Metakgp:About
MetaKGP is a community of engineers, hackers, and artists from IIT Kharagpur collaborating on projects that help the students. This wiki is an open repository of community knowledge about IIT Kharagpur that anyone can edit. We hang out on Slack, come by and say hi. Links to our other communication platforms can be found here.
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| Activities | Demo Days |
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| Founded | 2014 |
| Founder(s) | Vivek Aithal, Vikrant Varma |
| Governors | See Governance |
| Website | https://metakgp.org |
| @metakgp_ | |
| Contact | Metakgp:Contact us |
| Github | github/metakgp |
| Under TSG | No |
History
Metakgp was started by Vivek Aithal and Vikrant Varma at IIT Kharagpur in 2014. After a period of inactivity, it was revived in 2015 with the help of Harsh Gupta and Vivek Rai.
Statistics about top contributors can be found at Special:ContributionScores.
Timeline
- 29th April 2015: Vikrant met Harsh, Sanyam and Vivek Rai at CCD and discussed the idea of a wiki for IIT-KGP, which he and his roommate Vivek Aithal started last year. Vikrant set up a mediawiki instance on digital ocean.
- May-June 2015: metaKGP was met by generous contributions by Vivek Rai, Kumar Abhishek and Harsh Gupta. Though everybody was busy with their intern so we couldn't get a lot done.
- 28th June 2015: we got the metakgp.org domain
- August 2015: we launched metaKGP to the public through shares on our facebook wall.
- 8th September 2015: we launched our facebook page
- 13th September 2015: we launched mfqp a tool for searching question papers on the library's previous year question papers website.
- 16th September 2015: we started publishing (gymkhana) constitution fun facts on our facebook page.
- 11 Feb 2016: Shashank Saraf generously agreed to let us use the metakgp Google Group name; it was previously used for "Metallurgy and Materials Science- IIT Kharagpur, 2006".
Users' thoughts about metakgp
- Why metakgp? Some motivations and goals. -- Amrav (talk)
- What is metakgp? -- Amrav (talk)
- metakgp wants to give KGP its history. -- Hargup (talk)
Projects
Members of MetaKGP develop various projects, including this wiki. The code is developed on Github, and hosted on DigitalOcean. Each project has maintainers that are responsible for its development and have administrative control over its repository.
List of Projects
Infrastructure
How to Write the Name?
The name of this community is writen in various ways:
- It is metaKGP in the logo,
- MetaKGP and Metakgp are also used in various places, whereas
- metakgp is used for usernames
The "correct" way of capitalizing the name is disputed and members have differing opinions on it, unlike xkcd which has clear guidelines for it.
Meta Pages
Following pages are under the namespace Metakgp, these are meta pages for metakgp.
- Metakgp:About
- Metakgp:Book Club
- Metakgp:Collecting photographs
- Metakgp:Contact us
- Metakgp:Conventions
- Metakgp:Copyrights
- Metakgp:Demo Days
- Metakgp:Demo Days/2018-01-17 Demo Day 1
- Metakgp:Demo Days/2018-11-09 Demo Day 9
- Metakgp:Demo Days/2019-01-13 Demo Day 10
- Metakgp:Demo Days/Demo Day 2025
- Metakgp:Featured articles
- Metakgp:Finances
- Metakgp:GNU Linux Install Fest 2016
- Metakgp:Governance
- Metakgp:How to conduct elections
- Metakgp:How to create voters list
- Metakgp:Incident Reports
- Metakgp:Incident Reports/2019-07-17 Visual Editor stopped working for a few hours
- Metakgp:Meetups
- Metakgp:Meetups/2015-09-26
- Metakgp:Meetups/2016-01-11
- Metakgp:Meetups/2016-01-25
- Metakgp:Meetups/2016-04-01
- Metakgp:Meetups/2016-04-09
- Metakgp:Meetups/2016-08-07
- Metakgp:Meetups/2016-08-13
- Metakgp:Meetups/2016-08-15-SWG-Meeting
- Metakgp:Meetups/2016-08-26
- Metakgp:Meetups/2016-08-26-Dean-Meeting
- Metakgp:Meetups/2016-09-23
- Metakgp:Meetups/2016-10-23
- Metakgp:Meetups/2017-04-11-Ankur-Pandey
- Metakgp:Meetups/2017-04-15
- Metakgp:Meetups/2017-04-17-SysAdmin
- Metakgp:Meetups/2017-07-27
- Metakgp:Meetups/2017-08-13
- Metakgp:Meetups/2017-09-03
- Metakgp:Meetups/2017-11-12
- Metakgp:Meetups/2018-08-09
- Metakgp:Meetups/2019-04-13
- Metakgp:Meetups/KGP Developers Meet
- Metakgp:Membership
- Metakgp:MetaX
- Metakgp:Old Governance Model
- Metakgp:Old Governance Model/Election March 2017
- Metakgp:Old Governance Model/Election March 2017/SOP Arun Patro
- Metakgp:Old Governance Model/Election March 2017/SOP Ayush Goyal
- Metakgp:Old Governance Model/Election March 2017/SOP Naresh R
- Metakgp:Old Governance Model/Election March 2017/SOP Nishant Nikhil
- Metakgp:Old Governance Model/Election March 2017/SOP Pranit Bauva
- Metakgp:Old Governance Model/Election March 2017/SOP Rameshwar Bhaskaran
- Metakgp:Old Governance Model/Election March 2017/SOP Sayan Sinha
- Metakgp:Old Governance Model/Election October 2017
- Metakgp:Old Governance Model/Election October 2017/SOP Kaustubh Hiware
- Metakgp:Old Governance Model/Election October 2017/SOP Srihari Radhakrishna
- Metakgp:Organization and coordination
- Metakgp:Package blurbs
- Metakgp:Policies and guidelines
- Metakgp:Potential Editors
- Metakgp:Privacy policy
- Metakgp:Project Maintainer
- Metakgp:Publicity
- Metakgp:Report June-September 2016
- Metakgp:Requested infoboxes
- Metakgp:SCAMP
- Metakgp:Sandbox
- Metakgp:Style guide
- Metakgp:SysAdmin
- Metakgp:SysAdmin/2018-03-12 Migration of the droplet from FRA1 region to BLR region
- Metakgp:SysAdmin/2018-03-14 Downtime due to unset variable in LocalSettings.php
- Metakgp:SysAdmin/2019-10-13 Managing DNS records using Terraform
- Metakgp:SysAdmin/Create a new user on the server
- Metakgp:SysAdmin/Finding out if an IP is blocked and why
- Metakgp:SysAdmin/Reset server password for a user
- Metakgp:Sysop
- Metakgp:TIOB
- Metakgp:TODO
- Metakgp:Talks
- Metakgp:The Kharagpur Documentation Project
- Metakgp:Trackr
- Metakgp:Unverified
- Metakgp:Verification
- Metakgp:Wikipedians from KGP