[Wikimediaindia-l] Happy New Year, 2010 in retrospective and more cities celebrating Tenth anniversary

Dear Wikimedians, *Happy New Year* *[image: ny2011.JPG] * **** *Wish you and your family a Very Happy and exciting 2011!*** *2010 It has been quite a year for Wikipedia and Wikimedia in India<http://wikimedia.in/> . * * * *It was a year that saw at least 31 Wikipedia community meetups in 9 cities<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/India>ia>. Indian cities Ahmedabad, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kochi, Kolkata & Mumbai has their first meetups (first documented meetups!). It was a year that saw good participation from Indian wikipedians<http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Attendees> at Wikimania (Gdansk) and the chapters meeting at Berlin<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_meeting_2010/Participants…ts>. It was a year that saw the first ever India community news letter<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_India_Community_Newsl… and an offline CD <http://thottingal.in/blog/2010/04/17/mlwikioncd/>. It was a year that saw the first Indian join the Board of Trustees<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Bishakha_Dat… and an Indian wikipedian getting elected as Steward.<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2010/votes/Jy… It was a year that saw the Foundation announce their focus of India<http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/d/db/Wikimedia_Fi… as a geography to grow Wikipedia. It was a year that saw the Foundation approve an India chapter formally<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Approval_of_Wiki… , MOA getting finalized<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/MoA-ChapComVer&… and the launch of the Wikimedia.in website <http://wikimedia.in/> They year also saw many visits from the foundation - Jimmy Wales<http://onlygizmos.com/wikipedia-meetup-mumbai-with-jimmy-wales-int… , Erik Möller<http://www.mid-day.com/news/2010/dec/131210-Erik-Moller-Wikipedia… , Danese Cooper, Alolita Sharma<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bangalore_Wikimeetup23_1617.jpg…pg>, and Barry Newstead<http://www.hindu.com/2010/09/25/stories/2010092551100200.htm> visited many cities in India.* * * *It was also a year of many project milestones<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_News> : **(source News on Meta).* - *Gujarati Wikipedia<http://gu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AA%AE%E0%AB%81%E0%AA%96%E0%AA… reached 15,000 articles (June 7)* - ***Marathi Wikipedia<http://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%96%E0%A4… has reached 30,000 articles (Jul 2)* - *Urdu Wikipedia<http://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B5%D9%81%D8%AD%DB%81_%D8%A7%D… crossed 15,000 articles (Oct 31)* - *Malayalam wikipedia<http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4… cross 15,000 articles (Nov 9)* - *Malayalam Wiktionary<http://ml.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%… has reached 60,000 entries (Aug 4). * - *Tamil Wikipedia<http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE… 25,000 articles * - *Tamil Wiktionary<http://ta.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%A4%E0%… the top-ten with 1,90,000+ entries. * * * ***2010 surely has been an eventful year for Wikimedia in India!* Thanks to all Wikimedians in India on behalf of the India chapter team, for their numerous initiatives, projects and support in 2010. *We look forward to working with all Wikimedians to make 2011 another successful year.* * * ** * * *Tenth Anniversary Celebrations in India* * * * Guess how many Indian cities are celebrating the Tenth Wikipedia anniversary? More than 10 cities, As of latest count it is 17!!! That covers 10 states in India. 7 cities added to the celebration list in the last 48 hours. * *The latest additions being:* - *Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh)* - *Dombivli (Maharashtra)* - *Kharagpur (West Bengal)* - *Jalandar (Punjab)* - *New Delhi * - *Ghaziabad (Uttar pradesh)* - *Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh)* *For a complete list of Indian cities or to volunteer help for the tenth anniversary, see the Tenth Anniversary India coordination page<http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Ten> .* * * We have another 19 states where we could potentially have celebrations! Send an email if you know a volunteer in any of those states. * *Regards Arun Arun Ramarathnam On behalf of the Wikimedia India chapter