 3rd Wikipedia Ahmedabad Meetup was arranged on 19th February 2012, at Seva Cafe Navarangpura.[1] Total 5 wikipedians attended the meetup(excluding a volunteer from the venue who also joined us, I've led him to Facebook Mumbai Wikipedia group, he might attend future meetups there.) The meetup started with the discussion on Wikipedians in Ahmedabad. There aren't many people from the city (even Gujarat) who actually edit wikipedia regularly, so we discussed the ideas on getting people aware of what Wikipedia is. Inspired by Bangalore Meetup 42 I'm planning to post a GeoNotice to Wikipedians from Ahmedabad, so if there are users that edit but aren't in active in the community, can come forward. The other ideas that we put on table included a proposal to Smit Shah, a student from LD college of Engineering to lead WikiAcademy in the same college in March or April and as part of GLAM project, try getting information on obtainable and/or given permissions in the Museums in Ahmedabad.[2] Afterwards Kartik Mistry talked about the Gujarati Wikipedia interface translation (on Translatewiki.net). He and another user translated about 1500 interface files to Gujarati, couple of weeks before the meetup. I introduced them to some major details of Wikipedia's Policies and Guidelines and Citing sources, some gadgets that can help them in editing Wikipedia more efficiently, the google books and JSTOR citation tool (which Ashwin Baindur posted on the mailing list some time ago).[3] Finally we had off project discussion about Raspberry Pi and Linux community and stuff like that, and a photo session of course.[4] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Ahmedabad/Ahmedabad3 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Museums_in_Ahmedabad[3] http://reftag.appspot.com/ [4] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ahmedabad_Meetup_Feb2012 I would like to thank the Wikimedia India Chapter for their help and guidance with organizing the event,On behalf of Wikimedia Ahmedabad Community, --Konarak Ratnakar | kondi

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Gujarati Wiki Source completes 500 Articles.
by sushant savla 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

Dear Friends, This is to inform you that Gujarati Wiki Source has completed 500 Articles. You are welcome to contribute. Next milestone 600 articles. Thank you, Sushant

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New Wikimedia India Portals -
by sushant savla 19 Feb '12

19 Feb '12

મિત્રો, આપ સૌને જાણ હશે કે ભારતીય ભાષાઓને આવરી લેતું વિકિનું પૃષ્ઠ બનાવાયું છે, જે તમે અહીં http://wikimedia.in/wikipedia.html જોઈ શકશો. આ પાના પર "ગુજરાતી" ભાષાની કડી નીચે વિકિની ઓળખ નિઃશુલ્ક જ્ઞાનકોષ તરીકે થઈ છે, મારા મતે આમાં ક્ષતિ છે. " નિઃશુલ્ક જ્ઞાનકોષ " ને બદલે તે "મુક્ત જ્ઞાનકોષ" અથવા "મુક્ત વિશ્વકોષ" કે "મુક્ત વિશ્વજ્ઞાનકોષ" એમ હોવી જોઈએ. આપણા ગુજરાતી વિકિના લોગોમાં પણ "મુક્ત વિશ્વજ્ઞાનકોષ" શબ્દ પ્રયોગ થયો છે. મારા મતે "નિ:શુલ્ક" શબ્દ એ ખૂબ ટૂંકી વ્યાખ્યા ધરાવે છે. પ્રાયઃ તેનો સંદર્ભ આર્થિક સંદર્ભે કે નાણા વ્યવહાર અર્થે થાય છે. જ્યારે "મુક્ત" શબ્દ તે વિકિ વિશ્વજ્ઞાન કોષના ઉદ્દેશ્યને વધુ સારી રીતે દર્શાવે છે. મારી સમજ અનુસાર "નિઃશુલ્ક જ્ઞાનકોષ" ને બદલીને "મુક્ત વિશ્વજ્ઞાનકોષ" કરવી જોઈએ. આપ સૌને નમ્ર વિનંતી કે આપના વિચારો માંડશો. Sushant Savla

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New Wikimedia India Portals
by Tinu Cherian (Wikimedia India) 19 Feb '12

19 Feb '12

Cross-posting to other mailing lists. Kindly ignore if you have read this on another mailing list. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thanks Tinu Cherian Wikimedia India. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [WMIN-Members] New Wikimedia India Portals Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 08:18:34 +0530 From: Naveen Francis <naveenpf(a)wikimedia.in> Reply-To: wmin-members(a)googlegroups.com To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, wmin-members <wmin-members(a)googlegroups.com> Hi all, We are pleased to formally announce the launch of the following new Wikimedia India Portals: http://wikimedia.in/- The new landing page will be the gateway to the various Project pages and Wikis. http://wiki.wikimedia.in <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/>The public wiki is now revamped with an all-new look and lots of information. Feel free to add more information to the wikis. http://members.wikimedia.in <http://members.wikimedia.in/>Wiki for India Chapter Members http://blog.wikimedia.in/Wikimedia India Blog - to post a blog, contact Arjuna Rao Chavala or Tinu Cherian We are pleased to introduce the following new Wikimedia Project gateways for the various Indic languages: http://wikisource.in<http://wikisource.in/> http://wikiquote.in<http://wikiquote.in/> http://wikibooks.in<http://wikibooks.in/> http://wikinews.in<http://wikinews.in/> http://wikibooks.org.in<http://wikibooks.org.in/> http://wikisource.org.in<http://wikisource.org.in/> http://wiktionary.org.in<http://wiktionary.org.in/> The planned landing page for http://wikipedia.in is available here <http://wikimedia.in/wikipedia.html>. Efforts are currently underway to obtain control of a few more important domains and announcements will be made as and when we get them. We sincerely believe this initiative will help drive more traffic to Indic language Wikimedia Projects. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the Wikimedia CH / Switzerland Chapter and Manuel Schneider (Wikimedia CH / Switzerland) for hosting our websites and portals at no cost. A number of people need to be thanked, who helped in the this initiative. Rajesh K Oayanchal who designed the portals and Jyothis E who gave his webspace for the testing purposes. Anirudh, Noopur Raval, ,Surya, Radhakrishna, Omshivaprakash, Debanjan, Saroj, Swaroop, Abhishek Suryawanshi and others have helped in translations . Tanvir Rahman , Tinu Cherian and Arun Ram helped in revamping the public wiki. We hope that you will find these portals useful and informative. Please do get back to us with your feedback and suggestions. Regards, Naveen Francis Wikimedia India Chapter

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Wikimedia Ahmedabad meetup 3 announced
by Anirudh Bhati 18 Feb '12

18 Feb '12

Hi, The next Wikipedia meetup in Ahmedabad is being scheduled for Sunday, 19 February 2012. The time and venue is still to be discussed. Please join in and contribute! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Ahmedabad/Ahmedabad3 Yours sincerely, Anirudh Bhati +91 9328712208 Skype: anirudhsbh

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