Hi,
Malayalam Wikipedia community is organizing a Wikipedia academy at Kochi,
Kerala on Feb 19th 2011 Saturday, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM.
Venue : Toc H Public School, Vytilla, Kochi, Ernakulam, Kerala
Date: Feb 19, 2011
Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Agenda:
- An introduction to Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects
- An introduction to Malayalam Wikipedia and sister projects
- Click "Edit" on Wikipedia - Wikipedia editing session.
For more details and registration visit :
http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Malayalam_Wiki_Workshop_Ernakulam_1
If you are in Kochi or around, please do spread the word and participate in
the academy.
Regards,
Anoop
Ralph,
This is indeed a great opportunity to create greater awareness about the
Kannada wikipedia. We need a lot more contributors to Kannada wikipedia.
Exhibitions are hectic but p;pose the best outreach opportunity.
I though of sharing some learnings from the recent exhibit stall we had at
the World Sanskrit Book fair for you and the other volunteers to consider:
- These exhibitions tend to draw lot of crowds and can be very
exhausting.
- There needs to be 4 volunteers at a given time in the stall.
- Volunteers need to be in shifts of 2 hours to be effective and retain
energy reserves.
- Most of the questions in event like these are general awareness, what
they can do as readers, how they need to do if they need to contribute (whom
to contact). Discussions will not be very technical. (except in the cases of
very few visitors)
- Having pamphlets is a a great help with the links to wikimedia.in,
kannada wikipedia and other projects, India meetup page. We struggled
writing the links through the 2 days as we did not have any pamphlets.
- We now have the banners from the W10 event in Bangalore. These will be
of great use.
- Take the wikireader, it generates a lot of interest. It is now with
HPN.
- Suggest 3-4 laptops with a data card each. This is better than using a
single projector. We did not use a projector. One to one discussions are
most effective.
- Take a a few notebooks to write down contacts of people who want help
to become contributors.
- You will also run into people who would want to give away content they
have created to wikipedia. This is as always a great opportunity.
- From our past experience, the volunteers knowing wikipedia (even using
is good). Key messages to communicate can be shared with the team. The
general public is not very well informed on specifics of wikipedia except
being aware. Many may not know about it in Indian languages.
- The volunteers need the ability to communicate and relate to the varied
audience and backgrounds. This is the most important skill than even being
insightful.
- Have at least one senior wikipedian in the stall to answer the
difficult or detailed questions.
- Overlap some volunteers across days to carry the learning and
experience of earlier days across subsequent days.
- Expect people to ask questions about Kanaja and other similar projects.
They may also have stalls.
Best wishes for the event.
regards
Arun
Bangalore, India
www.twitter.com/arunram
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Ralph <work.well.done.in(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article1096315.ece
>
> In order to move forward, may I suggest the following:
>
> Job description of volunteer: other prerequisites - please list
> 1. Speak Kannada Yes (mandatory)/No (not required)
> 2. Programming knowledge Yes (mandatory)/No (not required)
> 3.
> 4.
>
> 1. List of names/email of volunteers who will be present at the Kannada
> Wikipedia booth on
> a. 4 Fri
> b. 5 Sat
> c. 6 Sun
>
> 2. Location map of venue/hall/room - exact details to prevent frantic
> searching for the right place.
>
> 3. Bus from Shivajinagar/Majestic/...
>
> 4. Coordinator name & mobile 9.........
>
> 5. Please bring (your own) snack/lunch, booth will be working without a
> break! Cannot afford to lose a single visitor.
>
> 6. Script: What should/should not be said. It may be impossible to meet
> before the event for the orientation but a virtual classroom will address
> that need.
>
> http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/453323-let-s-learn-to-use-wiziq-virtual-c…
>
> Await your comments. Thanks. Ralph
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FYI
-TC
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Barry Newstead <bnewstead(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 6:09 AM
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] SMS WIkipedia app in India
To: India list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
We just had a demo of an interesting SMS application called
txtweb<http://www.txtweb.com/>.
It is a beta platform that allows content developers to publish their
content using an apps model. It was developed by some engineers at Intuit
as a side project a few months back.
They have developed an app for English Wikipedia that has been rolled out in
India. The whole platform is India only for now.
How it works:
Type: @wikipedia<space><article name> e.g., @wikipedia mumbai gets you the
Mumbai article.
Send the SMS to 92433-42000
Links have a letter associated with it e.g., (B)Maharashtra. If you reply
(B) it will send you that article.
It would be great if folks tried out the service and provided feedback to us
(and we'll pass it on). I've set up a page on Strategy Wiki for people to
add comments: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Txtweb_feedback
I'm particularly interested in how folks use such a service and whether the
limited length of the message delivers a decent user experience. Also, how
would you improve the UI.
Feel free to pass this on to other lists or groups.
Best,
Barry
--
Barry Newstead
Chief Global Development Officer
Wikimedia Foundation
Tel: +1-415-839-6885 x. 6634
Skype: barry.wikimedia
Twitter: @bazanews
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