Greetings everyone,
I was in Agartala for an outreach session of Wikipedia. Here's a quick wrap around of my visit:
My flight landed nearly at 5pm evening, a fine breeze was flowing and there was Nikhil, waiting for me outside. Nikhil & Aveek has been co-ordinating the whole event. The NIT campus was nearly 45-50mins journey via car (trust me its quite long, but you'll love the natural beauty you get to see even when the sun is falling down).
The following day comprised of two events primarily, a lecture by Dr. D.Udaya Kumar, asst. Prof, IIT Guwahati* *(The man behind the Indian currency symbol)* *follwed by the Wiki workshop. I started off with the basic meaning of the term 'Wiki+pedia' then informed them about the Wikimedia Foundation & its projects. As the presentation moved forward, lots of queries started to pour in. It was nice to see that everyone did little bit of googling on Wikipedia before attending the workshop which made it easier for me to explain. Along with normal queries on pages created & the 'neutral point of view', the SOPA issue was also raised & I had to explain how its going to affect Wikipedia. I tried to be as clear as possible regarding the copyright vios as they have been an issue through out the India Education project. In the edit session we had lots of fun together editing, though the Wifi connection was troubling us, we managed to do quite a bit of editing.
I have created a wikiacademy page on this (still updating the 53 participants list..) : http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/National_Institute_of_Technology_Agart...
*P.S: It was an honour having Dr. D. Udaya Kumar in the Workshop, he was very much interested in Wikipedia. He promised me to help us in organising a similar workshop in IIT Guwahati..:)* * * * * * * Deepon
Forgot to mention, Lots of students were enthusiastic about building a community in Agartala. Since there prime language is bengali, I have asked them to communicate with Jayantada (our Administrator) & Kalyanda.. It would be nice if we can collaborate with them...:)
regards,
Deepon
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Deepon Saha hideeponhere@gmail.com wrote:
Greetings everyone,
I was in Agartala for an outreach session of Wikipedia. Here's a quick wrap around of my visit:
My flight landed nearly at 5pm evening, a fine breeze was flowing and there was Nikhil, waiting for me outside. Nikhil & Aveek has been co-ordinating the whole event. The NIT campus was nearly 45-50mins journey via car (trust me its quite long, but you'll love the natural beauty you get to see even when the sun is falling down).
The following day comprised of two events primarily, a lecture by Dr. D.Udaya Kumar, asst. Prof, IIT Guwahati* *(The man behind the Indian currency symbol)* *follwed by the Wiki workshop. I started off with the basic meaning of the term 'Wiki+pedia' then informed them about the Wikimedia Foundation & its projects. As the presentation moved forward, lots of queries started to pour in. It was nice to see that everyone did little bit of googling on Wikipedia before attending the workshop which made it easier for me to explain. Along with normal queries on pages created & the 'neutral point of view', the SOPA issue was also raised & I had to explain how its going to affect Wikipedia. I tried to be as clear as possible regarding the copyright vios as they have been an issue through out the India Education project. In the edit session we had lots of fun together editing, though the Wifi connection was troubling us, we managed to do quite a bit of editing.
I have created a wikiacademy page on this (still updating the 53 participants list..) : http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/National_Institute_of_Technology_Agart...
*P.S: It was an honour having Dr. D. Udaya Kumar in the Workshop, he was very much interested in Wikipedia. He promised me to help us in organising a similar workshop in IIT Guwahati..:)*
Deepon
Congratulations Deepon for your excellent work!
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Deepon Saha hideeponhere@gmail.com wrote:
Forgot to mention, Lots of students were enthusiastic about building a community in Agartala. Since there prime language is bengali, I have asked them to communicate with Jayantada (our Administrator) & Kalyanda.. It would be nice if we can collaborate with them...:)
regards,
Deepon
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Deepon Saha hideeponhere@gmail.comwrote:
Greetings everyone,
I was in Agartala for an outreach session of Wikipedia. Here's a quick wrap around of my visit:
My flight landed nearly at 5pm evening, a fine breeze was flowing and there was Nikhil, waiting for me outside. Nikhil & Aveek has been co-ordinating the whole event. The NIT campus was nearly 45-50mins journey via car (trust me its quite long, but you'll love the natural beauty you get to see even when the sun is falling down).
The following day comprised of two events primarily, a lecture by Dr. D.Udaya Kumar, asst. Prof, IIT Guwahati* *(The man behind the Indian currency symbol)* *follwed by the Wiki workshop. I started off with the basic meaning of the term 'Wiki+pedia' then informed them about the Wikimedia Foundation & its projects. As the presentation moved forward, lots of queries started to pour in. It was nice to see that everyone did little bit of googling on Wikipedia before attending the workshop which made it easier for me to explain. Along with normal queries on pages created & the 'neutral point of view', the SOPA issue was also raised & I had to explain how its going to affect Wikipedia. I tried to be as clear as possible regarding the copyright vios as they have been an issue through out the India Education project. In the edit session we had lots of fun together editing, though the Wifi connection was troubling us, we managed to do quite a bit of editing.
I have created a wikiacademy page on this (still updating the 53 participants list..) : http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/National_Institute_of_Technology_Agart...
*P.S: It was an honour having Dr. D. Udaya Kumar in the Workshop, he was very much interested in Wikipedia. He promised me to help us in organising a similar workshop in IIT Guwahati..:)*
Deepon
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Oh, Dear Deepan,
You have done great job for us. I should contact with all attendee who are interested to Bengali wikipedia.
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Congratulations! Great job done, Deepon! We now need to follow up on Deepon's successful outreach work.
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Jayanta Nath jayantanth@gmail.com wrote:
Oh, Dear Deepan,
You have done great job for us. I should contact with all attendee who are interested to Bengali wikipedia.
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb
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