SEABA Wikisource Event January 10, 2020

Wikisource workshop at SEABA school Lehragaga on 10 January 2020

SEABA Wiksiource Workshop January 2020

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

Venue

Seaba School Lehragaga, Patiala

Date

January 10, 2020

Organizing Partners

• Open Heritage Foundation
• SEABA International Public School

Training co-ordinators

• Jagseer Sidhu
• Wikilover90
• Charan Gill
• Gilljassu
• Gurpreet

Participants

• Manjot Nangla
• Upinderuppalpci100
• Harman Nangla
• Taranjotsingh77
• Gurjot singh22
• Pankaj kumar001
• Happy Kakkar
• Meen Husan
• Garry Handa
• Husandeep Kaur
• Manpreet0909
• Amanpreet1234
• Ritu sharma3

Details

• The event started with Wikilover90 giving students a background about Wikisource and other sister projects of Wikimedia. How Wikisource and its importance is explained for the
• Charan Gill gave a brief about the project and its history.
• The practical training sessions started, where the students were taught about the Punjabi keyboard and the basics of Wikisource project.
• Jagseer Sidhu, Wikilover90, Gilljassu and [[User:Gurpreet|Gurpreet helped the students with different queries and templates.
• The students allocated themselves books from the contest.
• The event ended with Wikilover90 giving a brief about the proofreading contest, future events and opportunities.

Meeting

• After the meeting, the team had meeting with Principle of the school, Bibin Alexander where the future opportunities were discussed.
• The principle expressed gratitude for the skill building trainings for Wikisource that help students understand the values of volunteer work and getting an opportunity to read literature.
• The upcoming events were discussed in details.