Dear all,
Sorry for being late in sharing this. Anyways, here are the minutes of
the Assamese
wikipedia
workshop<https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A7%B1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A6…
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<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Assamese_Wikipedia_w…
.
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)*