Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Women Workshop Report

2012-11-08 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Pradeep,
The purpose of having a ''few'' Gender specific outreach events is to
spread the movement in Womens circles. This will be more beneficial.

Regards,

On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Pradeep Nair  wrote:

> hi,
>
> A couple of points here:
> 1. While women specific workshops are great and we've had requests from
> various people across the country (!) to conduct similar workshops, we
> should also consider doing workshops for both genders as well. Each
> workshop is energy sapping!
> 2. We are a relatively small group of volunteers and my hope is that some
> of the people we train at these workshops will in their stead be able to
> conduct similar workshops 6 months or a year down the line.
>
> warm regards,
> Pradeep Mohandas
> How Pradeep uses email? - http://goo.gl/6v1I9
>   --
> *From:* Karthik Nadar 
> *To:* Wikimedia India Community list 
>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 7 November 2012 9:04 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Women Workshop Report
>
> Yeah Srikanth,
>
> we have follow up events to this one.
>
>- One of the Staff from Sophia College was interested for similar
>women's workshop. It will happen soon.
>- Principal of Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, was very excited
>to hold a Wikipedia workshop for her students, so that will happen in
>December end. This will be general workshop for all.
>
> Hoping to do more and more soon :)
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
> parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Just a question. Are there any followups planned for this?
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Karthik Nadar wrote:
>
> Missed out the name of Rohini Lakshane, another core volunteer!
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
> parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Arjuna, you have a very valid point there.
> I urge all women to consider a Women's SIG.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala 
> wrote:
>
> Thanks Krutikaa  for a comprehensive report. I am happy to hear about the
> large participation and nice outcomes. Congratulations to all organisers
> and thanks to all participants for making it a successful event.
>
> There was discussion some time back about formation of Women Special
> Interest Group (SIG) of India Chapter. I encourage the participants to
> discuss the same and  follow up with the Chapter as required.
>
> Cheers
> Arjuna
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Krutikaa Jawanjal wrote:
>
> A Day Spent well.
>
> The Wikipedia Women Workshop which took place on November, 4th 2012 in
> Vidyalankar Institute of Technology (VIT), Wadala was indeed a
> success.
>
> The people who volunteered in organizing this workshop were Bishakha
> Datta, Moksh Juneja, Karthik Nadar, Pranav Curumsey, Pradeep Mohandas,
> Anshuman Fotedar, Aditi Juneja, Harriet Vidyasagar, Nikita Belavate,
> Netra Parikh, Noopur Raval, Netha Hussain.  All discussions and
> planning done while organizing this workshop for women paid off. In
> all, 70+ women participants attended the workshop.
>
> The workshop started with a short introduction after which, wasting no
> time, the women participants moved on to learning how to edit
> Wikipedia which was though by the present on ground volunteers. The
> participants were were divided in groups and every group had to create
> a new article which wasn't already available on Wikipedia. In the
> process, women interacted with the volunteers, asked question
> regarding Wikipedia. Every group at least had added introduction to
> the new article.
>
> Having done with the basic editing, a general presentation on
> Wikipedia was given by some of the volunteers. This was followed by
> question and answers regarding the same. By this time, it was already
> 1.30pm, so the lunch was announced. After having lunch, the
> participants got back to their seats. Pretty much everybody stayed
> back post lunch. Moksh continued with teaching how to edit Wikipedia.
> This time it wasn't it in groups though. "References" and "Notability"
> were the main topics that were covered in this session.
>
> Anshuman and Karthik then proceeded  with teaching photo uploads on
> Wikipedia. Quiz was conducted towards the end and Wikipedia-Tshirts
> were given as prizes for giving right answers. Karthik, then also
> showcased the winning images of Wiki Loves Momunents 2012 India. The
> long day came to an end with an overwhelming response and a call for
> organizing many such activities. The feedback received was positive.
> The participants en

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Women Workshop Report

2012-11-07 Thread Pradeep Nair
hi,

A couple of points here:
1. While women specific workshops are great and we've had requests from various 
people across the country (!) to conduct similar workshops, we should also 
consider doing workshops for both genders as well. Each workshop is energy 
sapping!
2. We are a relatively small group of volunteers and my hope is that some of 
the people we train at these workshops will in their stead be able to conduct 
similar workshops 6 months or a year down the line. 

