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Wikipedia celebrates its tenth anniversary globally on the 15th of January 2011. Wikimedia will celebrate this milestone with volunteers, donors, and other supporters on six continents. From the launch of a new outreach project in Kenya to a film screening in Tel Aviv, there are currently 200+ events planned worldwide. Our celebration events are open to participation by anyone who wants to join in reflecting on our collective accomplishments and goals for the future.

Wikipedians and well wishers in India are celebrating the tenth anniversary in a big way, with celebrations being planned 60+ cities across India. Mumbai is one of the active hubs for Wikipedians in India.

As part of the celebrations, we are organising an one day meetup in Mumbai on Saturday the 15th of Jan, 2011. We expect it to be attended by about 400+ Wikipedia enthusiasts along with Barry Newstead, Chief Global Development Officer, Wikimedia Foundation . We intend to connect Wikipedians with the general public and other focus groups in the city. There would be sessions to introduce Wikimedia projects to the public with a view to spur both consumption and creation of knowledge on various Wikimedia projects. There would also be updates from various Wikimedia projects as well as joint project planning sessions with various city focus groups. We expect active Wikipedians, academia and any one interested in Wikipedia to participate in the event. In addition, we believe there will be much interest from the Free and Open Source communities and other professionals.

The event is intended for the following:

• General public - anyone interested or curious about Wikipedia or Wikimedia.
• Wikipedia users - current users of Wikipedia or any Wikimedia projects.
• Wikipedians - Contributors to Wikipedia content in all languages. (This is not a English Wikipedia event alone)
• Indian Language specialists and those working on Computing in Indian languages.

This is a free event and open to all.

If you are interested in coming, add your name below participants.

Saturday, 15-Jan-2011 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM IST

VJTI, Matunga, Mumbai -400 019

Getting there

VJTI is located at Matunga as is easily accessible by rail and road from across Mumbai.

If you are arriving by train (Central Railways) you may alight at either Wadala Station,King Circle Station or Matunga Station

If you are arriving by bus the following BEST Routes take you to VJTI.

5, 6L, 7L, 8L, 11L, 15, 21, 22L, 24, 29, 43, 45, 64, 65, 66, 67, 76, 88, 90L, 92L, 93L, 110, 151, 161, 169, 171, 172, 312, 314, 315, 353, 411, 504L, 506L, 521L

• 98694 78444 (Kundan Amitabh)
• 93221 21170 (Moksh Juneja )
• 99876 76274 ( Vivek Varghese Cherian )
• 89762 53586 (Pradeep Mohandas)

Pre-Meeting discussions can be on the talk page please.

1. A video message from Jimmy Wales (Founder, Wikipedia) about the 10th Anniversary Celebrations.
2. Keynote Address by Barry Newstead (Chief Global Development Officer, Wikimedia Foundation)
3. Talk on Indic Languages Wikipedia by Kundan Amitabh (Wikipedia Angika Wiki Administrator)
4. Cake Cutting Party

Please visit for updates on agenda : http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai#Agenda

