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What is Wikimedia Education SAARC Conference?
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/what-is-wikimedia-education-saarc-conference-1
<b>The Wikimedia Education SAARC conference is on 20th June 2019. A conference for Wikimedians, Wikimedia education leaders, educators and researchers engaged with Open Education and free knowledge movement.</b>
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<p dir="ltr">The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asian_Association_for_Regional_Cooperation">South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation</a> (SAARC) is the regional union of nations in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asia">South Asia</a>. Wikimedians belonging to these nations share several common challenges and many of them are emerging communities within the Wikimedia movement. The community members to attend the <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference">Wikimedia Education SAARC conference</a> are involved in Indic language Wikimedia projects.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Wikimedia Education SAARC conference will be the first of its kind conference in SAARC countries which will engage Wikimedians, education program leaders, educators and researchers engaged with Open Education and free knowledge movement. We believe that the students of all ages should not only consume the knowledge available on the Internet but also be a part of the larger Open Internet movement, and help in creating open knowledge resources.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The event will be organised in and by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_University">Christ (Deemed to be University)</a> in Bengaluru from 20th June 2019 to 22nd June 2019. CIS-A2K team has <a href="https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Countries/India/Christ_University">been</a> working with the department of languages in this university from <a href="https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Countries/India/Christ_University/CUWEP2013">2013</a>, where students of the university are contributing to multiple Wikimedia projects. Our education activity at this university has inspired us to plan this event. To know more about this university, Please see <a href="https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Countries/India/Christ_University">here</a>.</p>
<p dir="ltr">This conference will allow us to understand the different efforts made by the SAARC communities involved in the Wikimedia Education movement. This will help us to create models, templates and documents that can be replicated in by other institutions or programs.</p>
<p>Conference Goals:</p>
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<p dir="ltr">To know the Wikimedia Education activities happening in South Asia by different community members/Languages.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Sharing the knowledge and best practices of how to build "trust relationship" with new partners/teachers and how to improve trust in Wikimedia projects.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Challenges on student retention and how to engage them in the broader Wikimedia movement.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">The best method to evaluate and measure the quality of the work done by the students.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">To introduce tools like the dashboard, not in your language, and other tools which will be useful for the tracking, assessment, allocation of the topics and others.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">The <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference/Programme">program structure</a> for Wikimedia Education SAARC conference has been developed by keeping the general and specific challenges and opportunities in South Asia, and the submission selected from the participants.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Follow the hashtag #EduWikiSAARC19 for more updates.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/what-is-wikimedia-education-saarc-conference-1'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/what-is-wikimedia-education-saarc-conference-1</a>
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No publishersaileshWikimedia EducationAccess to KnowledgeWikipedia Education ProgramWikimediaWikipediaChrist University2019-06-22T09:37:23ZBlog EntryWikiorientation at Dr.GR Damodaran College of Science
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikiorientation-at-dr-gr-damodaran-college-of-science
<b>An orientation session on Wikimedia projects was held on 6-7 December 2019 at Dr. GR Damodaran College of Science. This talk was part of the “Hour of Code” event, which is an International event celebrated across the globe to encourage students to develop their knowledge on Computer Science. This event was supported by Open Knowledge movements like Wikimedia, Mozilla, etc.which would help students to share their knowledge in the form of volunteerships and contributions. The highlights of gender gap research and women based projects such as Women in Red were covered as part of a focussed group discussion.