warm regards, 

Pradeep Mohandas
How Pradeep uses email? - http://goo.gl/6v1I9



 From: Karthik Nadar 
To: Wikimedia India Community list  
Sent: Wednesday, 7 November 2012 9:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Women Workshop Report
 

Yeah Srikanth,

we have follow up events to this one. 
* One of the Staff from Sophia College was interested for similar 
women's workshop. It will happen soon.
* Principal of Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, was very excited to 
hold a Wikipedia workshop for her students, so that will happen in December 
end. This will be general workshop for all. 
Hoping to do more and more soon :)


Thanks!

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
 wrote:

Just a question. Are there any followups planned for this?
>
>
>
>
>
>On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Karthik Nadar  wrote:
>
>Missed out the name of Rohini Lakshane, another core volunteer!
>>
>>
>>
>>On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
>> wrote:
>>
>>Arjuna, you have a very valid point there.
>>>I urge all women to consider a Women's SIG.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala  
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>Thanks Krutikaa  for a comprehensive report. I am happy to hear about the  
>>>large participation and nice outcomes. Congratulations to all organisers and 
>>>thanks to all participants for making it a successful event.
>>>>
>>>>There was discussion some time back about formation of Women Special 
>>>>Interest Group (SIG) of India Chapter. I encourage the participants to 
>>>>discuss the same and  follow up with the Chapter as required.
>>>>
>>>>Cheers
>>>>Arjuna
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Krutikaa Jawanjal  
>>>>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>A Day Spent well.
>>>>>
>>>>>The Wikipedia Women Workshop which took place on November, 4th 2012 in
>>>>>Vidyalankar Institute of Technology (VIT), Wadala was indeed a
>>>>>success.
>>>>>
>>>>>The people who volunteered in organizing this workshop were Bishakha
>>>>>Datta, Moksh Juneja, Karthik Nadar, Pranav Curumsey, Pradeep Mohandas,
>>>>>Anshuman Fotedar, Aditi Juneja, Harriet Vidyasagar, Nikita Belavate,
>>>>>Netra Parikh, Noopur Raval, Netha Hussain.  All discussions and
>>>>>planning done while organizing this workshop for women paid off. In
>>>>>all, 70+ women participants attended the workshop.
>>>>>
>>>>>The workshop started with a short introduction after which, wasting no
>>>>>time, the women participants moved on to learning how to edit
>>>>>Wikipedia which was though by the present on ground volunteers. The
>>>>>participants were were divided in groups and every group had to create
>>>>>a new article which wasn't already available on Wikipedia. In the
>>>>>process, women interacted with the volunteers, asked question
>>>>>regarding Wikipedia. Every group at least had added introduction to
>>>>>the new article.
>>>>>
>>>>>Having done with the basic editing, a general presentation on
>>>>>Wikipedia was given by some of the volunteers. This was followed by
>>>>>question and answers regarding the same. By this time, it was already
>>>>>1.30pm, so the lunch was announced. After having lunch, the
>>>>>participants got back to their seats. Pretty much everybody stayed
>>>>>back post lunch. Moksh continued with teaching how to edit Wikipedia.
>>>>>This time it wasn't it in groups though. "References" and "Notability"
>>>>>were the main topics that were covered in this session.
>>>>>
>>>>>Anshuman and Karthik then proceeded  with teaching photo uploads on
>>>>>Wikipedia. Quiz was conducted towards 

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Women Workshop Report

2012-11-07 Thread Karthik Nadar
Yeah Srikanth,

we have follow up events to this one.

   - One of the Staff from Sophia College was interested for similar
   women's workshop. It will happen soon.
   - Principal of Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, was very excited to
   hold a Wikipedia workshop for her students, so that will happen in December
   end. This will be general workshop for all.

Hoping to do more and more soon :)


Thanks!

