SEABA Wikisource Event January 10, 2020

A second Wikisource workshop was organized at SEABA School in Lehragaga city, Punjab in co-collaboration with SEABA staff Jagseer Sidhu as part of Heritage GLAM project.

Wikisource workshop at SEABA school Lehragaga on 10 January 2020

SEABA Wiksiource Workshop January 2020

Venue

Seaba School Lehragaga, Patiala

Date

January 10, 2020

Organizing Partners

• Open Heritage Foundation
• SEABA International Public School

Training co-ordinators

• Jagseer Sidhu
• Wikilover90
• Charan Gill
• Gilljassu
• Gurpreet

Participants

• Manjot Nangla
• Upinderuppalpci100
• Harman Nangla
• Taranjotsingh77
• Gurjot singh22
• Pankaj kumar001
• Happy Kakkar
• Meen Husan
• Garry Handa
• Husandeep Kaur
• Manpreet0909
• Amanpreet1234
• Ritu sharma3

Details

• The event started with Wikilover90 giving students a background about Wikisource and other sister projects of Wikimedia. How Wikisource and its importance is explained for the
• Charan Gill gave a brief about the project and its history.
• The practical training sessions started, where the students were taught about the Punjabi keyboard and the basics of Wikisource project.
• Jagseer Sidhu, Wikilover90, Gilljassu and [[User:Gurpreet|Gurpreet helped the students with different queries and templates.
• The students allocated themselves books from the contest.
• The event ended with Wikilover90 giving a brief about the proofreading contest, future events and opportunities.

Meeting

• After the meeting, the team had meeting with Principle of the school, Bibin Alexander where the future opportunities were discussed.
• The principle expressed gratitude for the skill building trainings for Wikisource that help students understand the values of volunteer work and getting an opportunity to read literature.
• The upcoming events were discussed in details.