WikiConference India 2011/Submissions/Wikipedics without Borders – How rural activists and NGOs can further the Wikipedia cause

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Timestamp
06:21, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
Title of the submission

Wikipedics without Borders – How rural activists and NGOs can further the Wikipedia cause

Type of submission (workshop, tutorial, or presentation)

Presentation

Author of the submission

Aman Sadana

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sadanaaman@gmail.com

State of your origin (Country, if you are not based in India)

India

Affiliation, if any (organization, company etc.)
Personal homepage or blog

www.amansadana.com

Abstract (maximum 500 words)

A major challenge of wikipedia has always been, "Tapping on latent knowledge of niche communities and encouraging them to share it."

Often the repositories of such information are people who are yet to gain access to schools, let alone the internet. But these people, have highly developed mechanisms like oral history to pass on traditional knowledge from one generation to another. There are several such communities in India, who are yet to have an opportunity to “tell their story, their history ”. Rural activists and NGOs have provided a voice to their needs and achievements in the past 64 years of Indian Independence. They provide an intangible link between the two worlds ( onine and offline) that exist in the world today.

Tapping on their expertise, their access, should be the next frontier of the Wiki movement. This paper tries to examine how activists and NGOs can tap on traditional knowledge in India, to share on Wikipedia.


Track (Community/Knowledge/Outreach/Technology)

Community

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Yes, I will be coming in any case.

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