It was an interesting meeting... Video conference, Cake and all. & Thank you Jayanta, for the honorific mention.
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Tonmoy Khan <[email protected]> wrote: > Congratulations to all participants of Wiki11 Meetup in Kolkata. > > Its very encouraging to see Wiki movement is getting its momentum on both > parts of Bangla. Wishing success to all the upcoming events in Kolkata. > > Best Regards > > Ali Haidar Khan Tonmoy > Wikimedia Bangladesh > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Krishnendu Das <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> Sorry I could not attend the event as I am out-of-Kolkata, and am missing >> it a lot. Hope to join something in the future. >> >> Best Wishes, >> >> Krishnendu Das >> >> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Jayanta Nath <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Hi Everyone, >>> >>> *Update on Wiki11 Meet >>> up<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Kolkata/Kolkata8> >>> :* >>> We were about 28 people together in Kolkata celebrating Wikipedia's 11th >>> Anniversary. :) >>> >>> We started the meeting with a general introductory round. There were >>> students from Jadavpur >>> University<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadavpur_University>, >>> IIFT, Neetaji Subhash Chandra Bose Engineering College, some people who had >>> joined us for the Wiki Kolkata Photo walk, a reporter from Times of India, >>> an editor,Neelanjan >>> Dasgupta<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ne0Freedom>,(User:Ne0Freedom) >>> who has been contributing to Wikipedia since 2005 (but it was his first >>> Wiki meet ever), a lot of newbies who wanted to know more about Wikipedia >>> and our various projects amongst several others. It was great to see that >>> about 50% of the people were new to Wikipedia family and joined us on this >>> special day. >>> >>> Then Nitika (We are very proud where she have came first time in kolkata >>> and motivate us) spoke about various programs that the Trust is currently >>> involved in. Some of the new participants wanted to know more about Wiki >>> Loves Monuments competition, Chapters initiatives on GLAM projects, Offline >>> Project etc. Then Bishakha introduced herself and spoke about SOPA. >>> >>> The introductory talks were followed by me giving a small presentation >>> about the various programs, Wikimedia India Chapter, Bengala Wikipedia, >>> initiatives taken by the Bengali community members etc. There were some >>> questions about using translation tools for Wikipedia articles. >>> >>> We then celebrated Wikipedia 11 by cutting a yummy cake. :) This was >>> followed by Kalyanda giving a hands on training to newbies regarding how to >>> upload pictures on Commons, how to use a picture from Commons on Wikipedia >>> and basic Wikipedia editing. There were lots of questions about how to add >>> a reference, how to edit and Kalyanda addressed all these questions. >>> >>> We have collected names and email addresses of all the participants so >>> thats its easy for us to follow up with them and invite them to other Wiki >>> activites that will take place in Kolkata. >>> >>> *Next Steps:* >>> 1. We are planning to organise a Kolkata photothon on the Chinese New >>> Year, 23rd January. As you know Kolkata has the biggest China Town in India >>> where there will be lots of celebrations on this particuylar day. Hence we >>> have decided to go down to China town and click pictures that can be >>> uploaded on Commons. >>> 2. We'll try and organise a full WikiAcademy for all the newbies who >>> joined us for the celebrations to inform them more a about Wikipedia >>> editing. >>> 3. We'll soon organise a Kolkata Wiki meet up for Feb and invite all the >>> participants as plan of every month wiki meetup/workshop at Kolkata. >>> 4. We want to start with WP: Kolkata where we all will do collaborative >>> editing and improve/add articles about the pictures/monuments/buildings we >>> had clicked during the previous Kolkata photo walk. Just for information, >>> we contributed over 450 pictures on Commons as a result of this photowalk. >>> 5. Sucheta is organising a WikiAcademy in her college, Neetaji Subhash >>> Chandra Bose Engineering College on the 25th Jan. Over 70 students have >>> already registered for it. Jayantada and Kalyanda are supporting her for >>> this event. >>> 6. Deepon is also speaking with professors/Chairman at Jadavpur >>> University to figure out the possibility of conducting a WikiAcademy there. >>> >>> -- >>> With Warm Regards, >>> *Jayanta Nath* >>> Calcutta,West Bengal >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikipedia-BN mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-bn >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikipedia-BN mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-bn >> >> > > > -- > Ali Haidar Khan (tOnmOy) > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikipedia-BN mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-bn > >
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