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Just a question. Are there any followups planned for this?
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Karthik Nadar wrote:
>
>> Missed out the name of Rohini Lakshane, another core volunteer!
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
>> parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Arjuna, you have a very valid point there.
>>> I urge all women to consider a Women's SIG.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala >> > wrote:
>>>
 Thanks Krutikaa  for a comprehensive report. I am happy to hear about
 the  large participation and nice outcomes. Congratulations to all
 organisers and thanks to all participants for making it a successful event.

 There was discussion some time back about formation of Women Special
 Interest Group (SIG) of India Chapter. I encourage the participants to
 discuss the same and  follow up with the Chapter as required.

 Cheers
 Arjuna




 On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Krutikaa Jawanjal >>> > wrote:

> A Day Spent well.
>
> The Wikipedia Women Workshop which took place on November, 4th 2012 in
> Vidyalankar Institute of Technology (VIT), Wadala was indeed a
> success.
>
> The people who volunteered in organizing this workshop were Bishakha
> Datta, Moksh Juneja, Karthik Nadar, Pranav Curumsey, Pradeep Mohandas,
> Anshuman Fotedar, Aditi Juneja, Harriet Vidyasagar, Nikita Belavate,
> Netra Parikh, Noopur Raval, Netha Hussain.  All discussions and
> planning done while organizing this workshop for women paid off. In
> all, 70+ women participants attended the workshop.
>
> The workshop started with a short introduction after which, wasting no
> time, the women participants moved on to learning how to edit
> Wikipedia which was though by the present on ground volunteers. The
> participants were were divided in groups and every group had to create
> a new article which wasn't already available on Wikipedia. In the
> process, women interacted with the volunteers, asked question
> regarding Wikipedia. Every group at least had added introduction to
> the new article.
>
> Having done with the basic editing, a general presentation on
> Wikipedia was given by some of the volunteers. This was followed by
> question and answers regarding the same. By this time, it was already
> 1.30pm, so the lunch was announced. After having lunch, the
> participants got back to their seats. Pretty much everybody stayed
> back post lunch. Moksh continued with teaching how to edit Wikipedia.
> This time it wasn't it in groups though. "References" and "Notability"
> were the main topics that were covered in this session.
>
> Anshuman and Karthik then proceeded  with teaching photo uploads on
> Wikipedia. Quiz was conducted towards the end and Wikipedia-Tshirts
> were given as prizes for giving right answers. Karthik, then also
> showcased the winning images of Wiki Loves Momunents 2012 India. The
> long day came to an end with an overwhelming response and a call for
> organizing many such activities. The feedback received was positive.
> The participants enjoyed the workshop.
>
> We are thankful to everybody who made this event a great one. Thanks
> to all the volunteers. Special thanks to Moksh and Karthik who went
> out of the way to get everything arranged before hand at the venue, to
> Netha and Noopur for making it to the workshop and for working hand in
> hand with the Mumbai Community, to Srikanth Ramakrishnan who
> constantly stayed in touch for online help.
>
> Special thanks to whole Vidyalankar team. Vishwas Deshpande, Founder
> of Vidyalankar, who gave us an opportunity to to do the Mumbai's first
> Wiki Workshop for Women at Vidyalankar. Milind Tadvalkar (Director)
> and Seema Shah (Principal), Jayprakash Kurmi and Vivek and the
> complete IT Team at VIT, Mahesh from Canteen for an awesome Pav Bhaji
> for Lunch. Another thanks to Netra Parikh, for giving us enough place
> at her office, Pinstorm, for all out pre-meetings. Thanks to all.
>
>
> Regards,
> Krutikaa Jawanjal
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Women Workshop Report

2012-11-07 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Agree with Sudhanwa.
At the same time let us also try and replicate it in other cities.

