CIS-A2K/Events/Wikisource training Alva's college

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CIS-A2K will be organising the Wikisource workshop for the students of Wikipedia student association at Alva's college on 14 & 15 December 2019. Wikipedia student association (WSA) was started on 13 July 2017 to enhance the following skills to students:

To develop the habit of research among students.
To write articles for Wikipedia and add contents to the existing Wikipedia articles.
To improve the language skills.
Worldwide readers for Wikipedia articles.

Objectives

Basic orientation to Wikisource
Understanding of Wikisource work flow
Skills required from scanning to OCR of book
skills for Proof-reading, transclusion methods

Participants (Usernames)

--Smnaazil (talk) 10:32, 13 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
--Veeksha Shetty (talk) 10:33, 13 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
--Christal Pinto (talk) 10:33, 13 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
--Deekshavishwakarma (talk) 10:34, 13 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
--Jasmitha M J (talk) 10:34, 13 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
--Sharmithavsn (talk) 10:35, 13 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
--Swathivishwakarma (talk) 10:35, 13 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
--Shetty Suman (talk) 10:37, 13 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
--Roshini ragu shetty (talk) 10:37, 13 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
--Vibha Salian (talk) 10:38, 13 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
--ANANTHESHA P G (talk) 10:38, 13 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
--Mithun Mijar (talk) 10:39, 13 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
--Ashu Poojary (talk) 10:41, 13 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
--Shivaraj Poojary (talk) 10:41, 13 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
----Ashoka KG (talk) 10:44, 13 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
--Yakshitha (talk) 14:52, 14 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
--Ashwini2001 (talk) 14:58, 14 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Pranavshivakumar (talk) 17:30, 14 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Facilitator

Agenda

Introduction to Wikisource - features, scope and future potential
Wikisource work flow - explanation of different stages
Upload tools and Copyrights
OCR4Wikisource and Indic OCR
Proofreading methods and Tools required
Wikisource tools, gadgets
Transclusion methods

Report

On 14 & 15 December 2019 CIS-A2K in association with Wikipedia Student's Association at Alva's college organised a Wikisource training for 18 students from Undergraduate course at Alva's college. These students have been contributing actively to Kannada Wikisource from past 10-12 months, but the students were knowing about validating the pages and were lacking with some of the advanced skills which would enhance their knowledge and ease their contribution to Wikisource. In this training students were thought about the templates which are used to proofread, using the Google OCR tools, using the java scripts to proofread the pages easily and transclusion was thought during the training. In these two days, students have 2,720 edits and proofread more than 140 pages.