CIS-A2K/Events/Wiki Advanced Training/2019
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
[edit]- 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
[edit]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
[edit]Application
[edit]NOTE: APPLICATION PERIOD IS OVER
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Eligibility and guidelines[edit]
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Guidelines for participation
[edit]- 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
[edit]- User:Ani_ttbr Assamese
- User:Atudu Bengali
- User:Sushant_savla Gujarati
- User:सौरभ तिवारी 05 Hindi
- User:निधिलता तिवारी Hindi
- User:अनिरुद्ध! Hindi
- User:नीलम Hindi
- User:akasmita Kannada
- User:Komal Sambhudas Marathi
- User:QueerEcofeminist Marathi
- User:Svnavare Marathi
- User:Ssgapu22 Odia
- User:Chinmayee Mishra Odia
- User:Pmsarangi Odia
- User:Gurtej Chauhan Punjabi
- User:Benipal hardarshan Punjabi
- User:Dugal harpreet Punjabi
- User:Sayant Mahato Sanskrit
- User:Soorya Hebbar Sanskrit
- User:info-farmer Tamil
- User:Divya_kaniyam Tamil
Facilitators
[edit]- User:Jayanta (CIS-A2K)
- User:SGill (WMF)
- User:Manavpreet Kaur
- User:Omshivaprakash
- User:Tito (CIS-A2K)
- User:Ananth (CIS-A2K)
- User:Subodh (CIS-A2K)
Program
[edit]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) | Notes |
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5:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Day 0 gathering
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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
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User:Jayanta (CIS-A2K) | |
11:30 pm to 11:45 pm | <--Tea break--> | ||
11:45 pm to 12:30 pm | Wikimedia Project differences
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User:Jayanta (CIS-A2K) | |
12:30 pm to 1:30 pm | Proofreading
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User:Jayanta (CIS-A2K) | |
1:30 pm to 2:15 pm | <--Lunch--> | ||
2:15 pm to 5:00 pm | Proofread-thon
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Group activity | |
5:00 pm to 5:15 pm | <--Tea break--> | ||
5:15 pm to 5:30 pm | Transclusion
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Group activity | |
5:30 pm to 6:00 pm | Finishing touch
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Group activity | |
6:00 pm | <--Break for the day--> | ||
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Visit (Optional) | Group activity | |
9:00 am to 10:45 am | Scanning Workshop
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User:Omshivaprakash | |
10:45 am to 11:00 am | <--Tea break--> | ||
11:00 am to 1:30 pm | Scanning Workshop
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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
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Satdeep Gill | |
3:15 pm to 4:15 pm | Library Science (Invited Talk )
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4:15 pm to 6:00 pm | Finishing touch
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Group activity | |
6:00 pm | <--Break for the day--> | ||
9:00 am to 10:45 am | Wikidata Workshop
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User:Jayanta (CIS-A2K) | |
10:45 am to 11:00 am | <--Tea break--> | ||
11:00 am to 12:00 pm | Wikidata Workshop
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User:Jayanta (CIS-A2K) | |
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm | Wikidata-thon of Books
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Group activity | |
1:30 pm to 2:15 pm | <--Lunch--> | ||
2:15 pm to 3:15 pm | Future roadmap
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3:15 pm to 3:30 pm | Closing | ||
3:30 pm | <--Break for the day--> |
FAQ
[edit]- 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
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
- commons image category Category:WAT2019