[Wikimediaindia-l] Odia Wikipedia Outreach Programs in Odisha (Mar-Apr)
Hi all Apologies for the delayed report. Odia Wikimedia Community had a very eventful, exciting and constructive weekend last week! i want to share with you a report of 3 (yes THREE!) outreach sessions and the community meet up held between March 30 and April 1. Odia Wikipedia Editing Workshop - Anugul - March 30 *Summary* An Editing Odia Wikipedia workshop was conducted on 30th March at the National Institute of Computer Education, Nalconagar, Anugul. It was attended by 14 newbies. Odia WikipedianMrutyunjay Karhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/or:MKar conducted the workshop by introducing Odia Wikipedia to the newbies. (In fact, Mrutyunjay single-handedly organized the session and most of the audience were his work colleagues who he had told about Odia Wikipedia.) He talked briefly about Wikipedia, five pillars and policies. Then there was a demonstration session on how to edit Odia Wikipedia. One of the attendees was called up to create his own account and then Mrutyunjaya demonstrated basics of editing by interacting with the audience. Once we had shown everyone this, we invited those who were interested to stay for a more detailed and hands-on editing to stay, and told everyone else they were free to leave. A few of the audience left the lab, and the remaining 9 created their user accounts. 4 of the new wikipedians have made small but significant edits. *Challenges Solutions* - An issue that was faced was that newbies initially had problems typing in Odia. We requested the newbies to check the *Typing Help*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/or:Help:Typing page to understand the key combination. Mrutyunjaya explained how they can improve by gradual exercise, using the Show Preview option and that making corrections is allowed on Wikipedia. *Next Steps* - Mrutyunjaya will personally interact with the new editors, either 1-on-1 or in groups to give them more support on editing and to address doubts - Mrutyunjaya could conduct more physical meetups in Anugul where help more newbies with editing *Lessons* - Mrutyunjaya's initiative to reach out to his colleagues and friends to introduce them to Odia Wikipedia and to encourage them to learn about editing by attending the session is really interesting because it increases the chances of like-minded folks attending outreach sessions. - When we do outreach sessions, it will be nice to share a small note about the session (with some useful links) beforehand - so that interested participants can read up and be more aware even before the session starts. - The idea of splitting the outreach session is very good because it allowed only the most committed to stay and allowed us to give them much better training. *Odia Wikipedia (Medical) Editing Workshop - Cuttack - March 31* *Summary* A outreach session was organized in SCB Medical College, Cuttack - to try and get newbies to join Odia Wikipedia community, and specifically to support the *WikiProject Medicine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/or:WP:MED* (where we are trying get the top 70-80 health related articles created in Odia Wikipedia. 21 Medical students attended the session which was attended by Odia Wikipedians Jnanaranjanhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/or:Jnanaranjan_sahu, Srikant Kedia, Kamalakanta Subha. Jnananranjan explained briefly about basics of Wikipedia. One of the student newbies was invited to create a username. Students were called for demonstration editing. 4[1] of them created usernames. Subha talked briefly about the *WikiProject Medicine*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/or:WP:MED and aim of the project. Student participants had queries about authenticity of articles, automatic translations, etc. *Challenges Solutions* - Some of the medical students asked questions like How will editing Odia Wikipedia help for our career? or What I will gain from editing Wikipedia? These are standard questions that we all get and we answered them by telling them about how it will help their understanding of their subjects, will improve their writing skills, give them a larger audience for their work, improve their research skills and because it is so much fun! We also spoke about the social benefits of a project like medical articles on Odia Wikipedia and the social. - Lack of computers resulted in a more theoretical discussion rather than a practical editing. *Next Steps* - A proper editing workshop will be organized after the exams are over (in a month) where the students who have attended this session could learn more and do live editing. Local Odia Wikipedians will support them. This time, we will figure out how to make sure that everyone who attends has access to a computer. - Emails with quick instructions will be send on 4th April to the students with specific links to encourage working on various articles from the project page. - Welcome messages have been left on the
[Wikimediaindia-l] Question about outreach sessions
On 04/09/2012 08:00 AM, wikimediaindia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: Odia Wikipedia Outreach Programs in Odisha This was a very interesting and comprehensive report -- thank you, Mrutyunjaya Kar! I noticed this: Once we had shown everyone this, we invited those who were interested to stay for a more detailed and hands-on editing to stay, and told everyone else they were free to leave. A few of the audience left the lab, and the remaining 9 created their user accounts. I see that a few other outreach sessions have also done this. I am curious -- when you do this, what specific phrasing do you use? I want to know how to say if you're not interested, you can leave if you want in a friendly, hospitable way, so your examples might help. Thanks! -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Question about outreach sessions
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 04/09/2012 08:00 AM, wikimediaindia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.orgwrote: Odia Wikipedia Outreach Programs in Odisha This was a very interesting and comprehensive report -- thank you, Mrutyunjaya Kar! I noticed this: Once we had shown everyone this, we invited those who were interested to stay for a more detailed and hands-on editing to stay, and told everyone else they were free to leave. A few of the audience left the lab, and the remaining 9 created their user accounts. I see that a few other outreach sessions have also done this. I am curious -- when you do this, what specific phrasing do you use? I want to know how to say if you're not interested, you can leave if you want in a friendly, hospitable way, so your examples might help. Thank you Mritunjaya, and nice observation Sumana! One of the most common questions which I have received from new meet up and workshop participants is: Do you get paid for doing this? or Will I get paid for working on Wikipedia? I'm interested in knowing how other members of the community handle these questions. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Question about outreach sessions
Hi, I have tried this method. Bala and I during the Coimbatore meetup in December, just said that the session would be more indepth compared to the previous one. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Question about outreach sessions
