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General



 * First Kolkata Meetup: Bengali Wikipedia community of West Bengal has conducted their  first  Wikipedia workshop under Kolkata chapter at Computer Society Of India, Kolkata in 11 December 2010. This was the  first Bengali workshop in Kolkata, which was initiated/conducted/led by  Shiju Alex, Tinu Cherian and  Jayanta Nath. It was attended by 20 participants who  acted as the stepping stone and revival of Bengali Wikipedia after a  long gap of about 8 years.
 * In 15 January, Bengali Wikimedians  conducted the "10th  Anniversary  of Wikipedia" celebrations in two big cities (Kolkata and  Dhaka) of two  diffrent country India and Bangladesh. In Kolkata, the  event was  organized with the support of Seagull Arts and Media Resource  Centre and  Sanhita, a very popular NGO In India, which is working for  human  rights, training, women issues, etc. The celebration was  inaugurated by  the Board of Trustree of Wikimedia Foundation, Bishakha  Datta. Afterward  novelist Rimi B. Chatterjee gave a speech about the  celebration.
 * Around 11 Bengali wiki workshops and 5 outreach events were arranged during the period 2010 October to 2011 May. Four workshops in Kolkata, 5 workshops and 4 events in Dhaka, 1 workshop and 1 event in Chittagong, and 1 workshop in Rajshahi.
 * Bengali Wikipedia community of Dhaka arranged workshops for Bengali bloggers in 7 January, 2011, as they are able to write Bengali frequently and have good writing capabilities as well.
 * Bangladeshi Wikipedia community also arranged around 5 outreach events.  Like 2 photo-walks in Dhaka metropolitan area, public gathering at   Ekushey Book Fair in 21 February (International Mother Language Day),   and in 14 April (the first day of Bengali new year). Both of the events   were arranged by Bangladesh Open Source Network.
 * Though Dhaka has been the major outreach target in Bangladesh in past years, but very recently Chittagong Wikipeidan community of Bangladesh has taken this initiative and arranged a wiki fest there. Students from around 7 universities of Chittagong joined in the fest. Number of participants was around 500. The Chief Editor of Daily Azad inaugurated the fest. Later the fest was also joined by the panel mayor of Chittagong C. Hasan Mahmud, professor of Chittagong University S. A. A. Parvez, and other notable media persons of Chittagong.
 * Recently Kolkata taken the initiative to reduce the gender gap in  Wikipedia and  organized   Women's   Wiki Workshop (WWW) with the support of Indian NGO Sanhita. The wiki   meetup and workshop for women was specially arranged for Bengali   Wikipedians on 18 March 2011 at Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre.

Typing tool Integragion
In  18 December 2010, an external Bengali typing tool written by Junaid   P.V. was integrated into Bengali Wikipedia. The tool has Avro, Inscript  and Bangladesh Jatiyo Keyboard Layout. A guide was also included in  Bengali typing with a central notice to help and inform the new   Wikipedians. This tool has also integrated in two other Bengali projects  (Bengali Wikibooks, and Wiktionary).

FAQ Booklet & Typing Help in PDF
A Bengali (Bengali Wikipedia FAQ, Display & Typing Help 1.0 was created to provide support for frequently asked questions on Bengali Wikipedia, display issues and their solution and typing support with the support for FAQ from Malayalam Wikipedia.

Bengali Wikipedia

 * Bengali Wikipedia is the most active Bengali wiki project. Bengali Wikipedia has 22,000+ articles as of 2011 May.
 * Bengali Wikipedia reached the milestone of 1 million edits on 21 May 2011. Bengali is the 3rd Indic language Wikipedia (after Hindi and Malayalam) to reach this milestone. This milestone was covered in Bangladeshi news media.
 * Currently Bengali Wikipedia implemented  some technical facilities to guide its edits. Most notably  the Flagged  revision extension to monitor highly vandalized and BLP  articles.

Bengali Wikisource

 * Bengali Wikisource is most enrich Wikisource project of all indic Wikisources. Present active user of this project is 6, and it has 5300+ content pages. It is also the second highest Bengali project in number of contents.

Bengali Wiktionary

 * Bengali Wiktionary is not so active like other Bengali projects. Bengali  Wiktionary has 670 entries as of 2011 May. Present number of active  users is 4.

Bengali Wikibooks

 * Bengali Wikibooks is also not so active either. As of May 2011, Bengali  Wikibooks has 128 books. Present number of active users is 11.

News reports about Bengali wiki community and wiki projects

 * Hindustan Times : "Making Wikipedia popular in Bengali", 2010 Dec 15, Kolkata edition.
 * Wikipedia enhances its Bong connection December 16, 2010 news.oneindia.in
 * Birthday bash for Wikipedians-Sudeshna Banerjee - The Telegraph
 * The Hindustan Times ( Kolkata edition) : "Wiki wants Women"
 * Telegraph (Kolkata): "Regional Wiki"
 * Wiki learns a lesson in Bengali
 * News on Bangladeshi newspaper mentioning the 1 million edits milestone of Bengali Wikipedia
 * News covering the public gathering in 21 February at Ekushey Book Fair,  Dhaka
 * News about Chittagong Wiki-fest