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Training-the-trainer programme and Mediawiki training at Pune
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/training-the-trainer-programme-and-mediawiki-training-at-pune
<b>A two-day long train-the-trainer and Mediawiki training programme was organised during May 28-29 in Pune to better capacity of Wikimedians both technically, and outreach and community building.
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<p>The participants were trained about planning, organising and reporting
for outreach programmes, public speaking, advanced editing skills and
and the <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants">Wikimedia grants</a>
structure. Similarly for the Mediawiki training, the major topics
covered in the Mediawiki training sessions were Six Wikimedians; bug
triage, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots">bots</a>, <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Extensions">Mediawiki extensions</a> and scripts, and <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/">Wikidata</a>. The sessions were discussed and planned in the <a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE:%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%80/%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%B0_%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%BE#.E0.A4.AE.E0.A5.87.E0.A4.A1.E0.A5.80.E0.A4.AF.E0.A4.BE.E0.A4.B5.E0.A4.BF.E0.A4.95.E0.A5.80_.E0.A4.86.E0.A4.A3.E0.A4.BF_.E0.A4.9F.E0.A5.8D.E0.A4.B0.E0.A5.87.E0.A4.A8_.E0.A4.A6_.E0.A4.9F.E0.A5.8D.E0.A4.B0.E0.A5.87.E0.A4.A8.E0.A4.B0_.E0.A4.B8.E0.A5.8D.E0.A4.A5.E0.A4.BE.E0.A4.A8.E0.A4.BF.E0.A4.95_.E0.A4.AA.E0.A5.8D.E0.A4.B0.E0.A4.B6.E0.A4.BF.E0.A4.95.E0.A5.8D.E0.A4.B7.E0.A4.A3_.E0.A4.95.E0.A4.BE.E0.A4.B0.E0.A5.8D.E0.A4.AF.E0.A4.95.E0.A5.8D.E0.A4.B0.E0.A4.AE">Marathi Wikipedia Village Pump </a>in advance. Rahmanuddin Shaik and I facilitated the individual sessions. Thanks to Sanket Oswal, Treasurer, <a href="http://wiki.wikimedia.in/">Wikimedia India</a> who shared about the chapter’s ongoing activities, especially the <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2016_in_India">Wiki Loves Earth</a> project. The community members from Nashik shared about their plans for a meetup in the city of Nashik in June.</p>
<a href="http://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SantoshiWiki">Santoshi Tiwari</a>,
a Wikimedian from the city of Nashik who was attending a programme like
this for the first time feels that there is need for more such
programmes more often in multiple cities as there are already 16
Wikimedians from her city who are eager to learn more advanced editing
skills. “I learnt about many interesting aspects of the Wikimedia world,
like the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure">Wikipedia Adventure</a> game, Wikidata and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines">Wikipedia policies and guidelines</a>
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Until this time, I was contributing to Wikipedia on my own but I
started contributing to Wikidata after this event. Now I am enjoying
playing the Wikipedia Adventure. I also got the opportunity to meet many
Wikimedians in person” shares Santoshi. She explains, “this was good as
an introductory event but I would like to participate in sessions that
are more detail-oriented. Also, having edit-a-thons during such events
will be very useful. With a total of about 19-20 people participating in
total, 7 female participants is still a good starting point to
have a balanced community. However there should be plans for
accommodating more people in the upcoming events”.</p>
Going forward, there are plans to have at least one session in four
month in cities where there are higher number of Marathi Wikimedians.
