IIITH-OKI/Advance Train The Trainer 2025/Expression of Interest/Submitted/Nettime Sujata

Basic Information

Wikimedia Username

Nettime Sujata

Wikimedia Project(s) you primarily contribute to

Wikisource
Wikipedia
Wikibooks
Wikivoyage
Meta-wiki
Wiki Commons

Active in Wikimedia since (Year)

2016

Your Affiliate or Community Group (if any):

West Bengal Wikimedians User Group : General Member since 29 June 2023
Representative Member and member of Representative Committee of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group from January 2024 - present

Languages you work with (on-wiki or off-wiki):

Bengali
English

Have you participated in any Train the Trainer or similar Wikimedia training before? If yes, please mention the name of the event along with the year in which you participated

Are you currently involved in any leadership, facilitation, or mentoring roles within the Wikimedia movement? If yes, briefly describe the imitative and your involvement in it

Yes I regularly organize different Edit-a-thons in Wikipedia to increase the number of good quality article in Bengali language. I organize or participate in workshops of Wikipedia and Wikisource for mentoring, outreach and facilitation. Details of these are given in the following section.

Track Preference

Your preferred track during the workshop

Track 2: Micro-Project Design Challenge – From Learning to Action

Which track are you most interested in and why?

I am interested in Track 2 - Micro-Project Design. This track will help me to rectify and modify my present interest of work. I want to enhance my present skill of planning projects on mentoring ang outreach.

Tell us about one Wikimedia program, campaign, or initiative you’ve contributed to in a leadership role

From the year 2019, I am organizing different edit-a-thons in Bengali Wikipedia in which I am a jury also. In that capacity I am constantly mentoring the participants on how to construct a good article. The edit-a-thons are :

Wiki Loves Women 2019 Organizer, Jury and Participant
Wiki Loves Women South Asia 2020 Organizer, Jury and Participant
Wiki Loves Women South Asia 2021 Organizer, Jury and Participant
Feminism & Folklore Editathon 2022 Organizer, Jury and Participant
Feminism & Folklore Editathon 2023 Organizer, Jury and Participant
Wikipedia : Indian Independance Day Editathon 2023 Organizer, Jury and Participant
Online Sharadiya Editathin 2023 Jury and Participant
Science Editathon 2024 Jury and Participant
Feminism & Folklore Editathon 2024 Organizer, Jury and Participant
Feminism & Folklore Editathon 2025 Organizer, Jury and Participant

I have done several workshops for Outreach and Mentorship. They are :

What skills or knowledge do you hope to gain from this training?

I hope to learn to design my project more realistically. I will learn the pros and cons of a design and a trade off between the options so that the best comes out, to frame a timeline within which the whole thing must be done. I will learn to do projects aligned with the need of my community along with the collaboration with other communities.

Based on your selected track, what is one challenge you have encountered in either evaluating Wikimedia programs or designing impactful projects? Please share your experience relevant to your chosen track.

Sustaining editors after outreach is the most common and biggest problem. When edit-a-thons are hoarded with tangible prizes, the number of contributions are high but for contributory or quality improvement edit-a-thons without prize, the number dips. In the case of workshops also, often many priorly signed up attendees do not show up.

How do you plan to apply what you learn after the event?

After the event, I believe I will be able to engage most number of volunteers of my community to the projects, fine tune the resources so that I can help the project volunteers, properly evaluate the project advancement.

(Optional) Are you open to mentorship (either receiving or offering it)?

I would like to support someone else and be paired with a mentor, I am open to both the options.