Wikimedians of Nepal/Annual Report 2069 BS

Major Activities in 2069

• Baisakh (Nepali Month)- Outreach in Kathmandu University, Dept of Computer Science – Saroj Dhakal, Ganesh Paudel
• Baisakh- Participation in program by LTK/Nepal Wireless () – Ganesh Paudel, Nirmal Dulal
• Jestha-

Meetings for preparation of विकि-१० (Nepali Wikipedia’s 10th Anniversary)

Indiver Badal Kedar Sharma Hem Pal Shrestha Subir Pradhananga Saroj Dhakal Nirmal Dulal

Nepali Wikipedia 10th Anniversary

Over a hundred participants participated in the event.

• Asadh- Pre Wikimania meeting of ad-hoc Committee- Indiver, Hempal, Ganesh, Saroj, Nirmal, Krish
• Shrawan- Participation in Wikimania – Ganesh Paudel
• Bhadra- Meeting to report about Wikimania 2012, issues raised by Nepal in Wikimania- Indiver, Hempal, Ganesh, Saroj, Nirmal
• Bhadra- Participation on SFD as co-organizer in Kathmandu, Hetauda and various other places- Hempal, Subir, Ganesh, Saroj
• Ashwin- Outreach program in Hetauda- Saroj Dhakal
• Kartik- Outreach in Welhams College- Ganesh, Saroj
• Mangshir-
• Paush-
• Magh- Pre ODD Meeting with Open DRI, Young Innovations, FOSS, Mozilla etc. - Ganesh
• Magh- Participation in Open Data Day as co-organizer- HemPal, Ganesh, Saroj, Krish, Srijana, Ramesh, Dipika, Gita, Promisha
• Magh- Meeting with Google- KhemRaj, Ramesh Chandra, Ganesh, Saroj
• Fagun-Chaitra

Wiki Women Initiative

(Program run for a month with major focus with articles on Women and Gender Issues) over 200 Articles were created and over 400 articles were edited during this period. In English, Nepal related articles on gender & Women 10 Articles created and 50 articles were edited.

• Edit-a thon – 3 days – Wiki Women Team, Ganesh, Aneeta (March 7-9-10)
• Meetings- With Tewa, With Galli Galli – WikiWomen Team, Ganesh, Prakash
• Fagun- Outreach in ASCOL, Ganesh, Srijana, Prakash, Gita, Dipika
• Chaitra- Outreach program in Aberdeen Academy- Saroj, Ganesh, Prakash
• Chaitra- Meeting with Accountability Lab- Ganesh
• Chaitra- Wikipedia Outreach and Edit-a-thon at Narayanghat with Galli Galli – Krish Dulal

Media Coverage

• Saroj Dhakal and Ganesh Paudel – Interviewed by Radio NepalBani Network
• Dr. Tulsi Diwasa/Ganesh Paudel- Interviewed by Radio Sagarmatha
• Ganesh Paudel- Interviewed by WMF Storyteller Team (the video was published globally)
• Ganesh Paudel- Participated as guest in “Radio Talk” program in Radio Kantipur to talk abt. Nepali Wikipedia movement.

Audio-Visual Products

Krish Dulal- Prepared and Published a video on how to edit in Wikipedia (Nepali Language)

Social Media Pages

Wikimedia Nepal has started its pages in Social Media

• Facebook Page
• Twitter Page
• Google+ Page

Meta Page

Mentoring Pilot

Mentored- two editors (in progress)