CIS-A2K/Events/MediaWiki Training/2017
 MediaWiki Training MediaWiki Training (MWT) is a residential training workshop to groom technical leadership skills among the Indian Wikimedia community members. |
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MediaWiki Training or MWT is a residential training program. The program attempts to groom technical leadership skills among the Indian Wikimedia community members. The second iteration of MWT will be held between 24-26 February.
Event details[edit]
- Dates: 24-26 February 2017 (add this event to your Google calendar or Yahoo calendar)
- Venue:The Centre for Internet & Society(#194, 2nd C Cross Road, 2nd Stage, Domlur, Stage 2, Domlur, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560071)
- City: Bangalore
- Location Map:Google maps
- Etherpad: MWT17 etherpad
Objectives[edit]
CIS-A2K is conducting this training program to
- Create awareness about MediaWiki.
- Explore technicalities of Indic Language Wikis.
- Helping volunteers in creating bots.
- To create and grow tech leadership in Indic language communities.
Points to note[edit]
Who can apply[edit]
- Any active Wikimedian working with the technical of aspects such as tools, scripts, gadgets, project cleanup of Indian Wikimedia communities is welcome to apply.
Support[edit]
- Travel support will be provided.
- Accommodation will be provided.
- Food will be served following a participant's dietary preferences (veg, non-veg, vegan etc.)
Pre-event[edit]
- Pre-event works may be given.
- A candidate may need to inform their receptive language village pumps about their participation and pre-works.
Event[edit]
- All participants must come to the venue on 23 February and attend all the days of the program. Partial attendance won't be allowed.
- Participants are not allowed to bring friends or relatives to the event.
- All participants should bring their laptops. If you don't have a laptop please let us know.
Schedule[edit]
Day 1[edit]
| Time | Session | Resource Person |
| 10 AM | MediaWiki Training Introduction and Objectives | Viswa and Tito |
| 10.30 AM | MediaWiki software basics | Tito |
| 11 AM | Wiki technical audit-Introduction | Tito |
| Technical audit-Short Pages, Long pages, Orphan pages, Dead-end pages, Dormant pages, New pages | Pavan | |
| Technical audit-Broken Redirect, Double redirect, Uncategorized pages, Wanted pages, pages and templates | Sailesh & Ananth | |
| 1 PM | Lunch | |
| 1: 45 PM | [cont.] Wiki technical audit-Script error, reference error, infobox errors | Tito |
| 3: 30 PM | Tea | |
| 3: 45 | [cont.] Wiki technical audit-Using prefixes, using advance search, List of pages, files, subpages | Pavan |
| Wiki technical audit-Blocked users, protected pages | Tito | |
| Stats.wikimedia.org | Ananth | |
| Metrics | Tito & Ananth |
Day 2[edit]
| Time | Session | Resource Person |
| 9: 30 AM | Templates and info boxes creation and management
Working tea |
Tito |
| 1 PM | Lunch | |
| 1: 45 PM | Bots Gadgets and scripts | |
| Wikipedia tools:Copyvio, Duplication detector, Google books citation, Citation generator | Pavan | |
| Wikimedia Commons tools | Tito | |
| Introduction to Hay's tool directory | Tito | |
| WMF labs tools | Tito & Ananth | |
| 3: 30 PM | Tea | |
| 3: 45 | AWB | Tito & Ananth |
Day 3[edit]
| Time | Session | Resource Person |
| 9: 30 AM | Quarry
Working tea |
Viswa Prabha |
| 1 PM | Lunch | |
| 1: 45 PM | Wikidata and Wikidata tools | Ananth, Sailesh |
| 3: 30 PM | Tea | |
| 3: 45 | Bots | Tito |
Registration[edit]
Please fill this form, if you are interested to attend the workshop. The last date to apply is 28 January 2017.
Participants[edit]
Participants' list will be updated after the selection.
Contact[edit]
If you have question, please post on the talk page or email tito@cis-india.org
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