Wiki Academy, Bejoy Narayan Mahavidyalaya

The Wikipedia Community of West Bengal has started a GLAM project with Bejoy Narayan Mahavidyalaya, a government sponsored college of West Bengal. As part of this project, the community is organizing a Wiki Academy in this college on June 7, 2015 from 12 pm to 2 pm. It will be a public outreach event in which the participants are introduced to the basics of Wikipedia and other Wikiprojects and how to contribute to it.

Workshop Structure edit

Theory: 1.0 Hrs

  • Introduction to Wikipedia and the sister projects
  • Basic Wikipedia Policies

Internet Lab: 1.0 Hrs

  • Typing in Bengali
  • Editing Wikipedia

Speakers/Facilitators edit

Target audience edit

  • Students and teaching/Non-teaching staff of Bejoy Narayan Mahavidyalaya.
  • Teaching/Non-teaching staff of Bejoy Narayan Mahavidyalaya.
  • Any Internet user

Fit to strategy edit

  • Increase reach as more people will come to know about Wikipedia and it's scope.
  • Encourage the interested participants to write with an encyclopedic viewpoint

Measures of success edit

  • The number of new active users following the event
  • Number of articles and photographs submitted by the new active users

Preffered language edit

  • Bengali.

Attended edit

  • Dr. Tanmay Bit, Principal, Bejoy Narayan Mahavidyalay
  • Dr. Manabesh Majumder
  • Dr. Bulu Dan
  • Mrs. Krishna Roy
  • Rajarshi Das
  • Abhijit Sadhukhan
  • Anupkumar Biswas
  • Nairita Adak
  • Sekharnath Bhattacharya
  • Swapan Kumar Dutta
  • Tanmay Sil
  • Anal Sil
  • Rajesh Ghosh
  • Pranab Kirtania
  • Bratati Chakraborty
  • Chunuram Baskey
  • Rabindranath Sarkar

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