Dear all,
Four campus ambassadors conducted a 2-hour intro to wikipedia session as part of an all-day workshop I was facilitating on Gender and Technology at the Dept of Women's Studies, University of Pune. We had about 20 participants - more women than men, and an even mix of Marathi and English speakers.
The 4 CAs who conducted the session were: Abhishek Suryawanshi, Devanshi Tripathi, Arnav Sonara and Nikita Agarwal - between them they too represented a good mix of genders and languages. I had earlier invited Ashwin Baindur from the Pune community to conduct the workshop; the timing didn't work for him.
The participants were introduced to both English and Marathi wikipedias, where they tried to locate Sharmila Rege, dalit feminist and sociologist, who heads the department. Since she didn't have a page on English wikipedia, one was created - and this process of creation was used as an opportunity to demonstrate key principles: references, citations, NPOV, verifiability, as well as how to edit. Larger conversations around reliability and authenticity were had, and the CAs cited their own experiences to answer the question: Why edit?
I was particularly impressed by the way the CAs shared the workload among themselves and by the way they pitched wikipedia to a bunch of newcomers: inside out (from a newbie perspective) rather than outside in, anticipating what a newcomer needs to know at each step - to be motivated and to progress to the next step. They also suggested easy ways to edit at the start. Judging by the last question from participants: "How can we contact you'll if we need help?" it worked.
This was the first time undergrads had taught postgrads in this department - a nice role reversal. And this was the first time the CAs had stepped outside the India Education Program to do a non-program workshop. The student-to-student thing really worked.
So many thanks Abhishek, Arnav, Devanshi and Nikita. It was great!
And thanks a ton, Hisham, for putting so much together at such short notice.
Cheers Bishakha
btw, nikita, the campus ambassador in pune, is not nitika, who has joined the foundation office in new delhi.
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Bishakha Datta bishakhadatta@gmail.comwrote:
Dear all,
Four campus ambassadors conducted a 2-hour intro to wikipedia session as part of an all-day workshop I was facilitating on Gender and Technology at the Dept of Women's Studies, University of Pune. We had about 20 participants - more women than men, and an even mix of Marathi and English speakers.
The 4 CAs who conducted the session were: Abhishek Suryawanshi, Devanshi Tripathi, Arnav Sonara and Nikita Agarwal - between them they too represented a good mix of genders and languages. I had earlier invited Ashwin Baindur from the Pune community to conduct the workshop; the timing didn't work for him.
The participants were introduced to both English and Marathi wikipedias, where they tried to locate Sharmila Rege, dalit feminist and sociologist, who heads the department. Since she didn't have a page on English wikipedia, one was created - and this process of creation was used as an opportunity to demonstrate key principles: references, citations, NPOV, verifiability, as well as how to edit. Larger conversations around reliability and authenticity were had, and the CAs cited their own experiences to answer the question: Why edit?
I was particularly impressed by the way the CAs shared the workload among themselves and by the way they pitched wikipedia to a bunch of newcomers: inside out (from a newbie perspective) rather than outside in, anticipating what a newcomer needs to know at each step - to be motivated and to progress to the next step. They also suggested easy ways to edit at the start. Judging by the last question from participants: "How can we contact you'll if we need help?" it worked.
This was the first time undergrads had taught postgrads in this department
- a nice role reversal. And this was the first time the CAs had stepped
outside the India Education Program to do a non-program workshop. The student-to-student thing really worked.
So many thanks Abhishek, Arnav, Devanshi and Nikita. It was great!
And thanks a ton, Hisham, for putting so much together at such short notice.
Cheers Bishakha
Thanks for the detailed report Bishakha. Hope this develops into a great initiative. I must say the Campus Ambassadors from Pune have done us proud!
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Bishakha Datta bishakhadatta@gmail.comwrote:
Dear all,
Four campus ambassadors conducted a 2-hour intro to wikipedia session as part of an all-day workshop I was facilitating on Gender and Technology at the Dept of Women's Studies, University of Pune. We had about 20 participants - more women than men, and an even mix of Marathi and English speakers.
The 4 CAs who conducted the session were: Abhishek Suryawanshi, Devanshi Tripathi, Arnav Sonara and Nikita Agarwal - between them they too represented a good mix of genders and languages. I had earlier invited Ashwin Baindur from the Pune community to conduct the workshop; the timing didn't work for him.
The participants were introduced to both English and Marathi wikipedias, where they tried to locate Sharmila Rege, dalit feminist and sociologist, who heads the department. Since she didn't have a page on English wikipedia, one was created - and this process of creation was used as an opportunity to demonstrate key principles: references, citations, NPOV, verifiability, as well as how to edit. Larger conversations around reliability and authenticity were had, and the CAs cited their own experiences to answer the question: Why edit?