On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 12:13 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar
wrote:

> Great work !!
> And a nice report too!!
>
> Is it possible to have some followup events for this activity. Some
> women meetup every 2-3 months will be a good way to keep everyone in
> touch and to have better interaction.
>
> Congrats to all the volunteers, co-ordinators and participants for a
> successful event.
> Keep up the good work!!
>
> Regards
> -Sudhanwa
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Krutikaa Jawanjal 
> wrote:
> > A Day Spent well.
> >
> > The Wikipedia Women Workshop which took place on November, 4th 2012 in
> > Vidyalankar Institute of Technology (VIT), Wadala was indeed a
> > success.
> >
> > The people who volunteered in organizing this workshop were Bishakha
> > Datta, Moksh Juneja, Karthik Nadar, Pranav Curumsey, Pradeep Mohandas,
> > Anshuman Fotedar, Aditi Juneja, Harriet Vidyasagar, Nikita Belavate,
> > Netra Parikh, Noopur Raval, Netha Hussain.  All discussions and
> > planning done while organizing this workshop for women paid off. In
> > all, 70+ women participants attended the workshop.
> >
> > The workshop started with a short introduction after which, wasting no
> > time, the women participants moved on to learning how to edit
> > Wikipedia which was though by the present on ground volunteers. The
> > participants were were divided in groups and every group had to create
> > a new article which wasn't already available on Wikipedia. In the
> > process, women interacted with the volunteers, asked question
> > regarding Wikipedia. Every group at least had added introduction to
> > the new article.
> >
> > Having done with the basic editing, a general presentation on
> > Wikipedia was given by some of the volunteers. This was followed by
> > question and answers regarding the same. By this time, it was already
> > 1.30pm, so the lunch was announced. After having lunch, the
> > participants got back to their seats. Pretty much everybody stayed
> > back post lunch. Moksh continued with teaching how to edit Wikipedia.
> > This time it wasn't it in groups though. "References" and "Notability"
> > were the main topics that were covered in this session.
> >
> > Anshuman and Karthik then proceeded  with teaching photo uploads on
> > Wikipedia. Quiz was conducted towards the end and Wikipedia-Tshirts
> > were given as prizes for giving right answers. Karthik, then also
> > showcased the winning images of Wiki Loves Momunents 2012 India. The
> > long day came to an end with an overwhelming response and a call for
> > organizing many such activities. The feedback received was positive.
> > The participants enjoyed the workshop.
> >
> > We are thankful to everybody who made this event a great one. Thanks
> > to all the volunteers. Special thanks to Moksh and Karthik who went
> > out of the way to get everything arranged before hand at the venue, to
> > Netha and Noopur for making it to the workshop and for working hand in
> > hand with the Mumbai Community, to Srikanth Ramakrishnan who
> > constantly stayed in touch for online help.
> >
> > Special thanks to whole Vidyalankar team. Vishwas Deshpande, Founder
> > of Vidyalankar, who gave us an opportunity to to do the Mumbai's first
> > Wiki Workshop for Women at Vidyalankar. Milind Tadvalkar (Director)
> > and Seema Shah (Principal), Jayprakash Kurmi and Vivek and the
> > complete IT Team at VIT, Mahesh from Canteen for an awesome Pav Bhaji
> > for Lunch. Another thanks to Netra Parikh, for giving us enough place
> > at her office, Pinstorm, for all out pre-meetings. Thanks to all.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Krutikaa Jawanjal
> >
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Women Workshop Report

2012-11-06 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Great work !!
And a nice report too!!

Is it possible to have some followup events for this activity. Some
women meetup every 2-3 months will be a good way to keep everyone in
touch and to have better interaction.

Congrats to all the volunteers, co-ordinators and participants for a
successful event.
Keep up the good work!!

