Wiki Month Celebration in Bangladesh
Bengali wikipedian celebrates February as Bangla Wiki Month by arranging awareness programme as well as enriching the existing articles in bn.wikipedia.
Bangladesh Open Source Network completed its month long awareness and
enrichment campaign for Bangla Wikipedia in February 2008. The month
long activities included several wiki adda (One held in National Book
Fair), translation camp, awareness building through massive campaign in
Bangladesh mathematical Olympiad etc. The month also marked some
article enrichment as well. The introduction of the Bangla Wiki fellow
was also a milestone that was achieved in this month. However, the most
successful activity of the month was the displaying of Bengali Language
Movement article in the first page of the English wikipedia on 21st
February, The International Mother Language Day. On that BdOSN
organized a procession in the street of Dhaka and arranged a rally in
front of the nation's biggest book fair - Omar Ekushe Book Fair. Bangla
Wiki's volunteers distributed leaflets, explained wikipedia and also
made some translations for Bangla wikipedia. The concluding decision of
the Bangla Wiki Month was to publish a Bangla Wikipedia CD by December
2008. SUST OSN, a local Open Source Network at Sylhet also organized a
similar programme.