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<p dir="ltr"><strong>Hour of code event</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-873db869-7fff-ba7f-7961-738c71b373c1"> <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/PvdIcLLPTRrWxRng81lxpZayqHoXiQ6C143wz1JGzJMA5waxIbsvn8DBlxdwCLV0GsEDLigyREWiIbKjkKfGi9Xv4Kaspp-OaBkehQd56As3A3i7GviyO0PBBu9QOMQCquLDRqsR" alt="null" height="200" width="300" /></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">The “<a class="external-link" href="https://hourofcode.com/in">Hour of Code</a>” is an International event conducted across the globe to commemorate the birthday of <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper">Grace Hopper</a>, a computer scientist. In India 1047 events were officially registered and were conducted region-wise. In Coimbatore, Dr.G.R. Damodaran College of Science initiated the first Hour of Code event in the city. The event was attended by 400-500 students, where 50% of the participants were identified as women, from various departments and 6 Open Source and Knowledge movements’ community members were invited as speakers. Among them were <a class="external-link" href="https://www.wikimedia.org/">Wikimedia</a>, <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/">Mozilla</a>, <a href="https://developers.google.com/community/gdg">Google Developers Groups</a>, <a href="https://developers.facebook.com/developercircles/">Facebook Devcircles</a>, <a href="https://www.womentechmakers.com/">Women Tech Makers</a> and <a href="https://soai.world/">School of AI</a> where all the community representatives pitched to the student gathering on how to contribute to these groups. The students were enthusiastic to initiate Open source clubs and also nominate a Point Of Contact with the guidance of the faculty members.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr"> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-2b0e0b9f-7fff-bebd-e541-6eef9130b86d"><strong>Wiki Orientation</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8680976f-7fff-f4d6-82f6-fd00faecf88b"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/8P434MuQgXUVy_K2mnVRRgDwy8WfWUQ0oglLrpUj65Vi5iydeXUOZyMdckIO1_AL4tiwFPvyQp_tnRGKGIvyV9blRM_Hq44u0f-SgAv-8MZKUntdU8kIX_-szR6H4u-Z6GPIj6tT" alt="null" height="200" width="300" /></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" dir="ltr"><span style="text-align: start;"><a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikiorientation_at_Dr.GR_Damodaran_college_of_arts_and_science,_Coimbatore_-6.jpg">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikiorientation_at_Dr.GR_Damodaran_college_of_arts_and_science,_Coimbatore_-6.jpg</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9c4b5c5d-7fff-ae7c-9ca8-d3b45460fd92"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/3-l8ksMxppChRGdeNXlFbKf6Otxe0EkWpTut1HNGUxXhq-T8ogcmlG5HwFW_rDIxa85BNUvLV2BaG4ExbnDaKRJMeApH7RImubvWbejFVKNen4FL0HBUFyroLzqnXRjDUvE4nuQk" alt="null" height="200" width="300" /></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" dir="ltr"><span style="text-align: start;"><a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikiorientation_at_Dr.GR_Damodaran_college_of_arts_and_science,_Coimbatore_-7.jpg">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikiorientation_at_Dr.GR_Damodaran_college_of_arts_and_science,_Coimbatore_-7.jpg</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr"><strong><span id="docs-internal-guid-cd49061e-7fff-06e1-303e-0810be036596"></span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr"> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">I was invited as a Chief Guest for the event to talk to students about how they may contribute to Wikimedia and its projects. I presented to the students the various forms of Wiki which would be of interest to coders and non-coders. This also included discussions on <a href="http://wikidata.org/">Wikidata</a>, <a href="https://wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page">Wikisource</a>, <a href="https://www.wikipedia.org/">Wikipedia</a>, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page">Wikimedia commons</a> and <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program">Wikimedia in Education program</a>. As the participants from the college were mostly from Tamil Nadu, I also emphasised how contribution in Tamil in the Wiki world will be of great help. I discussed with students how contribution to an Open Knowledge movement not only enhances their intellectual stand but also benefits the whole world. Also the founder of Koval labs, Coimbatore was the co-speaker of the day who highlighted about importance of Open source and Computer Science in today's industries.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr"><strong>Bridging Gender Gap </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">After the orientation, I invited a few participants to a focussed group discussion about my research on “<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Research/Bridging_gender_gap">Bridging the Gender gap in Indian Wikipedia languages</a>”.A majority of the participants were women, even though the event was open to all. I discussed the research work and the necessity behind this. Apart from this I introduced the students to various women- focussed wiki-based projects such as Women In Red, WikiLoves Women, Wiki Women for Women Well Being (WWWW) etc. I also asked the attendees to express t in the open discussion session on what are the major issues faced by women in technology taking examples from their own lives.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;" dir="ltr"> <img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/zzlhB5fqWC8PGaE2Bqr3mpJUHc8tGhSssRf4G7lb7Dm5pBGrrW1G7Ca0M5oQAXloQTVwS-MapJQIGw1QVR8LNsgQMzFkuoZ0F5k1RycUSZ5s0oX5kRAkIiVcyziIfYwVRJwU28x3" alt="null" height="200" width="300" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-489f2d13-7fff-cb65-7e89-a4453fd1c656"></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" dir="ltr"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikiorientation_at_Dr.GR_Damodaran_college_of_arts_and_science,_Coimbatore_-12.jpg">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikiorientation_at_Dr.GR_Damodaran_college_of_arts_and_science,_Coimbatore_-12.jpg</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr"> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">The common and major issues with pursuing a career in technology discussed were the inaccessibility to internet and infrastructure to work at home besides the other household responsibilities. Also the freedom to pursue a career in this field is less and not permissible for longer years in these women's lives.