Summary Report 2011-12

This report covers the period from 01 Apr 2011 through the 31st of Dec, 2011.

Membership Drive
Chapter launched its membership drive 13 June 2011. There are 190 members as of 31 December 2011.

Events
The objective of the seminar is to educate attendees about Copyrights and Open licensing, Wikimedia copyright policies and how one can become a better contributor to Wikimedia projects. More than thirty people attended the event, which had eminent speakers  Sudhir Krishnaswamy, Professor of Law, Pranesh Prakash, Founder of  Indian Journal of Law and Technology, Danish Sheikh, expert with  Alternative Law Forum as the panelists.
 * Seminar on Copyright and open licensing, Bangalore, 30 Aug 2011

About 30 participants primarily comprising of Deputy Directors and Chief librarians of the department attended. All participants were given a copy of brochures. Presentation on Wikipedia history and Kannada wikipedia interface were given. All the participants had tried their new skills in a hands on session which followed the presentations.
 * Wiki Academy - Dept of Public Libraries, Bangalore, 12 Sep 2011

The session was attended by 24 attendees. The various topics covered were creating accounts on Wikipedia, Wikipedia interface, Wikipedia rules. It also had hands on editing session.
 * Wiki Academy -CED Mumbai, Oct 1, 2011

14 people participated in Wiki Academy organised as part of Tathva at NIT Calicut. The attendance was less than expected, as there were several parallel sessions happening at the same time. Arjuna Rao Chavala welcomed the participants and provided a overview of Wikipedia and Wikimedia Chapter. Netha and Viswam covered wikipedia literacy and essentials. Manoj and Abhishek helped the participants during hands on session. Pranav Ashok, 3rd year CS student at NIT-Calicut ably took care of the logistics and organisation of the event.
 * Wiki Academy - NIT, Calicut, 14 Oct 2011

About 57 people attended the Wiki academy and got benefited with the Knowledge of Wikipedia
 * Wiki Academy - Jaya Engineering College, Chennai,

WikiConference2011 was the first national level meeting of the Wikimedia India community supported by Wikimedia Chapter. It was held from 17th to 20th November2011 in Mumbai. The venue was Convocation Hall  of University of Mumbai. Around 700 people attended the event – making it  the largest Wikimedia events ever. The objective of the event was to bring together Wikimedians from across the country to share best practices and thereby  build a strong and cohesive community.
 * Wiki Conference India, Mumbai, 17-20 Nov, 2011

There were around 50 sessions with presentations, panel discussions, expert lectures  on various topics such as  community building, improving Wiki projects quality,  partnerships, best practice sharing. Wikimedia Chapter launched an event to recognise Wikimedia project contributors who made a difference to Wiki Projects by their contributions in various Indian languages. This event drew huge response and inspired all the attendees.

Chapter launched the Noteworthy Wikimedian Program and presented them as part of the Wiki Conference India. A total of 41 nominations were received, out of which 9 were recognized with NWR and 7 contributors were given Jury Special Mention award and three were given Jury mention of outstanding contribution.
 * Noteworthy wikimedian recognition


