The Wikipedia Chennai meetup is a regular get-together of wikipedians (contributors and users) to meet up, discuss, share experiences, reach out and advocate for wikipedia and wikimedia.

The meetups are intended to be structured as follows —Introductions, a few focused talks by Wikipedians to share experience / expertise followed by demos and open discussions on topics of common interest.

Pre-Meeting discussions can be on the talk page please.

Date: : Sunday, 14-November-2010 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM IST

• PS: WikiMarathon starts at 10 AM and Wikimeetup /talks starts at 2 PM.

Please feel free to join any time(If you dont want to wiki run in marathon,please come at 2 pm.
Venue:
ThoughtWorks Technologies (India) Pvt Ltd. view map
RR Tower 5
Level 2, Rishabh Info Park
33 A Developed Plots
Thiru Vi Ka Industrial Estate
Ekkatuthangal, Guindy
Chennai - 600 032, India

Anyone interested in Wikipedia (user, contributor or curious about it). Wikipedians from any part of India or the world and anyone who is interested in Wikipedia! Meetup is open to members of all Wikimedia projects and Wikipedians from all languages. All are welcome, and we are especially interested in seeing newcomers to join the experienced Wikipedians/Wikimedians. If you are interested in coming, please add your name below.

• By Road:
  • Reach Kathipara Junction, Guindy and proceed towards Vadapalani direction. Take the first left on the junction of Olympia Tech Park and Inner ring road and travel straight to see a HCL office, take a left just before that and proceed straight. Thoughtworks is at the dead end of the road.

• By Train
  • Reach Guindy by the South West Line, Chennai Suburban and take an autorickshaw or walk for a kilometer to the venue.

• Meet and connect: Introductions by Wikipedians.
• Talks (Starts at 2 pm)
  • Introduction to Wikipedia -- Srikanth
  • Introduction to Tamil Wikipedia / Wiki projects -- Mahir
• Activity
  • Wiki Marathon (Starts at 10 am, continues at 3:30 pm). The aim of Wiki-Marathon is to do something hands-on instead of just talking / listening. WikiMarathon will attempt to bring back old time editors to spend solid time contributing as well as helping new editors understand more about how to contribute while doing it. More details Wikipedia:Meetup/India/Marathon1. Come with a laptop, help others by bringing any extra ones you have :)
• Discussions
  • Lightening Talks / Discussions (Open forum)
• Networking
• PS: WikiMarathon starts at 10 AM till 2 and continues after the talks. Please feel free to join any time(If you dont want to wiki run in marathon,please come at 2 pm.

To add your name, click "edit" on the right side. Then add your name and click "save page" button below the edit box. You are also welcome to attend the event without registering your name here.

1. Tinu Cherian
2. Srikanth
3. Shiju Alex
4. Magician Philip
5. Shivasubramanian (talk)
6. Ravishankar
7. Muhammad Ismail .H
8. Sengai Padhuvan
9. Rahul Gupta
10. Robin
11. Shiv Deepak
12. Surya Prakash S
13. Mohammed Mahir
14. Sujitha Natarajan
15. R Asish Gaur
16. T Sakthivel
17. Prateek
18. Sathish
19. S R Reddy
20. Paa Krishnan
21. M S Sree Pratheey
22. Tushar Kumar
23. K Karthikeyan
24. Ranjithkumar S
25. A Hariharan
26. Vasanth Govind
27. உதயகுமார் ஸ்ரீ
28. J Jayamani
29. C Sudharshan
30. Praveen Kumar, PraveenTech Research Labs.
31. மணியன்
32. Arun Prasad
33. Rahul Gupta
34. Robin Garg
35. Sengai Podhuvan (talk)
36. Surya Prakash S
37. Sasirekha R
38. Pradeep Kumar S
39. J Kishore kumar
40. K. Balasubramaniyan
41. Shrinath Sundaram
42. Sandeep Varma

