Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] 2nd Odia (Oriya) Wikipedia Academy/Workshop Bhubaneswar, 2011April03, 10 AM
Just a reminder of the upcoming Odia Worksop at Bhubaneswar. Subhashish , Shiju Alex and me are travelling to Bhubaneswar for this. Regards Tinu Cherian On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, This is Subhashish from Odia (Oriya) Wikipedia. It is my pleasure to inform you all about the 2nd Odia (Oriya) Wikipedia Academy/Workshophttp://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_workshop/Bhubaneswar1 is going to be organized in Bhubaneswar on 2011April03 at 10 AM, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. This is the first of its kind of workshop in the home state Odisha. The first workshop was conducted by Malayalam Wikipedian Shiju A in Bengaluruhttp://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_workshop/Bangalore_1 . *Main Agenda: Session1: -* Introduction about Wikipedia and Wikipedia Odia - Recent developments and new features added in Wikipedia - Why Wikipedia Odia? - Future deveopment and possible opportunities with Wikipedia *Session2: -* Discussion of common problems raised (And by audience) - Display and typing issues and solution - Building community - Translation issues possible measures to solve them - Incubation of new projects for students in Odia Wikipedia - Future Projects for Odia Wikipedia Anyone from any other language Wikipedias are most welcome to this event to share their thoughts and ideas for the development of Odia Wikipedia. This is an open event and free for all. Anyone who has some ideas to share can also share them here or here.http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_workshop/Bhubaneswar1 Thanks Regards ସୁଭ ପା/ Subhashish Panigrahi ___ Wikipedia Odia (Oriya) mailing list wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] 2nd Odia (Oriya) Wikipedia Academy/Workshop Bhubaneswar, 2011April03, 10 AM
Hoi, One of the things that is raising the game for the http://or.wikipedia.orgis that there is a steady flow of work done for the localisation of the MediaWiki user interface. Every day this work is brought into production so the Odia experience is getting better on an almost daily basis. The combination of outreach, more articles and a better experience is a winner :) Thanks, GerardM https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Portal:Or On 30 March 2011 07:10, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com wrote: Really nice points stated by you Hisham, heartfelt thanks for all these points out of which we thought over once, you reinforced them, few of the points which you have mentioned here are really important and we never thought about them. I am taking a printout to make sure I don't forget them in the course of sticking to the time. And yes, I would love to inform that Srikant, whose mother tongue is not Odia, but is working very eagerly for the development of Odia Wikipedia has already done 2 campaigns in two schools by distributing posters. He is trying to reach more students. About the local media I have personally contacted 3 journalists and through their contacts I am trying to reach more of the media people to create awareness for the event. The good fact is Mr. Dhanada Mishra, who is a dean of a management school and himself has personally taken interest to book the venue has engaged a Bhubaneswar based organization Ama Odisa who are involved in the development of Odia language and literature for a long time and also a part of one of the popular newspapers/TV Channel/FM Radio of Odisha. And we are organizing a webinar in Baleswar where the viewers will be able to watch us and will participate as we dropped the plan of traveling there for one more academy because of shortage of time. Again, thanks a lot for your interest and support, will be pinging you sometime when you are online. Good day! *ସୁଭ ପା**ା** Subhashish Panigrahi * *ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ* ___ Wikipedia Odia (Oriya) mailing list wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] 2nd Odia (Oriya) Wikipedia Academy/Workshop Bhubaneswar, 2011April03, 10 AM
Hi Subhashish This is an excellent agenda. I also went through the facebook page and it's really good to see you using digital outreach/social networks (whatever you want to term it) to increase attendance of the workshop. I thought I'd share a few comments with you (and I'd love to chat with you and Shiju and anyone else who's interested) about them a) Given that (as I suspect) we might have complete newbies attending, you might want to consider having a basic intro to Wikipedia and a how to edit wikipedia session planned in. The how to edit Wikipedia is the session that is most likely to be the most engaging to the audience so I would suggest that we have it relatively early on (and have a how to edit Wikipedia Odia later in the schedule as well - to discuss specific Odia language aspects.) b) Though it is probably not intended to be so, and it is probably not coming out in the agenda - it is crucial to not just inform but also inspire the audience to participate in Wikipedia. The tone of the sessions ought to, therefore, be inspiring and fun. (My personal view and happy to discuss c) I think a specific aspect you could also incorporate is what to edit? ...This would serve to provide some examples