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The Wikipedia Chennai meetup is a regular get-together of wikipedians (contributors and users) to meet up, discuss, share experiences, reach out and advocate for wikipedia and wikimedia.
The meetups are intended to be structured as follows —Introductions, a few focused talks by Wikipedians to share experience / expertise followed by demos and open discussions on topics of common interest.
Pre-Meeting discussions can be on the
talk page please.
Date and Venue
Date: : Sunday, 14-November-2010 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
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PS: WikiMarathon starts at 10 AM and Wikimeetup /talks starts at 2 PM.
Please feel free to join any time(If you dont want to wiki run in marathon,please come at 2 pm.
Venue: ThoughtWorks Technologies (India) Pvt Ltd.
view map RR Tower 5
Level 2, Rishabh Info Park
33 A Developed Plots
Thiru Vi Ka Industrial Estate
Ekkatuthangal, Guindy
Chennai - 600 032, India
Intended Audience
Anyone interested in Wikipedia (user, contributor or curious about it). Wikipedians from any part of India or the world and anyone who is interested in Wikipedia! Meetup is open to members of all Wikimedia projects and Wikipedians from all languages. All are welcome, and we are especially interested in seeing newcomers to join the experienced Wikipedians/Wikimedians. If you are interested in coming, please add your name below.
Getting there
By Road:
Reach
Kathipara Junction,
Guindy and proceed towards
Vadapalani direction. Take the first left on the junction of Olympia Tech Park and Inner ring road and travel straight to see a HCL office, take a left just before that and proceed straight. Thoughtworks is at the dead end of the road.
Introduction to Tamil Wikipedia / Wiki projects --
Mahir
Activity
Wiki Marathon (Starts at 10 am, continues at 3:30 pm). The aim of Wiki-Marathon is to do something hands-on instead of just talking / listening. WikiMarathon will attempt to bring back old time editors to spend solid time contributing as well as helping new editors understand more about how to contribute while doing it. More details
Wikipedia:Meetup/India/Marathon1. Come with a laptop, help others by bringing any extra ones you have :)
Discussions
Lightening Talks / Discussions (Open forum)
Networking
PS: WikiMarathon starts at 10 AM till 2 and continues after the talks. Please feel free to join any time(If you dont want to wiki run in marathon,please come at 2 pm.
Participants
To add your name, click "edit" on the right side. Then add your name and click "save page" button below the edit box. You are also welcome to attend the event without registering your name here.
Prof Viswanathan,Director, International Socio-Economic Research Bureau, Author: Democrism-The Third Theory or How to Solve From Poverty to Nuclear War
karthik.globalsoul (
talk) - can't make it this year guys!! But have lots of ideas - including the wikipedia quiz that I discussed with Kiruba sometime ago
10 wikipedians assembled around 10 AM at the venue.
User:Ravidreams gave a brief intro about Wiki Marathon and participants with laptop started on marathon. Many newbies turned up in the morning itself. There were around 20 participants for the Wikimarathon.
By 1 PM participants broke for lunch and the post lunch session started by 2:30 PM with a round of introductions
User:Mahir gave a Introduction about Tamil wikipedia, wiktionary, wikinews in detail.
User:Ravidreams announced the landmark achievement of Tamil wikitionary being the 9th largest wikitionary
Had a lively Q & A session on various topics from Contributing to Indic wikipedias,Tamil input schemes,Copyrights,Vandalism,Credibility of information etc.
User:Shijualex gave a small talk about Malayalam wiki community activities.
User:Sengai Podhuvan, a retired Tamil professor spoke few minutes about his activities in wiki world.
The Wikimeetup was attended by around 45 participants.