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The CIS-A2K Programme organized an Indian Language Wikipedia Training workshop at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai on 16, August 2013.

Time and Venue

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14:30 - 19:00 hrs, 16th August 2013 (Friday)
Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Deonar, Mumbai, India.

Trainer

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Pavanaja U B, Programme Officer - Indian Languages, CIS-A2K Programme

Registered participants

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These are the people who registered for the workshop-

  1. Ashok Dinkar Jaybhaye
  2. RajdeRajdeep Saha
  3. Priyanka Sandilya
  4. kumar gaurav
  5. Alok Ranjan
  6. Hari Vallabi
  7. Ramanand Pandey
  8. Chakradhar  Indurkar
  9. Mukesh Chourase
  10. Sumita Bhadrige
  11. Vineeth Koshy
  12. Gurram Ranga Naresh
  13. milind raju kshirsagar
  14. Vrinda Chaudhary
  15. Manish Kumar
  16. Sridhar A
  17. Abdul Rahim
  18. Prakash Mallick
  19. Shubhanshu Jain
  20. RAKESH AKELA
  21. Vikrant Dadawala
  22. Milind Bansode
  23. Neha Butt
  24. vinay khobragade
  25. Mridul Pal
  26. deachen spalzes
  27. Namrata V Lokhande
  28. Vaseem Chaudhary
  29. Atul
  30. Sudeep Pagedar
  31. Kamlesh Kumar

Participated

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These are the people who participated in the workshop-

  1. User:Suvadu_hari
  2. User:Cbi1404
  3. User:tiss_Sumita
  4. User:Manish.abc1985
  5. User:Neha.butt28
  6. User:Vaseemc97
  7. User:Atul Anand TISS
  8. User:Kamlesh-TISS

Report

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This workshop was organized as part of the CIS-A2K MoU with TISS. This is also part of the Indian Language Mela being organized by Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education, TISS.

Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, has students from diverse linguistic backgrounds. The workshop was organised to orient them in understanding and editing of Indian language Wikipedias. It had presentation on Wikipedia followed by hands-on editing session.

Students learnt these things-

  • Creating a username in Wikipedia.
  • How to edit an existing article in Wikipedia.
  • How to create a new article in Wikipedia.
  • The syntax of Wikipedia.
  • Wiki interlinking.
  • Adding references.
  • Wikipedia article quality.

Photos

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Photos in Wikimedia Commons