 * Wiki Academy @Jaya Engineering college  ( 10 Dec 2011) : The first Wiki Academy in Jaya Engineering college, Chennai,[5] was organized by the Wikimedia chapter and co-hosted by Jaya FOSS Club. Odia Wiki Chair & Chapter member, Subhashish Panigrahi explained basics of Wikipedia, how it is edited by millions of volunteers, how Wikipedia is exclusively encyclopedic and kind of articles and notability of articles in Wikipedia, how Wikipedians communicate and form community, and organization of Wikimedia foundations and active projects. Then he took the audience through active editing by signing up, searching for articles, choosing articles to create. Then he demonstrated about creating an article by using the Edit toolbar, citing the text by searching the web and uploading and adding pictures in articles. The editing session was followed by a Q & A session. Hisham Mundol, Consultant, Wikimedia Foundation India Programs, connected with the audience via Google Hangout. Hisham interacted with the audience by giving a talk about the nature of the event, few details about Wikipedia, WMF and Chapter and foundation are trying to do in India. He answered questions raised by the audience. Nitika Tandon, Consultant, Wikimedia Foundation India Programs, later explained about the India Education program (IEP), how it functions and the student-teacher-foundation collaborations through the education program. The photos of the event are available here [6].
 * Coimbatore 1st Meetup( 10 Dec 2011) : The first Kovai (Coimbatore) meetup [7] was held at KGISL Campus, Saravanampatti, Coimbatore. The Meetup was organised by Srikanth Ramakrishnan (User:Rsrikanth05) and User:Sodabottle.
 * Bangalore Wikimeetup 40 ( 11 Dec 2011) : Around 11 people attended the 40th Wikimeetup in Bangalore [8]. The Bangalore SIG Chair, RadhaKrishna presented a talk on the experiences on WikiConference India 2011 and WikiAcademy events in IT companies. Experiences of Wiki Academy in Jaya engineering college and way forward was shared by by Subhashish Panigrahi. Plans regarding Wiki Eleven in January 2012 was discussed. The photos of the event are available here [9].
 * Wikipedia Meetup1 Salem( 11 Dec 2011) : A Wikimeetup was organised at Salem, Tamil Nadu, [10] by Tamil Wikipedians Sodabottle and Surya Prakash.
 * 'Wikipedia Takes Kolkata /Kolkata Photo Walk (18 Dec 2011) : A Photo Walk was organised in Kolkata, West Bengal [11] by Kalyan Sarkar (Kolkata SIG Chair), Jayanta Nath (Bengali SIG Chair) and Biswarup Ganguly. Around 437 images were uploaded to Wikimedia Commons as a part of this initiative.[12]
 * GLAMcamp Amsterdam  Noopur Raval ( Delhi SIG Chair and GLAM enthusiastic) attended GLAM worskop in Amsterdam, hosted by Wikimedia Nederland. [13]
 * Wikipedians participation in CMDA IT Expo, 2011: Indian Wikipedians participated in the annual CMDA IT Expo 2011, Pune.[14] The stall were manned by Sudhanwa Jogalekar ( EC member), Mahitgar ( Marathi SIG Chair), Ashwin Baindur ( English SIG Chair) , Hisham Mundol and Nitika Tandon ( WMF India Programs), and Campus Ambassador (IEP) volunteers.
 * Malayalam Wiki-Academies: Malayalam Wiki-community organised two Wiki-Academies in Kerala in the month of December at Alappuzha ( Dec 13) and Kollam (Dec 31). The Alappuzha (2nd Wikiacademy) held at St.Joseph Vanitha College was led by Adv. T.K Sujith, Adv. M.P.Manojkumar and Akhil Krishnan. The Kollam (4th Wikiacademy) held at Govt. Higher Secondary School, Anchal West, was led by Kiran Gopi ( User:Kiran_Gopi), Faud A.J. ( User:Faudaj) , Kannan Shanmugam ( User:Fotokannan)and Sugeesh ( User:Sugeesh)

Others
Chapter submitted FCRA prior permission application to Government of India as the same was required for receiving funds from WMF.
 * FCRA Prior permission application

Conclusion
Chapter had a good start in initiating and conducting several activities across India. Membership growth and successful conduct of the first elections and AGM, and the major event Wiki Conference India shows the extent of interest  it received from the stakeholders. It is poised to consolidate its lead and serve the stakeholders by colloborating with  Wikimedia Foundation.

Chapter would like to place on record the support extended by the community, the Centre for Internet and Society, Wikimedia Foundation staff and advisors, and our auditor and consultant.

For more information

Chapter Conference Report

 * Report, Presentation- published on 27 May 2012.

Monthly Reports

 * Wikimedia Chapter (India) Feb-May 2012 Report,published on Jun 22,2012
 * Wikimedia Chapter (India) January 2012 Report, published on Feb 22,2012
 * Wikimedia Chapter (India) December 2011 Report, published on Jan 20,2012
 * Wikimedia Chapter (India) November 2011 Report, published on Dec 15,2011
 * Wikimedia Chapter (India) October 2011 Report, published on Nov 9,2011
 * Wikimedia Chapter (India) September 2011 Report, published Oct 4,2011
 * Wikimedia Chapter (India) August 2011 Report - published on 05 September 2011.
 * Wikimedia Chapter (India) July 2011 Report - published on 19 August 2011.
 * Wikimedia Chapter (India) June 2011 Report - published on 07 July 2011.
 * Wikimedia Chapter (India) March - June 2011 Report - published on 07 June 2011.