Regards
-Sudhanwa


On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Krutikaa Jawanjal  wrote:
> A Day Spent well.
>
> The Wikipedia Women Workshop which took place on November, 4th 2012 in
> Vidyalankar Institute of Technology (VIT), Wadala was indeed a
> success.
>
> The people who volunteered in organizing this workshop were Bishakha
> Datta, Moksh Juneja, Karthik Nadar, Pranav Curumsey, Pradeep Mohandas,
> Anshuman Fotedar, Aditi Juneja, Harriet Vidyasagar, Nikita Belavate,
> Netra Parikh, Noopur Raval, Netha Hussain.  All discussions and
> planning done while organizing this workshop for women paid off. In
> all, 70+ women participants attended the workshop.
>
> The workshop started with a short introduction after which, wasting no
> time, the women participants moved on to learning how to edit
> Wikipedia which was though by the present on ground volunteers. The
> participants were were divided in groups and every group had to create
> a new article which wasn't already available on Wikipedia. In the
> process, women interacted with the volunteers, asked question
> regarding Wikipedia. Every group at least had added introduction to
> the new article.
>
> Having done with the basic editing, a general presentation on
> Wikipedia was given by some of the volunteers. This was followed by
> question and answers regarding the same. By this time, it was already
> 1.30pm, so the lunch was announced. After having lunch, the
> participants got back to their seats. Pretty much everybody stayed
> back post lunch. Moksh continued with teaching how to edit Wikipedia.
> This time it wasn't it in groups though. "References" and "Notability"
> were the main topics that were covered in this session.
>
> Anshuman and Karthik then proceeded  with teaching photo uploads on
> Wikipedia. Quiz was conducted towards the end and Wikipedia-Tshirts
> were given as prizes for giving right answers. Karthik, then also
> showcased the winning images of Wiki Loves Momunents 2012 India. The
> long day came to an end with an overwhelming response and a call for
> organizing many such activities. The feedback received was positive.
> The participants enjoyed the workshop.
>
> We are thankful to everybody who made this event a great one. Thanks
> to all the volunteers. Special thanks to Moksh and Karthik who went
> out of the way to get everything arranged before hand at the venue, to
> Netha and Noopur for making it to the workshop and for working hand in
> hand with the Mumbai Community, to Srikanth Ramakrishnan who
> constantly stayed in touch for online help.
>
> Special thanks to whole Vidyalankar team. Vishwas Deshpande, Founder
> of Vidyalankar, who gave us an opportunity to to do the Mumbai's first
> Wiki Workshop for Women at Vidyalankar. Milind Tadvalkar (Director)
> and Seema Shah (Principal), Jayprakash Kurmi and Vivek and the
> complete IT Team at VIT, Mahesh from Canteen for an awesome Pav Bhaji
> for Lunch. Another thanks to Netra Parikh, for giving us enough place
> at her office, Pinstorm, for all out pre-meetings. Thanks to all.
>
>
> Regards,
> Krutikaa Jawanjal
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Women Workshop Report

2012-11-06 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Just a question. Are there any followups planned for this?


On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Karthik Nadar wrote:

> Missed out the name of Rohini Lakshane, another core volunteer!
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
> parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Arjuna, you have a very valid point there.
>> I urge all women to consider a Women's SIG.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Krutikaa  for a comprehensive report. I am happy to hear about
>>> the  large participation and nice outcomes. Congratulations to all
>>> organisers and thanks to all participants for making it a successful event.
>>>
>>> There was discussion some time back about formation of Women Special
>>> Interest Group (SIG) of India Chapter. I encourage the participants to
>>> discuss the same and  follow up with the Chapter as required.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Arjuna
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Krutikaa Jawanjal 
>>> wrote:
>>>
 A Day Spent well.

 The Wikipedia Women Workshop which took place on November, 4th 2012 in
 Vidyalankar Institute of Technology (VIT), Wadala was indeed a
 success.

 The people who volunteered in organizing this workshop were Bishakha
 Datta, Moksh Juneja, Karthik Nadar, Pranav Curumsey, Pradeep Mohandas,
 Anshuman Fotedar, Aditi Juneja, Harriet Vidyasagar, Nikita Belavate,
 Netra Parikh, Noopur Raval, Netha Hussain.  All discussions and
 planning done while organizing this workshop for women paid off. In
 all, 70+ women participants attended the workshop.

 The workshop started with a short introduction after which, wasting no
 time, the women participants moved on to learning how to edit
 Wikipedia which was though by the present on ground volunteers. The
 participants were were divided in groups and every group had to create
 a new article which wasn't already available on Wikipedia. In the
 process, women interacted with the volunteers, asked question
 regarding Wikipedia. Every group at least had added introduction to
 the new article.

 Having done with the basic editing, a general presentation on
 Wikipedia was given by some of the volunteers. This was followed by
 question and answers regarding the same. By this time, it was already
 1.30pm, so the lunch was announced. After having lunch, the
 participants got back to their seats. Pretty much everybody stayed
 back post lunch. Moksh continued with teaching how to edit Wikipedia.
 This time it wasn't it in groups though. "References" and "Notability"
 were the main topics that were covered in this session.

