VVIT WikiConnect/Annual Report/2019-2020
Overview and learning edit
Coordinators orientation and training edit
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Wiki Awareness Sessions edit
Wikidata training course edit
First Online Session on 26 July 2019 edit
First Offline Session on 1 August 2019 edit
Second Offline session on 17 August 2019 edit
Online Session 2 on 22 September 2019 edit
Overall observation on the course edit
The Wikidata Training Course started with good participation from the students. First online and offline sessions were successful. The second offline session failed to produce the output that was intended. The next online session was delayed and because of exams and further follow became difficult. For future sessions, we needed help from a resource person. We tried to contact a few resource persons and they were not able to attend the physical offline event and the sessions got canceled because of too much delay. We tried for an online session, but because of some technical issues, the online session was canceled. At the end, we were done only with 2 offline and 2 online sessions without providing the participants with complete knowledge of wikidata.
Telugu Wikisource training course edit
First online session on 20 July 2019 edit
First offline session on 22 and 23 July 2019 edit
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The first offline Session was taken over by External resource person, Pavan Santhosh User:Pavan santhosh.s from CIS-A2K which went for two days 22, 23 July 2019 from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm conducted at VVIT college with 20 participants. On day 1, Pavan discussed the introduction for Wikisource, brief copyrights, overall view of Wikisource and examples, the process of editing Wikisource, OCR, and Proofreading. On Day 2, Pavan discussed uploading books to Wikimedia Commons, Distributing index pages, and adding basic templates.
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Second offline session on 21 August 2019 edit
Third offline session on 9 September 2019 edit
MediaWiki training course edit
First online session on 11 September 2019 edit
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The first online session was conducted on 11 Sep 2019. In which the participants were briefly explained about Wikimedia Movement, Wikimedia Foundation, and all its projects, during which several areas and concepts related to Wikimedia tech were discussed. Vasanth addressed the 1st online session. These included an overview of technical areas for contribution, developer account, introduction to Phabricator, Gerrit, and MediaWiki.
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Second online session on 21 September 2019 edit
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The Second online session was on 21 September 2019. This session included the installation of MediaWiki on a local machine, which involves the creation of a developer account, generation of SSH key, linking SSH key to Gerrit account, cloning MediaWiki core to the local system. Rammanoj addressed the second online session.
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Offline sessions on 25-27 September 2019 edit
Overall observation on the course edit
Having a course plan, dividing syllabus and planning sessions according to it worked out quite well. There was a considerable amount of time for the trainers to look into each topic. Awareness campaign helped in gathering participants in this newly introduced course in our college by VVIT WikiConnect. During online sessions, there was a lot of trouble with network connectivity issues. Participants felt a lot of disturbance and were not able to totally concentrate on the session. This happened during both online sessions. When it comes to offline sessions, they have been at a quite rough time during internal lab examinations in our college, leading 3 of our participants to drop. As it was a busy time in our college then, we even had issues with lab availability and projector sometimes. Due to the unavailability of resource persons for a while and thereafter starting the course a bit later than we planned affected the interest of participants a little bit. Participants were not so good with JavaScript and PHP so they had a hard time understanding some topics.
What can be done better? edit
Pre-Training on JavaScript and PHP would have helped them a lot. Check the availability of resource persons and make sure we plan sessions earlier rather than at crucial times in college academics. To conclude, it all started well with participants showing so much interest. But eventually, be it due to conducting sessions lately, or participants having no prior knowledge in PHP and js, or for any other reason, it did not go as planned.