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SEABA Wikisource Event January 10, 2020

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Wikisource workshop at SEABA school Lehragaga on 10 January 2020
SEABA Wiksiource Workshop January 2020

A second Wikisource workshop was organized at SEABA School in Lehragaga city, Punjab in co-collaboration with SEABA staff Jagseer Sidhu as part of Heritage GLAM project.

Venue

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Seaba School Lehragaga, Patiala

Date

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January 10, 2020

Organizing Partners

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  • Open Heritage Foundation
  • SEABA International Public School

Training co-ordinators

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Participants

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Details

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  • The event started with Wikilover90 giving students a background about Wikisource and other sister projects of Wikimedia. How Wikisource and its importance is explained for the
  • Charan Gill gave a brief about the project and its history.
  • The practical training sessions started, where the students were taught about the Punjabi keyboard and the basics of Wikisource project.
  • Jagseer Sidhu, Wikilover90, Gilljassu and [[User:Gurpreet|Gurpreet helped the students with different queries and templates.
  • The students allocated themselves books from the contest.
  • The event ended with Wikilover90 giving a brief about the proofreading contest, future events and opportunities.

Meeting

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  • After the meeting, the team had meeting with Principle of the school, Bibin Alexander where the future opportunities were discussed.
  • The principle expressed gratitude for the skill building trainings for Wikisource that help students understand the values of volunteer work and getting an opportunity to read literature.
  • The upcoming events were discussed in details.