Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Help needed for Wiki Academy in Kolkata
If it relates to editing English Wikipedia, I can help monitor the activities of the students online and provide help and support when they need it. So that they don't end up with copyvios or vandalism. -- Regards, Debanjan* - Lets make this world a better and more informative place* On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Jayanta Nath jayanta...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Sumana, Actually we are planning for Kolkata Wikimedia Hackathon. We are staring this wiki academy[1], After that we can organised for Hackathon. [1] http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Netaji_Subhash_Engineering_College With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki 11 Pune report
+100 It was a lot of fun along with serious business. The club started on the 14th with over 40+ attendees. The greatest success was that almost 100% of all students returned the next day. Hence, we hope to have generated a lot of interest as well as made it clear to them, that editing an encyclopedia is serious business. -- Regards, Debanjan* - Lets make this world a better and more informative place* On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Srikeit srik...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All This is a slightly belated report of the Wiki 11 celebrations in Pune on January 15, 2012. The celebrations were coincided with the first gathering of Wikipedia Club Pune http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Club_Pune. The Club had met on the 14th where participants were instructed on the model, nature and basics of Wikipedia. The 15th saw 40+ participants gather in the computer lab at SICSR, Pune for hands-on Wikipedia editing as well as the 11th anniversary celebrations. The numbers therefore made this the *largest Wiki 11 celebration in India*. The participants were largely high school and college students. The morning session involved a detailed explanation of the five pillars of Wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars stressing the importance of contributing neutral and free content. Feedback for each sessions was immediately gathered on the Wikipedia Club Pune Facebook Pagehttps://www.facebook.com/WikipediaClubPune . The second session involved hands-on editing beginning with talk page posting, signing of posts, sandbox editing, wiki-linking etc. Then following a detailed explanation of referencing, the participants were encouraged (under supervision) to reference articles related to Pune. The final session involved the business end of the Wiki-11 celebration with a huge Wiki-globe cakehttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_Club_Pune_1.JPG. We were further buoyed by the presence of the WP English SIG chair Ashwin who encouraged and helped the participants in editing and did the honours cutting the cake. The participants and the organizers participated in a Google+ Hangout with Hisham and the rest of the WMF office in Delhi and Nitika and the WP 11 party in Kolkata. The participants were quite excited with both Wikipedia and its community. Their enthusiasm was reflected in both their editing as well as willingness to return for the next meeting of the club. The pictures of the event have been uploaded to commons and can be found here http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_11_in_India. The next meeting of the Wikipedia Club Pune will be on Saturday, 21st Jan. The Wikipedia Club and celebrations were quite excellently organized by Abhishek Suryavanshi and several other Campus Ambassadors in Pune. Warm Regards -- Srikeit Tadepalli +91-7709756798 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Outreach opportunities: Wikipedia workshops at tech fests
Hey folks, There are over 20 Tech fests that are being conducted by several institutes across India over the next 2 months. I'm sure my list is not completely exhaustive and I might have missed a few. I was wondering if any of you know friends, family members, faculty members, students, administrators associated with any of the following organisations who might be able to help us out in participating or getting a slot for a Wiki stall or a workshop during these tech fests? These fests might prove to be a brilliant opportunity for us to do massive outreach programs. I am assuming, to be on a conservative side, that each fest has a footfall of minimum 1000 participants. Even if we are able to take part in say 10 such events during the next 2 months, that means we have the opportunity to create awareness about Wikipedia amongst at least 10,000 more people. Fests scheduled for next few months are as under: Tech Fests January Elan 2012 Techno Cultural Fest January 2012 IIT Hyderabad Andhra Pradesh WISSENAIRE 12 Techno Management Fest January 20-22nd 2012 IIT Bhubaneshwar Orissa Techkriti 12, IIT Kanpur, Technical Fest, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, January 27-30 2012 Threshold 12 Management Fest January 30-31st 2012 Jain University Centre