CIS-A2K/Events/She Leads/Workshop for Wikipedia editing and Wikisource proof reading

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The activity was proposed in collaboration with CIS-A2K under She Leads program. The object of the activity is to spread awareness, recruit Newcomers, increasing women participation and develop content on local Wikimedia projects.

Purpose of activity[edit]

  • Creating awareness among new editors
  • Strengthening female wikimedian group
  • Creating quality articles
  • Basic introduction to Wikisource proofreading

Date and Venue[edit]

  • Date: 13 March 2024
  • Time :10 am to 5 pm
  • Venue: Utsarg-Utsav Community Hall, Bengal Ambuja Housing Complex, Kolkata

Organizers (community partners)[edit]

Program/Agenda of Activity[edit]

  • Inauguration and formal session of the workshop 10ː00 am to 10ː15 am
  • Technical session commences from 10ː15 am onwards
  • Lunch at 1.30 pm
  • Session commences again from 2.00 pm
  • Technical session ends at 4.30 pm
  • Discussions and wrap up session from 4.30 pm to 5.00 pm
  • Two tea breaks in between 10.00 am and 5.00 pm
  • Program ends at 5.00 pm

Attendees/Participants[edit]

  • Number of participants expected: 10
  • Attended :

2 persons for technical support and photography.

  1. Nettime Sujata (talk) 13:00, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  2. SUSMITA2511 (talk) 13:42, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Bosesukla (talk) 13:51, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Sohnnet (talk) 14:10, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Bono.Ruma (talk) 05:55, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  6. SRESTHA WIKI (talk) 12:51, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Report/Outcomes[edit]

Report[edit]

Program stared on 10.15 a.m. The new editors created their ID and password for wiki. They were given a brief introduction on Wikipedia articles and different required parts of a good article. A list of some ready english articles were made beforehand, which dont't have Infoboxes. The participants were taught to translate through Content Translation. They were instructed not to follow machine translation exactly.

Four articles created. Now through visual editing they corrected some mistakes. After that they were taught how to search out Infobox, insert that in the article and fill up. Three articles without infoboxes were given Infobox.

Lunch was served at about 1.30 p.m.

From 2.15 p.m. Wikisource workshop started. The participants were taught about the activities of Wikisource. Then they were shown the process of proofreading.

The participants proofread about 11 pages from two books.

Technical session ended at about 4.45 p.m. The participants shared their experiences and expressed their desire to continue with Wiki. They requested for some more formal or informal workshops.

Outcome[edit]

Created articles:

Wikisource proofreading:

  1. [1]
  2. [2]

The most promising outcome of the workshop is, most of the participants want to work for Wiki.

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