Wikipedia:Meetup/Chennai/Chennai2

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

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-November-2010 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM IST Please feel free to join any time(If you dont want to wiki run in marathon,please come at 2 pm. Venue: ThoughtWorks Technologies (India) Pvt Ltd. view map  RR Tower 5 Level 2, Rishabh Info Park 33 A Developed Plots  Thiru Vi Ka Industrial Estate Ekkatuthangal, Guindy Chennai - 600 032, India
 * PS:  WikiMarathon starts at 10 AM and Wikimeetup /talks starts at 2 PM.

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

 * By Road:
 * Reach Kathipara Junction, Guindy and proceed towards Vadapalani direction. Take the first left on the junction of Olympia Tech Park and Inner ring road and travel straight to see a HCL office, take a left just before that and proceed straight. Thoughtworks is at the dead end of the road.


 * By Train
 * Reach Guindy by the South West Line, Chennai Suburban and take an autorickshaw or walk for a kilometer to the venue.

Agenda

 * Meet and connect: Introductions by Wikipedians.
 * Talks (Starts at 2 pm)
 * Introduction to Wikipedia -- Srikanth
 * Introduction to Tamil Wikipedia / Wiki projects -- Mahir
 * Activity
 * Wiki Marathon (Starts at 10 am, continues at 3:30 pm). The aim of Wiki-Marathon is to do something hands-on instead of just talking / listening. WikiMarathon will attempt to bring back old time editors to spend solid time contributing as well as helping new editors understand more about how to contribute while doing it. More details Meetup/India/Marathon1. Come with a laptop, help others by bringing any extra ones you have :)
 * Discussions
 * Lightening Talks / Discussions (Open forum)
 * Networking
 * PS:  WikiMarathon starts at 10 AM till 2 and continues after the talks. Please feel free to join any time(If you dont want to wiki run in marathon,please come at 2 pm.

Participants
To add your name, click "edit" on the right side. Then add your name and click "save page" button below the edit box. You are also welcome to attend the event without registering your name here.



Attended

 * 1)  Tinu  Cherian 
 * 2)  Srikanth
 * 3) Shiju Alex
 * 4) Magician Philip
 * 5) Shivasubramanian (talk)
 * Ravishankar
 * 1)  Muhammad Ismail .H
 * 2) Sengai Padhuvan
 * 3) Rahul Gupta
 * 4) Robin
 * 5) Shiv Deepak
 * 6) Surya Prakash S
 * Mohammed Mahir
 * 1) Sujitha Natarajan
 * 2) R Asish Gaur
 * 3) T Sakthivel
 * 4) Prateek
 * 5) Sathish
 * 6) S R Reddy
 * 7) Paa Krishnan
 * 8) M S Sree Pratheey
 * 9) Tushar Kumar
 * 10) K Karthikeyan
 * 11) Ranjithkumar S
 * 12) A Hariharan
 * 13) Vasanth Govind
 * 14)  உதயகுமார் ஸ்ரீ
 * 15) J Jayamani
 * 16) C Sudharshan
 * 17)  Praveen Kumar, PraveenTech Research Labs.
 * மணியன்
 * 1) Arun Prasad
 * 2) Rahul Gupta
 * 3) Robin Garg
 * 4) Sengai Podhuvan (talk)
 * 5) Surya Prakash S
 * 6) Sasirekha R
 * 7) Pradeep Kumar S
 * 8) J Kishore kumar
 * 9) K. Balasubramaniyan
 * 10) Shrinath Sundaram
 * 11) Sandeep Varma