I was particularly impressed by the way the CAs shared the workload among themselves and by the way they pitched wikipedia to a bunch of newcomers: inside out (from a newbie perspective) rather than outside in, anticipating what a newcomer needs to know at each step - to be motivated and to progress to the next step. They also suggested easy ways to edit at the start. Judging by the last question from participants: "How can we contact you'll if we need help?" it worked.
This was the first time undergrads had taught postgrads in this department
- a nice role reversal. And this was the first time the CAs had stepped
outside the India Education Program to do a non-program workshop. The student-to-student thing really worked.
So many thanks Abhishek, Arnav, Devanshi and Nikita. It was great!
And thanks a ton, Hisham, for putting so much together at such short notice.
Cheers Bishakha
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Bishakha,
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Bishakha Datta bishakhadatta@gmail.comwrote:
Dear all,
Four campus ambassadors conducted a 2-hour intro to wikipedia session as part of an all-day workshop I was facilitating on Gender and Technology at the Dept of Women's Studies, University of Pune. We had about 20 participants - more women than men, and an even mix of Marathi and English speakers.
--cut--
Thanks for the update. I am glad to see CAs stepping beyond their campuses and doing a great job.
Best wishes Arjun
Some of you asked me offlist for links to the pages created. Here's the link to the page on English wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharmila_Regeand the link to the page on Marathi wikipediahttp://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%87(older page - not created yesterday).
Sorry, I wrote the email on my way back from Pune to Mumbai, so tried to do the bare minimum.
We're hoping that students at the Dept of Women's Studies will 'adopt' and improve both, as a starting point.
No photos were taken - we should have.
And thank you, Ram.
Cheers Bishakha
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunaraoc@gmail.comwrote:
Bishakha,
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Bishakha Datta bishakhadatta@gmail.comwrote:
Dear all,
Four campus ambassadors conducted a 2-hour intro to wikipedia session as part of an all-day workshop I was facilitating on Gender and Technology at the Dept of Women's Studies, University of Pune. We had about 20 participants - more women than men, and an even mix of Marathi and English speakers.
--cut--
Thanks for the update. I am glad to see CAs stepping beyond their campuses and doing a great job.
Best wishes Arjun
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Thanks Bishakha :)
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Bishakha Datta bishakhadatta@gmail.comwrote:
Some of you asked me offlist for links to the pages created. Here's the link to the page on English wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharmila_Regeand the link to the page on Marathi wikipediahttp://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%87(older page - not created yesterday).
Sorry, I wrote the email on my way back from Pune to Mumbai, so tried to do the bare minimum.
We're hoping that students at the Dept of Women's Studies will 'adopt' and improve both, as a starting point.
No photos were taken - we should have.
And thank you, Ram.
Cheers Bishakha
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunaraoc@gmail.comwrote:
Bishakha,
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Bishakha Datta bishakhadatta@gmail.comwrote:
Dear all,
Four campus ambassadors conducted a 2-hour intro to wikipedia session as part of an all-day workshop I was facilitating on Gender and Technology at the Dept of Women's Studies, University of Pune. We had about 20 participants - more women than men, and an even mix of Marathi and English speakers.
--cut--
Thanks for the update. I am glad to see CAs stepping beyond their campuses and doing a great job.
Best wishes Arjun
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Well done Ram, Arnav, Nikita, Abhishek :)
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Ram Shankar Yadav < ramshankaryadav@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Bishakha :)
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Bishakha Datta bishakhadatta@gmail.comwrote:
Some of you asked me offlist for links to the pages created. Here's the link to the page on English wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharmila_Regeand the link to the page on Marathi wikipediahttp://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%87(older page - not created yesterday).
Sorry, I wrote the email on my way back from Pune to Mumbai, so tried to do the bare minimum.
We're hoping that students at the Dept of Women's Studies will 'adopt' and improve both, as a starting point.
No photos were taken - we should have.
And thank you, Ram.
Cheers Bishakha
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala <arjunaraoc@gmail.com
wrote:
Bishakha,
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta@gmail.com
wrote:
Dear all,
Four campus ambassadors conducted a 2-hour intro to wikipedia session as part of an all-day workshop I was facilitating on Gender and Technology at the Dept of Women's Studies, University of Pune. We had about 20 participants - more women than men, and an even mix of Marathi and English speakers.
--cut--
Thanks for the update. I am glad to see CAs stepping beyond their campuses and doing a great job.
Best wishes Arjun
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Thanks Ashwin!
You forget Devanshi :)
Cheers, Ram
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.baindur@gmail.comwrote:
Well done Ram, Arnav, Nikita, Abhishek :)
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Ram Shankar Yadav < ramshankaryadav@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Bishakha :)
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta@gmail.com
wrote:
Some of you asked me offlist for links to the pages created. Here's the link to the page on English wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharmila_Regeand the link to the page on Marathi wikipediahttp://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%87(older page - not created yesterday).
