great work. thanks to the efforts. On 16 Jan 2012 14:47, "Bala Jeyaraman" <sodabot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > A Wiki workshop/academy was conducted at SSN College of Engineering, > Chennai on 11 January. It was organised by SSN opensource enthusiasts under > the aegis of the SSN Tamil Club. Me, Srikanth Lakshmanan and Arunmozhi from > the Tamizha FOSS group. [1] 60 students attended the academy. > > The academy began at 9 in the morning with a presentation of open web and > open source from SSN opensource enthusiasts. I followed it up with a intro > section on wikipedia and a hands on editing session for about an hour. I > covered the basics of wikipedia, notability standards, five pillars, > copyright issues. I also covered basics of Wiktionary and Commons. Next > Srikanth took a session on technology behind wikipedia and how the students > could contribute technically to Wiki projects. We broke for lunch at 12 and > reconvened an hour later. > > The afternoon session began with a audio recording exercise, where songs > of the Tamil poet Subramania Bharathi were sung and uploaded to > commons.[2] This served as a hands on exercise to identify the common > copyright problems and which material can be added to Wiki projects without > copyright issues. Public domain, nationalisation, copyright term expiry, > threshold of originality, open source file formats etc were discussed. Next > Arunmozhi ( a student of a College of Engineering Guindy and a developer of > Tamil open source software) took a session on the initiatives of the > Tamizha group. After that we went on a photo walk of the SSN campus. We > split into two groups and walked around the SSN campus taking pictures. The > images were uploaded to Commons. [3]. This served as an oppurtunity to > explain copyright issues like freedom of panorama and derivative works. The > academy ended with a vote of thanks from the Tamil Club convener. > > Over all it was a highly successful exercise (IMO) and a lot of productive > work was done. The attendees were highly motivated and asked a lot of > pertinent questions which lead to some interesting discussions. They also > gave a few interesting suggestions about improving the usability of Wiki > pages from newbie perspective (Srikanth has already started work on > implementing one of the suggestions). > > I would like to thank the organising team (Dwaraka, Harvesh, Jason and > others) for doing an excellent job in organising the event , SSN Tamil > Mandram for its patronage and Wikimedia India Chapter for its help with > swag and printed material (though the quantity was nowhere sufficient :-). > Please ramp up the operation guys). > > ==Links== > [1]http://thamizha.com/ > [2]http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tamil_audio_songs > [3]http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:SSN_College_of_Engineering > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > >
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