[Wikimediaindia-l] Odia Wikipedia Outreach Programs in Odisha (Mar-Apr)

2012-04-09 Thread Mrutyunjaya Kar
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

2012-04-09 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
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

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Question about outreach sessions

2012-04-09 Thread Anirudh Bhati
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.


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Question about outreach sessions

2012-04-09 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
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.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Question about outreach sessions

2012-04-09 Thread Arun Ganesh
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.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Question about outreach sessions

2012-04-09 Thread Arnav Sonara
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.

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[Wikimediaindia-l] WikiSangamolsavam - Annual WikiConference of Malayalam Wikicommunity

2012-04-09 Thread Ramesh N G
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