CIS-A2K/Events/MediaWiki Training/2017
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MediaWiki Training or MWT is a residential training program. The program attempts to groom technical leadership skills among the Indian Wikimedia community members. The second iteration of MWT will be held between 24-26 February.
Event detailsEdit
- Dates: 24-26 February 2017 (add this event to your Google calendar or Yahoo calendar)
- Venue:The Centre for Internet & Society(#194, 2nd C Cross Road, 2nd Stage, Domlur, Stage 2, Domlur, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560071)
- City: Bangalore
- Location Map:Google maps
- Etherpad: MWT17 etherpad
ObjectivesEdit
CIS-A2K is conducting this training program to
- Create awareness about MediaWiki.
- Explore technicalities of Indic Language Wikis.
- Helping volunteers in creating bots.
- To create and grow tech leadership in Indic language communities.
Points to noteEdit
Who can applyEdit
- Any active Wikimedian working with the technical of aspects such as tools, scripts, gadgets, project cleanup of Indian Wikimedia communities is welcome to apply.
SupportEdit
- Travel support will be provided.
- Accommodation will be provided.
- Food will be served following a participant's dietary preferences (veg, non-veg, vegan etc.)
Pre-eventEdit
- Pre-event works may be given.
- A candidate may need to inform their receptive language village pumps about their participation and pre-works.
EventEdit
- All participants must come to the venue on 23 February and attend all the days of the program. Partial attendance won't be allowed.
- Participants are not allowed to bring friends or relatives to the event.
- All participants should bring their laptops. If you don't have a laptop please let us know.
ScheduleEdit
Day 1Edit
| Time | Session | Resource Person |
| 10 AM | MediaWiki Training Introduction and Objectives | Viswa and Tito |
| 10.30 AM | MediaWiki software basics | Tito |
| 11 AM | Wiki technical audit-Introduction | Tito |
| Technical audit-Short Pages, Long pages, Orphan pages, Dead-end pages, Dormant pages, New pages | Pavan | |
| Technical audit-Broken Redirect, Double redirect, Uncategorized pages, Wanted pages, pages and templates | Sailesh & Ananth | |
| 1 PM | Lunch | |
| 1: 45 PM | [cont.] Wiki technical audit-Script error, reference error, infobox errors | Tito |
| 3: 30 PM | Tea | |
| 3: 45 | [cont.] Wiki technical audit-Using prefixes, using advance search, List of pages, files, subpages | Pavan |
| Wiki technical audit-Blocked users, protected pages | Tito | |
| Stats.wikimedia.org | Ananth | |
| Metrics | Tito & Ananth |
Day 2Edit
| Time | Session | Resource Person |
| 9: 30 AM | Templates and info boxes creation and management
Working tea |
Tito |
| 1 PM | Lunch | |
| 1: 45 PM | Bots Gadgets and scripts | |
| Wikipedia tools:Copyvio, Duplication detector, Google books citation, Citation generator | Pavan | |
| Wikimedia Commons tools | Tito | |
| Introduction to Hay's tool directory | Tito | |
| WMF labs tools | Tito & Ananth | |
| 3: 30 PM | Tea | |
| 3: 45 | AWB | Tito & Ananth |
Day 3Edit
| Time | Session | Resource Person |
| 9: 30 AM | Quarry
Working tea |
Viswa Prabha |
| 1 PM | Lunch | |
| 1: 45 PM | Wikidata and Wikidata tools | Ananth, Sailesh |
| 3: 30 PM | Tea | |
| 3: 45 | Bots | Tito |
RegistrationEdit
Please fill this form, if you are interested to attend the workshop. The last date to apply is 28 January 2017.
ParticipantsEdit
Participants' list will be updated after the selection.
ContactEdit
If you have question, please post on the talk page or email tito@cis-india.org