 Anshuman and Karthik then proceeded  with teaching photo uploads on
 Wikipedia. Quiz was conducted towards the end and Wikipedia-Tshirts
 were given as prizes for giving right answers. Karthik, then also
 showcased the winning images of Wiki Loves Momunents 2012 India. The
 long day came to an end with an overwhelming response and a call for
 organizing many such activities. The feedback received was positive.
 The participants enjoyed the workshop.

 We are thankful to everybody who made this event a great one. Thanks
 to all the volunteers. Special thanks to Moksh and Karthik who went
 out of the way to get everything arranged before hand at the venue, to
 Netha and Noopur for making it to the workshop and for working hand in
 hand with the Mumbai Community, to Srikanth Ramakrishnan who
 constantly stayed in touch for online help.

 Special thanks to whole Vidyalankar team. Vishwas Deshpande, Founder
 of Vidyalankar, who gave us an opportunity to to do the Mumbai's first
 Wiki Workshop for Women at Vidyalankar. Milind Tadvalkar (Director)
 and Seema Shah (Principal), Jayprakash Kurmi and Vivek and the
 complete IT Team at VIT, Mahesh from Canteen for an awesome Pav Bhaji
 for Lunch. Another thanks to Netra Parikh, for giving us enough place
 at her office, Pinstorm, for all out pre-meetings. Thanks to all.


 Regards,
 Krutikaa Jawanjal

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Women Workshop Report

2012-11-05 Thread Karthik Nadar
Missed out the name of Rohini Lakshane, another core volunteer!

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Arjuna, you have a very valid point there.
> I urge all women to consider a Women's SIG.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala 
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Krutikaa  for a comprehensive report. I am happy to hear about
>> the  large participation and nice outcomes. Congratulations to all
>> organisers and thanks to all participants for making it a successful event.
>>
>> There was discussion some time back about formation of Women Special
>> Interest Group (SIG) of India Chapter. I encourage the participants to
>> discuss the same and  follow up with the Chapter as required.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Arjuna
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Krutikaa Jawanjal 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> A Day Spent well.
>>>
>>> The Wikipedia Women Workshop which took place on November, 4th 2012 in
>>> Vidyalankar Institute of Technology (VIT), Wadala was indeed a
>>> success.
>>>
>>> The people who volunteered in organizing this workshop were Bishakha
>>> Datta, Moksh Juneja, Karthik Nadar, Pranav Curumsey, Pradeep Mohandas,
>>> Anshuman Fotedar, Aditi Juneja, Harriet Vidyasagar, Nikita Belavate,
>>> Netra Parikh, Noopur Raval, Netha Hussain.  All discussions and
>>> planning done while organizing this workshop for women paid off. In
>>> all, 70+ women participants attended the workshop.
>>>
>>> The workshop started with a short introduction after which, wasting no
>>> time, the women participants moved on to learning how to edit
>>> Wikipedia which was though by the present on ground volunteers. The
>>> participants were were divided in groups and every group had to create
>>> a new article which wasn't already available on Wikipedia. In the
>>> process, women interacted with the volunteers, asked question
>>> regarding Wikipedia. Every group at least had added introduction to
>>> the new article.
>>>
>>> Having done with the basic editing, a general presentation on
>>> Wikipedia was given by some of the volunteers. This was followed by
>>> question and answers regarding the same. By this time, it was already
>>> 1.30pm, so the lunch was announced. After having lunch, the
>>> participants got back to their seats. Pretty much everybody stayed
>>> back post lunch. Moksh continued with teaching how to edit Wikipedia.
>>> This time it wasn't it in groups though. "References" and "Notability"
>>> were the main topics that were covered in this session.
>>>
>>> Anshuman and Karthik then proceeded  with teaching photo uploads on
>>> Wikipedia. Quiz was conducted towards the end and Wikipedia-Tshirts
>>> were given as prizes for giving right answers. Karthik, then also
>>> showcased the winning images of Wiki Loves Momunents 2012 India. The
>>> long day came to an end with an overwhelming response and a call for
>>> organizing many such activities. The feedback received was positive.
>>> The participants enjoyed the workshop.
>>>
>>> We are thankful to everybody who made this event a great one. Thanks
>>> to all the volunteers. Special thanks to Moksh and Karthik who went
>>> out of the way to get everything arranged before hand at the venue, to
>>> Netha and Noopur for making it to the workshop and for working hand in
>>> hand with the Mumbai Community, to Srikanth Ramakrishnan who
>>> constantly stayed in touch for online help.
>>>
>>> Special thanks to whole Vidyalankar team. Vishwas Deshpande, Founder
>>> of Vidyalankar, who gave us an opportunity to to do the Mumbai's first
>>> Wiki Workshop for Women at Vidyalankar. Milind Tadvalkar (Director)
>>> and Seema Shah (Principal), Jayprakash Kurmi and Vivek and the
>>> complete IT Team at VIT, Mahesh from Canteen for an awesome Pav Bhaji
>>> for Lunch. Another thanks to Netra Parikh, for giving us enough place
>>> at her office, Pinstorm, for all out pre-meetings. Thanks to all.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Krutikaa Jawanjal
>>>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Women Workshop Report