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-bf32409e-7fff-bfe5-9b8a-3d6230a1e080"><br /></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Key observations/ learnings</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fd8e76ba-7fff-2345-8c3c-a763a49aedf3"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/q3PI3c37BgQRc4ML_XVrLgwIqp9PN_zv1adLFdCtBM-IFJCyBBjkcG59ccpRCo1P_mWlMfKj-5BumFUS04l1u6W8Gc1nLMZOaHh6oDg01z5wFtD930qthGW8DMBV3HfmE7KPMQAO" alt="null" height="200" width="300" /></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a1d57c54-7fff-99af-34c9-f33c7b995d55"></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" dir="ltr"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikiorientation_at_Dr.GR_Damodaran_college_of_arts_and_science,_Coimbatore_-9.jpg">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikiorientation_at_Dr.GR_Damodaran_college_of_arts_and_science,_Coimbatore_-9.jpg</a></p>
<ul><li style="list-style-type: disc;" dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr">The key issues of women working on technology in a structured environment (such as an educational institution in this case).</p>
</li><li style="list-style-type: disc;" dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr">The possibilities of initiating a WikiClub at the campus.</p>
</li><li style="list-style-type: disc;" dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr">Almost 60% was interested in non/less coding contributions/subjects.</p>
</li><li style="list-style-type: disc;" dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr">Discussed the kinds of projects students can contribute to on Wikipedia. </p>
</li></ul>
<p dir="ltr"><br /><br />Press coverage about the event can be seen at <a href="https://youtu.be/5APh01ScHrM">Desathin Nambikai </a>, <a href="https://youtu.be/QEWl8z0Q07Y">The Covai mail news</a> , <a href="https://youtu.be/BkZbDWmvWdQ">Prime Time Tamil </a>, <a href="https://youtu.be/16mqiY_M3NE">Covai news</a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/2PTC3u6"> Updatenews360.com</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikiorientation-at-dr-gr-damodaran-college-of-science'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikiorientation-at-dr-gr-damodaran-college-of-science</a>
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No publisherbhuvanaWikimedia EducationCIS-A2KOpen SourceWikimediawomen and internetWikipedia gender gapteaching2019-12-23T08:18:11ZBlog EntryWikiorientation at Dr.GR Damodaran College of Science
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikiorientation-at-dr-gr-damodaran-college-of-science-1
<b>An orientation session on Wikimedia projects was held on 6-7 December 2019 at Dr. GR Damodaran College of Science. This talk was part of the “Hour of Code” event, which is an International event celebrated across the globe to encourage students to develop their knowledge on Computer Science. This event was supported by Open Knowledge movements like Wikimedia, Mozilla, etc.which would help students to share their knowledge in the form of volunteerships and contributions. The highlights of gender gap research and women based projects such as Women in Red were covered as part of a focussed group discussion.
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<p dir="ltr"><strong>Hour of code event</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-873db869-7fff-ba7f-7961-738c71b373c1"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/PvdIcLLPTRrWxRng81lxpZayqHoXiQ6C143wz1JGzJMA5waxIbsvn8DBlxdwCLV0GsEDLigyREWiIbKjkKfGi9Xv4Kaspp-OaBkehQd56As3A3i7GviyO0PBBu9QOMQCquLDRqsR" alt="null" height="200" width="300" /></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" dir="ltr"> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">The “<a class="external-link" href="https://hourofcode.com/in">Hour of Code</a>” is an International event conducted across the globe to commemorate the birthday of <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper">Grace Hopper</a>, a computer scientist. In India 1047 events were officially registered and were conducted region-wise. In Coimbatore, Dr.G.R. Damodaran College of Science initiated the first Hour of Code event in the city. The event was attended by 350 students, where 50% of the participants were identified as women, from various departments and 6 Open Source and Knowledge movements’ community members were invited as speakers. Among them were <a class="external-link" href="https://www.wikimedia.org/">Wikimedia</a>, <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/">Mozilla</a>, <a href="https://developers.google.com/community/gdg">Google Developers Groups</a>, <a href="https://developers.facebook.com/developercircles/">Facebook Devcircles</a>, <a href="https://www.womentechmakers.com/">Women Tech Makers</a> and <a href="https://soai.world/">School of AI</a> where all the community representatives pitched to the student gathering on how to contribute to these groups. The students were enthusiastic to initiate Open source clubs and also nominate a Point Of Contact with the guidance of the faculty members.