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Glorious 10 Years of Wikipedia in Nepal
10th Anniversary of Nepali Wikipedia
नेपाली विकिपिडियाको १०औं जन्मोत्सव
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10 Glorious years of Nepali Wikipedia
Nepali Wikipedia community celebrated the 10th anniversary of Nepali Wikipedia on 3rd June, 2012 at Nepal Research and Education Network, Kupondole in Lalitpur, Kathmandu.
The celebrations were inaugurated by the Chief Information Commissioner Mr. Vinaya Kumar Kasajoo with Hack Jatra (Hackathon) started at 11:00 a.m that concluded at 5:00 p.m. Professional software developers and engineering students participated in the Hackathon. Parallelly online contribution was made by the other participants.
The formal celebration session was chaired by Prof. Tulsi Divas, a renowned Nepali writer and folklore scholar.
Addressing on the formal program Professor Divas said if a scholar dies without transforming his knowledge to the new generation, the knowledge is meaningless. He related this with a saying “If a witch could not transform her knowledge to anybody, she makes a hole where she dies”, signifying the importance of knowledge exchange.
“Nepali languages like Maithili, Tamang, Tharu, Gurung, Limbu, Awadhi and Sherpa are coming out from incubation. “These upcoming wikis can tie the knot of national integrity.” He added
Pioneer of Nepali Wikipedia Indiver Badal led the cake party of the “Glorious 10th Year Celebration.”
He explained, “Wikipedia is a free online encyclopaedia with almost 40 lakh articles on different subjects. It exists in all major languages of the world including Nepali and many Indian languages. The Nepali Wikipedia (ne.wikipedia.org) has over 20,000 articles and gets over 7.5 lakh page views per month. Currently, 75 active contributors on Nepali Wikipediacontribute to these articles from different parts of the world.”
This celebration marked the extraordinary effort of our community members and to invite new contributors to join Wikipedia! There are a lot of thing in Nepal's diverse culture which needs to be written about. We usually conduct small sessions to teach people about how to contribute to articles on Wikipedia.
Presence Hisham Mundol from the Wikimedia Foundation in the conference and the timely initiatives and inputs from WMF has encouraged the Nepali Wikipedians to take up new projects and suggest ways of increasing the community strength.
Although Wikipedia is widely used by students across the globe, not many know that this information is contributed by common people, young and old from all walks of life! In Nepali and Newari especially, the awareness and the number of contributors really needs to be increased.
In this occasion, Wikipedians who have contributed significantly to the Nepali Wikipedia were remembered and thanked for their
Mr. Indiver Badal
Mr. Ukesh Ranjit
Mr. Rajesh Pandey
Mr. Bhawani Gautam
Mr. Ganesh Paudel
Mr. Ganesh Katuwal
Mr. Ram Prasad Joshi
Mr. Krish Dulal
Mr. Nirmal Dulal
Mr. Shankar Pokharel
Media Coverage about the Program:
- Radio Nepal Bani Broadcasted an interview with Wikipedians located in Kathmandu (Mr. Ganesh Paudel and Mr. Saroj Dhakal)
- Nagarik News Nepali language Daily Published an article about the Wiki 10 Event [१]
- Karobar Daily Nepali Language Economic Daily Published an article about Wiki 10 Event [२]
- Radio Sagarmatha broadcasted an interview with a Wikipedian Ganesh Paudel and Literary figure Prof. Tulasi Diwas , writer and folklore scholar
Hackathon Achievement:
[सम्पादन गर्नुहोस्]A bash Script to translitrate Nepali Unicode Output with roman Nepali Document written in Latin (Rohit Man Amatya) : [३]
An improved Transliterated Input Method for Nepali Wikipedia, making it compatible to Nepali Unicode Romanized (Chandan Prasad Gupta).[४]
Many of the Wikithon Participants created first ever wiki article in their life in diverse topics of their interest.
Few Photographs of the Event:
Chief Guest: Mr. Vinaya Kumar Kasajoo, Chief Information Commissioner, National Information Commission
Conference Chair:Prof. Dr. Tulsi Diwas, Nepali Writer, Researcher on Folklore.
Attendees
[सम्पादन गर्नुहोस्]Vinay Kumar Kasajoo
Bikram Shrestha
Bhim Dhwoj Shrestha
Nabeen Sapkota
Ramesh Chandra Pandey
Janak Pandey
Sunil Das Shrestha
Saroj Kumar Dhakal
Krish Dulal
Indiver Badal
Bibek Bastola
Shaswat Narendra
Namaraj Budhathoki
Kshitij Tiwari
Deepak Adhikari
Bharat Dong
Ayush Maharjan
Surendra Nyaupane
Gaurab Pokharel
Rohit Man Amatya
Regent Navda Vaidya
Chandan Prasad Gupta
Hempal Shrestha
Hisam Mundol
Lochan Lal Amatya
Shiv Bhushan Lal
Kailash Khadka
Sanjay Niraula
Ganesh K. Paudel
Reg Bdr. Bhandari
Tulasi Diwas
Sunil Shrestha
Surya Subedi
Ratnesh Kumar Chaurasia
Neeraj Acharya
Udesh Shrestha
Dipen Katiwada
Manish Shrestha
Rajan Parajuli
Nirajan Parajuli
Anita Shrestha
Shrijana Timsina
Ramchandra Bhatta
Deepika Khatiwada
Thanks one and all for making it a grand success.
सहभागीता र टीसर्टका लागि यसको वार्तालाप पृष्ठमा लेख्नुहोस्।
सहभागिता शुल्कः निःशुल्क
External Link
[सम्पादन गर्नुहोस्]Nepali Wikipedia 10th Anniversary Photo Gallary
