We had hoped to have a good attendance for the Wikipedia meetup. However,
only five Puneri Wikipedians User:AshLin, Sudhanwa, Mandar
Kulkarni, User:Rangilo Gujarati and User:Nikhilsheth met for the meetup.
Since there were few people, we waited for almost 45 minutes during which a
master class was conducted on finer points of Wikipedia markup, techniques
and issues facing newbies.
This was followed by discussions on planned activities. The following were
discussed :
* There is an urgent need for outreach, no matter how fruitless results may
seem in the short term, both for editors in English and Marathi wikipedias.
* The planned activities approach should be replaced by the "How can
Wikipedia help you - how can you help Wikipedia" approach.
* It was felt that only one event be planned to be undertaken in different
directions. However, if more was achieved in that field - great. Example -
only one GLAM was to be approached this year, but if opportunity, or more
important volunteer effort was forthcoming, do more.
* Work on Wikipedia for Schools Offline Edition should continue despite
recent criticism however the concerns of the community need to be taken note
of.
* The monthly meetup must continue, so that a hard core of Wikipedians is
built up and activities discussed here even if the actual work was done by
people in between in their individual capacities and individual interests.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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