Tamil Wikipedia Workshop 2024 (Tirunelveli)
A 2-day workshop was conducted to impart training to college teachers in the southern city of Tamil Nadu, Tirunelveli. This page contains the details of the event and its outcome.
Objective[edit]
- Introduction about Tamil Wikipedia to new users and provide training for contribution.
- After the training, content improvement of articles by new users.
Focus[edit]
- To make them understand the nuances of encyclopedia.
- Adding a minimum of one reference to unreferenced articles.
- Content improvement of articles.
Arrangements[edit]
- Organisers:
- Tamil Wikipedia community
- The management of Sadakathullah Appa College, Tirunelveli - 627 011, Tamil Nadu
- Collaborator: CIS-A2K
Event details[edit]
- Dates: March 1 and 2; 2024
- Time: 9.30 am - 4.30 pm
- Venue: Sadakathullah Appa College
- Participants (Planned): 50
- Participants (Actual):
- College teachers - 65
- PhD Scholars - 18
- Trainers:
Report[edit]
Day 1[edit]
- Inaugural meeting was started at 10 am as per the schedule and concluded at 11 am.
- Introduction about Wikimedia, Tamil Wikipedia, Commons, Tamil Wiktionary and Wikisource were presented by Dr. P. Mariappan, M. Selvasivagurunathan, S. Balasubramanian, Sreekrishnan Narayanan and V. Vasantha Lakshmi.
- Navigation to Tamil Wikipedia was demonstrated by G. Arularasan.
- After the lunch, hands-on training began in the computer lab.
- Dr. P. Mariappan explained about editing in Tamil Wikipedia.
- Trainers helped partcipants to create their user account.
- Participants tried to curate articles which were in their interested area.
- Q&A session was conducted before closing the day.
Day 2[edit]
- K.Murthy and Sridhar G provided training on how to write a new article.
- Participants created their first article in their sandbox. Trainers checked those article in parallel and helped to move as Draft: or as common space article.
- Creation of articles and other editing activities continued till the evening.
- Q&A session, feedback session were followed and the event was ended with formal closing.
Expense details[edit]
| Sl # | Name of the expense | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Banner | ₹ 950 |
| 2 | Note pad and pen | ₹ 840 |
| 3 | Shawl to management representatives of the college | ₹ 1,160 |
| 4 | Certificate to the participants | ₹ 1,200 |
| 5 | Snacks and Coffee / Tea | ₹ 4,298 |
| 6 | Lunch | ₹ 23,980 |
| 7 | Lodging* | ₹ 16,552 |
| 8 | Honorarium** | ₹ 24,000 |
| - | Total | ₹ 72,980 |
* Lodging included complementary breakfast
** Honorarium included cost of long distance travel (train / bus), cost of local transport (auto / taxi) and supper for two days
| Planned budget | ₹ 74,900 |
| Actual expenses | ₹ 72,980 |
| Balance fund | ₹ 1,920 |
Tools used[edit]
Follow up after the event[edit]
- Weekly online meeting for the first 4 weeks.
- Monthly online meeting for next 5 months (following the first month)
- After a period of 3 months or 6 months, a one day event will be organised. This will be based on the responses received and on need basis.