Kathmandu

**Katmandu / [[:ne:काठमाडौं]] / काठमाण्डू **

<b>विकिपीडिया-१०, नेपाल</b>

;date : January 15, 2011
;Venue: IOE, Pulchowk Campus
;Time : 1PM NST onwards [Sharp]

## Description
On the 1st Magh 2067 Māghe Saṅkrānti (15th of Jan 2011), all the community around the world are celebrating the 10th anniversary of wikipedia. And here in nepal we are celebrating it at IOE, Pulchowk Campus. Lets make it a grand success.

## Correspondent
*Suraj Sapkota JTPL ssapkotaATgmailDOTcom
*Dhruba Adhikar JTPL

## Special Invitees
* Dr. Tulsi Diwas, Linguist, Literateur
* Ms. Sulochana Manandhar, Academician- Nepal Academy
* Mr. Lochan Lal Amatya, President- IT Professional Foroum (ITPF)
* Mr. Kedar Nath Sharma, Media Worker
* Mr. Eukesh Ranjeet (Pioneer in Nepali Wikipedia)
* Mr. Indiveer Badal (Pioneer in Nepali Wikipedia)

## Participants
 Notice: Please bring your Laptop or Notebook. We will have parallel **Live Wikipedia-Contribution** Section. 
;Please add your name after this line if you're interested!: (and point to the page which describes you, like twitter, faceboook, personal homepage.. , not anything else.)
# Subash Dharel
# Prakash Timilsina(JTPL)
# Sujit Maharjan
# Subodh Bashyal (NBMC)
# Gaurab Lama
#   Pratik Man Singh Pradhan
#    Uddhab Chaulagain
#    Pravash raut
# Kanchan Duwadi
# Suraj Sapkota (JTPL)
# Manish Modi (JTPL)
# Dhruba Adhikari (JTPL)
# Ram Limbu (D2HS) (khajum007gmail.com)
# Arvind Sah (JTPL)
# Laxman Kasula (JTPL)
# Kanchan Rai (JTPL)
# Amit Agrawal (JTPL)
# Lakesh Kansakar
# Sankalp Karn
# Subodh Raj Satyal (UTPL)
# Nitesh Rijal
# Lochan Acharya
# Sudip Bhattrai
# Amit Bajracharya
# Rijendra Shakya
# Prabin Dahal
# rupak shrestha
# Sujan Karanjeet
# Manohar Khatri
# Dinesh Dhakal
# Adeel Manandhar
# Santosh Ghimire
# Rabi Bhattarai
# Prasun Shrestha
# Ritu Raj Lamsal
# Rohan G. Vaidya
# Cyabari Shrestha
# Om B. Khadka
# Nischal Tuladhar
# Nirmal Gyanwali
# Jitendra Harlalka
# Ankur Sharma
# Kalendra Bikram Shahi 
# Amar maharaj Rautela  Pal 
# Gagan singh Suryabansi Rajput
# Utsav Shrestha
# Vivek Bhusal
# Dambar Raj Paudel, WN
# Malati Thapa, WN
# Nisha Lamichhane, WN
# Shree Krishna Shrestha, WN
# Anil Aryal
# Rishikesh Dhakal
# Robin Rai
# Ajit Thakali
# Beck Sharma
# Vinod Bhandari
# राजेन्द्र सुबेदी
# Narkaji Gurung
# Biraj Upadhyaya
# Bishnu Bhandari
# Ganesh Paudel - विकिमिडिया नेपाल
# Ajit Thakali
# Pabitra Gurung
# Rabin Dhital
# Swapnil Acharya
# D. Gautam
# उज्ज्वल लामिछाने
# Shantira Dahal
# Rabin Acharya,KEC
# Ambarish Pokhrel (ambarishpokhrelATgmailDOTcom)
# Dipesh Raj
# Anjan Shrestha
# Prashant Shrestha(YIPL)
# Gaurav Dhwaj Khadka
# Bikram Adhikari
# Hempal Shrestha - विकिमिडिया नेपाल Foss Nepal Community
# Chandra Chakradhar
# Ajaya N. Mali
# Subin Adhikari (master_stillAThotmailDOTcom)
# Kapil Koju, KEC
# Sanjib Lamsal,KEC
# Sushant Raj Giri
# Saroj Acharya
# Barun Ray
# Rahul Thakur
# Sandesh Pathak
# Subash Chandra Poudel
# Nab In
# ujwal2
# Tika Jung B.K.
#Biplab Pokhrel
#Sandesh Rai

