[Wikimediaindia-l] 1st Wiki Academy, Jaya Engineering College, Bangalore

Sun Dec 11 15:22:57 UTC 2011

Thanks Subha, Hisham and Nikita for helping in Wiki Academy @ Jaya
Engineering College.

Thanks Ansuman for attendees list.

Thanks,
naveenpf

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Naveen Francis <naveenpf at wikimedia.in>wrote:

> Thanks Subha, Hisham and Nikita for helping in Wiki Academy @ Jaya
> Engineering College.
>
> Thanks Ansuman for attendees list.
>
> Thanks,
> naveenpf
>
>  On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi <
> psubhashish at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Dear All,
>>
>> Wikimedia India chapter has organized a Wiki Academy in Jaya Engineering
>> College in Chennai on 11 December 2011. The detailed summary below:
>>
>> Introduction
>>
>> The first Wiki Academy in Jaya Engineering college was organized by the
>> Wikimedia chapter and co-hosted by Jaya FOSS Club, a faculty-student wing
>> of Computer Science department, Jaya Engineering College  which promotes
>> and organize events related to FOSS (Free and Open Source movement) and is
>> the only FOSS club in the whole state. Prof. Kumaran, HOD - Computer
>> Science Dept, Prof. Prabhakaran, student volunteers of Jaya FOSS Club
>> Naresh Aravindh, Baabu Aravind V S, Sankey Thukral and Saran Raj
>> volunteered for conducing the event. The academy started at 10.30 AM with a
>> formal inauguration by Prof. Natarajan, HOD - Textile Engineering who
>> introduced the agenda of the Wiki Academy to the audience. Prof Prabhakaran
>> then gave a brief talk about the academy and Jaya FOSS Club and gave a
>> token of appreciation to Dr. Natarajan for the speech. Subhashish, member,
>> Wikimedia India Chapter gave a small talk about the main agenda of the
>> academy and connected the audience with Hisham Mundol, Consultant, India
>> Programs, Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) via Google Hangout. Hisham interacted
>> with the audience by giving a talk about the nature of the event, few
>> details about Wikipedia, WMF and Chapter and foundation are trying to do in
>> India. He answered questions raised by the audience. Nitika Tandon,
>> Consultant, Participation at WMF was also present virtually.
>>
>>
>> Academy
>>  *How to Edit Wikipedia*
>> Subhashish explained basics of Wikipedia, how it is edited by millions of
>> volunteers, how Wikipedia is exclusively encyclopedic and kind of articles
>> and notability of articles in Wikipedia, how Wikipedians communicate and
>> form community, and organization of Wikimedia foundations and active
>> projects. Then he took the audience through active editing by signing up,
>> searching for articles, choosing articles to create. Then he demonstrated
>> about creating an article by using the Edit toolbar, citing the text by
>> searching the web and uploading and adding pictures in articles.
>> Q&A session
>>
>> After the editing session is over there was a question and answer round
>> where the speaker answered questions related to editing.
>>
>> Closing talk
>>
>> Nitika was formally introduced to the audience by Subhashish. Nitika then
>> explained about the India Education program (IEP), how it functions and the
>> student-teacher-foundation collaborations through the education program.
>> She took the audience though the Pune IEP, how foundation reached to
>> several colleges in Pune via Campus Ambassadors, engagingt of students by
>> increasing student-teacher interaction and outcome of the program. Post to
>> her talk there was a Q&A and interaction round.
>>
>> With the closing talk from Nitika, a closing talk was delivered to the
>> audience by the speaker. Feedback and participation forms were distributed
>> and the audience gathered for a group photograph.
>>
>> Future plans if any
>>
>> *Potential areas to work upon*:
>>
>>    - *More technological live sessions*:
>>
>> Being an engineering college of more than 60 volunteers in the Jaya FOSS
>> Club, a club promoting FOSS (Free & opensource software) initiatives this
>> has a incubation capability to bring up more leaders in Technology. The
>> HOD, Prof. M. Kumaran, Asst Prof. G. Prabhakaran, student volunteers Naresh
>> Aravindh and Baabu Aravind V S showed a lot of interest for technological
>> events in the college. WMF staff contractor Santhosh Thottingal could be
>> contacted for a webinar with the FOSS Club members and faculty to
>> understand their interest based on which there could be a possible
>> technical event like a mini Hackathon in the college. The college has a
>> decent infrastructure in terms of connectivity and outreach.
>>
>>    - *Interest group for Tamil Wiki initiatives*:
>>
>> The entire audience was Tamil speaking, surprisingly none of them were
>> not aware of the existence of Tamil Wikipedia. So, further communication
>> could be established with the Tamil Wiki Community as majority of the
>> participants were interested for a Tamil Wiki initiatives. Sengai Poduvan,
>> the veteran Tamil Wikipedian who was awarded as a noteworthy Wikipedian
>> during WCI must be invited for a talk to the next Tamil Wiki Academy which
>> will inspire the audience to contribute more for Tamil Wiki initiatives.
>>
>>    - *Foundation of a Wiki-Club*:
>>
>> Prof. G. Prabhakaran, Computer Science dept brought a proposal for a
>> Wiki-Club by engaging the Jaya FOSS volunteers which could organize
>> recurrent Wiki events in the campus. The FOSS club is already interacting
>> with many Open source academicians, speakers and researchers from major
>> institutes like IIT, Madras. FOSS Activities in India is taking a
>> progressive shape and it could be used for more collaborative Wiki
>> initiatives to bring up more editors.
>>
>> *Visit the Academy Wiki Page<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Jaya_Engineering_College>|
>> Photos<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Jaya_Engineering_College_Wiki_Academy1,_December_2011>
>> *
>>
>> Kind regards
>> User:Psubhashish (Subha)
>>
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