Kudos to Abhishek and Niraj Suryawanshi and others at Wikipedia Club Pune! Best, Vishnu
On 22 January 2013 11:02, Subhashish Panigrahi <subhash...@cis-india.org>wrote: > (Originally published at: > http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/celebrating-the-success-of-wikipedia-in-wikipedia-summit-pune-2013 > )* > * > > *Wikipedia Club Pune, a local community based outreach user group in Pune > has recently organized Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013 to spread words about > “Spoken Wikipedia”, a project to add recorded audio for Indic language > Wikipedia articles which will help the disabled to access Wikipedia and > “Bridging Editor Gender Gap.” It was supported by Centre for Internet and > Society, Wikimedia India Chapter, PAI International Learning Solutions and > Kusuma Foundation. Here is a sumary of activities of this two day event. > * > > I was in Pune from 12-13th January to attend Wikipedia Summit Pune > 2013<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Summit_Pune>, > a two day event organized by Wikipedia Club > Pune<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Club_Pune>to promote > Wikipedia as an effective means of education, to empower and > reach out to India, to bring the country under a spotlight through Spoken > Wikipedia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spoken_Wikipedia/Indic_Languages>, > and to bridge the gender > gap<http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/27/nine-out-of-ten-wikipedians-continue-to-be-men/>of > Wikipedia editors. Here is a summary of the activities. > > *Day 1:* > > 12 January has seen more than 100 participants which includes students > from almost 10 different schools, housewives, working professionals and > free and open source activists. Myself from the A2K team of Centre fro > Internet and Society, Sudhanwa Jogelker and Nikita Belavate from the > Wikimedia India Chapter joined for this event. The opening ceremony was > started with talks from Abhishek Suryawanshi, founder member of Wikipedia > Club Pune, Sudhanwa Jogelkar, President of Wikimedia India Chapter, Rishi > Aacharya, Principal, PAI International Learning Solutions, and social > activist Mrs. Vibha. > > Before the formal opening Abhishek spoke for a while about the Spoken > Wikipedia project which is one of the main agenda of the two day event. He > explained about the need of spoken Wikipedia, especially for people with > disabilities and how effective it would be when it spreads in 20 Indic > languages. In the past Wikipedians in Pune gathered and recorded articles > in various Indian and international languages. > > Sudhanwa Jogelkar, President, Wikimedia India Chapter introduced the > chapter's role for Wikimedia movement to the audience. He spoke Chapter's > in few of national events/projects like Wiki Loves Monument, GLAM project > in Crafts Museum, Delhi and many other outreach events. There were few > announcements about the chapter on the MoU to be signed from the chapter > with district collector of Kanyakumari, Chapter being partner to > Springfest, IIT, Kharagpur, Commons day celebration in February and GNUnify > 2013, Pune. > > Vibha, a social activist based in Delhi spoke about gender discrimination > in many aspects of our social and professional life. Access to knowledge > for free could bridge this and Wikipedia, being so known universally and > accessed by millions of people every day could be the best platform for > this.' says Vibha. > > Rishi Aacharya, Principal of PAI International brought the vedic saying > “Ya vidya sa vimuktaye” to explain the real meaning of knowledge which is > free its existence in an Indian context. He spoke about open source > movement and Wikipedia's part in it. > > After the formal opening there was a Q&A session for the participants to > clarify various questions they had about Wikipedia. Then they were > explained about the 3 parallel sessions; An open discussion about Gender > gap, Workshop for Indic languages and Spoken Wikipedia. Gender gap session > was attended by many school students. Vibha and few more activists were > coordinating this event. In the Workshop for Indic languages and Spoken > Wikipedia Wikipedians helped participants for the workshop with basic > editing and the participants edited Marathi and Hindi Wikipedia. Articles > from various medical subjects of common interest were chosen. There were 3 > medical professionals to support with the medical terminologies for editors > contributing to Marathi and Hindi Wikipedia. > > At the end of the day there were separate wrap up tracks to summarize the > learning of whole session. All of the participants gathered together to > educate each other about the work they have done. Many of the participants > spoke about their experience and learnings. Plans for the next day was > announced. Wikipedians gathered for a group photo and socialized after the > closing talks. > > > *Day 2:* > > Second day of Wikipedia Summit Pune was a sequel of the activities which > happened in the first day.More than 40 students took part in this session. > Vibha, Srishti and team were coordinating the gender gap track. Many topics > related to Gender Gap, gender based discrimination, Role of gender gap in > occupation, Gender gap in Wikipedia, Participation of Woman editors on > Wikipedia were discussed. > > Participants of the Spoken wikipedia session worked on the articles on > Hindi and Marathi Wikipedia and moved them from sandboxes to article > namespaces. After all of the articles were created they recorded them. They > formed groups of 3-4 members and worked together. One of them would search > information mainly from the English Wikipedia articles and some of the > available Marathi (or Hindi), some other would translate and the other > member would record it using a mobile phone. That was a great team effort. > > Over 25 voluntary organizers joined hands for making this a success. No of > participants were around 120. At the end of the day participants from both > the sessions gathered. Many of the participants and organizers shared their > experiences and learnings. The program was concluded with socializing, > taking group pictures, promises to stay in touch and taking active part in > more Wikipedia activities. > > *Quick links:* > > Blog: > http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/celebrating-the-success-of-wikipedia-in-wikipedia-summit-pune-2013 > * > * > > Wikipedia Summit Pune: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Summit_Pune > > Wikipedia Club Pune: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Club_Pune > > Pictures: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_Summit_Pune > > Spoken Wikipedia Project: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Spoken_Wikipedia_-_India > > Pune Club facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikipediaClubPune > > > -- > Best! > Subhashish Panigrahi > Access To Knowledge > Centre for Internet and Society > New Delhi > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > >
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