Wikipedia Meetup in Pune - Pune's birdwatchers pledge to improve bird articles!
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AshLin
Dec 23, 2010, 11:06:50 PM12/23/10
to Wikipedians for Indian Nature
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Elevator pitch - The tenth anniversary of Wikipedia on 15 January is a
golden opportunity for the city's wikipedians to firmly place Pune on
the international wikipedia map. Birdwatchers of Pune have committed
to improving bird articles and an editing tutorial session has been
planned for the newbies at the meet. We look forward for people to
come forth to evangelise Wikipedia in schools and Colleges, to collect
images of Pune for Wikimedia Commons through a photothon and to a
meetup of Marathi Wikipedians which will showcase Pune as the cultural
capital of Maharashtra.
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Dear friends,
The Pune Wikipedia meetup plan is in the process of formalising.
Wikipedians who have participated in discussions so far are Sankarshan
Mukhopadhyay, Shirish Agarwal, Sudhanwa Jogalekar, and Mandar
Kulkarni. Supporting us online are Mahitgar and Abhay Natu. Of course
Bishakha Dutta and Arunram (of Wikimedia) have given their full
support as always.
We all hope that the 10th Anniversary Wikipedia Celebrations on 15
January (Saturday) in Pune are a great success. For that, I request
all people connected with any Wikimedia project in pune, whether it is
English Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons or any other.
We hope to have some activities before that date and the final meetup
on 15 January (Saturday) where we showcase those events.
The venue is yet to be decided, the timing will be in the evening but
exact timing yet to be decided.
The wikipedia-linked events formalised to date are :
* Contribution by 7th Ornithology Course. This will consist of a talk
to the course during one of their sessions and development of three
articles of bird species hopefully to GA quality. Dr Satish Pande and
Dr Anand Padhye, the course organisers and mentors have given full
support.
We hope that the following additional events can be formalised :
* Pune photothon - Pune loves Wikimedia Commons - prior to 15 Jan.
Sudhanwa is working on this with some photographic societies.
* Marathi Wikipedia meetup - prior to 15 Jan. This is really
important.
* Some evangelising with schools/colleges.
At the main meeting on 15 Jan it is tentatively planned to have the
following events as of now:
* Newbie editing session by Ashwin Baindur.
* Uploading of the three bird articles by 7th Ornithology course.
* Skype linkup with other meets (if it can be coordinated).
* (During W10 Meetup on 15 Jan) - short talks on:
** overview of articles on Pune in En:WP (max five minutes).
** progress of Mr:WP (max 10 minutes) (if Mr:WP meetup has been
conducted).
** on the ornithology course's bird contribution to Wikipedia (max
five minutes).
** about the photothon (max five minutes) (if photothon has been
conducted).
* Refreshments.
Please come forth with your views, activities and ideas.
We welcome participation of birders from all over Maharashtra in the
activities and the function.
Ashwin Baindur_,_._,___
Elevator pitch - The tenth anniversary of Wikipedia on 15 January is a
golden opportunity for the city's wikipedians to firmly place Pune on
the international wikipedia map. Birdwatchers of Pune have committed
to improving bird articles and an editing tutorial session has been
planned for the newbies at the meet. We look forward for people to
come forth to evangelise Wikipedia in schools and Colleges, to collect
images of Pune for Wikimedia Commons through a photothon and to a
meetup of Marathi Wikipedians which will showcase Pune as the cultural
capital of Maharashtra.
----------------------------------------------------------
Dear friends,
The Pune Wikipedia meetup plan is in the process of formalising.
Wikipedians who have participated in discussions so far are Sankarshan
Mukhopadhyay, Shirish Agarwal, Sudhanwa Jogalekar, and Mandar
Kulkarni. Supporting us online are Mahitgar and Abhay Natu. Of course
Bishakha Dutta and Arunram (of Wikimedia) have given their full
support as always.
We all hope that the 10th Anniversary Wikipedia Celebrations on 15
January (Saturday) in Pune are a great success. For that, I request
all people connected with any Wikimedia project in pune, whether it is
English Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons or any other.
