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Fwd: Improving outreach efforts in India
by Nitika 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

Cross posting. Begin forwarded message: > From: Nitika <ntandon(a)wikimedia.org> > Subject: Improving outreach efforts in India > Date: 13 February 2012 5:12:49 PM GMT+05:30 > To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > > Dear All, > > The following is a post I've put up on the India Program page on meta regarding outreach (Please see:http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Program/Outreach_Programs). Please do comment on the page itself; I'm posting it on this mailing list only to make sure it doesn't slip your attention. > > We have conducted over 13 outreach sessions in the past one month and have many more events scheduled to participate in over the coming weeks. (Please see: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Outreach_Programs/Outreach_Ses…). It's amazing that we're doing so many outreach events all over the country to create awareness about Wikipedia, motivate attendees to learn about editing and training newbies to contribute to Wikipedia in their own special way. > > The single biggest challenge is that we don't know the actual outcome of these efforts in most cases, and the results are weak when we have the data. I think most of us agree that outreach can be made to work better. (For example, 2 outreach sessions conducted recently by the Assamese community had about 80 participants, and 8 active editors emerged - which is a hit rate of 10% - which is FANTASTIC!) For most other sessions, the results have been closer to 1-2% or even lower - which is depressing. What makes outreach work? How can outreach work better? Is there anything you need from me? > > Over the past 3 months, I have been working on building a handbook for Outreach (Please see: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Outreach_Programs/Handbook) where you can get presentation material and tips. Please do go through it and help me build it. > > My post consists of 5 (deliberately) provocative statements on the day of and the days after an outreach session. These are framed with the objective of generating debate and suggestions. > > THE DAY OF > > Hypthesis 1: Don't Shoot the Puppy: Outreach is not being done effectively and we aren't adequately introspecting on what we can do better; instead choosing to lose faith in attendees > > Should we discontinue general introduction sessions completely and just convert everything into Wiki workshops? Every second of volunteer time is precious and we need to make sure that every second is made to count. The good sessions appear to be those where people are actually shown how to edit - rather than just doing a song-and-dance about Wikipedia. > The best sessions are those where people have actual hands-on editing opportunity. Shall we limit the intro session on Wikipedia to just 15 minutes and then spend 45 minute on basic editing, 30 minutes on hand-on editing and leave 30 minutes for Q&A? > Not everyone is a natural presenter and might need help on basic outreach skills. Is there value and interest in a capacity building roadshow where we help existing editors who want to improve their outreach and presentation skills? Is it useful to pair up a good presenter with a not-so-confident presenter when we are doing outreach? > THE DAY AFTER > > Hypothesis #2: Staying in Touch: We assume the job is complete after the outreach session when in fact the journey has only just begun > > Can we gather (basic) information about attendees (e.g., names, usernames & email IDs?) so that we can stay in touch with them after sessions? > Can we get feedback on sessions (duration, level of detail, quality of presenters, etc.?) so that we can all improve? Do we need some sort of CRM solution for this or will something like Google Docs suffice? > How do we get more folks to actually provide their contact details and feedback? Which of the following will get higher response rates: asking for these just before the end, immediately after the end or the day after a session? > Hypothesis #3: Nudge-Nudge: Newbies struggle with the most basic things - including which article to select > > Should we send links to useful wiki pages and tutorial videos where they can read up more about how Wikipedia works and how to edit Wikipedia? Can we leave handouts on basic editing after all sessions? Can we send them links to the actual presentations made at the session. > Can we suggest / elicit potential articles that individual newbies will work on after the workshop? Can we give them individual pointers on what they can do with each article by reviewing them there-and-then during the session? > Can we schedule a follow-up session (even if virtually using google+ hangout) to clarify any doubts about Wikipedia editing or otherwise - maybe 2 weeks after a session? > Hypothesis #4: Loneliness - Newbies feel alone and the only time they sense the community is when their edits get reverted > > Should we not encourage them to join project pages (such as the WP:INDIA) and/or the India mailing list and/or their city/language mailing list to get involved with the community? > Can we involve them in COTM or conduct specific editathons for them? > Can we celebrate their successes and get newbies to talk to other newbies about how they learnt stuff? > Hyptothesis #5: Black Hole: No one has a clue about the actual results of outreach > > Can we regularly monitor number & % of active editors after 1 and 3 months of conducting all events? Can we figure out % of mainspace edits from these newbies after 1 and 3 months? Can this be analysed to provide recommendations on how we can do things better? > Can we actively reach out to those who look like they are struggling? Do we need a CRM tool for something like this? > Is it useful to track and attempt to co-relate age / profession / subject (if student) / sex of participants to figure out what is likely to give greatest results? > I have been working to see how can we overcome these challenges and make our outreach efforts far more effective. I'd love to hear from on the above. Some of you have been actively involved in outreach sessions (attending or conducting or planning) an I'd like to know your thoughts and suggestions which might serve as solutions for this set of very real challenges. > > Thanks > > Nitika > >

