It's been three years since there has been a Wikimeetup in Hyderabad. It's high time we meet and discuss about the project and it's progress.
After intensive discussions, it has been decided that the English Wikipedia and the Telugu Wikipedia users will have a joint meet: The First ever such meet here.
The 1st multilingual Hyderabad Meetup and Edit-a-thon was held on 20 December 2015 at Golden Threshold, Abids. Originally conceived as a joint Telugu-English Wikipedia Meetup, it had representation from the Hindu and Urdu Wikipedias’ as well making it a multilingual meet.
Attendees
The Meetup and Edit-a-thon was attended by 20 people from Hyderabad. It included Wikipedians from the projects of Telugu, English, Hindi, Urdu Wikipedians and Commons.
Venue
Golden Threshold, Abids, Hyderabad
Time
10:00 AM onwards
Agenda Set:
To get to know each other and their works
Introduce The Wikimedia India Chapter and its functions
To get to know about the CIS-A2K initiatives and programs. (unfortunately cancelled)
To introduce the Telugu Wikimedia projects to the Wikimedians of other languages and motivate them to join the projects.
Edit-a-thon to let users know about the translation tool and perform translations from the English Wikipedia to the Telugu Wikipedia
Event Progression
Time
Event
10:30 AM
Program begins. Participants introduce themselves and their respective work
11:30 AM
Yohann Thomas, Executive Committee member of Wikimedia India Chapter gives a presentation about the India Chapter and clarifies a few doubts of the participants
12:00 PM
Tea-break
12:15 PM
Pavan Santosh, a Wikipedian from the Telugu Wikipedia gives a presentation about the Telugu Wikipedia, its scope, growth and working.
1:45 PM
Participants leave for lunch
2:45 PM
Reassembly at the Event Venue for Edit-a-thon
3:00 PM
Introduction to the Translation tool and Wikimedia Commons to the new users
3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Edit-a-thon session of Translations.
Expenditure Statement
Travelling Expenses - ₹351 + ₹566 = ₹917
Food for Participants (at ₹80 per head × 19) - ₹1520