Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Sources/Cycle 3/West Bengal Wikimedians Strategy Meetup in Kolkata

Room 123, Academic Block,
NUJS
No.12, LB Block
Salt Lake, Kolkata-98

Over
9:30am to 5:00pm.
6 August 2017 Sunday,

Information

What group or community is this source coming from?

name of group	West Bengal Wikimedians User Group
virtual location (page-link) or physical location (city/state/country)	Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Location type (e.g. local wiki, Facebook, in-person discussion, telephone conference)	in-person discussion
# of participants in this discussion (a rough count)	10

Summary

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Key Insight

The Western encyclopedia model is not serving the evolving needs of people who want to learn.
Knowledge sharing has become highly social across the globe.
Much of the world's knowledge is yet to be documented on our sites and it requires new ways to integrate and verify sources.
The discovery and sharing of trusted information have historically continued to evolve.
Trends in misinformation are increasing and may challenge the ability for Wikimedians to find trustworthy sources of knowledge.
Mobile will continue to grow. Products will evolve and use new technologies such as artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and virtual reality. These will change how we create, present, and distribute knowledge.
As the world population undergoes major shifts, the Wikimedia movement has an opportunity to help improve the knowledge available in more places and to more people.
Readers in seven of our most active countries have little understanding of how Wikipedia works, is structured, is funded, and how content is created.

Overall (either)

supportive
concern
neutral

Line	Week #	Key insight	Summary Statement	Overall	Keyword
1	2	B	Unlike western societies, we do not get information about academicians, artists etc. from newspaper. So, it is very difficult to get reference for many notable subjects.	concern	sources
2	2	B	Several articles could not be created or have been nominated for deletion, as proper references could not be found	concern	sources
3	2	B	Sometimes there are information but not sources. These information are mostly primary research, which is not suitable for Wikipedia.	concern	sources
4	2	B	We should try to involve subject-experts, academics etc.	supportive	sources
5	2	B	Subject-experts should not be involved only to write articles. They can help in various ways such as information validation, quality checking, providing sources etc.	supportive	sources
6	2	B	Peer-reviewed thesis should be used as references	neutral	sources
7	2	B	Editors should get involved in sister projects such as Wikisource, Wikivoyage where references are not needed	supportive	sources
8	2	B	Videos can be recorded and documentaries can be created and uploaded on Wikimedia Commons	supportive	sources
7	2	B	Editors should try to get source materials from physical libraries, as a large number of books are not available in digital format	supportive	sources
9	2	B	Resources and access can be requested at The Wikipedia Library	supportive	sources
10	2	B	Currently there are not too many Indian resources at the Wikipedia Library. Such requests are to be made.	supportive	sources
11	2	B	Verbal or oral source: Oral reference should be structured and plans should be made on bringing these on Wikipedia and other projects	supportive	sources
12	2	B	Orientation and workshops are to be done to involve academics to involve them into the movement	supportive	sources
13	2	C	Work on projects like Wikisource	supportive	knowledge
14	2	E	There should be more number of active admins, although becoming admin is not easy.	supportive	information
15	2	E	There should be more number of active admins, although becoming admin is not easy.	supportive	administration, misinformation
16	2	E	Identifiable sites can be blacklisted so that those can not be used on Wikimedia projects	supportive	sources, misinformation
17	2	F	Mobile apps should be improved and should be more user and editor-friendly	supportive	mobile
18	2	E	Audio Wikipedia or spoken Wikipedia project should be given more importance	supportive	accessibility