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Title Wiki-workshop at AU Delhi (Feb 2019)
Dates 28 February – 2 March 2019
Timings 9:30 am – 4:30 pm IST
Venue WS4, Design Studio, School of Design, Ambedkar University Delhi
Etherpad https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/SDes_AUD_Mar_2019
Status YesY Completed
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Program schedule

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Online Session

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Day 1

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  • 9:30 am to 11:15 am
    • Introduction Wikimedia movement
    • Five pillars of Wikipedia
    • Core Content Policies (NPOV, VER, NOR)
    • Words to watch
    • What Wikipedia is not?
  • 11:15 am to 11:30 am: Break
  • 11:30 am to 1:00 pm
    • Group activity: Participants split up in pairs and take two articles each and assess them according to the above said policies
  • 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm: Lunch
  • 2:00 pm to 3:45 pm
    • Manual of Style and layout of an article
    • Citations and references on en Wikipedia (IRS)
  • 3:45 pm to 4:00 pm: Break
  • 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm:
    • Wiki-markup basics and sandbox practice
    • Three mainspace fixes, for each participant

Day 2

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  • 9:30 am to 11:15 am
    • The Wikipedia Adventure
    • More editing practice on mainspace
  • 11:15 am to 11:30 am: Break
  • 11:30 am to 1:00 pm
    • Identifying articles to work on (Redlinks/stubs/start/C)
    • Google advanced search techniques
    • Collecting sources and studying
  • 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm: Lunch
  • 2:00 pm to 3:45 pm
    • Continue working on articles
  • 3:45 pm to 4:00 pm: Break
  • 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm:
    • Categorisation on Wikipedia
    • Talk pages and guidelines
    • WP:SOCK
    • Requesting help
    • Continue working on articles

Day 3

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  • 9:30 am to 11:15 am
    • Continue working on articles
  • 11:15 am to 11:30 am: Break
  • 11:30 am to 1:00 pm
    • Continue working on articles; final touches
  • 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm: Lunch
  • 2:00 pm to 3:45 pm
    • Basic intro to WCommons and images on Wikipedia
  • 3:45 pm to 4:00 pm: Break
  • 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm:
    • SVG Translation campaign hour
    • Hands-on activity
    • Wrap-up

Participants

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Report

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