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/training-the-trainer-programme-and-mediawiki-training-at-pune'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/training-the-trainer-programme-and-mediawiki-training-at-pune</a>
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No publishergaruleCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeTrain-the-trainer (TTT)Mediawiki training (MWT)WikipediaMarathi WikipediaWikipediansSpeakMarathi Wikisource2016-08-18T11:14:57ZBlog EntryTrain the Trainer program 2018
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/train-the-trainer-program-2018
<b>Trainer the Trainer program is an annual three days residential program organised by the Access to Knowledge Program of Centre for Internet and Society. The program identifies the community leaders and brings Wikimedians from and around the SAARC countries to train them and provide mentorship in their work.</b>
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<p dir="ltr"><a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program/2018">Train the Trainer 2018</a> was the 5th iteration of the <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program">Train the Trainer</a> Program by the CIS-A2K. This year TTT was organised in the city of Mysore. The event was attended by 21 Wikimedians throughout the Indic language communities, including three foreign delegates from Bangladesh and Nepal. Like previous years, this year, TTT followed the pre-event session with ice breaker activities, which helped the Wikimedians to know each other, and interact with the fellow participants.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The day one of TTT 2018 began with a small round of formal introductions for participants who joined later, the idea of the introduction session was for the participants to share their area expertise and projects they are working on. We have always identified that during the free time participants interact with each other and talk about collaboration activities, so this session helps to know more about your fellow participants. We had a Master Class (Master Class 1) about the Pre and Post event best practices, for the participants to understand how to plan an an event and what should be the preworks before organising an event, we also had sessions on best practices for community members to write and review grant proposals and an introductory session on Wikidata.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The day two was a field trip (Master Class 2) to <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysore_Zoo">Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens</a>, a local zoo in Mysore. The intent of the field trip was to give exposure to the participants to learn in an open environment. Followed by the field trip, a session on Diversity initiatives was conducted to understand the challenges and opportunities of having a diverse community.</p>
<p dir="ltr">On the day three, the participants were introduced to a variety of Wikimedia events (Master Class 3) and a panel discussion by Wikimedia affiliates from India (WMF, Chapter, User-group and CIS-A2K) about the organisational structure and responsibilities. The aim of the panel was to help the participants to understand the structure of Wikimedia affiliates in Inda, to share the different kind of events and collaborations they can do with the affiliates. This year CIS-A2K introduced <strong>Revolving cafe </strong>for the participants to attend some parallel sessions related to Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, Institutional Partnership, Support and Safety. The day was concluded with a lightning talk on Social media best practices, how affiliates and community member should use social media channels to promote their work. Subsequently, there was feedback and summing up session.</p>
<p dir="ltr">This year CIS-A2K made a few changes to the Train the Trainer program, for the first time the event was held out of Bangalore. We had invited a longtime Punjabi Wikimedian, a previous alumnus of TTT to externally audit the TTT 2018 being part of the team. Dr Manavpreet Kaur has provided a 10 points suggestion/feedback to the team which will be addressed in TTT 2019.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/train-the-trainer-program-2018'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/train-the-trainer-program-2018</a>
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No publishersaileshTrain-the-trainer (TTT)Access to Knowledge2019-03-06T08:13:05ZBlog EntryTrain The Trainer 2017
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/train-the-trainer-2017
