Dear All,
I wanted to take this opportunity to thank Harriet Vidyasagar and Frederick
Noronha for helping us kick start Wikipedia activities in Goa. They have put
in a lot of hard work in the past few weeks to organise Wikipedia events. So
far we have 3 confirmed events between 12th Dec and 14th Dec while they are
still working on squeezing in more events during these dates. I wanted to
share details of these events with everyone and also invite suggestions.
Details of events
A WikiWorkshop to introduce students and a few faculty on how to edit the
Wikipedia on12th and 13th December from 2.30 pm to 4.30 pm at Goa
University, computer lab. The lab has 24 computers and we will have about 6
persons with laptops i.e a total of 30 persons. We got 60 registrations for
this event but since the lab has limited capacity we'll only be able to
accommodate first 30 registrations. We're trying to host another academy for
the remaining 30 sometime on the 14th provided we're able to arrange for a
venue. Even if no venue is available; we'll still try and do a small talk
with these registrations. We definitely don't want to loose out the
opportunity of touching base with 30 more interested people.
We have a meeting scheduled with The Krishnadas Shama State Central Library,
Patto, Panjim on 13th morning from 10.30 to 12.30 noon to discuss GLAM
opportunities.
Harriet and her team are still trying to organise the following:
Public program to create awareness on about Wikipedia and how to contribute
at Central Library
Event at NIE where all are invited on the topic of Wikimedia in Schools and
Wikipedia for Teachers
Calling for participation as volunteers
Frederick is a long time Wikipedian who lives in Goa and will be available
to provide on ground support for these meetings. I wanted to check if we can
have 2 more or at least one more volunteer from Mumbai or Pune who could
come down to Goa for these events. CIS will be able to support train/bus
travel for these volunteers and Goa University will take care of
accommodation in their university guest house. Please respond at the
earliest so that we can make arrangements accordingly.
Looking forward to hear from al of you. Thanks a ton!
Regards,
Nitika
On 07-Dec-2012, at 12:50 AM, Nitika Tandon wrote:
On 06-Dec-2012, at 1:21 PM, Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *
فريدريك نورونيا wrote:
Dear Nitika, Is it possible to get in touch with
others who have been
contributing to the Goa pages in the past?
Absolutely! We can invite Wikipedians
from Goa and members of WikiProject
Goa.
Also, some of us have bandwidth problems here,
otherwise we would have
contributed more. Is it possible to set up a small team to continue this
process, in Goa itself, after the workshop is done?
The Central Library has a lot of space and tend to be supportive in such
work. Its Curator, Carlos Fernandes, was even supportive when Richard
Stallman of the FSF visited many years ago. They understand the
importance of creating sharable resources. At the library, you can spot
some displays of open journal websites, etc which researchers can freely
access. You could build on such synergies.
We have a meeting scheduled with the
State Central Library on the 13th Dec
at 10.30am. We can most definitely work out a plan with them. I'm hoping
you'll be able to join for this meeting too.
I have raised a ticket to lift IP rate limit:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42767. Hope it gets
resolved at the earliest.
Thanks
Nitika