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr"> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-2b0e0b9f-7fff-bebd-e541-6eef9130b86d"><strong>Wiki Orientation</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8680976f-7fff-f4d6-82f6-fd00faecf88b"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/8P434MuQgXUVy_K2mnVRRgDwy8WfWUQ0oglLrpUj65Vi5iydeXUOZyMdckIO1_AL4tiwFPvyQp_tnRGKGIvyV9blRM_Hq44u0f-SgAv-8MZKUntdU8kIX_-szR6H4u-Z6GPIj6tT" alt="null" height="200" width="300" /></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" dir="ltr"><span style="text-align: start;"><a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikiorientation_at_Dr.GR_Damodaran_college_of_arts_and_science,_Coimbatore_-6.jpg">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikiorientation_at_Dr.GR_Damodaran_college_of_arts_and_science,_Coimbatore_-6.jpg</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9c4b5c5d-7fff-ae7c-9ca8-d3b45460fd92"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/3-l8ksMxppChRGdeNXlFbKf6Otxe0EkWpTut1HNGUxXhq-T8ogcmlG5HwFW_rDIxa85BNUvLV2BaG4ExbnDaKRJMeApH7RImubvWbejFVKNen4FL0HBUFyroLzqnXRjDUvE4nuQk" alt="null" height="200" width="300" /></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" dir="ltr"><span style="text-align: start;"><a class="external-link" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikiorientation_at_Dr.GR_Damodaran_college_of_arts_and_science,_Coimbatore_-7.jpg">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikiorientation_at_Dr.GR_Damodaran_college_of_arts_and_science,_Coimbatore_-7.jpg</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr"><strong><span id="docs-internal-guid-cd49061e-7fff-06e1-303e-0810be036596"></span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr"> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">I was invited as a Chief Guest for the event to talk to students about how they may contribute to Wikimedia and its projects. I presented to the students the various forms of Wiki which would be of interest to coders and non-coders. This also included discussions on <a href="http://wikidata.org/">Wikidata</a>, <a href="https://wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page">Wikisource</a>, <a href="https://www.wikipedia.org/">Wikipedia</a>, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page">Wikimedia commons</a> and <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program">Wikimedia in Education program</a>. As the participants from the college were mostly from Tamil Nadu, I also emphasised how contribution in Tamil in the Wiki world will be of great help. I discussed with students how contribution to an Open Knowledge movement not only enhances their intellectual stand but also benefits the whole world. Also the founder of Koval labs, Coimbatore was the co-speaker of the day who highlighted about importance of Open source and Computer Science in today's industries.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr"><strong>Bridging Gender Gap </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">After the orientation, I invited a few participants to a focussed group discussion about my research on “<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Research/Bridging_gender_gap">Bridging the Gender gap in Indian Wikipedia languages</a>”.A majority of the participants were women, even though the event was open to all. I discussed the research work and the necessity behind this. Apart from this I introduced the students to various women- focussed wiki-based projects such as Women In Red, WikiLoves Women, Wiki Women for Women Well Being (WWWW) etc. I also asked the attendees to express t in the open discussion session on what are the major issues faced by women in technology taking examples from their own lives.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;" dir="ltr"> <img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/zzlhB5fqWC8PGaE2Bqr3mpJUHc8tGhSssRf4G7lb7Dm5pBGrrW1G7Ca0M5oQAXloQTVwS-MapJQIGw1QVR8LNsgQMzFkuoZ0F5k1RycUSZ5s0oX5kRAkIiVcyziIfYwVRJwU28x3" alt="null" height="200" width="300" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-489f2d13-7fff-cb65-7e89-a4453fd1c656"></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" dir="ltr"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikiorientation_at_Dr.GR_Damodaran_college_of_arts_and_science,_Coimbatore_-12.jpg">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikiorientation_at_Dr.GR_Damodaran_college_of_arts_and_science,_Coimbatore_-12.jpg</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr"> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">The common and major issues with pursuing a career in technology discussed were the inaccessibility to internet and infrastructure to work at home besides the other household responsibilities. Also the freedom to pursue a career in this field is less and not permissible for longer years in these women's lives.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-bf32409e-7fff-bfe5-9b8a-3d6230a1e080"><br /></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Key observations/ learnings</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fd8e76ba-7fff-2345-8c3c-a763a49aedf3"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/q3PI3c37BgQRc4ML_XVrLgwIqp9PN_zv1adLFdCtBM-IFJCyBBjkcG59ccpRCo1P_mWlMfKj-5BumFUS04l1u6W8Gc1nLMZOaHh6oDg01z5wFtD930qthGW8DMBV3HfmE7KPMQAO" alt="null" height="200" width="300" /></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a1d57c54-7fff-99af-34c9-f33c7b995d55"></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" dir="ltr"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikiorientation_at_Dr.GR_Damodaran_college_of_arts_and_science,_Coimbatore_-9.jpg">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikiorientation_at_Dr.GR_Damodaran_college_of_arts_and_science,_Coimbatore_-9.jpg</a></p>
<ul><li style="list-style-type: disc;" dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr">The key issues of women working on technology in a structured environment (such as an educational institution in this case).</p>
</li><li style="list-style-type: disc;" dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr">The possibilities of initiating a WikiClub at the campus.</p>
</li><li style="list-style-type: disc;" dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr">Almost 60% was interested in non/less coding contributions/subjects.</p>
</li><li style="list-style-type: disc;" dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr">Discussed the kinds of projects students can contribute to on Wikipedia. </p>
</li></ul>
