Wikimedians of Nepal/Wiki Knowledge Club

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Project Overview[edit]

Wiki knowledge Club is a forum that enables new users to enroll into Wikimedia project and let them with required knowledge to learn fundamental know how about ways to contribute into Wikimedia projects and other required tools. To start with, we will start this project into a community college of Kathmandu where around 20-30 students of undergraduate students will be enrolled into wiki knowledge club and teach team the basic know how of wiki projects and open knowledge within the period of 13 hours course.

Project Team[edit]

Picture User Wikimedia Username Role
Nirjal Shrestha Nirjal stha Program Coordinator
Nirajan Pant Program Director
Janak Raj Bhatta Event Facilitator
Sandeep Raut Volunteer

Methods and Activities[edit]

We have conducted wiki knowledge class in Peoples’ Campus of Kathmandu for 20-30 undergraduate students. In total 13 days classes, each class session of 1 hour were conducted during the project period. This project was conducted with the support of the campus.

Curriculum[edit]

S.N. Date Topic Resource Person
1 3rd January 2020 Basic know how of Wikimedia, Overview of Wikipedia projects in Nepal, Account Opening, how to use Sandbox Sandeep Raut
2 4th January 2020 HTML, CSS, Wikitext Nirjal Shrestha
3 5th January 2020 Basic of Nepali Unicode Nirajan Pant
4 7th January 2020 Wikimedia in Education Manav Preet kaur
5 9th January 2020 Wiktionary Nirajan Pant
6 10th January 2020 Open Education Resource Ramesh Sharma
7 11th January 2020 Wikidata Rajeeb Dutta
8 12th January 2020 Flow chart and SVG Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
9 14th January 2020 Interactive and Group session "Future of open knowledge and way to expand" Janak Raj bhatta
10 15th January 2020 Fundamentals of licenses and Copyright law of Nepal Nirjal Shrestha
11 16th January 2020 Photography skills and Wikimedia Commons Bijay Chaurasia
12 17th January 2020 Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki loves monuments, Wikipedia Asian Month Nirajan Pant
13 18th January 2020 Edit-a-thon Janak Bhatta & Deepak kathit

Target Wiki Projects[edit]

  • en.wikipedia.org
  • www.wikidata.org
  • ne.wikipedia.org
  • commons.wikimedia.org
  • ne.wiktionary.org

Participants[edit]

We have received around 42 applications, out of which only 30 students listed in the final list. However only 15 students completed the Complete course and received the certificate of completion.


Outcomes[edit]

Followings are the overall outcomes of the project.

  1. 24 New editors introduced into Wiki environment.
  2. 15 New Articles Created.
  3. 118 article edited.
  4. In total 2.43k edits were made.
  5. 499 pictures uploaded in Commons

Link of Program and event Dashboard: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedians_of_Nepal/Wiki_Knowledge_Club

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