Wikipedia–Wikimedia Meetup
Kolkata, India

Meetup One Successful
3:00 - 6:00 p.m. 11 December 2010 Saturday,

The Wikipedia Kolkata 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: : Saturday, 11-December-2010 2:30 PM IST

Venue:
The Computer Society of India (CSI)
Bhawanipur College
5, Lala Lajpat Rai Sarani (Elgin Road),
4th Floor
Kolkata,
West Bengal 700020

• https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-bd For Bangladesh
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb For West Bengal

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.

• By Road:
  • From Air Port,(It is suggested for who is new in kolkata take prepaid Taxi, Book for Bhawanipur College Elgin Road ) come straight through VIP Road and EM bye Pass. When Science City Crossing Comes you take right towards Park Circus 5 Point. After Park Circus 5 Point take AJC Bose fly Over Road towords Vidhyasagar Setu,but dont take the fly over, you should go through straight below the bridge towards Minto Park. From Minto Park take left for Sarat Bose Raod and you see first crossing take right for Elgin Road.

• Meet and connect: Introductions by Wikipedians.
• Talks
  • Introduction to Wikipedia
  • Introduction to Bengali Wikipedia / Wiki projects

• Discussions
  • Lightening Talks / Discussions (Open forum)
  • 10 years of Wikipedia Saturday, January 15, 2011
  • Google Translation
  • WikiBhasa
• Networking

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.

Attended

1. Tinu Cherian - 14:21, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
2. Jayanta Nath
3. Shijualex (talk)
4. Dr Diptanshu Das
5. Indranil Das Gupta
6. Prof T K Dey
7. Debashis Sikdar
8. Kalyan Sarkar
9. Soma Sen Gupta
10. Pinaki Banerjee -Anandabazar Patrika reporter
11. A K Banerjee
12. Aniruddha Nag
13. Kalyan K R Das
14. GuruDas Nag
15. Shiv Mishra
16. Krishnendu Das
17. A Sajid Ali
18. Suruchi Gupta-The Hindustan Times reporter
19. Debiprasad Chakraborty
20. Jaydip Bhattacharya

Signedup

1. -- Tinu Cherian - 14:21, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
2. -- Jayanta Nath 14:32, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
3. --Shijualex (talk) 14:36, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
4. --Diptanshu^Talk 16:55, 28 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
5. Indranil Das Gupta
6. Kalyan Sarkar
7. Sanjib Gourh
8. Debashis Sikdar
9. Sharath Ghosh
10. Krishnendu Sanyal
11. Krishnendu Das
12. Shubhankar Mazumdar
13. Arjun Pakrashi
14. Abhijit Ghosh
15. Aveek Mondal
16. Ulhas Vardhan Golchha
17. Suprobhat Hazra
18. Najmun Nessa
19. Paushali Sahu
20. Avik Sengupta
21. Jaybrata Bhattacharyya
22. Indranil Dasgupta
23. Soumyabrata Ghosh
24. Kamanashish Roy
25. Boudhayan Gupta
26. John Bose
27. Hemant Chabria
28. Kuntal Gupta
29. Abhinaba Dey
30. Stephanie Das Gupta
31. Diti Bhattacharyya
32. Sudeep Deb
33. Arnab Dutta
34. Subhamoy Nath
35. Ranajit Dey
36. Kausik Nath
37. Jayanta (Talk) 12:18, 27 November 2010 (UTC) - because currently away from Kolkata[reply]
38. Binil Varghese
39. Avijit Patra
40. Arindam Ghosh
41. Debamitro Chakraborti
42. Subhodip Biswas
43. Vishnu Gupta
44. Saugat Pal
45. Bhaskarjyoti Roy
46. Jitendra Adhikari
47. Tanweer Morshed
48. Sandipan Dhar
49. Krishnendu Paul
50. Surjya Kumar Das
51. Meejanur Rahaman
52. Harsh Verma
53. Anindya Kumar Banerjee
54. Debleena Bose
55. Soumya Kanti Chakraborty
56. Bastab Chakraborty
57. Sruti Mukherjee
58. Amit Das
59. Debajit Biswas
60. Barid Tarafdar

Regrets

1. --Iball (talk) 17:49, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
2. -- rueben_lys (talk · contribs) 21:19, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
3. — Legolas ^(talk2me) 04:09, 27 November 2010 (UTC) I'm staying in Bangalore at present, hence will be attending that seminar. If by chance I come to Kolkata at that time, I will come for sure.[reply]
4. --Dwaipayan (talk) 19:56, 3 December 2010 (UTC) . Not in Kolkata :([reply]
5. -- Rimi talk contribs 11:46, 9 December 2010 (UTC) Conducting a Creative Writing Workshop at Creative Arts Studio on 11 and 12 December from 10 to 6. Sorry.[reply]
6. -- Leif edling (talk) 16:30, 26 December 2010 (UTC) Had my semester exams :([reply]
7. – Deb ‖ Poke • EditList ‖ 06:01, 4 January 2011 (UTC) Why is it behaving like gecho-dada? I was there & all the fun was here at Bangalore, now finally it's at Kolkata & I can't attend! Wouldn't Saraswati Puja have been a better time? :-|[reply]

Wishes

1. Great to see this very welcome event.. For the last few years I have been seeing only the Bangladesh chapter active and really wondered if only they cared for their mother tongue or their wikipedia... So here we are- no longer at the back.. I am proud of you guys.. Keep up the good work. I am in the US and in the middle of a professional rush hour.. But I would be very eager to know how it goes.. My very best wishes. --Dr.saptarshi (talk) 19:46, 29 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Press

1. Pinaki Banerjee -Anandabazar Patrika reporter
2. Suruchi Gupta-The Hindustan Times reporter

Please list external links announcing the meet-up here.

• http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=175781849114401
• http://coffeehouseradda.com/blog/jayantanth/4600
• http://indiareckoner.net/blog/2010/12/08/wikipedia-meetup-kolkata-11th-december-2010/

Twitter

• Tweet with #WPMKK1 twitter hashtag http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23WPMKK1

Media coverage

Please list coverage of this event by media here.

• Hindustan Times : "Making Wikipedia popular in Bengali" , 2010 Dec 15, Kolkata edition.
• Wikipedia enhances its Bong connection December 16, 2010 news.oneindia.in

Photos

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