2012-11-05 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Arjuna, you have a very valid point there.
I urge all women to consider a Women's SIG.



On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala wrote:

> Thanks Krutikaa  for a comprehensive report. I am happy to hear about the
> large participation and nice outcomes. Congratulations to all organisers
> and thanks to all participants for making it a successful event.
>
> There was discussion some time back about formation of Women Special
> Interest Group (SIG) of India Chapter. I encourage the participants to
> discuss the same and  follow up with the Chapter as required.
>
> Cheers
> Arjuna
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Krutikaa Jawanjal wrote:
>
>> A Day Spent well.
>>
>> The Wikipedia Women Workshop which took place on November, 4th 2012 in
>> Vidyalankar Institute of Technology (VIT), Wadala was indeed a
>> success.
>>
>> The people who volunteered in organizing this workshop were Bishakha
>> Datta, Moksh Juneja, Karthik Nadar, Pranav Curumsey, Pradeep Mohandas,
>> Anshuman Fotedar, Aditi Juneja, Harriet Vidyasagar, Nikita Belavate,
>> Netra Parikh, Noopur Raval, Netha Hussain.  All discussions and
>> planning done while organizing this workshop for women paid off. In
>> all, 70+ women participants attended the workshop.
>>
>> The workshop started with a short introduction after which, wasting no
>> time, the women participants moved on to learning how to edit
>> Wikipedia which was though by the present on ground volunteers. The
>> participants were were divided in groups and every group had to create
>> a new article which wasn't already available on Wikipedia. In the
>> process, women interacted with the volunteers, asked question
>> regarding Wikipedia. Every group at least had added introduction to
>> the new article.
>>
>> Having done with the basic editing, a general presentation on
>> Wikipedia was given by some of the volunteers. This was followed by
>> question and answers regarding the same. By this time, it was already
>> 1.30pm, so the lunch was announced. After having lunch, the
>> participants got back to their seats. Pretty much everybody stayed
>> back post lunch. Moksh continued with teaching how to edit Wikipedia.
>> This time it wasn't it in groups though. "References" and "Notability"
>> were the main topics that were covered in this session.
>>
>> Anshuman and Karthik then proceeded  with teaching photo uploads on
>> Wikipedia. Quiz was conducted towards the end and Wikipedia-Tshirts
>> were given as prizes for giving right answers. Karthik, then also
>> showcased the winning images of Wiki Loves Momunents 2012 India. The
>> long day came to an end with an overwhelming response and a call for
>> organizing many such activities. The feedback received was positive.
>> The participants enjoyed the workshop.
>>
>> We are thankful to everybody who made this event a great one. Thanks
>> to all the volunteers. Special thanks to Moksh and Karthik who went
>> out of the way to get everything arranged before hand at the venue, to
>> Netha and Noopur for making it to the workshop and for working hand in
>> hand with the Mumbai Community, to Srikanth Ramakrishnan who
>> constantly stayed in touch for online help.
>>
>> Special thanks to whole Vidyalankar team. Vishwas Deshpande, Founder
>> of Vidyalankar, who gave us an opportunity to to do the Mumbai's first
>> Wiki Workshop for Women at Vidyalankar. Milind Tadvalkar (Director)
>> and Seema Shah (Principal), Jayprakash Kurmi and Vivek and the
>> complete IT Team at VIT, Mahesh from Canteen for an awesome Pav Bhaji
>> for Lunch. Another thanks to Netra Parikh, for giving us enough place
>> at her office, Pinstorm, for all out pre-meetings. Thanks to all.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Krutikaa Jawanjal
>>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Women Workshop Report