<p dir="ltr"><br /><br />Press coverage about the event can be seen at <a href="https://youtu.be/5APh01ScHrM">Desathin Nambikai </a>, <a href="https://youtu.be/QEWl8z0Q07Y">The Covai mail news</a> , <a href="https://youtu.be/BkZbDWmvWdQ">Prime Time Tamil </a>, <a href="https://youtu.be/16mqiY_M3NE">Covai news</a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/2PTC3u6"> Updatenews360.com</a></p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikiorientation-at-dr-gr-damodaran-college-of-science-1'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikiorientation-at-dr-gr-damodaran-college-of-science-1</a>
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No publisherbhuvanaWikimedia EducationCIS-A2KOpen SourceAccess to KnowledgeWikipedia Education Programwomen and internetWikipedia gender gapteaching2020-01-18T08:11:03ZBlog EntryWikipedia assignments workshop for Post Graduate students in PAH Solapur University
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/subodh-kulkarni-may-3-2019-wikipedia-assignments-workshop-for-pg-students-pah-solapur-university
<b>On May 3, 2019, Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) along with PAH Solapur University conducted a Wikipedia workshop for students from the post-graduate stream in PAH Solapur University. Ten students from Mass Communication department and three faculty members participated in the workshop. Prof. Ravindra Chincholkar and Subodh Kulkarni were the facilitators for the workshop.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K is working in collaboration with PAH Solapur University, Solapur in Maharashtra on Wikimedia projects. The Mass Communication and Journalism departments are involved in content generation on Marathi Wikipedia & Commons for the last two years. In 2019, the department has given assignment in the form of Wikipedia articles for Post graduate course. The primary objectives of the workshop were:</p>
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<li>To review the articles by students. The articles are given as assignment by Mass Communication department.</li>
<li>IPWT sessions for potential students for quality improvement and retention</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Mass Communication department has involved students in Marathi Day and Independence Struggle edit-a-thons conducted by Marathi Wiki community. After this experience of Wikimedia projects, the faculty decided to give assignments on the theme - Newspapers & notable editors in pre-independence era. The students explored offline & online references for the content. They first prepared the articles in Word document, which were verified by faculty and A2K representative. The manual of style, using citoid for references and Wikipedia pillars were explained. After the verification of content, the articles were uploaded on Marathi Wikipedia. About 40 articles were created by 10 students and two faculty members. As the stories of editors and journalists in the British period were full of sacrifice & adventure, the students got inspiration also. The faculty reviewed the assignment completion process with the stakeholders in the last session. The department has decided to plan the process more systematically in the next academic year. It has also decided to replicate this methodology for other departments in the university.</p>
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<p><a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Wikipedia_assignments_workshop_for_Post_Graduate_students_in_PAH_Solapur_University">This was originally published on Wikimedia Blog</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/subodh-kulkarni-may-3-2019-wikipedia-assignments-workshop-for-pg-students-pah-solapur-university'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/subodh-kulkarni-may-3-2019-wikipedia-assignments-workshop-for-pg-students-pah-solapur-university</a>
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No publishersubodhWikimediaWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia Education2019-06-22T03:21:39ZBlog EntryWikimedia Education SAARC Conference 2019
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/subodh-kulkarni-june-22-2019-wikimedia-education-saarc-conference-2019
<b>Christ University in association with the Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) organized a conference, from 20 - 22 June 2019, at Christ University, Bengaluru. Forty-nine Wikimedians from four countries (Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, and India) participated in the event.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The meta report published on Wikimedia Blog can be <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference/Report">accessed here</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K is working with various universities and educational institutions to develop content in Wikimedia projects. One such institutional partner, <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_University">Christ</a> (deemed to be university) has taken the initiative to organize Wikimedia Education <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asian_Association_for_Regional_Cooperation">SAARC</a> conference in association with CIS-A2K and <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group">Wikipedia & Education User Group</a>. The participants included one member from Sri Lanka, four members from Nepal, seven members from Bangladesh and 37 members from India. In all 14 language communities were represented.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The broad objectives of the conference were:</p>
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<li>To know the nature of education programs being conducted.</li>
<li>To share the best practices.</li>
<li>Discuss the challenges like retention and quality.</li>
<li>Explore the methodologies to evaluate & measure the work being done.</li>
