That's a nice plan. One thing I'd recommend is to get media involved
(perhaps you already have that in the plan, sorry if I'm just
repeating it). In particular, you need to get the local Bengali
language media (newspaper, TV) involved so that they publish news
reports on Wikipedia.
In Bangladesh, it was not easy at the start to get people interested.
It took a good media campaign in Bengali language newspapers to get
people interested. Also, you should get in touch with the Bengali
language blogging community in India (if there is one) and try to get
them involved.
By the way, the number of native speakers cited at the start of the
article is vastly underestimated .... Bangladesh alone has 160 million
native speakers, plus at least half of that in West Bengal.
Ragib
User:Ragib in en and bn
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On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi
<subhashish(a)cis-india.org> wrote:
> Dear All,
>>>
>>> The A2K team has recently met Bengali wikipedians in Kolkata.[1] Based on our
interaction we have worked on preparing an annual work plan on Bengali Wikipedia [2] and
reposted on Meta.[3] We'd request you all to share your feedback on the talk page of
the work plan [4] regarding the work plan which would help to plan various different
activities (Institutional collaboration for resource building, meetups and outreach for
community building).
>>>
>>> Links:
>>> 1.
http://cis-india.org/news/wiki-meet-up-kolkata
>>> 2.
http://bitly.com/bnwpplan
>>> 3.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_April_20…
>>> 4.
http://bitly.com/bnwpplantalk
>>>
>>> --
>>> Best!
>>> Subhashish Panigrahi
>>> Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge
>>> Centre for Internet and Society
>