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Hindi Community Strategy Salon

Bhopal (India); 9 September 2017 

Participants

The Team

S.No	Name	Organization / Institute	Position	Notes
1	Suyash Dwivedi	Wikimedia India, Hindi Wikimedians User Group	Member of Executive Committee, Founder Member	Organizer
2	Swapnil Karambelkar	Hindi Wikimedians User Group	—	Co-Organizer
3	Vijay Tiwari	Hindi Wikipedia	—

List of Dignitaries

S.No	Name	Organization / Institute	Position	Notes
1	Dr. S.S. Amritphale	Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute (AMPRI)	Director	Govt. Institution CSIR
2	Dr. S.K.Sanghi	Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute (AMPRI)	Sr. Principal Scientist	Govt. Institution CSIR
3	Dr. Rekha Roy	Atal Bihari Vajpayee Hindi Vishwavidyalaya	Head of the department, Hindi	Women Participant
4	Dr. Manoj Sharma	Regional Museum of Natural History, Bhopal	Scientist Incharge	Museum
5	Manik Gupta	Regional Museum of Natural History, Bhopal	Scientist Incharge	Museum
6	Dr. Surya Kumar Pandey	Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya	Office incharge	Museum
7	Prabal Roy	Regional Science Centre, Bhopal	Project Coordinator	Science Center
8	Dr. Tanima Dutta	Chitransh Amulya Dutta Post Graduate College	Vice principal	Women Participant ,Education
9	Abhinav Bhatnagar	Xyron Induistry, Board Member Extol Education Group	CEO	Industry,Education
10	Anand Dubey	SynQues Consultancy Pvt. Ltd.	CEO	Software Industry
11	Er. Arati Bajpai	ITSC TECHNOLOGIES PVT.LTD	Project Coordinator	Women Participant , Service sector
12	Aditi Bajpai	Institute for excellence in higher education (IEHE) Bhopal	Student	Women Participant ,Student representative
13	Rajiv Pandey	Birds Photographer	Wildlife Photographer	Social sector
14	Saloni Kolhe	Pixel Photography, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT)	Core Team	Women Participant ,Education and photography
15	Amrita Das	Freelance	Writer and Photographer	Women Participant ,Writer
16	Aakash Jaiswal	Tooryanaad	Student President	Student and social representative
17	Rajnish Khare	Social Media		Social representative
18	Dileep Tiwari	Channel Head, Zee News		Media

Summary

Key question

1. How our communities and content stay relevant in a changing world?
2. How could we capture the sum of all knowledge when much of it cannot be verified in traditional ways?
3. How can we counteract the increasing levels of misinformation?
4. How to be as useful as possible to the world as the creation, presentation, and distribution of knowledge change?
5. How to meet our current and future readers’ needs as the world undergoes significant population shifts in the next 15 years?

Suggested Input/Feedback

• Hindi typing on Wikipedia is still the biggest problem-(Supported by 4 participants)
• Approval of info that it purely authenticated.(Supported by 3 participants)
• Need to provide Wikipedia app by default on mobiles (Supported by 2 participants)
• Some Hindi words are difficult to understand.(Supported by 2 participants)
• Need to provide Wikipedia social media like facebook.(Supported by 2 participants)
• Need to tap knowledge of the retired person who have lots of knowledge and time.(Supported by 3 participants)
• Advertisement of Hindi Wikipedia to create pubic awareness on TV/Print/online/Social media.(Supported by 3 participants)
• Need to create pubic awareness about documentation in masses.(Supported by 2 participants)
• Every article is published in English but it should be compulsory that it publishes in mother tongue too. (Supported by 2 participants)
• Hindi is very demanding in the market and commercial areas (T.V. shows) but students are used to English language most.(Supported by 1 participants)
• Authentication of the source is a big problem so norms must be formulated about the type of source and its neutrality.((Supported by 6 participants)
• Prior confirmation must be made about the information whether it is fake or not.(Supported by 4 participants)

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