for those who want to start editing but are not sure where to begin. As I'm going to be articulating on the India Programs page, the thought I had for the country is to message Edit Bharat as an overall message. I'll add more details on the India Programs page - but in summary it serves as a big campaignable idea which will serve as an umbrella for participation. You could interpret it as Edit Odisha. It could be brought to life by stuff like suggesting editing pages on the state, or districts or the larger towns and cities or Odia culture or Odia monuments, etc. etc. etc. d) It would really be useful to understand from the audience what is the takeout of the session. This could be done by simply asking people to write out their take-out in 5 words and having them feedback on the session with a simple Very Good - Good - Average - Below Average - Poor scale. e) Not sure what you have planned to keep in touch with the participants after the session but taking their email IDs and on a very carefully chosen frequency (maybe once a month for the first 3 months) - asking them how they were getting along and if they needed help might be something you considered. Needless to say, this would only happen with their consent. f) The last point I have is that, in my experience, outreach sessions work best when there is a single message that is constantly reinforced during the session. If you chose to have YOU CAN EDIT ODISHA - then do consider repeating this message multiple times during the academy/workshop - and weaving all the sub-topics within it. g) You might want to consider involving the local media / press to provide publicity to the workshop to increase attendance. h) You might also want to consider increasing the digital outreach and on-ground outreach to increase attendance. The former could be done by activating social networks in schools and colleges in Bhubanewswar and the latter could be done by posters and word-of-mouth in these schools and colleges. I'm really happy and eager to explain/clarify and work with you on all these points. I'm going to be reaching out to you. Last, and most certainly not the least, Good Luck! I'm sure it will go great. Hisham Mundol India Programs - Wikimedia Foundation http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs skype: hisham.wikimedia google talk: hmun...@wikimedia.org twitter: @mundol On Mar 25, 2011, at 9:24 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi wrote: Hi All, This is Subhashish from Odia (Oriya) Wikipedia. It is my pleasure to inform you all about the 2nd Odia (Oriya) Wikipedia Academy/Workshop is going to be organized in Bhubaneswar on 2011April03 at 10 AM, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. This is the first of its kind of workshop in the home state Odisha. The first workshop was conducted by Malayalam Wikipedian Shiju A in Bengaluru. Main Agenda: Session1: - Introduction about Wikipedia and Wikipedia Odia - Recent developments and new features added in Wikipedia - Why Wikipedia Odia? - Future deveopment and possible opportunities with Wikipedia Session2: - Discussion of common problems raised (And by audience) - Display and typing issues and solution - Building community - Translation issues possible measures to solve them - Incubation of new projects for students in Odia Wikipedia - Future Projects for Odia Wikipedia Anyone from any other language Wikipedias are most welcome to this event to share their thoughts and ideas for the development of Odia Wikipedia. This is an open event and free for all. Anyone who has some ideas to share can also share them here or here. Thanks Regards ସୁଭ ପା/ Subhashish Panigrahi
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] 2nd Odia (Oriya) Wikipedia Academy/Workshop Bhubaneswar, 2011April03, 10 AM
Really nice points stated by you Hisham, heartfelt thanks for all these points out of which we thought over once, you reinforced them, few of the points which you have mentioned here are really important and we never thought about them. I am taking a printout to make sure I don't forget them in the course of sticking to the time. And yes, I would love to inform that Srikant, whose mother tongue is not Odia, but is working very eagerly for the development of Odia Wikipedia has already done 2 campaigns in two schools by distributing posters. He is trying to reach more students. About the local media I have personally contacted 3 journalists and through their contacts I am trying to reach more of the media people to create awareness for the event. The good fact is Mr. Dhanada Mishra, who is a dean of a management school and himself has personally taken interest to book the venue has engaged a Bhubaneswar based organization Ama Odisa who are involved in the development of Odia language and literature for a long time and also a part of one of the popular newspapers/TV Channel/FM Radio of Odisha. And we are organizing a webinar in Baleswar where the viewers will be able to watch us and will participate as we dropped the plan of traveling there for one more academy because of shortage of time. Again, thanks a lot for your interest and support, will be pinging you sometime when you are online. Good day! *ସୁଭ ପା**ା** Subhashish Panigrahi * *ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ* ___ Wikipedia Odia (Oriya) mailing list wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
