[Wikimediaindia-l] [mr-wiki] Next meetup of Pune Wikipedians - 12 March 2011

[Sankalp Dravid]

Hi Ashwin, Sudhanwa,

thanks for initiating the meetup. As far as the agenda/activity planning is
concerned, here some points from my side :

1.      Public outreach for mr wiki : As of now,  mr wiki does not have
strong editor base in Maharashtra/in general in India – for reasons common
across many of the Indic wikipedias (People still tend to imagine that all
the Internet/Computer stuff to be ‘natively’ English.) . Mr wikipedians have
been trying to reach out to Marathi netizens in last few months – as was the
case with 1st editathon on mr wiki organised recently on 26-27 February. We
witnessed sizeable content contributed by new editors and they are chipping
in after that in steady flow. But this needs to be replicated on larger
scale by publicising the efforts on mr wiki – through some workshops/ media
coverage.

Some visual brand building might help as well, e.g., if members of
WikiPuneri go around the town for photo-hunt, wearing those Wikipedia logo.
J

*2.       *Getting more “Maratha” visual content for Commons : Commons lacks
images related to Maratha community and culture. WikiPuneri can make
considerable contribution in this repect; esp. To get images for
celebrities, public figures, places of interest. We can even weigh
possibilities to work with organisations such as ‘Maharashtra Sahitya
Parishad’, ‘Bharat Itihas Sanshodhak Mandal’ etc., who hold many interesting
images in their treasure trove.**

* *

Thanks,

Sankalp



> ---------- अग्रेषित केलेला संदेश ----------
> From: Sudhanwa Jogalekar <sudhanwa.com at gmail.com>
> To: mr-wiki at yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:41:36 +0530
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [mr-wiki] Next meetup of Pune Wikipedians -
> 12 March 2011
> Hi,
>
> If the veterans of the MR-WIKI can send us their thoughts about this, we
> can discuss on those points further.
>
> Mahitgar, Abhay, Sankalp and others, please give your inputs.
>
> -Sudhanwa
>
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> The next meetup of Pune wikipedians, WikiPuneri, is planned for Saturday
>> 12 Mar 2011, from 1830 to 1930 hrs at Symbiosis Institue of Computer Science
>> and Research, Atur Centre, Model Colony (near Om Supermarket), 7th Floor,
>> Room Room No 704.
>>
>> The intended purpose of the meetup is:
>> to set up a long-term plan for a year's worth of activities, with detailed
>> planning for photo outreach activities for Wikimedia Commons.
>>
>> The detailed planning for each project will be done, one project at a
>> time. The next project for which planning will be done, Marathi Wikipedia,
>> will be discussed in detail in the April 2011 (Pune 12) meetup.
>>
>> Please sign up here :
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Pune/Pune11#Participants
>>
>> This is a very interesting and important meet so be sure to be present to
>> push your ideas about what you would like to do!
>>
>> Warm regards,
>>
>> Ashwin Baindur
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>>
>
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