CIS-A2K/Events/Wiki Advanced Training/2019

[[ WORKSHOP | Wikisource Advance Training | India]]

Wikisource Advance Training | 11–13 October 2019 | India

Wikisource Advance Training is a residential training workshop for experienced Wiki-librarians from India. This workshop is being organised by CIS-A2K in association with Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (Website of GIPE). The theme for 2019 event is Wikisource content creation. The training aims to groom experienced Wiki-librarians for Indic language Wikisources to proofread even better quality content on Wikisource. The program will educate them about different kinds of proofreading, global best practices, Wikidata linkup etc.

Objectives

To optimise contribution and increase skills of Indic Wiki-librarian.
To introduce and initiate advanced level best practices across Indic Wikisource projects with reference to global projects.
Set the future path to develop their Wikisource as per global practice.

Event details

Dates: 11, 12 & 13 October 2019

Venue: In association with Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (Website of GIPE)| Map Location

Accommodation: GIPE Guest house - Map location

City: Pune, India

Etherpad: WAT2019

Status: Completed

Participation

Application

NOTE: APPLICATION PERIOD IS OVER

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Starting date: 12 September 2019
Closing date: 20 September 2019
Link to application: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSda905zHpS2Fub7qTyciEAC1GWjfIEASRPokstDYB7mCS2YHA/viewform

Eligibility and guidelines

Basic	Preferred
Active Wiki-librarians contributing to any Indian language Wikisource projects (including English) are eligible to apply. The user must have 500+ edits before 12 September 2019 in any Indic Wikisource.	Admin or Interface admin in Indic language Wikisource including English Wikisource. Experience working with proofreading. Experience in GLAM initiatives including Wikisource proofreading

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Guidelines for participation

Participants are expected to arrive at the venue by the evening of Day 0 (10th October), and stay until the schedule of Day 2 is complete. Partial participation is not allowed. After 3 PM on Sunday, 13th October Day 3, participants are free to leave.
Accommodation is arranged in GIPE Guest house - Map location
After selection, the participants are expected to complete the pre-work (attend online sessions, if any, as necessary) assigned to them before they attend the event.
It is strongly recommended to bring your laptops, if not, kindly inform earlier.
Participants are not allowed to bring friends or relatives to the event unless it is absolutely necessary (only with prior information and approval).
All the participants are expected to abide by the Friendly space policy and the [[:wmf:Code of conduct policy|Code of conduct] of WMF.

Participants

Facilitators

Program

Major changes may be made to the program owing to time constraints. Often discussion continue out of the specified time, so timings of the sessions may be adjusted instantaneously to fit the schedule.


Timings	Topic(s)/Session	Person(s)
Day 0 (10th October 2019)
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm	Day 0 gathering Introductions Briefing about the program Go around GIPE library
Day 1 (11 October 2019)
9:00 am to 9:30 am	Inaugural session (Welcome)
	Friendly space policy Friendly space policy	User:Manavpreet Kaur
	Invited Talk (Welcome)	from GIPE/Guest
09:30 am to 11:30 am	Introduction to Indic Languages Wikisource Importance of Indic Wikisource Few more Basic of Wikisource	User:Jayanta (CIS-A2K)
11:30 pm to 11:45 pm	<--Tea break-->
11:45 pm to 12:30 pm	Wikimedia Project differences Difference between Wikisource and Wikipedia Difference between Wikisource and Wikibook	User:Jayanta (CIS-A2K)
12:30 pm to 1:30 pm	Proofreading Advance proofreading techniques. Complex templates	User:Jayanta (CIS-A2K)
1:30 pm to 2:15 pm	<--Lunch-->
2:15 pm to 5:00 pm	Proofread-thon Proofread-thon. Complex layouts with proofreading	Group activity
5:00 pm to 5:15 pm	<--Tea break-->
5:15 pm to 5:30 pm	Transclusion Books, Magazine, Newspaper Annotation of the text Encyclopedia, Dictionary,	Group activity
5:30 pm to 6:00 pm	Finishing touch Post OCR auto-correction Advance formatting using CSS or other templates	Group activity
6:00 pm	<--Break for the day-->
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm	Visit (Optional)	Group activity
Day 2 (12 October 2019)
9:00 am to 10:45 am	Scanning Workshop Scanning Digitization post-processing.	User:Omshivaprakash
10:45 am to 11:00 am	<--Tea break-->
11:00 am to 1:30 pm	Scanning Workshop Digitization post-processing Tools	User:Omshivaprakash
1:30 pm to 2:15 pm	<--Lunch-->
2:15 pm to 3:15 pm	Identifying the most challenging parts of working with Wikisource Group activity	Satdeep Gill
3:15 pm to 4:15 pm	Library Science (Invited Talk ) Library classification system The library classification system in Wikisource
4:15 pm to 6:00 pm	Finishing touch Finishing touch of Transclusion.,	Group activity
6:00 pm	<--Break for the day-->
Day 3 (13 October 2019)
9:00 am to 10:45 am	Wikidata Workshop Basics of Wikidata Wikisource & Wikisdata	User:Jayanta (CIS-A2K)
10:45 am to 11:00 am	<--Tea break-->
11:00 am to 12:00 pm	Wikidata Workshop Wikidata linkage	User:Jayanta (CIS-A2K)
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm	Wikidata-thon of Books Wikidata-thon of Books available on Wikisource	Group activity
1:30 pm to 2:15 pm	<--Lunch-->
2:15 pm to 3:15 pm	Future roadmap Assign future goal of Indic Wikisource
3:15 pm to 3:30 pm	Closing
3:30 pm	<--Break for the day-->

FAQ

Is it a residential training?

Yes.

Are you going to support my travel and accommodation during the workshop?

Yes.

Can I bring my friend/brother(...) in the workshop?

Kindly no, not during the workshop.

Can I join for 1-2 days, instead of all 3 days?

Partial participation is not possible.

I am from SAARC countries. I reside out of India, Can I join?

This program is only for resident Indians.

Please feel free to ask the question(s) on the talk page.

Report

CIS-A2K team conducted a workshop for WAT for Wikisource on 11 - 13 October 2019. Total 14 participants were present in this event. Some feedback can be found here. The following objectives was planning for this workshop and meetup

To enhance the quality & skills of active Tamil Wikisource editors
To explain the group to Advance Wikisource tools

Activity

Day 0

Day 1

Day 2

During the workshop and meetup some of the topics discussed/trained were:

Scope Tamil Wikisource Explain.
Copyright Status of a Book explained.
Workflow of Wikisource (Upload, Index file, OCR, Proofread,Validate, Transclution)
Indic Wikisource Stats Explain.
Indic OCR Explain
Most used templates/best practice in Wikisource.

Day 3

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