CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian/Sessions/2016-11-12

Date

• 12 November 2016

Venue

• OpenCon Conference, Ranchi, Jharkhand

Participants

• 40+ participants (a list may be seen here)

Discussion topics

We discussed these things:

1. How can scholars contribute to Wikipedia
2. General Wikipedia policies: Verifiability, Neutral point of view, Original research
3. Primary, secondary and tertiary sources.
4. Researching with Wikipedia, why Wikipedia should be considered as a starting point of research, and not the ending point
5. Academic use
6. Creating articles on Wikipedia (intro only)

External links

• Media coverage on LiveHindustan (Hindi)