English: We have seen many events and workshops in all languages and of all kinds boasting of participation in tens and even hundreds, but even if we manage to introduce wikipedia to new people through workshops, conferences, edit-a-thons, etc. we hardly get any new comer who then becomes a permannent part of the community for a long time. As a solution to this problem, the hindi wiki community tried a different approach a couple of years ago (2019) in our annual conference (Wikisammelan 2021) and was able to achieve a significantly better result as compared to our other endeavours. We tried introducing new comers into the wiki community in two stages, first by introducing them to Wikisource proofreading, which is a significantly easier thing to do and served the purpose of letting the new 'recruits' get used to the wiki interface. Subsequently, in the next stage, we invited the more "interested" and active participants to our annual wikiconference and there we introduced them to wikipedia and the idea of 'neutrality', 'citations' and other complexities of wikipedia to these participants which might have been "too much" to grasp for a complete new comer. Doing this through our annual conference also served the purpose of introducing them to the rest of the community, which naturally motivates people due to the idea of being a part of "something bigger".

Through this process we were able to attract many people to Wikipedia and wikisource (in tens). Not only did we add many wikisource editors, but also some participants actually "seeped" into Wikipedia editing and became a permanent part of the community and are active till date.

This presentation deals with this problem of "Retainability" of newbies into wikimedia communities. In the presentation we plan to narrate the story of our work with context and quantify the results in more details so as to get it known to other indian communities as well.

WMWM 2021, Submission- Introducing newcomers from Wikisource to Wikipedia: A case study from Hindi Wikipedia.