for Management Studies Bangalore Karnataka Electrocom 12 Technical Fest January 20-21st 2012 KITS Warangal Andhra Pradesh Quark 12 Technical Fest January 27-28th 2012 TGPCET Nagpur Maharashtra Dhrishyaa 12 Techno Management Fest January 24-25th 2012 Alagappa Colleg Of Technology Chennai Tamil Nadu INctf 12 Technical Fest January 29th 2012 Amrita University Kollam Kerala E-Summit 2012, Entrepreneurship Festival, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, January 28-29 2012 Tech Fests in February iTechRoots 3.0 12 Technical Fest February 9-11th 2012 YCCE Nagpur Maharashtra Vidyut 12 Techno Management Fest February 1-3rd 2012 Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Amritapuri Kerala Prajwalan 12 Technical Fest February 18-20th 2012 Government College of Engineering Amaravati Maharashtra Arghya 12 Technical Fest February 2012 MBES College of Engineering Ambajogai Maharashtra Kurukshetra 12 Techno Management Fest February 1-4th 2012 Colllege of Engineering Guindy Anna University Chennai Tamil Nadu Felicity 12 Techno Cultural Fest February 17-19th 2012 IIIT Hyderabad Andhra Pradesh INSEAT 12 Technical Fest February 11th 2012 VIT University Vellore Tamil Nadu FootPrints X2 Technical Fest February 24-26th 2012 Maharaja Sayajirao University Baroda Gujarat Dhrishyaa 12 Techno Management Fest January 24-25th 2012 Alagappa Colleg Of Technology Chennai Tamil Nadu Anwesha 12, Techno Cultural Fest, IIT Patna, Patna, Bihar, February 24-26 2012 Varchas 2012, Sports Festival, IIT Rajasthan, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, February 9-12 2012 Tech Fests in March Apogee 12 Technical Fest March 16-20th 2012 BITS Pilani Rajasthan Radiance 2012, IIT Bombay, Mechanical Fest, Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, March 3-4 2012 Convergence 2012, Technical Fest, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, March 2012 Cognizance 2012, IIT Roorkee, Technical Fest, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, March 23-25 2012 If you have a contact and want someone to follow up with people in these institutes, I'll be more than happy to do that. Lets try and do as many outreach programs during these fests as we can. Thanks Nitika ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A report on SSN College Academy
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 08:20, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Thank you very much for your work! I would be interested specifically in knowing what opportunities especially appealed to the students and what kinds of snags and problems they ran into when considering, or trying to start, contributing to MediaWiki and other Wikimedia technologies. It was a wrong crowd (only few from CS background) I would say, I realized only moments before talking. 4 hands went up for knowing something called PHP. I couldnt help much :( There were few interested though, gave them pointers to start, contact details.Introduced API(since some were familiar with java) and showed them some tools.One student was particularly interested on Semantic Mediawiki, gave some pointers/details (to best of my knowledge). I havent got any followup mails though. It was a good visit to alma mater though :) -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki academy/event at Pragyaan 12 - NIT Trichy
I just got this mail from Rsrikanth05, who is handling an event at NIT Trichy. He has some important things to note about the event, awaiting some replies and help! Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) -- Forwarded message -- From: Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 21:17 Subject: Pragyaan 12 - NIT Trichy To: Swaroop Rao swaroop...@wikimedia.in Forward this to the list and the Chapter, we need a plan ASAP. I spoke to Saagar today. Here are the main issues: Plan: We need a plan of action, and we need it fast. I was asked if this was a contest or a workshop, to which I stated that it was a Workshop. Here are the key points we discussed: 1 Date/Day/Schedule: The event is spread over four days, and is jam packed. We need to schedule it properly, and get a follow up mechanism in place. 2 ISO certification: Pragyaan is the fourth Technical fest in India to get ISO certification. Because of this, the organisers, have to sign an MoU with the organiser/promoter of each individual event. I believe the chapter needs to do something about this. The main purpose of this is to show that the event is taking place and to promote it. 3 Swags: I was suggested that we have a small trivia session thru the session and give out same Laptop stickers/tees/etc. 4 Accommodation: This is really tight. We need to inform the number of participants beforehand to make sure that we can get accommodation. I know Bala won't be able to make it. What about other Community members - Chennai, Coimbatore, Salem, Bangalore, Kerala? Do remember, this is NIT Trichy. A BIG event. I believe Tinu and Logic had done something at NITT earlier. Hoping that they would do it this time as well. Hoping for a response soon. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan, Sathyamangalam-Gobichettipalayam Star Gazers, Coimbatore. HA! I scored 72.9% in my first semester, after scoring 38% in my 12th. Ab bolo, kaun kiska baap. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki academy/event at Pragyaan 12 - NIT Trichy