1. Tinu Cherian - 05:59, 20 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
2. பாஸ்கர், கீற்று.காம், (www.keetru.com)
3. D Dinesh
4. SathishKumar Kandasamy, Cognizant
5. Praveen Kumar, PraveenTech Research Labs.
6. Srikanth (Logic)
7. Sengai Podhuvan (talk)
8. Prof Viswanathan,Director, International Socio-Economic Research Bureau, Author: Democrism-The Third Theory or How to Solve From Poverty to Nuclear War
9. Mahir
10. rsjeyakumar
11. SujithaNatarajan
12. SaravananMuthusamy
13. Surya Prakash.S.A.
14. Samyuktha PC - Editor, Chai Kadai
15. Arjun Raj, Researcher, Juna Webverse Pvt LTD
16. மணியன்
17. Shrinath Sundaram
18. Ajay Chandran
19. Salvadesswaran Srinivasan (@salvachn)
20. SaravananMuthusamy
21. Sridharan M
22. PradeepKumar S
23. Rahul Menon
24. Ravishankar
25. Siva Prakash.SK
26. K.BALASUBRAMANI
27. Balakumar Muthu
28. Asish Gaur
29. யுவராஜ் (தமிழன் தொலைக்காட்சி)
30. Kevin Willie david
31. Magesh
32. Waseem Muhammed Khan
33. Balamurugan Balusamy(VIT University)
34. Sundaram. D (Precision Techconet)
35. J Kishore Kumar (talk) 08:13, 5 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
36. Subba Reddy
37. Uday Reddy
38. -- ^{PlaneMad|YakYak} 05:46, 6 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
39. Gopalakrishnan Indian Bank Chennai
40. ḆḦḀṝẳṰḦ ḾẳḺầḬṼầỈẙẚṼμṜ (TCS)
41. Raj_Chennai
42. s r reddy
43. Ashwin I R
44. Shiv Deepak
45. Magician Philip
46. Santhosh Kumar.K.B
47. Naveen Jain
48. Hariharan
49. K.Saravanakumar
50. Shivasubramanian (talk) 10:01, 12 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
51. Tushar Kumar
52. Sakthivel
53. பா. கிருஷ்ணன், விக்கி ஆர்வலர்
54. உதயகுமார் ஸ்ரீ
55. Shiju Alex
56. [User:A.arvind.arasu|Arvind]] Arasu - 21 October 2010 (UTC)
57. Sooraj Radhakrishnan-11:34, 21 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
58. Prabhuram Ramachandran - 14:11, 28 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
59. karthik selvanBold text
60. A J KARTHIK Bold text
61. DIPEN BASKARAN
62. VINODH KUMAR T MANI
63. pandbar
64. A Sarang(@sarangAB)
65. SAUMAV MUKERJI
66. Gokul Subramanian
67. [Mohanprabu]
68. Shrinivas D.
69. Hari
70. parithimathi
71. muthuraman
72. shwetha srinivasan
73. rahul gupta (vel tech university)
74. Thamizhanambi
75. Jeyaraj Sundaram
76. பயனர்:மெய்கண்டான்
77. Prateek Karandikar
78. Ashok Prabhakaran
79. Muhammed Riyas

1. Ungal Vettu Pillai (talk) 13:40, 21 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
2. Raj 6644(தமிழன்) 04:10, 22 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
3. Wasifwasif (talk) 02:14, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
4. karthik.globalsoul (talk) - can't make it this year guys!! But have lots of ideas - including the wikipedia quiz that I discussed with Kiruba sometime ago

1. wishes for all success.--சஞ்சீவி சிவகுமார் (talk) 06:04, 1 November 2010 (UTC) from Sri Lanka.[reply]
2. thank you for your meetup in chennai. I hope it will help for chennai wikipedians.kho Paramasivan.
3. There is no wrong time to do the right thing...Best wishes... And hope it will be a successful one. Vencelin Gino. V
4. Unable to attend due to other commitments. Best Wishes  Doctor Bruno  06:40, 12 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
5. Wishes for innovative thinking to gathering the people - saravanan P.G Hosur

1. Times of India
2. Tamil Paper
3. Deccan Chronicle

Please list external links announcing the meet-up here.

• Wiki enthusiasts to meet on Nov 14

• 10 wikipedians assembled around 10 AM at the venue. User:Ravidreams gave a brief intro about Wiki Marathon and participants with laptop started on marathon. Many newbies turned up in the morning itself. There were around 20 participants for the Wikimarathon.
• By 1 PM participants broke for lunch and the post lunch session started by 2:30 PM with a round of introductions
• User:Logicwiki gave an Introductory presentation about Wikipedia and ways to contribute Presentation here
• User:Mahir gave a Introduction about Tamil wikipedia, wiktionary, wikinews in detail.
• User:Ravidreams announced the landmark achievement of Tamil wikitionary being the 9th largest wikitionary
• Had a lively Q & A session on various topics from Contributing to Indic wikipedias,Tamil input schemes,Copyrights,Vandalism,Credibility of information etc.
• User:Shijualex gave a small talk about Malayalam wiki community activities.
• User:Sengai Podhuvan, a retired Tamil professor spoke few minutes about his activities in wiki world.
• The Wikimeetup was attended by around 45 participants.

• Tweet with #WPMCH2 twitter hashtag http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23WPMCH2

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