[Wikimediaindia-l] Chennai Wikipedia 10th Anniversary Celebrations -- Summary

[Gautam John]

Thank you, Srikanth! Looks like much fun was had by all

Best,

Gautam
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On 16 January 2011 10:05, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The tenth anniversary of Wikipedia was celebrated at Madras Institute of
> Technology, Chennai. It was attended by ~70 people including English,Tamil
> and Malayalam Wikipedians. The event started with a cake cutting ceremony.
> Ravichandar spoke about English wikipedia. Mahir spoke about Tamil
> Wikipedia,Wikinews and Wiktionary. A book "Tamil Wikipedia"(in Tamil)
> written by Tamil wikipedian and writer Theni.M.Subramani was released by
> Badri Sheshadri(Publisher,New Horizon Media). Badri then spoke about
> Wikipedia,importance of language wikipedia and how books like the one
> released is essential in reaching out to masses. There were discussions and
> then there was a live chat with Jimmy wales over Skype.
>
> I would like to thank CSMIT for providing the venue, Wikimedia Foundation
> for the merchandise and Manian for the cake.
>
> I would also like to thank Manian / Ravishankar (Parithimathi) / Mahir /
> Ravichandar for making this event happen.
>
> I would get all the pictures into one place in commons and post the same.
> There is a video of the book release / Jimmy chat is available here[1]
>
> [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JFpkx3iEw8
>
> Regards
> Srikanth.L
> http://srik.me
>
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