Wiki Academy, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies
Date, Time and Location edit
- Date & Time : May 7, 2015 from 2 pm to 5 pm
- Location :Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies
AZAD BHAVAN, IB BLOCK, PLOT NO.- 166, SECTOR-III, SALT LAKE CITY, KOLKATA – 700106
Agenda edit
A Wiki Academy is a public outreach event in which the participants are introduced to the basics of Wikipedia (and other WikiProjects) and how to contribute to it.
Objectives edit
- Get to know the sixth website in terms of highest page views
- Acquire and share knowledge
- Learn how to edit Wikipedia
Structure edit
Theory: 1.0 Hrs · Introduction to Wikipedia and the sister projects
· Wikipedia Policies
Internet Lab: 1.5 Hrs · Browsing Wikipedia
· Editing Wikipedia
Speakers/Facilitators edit
Target audience edit
· Students of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies.
· Wikipedia readers.
· Wikipedia Contributors.
· Any Internet user
Fit to strategy edit
· Increasing reach as more people will come to know about Wikipedia and it's scope.
· Educate the interested students/Wikipedia users 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
English , Hindi and Bengali.
Coordinators edit
Attending edit
- Arpita Basu, SRA, MAKAIAS
- Suhita Saha, RA, MAKAIAS
- Susmita Bhattacharya, Research Fellow, MAKAIAS
- Anjum Katyal, Publications Consultant, MAKAIAS
- Dr. Amrita Dey, Research Fellow, MAKAIAS
- Dr. Arpita Basu Roy, Research Fellow, MAKAIAS
- Dr Mrinal Chakma, Research Fellow, MAKAIAS
- Swarup Bhattacharyya, Curator, MAKAIAS
- Srimanti Sarkar, RA
- Dr. Tapas Roy, Research Fellow
- Anita Sengupta, Reserch Fellow
Attended edit
- Anjum Katyal
- Mainak Sen
- Srimanti Sarkar
- Arpita Basu
- Swarup Bhattacharyya
- Dr. Amrita Dey
- Dr. Arpita Basu Roy
- Ranjita Biswas
- Suhita Saha
- Aniket Sil
Brochure for the event edit
Report edit
Before the workshop, the team had a discussion with the director of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies Dr. Sreeradha Dutta, who had some doubts regarding the policies and working procedures, which was comprehensively understood and most of the inquiries were clarified.
After the self-introductory session by the participants, Sujay Chandra from Kolkata Wikimedia chapter commenced the workshop with a brief talk about Wikipedia. Sujay also demonstrated how to edit an existing page. There were a few incorrect information about the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies wiki page, the participants wanted to edit as a real life problem. Sujay, Rangan and Santanu demonstrated the procedure. Biswarup Ganguly demonstrated the method of image uploading in Commons by using one of his images as the logo for institute captured during the workshop.
Two of the participants created their user ID and edited the page with the assistance of Wikimedia Kolkata Team. One of the participants edited as unregistered user and the difference between a registered and an unregistered user was explained to them. This session generated great enthusiasm for the 3-hour Wikipedia learning, and editing session.
