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On this page you can find details of all the workshops and events that have been organised to foster the growth of Konkani Wikipedia since December 2012. You can also find details of events that are currently in the pipleline.

2014

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Date Status Event Details Outcome
March 9, 2014   Likely Wiki Women's Day at International Center Goa -
March 8, 2014   Likely Konkani Wikipedia Multi-Script Edit-a-Thon -
January 16, 2014   Done Wrapping up work with Vishwakosh Volume 4 participants A demonstration on how to add tables, graphs and pictures on Commons & Wikisource. Also helped participants add content on Wikisource.
January 15, 2014   Done Wrapping up work with Vishwakosh Volume 3 participants A demonstration on how to add tables, graphs and pictures on Commons & Wikisource. Also helped participants add content on Wikisource.
January 15, 2014   Done Goan Towns & Villages @ Nirmala Institute of Education A fllow up editing workshop was organised for 100 students from NIE. Students are writing articles on Goan villages.
January 14, 2014   Done Wrapping up work with Vishwakosh Volume 2 participants A demonstration on how to add tables, graphs and pictures on Commons & Wikisource. Also helped participants add content on Wikisource.
January 13, 2014   Done Wrapping up work with Vishwakosh Volume 1 participants A demonstration on how to add tables, graphs and pictures on Commons & Wikisource. Also helped participants add content on Wikisource.

2013

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Date Status Event Details Outcome
December 14–15, 2013   Done Yuva Konkani Sahitya Samelan at Goa University A Wikipedia stall was put up by Wikipedia editors from Goa University to showcase all the projects and work that has been done on Konkani Wikipedia. Over three hundred students from colleges and higher secondary schools from Konkani-speaking regions of the country learnt about Konkani Wikipedia.
December 10, 2013   Done Wikipedia Training at Shree Mallikarjun College About 20 teachers from Shree Mallikarjun College attended this workshop and 2 of them also enrolled for Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Project.
December 9, 2013   Done Konkani Translation Sprint at Goa University Library Students from Konkani Department at Goa University helped translate Media Wiki system messages on Translate Wiki. Translation of 79% messages were completed.
December 8, 2013   Done Konkani Vishwakosh Wikipedia Workshop at Goa University Library A workshop for organised for Konkani Vishwakosh participants. About 15 people attended this session.
November 30, 2013   Done Editing Sprint for Vishwakosh at Goa Central State Library Over 20 participants attended the editing sprint organised to help digitize Konkani Vishwakosh on Wikisource.
November 28, 2013   Done Konkani Vishwakosh : Doubt Solving Session at Goa Central Library Participants of Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Project requested to organise this session to help clarify their doubts such as how to add headings, bullets, pictures etc. This session was organised for participants working on Volume 3&4.
November 26, 2013   Done Konkani Vishwakosh : Doubt Solving Session at Goa Central Library Participants of Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Project requested to organise this session to help clarify their doubts such as how to add headings, bullets, pictures etc. This session was organised for participants working on Volume 1&2.
November 19, 2013   Done Konkani Wikipedia session for B.Ed. Students at Nirmala Institute of Education. Over 100 students from NIE attended this introductory workshop. An editing workshop is yet to follow. Students will write articles on Goan villages.
November 16–17, 2013   Done Wikipedia Training Workshop at Dalgado Konknni Akademi Over 30 participants attended this two day workshop to enhance content available on Konkani Wikipedia in Roman script. Over 20 new articles were created during this workshop.
October 19–20, 2013   Done Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Project at Goa Central State Library This workshop was organised for students, professors, faculty, professionals who enrolled for Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Project. 37 participants were trained on editing Wikipedia and Wikisource to help digitize the encyclopedia.
September 26, 2013   Done Re-release of Konkani Vishwakosh under CC at Goa University Goa University re-released Konkani Vishwakosh under Creative Commons License CC-BY-SA 3.0. To celebrate and further the movement of open knowledge and open access Goa University in collaboration with Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge Programme (CIS-A2K) organised an event on 26 September 2013 at 10am at the Goa University Conference Hall.
September 24, 2013   Done Wikipedia workshop at Computer Science Department, Goa University An introductory workshop was organised for 15 students at Computer Science Department, Goa University.
September 18, 2013   Done Introducing Konkani Wikipedia at Konkani Department Rosary College Konkani Wikipedia workshop was organised by User:Supriya kankumbikar and User:John Noronha for about 20 students and 2 professors at Rosary College.
September 13, 2013   Done Konkani Wikipedia workshop at St. Aloysius College, Mangalore An introductory Wikipedia workshop was organised.
August 29–30, 2013   Done Wikipedia workshop for Sociology Department, Goa University About 15 students from Sociology Department at Goa University attended the training workshop.
August 21–24, 2013   Done Konkani Wikipedia Workshop for Goa University Students at Goa Central State Library Total of 38 MA students from Konkani Department, Goa University attended the workshop.43 new articles were created on Konkani Wikipedia in the 4 day event. Total of 987 edits, 41 references, 3,90,040 bytes of data was added on Konkani Wikipedia.
July 28, 2013   Done Commons Wikipedia workshop at StartUp Goa A Wikimedia Commons introductory workshop was organised for bloggers and photographers in Goa. This session was attended by 18-20 participants.
July 27, 2013   Done Wikipedia workshop at Library Science Department, Goa University About 25 participants attended this hand on training session organised for Library Science Students at Goa University.
July 27, 2013   Done Konkani Wikipedia workshop at St.Xavier’s, Goa Wikipedia introducorty and Editing workshop was organised for Konkani Department at St.Xaviers Goa. This session was attended by 30 participants.
July 26, 2013   Done What's and Hows of Wiki at Kings School The Kings School students of class 10 attended a workshop on the whats & hows of Wiki, creating & editing Wiki pages, etc. Participnats also got a hands on experience, and they edited the Bibinca page on Wiki. About 40 participants attended this event.
March 8, 2013   Done Wiki Women's Day at Nirmala Institute of Education International Women's Day (IWD), also called International Working Women's Day, is celebrated on March 8, every year. There were a series of Wikipedia events organised this year with the aim of increasing participation of women contributing to Wikipedia. One such event was organised by the Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet and Society and the Wikimedia India Chapter at the Nirmala Institute of Education (NIE), a Secondary Teacher Education College in Panaji, Goa
March 7, 2013   Done Introductory Wikipedia session at BITS Goa The Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet and Society was invited by Nikhil Dixit, Public Relations Officer at the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani – Goa (BITS Goa) to organise Wikipedia session. Despite the fact that students were busy with their exams and lab tests nearly 30 of them turned up for the event.

2012

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Date Status Event Details Outcome
December 14, 2012   Done Introductory Wikipedia Workshop at St. Xavier's College, Mapusa, Goa A three hour Wikipedia workshop was organized at St. Xavier's College. Over 30 participants attended the hands on session.
December 13, 2012   Done Promoting GLAM in Goa at Goa Central State Library An introductory GLAM session was well attended by about 45 interested people coming from over 10 different GLAM institutes in Goa. Some of the institutes attending the session were: Museum of Christian Art, Goa Chitra, Bookworm Library, K.S. Goa State Library, GTL Bicholini, and DFLG District Library.
December 12–13, 2012   Done Two-day Wiki Workshop: An Introduction at Goa University A two-day workshop was organised for M.A. and Ph.D. students at the Goa University. Over 35 participants attended the two-day workshop.