Dear all,
Sorry for being late in sharing this. Anyways, here are the minutes of the Assamese wikipedia workshop held in Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru on 1st December 2013.

* The meeting started 15 minutes late at around 3:15 pm. Altogether 16 Assamese persons were present along with wikipeddian Pranab Jyoti Bhuyan, Joli Bora and Gitartha Bordoloi. Representative from WIkimedia India chapter (CIS-A2K) Subhashish Panigrahi and Malayalam wikipedian Shiku Alex were also present at the event.
* All persons were welcomed by Pranab and then everyone introduced himself/herself.
* Gitartha Bordoloi, a sysop of Assamese wikipedia, explained about wikipedia and Assamese wikipedia with the help of a slideshow. What to write, what not to write, general principles, various tabs etc were explained in brief. They were also introduced to Assamese wikisource.
* A few moments were spent showing the easy typing process with the typing tool Rodali.
* Joli Bora gave them a hands-on experience on how to create an account, How to edit an existing article by old way and visualeditor etc. They were also taught to search for articles, create new article, technique of translating from En wikipedia, picture upload etc.
* After that the participants asked a few questions which were duly answered.
* The things that can be done to popularize Assamese wikipedia and wikisource were discussed with the participants.
* Subhashish said a few words and he proposed to hold another workshop with the same participants at the same venue in January.
* Shiju Alex shed some light on his collaboration with Assamese wikipedians through the years and he urged everyone to understand the importance of contributing to Assamese wikipedia.
* With that, the workshop was concluded.

A few clicks from the workshop can be found in commons.

The news about the workshop was covered by popular Assamese daily 'Amar Asom' on 9th December 2013.

Thank you.


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~~ গীতাৰ্থ বৰদলৈ (Gitartha Bordoloi)