## So exactly what is going to happen on 15 January?
* Intro
* Birthday celebration
* Video by Jimmy Wales
* Historical sketch on Wikipedia and its sister projects and wikimedia foundation- Indiveer Badal (Sysop, Nepali Wikipedia)
* Current Situation of Nepali Wikipedia- Ganesh Paudel (Sysop, Nepali Wikipedia)
* Trend on Recent Internet Technology.- Lochan Lal Amatya-(President ITPF)
* Language and Technology- Dr. Tulsi Diwas
* Stage of Devanagari content in online and Media- Kedar Nath Sharma (Media Worker)
* Basic hands-on training on how to contribute to wikipedia.
* Live content contribution to [ne|en].wikipedia.org 
* Parallel: Wikiffee ;) 
* Parallel: Hackjatra, there needs to be sth for hackers at least.
 19:20, 15 January 2011 (UTC) 

## Add on your views here with name
* I really appreciate Wikipedia. I have been using it since school and I find almost all the content and references I need from here. I am really glad to know there's gonna be an event regarding Wikipedia.......Pratik Man Singh Pradhan........www.pmspratik.com.np
* I love you wikipadia,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,You are heartly welcome at Kathmandu,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Waiting for wikipedia team,,,,,Pravash raut,,,,,,,,,,pravash_rauthotmail.com
* I really want to get to KTM on time, dont want to miss the pleasure to get together with wikipedia community in Nepal.

* Well, I want to be there to celebrate with my best site.. **Yuvraj Rimal** Twitter -  facebook and my id playwithtime[at]gmail.com 

* All the Best to wikipedia - Nepal team. Wish you the best Success and Happy New Year. I wish I could join and cherish the moments. But keep up the spirit brothers. All support is with you people. - Serij Suwal|(twitter.com/thenameisseriz).

* I hope our Nepalese brothers and sisters would work together to contribute more to Wikipedia and also to include more about Nepal, wherever it is relevant and required. Wikipedia will live forever!! Narottam Shrestha

* I hope there will be a maximum participation in this event although we will miss some of the fellow wikipedians and fossians including AKS, Prabin, Pravab. I hope these people will be included in addition to people from Foss Nepal, and fellow Wikipedians  
:: Subir dai, 
:: Hempal Shrestha, 
:: Ganesh Paudel, 
:: Kedar Sharma, 
:: - 07:12, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

* I am happy to see friends organizing a program for Wikipedia10. I hope it will be a landmark in the history of Nepali Wikipedia Movement. As the day fell in quite difficult time for me. But I am trying to attend it. -- 11:22, 11 January 2011 (UTC)



* Hi Iam prabha from Nepal Really appriciated with the 10 anniversary celebration of WIKIPEDIA but I am new about it Intrested to know more about it. please realese more about on my email:pravanphotmail.com - thanks Prabha

* Hi I am Suman. I congratulate Wikipedia.org on 10th year celebrations. It has been a phenomenal for people like us to find a almost all of the answers and facts, with just a click. With slow increase in internet usages day by day, more and more of Nepalese netizens are becoming familiar about the usefulness of wikipedia, but I am pretty sure that the number is much more lesser. Despite the huge wealth of informations and facts in Wikipedia, many Nepalese users are not able to use it. Its nice to find a team celebrating WIKIPEDIA's 10th anniversary celebration. On this very occasion, I wish and request the WIKIPEDIA to do something so that more and more Nepalese users and especially students take benefit of WIKIPEDIA.
Suman Karki, Kathmandu (now Korea) sumanknpgmail.com
*I am Rabin. My congratulations to this huge site. The information or the platform provided by wikipedia is very appreciable. And it is great to know that wikipedia   was able to raise the huge fund to keep site easy going and upgrading. Happy Anniversary.  
Rabin Acharya , erbn.net

* Wikipedia is probably the site I visit the most...it comes ahead of facebook!!! If I want info on anything, be it a gadget or a plant...i get it from Wikipedia...and I love the fact that anyone can edit it..long live Wikipedia.. Gaurab Lama

## Post-Program Comments

* It was really a grand success of Wikipedia-10, Kathmandu. I am glad to all. -- 13:20, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
* Thanks everyone for celebrating the 10th birthday with us. -- 19:20, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

## The Event Day

The Event wasn't just a simple gathering. It turned out to be a wonderful meetup with real Wikipedians, Pioneers of Wikipedia Nepal Chapter, and future wikipedians.