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Fwd: Problem in editing
by Jayanta Nath 10 Feb '12

10 Feb '12

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jayanta Nath <jayantanth(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 9:34 PM Subject: Re: Problem in editing To: Anubhab Baksi <anubhab91(a)gmail.com> Cc: Kalyan Sarkar <kalyan.sarkar(a)gmail.com> Hi, Please log-in and go to My preferences tab, then go to Editing Tab and deselect two option below. Use external editor by default (for experts only, needs special settings on your computer. More information.<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:External_editors> ) Use external diff by default (for experts only, needs special settings on your computer. More information.<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:External_editors> ) On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 7:47 PM, Anubhab Baksi <anubhab91(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Jayantada, > > When I try to edit Wikipedia, I suffer from a peculiar problem- every > time a php is about to be downloaded. It started around two weeks ago. > I have tried in many web browsers, e.g. Firefox, Safari, IE 9, Comet > Bird- but the problem is not settled. > > Please suggest me a way. > > Thank you in advance. >

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Screenshots of 275 Wikipedia 'Main Pages'.
by Jayanta Nath 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

Hi, http://infodisiac.com/Wikipedia/Gallery/Gallery.htm -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth আসুন পাইরেসি মুক্ত ভারত গড়ি,সবাই মুক্ত সফ্‌টওয়ার ব্যবহার করি [image: O:-)],অন্যকে ব্যবহারে উৎসাহিত করি। ______________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimedia-in-wb(a)lists.wikimedia.org <Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wikipedia-bn(a)lists.wikimedia.org <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb>

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[Press]: Education Times/ Times of India : "Knowledge Unbounded"
by Tinu Cherian (Wikimedia India) 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

*Education Times/ Times of India : "Knowledge Unbounded"* http://educationtimes.com/educationTimes/CMSD/Newsroom/1/201202092012020913… / Netaji Subhash Engineering College, Kolkata along with Wikimedia Foundation hosted the first WikiAcademy Conference in Eastern India recently in the college premises. Wikimedia Foundation operates Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and other sister sites. It was a half-day workshop to sensitise participants about Wikipedia and to help them add to the already vast source of knowledge. The WikiAcademy workshop was part of the Kolkata Chapter of Wikimedia Foundation with the objective of educating students and enthusiasts about the availability and use of free and open educational content and also to build the capacity to contribute such resources in various Indian languages. The conference began with a brief history and overview of Wikipedia conducted by Hisham Mundol, consultant, Wikimedia Foundation, followed by an interactive session which brought up interesting insights. "Wikipedia is the first one-stop address for a wide range of topics and the information available is provided by our passionate editors who regularly contribute articles and even crosscheck others. WikiAcademy is an attempt to encourage others to share their knowledge and also get to know the fifth website in terms of highest page views," Mundol explained. A live workshop on editing was conducted by Jayanta Nath, coordinator of Bengali Wikipedia where the participants tried their hands at editing various articles. For those interested in Indian languages, a session was arranged to enable the setting up of Wikipedia in their preferred languages. A student and who tried his hands at editing, Shoubhik Bose shared, "Wikipedia contributors like us can actually free education from cost and language barriers. The fact that my edit will be visible to a million users all over the world motivates me to edit Wikipedia articles. I would love to be a part of more WikiAcademy workshops with the Wikipedia readers and editors." / Regards Tinu Cherian press(a)wikimedia.in http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news Important Note : Non-commercial reproduction for informative purposes only. The publisher ( Education Times/ Times of India ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. All copyrights are duly acknowledged.

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Creating video of Indian Editors: "We Edit Wikipedia"
by Subhashish Panigrahi 07 Feb '12

07 Feb '12

Deal all, As a part of helping the community to reach out to more people apart from the presentations, handouts, FAQs and mailing list support we also have need for more visuals. Audio/Video clips containing Indian Wikipedians sharing their message "I EDIT WIKIPEDIA" or "I EDIT AN INDIAN LANGUAGE WIKIPEDIA" or "WIKIPEDIA IS HELPING ME DOCUMENTING MY HERITAGE" will create impact among people and motivate them to contribute to Wikipedia. Many people use Wikipedia in a daily basis without being aware of they can also [Edit] it, social media, Youtube, mails containing link to such a video can be used to reach this message to them. Moreover, such videos which are already there in Outreach (outreach.wikimedia.org) Bookshelf might make some people feel it's project being managed by some foreigners. Seeing some real Indians editing Wikipedia with the Main page of an Indian language background will definitely make this message clearer. If there is a fairly good no of community members located in anywhere in India (e.g Pune, Bangalore and Mumbai community) we can ask the community members say it altogether aloud apart from one/two community members speaking in their own language. I will be posting the details in the community village pumps, you are allowed to send as many people's footage as you can provided the video and audio quality are reasonable good. We will be collecting footage from all the communities and do a post production. Subha Community & Program Support, India Program Wikimedia Foundation

