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sessions. The Dec 17, 2011 was anchored by Arun with the focus on Chapter
City & Language Special Interest Groups. [2]

*Board Meetings:*
The Chapter Executive Committee had two Tele-conference meetings in the
month of December (dated 07 Dec and 14 Dec, 2011). The Wikimedia India
chapter and Wikimedia Foundation had one joint co-ordination call on 21 Dec
2011, which was attended by Arjuna Rao Chavala, Arun Ramaratnam, Naveen
Francis, Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Tinu Cherian, Anirudh Bhati, Asaf Bartov and
Hisham Mundol. The summary of the joint coordination call was shared
earlier [3].
Community City and Language Special Interest Groups

City and Language Special Interest Groups are a mechanism to engage the
diverse interests of members across India. The objective is to grow the
wiki projects in their areas of interest by reviewing the status, planning
and executing events of interest through growing the community involvement.
The leadership of these groups is part of the extended leadership of the
Chapter.

The Wikimedia Chapter is proud to announce the appointment of the next
batch of City and Language Special Interest Group Chairs [4] as given
below:

*City*

   - Delhi SIG - Noopur Raval (noopur [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
   - Bangalore SIG - RadhaKrishna (Arkrishna [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
   - Mumbai SIG - Kundan Amitabh (kundan.amitabh [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
   - Pune SIG - Mandar Kulkarni(mandar.kulkarni [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
   - Kolkata SIG - Kalyan Sarkar (kalyan [at] wikimedia [dot] in)

*Languages*

   - English SIG - Ashwin Baindur (ashlin [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
   - Kannada SIG - Omshivaprakash H L (omshivaprakash [at] wikimedia [dot]
   in)
   - Marathi SIG - Mahitgar (mahitgar [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
   - Telugu SIG - Rahimanuddin Shaik (rahimanuddin [at] wikimedia [dot] in)

The current sign-ups of Members for the SIGs are as follows:

*City Special Interest Groups*
  City  Members  Bangalore  10  Delhi  2  Mumbai  3  Pune  6  Kolkata  2

*Language Special Interest Groups*
  Language  Volunteers  Bengali  1  English  15  Hindi  1  Kannada  3  Mara=
thi
 4  Malayalam  8  Nepali  1  Odia  3  Sanskrit  2  Telugu  3  Events

A round-up of Wikimedia events and initatives around the nation is as
follows.

   - *Wiki Academy @Jaya Engineering college * ( 10 Dec 2011) : The first
   Wiki Academy in Jaya Engineering college, Chennai,[5] was organized by t=
he
   Wikimedia chapter and co-hosted by Jaya FOSS Club. Odia Wiki Chair &
   Chapter member, Subhashish Panigrahi explained basics of Wikipedia, how =
it
   is edited by millions of volunteers, how Wikipedia is exclusively
   encyclopedic and kind of articles and notability of articles in Wikipedi=
a,
   how Wikipedians communicate and form community, and organization of
   Wikimedia foundations and active projects. Then he took the audience
   through active editing by signing up, searching for articles, choosing
   articles to create. Then he demonstrated about creating an article by us=
ing
   the Edit toolbar, citing the text by searching the web and uploading and
   adding pictures in articles. The editing session was followed by a Q & A
   session. Hisham Mundol, Consultant, Wikimedia Foundation India Programs,
   connected with the audience via Google Hangout. Hisham interacted with t=
he
   audience by giving a talk about the nature of the event, few details abo=
ut
   Wikipedia, WMF and Chapter and foundation are trying to do in India. He
   answered questions raised by the audience. Nitika Tandon , Consultant,
   Wikimedia Foundation India Programs, later explained about the India
   Education program (IEP), how it functions and the
   student-teacher-foundation collaborations through the education program.
   The photos of the event are available here [6].
   - *Coimbatore 1st Meetup*( 10 Dec 2011) : The first Kovai (Coimbatore)
   meetup [7] was held at KGISL Campus, Saravanampatti, Coimbatore. The Mee=
tup
   was organised by Srikanth Ramakrishnan (User:Rsrikanth05) and
   User:Sodabottle.
   - *Bangalore Wikimeetup 40* ( 11 Dec 2011) : Around 11 people attended
   the 40th Wikimeetup in Bangalore [8]. The Bangalore SIG Chair, RadhaKris=
hna
   presented a talk on the experiences on WikiConference India 2011 and
   WikiAcademy events in IT companies. Experiences of Wiki Academy in Jaya
   engineering college and way forward was shared by by Subhashish Panigrah=
i.
   Plans regarding Wiki Eleven in January 2012 was discussed. The photos of
   the event are available here [9].
   - *Wikipedia Meetup1 Salem*( 11 Dec 2011) : A Wikimeetup was organised
   at Salem, Tamil Nadu, [10] by Tamil Wikipedians Sodabottle and Surya
   Prakash.
   - '*Wikipedia Takes Kolkata /Kolkata Photo Walk* (18 Dec 2011) : A Photo
   Walk was organised in Kolkata, West Bengal [11] by Kalyan Sarkar (Kolkat=
a
   SIG Chair), Jayanta Nath (Bengali SIG Chair) and Biswarup Ganguly. Aroun=
d
   437 images were uploaded to Wikimedia Commons as a part of this
   initiative.[12]
   - *GLAMcamp Amsterdam * Noopur Raval ( Delhi SIG Chair and GLAM
   enthusiastic) attended GLAM worskop in Amsterdam, hosted by Wikimedia
   Nederland. [13]
   - *Wikipedians participation in CMDA IT Expo , 2011*: Indian Wikipedians
   participated in the annual CMDA IT Expo 2011, Pune.[14] The stall were
   manned by Sudhanwa Jogalekar ( EC member), Mahitgar ( Marathi SIG Chair)=
,
   Ashwin Baindur ( English SIG Chair) , Hisham Mundol and Nitika Tandon ( =
WMF
   India Programs), and Campus Ambassador (IEP) volunteers.
   - *Malayalam Wiki-Academies:* Malayalam Wiki-community organised two
   Wiki-Academies in Kerala in the month of December at Alappuzha ( Dec 13)
   and Kollam (Dec 31). The Alappuzha (2nd Wikiacademy) held at St.Joseph
   Vanitha College was led by Adv. T.K Sujith, Adv. M.P.Manojkumar and Akhi=
l
   Krishnan. The Kollam (4th Wikiacademy) held at Govt. Higher Secondary
   School, Anchal West, was led by Kiran Gopi ( User:Kiran_Gopi) , Faud A.J=
. (
   User:Faudaj) , Kannan Shanmugam ( User:Fotokannan)and Sugeesh (
   User:Sugeesh)

