English news media had already reported about Bengali Wikipedia few times.
But Local Bengali news media ( Anandabazar, Bartaman, Eisomy, Pratidin,
Ajkaal,) no response at all and no interest about Bengali Wikipedia. I had
tried with my personal level of contact. All Bengali news print media want
business from Wikipedia, then only they can report about Bengali
Wikipedia. Anyone
in this mailing list in touch with Bengali media for fresh contact?
Regards,
Jayanta
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Dwaipayan Chakraborti <dwaipayanc(a)gmail.com
wrote:
> As Ragib mentioned, local media is important. Do we have any plan on this
> already? Anyone in touch with media? Or knows anybody? Jayanta nath may be
> of help.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dwaipayan Chakraborti
>
> On May 16, 2013, at 9:22 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi <
> subhashish(a)cis-india.org
wrote:
>
> > Thanks a lot Ragib and Sankarshan for your valuable feedback. I'd
> request all other Bengali Wikipedians to take part in sharing your feedback
> and discussing more ideas.
> >
> > Can we also host an IRC to discuss more about each of the plans
> mentioned; Need, Plans, Execution and defining A2K's role? We'd love to
> hear from you about a convenient time for IRC in the coming week.
> >
> > Best!
> > Subha
> >
> > On 16-May-2013, at 9:37 PM, Ragib Hasan wrote:
> >
> >> 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
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Ragib Hasan, Ph.D.
> >>
> >> Assistant Professor & Director, UAB SECRETLab
> >> Department of Computer and Information Sciences
> >> University of Alabama at Birmingham
> >> Birmingham, AL 35294
> >>
> >>
http://secret.cis.uab.edu
> >>
http://www.ragibhasan.com
> >>
> >>
> >> 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
> >>>