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Fwd: Wikimania 2012 - scholarship applications, Deadline : 16 Feb 2012
by Tinu Cherian (Wikimedia India) 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

Cross-posting to other lists. Hi all, Wikimania is the annual international conference of Wikimedians , jointly hosted by the local team ( usually local chapter) and the Wikimedia Foundation. The previous conferences were held in Frankfurt, Germany (2005), Boston, USA (2006), Taipei, Taiwan (2007), Alexandria, Egypt (2008), Buenos Aires, Argentina (2009), Gdan'sk, Poland (2010), and Haifa, Israel (2011). This year, it is to be held in Washington DC, United States of America, on July 12-14 , 2012. http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page <http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page> I have attended the Wikimanias in Gdansk and Haifa, along with several other Wikipedians from India. http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikimania2011 <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikimania2011> I highly recommend everyone to apply and attend Wikimania ! Like every year, The Wikimedia Foundation is offering a limited number of scholarships to offset the cost of select individuals' attendance at Wikimania. Both full and partial scholarships are available for Wikimania 2012: Full scholarships will award round trip travel, dorms accommodations and registration. Partial scholarships will subsidize up to 300EUR of travel expenses. Scholarship recipients have to bear themselves the additional costs of taxis, visa & travel agent charges etc. More Information : http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships <http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships> Apply here : https://secure.wikidc.org/wm/schols/ <https://secure.wikidc.org/wm/schols/> Deadline : *16 Feb 2012* Around 30 % of the scholarship are allocated to Asia & Pacific, so there are more chances of scholarship applications from India to be selected. :) Please note that the selection is mostly based on the merit of the applications. One of the common mistakes that Wikimedians in India make is that we aren't enough vocal of what we do. So please do write in detail about your Wikimedia activities. Please feel free to forward this to various language and city mailing lists and encourage other Wikimedians to apply. All the best wishes! Regards Tinu Cherian

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8th Birthday of Bengali Wikipedia
by Belayet Hossain 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

Dear All, Today 27 January <http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=6> is 8th Birthday of Bengali Wikipedia <http://bn.wikipedia.org>. I wish a very Happy Birthday to Bengali Wikipedia. Belayet (User:bellayet <http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:bellayet>) -- Belayet Hossain http://www.facebook.com/bellayet http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:bellayet http://twitter.com/bellayet http://bellayet.wordpress.com (Bangla) Knowledge is universal ...so share it.

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Seminar at Jadavpur University, Kolkata
by Deepon Saha 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

Hello everyone! This is Deepon, we have organised a small seminar at Etce Dept., Jadavpur University. I have attached the flyer. Hisham will be giving a presentation alomg with Nitika. It is supposed to be a small interaction with students before going for a larger workshop. Deepon

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(no subject)
by Anubhab Baksi 22 Jan '12

22 Jan '12

Hi everyone, Perhaps you all know about the famous cartoonist Chandi Lahiri. I have a proposal that, we may go for an interview of him on behalf of Wikipedia. Let me know what you are thinking. Thanks.

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Re: [Wikimedia-in-WB] Wikimedia-in-WB Digest, Vol 12, Issue 8
by Deepon Saha 22 Jan '12

22 Jan '12

hi Indranil! Majority of the students will be from the University. But if you want to attend, let me know, It won't be an issue. regards, Deepon On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 5:30 PM, < wikimedia-in-wb-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > Send Wikimedia-in-WB mailing list submissions to > wikimedia-in-wb(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > wikimedia-in-wb-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > wikimedia-in-wb-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Wikimedia-in-WB digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Wikipedia seminar at Jadavpur University, Kolkata (Deepon Saha) > 2. Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Kolkata Photo Walk (Esplanade & > Dalhousie) (Ashwin Baindur) > 3. Seminar at Jadavpur University, Kolkata (Deepon Saha) > 4. Re: Seminar at Jadavpur University, Kolkata (Indranil Das Gupta) > 5. (no subject) (Anubhab Baksi) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 07:22:21 +0530 > From: Deepon Saha <hideeponhere(a)gmail.com> > To: Wikimedia India Community list > <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Cc: wikimedia-in-wb(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: [Wikimedia-in-WB] Wikipedia seminar at Jadavpur University, > Kolkata > Message-ID: > <CAEHaNhZdkeefqqaxZj58FuCoiKqN1qiHyCx8Fz-kPdj9wgOuDQ(a)mail.gmail.com > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi everyone! > > This is Deepon, we have organised a small seminar at Etce Dept., Jadavpur > University. > I have attached the flyer. Hisham will be giving a presentation. It is > supposed to be a small interaction with students before going for a larger > workshop. Hope this will provide the base for the future Wikiacademy plans > at JU..:) > > Deepon Saha >

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