4 Talks! good going, Bengaluru! Nice to know that this month's meetup is more elaborately informed, the agenda look interesting, hope RK's talk and Ramesh's talk will more Kannada centric because RK's talk gives a broader sense of collaborative effort for Wikipedia as a whole mission and Ramesh already has talked about Kerala Sarvavigyanakosam in Mumbai Conference and Bangalore meetup, similar model could be initiated in other Indic languages. I wish more newbies join so you can teach them about basic editing.
We will be having an editing session at the same time for the newbies in Delhi7 and if possible both the communities could say hi to each other :) On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 1:44 PM, CherianTinu Abraham <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi all, > On behalf of the Bangalore Wikipedia / Wikimedia Community, we would > like to co-cordially invite you to attend the 43rd Bangalore > Wikimeetup on*Sunday, 11 Mar 2012 3 PM > * > > http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiMeetups/Bangalore/Bangalore43 > > *Date: *: Sunday, 11-March-2012 Time: 3:00 PM IST > > *Venue:* > The Centre for Internet and Society ( Wikimedia India Office) > No. 194, 2nd 'C' Cross, > 4th Main > Domlur 2nd Stage > Opposite to Domlur Club > Bangalore 560 071 > Karnataka > > *Agenda*: > > > > - *Native language transliterations in English Wikipedia articles* - > Swaroop G Rao (User:MikeLynch) > > > In English Wikipedia articles, articles with strong non-English > connections usually carry a transliteration (along with pronunciation) in > the language of origin. There was many disputes regarding these > transliterations. This presentation will focus primarily on these > transliterations, exploring many possible points of view into the problem. > Since India is a large country of over 28 states and 22 official languages > (and hundreds of other recognized languages), we can expect this problem to > be more pronounced in Indian articles. And not surprisingly, it is so. This > is a contentious issue many a times; and more often than not, regional > polarization occurs, even among established editors. Swaroop will speak > about looking into these problems objectively, and in the meantime, also > looking into possible solutions. Along the way, he will also present some > case studies of contentious discussions/edit wars which have already taken > place. > > > - *NASSCOM Initiative - Engineering Services* - RadhaKrishna Arvapally > (User:Arkrishna) > > > NASSCOM (Under Human Resources Ministry) has few initiative of which one > of them is Education Initiative: Under this initiative, NASSCOM aims to > enhance graduate employability through appropriate skill enrichment and act > as bridge between industry, academia and government. As being part of one > of the working groups, RadhaKrishna made a framework to add WikiMedia to > this course. He will be talking more about this. > > > > - *Kerala Sarvavijnanakosham and Malayalam Wikipedia *- Ramesh N G > (User:Rameshng) > > > This story is about an effort to increase the content of the Malayalam > Wikipedia where the community is successful in getting the content from the > Kerala Government officially published Encyclopedia called as > SarvavijnanaKosham. In 2008, Kerala government Education minister announced > about giving the content of SarvavijnanaKosham to Malayalam Wikipedia. The > SarvavijnanaKosham contains nearly 21 volumes, each with ~1600 article; out > of which four volumes are published online. The license of the website > content is changed to GNU Free Documentation License 1.2. Malayalam > wikipedian a groups 7 users started transferring the content from the > website to Malayalam Wikipedia. Under the project while transferring the > content the users make sure that it wikified, possible images added, > interwiki given etc. This presentation is about the idea behind getting the > content, the project coordination, current status and future of this > project. This project is one of the motivating project and rich in content > where we are getting the article content which are written by subject > matter expert in SarvavijnanaKosham for last 70 years. > > > > - *Community activities and Outreach in Kannada Wikipedia* - > Omshivaprakash H L(User:Omshivaprakash) > > > Omshivaprakash will talk about the recent increase in the Community > Activities around Kn-wiki and its future plans for outreach. He will be > also taking on how kn-wiktionary has adopted its best projects and > practices. > > > If you are planning to attend , you can sign up here > http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiMeetups/Bangalore/Bangalore43#Sign_Up > or the facebook event page > https://www.facebook.com/events/119678494824154/ > ( Note that facebook page shows the wrong time due to some bug) > > If you need any help, feel free to contact us. > > See you all there ! > > Regards > > RadhaKrishna Arvapally & Tinu Cherian > _______________________________________________ > Wikikn-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikikn-l > -- *Subha* _______________________________________________ Wikikn-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikikn-l
