Thanks for the photos. I had so much fun at WikiAcademy though I felt a bit out of place amongst absolute newbies. How do I sign up to a volunteer/ member of organising team?
Best, Rohini On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:02 PM, <wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Photos taken on the day: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WikiAcademy_Mumbai_1_img1.jpg > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_Academy_Mumbai_1.jpg > > ------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 00:01:48 +0530 > From: pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com > To: wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org; > wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiAcademy Mumbai 1 notes > > > hi, > > Warning: This is a loooonggg email. > > We held our first WikiAcademy in Mumbai on October 1, 2011 at the Center > for Education and Documentation, Colaba. The session was attended by 24 > attendees. Roughly, the sessions were: > > 1. Introduction > 2. Creating accounts on Wikipedia > 3. Introduction to the interface > 4. Rules related to Wikipedia (5 Pillars, AGF etc.) > 5. Go out and edit > > This was our first experience with such an Academy and hence this note is a > bit detailed. > > Many of the folks who came had used Wikipedia but had hardly ever edited > Wikipedia. There was a lot of questioning around the reliability of > Wikipedia as a resource. We had the services of Vickram Crishna to answer > these questions. After the round of introductions, we got > them acquainted with accessing Wikipedia, familiarising them with the > English Wikipedia main page. > > The attendees were very interested in learning how to edit Wikipedia and > wanted to learn right from the creating accounts on Wikipedia stage. This we > did, only to realise the limitation existed on creation of not more than 6 > accounts per IP address. We got around this limitation by allowing people to > register with dongles that a few people carried with them. Next time, > perhaps making an upfront request to allow more account creations from a > single IP address before the Academy might be a wise thing to do. Any other > suggestions? > > Even after logging in the attendees appreciated a "Get to know your Screen" > session. > > Pranav then shed some light on the rules of the Wikipedia (frankly, I have > never read this until a few days before the Academy!). Kundan Amitabh also > pitched in to help with a few that Pranav didn't know about. Kundan also > urged them to not give up on Wikipedia if their articles or sections of > articles were deleted. Keep trying! was the call! > > In the last go out and edit session, we allowed participants to edit what > they liked. We moved among the audience helping where help was needed. We > encouraged the users to use the various icons on the WYSIWIG editor rather > than learn the Wikisyntax. We think that working on this for a few days will > help them learn things on their own. > > There was a diverse audience with requests for specific follow up sessions. > We think that we could have concluded more properly than we did. > > warm regards, > Pradeep Mohandas > PS: Apologies for the delay in posting this! > > -- > Pradeep Mohandas > How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 > > > > _______________________________________________ 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-in-mum mailing list > wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-mum > >
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