15th meetup of Punjabi Wikimedians was held at Punjabwikipedia centre, Punjabi University, Patiala.
Participants
edit- Satdeep Gill
- Charan Gill
- Stalinjeet Brar
- Dr. Rajwinder Singh
- Satpal Dandiwal
- Gurlal Maan
- ਨਿਸ਼ਾਨ ਸਿੰਘ ਵਿਰਦੀ
- Jagseer01
- Mulkh Singh
- Charanjiv Singh
- Param Sran
- Gurpreet Singh
- Anjeli Singh (Hureo)
- Arunima Ved (Hureo)
Discussion
edit- Punjabi Community celebrated the creation of 30,000 articles on Punjabi Wikipedia.
- Satpal Dandiwal received a laptop as a part of the Hardware Donation Program.
- Anjeli Singh and Arunima Veda from Hureo attended the meetup who came to Patiala for 3-4 August 2018 to do interviews with Android Punjabi users.
- Satdeep Gill talked about his experience of attending Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town, South Africa. He shared about the Decolonizing the Internet Conference which he attended during the pre-conference events of Wikimania 2018 where it was discussed that in only about 600 languages out of the 7000 languages in the world at-least one document or media file exists in the world. Also that, most of the world's content has been written about North America and Europe and most of the content has been produced in these continents as well. He talked about his presentation on Introducing Wikipedia to New Readers during the main conference and also about participating in a session about Structured Data on Commons. He also shared his experience of attending Wikisource meetup at the conference.
Punjabi Wikimedians Meetups