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 Wikipedia–Wikimedia Meetup Bangalore, India Meetup 11 Successful 3:00–6:00 p.m., Sunday, 14 Feburary 2010 (view · edit · changes)

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Summary
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 and Venue
Date: : Sunday, 14-Feb-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

Intended Audience
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.

Getting there
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 Hospital (on the same building). This building is right next to Sigma mall.

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Agenda

 * Introductions by Wikipedians.
 * Planned talks
 * Dealing with Vandals - Experience sharing of vandal fighting using undo, Rollback, Twinkle, Huggle, and Lupin's tool, and if time persists, cleaning up using Advisor and Wikipedia Cleaner --Rsrikanth05 (talk) [Confirmed with User:Arunram ]
 * Discussions
 * Update on Sanskrit wikipedia outreach initiatives - Arunram
 * Vandalism in Indian language wikipedas - All.
 * Karnataka/Bangalore wikipedia content: Call to action - Discussion by all.
 * Need for a India specific Wikipedia RC patrol - Discussion.
 * Wikipedia India chapter - All
 * Staking a bid for [Wikimania 2012]- Discussion.
 * Networking & Snacks.

Attended



 * 1) Arunram (talk)
 * 2) Arjunaraoc (Telugu, English)
 * 3) vaibhavsk (English, Marathi)
 * 4) Rsrikanth05 (English, Hindi)
 * 5) Tracerbullet2
 * 6) Kumara Holla K (Sanskrit)
 * 7) Dharamvir Singh (Sanskrit)
 * 8) Another participant.

Signed up

 * 1) Rsrikanth05 (talk)
 * 2) Vivek Rp (talk)
 * 3) Arunram (talk) 18:38, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 4) Rameshng (talk)
 * 5) Vamsi Krishna
 * 6) Sunil Kumar Verma
 * 7) Byju Veedu
 * 8) Srikeit
 * 9) Arjunaraoc (talk) 11:59, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
 * 10) vaibhavsk
 * 11) Anoopan (talk) 14:01, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 12)  The Enforcer Office of the secret service  14:59, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 13) Sudheer
 * 14)  Tinu  Cherian 

Regrets

 * 1) Philip Tiju
 * 2) Anshu Prateek

Announcements/Event Notices
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Post-meetup summary/Blogs/News
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Twitter

 * Tweet with #WPMBL11 twitter hashtag http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23WPMBL11

Media coverage
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Photos
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