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<p dir="ltr">The <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k">Centre for Internet and Society’s Access to Knowledge</a> program conducted its annual flagship event, <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program/2017">Train The Trainer(TTT)</a>, between 19 to 22 February, 2017 at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayamahal_Palace_Hotel">Jayamahal Palace, Bengaluru</a>. The three day residential workshop focussed on training participants to develop the skills and attributes required for conducting events and outreach activities while also, eventually, taking on leadership roles within their respective language communities. The aim of the program is to groom such leadership skills among the Indian Wikimedia community members. 19 participants from nine different language communities from the Indian subcontinent attended the workshop.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The pre-event session on the evening of the 19th consisted of fun games for participants to break the ice and get to know one another. As the evening wound down, the participants, who were invited to bring sweets and savouries from their cities and towns, set up a sweets table. This activity was inspired from Wikimedia Deutschland's candy table at <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015">Wikimedia Conference 2015</a>. The idea is to hold an exciting sweet tasting session as the participants attend the workshop. Participants enthusiastically shared trivia about the delicacies they brought to the event and exchanged notes on the various recipes.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;" dir="ltr"><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/otygQeQAVnUQN0sqz6xnO2K9v7lSqulobQmdeTT7tekbosPIKDIazw9mibTNUXTefJeVof_YVxEkXpaUv6TPfrvrjtEu1eWFXZ0iGpdih6o407zel_4qGRWSOqeJ3znqSogvhNE" alt="Sweets_table_at_TTT_2017.jpg" height="800" width="600" /></p>
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<p align="center" dir="ltr"><br />Sweets table at TTT 2017/ Image By Manasa Rao/ CC-BY-SA 4.0</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Day 1: Introductory discussions, event planning & WikiConference India case study</strong></p>
The first day of the workshop started with a welcome address from the organisers and a formal introductory session for all those present. The participants introduced themselves and spoke about the one Wikipedian they are most inspired by. This was a platform for both participants and organisers to understand each other and their motivation to be a part of the free knowledge movement. Participants also shared the nature of their work on Wikimedia and their pet projects. Most importantly, they spoke about the challenges they have overcome in their journey as a Wikipedian. Pabitra Kumar Panda(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pkp05">User:pkp05</a>) of Odia Wikipedia spoke about how he began editing Wikipedia on his phone using public hotspots in his city(Puri). “I love editing Wikipedia so much that I used to sit for hours together and edit on the street using the wi-fi available. I completely lost track of time,” he said. Another participant, Sumita Roy(<a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sumita_Roy_Dutta">User: Sumita Roy Dutta</a>), spoke of how she learned to combine her love for trekking and Wikipedia. She uploads extensively categorised photos on <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page">Wikimedia Commons</a> from every trek in order to help potential trekkers or travellers who may wander off the beaten path in the Himalayas.
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<p dir="ltr">The interaction gradually transitioned into an activity where participants were asked to present their expectations over the next few days and for the year ahead. Participants were divided into five groups with one CIS-A2K team member at each table to facilitate discussions or clarify doubts. Sanskrit Wikipedian Sidharth Dhodapkar(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Siddharthdhodapkar">User:Siddharthdhodapkar</a>) pointed out that while focussing on language communities is important, general outreach activities should also be conducted simultaneously so as to not miss out languages like Sanskrit that are rarely spoken today. Suyash Dwivedi(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Suyash.dwivedi">User:Suyash.dwivedi</a>), an active contributor to Wikimedia Commons, stated that the need of the hour was localisation of global best practices that serve as a guideline for volunteers across Indic language Wikipedias.</p>
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<p align="center" dir="ltr"><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/xVp_M3VimktgApWVdCPS2Jn4ce9pJzyRGn6fb2iG0X84BM5jTj52INdz3HbmKk798ZKcmsGZ7UFHqaZt8rHi_3ZJ6zz--jDZ9Nb9Zo9ZFHpicnkN1tc9XibeSlOK69QgABomvF0" alt="CISA2KTTT17_-_Participants_during_Presentation_03.jpg" height="401" width="602" /></p>
<p align="center" dir="ltr"><br />Participants presenting their group projects/ Image By Indrajit Das/ CC-BY-SA 3.0</p>
