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Mumbai to host first WikiConference in India
Wednesday November 09, 2011 06:54:43 PM,
IANS
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Mumbai: Aiming to tap
the Indian community, the first WikiConference by the Wikimedia
Foundation in this country will be hosted in Mumbai Nov 18, an
official said.
The three-day conference, hosted by the Mumbai Wikipedia Community
and the Wikimedia Chapter, India, will see founder Jimmy Wales
opening the conference that will have a a distinct Indian flavour
and deal primarily with issues relating to India on Wikipedia.
The Nov18-20 conference will be held at the Mumbai University
Campus in the Fort area of south Mumbai.
"We look forward to organising the conference on an annual basis
to bring together Indian Wikipedians from over 20 Indian language
projects," said Pranav Curumsey, chariperson of the organising
committee.
"Aimed to share learnings and best practices, the event will help
bring together contributors in building Knowledge Society through
free and open education projects," said Hisham Mundol, National
programmes consultant the for Wikimedia Foundation.
Thousands of Wikipedians from all over the country will pour in
for sessions on topics such as "Usage of Ajax and Jquery in Wiki",
"WikiBhasha: Our Experiences with Multilingual Content", "WikiWomenWeb:
Bridging the Gender Gap" and "Legal Aspects of Wiki Culture".
A live "Editathon" session and a "Hackathon" where aspects of
editing a Wikipedia article will be taught will be an added
feature of the conference.
The conference will serve as platform for all Indian Wikipedians
to meet and share their views, discuss challenges and exchange
useful tips and best practices. The foundation has received over
7,000 requests for scholarships and participations and over 550
papers have been submitted to be presented at the conference.
Part of the conference will be dedicated to Marathi Wikipedia,
where the issues faced by users will be highlighted.
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