Wiki Academy, Bejoy Narayan Mahavidyalaya

The Wikipedia Community of West Bengal has started a GLAM project with Bejoy Narayan Mahavidyalaya, a government sponsored college of West Bengal. As part of this project, the community is organizing a Wiki Academy in this college on June 7, 2015 from 12 pm to 2 pm. It will be a public outreach event in which the participants are introduced to the basics of Wikipedia and other Wikiprojects and how to contribute to it.

Date: June 7, 2015
Time : 12:00 - 14:00 hrs
Location : Bejoy Narayan Mahavidyalaya, Itachuna, Hooghly district, West Bengal, 712147

Workshop Structure

Theory: 1.0 Hrs

Introduction to Wikipedia and the sister projects
Basic Wikipedia Policies

Internet Lab: 1.0 Hrs

Typing in Bengali
Editing Wikipedia

Speakers/Facilitators

Target audience

Students and teaching/Non-teaching staff of Bejoy Narayan Mahavidyalaya.
Teaching/Non-teaching staff of Bejoy Narayan Mahavidyalaya.
Any Internet user

Fit to strategy

Increase reach as more people will come to know about Wikipedia and it's scope.
Encourage the interested participants to write with an encyclopedic viewpoint

Measures of success

The number of new active users following the event
Number of articles and photographs submitted by the new active users

Preffered language

Bengali.

Attended

Dr. Tanmay Bit, Principal, Bejoy Narayan Mahavidyalay
Dr. Manabesh Majumder
Dr. Bulu Dan
Mrs. Krishna Roy
Rajarshi Das
Abhijit Sadhukhan
Anupkumar Biswas
Nairita Adak
Sekharnath Bhattacharya
Swapan Kumar Dutta
Tanmay Sil
Anal Sil
Rajesh Ghosh
Pranab Kirtania
Bratati Chakraborty
Chunuram Baskey
Rabindranath Sarkar