<li>Enhancing the community involvement in the education programmes. </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The applications for participation and thematic submissions were invited from Wikimedians of SAARC countries. The selection committee comprised of representatives from Wikimedia Foundation and community conducted the scrutiny. The scholarships were provided to 49 selected participants. In all 12 submissions on diverse topics were received from different language communities. Wikimedia Foundation’s Partnerships & Global reach team member <a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/profile/praveen-das/">Praveen Das</a>, Trust & Safety team member <a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/profile/neha-nair/">Neha Nair</a> and advisor for this conference <a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/profile/tanveer-hasan/">Tanveer Hasan</a> were also present for some of the sessions during the conference.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The following report gives a summary of all the deliberations at the conference.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center; ">Day 1, 20 June 2019</h3>
<p style="text-align: center; "><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/SAARC1.png/@@images/3a0bcab1-68dc-4bec-b6c7-67f95415ea01.png" alt="SAARC 1" class="image-inline" title="SAARC 1" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The inaugural session was graced by chief guest Dr. Ramesh Sharma, an expert in open education and Associate Professor of Instructional Design at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._B.R._Ambedkar_University_Delhi">Ambedkar University Delhi</a> along with Dr. Anil Pinto Registrar of Christ University who was instrumental in launching Wikipedia in education for the students. The other persons on the dais were Tito Dutta, Program Manager CIS-A2K, Dr. Mallika Krishnaswami, Dr. John Joseph Kennedy, and Dr. Sebastian K A.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>In this session the speakers stressed upon the advancement of language, to adopt latest knowledge sharing technologies, innovation in education programmes and collaborations with multifaceted institutions to actualize new ideas. The journey of Christ University regarding the Wikimedia education program during the last six years was also elaborated.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The inaugural session was followed by a session on <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference/CoC">Code of Conduct</a> and Friendly space policies by the Response Team of CIS-A2K. The objectives, diversity statement, general community guidelines, unacceptable behaviour and process of reporting described in CoC were discussed. <span>To explain the motivation and hierarchy of Wikipedia in Education at Wikimedia movement the following sessions were conducted during the conference.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In the keynote address, Dr. Ramesh Sharma revealed many facets of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources">Open Educational Resources</a> (OER) in the field of academic courses, science, mathematics, music, multimedia etc. He shared many experiences of working with <a href="https://oeru.org/">Open Education Resource University (OERU)</a> and appealed for future collaborations. He also deliberated upon some wider topics like Government education policies, licenses and quality improvement framework for OERs. <span>In a remote session with </span><a href="https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:NSaad_(WMF)">Nichole Saad</a><span>, Senior Programme Manager (</span><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program">Wikipedia Education Programme</a><span>) from </span><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation">Wikimedia Foundation</a><span>, she explained the rationale behind the Education in Wikimedia projects and the execution process.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>The session on Wikipedia & Education User Group focused on the global user group that supports the work around Wikimedia and Education in various capacities. One of the Board members of user group, <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:KCVelaga">Krishna Chaitanya Velaga</a> gave an introduction to the user group, its background, vision, and objectives. Later the functioning of the group was also explained including the membership process and the governance. The three focus areas of the group were explained in detail — community, resources, and outreach. Later, the participants were briefed on various ways in which they can get involved with the group. These included joining the newly formed working groups for each focus area, taking up membership, and also attending the monthly open meetings held by the group, and share their stories to the broader community. The session ended with a brief upon areas where community members could seek the support of the group, such as mentorship, securing resources, advocacy, etc.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>The participants were introduced to each other through their work. Session on sharing of various programmes being conducted, it’s learning, challenges and way ahead were very informative and stimulating. The participants from different language communities explained the present status of the education programmes being conducted with institutions. The challenges like lack of initiative, the paucity of resources, trust in Wikipedia and consistency were discussed collectively. New and innovative ideas that were not tried so far were also put forth by the members making it an interesting session. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The last session of the day one was group work on the theme - ' कल आज और कल ' : Past Present Future. The participants were divided into eight groups. Enthusiasm was very high during discussions on the past, present & future of education programmes with the community. The groups collectively worked on the poster presentations.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center; ">Day 2, 21 June 2019</h3>
