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 <arjunar...@gmail.com>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 <krutika...@gmail.com>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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. Sign this petition to introduce Volvo buses in Coimbatore city: https://www.change.org/en-IN/petitions/the-transport-minister-tamil-nadu-introduction-of-volvo-city-buses-in-the-city-of-coimbatore
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