Just a question. Are any proper, experienced community members part of this?
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Nitika Tandon <ntan...@wikimedia.org>wrote: > Hi, > > We are trying to build partnerships with some of the organisations to set > up Wikipedia > Clubs<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Wikipedia_Clubs>. > The idea is to run outreach events at institutes or amongst interest > groups that engage people in activities around Wikipedia. > > Our first such attempt to is to partner with British Council > India<http://www.britishcouncil.org/india> in > Delhi. We've been in discussions with them for the past couple of months > and I'm pleased to announce that we'll be initiating a series of Wikipedia > workshops for some of the British Council's library members with the > desired end result to set up a Wikipedia Club that will organise regular > activities around Wikipedia at British Council. The basic objective of the > club would be to: > > 1. Organise regular activities to increase the level of editing > activity by club members. This could be in form of edit-a-thons, > photo-thons, starting wiki projects based on common interest etc. > 2. Organise regular outreach sessions to recruit more club members and > expand club size. > 3. Organise regular fun activities to keep high level of enthusiasm > and spirit amongst club members. This could be in form of trivia nights, > games night, meet ups, field trips, museum trips etc. > > To begin with we'll be conducting three sessions with the same group of > attendees. The first session will aim to brief all about workings of > Wikipedia, editing rules and talk page protocols etc. The following > sessions will be dedicated to only those participants who'll be willing to > and excited to get more involved in Wikipedia. We'll provide them > additional support to better understand Wikipedia editing and our > community. And the third session will aim to formalise a Wikipedia Club at > British Council where we'll provide ideas to the club members to organise > regular activities like edit-a-thons, photo-thons, games and trivia nights, > museum visits etc. > > We've built this 3 level outreach program to make sure that club members > will be better equipped and trained to organise club activities by > themselves and will be able to conduct regular outreach activities within > British Council (for members of movie clubs, writing clubs etc.) to further > expand their club size. > > The first session at British Council is scheduled for 23rd June from 10am > to 1pm. All are welcome to help run the session. Will keep you all > informed on the outcome of the session and next step thereon. > > Thanks > Nitika > > _______________________________________________ > 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.
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