1. Barry Newstead, Chief Global Development Officer, Wikimedia Foundation
2. Kundan Amitabh (User:Angpradesh)(talk)
3. Moksh Juneja (User:Mokshjuneja)(talk)
4. Pradeep Mohandas (User:prad2609 - talk)
5. Vivek Varghese Cherian (User:vivekvc)
6. Loyan D'Mello
7. Ashish A. Waingankar
8. Pooja Jadhav,Mumbai
9. yogeshwarnair : Entrepreneur and programmer[1]
10. Giri Neekish R
11. Sandeep B. Kanvinde
12. Sushanth Poojary
13. Prashant Verma, IIT Bombay
14. Vivek Khandelwal
15. ravikant
16. Krutik Pandya
17. Aniket Khade, IIT Bombay
18. Praveen Tamhankar, IIT Bombay
19. [Vasim G. Mansuri]
20. [Mohit Desai]
21. [Akshay Desai]
22. Shanmugasivam, Lecturer, Rizvi Engg College, Bandra
23. Vipin Agarwal
24. Devendra B Mehendale
25. Rohit Vardhan
26. Neela Pradeep
27. Nishit Bharat Shah
28. Shreyash Joshi
29. Jitendra Shah (Ex-Faculty VJTI, Current Faculty IIT Powai)
30. Tracy de
31. Jaydeep Singh [2]
32. Jayesh Salvi
33. 183.87.76.204 (talk) Vickey Verma Email:vickey19hunk2007@gmail.com
34. Sumeet More [3]
35. 111.119.229.53 (talk) Alneez Virani
36. Umesh Pandit Umesh Pandit
37. Hritik Jain
38. Valentine Sequeira
39. Akshaye Navanath (98693 67350) (Mumbai) [4]
40. Himanshu Bajaj (respite at gmail dot com)
41. Srikeit (Admin, English Wikipedia)
42. Tushar Varghese
43. Anupriy Kanti
44. Nikunj Merchant
45. Shashank Singh, Student, VJTI [shashankrsingh@gmail.com]
46. Franklin Patrao, Student, VJTI [franklinpatrao@gmail.com]
47. Vivek Todi, Student, VJTI [vemonlord@gmail.com]
48. Deepesh Shah, Student, VJTI [deepeshah@gmail.com]
49. Akhilesh Joshi, Student, VJTI [akhilesh.catch@gmail.com]
50. Nimitha Sarma, Student, SNDT [nimithasarma@gmail.com]
51. Harriet Vidyasagar (regret did not attend.)
52. Aditya Sengupta
53. Punit Rastogi [5]Punitr1983 (talk) 11:38, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
54. Prakash Bebington (User:Prakash_bebington)(talk)
55. Avikalp Mehrotra
56. Sudhir Gupta [getsudhir@gmail.com]
57. Amit Chivilkar [6]
58. Ankit Daftery
59. Sagar Savla
60. kn:User:Radhatanaya (talk) ರಾಧಾತನಯ
61. Shaikh, Mohammed Zaid
62. Lajpat Dhingra
63. Karthik Nadar
64. Shahid Farooqui, IIT Bombay
65. Mahendra Pandey, Corporate Trainer
66. Gautam Chaturvedi
67. Nagarjuna
68. Shashi Maurya
69. Pranav Jain,student
70. SWAPNIL R . SANGLE
71. Vinayak Myakala {వినాయక్}
72. Rashid Ali Shaikh, Student
73. Yogesh Unavane, Student
74. Himanshu Gajwani,Student
75. Udit Goenka, Student
76. Around The Globe^{सत्यमेव जयते}
77. Swapnil Zambre, 21 Business Studio
78. Valentino, 21 Business Studio
79. 114.79.140.37 (talk) Nitesh Khandelwal, Student
80. Shailesh Ghadge
81. Pallavi Mishra, SNDT, Mumbai
82. Rushabh Mehta, VJTI
83. Rohan Murdeshwar, VJTI
84. Utkarshraj Atmaram (utcursch)
85. Swati Birare, IIT Bombay
86. Manish Bhardwaj[TIS]
87. Akshay Vijayakar, VJTI
88. Mayur Bakhai, VJTI
89. Rohan Viswanath , VJTI
90. Mayur Chaudhari, B.Y.K., Nasik
91. Pranav Kelkar
92. Ketaki Sathe
93. Ruchi Nandu
94. Sumit Roy
95. Samir Shah
96. Tejas Nair
97. Sainath Patil
98. Mahafreed Mahafreed (talk) 09:32, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
99. Naresh Khandelwal,Mumbai
100. Vivek Kuriyal
101. Advait Phatarfod,VJTI
102. Hitesh Shakya, IIT Bombay
103. Yukteshwar Baranwal, IIT Bombay
104. Shashank Shah
105. Prof.Prakash D. Sawant Dr.T.K.Tope College, Parel, Mumbai-12
106. Yet Another Wikipedian
107. Vibhav Gupta, SPCE
108. Pritesh Patil, BVIMSR
109. Gaurav Gupta, IT Consultant
110. Naresh Naik, MIS & Analytics
111. S. Sundar Singh
112. Amol Yelgaonkar
113. Prateek Ashutosh Dwivedi
114. sippy zenma http://www.svrcreations.com/ (Programer)
115. Aditya V. Iyer, SFIT
116. Prashant Serai (User:Prashantserai)(talk)
117. Siddharth Sekhar
118. Aakash Goyal
119. Sagar http://www.svrcreations.com/ It Manager
120. Kailash Goswami
121. Naresh Gaikwad
122. Swapnil Chavarkar
123. Deep Shah
124. Sanjay Murthy - TCS, Mumbai
125. Abhishek Parmar
126. Harishchandra Jagtap of Pooja Computers, India.
127. Rohan Devare MSC Computer Science student
128. Vinayak Koli BE EXTC
129. Nivvedan, IIT Bombay
130. Xiteez Vyas, IT-Oracle.
131. Francis Mascarenhas
132. Navaz Sherieef - User, Panasonic electrical Works Ltd..
133. Akshay Vannery - WikiLover
134. Prof.H.L.Narayan Rao, Assistant Professor, Bhavan's College, Andheri(w), Mumbai-58. rau03@rediffmail.com (9869923600.)
135. Ravindra R.Nadkarni,(Academic)
136. Hitesh Unavane, Student
137. vivek patil, all d way from ICT...
138. Hemant Chopade of Pooja Computers, India [7]
139. Abhishek Chavan, from L&T, LTIT
140. Rashid Gilani
141. Abhinna Shreshtha
142. Ananta Prasad Dash, Atos Origin India. (User:Anantaprasad)(talk)
143. Achyut Gosavi,S.P.M.Polytechnic Solapur (student)
144. Hitesh Sharma, Accenture India
145. Swapnil Vilas Sangle from Microsoft
146. Ankit Khandelwal, Accenture India
147. Mukesh Malviya
148. Mageshkumar Nadarajan
149. Sagar Nawale
150. Yogendra Singh
151. Varun Karandikar [8]
152. Nripendra Singh
153. Vipul Patil
154. Apoorv Johari
155. Sagar Mhatre from 3D Technopack Limited., [9]
156. Neha Vora, VJTI, Mumbai
157. Adhit Shetty, VJTI, Mumbai
158. Amit Patel, Carbon Media Works, Mumbai [www.explorecarbon.com]
159. Mihir - 9821008689 [10][11]
160. Arindam Ghosh makghosh [at] gmail [dot] com (User:Makghosh)
161. M.C. Arunan
162. Amit Dhakulkar
163. Pankaj Rai, Teacher, Mumbai
164. Jaykumar Dandwani, BE, Mumbai
165. Sandeep Pagare
166. Bhupendra Singh Kohli (http://bhai-ghanaiyaji-sewa.page.tl)
167. Faisal Memon
168. Charanpreet Singh
169. Srinidhi Bheesette
170. Prasanjit Maity
171. Mayur Kabra + 5
172. Priyanka Ashutosh Dwivedi
173. Tripti Chaturvedi
174. Sendhil Varadharajan
175. Nigel C'rasto
176. Sandeep Mishra
177. Pradeep Mishra
178. Anil Trivedi
179. Nilesh Tiwari
180. Krithika B
181. Siddhesh Parulekar
182. Dhairya Dhruv, VJTI
183. Sunayan Sanatani
184. Megha Gawde
185. Alhad Nene
186. Ashok Bohra
187. Sagar Howal - [12]
188. Ruchita Sen
189. Rohini AlphaTauri
190. [Tushar K a n s a r a] (talk) 13:40, 3 December 2011 (UTC)tarasnake Web-Site[reply]

