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Wikimedia India Overview Chapter's conference, Berlin, 25-27 Mar 2011 Arjuna Rao Chavala, Anirudh Singh Bhati Wikimedia India Email: [email protected] Copyright: CC-BY-SA 3.0 Thanks to Tinu Cherian,Ralf Roletschek for use of their photos on this presentation Wikimedia India at a glance Date of Founding: 3 January 2011 Members: 7 Volunteers: Hundreds of volunteers across India Media coverage: Extensive coverage in the print and visual media since September 2010. For more information, please visit: http: //wikimedia.in Community Activities with Support of EC members (Apr2010-Mar2011) 31 Wikipedia community meetups in 9 cities. Ahmedabad, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kochi, Kolkata & Mumbai has their first meetups Good participation from Indian wikipedians at Wikimania (Gdansk) and the chapters meeting at Berlin. First ever India community news letter An offline CD (Malayalam) Launch of the Wikimedia.in website Visits from the foundation - Jimmy Wales, Erik Möller, Danese Cooper, Alolita Sharma, Barry Newstead, LiamWyatt Community Activities with Support of EC members April2010-Mar2011 (Cont'd) Wiki Ten celebrations Over sixty locations in India Other Events AGIS'2010 GNUnify 2011, Pune Carte Blanche World Samskrit Book fair and National Conference Bangalore Photo Walk Plans for 2011-12: Outreach focus areas Cities/State/Union Territories Languages IT Industry Education/Academia Government Like minded NGOs Plans for 2011-12-Proposed Projects (Preliminary) Knowledge kiosks in Public Libraries Wiki Academies Projects to improve indic language tools Research of Wikimedia indic language movement in universities Article writing contest Indic Wiki Resource Centre Indic Wikipedia/Wiktionary CD/DVD Indic wikipedia in print Indic wikipedia tutorials Improve participation from women in Wiki communities Wikimania for Indian Wikipedians Challenges Foundation Grant for Chapter activities could take 4-6 months. Governance structure and processes for engaging with stakeholders to be defined and improved. Collaboration with many stakeholders with direct activities in India.

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