Cross-posting to reach pan-India
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Nitika
From: Nitika Tandon [mailto:ntandon@wikimedia.org] Sent: 05 September 2011 16:40 To: 'wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org' Subject: Update, Examples & Request: Wikipedia India Education Program
Hi Folks,
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 35 introductory, basic editing and refresher sessions conducted by Campus Ambassadors.
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! J
User: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Abhilasha369 Abhilasha369 started a new article: Robinson Crusoe Economy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_Crusoe_Economy User: basic.atari http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Basic.atari is working on article Human capital http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_capital User: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/SaurabhKB SaurabhKB is editing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organizing_list Self-organizing list User: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Aishani_Sharma Aishani Sharma on Social preferences http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_preferences
User: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Jinchurikidan Jinchurikidan has been actively editing the article on Animation studio http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation_studio
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: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:INDIAEDU
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!
Thanks
Nitika Tandon