While doing wikipedia/osm workshops, I make it a point to start with the Why am I doing this and what do I gain by being here section. This lets everyone understand what the open movement and community is about, and what I personally gained/gain by being a part of it. After this, I let everyone know that those who would like personal attention and help can move to the front so that its easy for me to attend to them. Personally, this has worked very well and also made people more interactive rather than become a classroom type session. On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have tried this method. Bala and I during the Coimbatore meetup in December, just said that the session would be more indepth compared to the previous one. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- j.mp/ArunGanesh ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Question about outreach sessions
I do love to share, *Where and how else can your voice be heard thousands of times round the world by different people?*. I then show them few audio files I uploaded and placed as an audio pronunciation to the relevant articles, and show them the Page view statistics of that particular file. And believe me, collectively numbers are huge. Also I show them Page view stats of any of the images I uploaded on commons. This really works sometimes, it encourages participants to at least try out by doing simple yet effective tasks and shows them that its not even that difficult to contribute. On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 1:44 AM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.comwrote: While doing wikipedia/osm workshops, I make it a point to start with the Why am I doing this and what do I gain by being here section. This lets everyone understand what the open movement and community is about, and what I personally gained/gain by being a part of it. After this, I let everyone know that those who would like personal attention and help can move to the front so that its easy for me to attend to them. Personally, this has worked very well and also made people more interactive rather than become a classroom type session. On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have tried this method. Bala and I during the Coimbatore meetup in December, just said that the session would be more indepth compared to the previous one. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- j.mp/ArunGanesh ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Thanks Arnav (ricku). (User:Rangilo_Gujarati) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rangilo_Gujarati ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] WikiSangamolsavam - Annual WikiConference of Malayalam Wikicommunity
In continuation to the earlier announcement, here are the latest updates on * WikiSangamolsavam - The Annual WikiConference of Malayalam Wikicommunity. * The conference is happening on April 28th and 29th at Kollamhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kollam, Kerala http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala. We expect around 200 people to attend this conference. 1. The Programs has been Finalized. Click *here*ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF:%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%82%E0%B4%97%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%82_-_2012/%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%9F%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%BE/ento view the page in En. 2. The registration is now openhttp://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF:%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%82%E0%B4%97%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%82_-_2012/Registration/en. Click *here *https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhrRkFXNEF6SmU4LUhudkdJV2NNLWc6MQto register. (currently only available in ml). If any non-ml users want to register, Please send a mail to wikisamgamothsavam2...@gmail.com. Registration is in full swing and already close to 100 people registered. Some of the highlights of Malayalam conference: 1. We expect around 200 people to attend this conference which includes around 50 students selected from different schools of Kollam district. 2. There are 26 Submissions / Presentation by Wikipedians / public in two days. 3. A panel discussion regarding Copyright of Government documents. - Day-2 4. Parallel Wiki School Students Conference - on Day-2 5. An Analaysis of all Malayalam wiki projects and discussion about taking the Malayalam wiki projects forward. 6. Public Speeches by prominent IT movement leaders of Kerala. 7. Wiki workshops to introduce malayalam wiki projects to new bies If any non-ml users want to register, Please send a mail to wikisamgamothsavam2...@gmail.com. Registeration fee is 300 Rs and there are no scholarships available for this conference. We are planning to run a special 2 hour session for non-Malayalam wikipedians attenduing the malayalam confernce. We welcome all of you to God's own country. *FAQ *http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF:WS2012/FAQis available in ml. If you still have any question, please write to wikisamgamothsavam2...@gmail.com User:Rameshng On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Adv. T.K Sujith tksuj...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Friends, The annual meet-up of Malayalam Wikimedia Community - *Wikisangamolsavam 2012 * will be held on 28th and 29th of April 2012 at District Panchayath Hall, Kollam,http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=ensugexp=llsings_nf=1tok=bsHEj9zf5DvmQARCvEN28wpq=kollam+district+panchayathcp=31gs_id=ezxhr=tq=kollam+district+panchayath+hallclient=ubuntuhs=3Tfchannel=fsbiw=1280bih=601bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osbum=1ie=UTF-8ei=vD5hT4C8ONHHrQf7mqiRBgsa=Xoi=mode_linkct=modecd=3sqi=2ved=0CA4Q_AUoAgKerala. We expect 200 participants for the event from inside and outside Kerala. This is an open event and in this meetup, along with the whole malayalam wiki community, any person those who interested in Malayalam Wikimeida Activities such as Students, Teachers, Computer Professionals, Educational and Social workers etc. can attend. Plz see the event page of Wikisangamolsavam2012 http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF:%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%82%E0%B4%97%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%82_-_2012for more details In these two days Meetup we will discuss annual reports of Malayalam Wikimedia Projects. There also 3 parallel sessions for presentations and discussions on general topics connected with wikipedia. We expecting papers on different subjects mainly come under the tracks of Community, Knowledge, Technology and Outreach. Selected participants can present papers and talks. You can submit your paper through thishttp://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF:%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%82%E0%B4%97%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%82_-_2012/%E0%B4%85%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B7%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%BElink. General Speeches of eminent personalities in subjects like Internet Freedom is also included. A second edition of Malayalam Loves WIkimedia