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 16:00, Nitika ntan...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'll be more than happy to formulate a plan/proposal for this. Pragyaan 12: http://www.pragyan.org/12/home/ is running through 23rd-26th Feb that means we have enough time to organise this well. Going through the website I feel that they'll have different events running simultaneously on all 4 days and don't not have provisions for stalls. But please correct me if Im wrong. They did have stalls last time I think, but don't know about this time, gotta check with Srikanth. Here is what I propose: 1. Organise at least 8 Wiki sessions during these 4 days. We can keep the morning sessions in English and every evening we can conduct in Tamil. Doing 2 sessions every day will mean that the participants can pick and choose the date and time according to their own convenience. This might lead to more people attending the session. IMO, we don't need to do it for all the 4 days. 2 days with high participation might be better than 4 days with moderate participation. Again, this is my opinion. 2. We should organise Editathons everyday where participants who have already attended wiki sessions during the day can join in. It's important for newbies to experience and practice editing before they fall in love with Wikipedia and Editathons can provide them such a platform. :) That's great! We can throw one morning for a Commons event probably? Just a thought. 3. I personally really like the idea of Trivia sessions. It keeps the participants enthusiastic and interested. 4. How about using this tech fest as a platform to get interested people kick off a Wikipedia Club? 5. How about inviting the participants to join in the Tamil Wiki Media Contest? In fact the Tamil Wikimedia contest will be ending on the 28th if I'm not wrong. Its a great platform to publicize it. Participating in an event as big as this one will definitely need more volunteers. Could I please request more people from Chennai, Coimbatore, Bangalore, Kerala to raise hands if they'd like to volunteer on ground for this event. More ideas/suggestions are welcome. Thanks Nitika On 19-Jan-2012, at 2:59 PM, Swaroop Rao wrote: I just got this mail from Rsrikanth05, who is handling an event at NIT Trichy. He has some important things to note about the event, awaiting some replies and help! Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) -- Forwarded message -- From: Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 21:17 Subject: Pragyaan 12 - NIT Trichy To: Swaroop Rao swaroop...@wikimedia.in Forward this to the list and the Chapter, we need a plan ASAP. I spoke to Saagar today. Here are the main issues: Plan: We need a plan of action, and we need it fast. I was asked if this was a contest or a workshop, to which I stated that it was a Workshop. Here are the key points we discussed: 1 Date/Day/Schedule: The event is spread over four days, and is jam packed. We need to schedule it properly, and get a follow up mechanism in place. 2 ISO certification: Pragyaan is the fourth Technical fest in India to get ISO certification. Because of this, the organisers, have to sign an MoU with the organiser/promoter of each individual event. I believe the chapter needs to do something about this. The main purpose of this is to show that the event is taking place and to promote it. 3 Swags: I was suggested that we have a small trivia session thru the session and give out same Laptop stickers/tees/etc. 4 Accommodation: This is really tight. We need to inform the number of participants beforehand to make sure that we can get accommodation. I know Bala won't be able to make it. What about other Community members - Chennai, Coimbatore, Salem, Bangalore, Kerala? Do remember, this is NIT Trichy. A BIG event. I believe Tinu and Logic had done something at NITT earlier. Hoping that they would do it this time as well. Hoping for a response soon. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan, Sathyamangalam-Gobichettipalayam Star Gazers, Coimbatore. HA! I scored 72.9% in my first semester, after scoring 38% in my 12th. Ab bolo, kaun kiska baap. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outreach opportunities: Wikipedia workshops at tech fests
