*Wiki Advanced Training* or *WAT* is a residential training workshop to be
conducted on 29 June to 1 July (Friday to Sunday) at Ranchi, Jharkhand,
India. Participants are expected to reach the venue at Ranchi by 28 June
2018 evening
The objectives of the events are:
- To optimize contribution and increase skills of Indic Wikimedians
- To introduce and initiate best practices across Indic Wikimedia
projects with reference to Global projects
- Raise awareness towards initiative such as #1Lib1Ref, TWL and use of
scripts, gadgets, and Wikimedia tools.
- Develop capacity across Indic Wikimedians to participate in events
Global hackathon, Wikidatacon
Please read more about the workshop and participation process:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Wiki_Advanced_Training
The last date application is 9 June
Please feel free to ask questions
Thanks
Greetings everyone,
We are delighted to announce that applications to participate in *Wikigraphists
Bootcamp (2018 India*) to be tentatively held in the last weekend of
September 2018 at Hyrderabad are now open.
This is going to be a three-day training workshop to equip the participants
with the skills to create illustrations and digital drawings in SVG format,
using software like Inkscape.
Minimum eligibility criteria to participate is as below:
- Active Wikimedians from India contributing to any Indic language
Wikimedia projects.
- At least 1,500 global edits till 30 May 2018.
- At least 500 edits to home-Wikipedia (excluding User-space).
Please apply at the link below before *16th June 2018*:
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf1Ow_o7z2gEIsJy3PYbt0ippnwgU8tMbH…>
Wikigraphists Bootcamp application form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf1Ow_o7z2gEIsJy3PYbt0ippnwgU8tMbH…>
Looking forward to some serious wikilearning and some serious wikifun at
the same time.
Best
Satdeep Gill
On behalf of the organizing team,
Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India)