The workshop started sharply at 10 AM. Attendees included school teachers, students, college professors and Tamil enthusiasts. There were about 15 attendees in Total. Wikimedians ParvathiSri, Thagavaluzhavan, Sodabottle, Essar & I spoke and conducted editing sessions.
I gave a presentation on Wikipedia. In that session I covered 5 pillars of WP, reliability of WP, importance of references, tasks for a Wikipedian, benefits to a Wikipedian by editing WP. After that Thagavaluzhavan spoke about Wiktionary, where he used Ta Wiktionary to explain everything instead of using a presentation. He explained the multilingual nature of Wiktionary and the need for multimedia content in it.
Next, Sodabottle explained the other sister projects - Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks and Commons. He explained the necessity of content creation in mother tongues. A short introduction to the ongoing Tamil Wiki Media Contest (http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest) was also given.
Attendees didn't raise any questions in the Q&A session. But, they did ask many doubts in the hands-on session that followed. During the session the attendees taught about creating account, WP navigation, terminology, uploading file, using a file in an article, talking to another user. There were many questions raised in this session. We, Wikimedians clarified their doubts with clear explanations.
Around 1 PM the workshop came to an end. Group photos were taken. As a part of Tamil Wiki Media Contest a small photo-walk had been arranged at the end. User Essar, User Thagavaluzhavan and I took photos all along the road sides of Salem Bazaar.