IITB's Techfest just got over. VJTI's (Mumbai) festival (Technovanza) is from Feb 3rd to 5th (I can connect here- ping me offline). UDCT's festival (Exergy) is going on (Jan 19 to 22). Thadomal Sahani has something on 4th Feb, but this seems to be limited to biomed. Most other major college tech fests in Mumbai will happen next semester (S P Jain, D J Sanghvi, etc). On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 14:54, Nitika ntan...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hey folks, There are over 20 Tech fests that are being conducted by several institutes across India over the next 2 months. I'm sure my list is not completely exhaustive and I might have missed a few. I was wondering if any of you know friends, family members, faculty members, students, administrators associated with any of the following organisations who might be able to help us out in participating or getting a slot for a Wiki stall or a workshop during these tech fests? These fests might prove to be a brilliant opportunity for us to do massive outreach programs. I am assuming, to be on a conservative side, that each fest has a footfall of minimum 1000 participants. Even if we are able to take part in say 10 such events during the next 2 months, that means we have the opportunity to create awareness about Wikipedia amongst at least 10,000 more people. Fests scheduled for next few months are as under: Tech Fests January 1. Elan 2012 Techno Cultural Fest January 2012 IIT Hyderabad Andhra Pradesh 2. WISSENAIRE 12 Techno Management Fest January 20-22nd 2012 IIT Bhubaneshwar Orissa 3. Techkriti 12, IIT Kanpur, Technical Fest, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, January 27-30 2012 4. Threshold 12 Management Fest January 30-31st 2012 Jain University Centre for Management Studies Bangalore Karnataka 5. Electrocom 12 Technical Fest January 20-21st 2012 KITS Warangal Andhra Pradesh 6. Quark 12 Technical Fest January 27-28th 2012 TGPCET Nagpur Maharashtra 7. Dhrishyaa 12 Techno Management Fest January 24-25th 2012 Alagappa Colleg Of Technology Chennai Tamil Nadu 8. INctf 12 Technical Fest January 29th 2012 Amrita University Kollam Kerala 9. E-Summit 2012, Entrepreneurship Festival, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, January 28-29 2012 Tech Fests in February 1. iTechRoots 3.0 12 Technical Fest February 9-11th 2012 YCCE Nagpur Maharashtra 2. Vidyut 12 Techno Management Fest February 1-3rd 2012 Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Amritapuri Kerala 3. Prajwalan 12 Technical Fest February 18-20th 2012 Government College of Engineering Amaravati Maharashtra 4. Arghya 12 Technical Fest February 2012 MBES College of Engineering Ambajogai Maharashtra 5. Kurukshetra 12 Techno Management Fest February 1-4th 2012 Colllege of Engineering Guindy Anna University Chennai Tamil Nadu 6. Felicity 12 Techno Cultural Fest February 17-19th 2012 IIIT Hyderabad Andhra Pradesh 7. INSEAT 12 Technical Fest February 11th 2012 VIT University Vellore Tamil Nadu 8. FootPrints X2 Technical Fest February 24-26th 2012 Maharaja Sayajirao University Baroda Gujarat 9. Dhrishyaa 12 Techno Management Fest January 24-25th 2012 Alagappa Colleg Of Technology Chennai Tamil Nadu 10. Anwesha 12, Techno Cultural Fest, IIT Patna, Patna, Bihar, February 24-26 2012 11. Varchas 2012, Sports Festival, IIT Rajasthan, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, February 9-12 2012 Tech Fests in March 1. Apogee 12 Technical Fest March 16-20th 2012 BITS Pilani Rajasthan 2. Radiance 2012, IIT Bombay, Mechanical Fest, Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, March 3-4 2012 3. Convergence 2012, Technical Fest, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, March 2012 4. Cognizance 2012, IIT Roorkee, Technical Fest, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, March 23-25 2012 If you have a contact and want someone to follow up with people in these institutes, I'll be more than happy to do that. Lets try and do as many outreach programs during these fests as we can. Thanks Nitika ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outreach opportunities: Wikipedia workshops at tech fests
Hi, Rahul Deshmukh from Marathi Wikiedia and his team in IITB had a stall in Techfest for the promotion. (just like the CMDA stall in Pune) Some flex banners were also put up at some main positions at different venues. Total footfall count was around 1L for the Techfest. The response for Wikipedia stall was great !! Regards -Sudhanwa On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Aditya Sengupta apsengu...@gmail.comwrote: IITB's Techfest just got over. VJTI's (Mumbai) festival (Technovanza) is from Feb 3rd to 5th (I can connect here- ping me offline). UDCT's festival (Exergy) is going on (Jan 19 to 22). Thadomal Sahani has something on 4th Feb, but this seems to be limited to biomed. Most other major college tech fests in Mumbai will happen next semester (S P Jain, D J Sanghvi, etc). On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 14:54, Nitika ntan...