 Other News

   - A new initiative named *"Featured Wikimedian* was started on the
   public wiki of Wikimedia India. Every month, one Indian wikimedian will =
be
   featured. [15]
   - * Tamil Wikimedia contest*: The Tamil Wikimedia community has
   organised an international contest to get more photos, videos and audios
   related to Tamil, Tamilians and Tamil culture to the Tamil Wikipedia and
   Wikimedia Commons. [16] (themed =E2=80=9CEluthu mattum arivanru=E2=80=9D=
 or =E2=80=9CKnowledge
   beyond text=E2=80=9D) . The Tamil Wikipedia Community and the Wikimedia =
Foundation
   have jointly sponsored a prize money of $850 (with nine prizes) for
   winners. (The first, second and third prizes are $200, $100 and $50. Thr=
ee
   prizes of $100 each are for those uploading the maximum number of qualit=
y
   entries. A special prize of $150 is for media files on traditional Tamil
   arts and crafts. Winners would be announced on March 15, 2012 and they
   would get certificates with their entries displayed on the front pages o=
f
   Tamil Wiki projects. The contest (, November 15, 2011 to February 29, 20=
12)
   is open to all and is on Facebook [17].
   - India Wikipedians Sengai Podhuvan , Karthik Nadar and Aniruddha Kumar
   joins Jimmy Wales among others in the *Wikimedia Fundraising 2011 banner=
s
   * [18].
   - *New Mailing lists* are created for Gujarati Wikipedia[19], Assamese
   Wikipedia [20], GLAM India [21] and India related content on English
   Wikipedia & related projects. [22].

Milestones & Anniversaries

* December 2011* [23]
25

   - The Tamil Wikipedia<http://internal.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=3DTa:=
&action=3Dedit&redlink=3D1>has
reached 1,000,000 page edits.
   - The Urdu Wiktionary <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ur:> has reached
   10,000 total pages.

21

   - The Malayalam
Wikipedia<http://internal.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=3DMl:&action=3Dedit&=
redlink=3D1>has
turned 9.

18

   - The Bengali Wiktionary <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bn:> has reached
   2,000 entries, as a user adds over 1,300 entries for Malagasy words in 5
   hours.

16

   - The Bihari
Wikipedia<http://internal.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=3DBh:&action=3Dedit&=
redlink=3D1>has
reached 100,000 page edits.

9

   - The Sanskrit Wiktionary <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sa:> has
   reached 100 entries.
   - The Urdu Wiktionary <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ur:> has reached
   5,000 entries.

5

   - The Marathi
Wikibooks<http://internal.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=3DB:mr:&action=3Dedi=
t&redlink=3D1>has
reached 1,000 registered users.

4

   - The Kannada Wiktionary <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kn:> has reached
   150,000 entries.

