CIS-A2K/Indic Languages/Assamese

Introduction - Indic Languages

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Involved activities

2012 January

Sl. Nr.	Period	Initiative	Benefits	Nature of Support	Performance Measures
1	January 2012	Assamese wikipedia FAQ booklet	For Assamese wikipedia outreach activities	Assisted the Assamese Wikipedia community to create the Assamese Wiki FAQ booklet Provided the English translation of Malayalam FAQ booklet Githartha translated that to Assamese and customized that for Assamese. Githaratha also added few questions specific to Assamese. Chaipu did the typesetting of the Assamese FAQ booklet Chaipu also created Typing help and other related support I helped with review and finalizing the booklet	Finalized PDF of the Assamese FAQ booklet Used widely in the first two wikimeetps and in the online outreach
2	January 2012	Assamese wikipedia Introduction presentation	Assamese wikipedia outreach activities	Assisted the Assamese Wikipedia community to prepare introduction presnetation for Assamese wiki Provided the English translation of Malayalam Wiki presentation Bishnu Saika translated that to Assamese and customized that for Assamese. Bishnu also added few slides specific to Assamese. I helped with review and finalizing the presentation	Finalized version of Assalese wiki introduction presntation Used in the first two wikimeetps
3	29-01-2012	First Assamese wikipedia meetup and Workshop, Guwahati, Assam	Community building through real life interaction between wikipedians	Supported the community to get them a venue in Guwahati University Supported the community to prepare the FAQ booklet Supported the community to prepare Introduction presentation Supported the community with editing session Gave over view of Indic Wikis and best practices from other Indic languages	More off-wiki and on-wiki interaction between editors from Guwahati

2012 February

Sl. Nr.	Period	Initiative	Benefits	Nature of Support	Performance Measures
4	01-02-2012	Assamese wikipedia meetup and Workshop, Tezpur, Assam	Community building through real life interaction between wikipedians	Supported the community to prepare Introduction presentation Supported the community with editing session Supported the community with editing session Gave over view of Indic Wikis and best practices from other Indic languages	More off-wiki and on-wiki interaction between editors from Tezpur
5	07-02-2012 (started)	WikiProject Physics	Community building through increased collabration between users interested in Physics related topics	Design the project page, Provide best practicies from wiki projects, help to select vital articles, help users to prioritize articles	Done. 5 Active wikipedians joined and project is live now. Inspired by the success of this Physics Wiki project, few other wiki projects also started (IT, Medicine, and so on). Now Assamese wiki community is capable of handling wiki projects themselves.

2012 March

Sl. Nr.	Period	Initiative	Benefits	Nature of Support	Performance Measures
6	05-03-2012 (started)	Changing the name in the title bar to Assamese	Empower community members to find solution themselves	Technical help. Supporting the community to find solution.	Done. A community member only logged the bug. The issue is fixed. The title bar has Assamese name now.

Discussions

2011

Summary of discussions