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hey folks, There are over 20 Tech fests that are being conducted by several institutes across India over the next 2 months. I'm sure my list is not completely exhaustive and I might have missed a few. I was wondering if any of you know friends, family members, faculty members, students, administrators associated with any of the following organisations who might be able to help us out in participating or getting a slot for a Wiki stall or a workshop during these tech fests? These fests might prove to be a brilliant opportunity for us to do massive outreach programs. I am assuming, to be on a conservative side, that each fest has a footfall of minimum 1000 participants. Even if we are able to take part in say 10 such events during the next 2 months, that means we have the opportunity to create awareness about Wikipedia amongst at least 10,000 more people. Fests scheduled for next few months are as under: Tech Fests January 1. Elan 2012 Techno Cultural Fest January 2012 IIT Hyderabad Andhra Pradesh 2. WISSENAIRE 12 Techno Management Fest January 20-22nd 2012 IIT Bhubaneshwar Orissa 3. Techkriti 12, IIT Kanpur, Technical Fest, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, January 27-30 2012 4. Threshold 12 Management Fest January 30-31st 2012 Jain University Centre for Management Studies Bangalore Karnataka 5. Electrocom 12 Technical Fest January 20-21st 2012 KITS Warangal Andhra Pradesh 6. Quark 12 Technical Fest January 27-28th 2012 TGPCET Nagpur Maharashtra 7. Dhrishyaa 12 Techno Management Fest January 24-25th 2012 Alagappa Colleg Of Technology Chennai Tamil Nadu 8. INctf 12 Technical Fest January 29th 2012 Amrita University Kollam Kerala 9. E-Summit 2012, Entrepreneurship Festival, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, January 28-29 2012 Tech Fests in February 1. iTechRoots 3.0 12 Technical Fest February 9-11th 2012 YCCE Nagpur Maharashtra 2. Vidyut 12 Techno Management Fest February 1-3rd 2012 Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Amritapuri Kerala 3. Prajwalan 12 Technical Fest February 18-20th 2012 Government College of Engineering Amaravati Maharashtra 4. Arghya 12 Technical Fest February 2012 MBES College of Engineering Ambajogai Maharashtra 5. Kurukshetra 12 Techno Management Fest February 1-4th 2012 Colllege of Engineering Guindy Anna University Chennai Tamil Nadu 6. Felicity 12 Techno Cultural Fest February 17-19th 2012 IIIT Hyderabad Andhra Pradesh 7. INSEAT 12 Technical Fest February 11th 2012 VIT University Vellore Tamil Nadu 8. FootPrints X2 Technical Fest February 24-26th 2012 Maharaja Sayajirao University Baroda Gujarat 9. Dhrishyaa 12 Techno Management Fest January 24-25th 2012 Alagappa Colleg Of Technology Chennai Tamil Nadu 10. Anwesha 12, Techno Cultural Fest, IIT Patna, Patna, Bihar, February 24-26 2012 11. Varchas 2012, Sports Festival, IIT Rajasthan, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, February 9-12 2012 Tech Fests in March 1. Apogee 12 Technical Fest March 16-20th 2012 BITS Pilani Rajasthan 2. Radiance 2012, IIT Bombay, Mechanical Fest, Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, March 3-4 2012 3. Convergence 2012, Technical Fest, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, March 2012 4. Cognizance 2012, IIT Roorkee, Technical Fest, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, March 23-25 2012 If you have a contact and want someone to follow up with people in these institutes, I'll be more than happy to do that. Lets try and do as many outreach programs during these fests as we can. Thanks Nitika ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l --
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outreach opportunities: Wikipedia workshops at tech fests
Some pictures of the stall at Techfest available here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Marathi_Wikipedia_IIT_Bombay_Techfest -Sudhanwa On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Rahul Deshmukh from Marathi Wikiedia and his team in IITB had a stall in Techfest for the promotion. (just like the CMDA stall in Pune) Some flex banners were also put up at some main positions at different venues. Total footfall count was around 1L for the Techfest. The response for Wikipedia stall was great !! Regards -Sudhanwa On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Aditya Sengupta apsengu...@gmail.comwrote: IITB's Techfest just got over. VJTI's (Mumbai) festival (Technovanza) is from Feb 3rd to 5th (I can connect here- ping me offline). UDCT's festival (Exergy) is going on (Jan 19 to 22). Thadomal Sahani has something on 4th Feb, but this seems to be limited to biomed. Most other major college tech fests in Mumbai will happen next semester (S P Jain, D J Sanghvi, etc). On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 14:54, Nitika ntan...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hey folks, There are over 20 Tech fests that are being conducted by several institutes across India over the next 2 months. I'm sure my list is not completely exhaustive and I might have missed a few. I was wondering if any of you know friends, family members, faculty members, students, administrators associated with any of the following organisations who might be able to help us out in participating or getting a slot for a Wiki stall or a workshop during these tech fests? These fests might prove to be a brilliant opportunity for us to do massive outreach programs. I am assuming, to be on a conservative side, that each fest has a footfall of minimum 1000 participants. Even if we are able to take part in say 10 such events during the next 2 months, that means we have the