<p style="text-align: center; "><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/SAARC2.png/@@images/a43660cd-a3af-4b26-af74-c5f4d4f03d32.png" alt="SAARC 2" class="image-inline" title="SAARC 2" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The second day started with an interactive session on the topic - The interesting ways of Introducing Wikimedia projects (Wikidata, Wikisource, etc.) into classrooms. The participants shared their experiences with different entry point events other than Wikipedia. Many felt that Wikipedia is complicated to start with. The community also reacted strongly sometimes due to the quality of the articles. This discussion was followed by promoting planned growth process for bridging the gender gap.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The conference submissions on education projects were presented in two parallel tracks. According to interest, the members attended the various sessions. The highlights of the presentations are given below.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference/Submissions/Goals_of_Wikimedia_%252B_Education:_Content,_Retention,_Skills,_etc&sa=D&ust=1562052431065000&usg=AFQjCNFpgNJ-1il11YBcP35HQfrSKzCsUw">Goals of Wikimedia + Education: Content, Retention, Skills</a>:<strong> </strong><span style="text-align: justify; ">The session started off by asking participants about why they do an education programme, and what else can we include as the goals for any EduWiki activity. Different approaches for achieving each of these goals, and how each of these goals affects the rest were discussed. This included a quick brainstorming on how communities should collaborate with the EduWiki activities so that it adds value to its goals. Eventually, the presenter along with the participants realized that retention of users should be prioritized over the other two goals to easily reach all the three goals. Caution points regarding assignments like copyvio, reliable references were also discussed. The scale of the activity and scoping student interest are also an important criterion.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><strong><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference/Submissions/Challenges_of_growing_communities_:_Make_Wikipedia_trustworthy_to_the_educators&sa=D&ust=1562052788058000&usg=AFQjCNFhg4QjQu2bspWs-9FY5lmR5U3zGw">Challenges of growing communities : Make Wikipedia trustworthy to educators</a></strong>: <span>In this session, challenges before Bangla Wikipedia were discussed. There is a need to collaborate with institutions and capacity building of editors to improve the quality of articles. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><strong><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference/Submissions/Non-Conventional_methods_of_knowledge_expansion_by_Education_programs&sa=D&ust=1562055701709000&usg=AFQjCNGNrwgUeDgfA-G2C4U0fMmjse7jJA">Non-Conventional methods of knowledge expansion by programs involving Wikimedia and Education</a>: </strong><span>The formal approaches like giving compulsory tasks for students will not work in the Wikimedia movement. We can expect better outcomes by adopting non-formal methods like digital skills development and team building through collaborative work.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference/Submissions/Wikimedia_Education_Program_Outreach_Mentorship&sa=D&ust=1562055734241000&usg=AFQjCNH5PyQ2FaIgcLcSvagBbl96sbYPMw"><strong>Wikimedia Program Outreach Mentorship</strong></a>: Proper awareness and detailed planning of resources are the key aspects of outreach programmes.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><strong><a class="external-link" href="http://www.schoolwiki.in/">School Wiki</a> in Kerala</strong>: State government education department of Kerala has developed School Wiki with Wikimedians in Kerala. In all 15000 articles of schools have been created with their history, location details, alumni, maps, cultural activities, photos and creative works of students like stories, poems and paintings. The innovative project - Folk encyclopedia is also shaping up. The linkages with Malayalam Wikipedia are being established slowly. As the students are now aware of the Wiki environment, there are chances of getting good editors in future.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><strong>Wikipedia in School</strong>: <a href="http://www.tn.gov.in/">State government of Tamil Nadu</a> took the initiative to organise capacity building programme for teachers through the EDUSAT on a mass scale. This Wikipedia training started in 2016 and till now 40,000 teachers are trained. Due to this, teachers became active on Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><strong><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference/Submissions/Submissions_Retaining_Tulu_Language_and_culture_-_the_ways_and_means">Retaining Tulu Language and </a><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference/Submissions/Submissions_Retaining_Tulu_Language_and_culture_-_the_ways_and_means">culture:</a><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference/Submissions/Submissions_Retaining_Tulu_Language_and_culture_-_the_ways_and_means"> the ways and means</a></strong>: <a href="https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Karavali_Wikimedians">Karavali Wikimedians user group</a> is active in the coastal part of Southern Karnataka and Northern Kerala. It is focusing on the preservation of language and culture. They have started the first physical Wiki library with 650 books. Other innovative activities are ‘<a href="https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Karavali_Wikimedians/Outreach_Program/Karavali_Wikimedians_to_Home,_Mangalore,_November_20,_2018">Karavali Wikimedians to Home</a>’ and Text-Performance-Documentation and Reconstruction of rare Folk Performing art <a href="https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Karavali_Wikimedians/Events/Sidda_Vesha">Sidda Vesha</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference/Submissions/VVIT_WikiConnect:_A_Year_in_Review"><strong>VVIT WikiConnect : A Year in review</strong></a> : The coordinators of Wikiclub presented the activities conducted in the last two years. The focus is on capacity building of active students, leadership development, quality of content and retention. According to the scoping of students’ interest, various events were conducted like Edit-a-thons, Photowalks, Wikidata workshop, 1lib1ref session, Wikimedia Strategy Salon, Mini Media Wiki training, Thematic workshops, etc. The user survey was also done to get the feedback of students.