A Wiki workshop in Salem was conducted on December 11, 2011 by the Tamil Wiki community. Paavadi Girls higher secondary school had graciously given their computer lab for this workshop. This was made possible by the efforts of an excellent newcomer to Tamil wiki projects - ParvathiSri, who is a school teacher in Salem.
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/Contesthttp://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.
==Links==
1) Workshop page and talk page in ta wiki: Event pagehttp://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%80%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%BE:%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D_11,_2011_%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B4%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%80%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%BE_%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%B1%E0%AF%88 Talk Pagehttp://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%80%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%BE_%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%81:%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D_11,_2011_%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B4%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%80%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%BE_%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%B1%E0%AF%88
2) Images in commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedian_meetups_in_Salem,Dec20...
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On Dec 12, 2011, at 5:55 PM, Surya Prakash wrote:
A Wiki workshop in Salem was conducted on December 11, 2011 by the Tamil Wiki community.
Thanks for sharing this, Surya. Thank you to you and to ParvathiSri, Thagavaluzhavan, Sodabottle, Essar for your time and effort. It sounds like a wonderful session!
I especially like the fact that you explained the basic ideas of Wikipedia first and then also had hands-on editing session. Sodabottle's part about why it's important to improve / increase local language content is an important point and it's great to see it was covered. Often times, something like this - even though it sounds very simple - is a powerful and critical part of the message. They way I often say it is that even if one might be conversant in English, more times than not, one counts and thinks and dreams in one's mother tongue. ...and the conversation at home over dinner is largely in the respective mother tongues. ...therefore the critical importance of Indic content.
It'll be wonderful if folks who attended are kept in touch with so that they could get some hand holding as they start their journeys as newbies.
Warmest Regards,
hisham
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 17:55, Surya Prakash suryasalem2010@gmail.comwrote:
A Wiki workshop in Salem was conducted on December 11, 2011 by the Tamil Wiki community
Kudos to all behind this. I would call this mini conference, Sodabottle travelled from land of Cheras, Essar from land of Pandyas for this meetup/<whatever>. Also more awareness/outreach/meetups is required in tier-2 cities / towns and community(especially Indic will gain a lot from it).
Please scroll down, mail isnt complete.
1) Workshop page and talk page in ta wiki:
Event page< http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E...
Talk Page< http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E...
This is why one needs ShortURL. Will this bug bugzilla.wikimedia.org/1450 ever get some attention that its due? Note:- Tamil Wiki generally uses tawp.inshortened URLs, there is an open bug in it, I thought we will wait for the official extension rather than spending time to fix it. I think its safe to assume that ShortURL will not see end of tunnel atleast for few more months, So I would look around fixing it. There seems no point in waiting for deployment. I am disappointed.
As a part of this Workshop a small photo-walk was conducted, the attendees took photos all along their way in the market streets of Salem.
The images now categorized here.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedian_meetups_in_Salem,Dec20...
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On 12 December 2011 21:28, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik.lak@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 17:55, Surya Prakash suryasalem2010@gmail.comwrote:
A Wiki workshop in Salem was conducted on December 11, 2011 by the Tamil Wiki community
Kudos to all behind this. I would call this mini conference, Sodabottle travelled from land of Cheras, Essar from land of Pandyas for this meetup/<whatever>. Also more awareness/outreach/meetups is required in tier-2 cities / towns and community(especially Indic will gain a lot from it).
Please scroll down, mail isnt complete.
- Workshop page and talk page in ta wiki:
Event page< http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E...
Talk Page< http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E...
This is why one needs ShortURL. Will this bug bugzilla.wikimedia.org/1450 ever get some attention that its due? Note:- Tamil Wiki generally uses tawp.inshortened URLs, there is an open bug in it, I thought we will wait for the official extension rather than spending time to fix it. I think its safe to assume that ShortURL will not see end of tunnel atleast for few more months, So I would look around fixing it. There seems no point in waiting for deployment. I am disappointed.
-- Regards Srikanth.L
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