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Hyderabad Meetup[edit]

Summary[edit]

It's been three years since there has been a Wikimeetup in Hyderabad. It's high time we meet and discuss about the project and it's progress. After intensive discussions, it has been decided that the English Wikipedia and the Telugu Wikipedia users will have a joint meet: The First ever such meet here.


Date and Venue[edit]

  • Date: 20 December 2015 (Sunday)
  • Time: 10:00 AM IST
  • Venue:: Theatre Outreach Unit, 1st Floor Golden Threshold, Nampally Station Rd, Abids, Hyderabad, Telangana 500001
  • MAP :Map

Intended audience[edit]

Anyone who has contributed or is willing to contribute to Wikipedia and its sister projects.

Agenda[edit]

  • General discussion about the progress of the project and planning future activities in the region

Participants[edit]

Sign up using " # ~~~ " if you have an account or else add "# Your Name", under the appropriate section.

Golden Threshold, the venue of the meet

Attending[edit]

  1. ƬheStrikeΣagle 18:00, 6 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Yohannvt (talk) 18:14, 6 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Vin09 (talk) 18:21, 6 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Pavan santhosh.s (talk) 02:50, 7 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Sakthi_swaroop (talk) 06:45, 7 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Nrgullapalli (talk) 02:55, 8 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Muzammil (talk) 15:14, 8 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Meher Mansion (talk) 17:16, 13 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Kasyap--Kasyap (talk) 04:24, 17 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  10. [[User:Bhaskaranaidu|Bhaskaranaidu]] (talk) 01:32, 20 December 2015 (UTC)]][reply]

Interested but unsure[edit]

  1. Drcenjary (talk)
  2. محمد شعیب (talk)
  3. Tito Dutta (talk)
  4. Prof tpms (talk) 05:50, 13 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Rayabhari (talk) 09:13, 13 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  6. AmritasyaPutraT
  7. Praveen
  8. starpchack (talk)
  9. MAShaikh (talk)
  10. Ather (talk)

Best wishes[edit]

  1. βα£α(ᶀᶅᶖᵵᵶ) 00:19, 7 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Rsrikanth05 (talk)
  3. Pavanjandhyala (talk) 09:47, 10 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Have fun! Yash! 17:55, 11 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Ankit (TALK) 3:20, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
  6. --Fauzan✆ talk✉ mail 14:40, 12 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  7. 25 CENTS VICTORIOUS ☣ 19:45, 12 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Charli Deepak.A 23:41, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
  9. Spartan - 117 (talk) 13:21, 14 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  10. --SMahenS (Talk) 17:32, 15 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  11. --Human3015TALK  18:04, 15 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Event report[edit]

Introduction[edit]

The 1st multilingual Hyderabad Meetup and Edit-a-thon was held on 20 December 2015 at Golden Threshold, Abids. Originally conceived as a joint Telugu-English Wikipedia Meetup, it had representation from the Hindu and Urdu Wikipedias’ as well making it a multilingual meet.

Attendees[edit]

The Meetup and Edit-a-thon was attended by 20 people from Hyderabad. It included Wikipedians from the projects of Telugu, English, Hindi, Urdu Wikipedians and Commons.

Venue[edit]

Golden Threshold, Abids, Hyderabad

Time[edit]

10:00 AM onwards

Agenda Set:[edit]

  • To get to know each other and their works
  • Introduce The Wikimedia India Chapter and its functions
  • To get to know about the CIS-A2K initiatives and programs. (unfortunately cancelled)
  • To introduce the Telugu Wikimedia projects to the Wikimedians of other languages and motivate them to join the projects.
  • Edit-a-thon to let users know about the translation tool and perform translations from the English Wikipedia to the Telugu Wikipedia

Event Progression[edit]

Time Event
10:30 AM Program begins. Participants introduce themselves and their respective work
11:30 AM Yohann Thomas, Executive Committee member of Wikimedia India Chapter gives a presentation about the India Chapter and clarifies a few doubts of the participants
12:00 PM Tea-break
12:15 PM Pavan Santosh, a Wikipedian from the Telugu Wikipedia gives a presentation about the Telugu Wikipedia, its scope, growth and working.
1:45 PM Participants leave for lunch
2:45 PM Reassembly at the Event Venue for Edit-a-thon
3:00 PM Introduction to the Translation tool and Wikimedia Commons to the new users
3:00 PM to 5:00 PM Edit-a-thon session of Translations.

Expenditure Statement[edit]

  1. Travelling Expenses - ₹351 + ₹566 = ₹917
  2. Food for Participants (at ₹80 per head × 19) - ₹1520

Total = ₹2437
Thanks, ƬheStrikeΣagle 14:28, 4 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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