Wikipedia:SWASTHA/Meetups/09Feb2020

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• WikiSWASTHA Meetup
• 9th February 2020
• 8pm to 9pm (IST)

Participants

• Abhishek Suryawanshi
• Santosh Shringare
• Mohammad Faisal
• Amit Joki
• Sushma
• Dhanalakshmi K T
• Dr Pavanaja
• Raju Jangid

Agenda

• Update about activities
• NTD Articles feedback
• Next workshops
• Scholarship and Program Committee formation
• March follow-up meetup discussions
• Creating program and scholarship committee

Updates from Meeting

Community updates

Faisal

• 4 articles created on Urdu Wikipedia
• NTD in India is well developed and it is live
• Maternal Mortality in India is also live
• Main page of SWASTHA template is translated
• Translated version given by external participants did not help.

Pavanaja

• Did not use pre translated drafts
• NTD in India is live on Kannada Wikipedia
• In talks with local healthcare affiliates (Kannada Vaidya Sahitya Parishad)

Dhanalakshmi K T

• Maternal mortality in India article is live.
• Created own draft - did not use external version
• Working with Dr Pavanaja for healthcare affiliate outreach

Raju

• Hindi draft was helpful as base
• NTD in India Hindi version is live
• External drafts can be improved

Amit

• WikiEdu Dashboard is functioning well
• Tracking edits and progress

Scholarship & Program Committee Discussions

• We need active people with experience who can help us plan and execute next WikiSWASTHA meetup (proposed in March)

Tasks

• Scholarship and program committee -

Current active members will be part of the Scholarship and Program Committee.

• Responsibilities :

1. Designing program (next SWASTHA meetup)
2. Identifying useful contributors
3. Sending messages to potential participants
4. Choosing scholarship recipients
5. Recommending merchandise, thanksgiving gifts to participants etc

• Privileges

1. Be face of SWASTHA initiative
2. Full paid round-trip ticket to next Wiki SWASTHA meetup
3. Allowance for basic expenses (communication, phone/internet bills etc)
4. Special recognition on Wikipedia Project pages as well as at the actual event

• Members - Only active members with experience will be part of the committee.

Online - Current active members (who have edited articles)

1. Dr. Pavanaja
2. Mohammad Faisal
3. Dhanlakshmi K T
4. Raju Jhangid
5. Dr. Subahsh Chandra Rout

• Offline - active on group for outreach efforts

1. Viresh
2. Abhinav
3. Santosh
4. Amit

• Others who wants to join

1. Reach out to be part of committee
2. Propose why they should be in committee
3. Anyone with interest can join

Next offline meetup discussions

City choice

• Mumbai is proposed as it is convenient to travel
• Bangalore and Hyderabad possibility was also discussed
• Planning - Scholarship and Program Committee will work on it

Other/Misc

Santosh

• Marathi Wikipedians in Bangalore planning meetup
• 27th February as Marathi Day event

Dhanalakshmi

• Possibility of meetup of editors who edit scientific articles.

Faisal

• In touch with local universities
• Might plan something soon

Pavanaja

• Table is confusing
• Cleared one confusing row from WP:SWASTHA/Goals table

Abhishek

• Shared plan to host potential Wikipedia SWASTHA event at the US Consulate in Mumbai

Mode of communication

(proposed Scholarship / Program Committee -

• Separate telegram group to avoid spamming others
• Easy communication to decide scholarship holders etc

Next meetup

• Saturday 15th February at 9pm