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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-IN link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap: break-word;-webkit-nbsp-mode: space;-webkit-line-break: after-white-space'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Cross-posting to reach pan-India<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Nitika<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Nitika Tandon [mailto:ntandon@wikimedia.org] <br><b>Sent:</b> 05 September 2011 16:40<br><b>To:</b> 'wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org'<br><b>Subject:</b> Update, Examples & Request: Wikipedia India Education Program<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Hi Folks, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br>I thought I’ll share an update with you’ll on the Wikipedia India Education Program. It's running majorly in 2 colleges in Pune (Symbiosis School of Economics and College of Engineering Pune). We already have over 1000 students enrolled from just these 2 colleges. Most of these students have gone through one or more out of a total of 3<span style='color:#1F497D'>5</span> introductory, basic editing and refresher sessions conducted by Campus Ambassadors. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>It’s good to see big numbers but I thought I’ll also share with you some articles that the students have been working on. It’s really inspiring to see their progress! </span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Wingdings'>J</span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><br><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>User: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Abhilasha369" title="User:Abhilasha369"><span style='color:windowtext'>Abhilasha369</span></a> started a new article: <span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_Crusoe_Economy">Robinson Crusoe Economy </a></span></span></span><br><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>User: <span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Basic.atari">basic.atari</a></span> is working on article <span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_capital">Human capital </a></span></span></span><br><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>User: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/SaurabhKB"><span style='color:windowtext'>SaurabhKB</span></a> is editing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organizing_list" title="Self-organizing list"><span style='color:windowtext'>Self-organizing list</span></a> </span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'></span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span></span><br><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>User: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Aishani_Sharma" title="User:Aishani Sharma"><span style='color:windowtext'>Aishani Sharma</span></a> on <span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_preferences">Social preferences </a></span></span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>User: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Jinchurikidan"><span style='color:windowtext'>Jinchurikidan</span></a> has been actively editing the article on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation_studio">Animation studio</a> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:11.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>These is still some way to go on these articles but I think they are fantastic starts! The 5 users and articles above are just illustrative. You can also track progress of the entire program here: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:INDIAEDU">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:INDIAEDU</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Please do reach out to the students (not just the one's listed above) and offer help and encouragement. Please do help them out on their articles as well. While they have been trained, they're going to need a lot of support because they are almost entirely newbies. Please do also leave kind words for the Campus Ambassadors. They've been doing amazing work!</span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:11.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Nitika Tandon<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div></div></body></html>