opportunity to create awareness about Wikipedia amongst at least 10,000 more people. Fests scheduled for next few months are as under: Tech Fests January 1. Elan 2012 Techno Cultural Fest January 2012 IIT Hyderabad Andhra Pradesh 2. WISSENAIRE 12 Techno Management Fest January 20-22nd 2012 IIT Bhubaneshwar Orissa 3. Techkriti 12, IIT Kanpur, Technical Fest, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, January 27-30 2012 4. Threshold 12 Management Fest January 30-31st 2012 Jain University Centre for Management Studies Bangalore Karnataka 5. Electrocom 12 Technical Fest January 20-21st 2012 KITS Warangal Andhra Pradesh 6. Quark 12 Technical Fest January 27-28th 2012 TGPCET Nagpur Maharashtra 7. Dhrishyaa 12 Techno Management Fest January 24-25th 2012 Alagappa Colleg Of Technology Chennai Tamil Nadu 8. INctf 12 Technical Fest January 29th 2012 Amrita University Kollam Kerala 9. E-Summit 2012, Entrepreneurship Festival, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, January 28-29 2012 Tech Fests in February 1. iTechRoots 3.0 12 Technical Fest February 9-11th 2012 YCCE Nagpur Maharashtra 2. Vidyut 12 Techno Management Fest February 1-3rd 2012 Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Amritapuri Kerala 3. Prajwalan 12 Technical Fest February 18-20th 2012 Government College of Engineering Amaravati Maharashtra 4. Arghya 12 Technical Fest February 2012 MBES College of Engineering Ambajogai Maharashtra 5. Kurukshetra 12 Techno Management Fest February 1-4th 2012 Colllege of Engineering Guindy Anna University Chennai Tamil Nadu 6. Felicity 12 Techno Cultural Fest February 17-19th 2012 IIIT Hyderabad Andhra Pradesh 7. INSEAT 12 Technical Fest February 11th 2012 VIT University Vellore Tamil Nadu 8. FootPrints X2 Technical Fest February 24-26th 2012 Maharaja Sayajirao University Baroda Gujarat 9. Dhrishyaa 12 Techno Management Fest January 24-25th 2012 Alagappa Colleg Of Technology Chennai Tamil Nadu 10. Anwesha 12, Techno Cultural Fest, IIT Patna, Patna, Bihar, February 24-26 2012 11. Varchas 2012, Sports Festival, IIT Rajasthan, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, February 9-12 2012 Tech Fests in March 1. Apogee 12 Technical Fest March 16-20th 2012 BITS Pilani Rajasthan 2. Radiance 2012, IIT Bombay, Mechanical Fest, Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, March 3-4 2012 3. Convergence 2012, Technical Fest, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, March 2012 4. Cognizance 2012, IIT Roorkee, Technical Fest, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, March 23-25 2012 If you have a contact and want someone to follow up with people in these institutes, I'll be more than happy to do that. Lets try and do as many outreach programs during these fests as we can. Thanks Nitika ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outreach opportunities: Wikipedia workshops at tech fests
FWIW Some thoughts below. 1. Footfall measures dont mean much from our POV. If 1000 people attend a college tech fest, at best 200 will walk near where our stall is put up, 50-100 might come and hear us, 10 might engage in discussion(mostly to clarify doubts on their previous edit experiences), 1/0 might start editing after the day. If you say all 1000 will come and listen to us on the stall, Please attend one, you will know. If you still think college student mass attend tech fests for learning from these programs that run on tech fest, I cant help you, that's just a minority. (Any student on the list who can speak form heart on why student mass attend these events without trying to be politically correct?) 2. It is good to do a general outreach + academy for maximum 1-1.5 days, but its good to get the facts straight, especially if there is a hint of sponsoring / spending big time for these events since in all probability this has to be equally treated with any other city outreach events (In fact I would rate the latter better, since people attend those for Wikipedia as sole reason, hence may most likely have more interest) 3. This crowd (mostly Engineering students who attend these tech fests) are mostly aware about Wikipedia (Heck just go and look at college articles, people come and spam about when events happen to get publicity), So its not even like we are reaching unknown / outside online world folks who are target in bookfairs(for ex) which are similar in many levels. Regards, Srikanth L PS : Am mentioning the above facts with a notion that physical outreach in general gives better returns, which I might not agree wholeheartedly. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outreach opportunities: Wikipedia workshops at tech fests
*Technical* outreach at these kind of places are also good - I did a 3 night workshop at IIT Madras' Tech Fest in October and the response was great! (We got atleast one new contributor, so yay!). It was very MediaWiki focused (rather than Wikipedia focused), which I think was a mistake. Doing technical outreach that's Wikipedia focused would be much better off in terms of returns. -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