We hope to have some activities before that date and the final meetup
on 15 January (Saturday) where we showcase those events.
The venue is yet to be decided, the timing will be in the evening but
exact timing yet to be decided.
The wikipedia-linked events formalised to date are :
* Contribution by 7th Ornithology Course. This will consist of a talk
to the course during one of their sessions and development of three
articles of bird species hopefully to GA quality. Dr Satish Pande and
Dr Anand Padhye, the course organisers and mentors have given full
support.
We hope that the following additional events can be formalised :
* Pune photothon - Pune loves Wikimedia Commons - prior to 15 Jan.
Sudhanwa is working on this with some photographic societies.
* Marathi Wikipedia meetup - prior to 15 Jan. This is really
important.
* Some evangelising with schools/colleges.
At the main meeting on 15 Jan it is tentatively planned to have the
following events as of now:
* Newbie editing session by Ashwin Baindur.
* Uploading of the three bird articles by 7th Ornithology course.
* Skype linkup with other meets (if it can be coordinated).
* (During W10 Meetup on 15 Jan) - short talks on:
** overview of articles on Pune in En:WP (max five minutes).
** progress of Mr:WP (max 10 minutes) (if Mr:WP meetup has been
conducted).
** on the ornithology course's bird contribution to Wikipedia (max
five minutes).
** about the photothon (max five minutes) (if photothon has been
conducted).
* Refreshments.
Please come forth with your views, activities and ideas.
We welcome participation of birders from all over Maharashtra in the
activities and the function.
Ashwin Baindur_,_._,___
AshLin
Dec 24, 2010, 12:39:38 AM12/24/10
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Dear friends,
The Wikipedia meetup in Pune on 15 Jamuary is gaining momentum. The
7th Ornithology course conducted by Ela Foundation and Abasaheb
Garware College has pledged to improve three bird articles on
Wikipedia before the Tenth Anniversary. The species selected by Dr
Satish Pande are :
* Bonelli's Eagle
* Grey Heron
* Common Myna
This is a wonderful start to what I hope will be a trend in the
future.
I urge all of you bird-lovers out there to contribute a little
information to your favourite bird article. We use Wikipedia so much
that it is only right that we give back and improve the encyclopaedia
and help ourselves in the bargain. Try it, its great fun to see your
contribution published online.
Please feel free to contact me if you need guidance.
It would indeed be great if the bird lovers of each city could do
something similar for their city meetups.
Details of meetup can be had from
Mumbai : kundanamitabh(at)gmail(dot)com
Bangalore: tinucherian(at)gmail (dot)com
Pune: ashwin(dot)baindur(at)gmail(dot)com
Sadly, not much news from the Delhi meetup :-(. Maybe YOU can take the
initiative. Wikipedia is NOT Jimbo Wales, it is you,me and
everybodyelse.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
The Wikipedia meetup in Pune on 15 Jamuary is gaining momentum. The
7th Ornithology course conducted by Ela Foundation and Abasaheb
Garware College has pledged to improve three bird articles on
Wikipedia before the Tenth Anniversary. The species selected by Dr
Satish Pande are :
* Bonelli's Eagle
* Grey Heron
* Common Myna
This is a wonderful start to what I hope will be a trend in the
future.
I urge all of you bird-lovers out there to contribute a little
information to your favourite bird article. We use Wikipedia so much
that it is only right that we give back and improve the encyclopaedia
and help ourselves in the bargain. Try it, its great fun to see your
contribution published online.
Please feel free to contact me if you need guidance.
It would indeed be great if the bird lovers of each city could do
something similar for their city meetups.
Details of meetup can be had from
Mumbai : kundanamitabh(at)gmail(dot)com
Bangalore: tinucherian(at)gmail (dot)com
Pune: ashwin(dot)baindur(at)gmail(dot)com
Sadly, not much news from the Delhi meetup :-(. Maybe YOU can take the
initiative. Wikipedia is NOT Jimbo Wales, it is you,me and
everybodyelse.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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