<p dir="ltr"> Notably, many participants brought up the need for a more concentrated Wikipedia effort in the domain of education in India. Paramjit Singh(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Param_munde">User:param munde</a>), a school teacher from Punjab explained how his students would stand to benefit from a reliable learning platform available online. “We need to explore ways by which we can convert Wikipedia articles into basic educational resources at the school level, keeping Indic languages in mind,” he said. Frederick Noronha(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fredericknoronha">User:Fredericknoronha</a>), a journalist from Panaji and English Wikipedia contributor, urged the participants to tap into digital resources already made available by the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Council_of_Educational_Research_and_Training"> National Council of Educational Research and Training</a>. Adding to that,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dr._Manavpreet_Kaur"> Dr. Manavpreet Kaur</a>, Punjabi Wikipedian and forensic scientist, said that students can be taught animal kingdoms, for example, with the help of “Categories” (of photos) on<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page"> Wikimedia Commons</a>. Reiterating the need for expert knowledge on subjects, Ramakrishna Reddy Palagiri(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Palagiri">User: Palagiri</a>) pointed out that these subject expert articles must be translated across the Indic language Wikipedias. These interactions helped the CIS-A2K team understand the various ways in which we can expand our support providing infrastructure to the Indic language communities.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The first master class session began with CIS-A2K team members,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lahariyaniyathi"> Tanveer Hasan</a> and<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Titodutta"> Tito Dutta</a>, talking about<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Start"> Wikimedia Foundation grants</a>. They elaborated on the two types of grants offered by WMF: individual grants and grants for groups and organisations. They answered questions about the practical nature of processing the grants and the expenses covered by these grants. Participants seemed most interested in the procedure of applying to and receiving the Rapid Project Grant that is commonly requested for edit-a-thons, contests, equipments and events, with a funding of USD 1500- 2000 approximately. </p>
<p dir="ltr">This was followed by a session on “<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz2P4dgkuig5UDRmX3p0TEtzV2NZX25qejgxb1FUWUVraVVz/view">Essentials of Conducting an Event</a>” by long time Wikipedian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AshLin">(Retd.) Col. Ashwin Baindur</a>. The session mapped the connect between the spirit of conducting an event and the logistical challenges trainers and volunteers must be prepared to face. He pointed out that professional administrative support and preparedness leads to Wikipedians feeling a sense of purpose. He related a quote from his personal experience and said, “the more you sweat in peace(i.e.planning and preparation), the less you bleed in war(i.e. the actual event). Participants were glad the presentation touched upon new topics such as generating enthusiasm through pre-work, dividing participants into groups so as to facilitate healthy exchanges and following up with sharing of the event’s documentary resources and feedback.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The day came to an end with Dr. Manavpreet Kaur’s presentation on <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016">WikiConference India</a>. She put forth a case study on how they prepared for and conducted the pan India event in 2016. This presentation went through the administrative process and challenges as well as tips that helped conduct such a large scale conference.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Day 2: Excursion to Cubbon Park & the Wikipedian’s ethos </strong></p>
<p align="center" dir="ltr"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-XQdPPoNHa4Lc_9FQnM5azA28gGhO6PKwm8mRfqVCyz-F6g4oujpxVhx9kl2UuIksqEEpTo5L7gpDIyHioDtxwLmRalrdgMi9NI2at8u_j1eEuNu2I2J1Ku47L4FQ4600tUasiw" alt="Group_photo_outside_the_High_Court.jpg" height="451" width="602" /></p>
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<p align="center" dir="ltr">Participants at Cubbon Park/ Image By Manasa Rao/ CC-BY-SA 4.0</p>
<p dir="ltr">The second day involved an excursion for the participants who were geared up to go to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubbon_Park">Cubbon Park, Bangalore</a>. This was a nature walk conducted by long time Wikipedian, Shyamal Lakshminarayan(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shyamal">User:Shyamal</a>). The organic discussions that took place during the excursion surrounded conducting photo-thons and GLAM activities that drew on local heritage and biodiversity. The participants visited the Government Museum near the park and Shyamal explained the importance of knowing about the available resources of knowledge for every Wikipedian. “It’s cheaper to put wrong information on the web, so physically visiting libraries to find relevant information will help you judge the credibility of a source,” he said. At the late afternoon session back at the conference venue, participants were introduced to the<a href="https://archive.org/index.php"> Internet Archive</a> while Col. Baindur helped the participants understand easy reference