CIS-A2K/Events/Wikimedia Workshop in Mass Communication department, PAH Solapur University

Punyashlok Ahilyabai Holkar Solapur University, Solapur (PAHSUS) has signed MoU with CIS-A2K to enrich the content on Wikimedia projects with the involvement of students. Due to the pandemic, the campus and the courses were closed for the last two academic sessions. The students are from the rural areas with poor economic backgrounds, hence could not afford the online training or editing during the period. As the situation becoming better, the computer labs and some offline activities have been started by the university. This workshop conducted on 7 December 2021 on Wikimedia projects was an attempt to start the process with the students to create content as part of the online assignments curriculum. In this workshop, total 30 students participated to learn basic Wikipedia editing and image uploading on Wikimedia Commons. The topics for the assignments were selected under the guidance of faculty. The students have started developing the articles in the Google doc. The orientation about the reliable and verifiable referencing was done in the library along with exploration of reference material like books, gazettes, reports, thesis etc. This exploration in the library was very well appreciated by the students. The librarian and the staff will also be involved in the quality content creation process. The articles in doc will be reviewed by the faculty and they will be uploaded initially on sandbox to learn Wiki formatting and other aspects. The quarterly follow-up workshops have been planned to complete this project.