Sorry, I wrote the email on my way back from Pune to Mumbai, so tried to do the bare minimum.
We're hoping that students at the Dept of Women's Studies will 'adopt' and improve both, as a starting point.
No photos were taken - we should have.
And thank you, Ram.
Cheers Bishakha
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala < arjunaraoc@gmail.com> wrote:
Bishakha,
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Bishakha Datta < bishakhadatta@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear all,
Four campus ambassadors conducted a 2-hour intro to wikipedia session as part of an all-day workshop I was facilitating on Gender and Technology at the Dept of Women's Studies, University of Pune. We had about 20 participants - more women than men, and an even mix of Marathi and English speakers.
--cut--
Thanks for the update. I am glad to see CAs stepping beyond their campuses and doing a great job.
Best wishes Arjun
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Ah, my apologies, well done Devanshi!
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Ram Shankar Yadav < ramshankaryadav@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Ashwin!
You forget Devanshi :)
Cheers, Ram
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur@gmail.com
wrote:
Well done Ram, Arnav, Nikita, Abhishek :)
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Ram Shankar Yadav < ramshankaryadav@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Bishakha :)
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Bishakha Datta < bishakhadatta@gmail.com> wrote:
Some of you asked me offlist for links to the pages created. Here's the link to the page on English wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharmila_Regeand the link to the page on Marathi wikipediahttp://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%87(older page - not created yesterday).
Sorry, I wrote the email on my way back from Pune to Mumbai, so tried to do the bare minimum.
We're hoping that students at the Dept of Women's Studies will 'adopt' and improve both, as a starting point.
No photos were taken - we should have.
And thank you, Ram.
Cheers Bishakha
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala < arjunaraoc@gmail.com> wrote:
Bishakha,
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Bishakha Datta < bishakhadatta@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear all,
Four campus ambassadors conducted a 2-hour intro to wikipedia session as part of an all-day workshop I was facilitating on Gender and Technology at the Dept of Women's Studies, University of Pune. We had about 20 participants - more women than men, and an even mix of Marathi and English speakers.
--cut--
Thanks for the update. I am glad to see CAs stepping beyond their campuses and doing a great job.
Best wishes Arjun
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On Sep 26, 2011, at 7:53 PM, Bishakha Datta wrote:
This was the first time undergrads had taught postgrads in this department - a nice role reversal. And this was the first time the CAs had stepped outside the India Education Program to do a non-program workshop. The student-to-student thing really worked.
This is actually a real interesting point - and I'd love more CAs to get similarly involved in talking Wikipedia outside of their own classrooms. They bring a powerfully fresh perspective, are amazingly motivated and are able to connect really well with potential newbie editors, especially students.
So many thanks Abhishek, Arnav, Devanshi and Nikita. It was great!
And thanks a ton, Hisham, for putting so much together at such short notice.
Thanks for the many kind words, Bishakha. I'm glad it went off well. Strictly speaking though, all the credit for the organizing of this goes to Ram (who's co-ordinating the program in Pune) and to the CAs themselves! I just made a phone call...
hisham
Thank you, Bishakha!
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:53:34 +0530 From: bishakhadatta@gmail.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Pune intro to wikipedia workshop: a short report
Dear all,
Four campus ambassadors conducted a 2-hour intro to wikipedia session as part of an all-day workshop I was facilitating on Gender and Technology at the Dept of Women's Studies, University of Pune. We had about 20 participants - more women than men, and an even mix of Marathi and English speakers.
The 4 CAs who conducted the session were: Abhishek Suryawanshi, Devanshi Tripathi, Arnav Sonara and Nikita Agarwal - between them they too represented a good mix of genders and languages. I had earlier invited Ashwin Baindur from the Pune community to conduct the workshop; the timing didn't work for him.
The participants were introduced to both English and Marathi wikipedias, where they tried to locate Sharmila Rege, dalit feminist and sociologist, who heads the department. Since she didn't have a page on English wikipedia, one was created - and this process of creation was used as an opportunity to demonstrate key principles: references, citations, NPOV, verifiability, as well as how to edit. Larger conversations around reliability and authenticity were had, and the CAs cited their own experiences to answer the question: Why edit?
I was particularly impressed by the way the CAs shared the workload among themselves and by the way they pitched wikipedia to a bunch of newcomers: inside out (from a newbie perspective) rather than outside in, anticipating what a newcomer needs to know at each step - to be motivated and to progress to the next step. They also suggested easy ways to edit at the start. Judging by the last question from participants: "How can we contact you'll if we need help?" it worked.
This was the first time undergrads had taught postgrads in this department - a nice role reversal. And this was the first time the CAs had stepped outside the India Education Program to do a non-program workshop. The student-to-student thing really worked.
So many thanks Abhishek, Arnav, Devanshi and Nikita. It was great!
And thanks a ton, Hisham, for putting so much together at such short notice.
Cheers Bishakha
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