 Media Coverage

   - 28 Dec : Financial Chronicle : Wikipedians say Indian govt should ease
   copyright curbs<http://www.mydigitalfc.com/knowledge/wikipedians-say-ind=
ian-govt-should-ease-copyright-curbs-992>
   - 27 Dec : Ahmedabad Mirror : " Ahmedabad to go Wiki with your clicks"
   <http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/2/2011122720111227022617405d732b=
c46/Ahmedabad-to-go-Wiki-with-your-clicks.html>
   - 24 Dec : The Economic Times : "Wikipedia enlists Indians to be the
   standard-bearers for its fund-raising
efforts"<http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/wikipedia-enlist=
s-indians-to-be-the-standard-bearers-for-its-fund-raising-efforts/articlesh=
ow/11225652.cms>
   - 18 Dec : The Hindu : "Creative Commons: the licence to
evolve"<http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/artic=
le2725372.ece>
   - 16 Dec : The Hindu : "Contest to add files to Tamil Wikipedia gathers
   steam"<http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article2719118.e=
ce?textsize=3Dsmall&test=3D2>
   - 1 Dec  : Tech Marathi: =E0=A4=AE=E0=A4=B0=E0=A4=BE=E0=A4=A0=E0=A5=80 =
=E0=A4=B5=E0=A4=BF=E0=A4=95=E0=A4=BF=E0=A4=AA=E0=A5=80=E0=A4=A1=E0=A4=BF=E0=
=A4=AF=E0=A4=BE =E0=A4=B8=E0=A4=82=E0=A4=AA=E0=A4=BE=E0=A4=A6=E0=A4=A8 =E2=
=80=93 =E0=A4=85=E0=A4=B5=E0=A4=98=E0=A4=A1 =E0=A4=95=E0=A5=80
=E0=A4=B8=E0=A5=8B=E0=A4=AA=E0=A5=87?<http://techmarathi.com/?p=3D1243>( Ma=
rathi)

We look forward to your continued support and active participation.

Best,

On behalf of Wikimedia Chapter (India)

Thanks,
Naveen Francis
Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter
[image: File:Wikimedia India logo.svg] <http://wikimedia.in/>
reachout

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Notes:

   - 1)
   http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Announcements/Call_for_participation_of_Members=
_in_Chapter_Task_Forces
   - 2) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/Dec_17,2011
   - 3)
   http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Announcements/Chapter-Foundation:_Co-Ordination=
_Call-December_2011_Update
   - 4) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/City_and_Language_SIG_subcommittee_chair
   - 5) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Jaya_Engineering_College
   - 6)
   http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Jaya_Engineering_College_Wiki=
_Academy1,_December_2011
   - 7) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore/Coimbatore1
   - 8) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore40
   - 9)
   http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bangalore_Meetup_December2011
   - 10) http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:SALEM1
   - 11) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Kolkata
   - 12) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_Takes_Kolkata
   - 13) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAMcamp_Amsterdam
   - 14
   http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-December/0061=
35.html
   - 15) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Category:Featured_Wikimedian
   - 16) http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest/en
   - 17) http://www.facebook.com/tawmc
   - 18)
   http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011#A_Parade_of_Appeals.21_D=
ecember_22.2C_2011
   - 19) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-gu
   - 20) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-as
   - 21) http://lists.wmnederland.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wlm-in
   - 22) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-en
   - 23) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Milestones_and_Anniversary

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<div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class=3D"h5"><div class=3D"=
gmail_quote">Dear all,
Greetings from Wikimedia India !!! =20
We are delighted to present the last monthly Wikimedia India=20
report of the year 2011, almost a year after the chapter received the=20
formal recognition from the Government of Karnataka on 3 January 2011.=20
The journey so far wasn&#39;t easy, but we appreciate your continued=20
patronage , support and participation.=20

<h2> Or=
ganisational Updates</h2>
Formation of Task Forces:
As announced earlier, with the objective of increasing the=20
engagement and participation of the members of the chapter actively in=20
various initiatives, the India chapter has come up with focused Task=20
Forces for coordinating and driving various chapter activities [1].=20
There are two types of Task Forces - Project Task Forces and Operations
 Task Forces. The Project Task Forces are focused on growing the=20
Wikimedia projects. The Operations Task Forces are critical functions to
 enable the Project Task Forces and the Chapter in growing the movement.
 The operations group consists of Administration, Fund raising, &amp;=20
Communications. The Projects task force consists of City and Langugage=20
SIGs and Special Projects. The new task forces will be led by the=20
following people:=20

<ul><li> Anirudh Bhati, Head, Fundraising.
</li><li> Arun Ramarathnam, Chair, Special Projects.
</li><li> Srinivas Gunta, Head, Administration.
</li><li> Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Chair, City and Language Special Interest Gro=
ups.=20
</li><li> Tinu Cherian, Head, Communications, PR &amp; Media Relations.
</li></ul>
Membership: 
The Chapter membership stands at 190 members as of 31 December 2011.
Donations: 
Total donations received in Dec 2011 - INR 700 
Average donations in Dec 2011 - INR 350 
FCRA: 
Our application for FCRA prior permission under the Foreign Contribution
 (Regulation) Act with the Government of India is still pending. An=20
official from the Home Ministry has visited Arjuna Rao Chavala,=20
President.=20
Internet Relay Chat(IRCs):