Signed up

 * 1)  Tinu  Cherian  - 05:59, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
 * 2) பாஸ்கர், கீற்று.காம், (www.keetru.com)
 * 3) D Dinesh
 * 4) SathishKumar Kandasamy, Cognizant
 * 5)  Praveen Kumar, PraveenTech Research Labs.
 * 6)  Srikanth (Logic)
 * 7) Sengai Podhuvan (talk)
 * 8) Prof Viswanathan,Director, International Socio-Economic Research Bureau, Author: Democrism-The Third Theory or How to Solve From Poverty to Nuclear War
 * Mahir
 * 1) rsjeyakumar
 * 2) SujithaNatarajan
 * 3) SaravananMuthusamy
 * 4) Surya Prakash.S.A.
 * 5) Samyuktha PC - Editor, Chai Kadai
 * 6) Arjun Raj, Researcher, Juna Webverse Pvt LTD
 * மணியன்
 * 1) Shrinath Sundaram
 * 2) Ajay Chandran
 * 3)  Salvadesswaran Srinivasan (@salvachn)
 * 4) SaravananMuthusamy
 * 5) Sridharan M
 * 6) PradeepKumar S
 * Rahul Menon
 * Ravishankar
 * Siva Prakash.SK
 * 1) K.BALASUBRAMANI
 * 2)  Balakumar Muthu
 * 3) Asish Gaur
 * யுவராஜ் (தமிழன் தொலைக்காட்சி)
 * 1) Kevin Willie david
 * 2) Magesh
 * 3) Waseem Muhammed Khan
 * 4) Balamurugan Balusamy(VIT University)
 * 5) Sundaram. D (Precision Techconet)
 * 6) J Kishore Kumar (talk) 08:13, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
 * 7) Subba Reddy
 * 8) Uday Reddy
 * 9) --Plane Mad 05:46, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
 * 10) Gopalakrishnan Indian Bank Chennai
 * 11)  ḆḦḀṝẳṰḦ ḾẳḺầḬṼầỈẙẚṼμṜ (TCS) 
 * 12) Raj_Chennai
 * 13) s r reddy
 * 14) Ashwin I R
 * 15) Shiv Deepak
 * 16) Magician Philip
 * 17) Santhosh Kumar.K.B
 * 18) Naveen Jain
 * 19) Hariharan
 * 20) K.Saravanakumar
 * 21) Shivasubramanian (talk) 10:01, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
 * 22) Tushar Kumar
 * 23) Sakthivel
 * 24) பா. கிருஷ்ணன், விக்கி ஆர்வலர்
 * 25) உதயகுமார் ஸ்ரீ
 * 26) Shiju Alex
 * 27) [User:A.arvind.arasu|Arvind ]] Arasu  - 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * 28) Sooraj  Radhakrishnan -11:34, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * 29)  Prabhuram  Ramachandran  - 14:11, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
 * 30) karthik selvanBold text
 * 31) A J KARTHIK Bold text
 * 32) DIPEN BASKARAN
 * 33) VINODH KUMAR T MANI
 * 34)  pandbar
 * 35) A Sarang(@sarangAB) 
 * 36) SAUMAV MUKERJI
 * 37) Gokul Subramanian
 * 38) [Mohanprabu]
 * 39) Shrinivas D.
 * 40) Hari
 * 41) parithimathi
 * 42) muthuraman
 * 43) shwetha srinivasan
 * 44) rahul gupta (vel tech university)
 * 45) Thamizhanambi
 * 46) Jeyaraj Sundaram
 * 47) பயனர்:மெய்கண்டான்
 * 48) Prateek Karandikar
 * 49) Ashok Prabhakaran
 * 50) Muhammed Riyas

Regrets

 * 1) Ungal Vettu Pillai (talk) 13:40, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * 2) Raj 6644(தமிழன்) 04:10, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
 * 3)  Wasifwasif (talk) 02:14, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
 * 4)  karthik.globalsoul (talk)  - can't make it this year guys!! But have lots of ideas - including the wikipedia quiz that I discussed with Kiruba sometime ago

Wishes

 * 1) wishes for all success.--சஞ்சீவி சிவகுமார் (talk) 06:04, 1 November 2010 (UTC) from Sri Lanka.
 * 2) thank you for your meetup in chennai. I hope it will help for chennai wikipedians.kho Paramasivan.
 * 3) There is no wrong time to do the right thing...Best wishes... And hope it will be a successful one. Vencelin Gino. V
 * 4) Unable to attend due to other commitments. Best Wishes    Doctor Bruno    06:40, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
 * 5) Wishes for innovative thinking to gathering the people - saravanan P.G Hosur

Press

 * 1) Times of India
 * 2) Tamil Paper
 * 3) Deccan Chronicle

Announcements/Event Notices
Please list external links announcing the meet-up here.
 * Wiki enthusiasts to meet on Nov 14

Summary

 * 10 wikipedians assembled around 10 AM at the venue. User:Ravidreams gave a brief intro about Wiki Marathon and participants with laptop started on marathon. Many newbies turned up in the morning itself. There were around 20 participants for the Wikimarathon.
 * By 1 PM participants broke for lunch and the post lunch session started by 2:30 PM with a round of introductions
 * User:Logicwiki gave an Introductory presentation about Wikipedia and ways to contribute Presentation here
 * User:Mahir gave a Introduction about Tamil wikipedia, wiktionary, wikinews in detail.
 * User:Ravidreams announced the landmark achievement of Tamil wikitionary being the 9th largest wikitionary
 * Had a lively Q & A session on various topics from Contributing to Indic wikipedias,Tamil input schemes,Copyrights,Vandalism,Credibility of information etc.
 * User:Shijualex gave a small talk about Malayalam wiki community activities.
 * User:Sengai Podhuvan, a retired Tamil professor spoke few minutes about his activities in wiki world.
 * The Wikimeetup was attended by around 45 participants.

Twitter

 * Tweet with #WPMCH2 twitter hashtag http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23WPMCH2

Media coverage
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Photos
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