1. - Bishakha Datta ( User:Bishdatta) , Board of Trustees, Wikimedia Foundation - I may be in Kolkata, so unsure.
2. - Marvel, Normal User, Wikimedia Foundation - I may have school, so unsure.
3. T Sriram
4. Mahesh Krishnamurthy - will come in a little late
5. Ashwin Durga - Maybe late
6. Durgesh Sirwani - If I am in Mumbai on that day.
7. Maseeha Peerzada
8. Mandar Balshankar, Computer Engineering Student
9. Languagebird - If i'm there at Mumbai on that day
10. Rohit
11. Jatin Aya
12. Pranav Kale
13. Rahul F
14. Namendra Belhe
15. Anuj More
16. Aftab Ahmed Ali
17. KuwarOnline- Still in Delhi, hope if I m in Mumbai, I will be there.
18. Vikrant Yagnick ( User:vikrantyagnick)
19. Rohit
20. T H Radhakrishnan (thradhakrishnan@gmail.com)
21. Rabindranath Senapati
22. Priyanka Ashutosh Dwivedi
23. Shray Sharma
24. Mohd Firoz Ansari (Will Try to be there with a Friend)
25. Sachin Shetty (I have my MCA project viva so not sure to attend)
26. Ashwin Baindur, axa User:AshLin - not attending but my very best wishes. A global invite to you guys to come over for the Pune meetup that evening!
27. jitu manghnani
28. Arihant Surana
29. S W A P N I L R. S A N G L E
30. K Anshuman
31. Alok Gupte
32. Manmeet Singh
33. Nilanchal Swara
34. Tridib Chowdhury
35. Pallab Chatterjee
36. Shaikh Munna
37. Suraj Kumar R
38. Kuntal Bhanbare
39. Hrishikesh Devare.(Software Developer)
40. Ronak S. Pandya [SJCET]
41. balu
42. Mohammed Hussian Bohra
43. Anindya Roy
44. Irudaya Ratnam S
45. Kaushik Das Gupta
46. Tania Juneja
47. Daksh Juneja
48. Cyrus D'Mello
49. Madhuri Amitabh
50. Shashwat Amitabh
51. Samyak Amitabh
52. Achyut Gosavi (solapur)
53. Ashish Sharma
54. Sagar Narlawar (Process Engineer)
55. Abhishek Shankhdhar (Senior Executive Clinical Research)
56. Deepak Narayan Swamy (Senior Executive Clinical Research)
57. Garima Agrawal
58. Sonu Singh
59. Kunal Parmar
60. Arup Garai
61. Dipraj Kuwar
62. Lade Vamshi
63. Yogendra Singh
64. Sagar Nawale
65. Hemant Patil
66. Deepak Nair
67. K.S. Shailshree, SNDT Mumbai
68. prathamesh rasam (SIESGST , NERUL) I WILL TRY , WANTS TO CONTRIBUTE MY KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS WITH WIKIPEDIA
69. Chetan G Kandari (Kharghar, Navi Mumbai)
70. Nigel C'rasto
71. Faisal Memon
72. Anil Trivedi
73. Abhinav G Pillai
74. DENNY DANIEL
75. yogeshwar nair
76. Neha Vora (VJTI, Mumbai)
77. Pranay Varma
78. Nikhil Sheth (Teach For India volunteer & fellow, 2011-13) - traveling from Pune; will try to make it. Want to share about spreading offline wikipedia for schools using Kiwix. Pls contact me on facebook if interested.
79. Hanif Shaikh (Mumbai)
80. - Pradeep Lahoti - interest but not sure whether i can make it to the event. i vl try !!!
81. Bhola Ghimire-- I could not reach on time. Sorry, I am celebrating it from my place. Happy Anniversary
82. Subhojit Ghimire (10 year old)-- Happy 10th Anniversary WIKIPEDIA--
83. Anupama Ghimire (13 Year old)-- Happy 10th Anniversary WIKIPEDIA--
84. Sujita Khanal -- Happy Anniversary !!!!!
85. Prasham Parikh
86. - Vaibhav Rakshe,normal user

