Hi, My name is Aadil. I was a participant at the Wiki session in Startup Village. I would like to appreciate both Jeph and Netha for their efforts in conducting the session here. It was really informative and both of them did a commendable job, introducing the basics of Wikipedia and editing to us.
Really looking forward to more such sessions. Thanks, Aadil On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 5:31 PM, < wikimediaindia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > Send Wikimediaindia-l mailing list submissions to > wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > wikimediaindia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > wikimediaindia-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Wikimediaindia-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Fwd: [WMIN-Members] Thank you (Ravishankar) > 2. Testing (jeph) > 3. Wikipedia workshop at Startup Village (jeph) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 19:05:42 +0530 > From: Ravishankar <ravidre...@gmail.com> > To: Wikimedia India Community list > <wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMIN-Members] Thank you > Message-ID: > < > caf2qyrdowji2ycbjbq6nchdlvzcebusazjj3zodymmhrdrk...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Dear Sowmyan, > > Thank you for the great contribution to Wikimedia India community. It is > very hard to find a qualified and yet passionate person next. So, we are > really sad to see you go. > > You have only done good for the movement going beyond the requirements of > your part-time commitment. So, please don't take any blame on yourself. > > Looking forward to your contribution as community member henceforth. > > Ravi > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/attachments/20140124/77776662/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 13:49:49 +0530 > From: jeph <jephp...@gmail.com> > To: Wikimedia India Community list > <wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Testing > Message-ID: > <CA+E2gnXwma_bg7MdqpoAjCTkCJ0R=jzrCV2WqZcukg7B= > cz...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi, > Testing Pls ignore. > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/attachments/20140125/ce58c176/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 13:54:08 +0530 > From: jeph <jephp...@gmail.com> > To: Wikimedia India Community list > <wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia workshop at Startup Village > Message-ID: > <CA+E2gnVf5nDi4KjNWffGsT1rhLzDUSmRVG_ZU-3=9p= > iyua...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi, > > Last saturday Netha Hussain and I had an interesting experience conducting > a Wikipedia workshop at Startup Village <http://www.startupvillage.in/>. > Startup Village is a private-public not-for-profit business incubator at > Ernakulam, Kerala. They wanted to help us in spreading the word about > Wikipedia and editing it. The event page can be viewed > here<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Workshop/Kochi_Workshop_1> > . > > The workshop was an eye opener of sorts for us. It started half an hour > later than planned, as most of the participants took longer to make it to > the venue. We had the usual hiccups like microphones not being available > and the internet connectivity being too slow. The connectivity affected the > pace of the workshop. We found it difficult to demonstrate the examples we > had. The biggest challenge was not technical but connecting with the > audience. We had tailored our content for a crowd with a programming > background. We had even conducted a mock session over phone in order to be > sure of the roles the two of us should assume. However, the audience turned > out to be diverse and largely not technical. Most of the participants did > not have a mobile device, so the hands-on session was not as fruitful as we > had anticipated it to be. We ended up lecturing more and demonstrating > less. > > > The workshop was structured into two halves. The first half was an > introduction to wikipedia and the wiki markup. The second half was a gentle > introduction to the mediawiki API or how to write programs using javascript > to access content from wikipedia. When we broke up for lunch after the > first half of the session, around half of the audience left. The second > half had too few takers, there were people who had come back but we doubt > if it had any tangible impact. Our biggest learning from the exercise was > that it is very important to know the audience well in advance and > structure the content accordingly. > > On the brighter side, we had interesting queries from a few participants > who were already acquainted with editing Wikipedia. Startup Village has > invited us to conduct similar workshops in future. A couple of participants > and the organizers wrote to us, thanking us for volunteering. > > Thanks > Jeph > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/attachments/20140125/671e73fb/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > > End of Wikimediaindia-l Digest, Vol 662, Issue 1 > ************************************************ > -- Thanks and Regards, Aadil Azis Khan
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