templates. Participants were even taught hacks that they could use to cultivate new editors. For example, while uploading Commons images with different categories is important, someone who doesn’t know how to do it may still upload the images with the basic categories so that other users may add detailed categories. A new Wikimedian may initially find this useful as he/she is learning the ropes. Reflecting on the morning’s excursion, the participants were encouraged to ponder on the more philosophical question: how does knowledge on Wikipedia reflect the reality around us? </p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Day 3: Global Initiatives, Gender Gap Bridging on Indic Wikipedias & Feedback</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">The final day of Train The Trainer 2017 began with a masterclass on global initiatives that the participants could learn from and adapt to their communities. Some of the methodologies for improving community consultation were discussed such as needs assessment, outreach activities and surveys. The participants (who would all ideally be prepared to take on the role of trainers) were introduced to Learning Patterns and how they could document the lessons they have learned regardless of the outcome of their event. Another global strategy, global engagement, was also discussed in detail. Participants were asked to make the fullest use of traditional and social media in promoting their events, whether online or offline. Participants were introduced to Share-A-Fact, an inbuilt option on the Wikipedia mobile application which allows the sharing of any sentence or phrase as per the reader’s choice from a Wikipedia article onto any social media or email application. This is imposed over a photo from the article along with a link to the article itself. Participants who were active on social media pointed out that the social media handle of CIS-A2K team had shared these quick facts during the excursion the previous day.</p>
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<p align="center" dir="ltr"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/mKJ-EO3P_eq_wkaqmYZ112V8ykMVBna0Wt4W_fNUoruMPu8UDQNyc_ADsKI9YEjvTLE_VWnrAvI2TotBOLSgjAR-KWXP9Gc6Cu1pOpMJNrbZ5URlagxUdXTDiuDojBZOFM4GteQ" alt="CISA2KTTT17_-_Ravishankar_Ayyakkannu_01.jpg" height="401" width="602" /></p>
<p align="center" dir="ltr">Ravi Ayakannu conducting a session on photo contests/ Image By Indrajit Das/ CC-BY-SA 3.0</p>
<p dir="ltr">Following this,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ravidreams"> Ravi Ayakannu</a>, long time Tamil Wikipedia community member held a session on<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_patterns/How_to_start_a_Wiki_Loves_contest"> conducting photo contests</a> such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments">Wiki Loves Monuments</a> and <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Food">Wiki Loves Food</a>. He explained that these are held online and help keep the volunteers motivated without requiring their physical presence. Mr. Ayakannu advised the participants to be inclusive in their approach to awarding best photos such as awards for diversity, creativity, etc. He suggested that organisers must give themselves ample time before adjudging the photos and the organisers could involve someone from Commons. "These contests would also get professional non-Wikimedian photographers involved and hence produce high quality images", he added. For promoting the photo contest, Mr. Ayakannu suggested site banners on Wikipedia.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The final session of the workshop was on Wikipedia and Women. Ting Yi Chang, CIS-A2K research intern, working on exploring ways to <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/preliminary-research-result-on-wikipedia-gender-gap-in-india">bridge the gender gap on Indian Wikipedias</a> conducted the session. Participants were introduced to global initiatives for bridging both the women-related content and male to female editor ratio gap on Wikipedia. While speaking on her soon to be published gender gap bridging toolkit(inspired by<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keilana"> User:Keilana's</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Systemic_bias_kit"> Systemic bias kit</a>) for Indic Wikipedias, Ting Yi noted, "women are not periphery subjects and we must avoid treating it as such." Participants appeared interested to learn about projects such as<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red"> Women in Red</a> that makes an effort to add women-related content on Wikipedia. The session also reminded participants to organize community events during commemorative events such as Women's History Month in March. The following are a few global initiatives on Gender Gap Bridging:</p>
<p dir="ltr">1. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_History_Month">Women's History Month</a></p>
<p dir="ltr">2. <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Artandfeminism">Art and Feminism</a></p>
<p dir="ltr">3. <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomen's_User_Group">Wiki Women's User Group</a></p>
