Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A day in Wiki Women Workshop

[Nitika Tandon]

Congratulations to Pavithra and the entire Bangalore community for such a great 
initiative. 

Here's a blogpost about the Wiki Women's workshop we had organised at Nirmala 
Institute of Education, Goa. Special thanks to Rohini and Harriet for all their 
support and help.

More power to Wiki Women!

Nitika


On 24-Mar-2013, at 6:39 PM, Pavithra H wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> Here is my blog post on Wiki Women Workshop that we conducted on 9th March.
> 
> As we all know, Wikipedia is the world’s biggest encyclopedia and recognized 
> as the 5th most website accessed by people across the globe. Being one of the 
> biggest community driven project, Wikipedia has pooled in millions of 
> articles which have been added/edited/monitored/ by people like you and me.
> By nature, gender has not only been the distinguishing factor for human being 
> but also acts as a barrier to perform limited set of activities from the 
> ages. At various stages of evolution, men and women have been continuously 
> striving to overcome their boundaries which were set by themselves or by the 
> society. It’s the same story when it comes to statistics of Wikipedians and 
> the ratio of men and women participation is 9:1.  To bridge this gap 
> Wikipdedia has been organizing many activities to bring in more women 
> participants around Wikipedia and other Wiki projects. On the occasion of 
> International Women’s Day 2013, many of the volunteer Wikipedians conducted 
> workshops with dedicated focus to women across the India.
> 
> On this occasion, I got an opportunity to organize the workshop in Bangalore 
> as well for women with ideas floated by Nikita (EC member of India Chapter) 
> and Radhakrishna (SIG chair Bangalore). With guidance and support by Sowmyan 
> (EC member of India Chapter), Arun (founder member of India Wikipedia) and 
> Omshivapraksh (Kannada SIG chair of Bangalore), we could conduct Wikipedia 
> Women’s Workshop successfully for the first time in Bangalore on 9th of March 
> at Servelots Infotech Pvt. Ltd. As mentioned in the event page, the workshop 
> was started with giving an overview of Wikipedia and introduction of 
> participants along with their interests. Continuing further participants were 
> able to found their answers for their initial set of questions like what is 
> Wikipedia all about? Why do we participate? Who all will edit? in about an 
> hour session by Omshivaprakash.
> After a small tea break and a press byte organized by Pavanaja, the sessions 
> were continued by introducing the next step to Wikipedia. i.e., How do we 
> edit? To make our hands on session more interactive, we made one of our 
> participant, Dr. A Sumitra to create an account live and explained various 
> steps to edit Wikipedia like start a new page, edit a page, formatting, 
> preview, adding references, history, etc.  In between we played the recorded 
> videos of Bishakha Datta and Netha Hussain who shared their experience with 
> Wikipedia and their message on Women’s Day.
> 
>  With excited participants, we extended the session and took some more time 
> to explain what else we can do beyond editing by giving a brief overview on 
> other wiki projects like Commons, WikiBooks, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikiquote, 
> Wikitionary, MediaWiki, etc.
> 
> New items on the cards:
> 1.During the event, Dr. A Sumitra based out of Bangalore did add the page 
> on Nalini Nayak who is famous as India’s Fisher Women.
> 2.We have compiled a list of topics for Kannada Wikipedia for which women 
> can participate in adding/enhancing the content on Wikipedia.
> 3.Our participant, Lakshimi Chaitanya has come forward to introduce many 
> female achievers by adding content in Kannada Wikipedia.
> 4.Sumana from Sanskrit Wikipedia and other Wikipedians have been working 
> on making audio files for Sanskrit Shlokas since few days and they are very 
> happy to welcome volunteers who would like to join them in adding their 
> content to Commons.
> Couple of other women who could not make it to the event also got in touch to 
> be part of the celebrations by contributing to Kannada Wikipedia:
>  5.Recent Wikipedian, Shyamala Janardhan has been trying to add contents 
> of  HariKathamrutha Saara to WikiSource.
> 6.Savitha S.R. from Bangalore celebrating this occasion by adding 
> contents of Vyasa Bharata -Kumara Vyasa to Wikipedia.
> I have created a new Facebook group called WikiWomen Bangalore  to gather all 
> women participants of Wikipedia and other Wiki projects. The space can be 
> used to discuss and interact about topics around Wikipedia and to bring in 
> more women participants to share their knowledge. I request all of you to 
> join the group and share your thoughts.
> Also refer to event page International Women’s Day, India which lists all the 
> events happening in India in March 2013 on the occasion of Women’s day and 
> participate in the area of your interest.
> As a personal note, it gave immense pleasure an

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Photography event on Indian food

[Ganesh Satpute]

On Mar 25, 2013 1:55 PM, "Anubhav Sinha" 
wrote:

> Hi Yohann,
> I think it's a great idea but i just wanted to know this event
> will cover specifically Indian food or various types of food available in
> India. I would suggest that the event must cover various delicacies which
> are available in our country just because of the diversity of the Indian
> culture.
>
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Anubhav Sinha.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Photography event on Indian food

[John Carter]

Nice idea Yohann,
   I think this event will definitely help in strengthening the
presence
   of Wikipedia Chapter in society.



On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Yohann Thomas  wrote:

> hi anubhav
>
> Thanks for showing interest
> Yes this online event will cover all different types of delicacies made in
> India.
>
> Thnx
>
> Yohann Thomas
> Wikipedia Club Pune
>  yohan...@gmail.com
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Photography event on Indian food

[Priyanka Tiwari]

It's a great idea concerning the variety of indian food and its fusion. It
will be of great use for everyone to know about indian cuisines and its
origin also.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Photography event on Indian food

[Niraj Suryawanshi]

Yes that would be indeed a great thing!
Since there are not precise images of the Indian delicacies on commons, I
was going through Indian Breads and i could not find any precise image
which could represent the same. So maybe after this event the scenario
might change.
And indeed photography is a hobby and passion for many people around, so we
can expect a huge response too as we got during Wikipedia Takes Pune.
I would be glad if I would help you Yohann.
feel free to consider me.
And best of luck.



Regards & Thanks,

Niraj Suryawanshi 
Pune Institute of Computer Technology | Wikipedia Club
Pune
8149920120 | niraj.suryawan...@gmail.com


On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Priyanka Tiwari wrote:

> It's a great idea concerning the variety of indian food and its fusion. It
> will be of great use for everyone to know about indian cuisines and its
> origin also.
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia workshop at Chennai Mathematical Institute

[Bala Jeyaraman]

Hi all,

Wikimedia India is conducting a Wikipedia workshop at Fiesta 2013, the
annual student fest of Chennai Mathematical Institute on March 30,
2013.[1]  We are also supporting two  Wikimedia themed contests at the same
fest : 1) Wikilinks - a wikipedia clicking game 2) PixElite - a photography
contest [2]

==Links==
[1] http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Events/CMI_Fiesta_2013
[2] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:PixElite

regards
Bala Jeyaraman
Member, Executive Council
Wikimedia India
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