SEABA Wikisource Event

Wikisource workshop was organized at SEABA School in Lehragaga city, Punjab in co-collaboration with SEABA staff WIR Jagseer Sidhu as part of Heritage GLAM project.

Venue

Seaba School Lehragaga, Patiala

Date

5 December, 2019

Contest Link

https://tools.wmflabs.org/wscontest/c/17

Organizing Partners

Open Heritage Foundation
SEABA International Public School

Training co-ordinators

User:Jagseer Sidhu|Jagseer Sidhu]]
User:Wikilover90|Wikilover90]]
User:Charan Gill|Charan Gill]]
User:Benipal Hardarshan|Benipal Hardarshan ]]
Rajdeep Bhullar

Participants

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User:Meen Husan|Meen Husan]]
User:Ramandeep22|Ramandeep22]]
User:Harpreet Chahal123|Harpreet Chahal123]]
User:Sandeep Kaur123|Sandeep Kaur123]]
User:Upinderuppalpci100|Upinderuppalpci100]]
User:Taranjotsingh77|Taranjotsingh77]]
User:Manpreet0909|Manpreet0909]]
User:Akvinder benipal|Akvinder benipal]]
User:Simranpreet dhiman|Simranpreet dhiman]]
User:Amandeep kaur 4444|Amandeep kaur 4444]]
User:Garry Handa|Garry Handa]]
User:Akash-Chahal047|Akash-Chahal047]]
User:Saroye Saab001|Saroye Saab001]]
User:Amanpreet1234|Amanpreet1234]]
User:Kanchan singla123|Kanchan singla123]]
User:Harman Nangla|Harman Nangla]]
User:Grewal047|Grewal047]]
User:Husandeep Kaur|Husandeep Kaur]]
User:Pankaj kumar001|Pankaj kumar001]]
User:Manjot Nangla|Manjot Nangla]]
User:Gurmehak Sidhu123|Gurmehak Sidhu123]]
User:Harpreet Chahal123|Harpreet Chahal123]]
User:Husandeep Singh Khokhar|Husandeep Singh Khokhar]]

Details

The event started with Wikilover90 giving students a background about Wikimedia and its projects. The Wikisource project and its importance for the Punjabi language was explained along with other social benefits to punjabi speaking people and academic researchers at large.
Charan Gill gave a brief about how Wikimedia Foundation was founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger and how the history brought us to current period of the movement.
Managing Director Kanwaljet Singh Dhindsa gave words of encouragement to the participating students who came to attend the workshop about learning education in new ways and understand the reason behind the education.
After that practical training sessions started, where the students were taught about the Punjabi keyboard and the basics of Wikisource project.
User:Jagseer Sidhu|Jagseer Sidhu]], User:Wikilover90|Wikilover90]], User:Benipal Hardarshan|Benipal Hardarshan ]]and User:Rajdeep Bhullar|Rajdeep Bhullar]] helped the students with different queries and templates.
Each student was allocated 50 pages out of the 15 books chosen as sub contest of Heritage GLAM proofreading contest of the year.
The students proofread over 100 pages and the event ended with Wikilover90 giving a brief about the proofreading contest, future events and opportunities.

Meeting Notes

After the training workshop, the meeting with Managing Director Kanwaljet Singh Dhindsa took place in which User:Jagseer Sidhu|Jagseer Sidhu]], User:Wikilover90|Wikilover90]], User:Charan Gill|Charan Gill]], User:Benipal Hardarshan|Benipal Hardarshan]] and User:Rajdeep Bhullar|Rajdeep Bhullar]] were present.
Wikilover90 proposed some ideas for the near future collaborations with the SEABA school to be done in league with the Open Heritage Foundation and Jagseer S Sidhu who is the present WIR at the school.
An annual education Program with trainings, wikicamps and Proofreading certfication was proposed to the Managing Director Kanwaljet Singh Dhindsa, who accepted this proposition for 2020 year.
Post planning and designing work is continuing by Wikilover90 with Jagseer Sidhu who will be assisting in implementation of this project with the Heritage GLAM team.