Marathi Wikipedia Symposium at Gokhale Institute Of Politics & Economics
Marathi Wikipedia Symposium at Gokhale Institute Of Politics & EconomicsParticipants engaging in strategy discussions/ Image By सुबोध कुलकर्णी / CC-BY-SA 4.0
The Marathi Wikipedia community held a symposium at the Gokhale
Instititute of Politics and Economics on 29 April, 2017. This was an
attempt to bring together various stakeholders for developing a
strategic plan for Marathi language wiki projects such as Wikipedia, and
especially Marathi Wikisource and Wiktionary. Over 70 persons were
involved in the strategic planning efforts to take Wikisource and
Wiktionary to existing Marathi Wikipedians and the general public at
large. Eminent ecologist, Prof. Madhav Gadgil served as a resource
persons for this event.
Gokhale Institute Of Politics & Economics and Rawat's Nature Academy
took lead in organising this symposium. CIS-A2K facilitated the
process. A total of 50 eminent personalities from various fields such as
literature,
linguistics, journalism, science forums, publishers, librarians, State
Language & Culture Department honchos, active citizen forums working
on different issues etc. took active part in the proceedings. They aim
to act as anchors in future. According to the needs of Wikimedia
projects,
12 Action Groups have been formed. Planning further sessions for May and
June has begun
over a common email thread.
