CIS-A2K/Events/Marathi Wikipedia Workshop & 1lib1ref session at Goa University

Background

Marathi language department of Goa University has taken initiative to document the culture of Goa on Marathi Wikipedia and Commons. As this was the first exposure to Wikimedia projects, two day extensive training workshop was planned. In the same event, three hour session in library as part of 1lib1ref session was also conducted. CIS-A2K has started collaboration with the language department from this event.

Objectives

The following objectives are broadly covered in the sessions -

Awareness about digital knowledge in Marathi, Open knowledge resources and Wikimedia projects
To explain the History of Wiki Movement, Pillars of Wikipedia
To train the participants in basic editing skills in Wikipedia
To explore the ways to find reliable & verifiable references
To present - Article structure, manual of style, categorisation
To explain - Copyright, Commons guidelines, Uploading images
To discuss follow-up plan and integration with academic activities
Adding reliable references as part of 1lib1ref session in library

Event details

Date : 31 January & 1 February 2019
Time : 10am to 6pm
Venue : Goa University campus

Participants (Usernames)

Bhavana Sopte
विनय मडगांवकर, शिवोली
GANGARAM AWANE
Geeta yerlekar
स्नेहल नाईक
Ajit gawas
प्रियांका प्रकाश नाईक
तृप्ती अनिल बोंद्रे
Sonal s mote
Sanchaya G Dessai
Manjusha Gauns Dessai
Bhakti naik madgaonkar
Ranjita mhamal
विभम
Nikita Aeer
Sonali tavadkar
Nirmala Gadkari
Divya keni
Varsha kumbhar
प्रतिक्षा पुनाजी गावडे
प्रतीक्षा उदय वझरेकर
Nikhita Gaonkar
अपूर्वा सांबरेकर
Pratiksha naik
Sweta pawar
Supriya Korkhankar
Sneha Mhamal
वैशाली नाईक
Neha Gaude
Anjali ashvekar
Vishwaja kambli
Sukhada gawas
Umida Gavathankar
Pallavi Deykar
Karuna K Mirabagkar
तेजा तुळशीदास परब

Agenda

Schedule on 31 January


Time	Details
10 to 10.30am	Inauguration
10.30 to 11.15am	Open knowledge resources, Introduction to Wikimedia projects
11.15 to 11.30am	Tea break
11.30 to 1.30pm	Account creation, basic editing in sandbox, small edits in existing articles
1.30 to 2pm	Lunch
2 to 4pm	Article structure, links & references, Creating new article, categorisation
4 to 4.15pm	Tea break
4.15 to 5.30pm	Copyright issues, Commons upload, adding images to Wikipedia articles, Follow-up plan, Feedback

Schedule on 1 February


Time	Details
10 to 10.30am	Recap of first day
10.30 to 11.15am	Working on village articles in sandboxes
11.15 to 11.30am	Tea break
11.30 to 1.30pm	Commons upload practice session
1.30 to 2pm	Lunch
2 to 3pm	Reliable references, Citation tool
3 to 6pm	1lib1ref session in Library

Report

Marathi department and other language faculty planned this workshop well in advance. The practice of Marathi typing in Unicode was carried out through preparing articles as Word document. The students selected the articles on history of Goa, writers & artists of Goa, Tourism in Goa and villages in Goa. Total 37 editors actively participated in the workshop. They learnt basic editing skills, adding references and uploading on Commons. They worked first in sandboxes on their new articles. The content addition is in progress. The verified content would be moved to main namespace under the guidance of experienced editors.
The concept of 1lib1ref campaign was shared with Chief Librarian of Goa University. The response was very positive. As a result, in the last two sessions of the workshop on 1 February, the participants added references to the articles. The session was conducted in the library. The library staff and faculty facilitated the process.

Follow-up

The editors are preparing the articles in sandboxes and offline also. It is proposed to conduct another iteration to verify and publish this content in main namespace. The students are also taking the images of issues related to Goan culture. The exclusive session on Commons is also proposed. The librarian has suggested to make separate rack of reference books related to Goa culture & heritage for utility. This idea will be explored in the next 1lib1ref iteration in May-June 2019.