Hello Balaji,

Thanks for your questions, let me try to answer to these.

A. >>The title for the meeting in fixed as "Wiki Advanced Training". Already minimum one training was conducted by CIS for many of the Indic wikisource community. How the "Wiki Advanced Training" training is going to be different from the earlier trainings.

-- Yes, the event name is Wiki Advanced Training, where on a project is focused every year. This year the project we are focusing on is Wikisource, next year we have not planned or decided yet.

So far Wikisource training (zonal) has been conducted/supported by CIS-A2K in the last one year for (in alphabetical order) Assamese, Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi, Sanskrit community (in Bangalore), and Tamil community. Those have been mostly first-level or basic training. But, as "Advanced Wiki Training": name suggests, the training should be for experienced Wiki-librarians with advanced topics (what advanced topics, answering in the next points)

B. >>Because in many of the advance trainings people without basics also attend and pull down the average level of the trainings. (or they won't benefit from such trainings).

There should be basic eligibility criteria (see D). About participants, as mentioned earlier, yes, it is expected that the participants have both basic Wikisource knowledge and contribution experience. One thing comes here, does this ensure participation from all communities? I hope you understand this point. However, it is true that Advanced Training ideally should not have very basic topics.

Also note, we have community-selection process where a community will discuss on village pump and select Wiki-librarians to represent their communities.

C. >>If there is an agenda for this training and format of the training, it would be good to know before bidding.

Agenda is decided after the needs-assessment of the participants. If you have topics to suggest, please let us know. About format, let me answer in the last part, as it is similar to "hands-on proofreading".

D. >> What would be the criteria for selection of people to attend this training?

Excellent question. Please feel to suggest what selection criteria should be (number of edits, number of proofread/validated pages, recent activity). I'll check and get back to this with more details.

E. >> Also to few members I spoke in Tamil wikisource community felt that instead of training a two day editathon can be conducted with experts helping people who face problems while proofreading.

That's a format-related question. I, personally, find this idea an interesting one. Whether it 'll be 50%, 75% or 100% of hands-on training, it is to be decided by all the participating community members.

Abhinav,

Thanks for your comments.

>>Similar to the suggestions I had raised during TTT 2019, having a community jury to decide on the bids would be beneficial. Also, the idea floated by Balaji on proposal for trainers is welcoming, this makes the community inclusive (a community-run initiative).

-- Earlier we tried this. For Adv. Wikisource we are waiting for communities to show interest still. Hope to see at least a couple of interests there as of now.

Thanks

Tito Dutta

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On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 at 13:03, balaji <balajijagadesh@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

The title for the meeting in fixed as "Wiki Advanced Training". Already minimum one training was conducted by CIS for many of the Indic wikisource community. How the "Wiki Advanced Training" training is going to be different from the earlier trainings. If there is an agenda for this training and format of the training, it would be good to know before bidding. Also any proposal for the trainers? What would be the criteria for selection of people to attend this training? Because in many of the advance trainings people without basics also attend and pull down the average level of the trainings. (or they won't benefit from such trainings). Also to few members I spoke in Tamil wikisource community felt that instead of training a two day editathon can be conducted with experts helping people who face problems while proofreading.

Regards
J. Balaji
(User:Balajijagadesh)

Note: Same was posted in meta talk page : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:CIS-A2K/Events/Wiki_Advanced_Training/2019/Bids#Agenda_for_the_meeting

On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 1:53 AM Jayanta Nath <jayantanth@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Wikimedians,

It gives us great pleasure to inform that the Wikisource Advance Training 2019 program organised by CIS-A2K is going to be held from 11 October & 13 October 2019.

Advance Wikisource Training is a residential training program is planned for Indic Wikisource community (including English) members. Last year we focused on Wikipedia and conducted the Wiki Advanced Training at Ranch, India. Also, Earlier Indic Wikisource Community Consultation has been conducted in 2018 at Kolkata.

This year CIS-A2K is interested to collaborate with the community in hosting the event. Interested community members, please check the following link for proposal for hosting at their city:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Wiki_Advanced_Training/2019/Bids

It is requested to All Indic Wiki-librarians, kindly apply your request to join this event at your language wikisource village pump with separate section. As per community decision, we will select the participants.

Please consider sharing this process details with your community members.

If you have any questions, please let us know.

Regards,

Jayanta Nath
Wikisource Advisor
CIS-A2K

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