Hindi Wikimedians User Group/Meetups

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मुखपृष्ठसदस्यरपटचित्रालय
Wikipedia Hindi Sammelan Kolkata 2019

Hindi is world's 4th most spoken language. Hindi Wikipedia is biggest Indic Language Wikipedia. It has 1,25,000+ articles. Around 258 million (258,000,000) people in India reported Hindi to be their native language. Hindi Wikipedia needs more offline activities (meet-ups/conferences) for improvement. During India Community Consultation 2014 Hindi Wikipedians requested special attention towards Hindi Wikipedia, everyone encouraged representatives to take lead and plan activities. This meetup will be an effort towards same.

Our other activities listed here विकिपीडिया:गतिविधियाँ (Hindi) and बैठक (Hindi)

Hindi Wikipedians organized a first-ever meet-up in 2015 in Delhi with the help of the community. After this meet-up, senior community members started discussions about hosting similar workshops and second major meet-up was hosted in 2017.

Hindi Wikipedia community Meet UPs[edit]

Hindi Wikimedians's User Group Meet Ups[edit]

1st meet Up held on 28 Jan.2017 at Chandigarh.

Events[edit]

Organised by HWUG[edit]

Date Event Related Links
January 2017 January 2017 Bhopal Meetup and Outreach Grant Proposal, Report
September 14- October 13, 2017 Hindi Diwas Article Contest Grant Proposal
October 27-29, 2017 Coorganizer Tooryanaad,Hindi festival at NIT Bhopal under Rajbhasha Kaaryanvayan Samiti
November 11-12, 2017 Hindi Wikipedia Training workshop - Jaipur Grant Proposal for Jaipur Technical Meet
16, 17 & 18 June 2018 Hindi Wikimedians Technical Meet workshop-Bhopal 2018 Grant Proposal, Report
12, 13 & 14 January 2018 Delhi Hindi WikiConference 2018 Grant Proposal, Report
1, 2 & 3 February 2019 Kolkata Hindi WikiConference 2019 Grant proposal
21, 22 & 23 February 2020 Delhi Hindi WikiConference 2020 Grant proposal

Other events attended by HWUG[edit]

Date Event Related Links
September 10, 2017 Wikidata Workshop at Chandigarh by Asaf Bartov Attended by U:Anamdas, U:Jayprakash12345
December 27 ,2017 to December 30 2017 Cultural Heritage Mapping of Delhi, Dec.2017 By Harvinder Chandigarh-Hindi Wikimedians /Meetups/Events/Cultural Heritage Mapping of Delhi, Dec.2017-2017
On going proposal Each One Teach One -Approach proposed to be adopted for new users/editors of Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Each_One_Teach_One -suggested by Harvinder Chandigarh
28 October 2018 WWWW Event - Hindi Wikimedians/Delhi Wiki Women for Women Wellbeing 2018

Online Article Contest[edit]

Date Event Related Links
September 14- October 13, 2017 Hindi Diwas Article Contest हिन्दी दिवस लेख प्रतियोगिता
September 14- October 13, 2018 Hindi Diwas Article Contest हिन्दी दिवस लेख प्रतियोगिता
August 10, 2018 to August 20, 2018 Indian Independence Day Articles Contest 2018
October 1 to October 31, 2018 Women's Health Articles Editing Campaign 2018 Wiki Women for Women Wellbeing 2018
1 May to 31 May, 2020 गुणवत्ता संवर्द्धन संपादनोत्सव

Grants Proposal[edit]

Online Meetups[edit]

For online Meetups Please see here