[Wikimediaindia-l] Report on WikiKovai meet 1.

Thu Dec 15 14:49:26 UTC 2011

Per Srikanth's request: here is the report from Prasanna Venkatesh one of
the attendees of the meetup as posted on the event's facebook page (
http://www.facebook.com/events/192614487481512/)
Here i share what happened in Wikipedia meet up held at coimbatore:

We arrived there at coimbatore by early morning and joined with new friends
at coimbatore, Karthikeyan
Savithri<http://www.facebook.com/kalakkumkarthikeyan>who received us
there with warm welcome and we entered into KGiSL campus
around 11 am and the event started only after we arrived there.

1. Srikanth Ramakrishnan
<http://www.facebook.com/srikanth.ramakrishnan>who was the first
speaker to start with meet up, shared his
experience with us and to tell about him, he is editing wikipedia articles
right from the age of 13 (8th standard) and now he has got around 10,000
articles being edited in the span of 6.5 years.

2. Arrived Mr. Bala, Admin and an active wikipedian especially handling
Tamil section of wikipedia and he was an programmer in an MNC and now he is
self-employed. Mr. Bala started with the basics of wikipedia and covered
the following:
i. What is wikipedia?
ii. Wikipeida - by the people, of the people and for the people.
iii. Advantage of wikipedia being let open for public editing.
iv. Demo on how to become a user, contributor to wikipedia.
v. General and basic rules for starting and writing an article with proper
reference.
vi. Tamizh wiki oodaga(media) poati - any one can participate and submit
your own photography regarding Tamizh and its culture, people ect. and you
have the chance to win US. 200$
vii. Tools like wikimedia (Mediawiki, wiki source, etc.) are discussed.
viii. Technical part of wikipedia is discussed.

Finally we had a Photo-session and greeted each other and it was good time
together and we gained knowledge over how to contribute the above things
and soon after at the evening we created a account for us in wikipedia..
and now roaming around with camera in hand :p

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
parakara.ghoda at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks a lot Arjuna. I think February will be good as exams won't be
> there then. Meanwhile, I do hope that the Academy in Jan will help up
> increase the active community members in Coimbatore for further
> meetups to happen.
>
> On 12/14/11, Arjuna Rao Chavala <arjunaraoc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Srikanth R,
> >
> > My previous discussion is about wiki academy for journalism students of
> > Amrita institution in Coimbatore for Jan 2012. No such event happened in
> > 2011.
> >
> > Getting regular meetups happen is a big challenge even in places like
> > Bangalore. You can plan for once in two months or so to start with
> > encourage people to edit, participate in nearby meetups, wiki academies,
> > encourage membership in chapter to grow the movement on a sustainable
> basis.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Arjuna Rao Chavala
> > ---------------------
> > Sent via mobile
> > On Dec 14, 2011 11:10 PM, "Srikanth Ramakrishnan" <
> parakara.ghoda at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Heya, this just struck me. Arjuna mentioned to me that there was an
> >> Academy held in Coimbatore back in April 2011. Maybe, we could get
> >> guys from there to attend the next meetup, provided some experienced
> >> community member attends it.
> >>
> >> On 12/13/11, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <parakara.ghoda at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Thanks for the positive response guys. I'll try and arrange a meetup
> >> > in the second week of January. Since the only two Wikipedians are out
> >> > of town and it also will be Wikipedia Day, presence of a member of
> >> > chapter or foundation would be welcome.
> >> >
> >> > On 12/13/11, ansuman <ansumang at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> Very nice report. I hope to see more active wikipedians. And hope the
> >> >> community grows. You rock, Keep it up.
> >> >>
> >> >> Regards
> >> >> ansu
> >> >> *
> >> >> ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ
> >> >> *
> >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ansumang
> >> >>
> >> >> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
> >> >> rsrikanth05 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>> Heya all,
> >> >>> This should've come in elaier but didn't as my lab was shut.
> >> >>> To Pradeep, who's been asking for two days,
> >> >>> And Noopur, the only other Wikipedian who asked about this meet.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Our meetup was held at the KG Inst. of Tech [KITE] who offered us an
> >> >>> A/C presentation hall for this event.
> >> >>> KITE, is a part of KG Information Systems Ltd, one of the city's
> most
> >> >>> respected IT establishments.
> >> >>> The meetup space was offered by Mr. Ashok Bkathavatsalam himself,
> the
> >> >>> MD of KGISL, who in turn was told about this meet by Gautam John and
> >> >>> Venkat Mangudi. Thanks you two.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> The meetup started at 11am.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> We had ~14-15 attendees, out of which 8 or 9 were part of ILUGC
> Pondy
> >> >>> [Indian Linux User Group Puducherry].
> >> >>> One Wikipedian saw the link to the meetup on my signature on an
> online
> >> >>> forum SkyScraperCity and came from Chennai.
> >> >>> Bala Jeyaraman, aka Sodabottle joined me a few minutes into the
> meetup
> >> >>> and it was him who spoke for the rest of the day.
> >> >>> Pre lunch, we basically spoke on how and why the Wikipedia model
> >> >>> worked, the principles of the project, with Bala using the age old
> >> >>> debate of whether Coimbatore or Madurai was the second largest city
> in
> >> >>> Tamil Nadu as an example for verifiability.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Bala explained the ease of typing in Tamil, etc.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Post lunch, we were joined by two faculty members of KITE, while Mr.
> >> >>> Ashok himself stepped in. Interestingly, he himself has an account
> on
> >> >>> the English Wikipedia and contributes too.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> The meetup ended at around 4, we took a few photos. I shall ask
> >> >>> Prasanna to upload them soon.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> It was a success, there were three existing Wikipedians, and the
> rest
> >> >>> were interested newcomers. I wouldn't call it an academy though.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> We've not scheduled a meetup for January yet, as the most probable
> >> >>> date is 15th Jan [Wikipedia Day] because both Bala and I won't be in
> >> >>> town. If anyone from the chapter/foundation can help lead it, I can
> >> >>> get people to attend and myself attend virtually thru Skype or so
> from
> >> >>> Kakinada.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Comments, suggestions most welcome.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> All brickbats my way, bouquets to Bala please.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> --~~~~
> >> >>>
> >> >>> --
> >> >>> Regards,
> >> >>> Srikanth Ramakrishnan,
> >> >>> Sathyamangalam-Gobichettipalayam Star Gazers
> >> >>> My Commons uploads, now exceeding 75.
> >> >>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles/Rsrikanth05
> >> >>>
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> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Regards,
> >> > Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
> >> > Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th.
> >> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Regards,
> >> Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
> >> Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th.
> >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
> >>
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> --
> Regards,
> Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
> Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th.
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
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