Oh, so that's where Tunde Ke Kabab came from! I tried to get support to bring it to DYK, but didn't have time after that.
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Hisham <his...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > On Mar 12, 2012, at 11:12 PM, Deepon Saha wrote: > > I too think we should conc. more on quality than quantity. If we get 4/5 > interested students from a session (be it only 5% or 10%) then we should > take good care to support them & keep them motivated.. Good point..:-) > > Hey, Deepon, I totally agree with you. More below on focussing on smaller > groups. > > On your point on providing support and motivation, Nitika and Subha are > working on something that you will hear from soon. > > On Mar 12, 2012 11:04 PM, "Nitika" <ntan...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > <cut> > > Kritharth is a student at IIT and has been actively involved in Wikipedia >> monthly meet-ups in Delhi. It was through him that we got in touch with the >> organisers at Tryst - annual tech fest organized by IIT-Delhi. I'd really >> like to thank him for helping us organise this session and a big thank you >> to Noopur, Rajesh and Piyush for all their help. >> > > Thanks so much Kritharth, > User:Piyush.Aggarwal<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piyush.Aggarwal> > and User:RajeshPandey <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:RajeshPandey>! > These were really well organised sessions! > > >> - Second session on March 5th, Monday: >> >> <cut> > > We organised the session a bit differently - after giving a brief >> introduction about Wikipedia and showing some basic editing we invited the >> uninterested participants to feel free to leave the session and requested >> only the interested lot to stay back for the remaining session. The >> participants were informed that in the second half of the session we'll >> be talking in greater detail about Wikipedia policies and do more hands-on >> editing training hence it made sense only for those students to stay back >> who'd like to get deeper knowledge about Wikipedia. Eventually we were left >> with 8 participants but in my opinion that's was the beginning point of a >> more interactive and interesting session. Each of these 8 participants were >> more involved when discussing about Wikipedia policies, they wanted to do >> more hands on editing and we were also able to provide them individual >> attention because of limited numbers. >> > > Three advantages. The quality of the discussion became so much richer > because you had only the most committed in the room. The kind of attention > we were able to give to everyone left was so much more personal. Also, as > a presenter, I actually felt so much more motivated because the only guys > in the room were so much more involved. > > During the session we edited the article on Chacha > Chowdhary<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chacha_Chowdhary> and >> one of the participants started an article on tunde ke >> kabab<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunde_ke_Kabab> >> . >> > > It's really essential to do actual editing on article - and get the > participants themselves to edit. You should have seen the look of pride on > the participants with every edit. Large groups in outreach sessions become > unmanageable - so we should focus on smaller groups. > > *hisham* > * > * > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG
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