CIS-A2K/Events/Wikipedia workshop 16 August 2013

The CIS-A2K Programme organized an Indian Language Wikipedia Training workshop at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai on 16, August 2013.

Time and Venue

14:30 - 19:00 hrs, 16th August 2013 (Friday)
Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Deonar, Mumbai, India.

Trainer

Pavanaja U B, Programme Officer - Indian Languages, CIS-A2K Programme

Registered participants

These are the people who registered for the workshop-

Ashok Dinkar Jaybhaye
RajdeRajdeep Saha
Priyanka Sandilya
kumar gaurav
Alok Ranjan
Hari Vallabi
Ramanand Pandey
Chakradhar Indurkar
Mukesh Chourase
Sumita Bhadrige
Vineeth Koshy
Gurram Ranga Naresh
milind raju kshirsagar
Vrinda Chaudhary
Manish Kumar
Sridhar A
Abdul Rahim
Prakash Mallick
Shubhanshu Jain
RAKESH AKELA
Vikrant Dadawala
Milind Bansode
Neha Butt
vinay khobragade
Mridul Pal
deachen spalzes
Namrata V Lokhande
Vaseem Chaudhary
Atul
Sudeep Pagedar
Kamlesh Kumar

Participated

These are the people who participated in the workshop-

Report

This workshop was organized as part of the CIS-A2K MoU with TISS. This is also part of the Indian Language Mela being organized by Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education, TISS.

Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, has students from diverse linguistic backgrounds. The workshop was organised to orient them in understanding and editing of Indian language Wikipedias. It had presentation on Wikipedia followed by hands-on editing session.

Students learnt these things-

Creating a username in Wikipedia.
How to edit an existing article in Wikipedia.
How to create a new article in Wikipedia.
The syntax of Wikipedia.
Wiki interlinking.
Adding references.
Wikipedia article quality.

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