The Technovanza event organizers at VJTI for assistance regarding the venue and the network infrastructure needed for the event.

Please list post meeting coverage links here.

• Indic Languages Wikipedia by Kundan Amitabh
• How to Contribute to Wikipedia : A Guide compiled by Kundan Amitabh
• How to type Indic Languages by means of Inscript Keyboard by Kundan Amitabh

• Living to tell the tale / The extraordinary ordinary People.
• BBC Documentaries : Wikipedia at 10.
• The Economic Times : 20 there, 20 more: Wikipedias in local language to bloom
• The Hindu : Happy Birthday, Wikipedia!
• Wikipedia turns ten; users seek more regional content
• Wiki! We made it!
• India chapter, a key for Wikipedia’s growth

1. Post on the event by Technosophy blog
2. विकीपिडीयन मेळावा
3. विकिपीडिया मराठी ज्ञानकोष
4. Wikipedia for Schools project - with all links Nikhilsheth (talk) 04:43, 17 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
5. Troubleshooting the Wikipedia For Schools Offline Edition + Call to Action Nikhilsheth (talk) 09:57, 22 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
6. Google IME and Wikipedia (हिंदी में) Nikhilsheth (talk) 03:00, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Wikipedia 10 Images on Picasa - Nikhil Seth
• Please upload to commons and add category Commons:Category:Wikipedia 10 India

• Tweet with #Wikipediadaymumbai twihtag http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23#Wikipediadaymumbai
• you can also use #wp10 on Twitter

• Wikipedia for Schools Offline Edition - wiki page created to co-ordinate & collaborate on this initiative shared at the meetup. Nikhilsheth (talk) 08:01, 21 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]