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference/Submissions/Wikipedia_Students_Association_at_Alva%27s"><strong>Wikipedia Student Association at Alva's College Moodubidire</strong></a>: The regular Wiki activities have resulted in active Students’ Association at Alva’s College. The major activities are publishing of wall magazine - Wiki Suddi : Mundu and newspaper - Wiki Samachaara, Wikicamp and internship by Department of Journalism.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/WEP_in_Indian_Languages_at_Christ_University"><strong>Wikipedia in Education at Christ University</strong></a>: The coordinator presented the journey of six years programme at Christ. The process of engaging students from day one to the last day of the second semester was explained. The students learn digital skills, language typing, writing articles on the topic of interest and respective stream. From writing in the sandbox, they even progress up to documenting case study on research related to Wikipedia. The structure of monitoring and evaluation systems within the department was elaborated. The community engagement aspect was also discussed in detail. The challenges and the preparations for the next curve of WEP Christ were presented.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In the last session of the day, groups presented their work through posters visualising ‘Past, Present & Future’ of the education programmes. The interaction and loud thinking provided many ideas to be taken further for implementation.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The second day ended with Cultural programme by Christ University students. The vibrant performances of music and dance were enjoyed by the participants.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Day 3, 22 June 2019</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The day started with early morning ‘<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference/BirdWalk">Bird Walk</a>’ at the university campus with rich biodiversity. Seven enthusiasts joined this walk and captured images of 22 different species of birds which is documented on <a href="https://ebird.org/india/view/checklist/S57612668">eBird portal</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The last day of the conference started with a remote presentation on OER by Wayne Macintosh (Director <a href="http://oerfoundation.org/">OER Foundation</a>, and UNESCO - ICDE Chair in OER). <span>Wayne started with an overview of demand for education vis-a-vis the infrastructure available in the global south. The fundamentals of OERs, OER Foundation and OER University were elaborated. He stressed the need to start at least two OER courses by every Indian University. They can join the OERu network for free to host the courses. The credit system for various micro courses was explained through examples. He also discussed the </span><a href="https://wikieducator.org/Main_Page">WikiEducator</a><span> programme and appealed Wikimedians to join this evolving community as all courses run using media-wiki software. Regulatory issues for universities to adopt OER courses are to be looked into in Indian context. Dr Ramesh Sharma assured to facilitate in this matter. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The next session, ‘Strategy in Wikimedia and Education’ by Pavan Santhosh intended to help participants understand the importance brewing Strategy and figuring out a Big dream in their programs. This session started with demystifying the word strategy. With examples from the Wikimedia movement that participants can relate, the presenter explained how can a Big dream help prioritizing activities and programs. Later in an interactive part of the session, participants came up with ideas to run a strategy process in their programs and communities.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Lively group activity - ‘Revolving cafe’ happened after the strategy session. The activity was planned around five themes - <a href="https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/">Program and Events Dashboard</a>, <a>Wikidata</a>, Communication & Blogging, <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM">GLAM</a> in Education and Support structures (<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Start">WMF grants</a> and <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Requests">CIS Requests page</a>). As the groups were small, the participants utilised this opportunity to clear doubts through one to one dialogue. The session was mutually beneficial for group leaders as well as participants.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">After the cafe activity, <a href="https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Staff">Wikimedia Education Staff</a> member <a href="https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:SPatnaik_(WMF)">Sailesh Patnaik</a> deliberated upon the outreach and communications aspects. He stressed on using social media effectively and give publicity to innovative activities through newsletters. He also explained about upcoming Greenhouse pilot.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The last session, ‘Wikisource in education’ was conducted by <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jayanta_(CIS-A2K)">Jayanta Nath</a>. He explained how Wikisource activity is complementary to the qualitative growth of Wikipedia. The basics of Wikisource like licenses and workflow were discussed in detail. Various ways to combine the education programme with Wikisource were explored in interaction.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The conference closing ceremony was meaningful with spontaneous feedback from the participants.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/subodh-kulkarni-june-22-2019-wikimedia-education-saarc-conference-2019'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/subodh-kulkarni-june-22-2019-wikimedia-education-saarc-conference-2019</a>
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No publishersubodhWikimediaWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia Education2019-07-04T02:48:58ZBlog Entry