https://cis-india.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 1. https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikidata-workshop-south-india-conducted-in-bangalore <b>Wikidata workshop (South India) has been conducted in Bangalore on 10 and 11 June 2017. 11 Wikimedians from 6 Indic Wikimedia communities participated in the workshop. Here is a report.</b> <p>Wikidata (<a class="external-link" href="https://www.wikidata.org">https://www.wikidata.org</a>) is a free, collaborative, multilingual, secondary database that collects structured data to provide support for Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, the other wikis of the Wikimedia movement, and to anyone in the world.¹ In India, in the recent years, we have seen increased enthusiasm about the project. CIS-A2K received several requests from different communities to conduct Wikidata workshops. In response to the requests, CIS-A2K organised a Wikidata workshop on 10 and 11 June 2017 at Bangalore. The workshop was a regional one, and participants were invited from 5 South Indian states: a) Andhra Pradesh, b) Karnataka, c) Kerala, d) Tamil Nadu, and e) Telangana. 11 community members from 5 Indic Wikimedia communities (Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu) participated in the workshop, 3 of the participants were women.</p> <p>The workshop was a general orientation. On the first day, the following topics were discussed:</p> <ol><li>Introduction to Wikidata and its importance<br /></li><li>Wikidata items<br /></li><li>Wikidata labels, descriptions</li><li>Property and statement</li><li>Hands' on activity: Label-a-thon<br /></li></ol> <p>On the second day these topics were discussed:</p> <ol><li>Complete structure of a Wikidata item</li><li>Wikidata references</li><li>Using Wikidata in Wikipedia, using statement, property</li><li>Wikidata gadgets</li><li>A couple of Wikimedia labs tools (note: a few tools such as Wikidata game was in the planned topics, but could not be shown as we faced server error almost all day long)</li><li>Hands' on activity by group: Label-a-thon, adding references</li></ol> <p>This was CIS-A2K's first attempt to conduct a Wikidata workshop in India. To keep it cost-effective, we made it a regional one (eg. no air travel was needed for any participant). This was a fledgling attempt to test the waters before we take this forward to other regions in India. This was an effort to see if the participants felt the need for such a workshop as much as we did for conducting it. It enabled us also to understand the modules and sessions to include in a manner that is tailored for teaching Wikidata</p> <p>Tamil Wikimedian User:Info-farmer, who participated in the workshop gave his feedback after the event:</p> <blockquote><span class="author-a-gz78zz71z0z86ztz83zz87zz82zz88zz70zz71zz78zz71zz78zp">I was waiting for a theme-specific workshop for a long one &amp; I liked this one. Please encourage such theme-specific workshops special interest groups. <br /></span></blockquote> <p>Following this event, and based on the need-assessment CIS-A2K may conduct such workshops in other regions of India.</p> <p>An event dashboard is available <a class="external-link" href="https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/CIS-A2K/Wikidata_India_Workshop">here</a>. The event page on Meta Wiki may be seen <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Wikidata_Workshop:_South_India">here</a>.</p> <h2>Footnotes</h2> <ul><li><a class="external-link">Introduction to Wikidata</a><br /></li></ul> <h2>Acknowledgement</h2> <ul><li>Manasa Rao, for help to improve this blog post</li></ul> <h2>Image credit</h2> <ul><li><a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Workshop_South_India_Logo.png">File:Wikidata Workshop South India Logo.png</a> from Wikimedia Commons, author: Saumyaa Naidu, License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International<br /></li></ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikidata-workshop-south-india-conducted-in-bangalore'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikidata-workshop-south-india-conducted-in-bangalore</a> </p> No publisher tito Wikidata Wikidata workshop 2017-06-28T09:48:30Z Blog Entry