Pradeep, The purpose of having a ''few'' Gender specific outreach events is to spread the movement in Womens circles. This will be more beneficial.
Regards, On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Pradeep Nair <prad2...@yahoo.com> wrote: > hi, > > A couple of points here: > 1. While women specific workshops are great and we've had requests from > various people across the country (!) to conduct similar workshops, we > should also consider doing workshops for both genders as well. Each > workshop is energy sapping! > 2. We are a relatively small group of volunteers and my hope is that some > of the people we train at these workshops will in their stead be able to > conduct similar workshops 6 months or a year down the line. > > warm regards, > Pradeep Mohandas > How Pradeep uses email? - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 > ------------------------------ > *From:* Karthik Nadar <karthik...@wikimedia.in> > *To:* Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > > *Sent:* Wednesday, 7 November 2012 9:04 PM > *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Women Workshop Report > > Yeah Srikanth, > > we have follow up events to this one. > > - One of the Staff from Sophia College was interested for similar > women's workshop. It will happen soon. > - Principal of Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, was very excited > to hold a Wikipedia workshop for her students, so that will happen in > December end. This will be general workshop for all. > > Hoping to do more and more soon :) > > > Thanks! > > On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < > parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Just a question. Are there any followups planned for this? > > > > On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Karthik Nadar <karthik...@wikimedia.in>wrote: > > Missed out the name of Rohini Lakshane, another core volunteer! > > > On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < > parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Arjuna, you have a very valid point there. > I urge all women to consider a Women's SIG. > > > > On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala > <arjunar...@gmail.com>wrote: > > Thanks Krutikaa for a comprehensive report. I am happy to hear about the > large participation and nice outcomes. Congratulations to all organisers > and thanks to all participants for making it a successful event. > > There was discussion some time back about formation of Women Special > Interest Group (SIG) of India Chapter. I encourage the participants to > discuss the same and follow up with the Chapter as required. > > Cheers > Arjuna > > > > > On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Krutikaa Jawanjal <krutika...@gmail.com>wrote: > > A Day Spent well. > > The Wikipedia Women Workshop which took place on November, 4th 2012 in > Vidyalankar Institute of Technology (VIT), Wadala was indeed a > success. > > The people who volunteered in organizing this workshop were Bishakha > Datta, Moksh Juneja, Karthik Nadar, Pranav Curumsey, Pradeep Mohandas, > Anshuman Fotedar, Aditi Juneja, Harriet Vidyasagar, Nikita Belavate, > Netra Parikh, Noopur Raval, Netha Hussain. All discussions and > planning done while organizing this workshop for women paid off. In > all, 70+ women participants attended the workshop. > > The workshop started with a short introduction after which, wasting no > time, the women participants moved on to learning how to edit > Wikipedia which was though by the present on ground volunteers. The > participants were were divided in groups and every group had to create > a new article which wasn't already available on Wikipedia. In the > process, women interacted with the volunteers, asked question > regarding Wikipedia. Every group at least had added introduction to > the new article. > > Having done with the basic editing, a general presentation on > Wikipedia was given by some of the volunteers. This was followed by > question and answers regarding the same. By this time, it was already > 1.30pm, so the lunch was announced. After having lunch, the > participants got back to their seats. Pretty much everybody stayed > back post lunch. Moksh continued with teaching how to edit Wikipedia. > This time it wasn't it in groups though. "References" and "Notability" > were the main topics that were covered in this session. > > Anshuman and Karthik then proceeded with teaching photo uploads on > Wikipedia. Quiz was conducted towards the end and Wikipedia-Tshirts > were given as prizes for giving right answers. Karthik, then also > showcased the winning images of Wiki Loves Momunents 2012 India. The > long day came to an end with an overwhelming response and a call for > organizing many such activities. The feedback received was positive. > The participants enjoyed the workshop. > > We are thankful to everybody who made this event a great one. Thanks > to all the volunteers. Special thanks to Moksh and Karthik who went > out of the way to get everything arranged before hand at the venue, to > Netha and Noopur for making it to the workshop and for working hand in > hand with the Mumbai Community, to Srikanth Ramakrishnan who > constantly stayed in touch for online help. > > Special thanks to whole Vidyalankar team. Vishwas Deshpande, Founder > of Vidyalankar, who gave us an opportunity to to do the Mumbai's first > Wiki Workshop for Women at Vidyalankar. Milind Tadvalkar (Director) > and Seema Shah (Principal), Jayprakash Kurmi and Vivek and the > complete IT Team at VIT, Mahesh from Canteen for an awesome Pav Bhaji > for Lunch. Another thanks to Netra Parikh, for giving us enough place > at her office, Pinstorm, for all out pre-meetings. Thanks to all. > > > Regards, > Krutikaa Jawanjal > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > > > > -- > Regards, > Srikanth Ramakrishnan. > > Sign this petition to introduce Volvo buses in Coimbatore city: > > https://www.change.org/en-IN/petitions/the-transport-minister-tamil-nadu-introduction-of-volvo-city-buses-in-the-city-of-coimbatore > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > > > > -- > Karthik Nadar. > Secretary, > Wikimedia India Chapter. > (Ph: +91-9773608862) > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > > > > -- > Regards, > Srikanth Ramakrishnan. > > Sign this petition to introduce Volvo buses in Coimbatore city: > > https://www.change.org/en-IN/petitions/the-transport-minister-tamil-nadu-introduction-of-volvo-city-buses-in-the-city-of-coimbatore > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > > > > -- > Karthik Nadar. > Secretary, > Wikimedia India Chapter. > (Ph: +91-9773608862) > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > -- Srikanth Ramakrishnan Member of the Executive Committee Wikimedia Chapter [India]
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