User:AbhiSuryawanshi/Wikimedia India ideas

__NOINDEX__ A planning was started in December 2014 by Dr. Abhishek Suryavanshi (User:AbhiSuryawanshi), Mr. Tito Dutta (User:Titodutta) and Mr. Sudhanwa Jogelkar to take WikiProject India/Condensed proposed roadmap for Wikimedia work in India forward and engage institutes with Wikipedia projects.

Dr. Abhishek Suryavanshi and Mr. Tito Dutta talked on it over phone, but, no clear rodamap was found.


 * Let us work on simple idea - connecting colleges and rural villages in India. Almost 70% India lives in rural area. They equally deserve access to Wikipedia. We can work with government schools and hospitals to spread basic health-care information. We need volunteers - we will connect city volunteer with rural area. AbhiSuryawanshi (talk) 11:42, 13 December 2014 (UTC)


 * That is a broad plan with many aspects. Will those Swatantra guys and @Vishnu ji give us a day off from Swatantra event, so that we can discuss things. -- Tito ☸ Dutta 12:17, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

Proposed cities
Idea is to pair a city with local rural village and volunteers from city can act as catalyst to promote Wikipedia in rural area through (Spoken) Wikipedia.

AbhiSuryawanshi (talk) 12:23, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Delhi
 * Jaipur
 * Kolkata
 * Pune
 * Exactly this is the point which I could not understand during our "off and on" ICC Bangalore discussion to. I see these issues now— a) For Spoken Wikipedia, the spoken articles we have, those people may not have interest on those (such as United States Highways, Departmental stores), and the articles they will have interest, we don't have those articles. b) we may need Wikipedia articles in local languages? -- Tito ☸ Dutta 04:47, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
 * We can start with simple Offline Wikipedia Project. Knowledge is power and we need to educate citizens with proper information. We can distribute offline Wikipedia DVD to rural area's. (Execution part : city contributors will help rural community, we need to bridge the gap) AbhiSuryawanshi (talk) 15:17, 14 December 2014 (UTC)