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<p dir="ltr">The session was followed by activities that were aimed at sensitizing the participants and urging them to think critically on issues they could potentially face as organizers, both on and off wiki, regarding the participation of women or women-related content. The session came to an end with a free-wheeling discussion among participants about the various scenarios, biases and mindsets they need to be aware of while attempting to bridge the gender gap on Wikipedia and related projects.</p>
<p dir="ltr">As the three day event drew to a close, the participants shared some of their key takeaways and follow-up action points which included cross-community collaborations and mentorship at least at the regional level, encouraging informal/ semi-formal opportunities for community members to mingle and share their ideas with one another among others.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>To watch videos of the event, please click<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/fredericknoronha1/videos"> here</a>.</em></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/train-the-trainer-2017'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/train-the-trainer-2017</a>
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No publisherManasa RaoCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaTrain-the-trainer (TTT)WikipediaOpenness2017-06-07T08:43:19ZBlog EntryMini TTT and MWT conducted in Hyderabad, India
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mini-ttt-and-mwt-conducted-in-hyderabad-india
<b>Mini Train-the-Trainer and MediaWiki Trainer program was conducted on 10 and 11 December 2016 in Hyderabad. 15 Wikipedians from 4 cities of Andhra pradesh and Telangana 2 Indic Wikimedia communities participated in the event. Here is a report.</b>
<p>The 2016 iteration of mini Train-the-Trainer (TTT) and MediaWiki training (MWT) was conducted on 10 and 11 December 2016 at Golden Threshold, Hyderabad. Train-the-Trainer and MediaWiki training are two of the biggest annual national events conducted by CIS-A2K. The first program attempts to groom leadership skills among Indian Wikimedians, and in the second event Indian Wikimedians are taught about MediaWiki, Wikipedia tools, scripts, gadgets and technical things. Following the national-level annual event state-level or city level iterations of the program are conducted.</p>
<p>In this year’s Hyderabad mini TTT and MWT, 15 Wikimedians from 4 cities of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana - Hyderabad, Vijayawada, West Godavari, and Visakhapatnam participated. It is unfortunate that only 1 among the 15 participants was female. 14 of the participants were Telugu Wikimedians, and 1 was from Bengali Wikimedia community. CIS-A2K representative Tito Dutta, from Bangalore, participated in the event as a resource person. Rahmanuddin Shaik, a Telugu Wikimedia administrator Rahmanuddin Shaik attended as a technical resource person. Another CIS-A2K representative Pavan Santhosh was the co-ordinator and also a trainer during the event. 3 student Wikipedians from Andhra Loyola College, Vijayawada participated in the training.</p>
<p>On 10 December, the first day of the event, these topics were discussed:</p>
<ol><li>Editing Wikipedia with Visual editor (mainly for new editors)</li><li>Enablings different options in the Wikipedia preference page, including Wikipedia skins, gadgets such as HotCat, Navigation pop up; (mainly for new editors)</li><li>Conducting a program: group discussion: pre-event activities, conducting an event, post-event activities, preparing report, reimbursement process, Global Metrics;</li><li>General discussion and knowledge sharing on topics like Wikimeetup, education program.</li></ol>
<p>On 11 December, the second day of the event, these topics were discussed:</p>
<ol><li>Wikipedia articles structure, and different Manual of Style topics</li><li>Wikipedia tools, gadgets;</li><li>Wikimedia Foundation new grant structure and different grant options</li><li>Introduction to Wikidata and Wikidata tools such as Wikidata game</li><li>Discussion on Telugu Wikipedia’s workplan</li></ol>
At the end of the event two Telugu Wikipedians a) <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pranayraj1985">User:Pranayraj1985</a> and b) <a class="external-link" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Meena_gayathri.s">User:Meena_gayathri.s</a>, who completed 100wikidays challenge recently, were congratulated and felicitated.
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<h2>Image source</h2>
<ul><li>Source:<a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Telugu_Wikipedia_Mini_Wiki_Trainer_(TTT)_03.jpg"> Wikimedia Commons</a>. author: <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pranayraj1985">User:Pranayraj1985</a>, license: CC SA 4.0 International<br /></li></ul>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mini-ttt-and-mwt-conducted-in-hyderabad-india'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mini-ttt-and-mwt-conducted-in-hyderabad-india</a>
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