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User:Satpal (CIS-A2K)/Impact Report 2019

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MiniTTT Punjab edit

  What? : Train the Trainer is a residential training program organised by CIS-A2K for Wikimedians from India. CIS-A2K conducted Mini Train-the-Trainer event for Punjabi Wikimedians User Group. The objective was to enhance the skills of Punjabi community members.

  When? & Where? : Mini Train-the-Trainer was conducted on 15-16 June 2019 at Hotel Remsons Crown in Sangrur, Punjab.

  How? : Selection of participants: It was decided before the event by the community that this event will be conducted for those participants who are very active on any Wikimedia project. There was a total of 17 participants and they were selected by experienced Wikimedians from the community.

Trainers: As most of the participants were new, So we had experienced Wikimedians from Punjabi Community to teach them. Charan Gill, Satdeep Gill, Manavpreet Kaur & Satpal (CIS-A2K) were trainers at the event.
Bridging gender gap attempt: Out of 17, 6 participants were women.

Some of the topics discussed/trained in this workshop were: Introduction of Wikimedia projects, how to contribute on Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons & Wikidata, friendly space policy & code of conduct, Advance editing on Wikisource & MediaWiki introduction and installation. Most of the participants were active on Wikisource, so this event was also focused on editing Wikisource advance. A detailed event report may be seen here.

Impact made:

Follow-up plan:

Learning:

  • It became more beneficial that we have chosen very active participants to attend this event. Otherwise there were also other participants who were experienced but they are not active now.
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    Group photo - MiniTTT Punjab 2019
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    Women participants at MiniTTT Punjab 2019

Monthly Meetings of Punjabi Wikimedians edit

  What? :

Punjabi Wikimedians is a recognized user group of Wikimedians who work on various Wikimedia projects related to the Punjabi language. To enhance the growth of community members and user group, CIS-A2K conducted meetings of the Punjabi wiki community.

  When? & Where? :

  • Once in a month in different cities of Punjab or online.
Date Place Participants Metawiki page link
28 October 2018 Patiala 9 here
28 November 2018 Patiala 8 here
3 February 2019 Bagha Purana 10 Here
23 March 2019 Patiala 8 here
28 April 2019 Faridkot 12 here
25 August 2019 Patiala 15 here


  How? :

  • Engaging local organisers: We have engaged local Wikimedians to enhance their leadership skills. CIS-A2K conducted some meetings with the help of local organisers like Bagha Purana meetup and Faridkot meetup.

CIS-A2K conducted these meetups as monthly meetings of the user group. Most of the meetings took place at the end of the month. The place and dates are decided by the discussion on the village pump and messenger group of Punjabi community members. If most of the community members are busy at the time of the meeting than CIS-A2K will make it online meeting on Google Hangouts platform with the confirmation from community members.

Impact made:

Followup plan:

  • CIS-A2K did a monthly meetup in the month of August in Patiala on 25 August 2019. The report can be seen here.

Learning:

  • At starting, CIS-A2K organised offline meetings but later we found that online meetings are also very fruitful and helpful. So, we conducted 3 online meetings on January, May and June 2019. It was a learning for us to conduct more online meetings for community growth.
  • We also learnt to conduct meetups outside Patiala to engage people from different parts of Punjab.
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    Group photo of participants from Faridkot meetup in April
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    Participants at the meeting of August month

Content Enrichment edit

  What? :

  • When Punjabi Wikisource became live project there was a little number of books available in the Punjabi language. CIS-A2K conducted a content enrichment program coordinated with Punjabi Wikimedians through scanning the rare books from different libraries and different organizations.

  When? & Where? :

  • CIS-A2K started working on this project from September 2018. All the books were scanned and uploaded by collecting them from different parts of Punjab.

  How? :

  • CIS-A2K uses Scansnap SV600 scanner for scanning and we have found books from local libraries, Bhai Kahn Singh Library of Punjabi University Patiala and by using local contacts. Before the scanning process, we checked out the license of the book and then we did the post-processing after scanning. After editing the book and creating pdf, we have uploaded it on Wikimedia Commons. So after that, we have created the Index page of the book on Punjabi Wikisource.


Impact made:

  • CIS-A2K uploaded 71 books on Punjabi Wikisource. The category of these books can be seen here.

Followup plan:

Learning:

  • It is difficult to scan the book with Scansnap SV600 because it is not for large size books.
  • It was learning for CIS-A2K to encourage the author to release their books under a free license. Punjabi author Balram released three books under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0.
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