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The Wikipedia Bangalore meetup is a monthly get-together of wikipedians (contributors and users) to meet up, discuss, share experiences, reach out and advocate for wikipedia and wikimedia.

As discussed in the Bangalore Meetup 3 in July, Wikipedians in Bangalore (Bangapedians) will meet up every month on the 2nd or 3rd Sunday at 3 PM. 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: : Sunday, 11-Apr-2010 3:00 PM IST

Venue:
The Centre for Internet and Society
No. D2, 3rd Floor, Sheriff Chambers
14, Cunningham Road, Bangalore,
Karnataka 560052, India
Phone: (+91)-80-4092-6283‎

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.

Directions to Cunningham road

• From Shivaji Nagar Bus stand , come to Indian Express Bus Stop Junction, and go straight to Cunningham Road.
• From Vidhan Soudha/GPO come directly to Indian Express Bus Stop Junction from there left turn into Cunningham Road.

Directions from Cunningham road to Venue

On Cunningham Road, about half a kilometre from the Indian Express Junction, Center for Internet and Society (CIS) is located behind Wockhardt HospitalFortis Hospital (on the same building). This building is right next to Sigma mall.

Maps Link Openstreetmap

• Avoid the main entrance of the Wockhardt HospitalFortis Hospital . Enter via the extreme left side gate and walk down through the side of the hospital. Find the small board of "Centre for Internet & Society". Find the Lift / stairs nearby. CIS is on the 3rd floor.

• Introductions by Wikipedians.
• Meet and connect
  • Bishakha Datta - Newly appointed WikiMedia Foundation Board member.

• Updates
  • Chapter formation updates - Srinivas
  • Telugu Wikipedia Academy - Arjunarao
  • 9th World Tamil conference at Coimbatore and Wikipedia advocacy - Sundar
  • Malayalam Wikipedia meetup, 17-Apr-2010 - Tinu Cherian
• Discussions
  • Wikimedia Conference at Berlin. Chapter's committee and Developers' Workshop sessions. - Arun and HP Nadig
• Talks
  • Introduction to Bots on Wikipedia. -- Tinu Cherian
• Networking & Snacks.

• http://www.justin.tv/wpmbl#r=SzuF5k4~
• http://www.justin.tv/wpmbl/b/262059228 - Recorded version via justin.tv. ( low quality)

1. WMF board member Bishakha Datta
2. WMF Advisory board member Achal Prabala
3. Arunram (talk) 1
4. Tinu Cherian
5. GKJohn (talk)
6. Ravichandar84
7. Jithesh e j (talk)
8. Gurubrahma (talk)
9. Arjunaraoc (talk)
10. Hari Prasad Nadig
11. Naveenpf
12. Philip Tiju
13. Sundar
14. Sreejithk2000
15. BalaNarayanan , DNA
16. Pradeep Nair, The Times of India
17. Deepa Kurup, The Hindu
18. Vinay Sarawagi , Reuters
19. Sreejithk2000

1. Ganeshk
2. Thunderboltz
3. Devengoa

1. WMF board member Bishakha Datta
2. Arunram (talk) 10:34, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
3. Jithesh e j (talk) 04:59, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
4. -- Tinu Cherian - 11:06, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
5. Philip Tiju 04:40, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
6. GKJohn (talk)
7. Arjunaraoc (talk) 12:33, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
8. Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 12:37, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
9. Vivekrp (talk) [1][2]
10. Gurubrahma (talk) 11:24, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
11. Srikeit
12. Hari Prasad Nadig
13. Rsrikanth05 (talk) [Will be late].
14. Naveenpf
15. Devengoa [Attended remotely via the webcast].
16. prashanthns (talk) 04:07, 8 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
17. User:Ravichandar84 The Enforcer_{Office of the secret service} 15:45, 8 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
18. Rahul Gonsalves
19. Juergen Fleger
20. Anoopan
21. Kiran

1. Gingerjoos (talk) 16:58, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
2. Yann (talk) 03:37, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

1. Times of India
2. The Hindu
3. DNA
4. Bangalore Mirror / Tentative
5. Deccan Chronicle / Tentative

Please list external links announcing the meet-up here.

Please list post meeting coverage links here.

• Tweet with #WPMBL13 twitter hashtag http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23WPMBL13

Please list coverage of this event by media here.

• http://www.todaynews.in/city/bangalore/wikipedia-now-has-an-indian-face-63171.html
• http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Wikipedia-cries-for-desi-content/articleshow
• http://beta.thehindu.com/news/national/article396385.ece/5785692.cms

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