2012-11-05 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Thanks Krutikaa  for a comprehensive report. I am happy to hear about the
large participation and nice outcomes. Congratulations to all organisers
and thanks to all participants for making it a successful event.

There was discussion some time back about formation of Women Special
Interest Group (SIG) of India Chapter. I encourage the participants to
discuss the same and  follow up with the Chapter as required.

Cheers
Arjuna



On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Krutikaa Jawanjal wrote:

> A Day Spent well.
>
> The Wikipedia Women Workshop which took place on November, 4th 2012 in
> Vidyalankar Institute of Technology (VIT), Wadala was indeed a
> success.
>
> The people who volunteered in organizing this workshop were Bishakha
> Datta, Moksh Juneja, Karthik Nadar, Pranav Curumsey, Pradeep Mohandas,
> Anshuman Fotedar, Aditi Juneja, Harriet Vidyasagar, Nikita Belavate,
> Netra Parikh, Noopur Raval, Netha Hussain.  All discussions and
> planning done while organizing this workshop for women paid off. In
> all, 70+ women participants attended the workshop.
>
> The workshop started with a short introduction after which, wasting no
> time, the women participants moved on to learning how to edit
> Wikipedia which was though by the present on ground volunteers. The
> participants were were divided in groups and every group had to create
> a new article which wasn't already available on Wikipedia. In the
> process, women interacted with the volunteers, asked question
> regarding Wikipedia. Every group at least had added introduction to
> the new article.
>
> Having done with the basic editing, a general presentation on
> Wikipedia was given by some of the volunteers. This was followed by
> question and answers regarding the same. By this time, it was already
> 1.30pm, so the lunch was announced. After having lunch, the
> participants got back to their seats. Pretty much everybody stayed
> back post lunch. Moksh continued with teaching how to edit Wikipedia.
> This time it wasn't it in groups though. "References" and "Notability"
> were the main topics that were covered in this session.
>
> Anshuman and Karthik then proceeded  with teaching photo uploads on
> Wikipedia. Quiz was conducted towards the end and Wikipedia-Tshirts
> were given as prizes for giving right answers. Karthik, then also
> showcased the winning images of Wiki Loves Momunents 2012 India. The
> long day came to an end with an overwhelming response and a call for
> organizing many such activities. The feedback received was positive.
> The participants enjoyed the workshop.
>
> We are thankful to everybody who made this event a great one. Thanks
> to all the volunteers. Special thanks to Moksh and Karthik who went
> out of the way to get everything arranged before hand at the venue, to
> Netha and Noopur for making it to the workshop and for working hand in
> hand with the Mumbai Community, to Srikanth Ramakrishnan who
> constantly stayed in touch for online help.
>
> Special thanks to whole Vidyalankar team. Vishwas Deshpande, Founder
> of Vidyalankar, who gave us an opportunity to to do the Mumbai's first
> Wiki Workshop for Women at Vidyalankar. Milind Tadvalkar (Director)
> and Seema Shah (Principal), Jayprakash Kurmi and Vivek and the
> complete IT Team at VIT, Mahesh from Canteen for an awesome Pav Bhaji
> for Lunch. Another thanks to Netra Parikh, for giving us enough place
> at her office, Pinstorm, for all out pre-meetings. Thanks to all.
>
>
> Regards,
> Krutikaa Jawanjal
>
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