[Wikimediaindia-l] Help with an WP outreach event in Gujarat

Sat Dec 3 17:34:05 UTC 2011

hi Arnav,

I would say a Wikipedia editing workshop or a chapter backed WikiAcademy would be a nice first step. The only thing that one can say to someone is that we will teach them how to edit Wikipedia and contribute to various Wikimedia projects. You can start by making this event exclusively with the college - that is, only members from the college (staff or students) can attend. 

My personal take on this, is that we should do a couple of community meetups in Baroda and/or Surat and clue them into what's happening. I was in touch with Shiju to see if there are any Gujarati Wikipedia community members in the area. He's sent out a general email to them off-list. I will ping them again on email and see if we can do a community meetup in December or January. Perhaps you should try writing to the Gujarati mailing list as well.

Thank you for taking this initiative, Arnav!

warm regards,
Pradeep

User:Prad2609

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Arnav Sonara <sonara.arnav at gmail.com> wrote:

Hey Noopur,
Thanks, the event is on 24, 25, 26 February 2012.
I just need answer of above questions to convince them to allow me to come there and conduct a workshop. Would love to have around there at that time if possible.

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Noopur <noopur.raval at gmail.com> wrote:

Hey Arnav,I'll be in Gujarat post 12th Dec. I helped organize the 10th meetup in Delhi. If you need my help, I'd love to :) WarmlyNoopur

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Arnav Sonara <sonara.arnav at gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,
This is User:Rangilo_Gujarati here basically from Gujarat and now in Pune, am planning an outreach event most probably a workshop in MS University Baroda, Gujarat during their forthcoming technical festival Footprints. Also am the Campus Ambassador for India Education Program too, I need some input from you guys.

The organizers of this event have basically no idea about what a community is or how WP works, since I ll be targeting newbies I am planning to start from Introduction to WP, then an editing session and main motto behind this would be to start an active community in Baroda or Gujarat and get the contributors to EN and GU WP and commons too.

Now the organizers are asking few questions like "Why anyone should attend it?", "What would be the exclusivity of the workshop?", "How can we (university and attendees) be benefited from this?". They are worried too much about "exclusivity", how to convince them that these type of sessions are some thing more than "exclusively in Footprints", "first time in gujarat" ??

Since I have no experience in conducting an outreach workshop independently I want your feedback on it, and what possibly should I answer them?.
Please do reply with your valuable suggestions/critics.

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Thanks
Arnav (ricku).
(User:Rangilo_Gujarati)

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