On 9th January 2015, Wikipedians met at 'Bengali Wikipedia 10th anniversary celebration and discussed about need of Newsletter for Indian Language Wikipedia's.
Date:
9th January 2015
Time: 12:30pm to 01:00pm and 01:30pm to 3pm
Participants:
Satdeep Gill (Satdeep gill) - Punjabi Wikipedia
Sameer Dhingra WikiConnect Conversation ParticipantsWikipedians from Bangladesh, India and Nepal interacting at Bengali Wikipedia 10th Anniversary Celebration Jadavpur University Campus
Gaurav Jhammat - Panjabi Wiki
Jyoti Sharma (Amritaysaputra) - En Wiki
Santosh Shringare (cherishsantosh) - Mr Wiki
Bijay Chaurasia (bijay chaurasia) - Maithali Wikipedia
Biplab Anand - Maithali Wikipedia
Sailesh Patnaik - Odia Wikipedia
Subas Chandra Rout - Odia Wikipedia
Asif Muktadir Hussain - (AsifMuktadir) - Bengali
MD Soroar Alam - Banglaesh
AK Shahdat Hussain - Bangladesh
AKN Shahabad
Pavithra - Kannada Wikipedia
Anupama Srinivas
Omshivprakash - Kannada
Sudeepto Roy - Sudipto Roy
Debdip Dhibar - Bengali Wikipedia - Speaker
Srikant Kedia - Admin on Odia Wiki
Flow of event:
Abhishek Suryawanshi shared started ice-breaker activity by asking everyone to share their name and one thing which they like about Wikipedia. After informal round of introductions, participants voluntarily shared their experience with English as well as local language Wikipedia.
Everyone agreed about 'Importance of documentations and reporting on Meta'. Satdeep Gill answering queries about Punjabi Wikipedia at WikiConnect Conversations
Satdeep Gill shared his community initiatives and stories related to Punjabi Wikipedia
Biplab and Bijay shared Maithili Wikipedia success stories and problems in Nepal.
Asif shared information of Bangladesh community and highlighted importance of social media in Bangladesh for Wiki outreach.
During round of introduction, everyone shared what motivated them to make their first edit -
Here are few answers -
What Motivates you:
Asif: ‘free’ aspect of Wikipedia, it is attractive.
Bijay: Native language and love for mother-tounge .
Md Soroar: Sufi ideology follower, was fascinated while using Google, found out while searching info, saw it in interlinked information. Everyone in Sufi community knows about Wikipedia. His entire family edits Wikipedia. Mohd Saiful: Family motivates me.
Satdeep: Native language , learning tool.
Gaurav: Outreach session organised by Punjabi community (Sateddp Gill and team) motivated him.
Anupama: Gendergap editathon at Bangalore motivated her.
Overall answers -
Express learnings.
Community interaction (Talk page interactions)
Pay it forward attitude.
Proud about language Know other languages.
Proud feeling to be part of global community.
Outreach sessions
Newsletter Discussion
After general discussions, few community members from 6 different languages participated in brainstorming session on 'Need of Indian-Wiki-Newsletter'
Participants
Usernames -
Tito Datta - En Wiki
odiasha1, - Odia Wiki
Saileshpat,- Odia Wiki
Omshivaprakash - Kannada Wiki
Subas Chandra Rout - Odia Wiki
bijaychaurasia - Maithili (Nepal) Wiki
Biplab - Maithili (Nepal) Wiki
Satdeep gill - Punjabi Wiki
Gaurav jhammat - Punjabi Wiki
AmritasyaPutra - En Wiki
cheriansantosh Mr Wiki
AbhiSuryawanshi - Mr/Hi Wiki
Why we need Newsletter?
Central notice board for indic Language outreach and efforts.
Connecting Indic Language community
Give voice to different Indian Language local initiatives and projects.
Inspire each other by sharing.
Collaborative engagement between community.
Forecast of activities.
Newsletter format
What to expect in Newsletter?
Interview
Success story
Community update - current happenings, workshops, upcoming events, Project status
