TWLCon (2019 India)

Title TWLCon (2019 India) Dates 5–6 January 2019 (4 Jan is Day 0) In association with Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune Website of GIPE | Map Location Etherpad https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/TWLCon_19IN Status Done Report Grants:Project/Rapid/KCVelaga/TWLCon India - 2019/Report

About

Introduction

The Wikipedia Library helps editors access reliable sources to improve Wikipedia. Among several other programs, it also helps knowledge professionals share their collections with the public. It closely works with databases, publishers, libraries and other key communities who support the mission of Wikimedia movement. TWLCon (2019 India) was a conference to increase awareness about TWL to Wikimedians in India and discuss strategising its activities in India. It also included discussions around library outreach and collaborating with librarians in India.

Why

The basic function of TWL has been to support editors by bridging the barrier to access to access paywalled sources. However, over years, it has expanded its scope and facilitated several other programs relevant to the fundamental concept. Though they work well with western countries, many of the programs are not very popular among emerging communities like India. Various differences in culture, working of professionals (librarians, academicians etc.), local conditions etc. may not completely receive TWL's material and receive. This conference has been primarily designed to understand the needs and document the insights from experienced Wikimedians about libraries/sources (references) in India. In addition to that, experts from relevant professions will be invited to listen and understand their opinion of working with Wikimedia.

The program will largely have two parts, as mentioned below:

• Part 1: TWL outreach to Wikimedians
  • About, various programs (how can they be worked out in India), relevant tools such as Citation Hunt
• Part 2: Open discussion with external personnel; librarians, archivists, academicians etc.
  • Introduction to Wiki and TWL, their experience, areas where Wiki and these can collaborate for mutual benefit

Participation

Application

NOTE: APPLICATION PERIOD IS OVER
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. Starting date: 20 November 2018 Closing date: 25 November 2018 Link to application: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfsKfP0YrpLWAkE2vDV6miisq27rRAzbHYjPESl4H4dNauKmw/viewform?usp=sf_link Eligibility and guidelines Basic Preferred Active Wikimedians contributing to any Indian language Wikimedia projects (including English) are eligible to apply. The user must have 1500+ global edits before 31 October 2018, excluding the edits made on Meta-Wiki. Have worked with or interested in TWL and its programs, or in-general working with libraries/librarians (partnerships, outreach, GLAM etc.) in India. Experience working with TWL or any of its programs such #1Lib1Ref, Reference desks etc. Experience working with libraries/librarians in India. Experience working on bibliographic citations in various contexts, especially for Wikipedia and its sister projects. Experience contributing to quality content to Wikipedia (such as good articles, featured articles/lists etc.) Does it sound complicated, not at all! We are help to you; reach out to organisers and just apply at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfsKfP0YrpLWAkE2vDV6miisq27rRAzbHYjPESl4H4dNauKmw/viewform?usp=sf_link. We are always eager hear from newbies. The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.

Guidelines for participation

• Participants are expected to arrive at the venue by the evening of Day 0, and stay until the schedule of Day 2 is complete. Partial participation not allowed.
• 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 wmf:Friendly space policy and the wmf:Code of conduct policy of WMF. Any violation may be reported to User:KCVelaga or anonymously reported through this form. All reports will be carefully investigated and necessary actions will be taken.

List of participants

S.No	Name	Community	S.No	Name	Community
1	User:Abhinav619	Hindi	10	User:QueerEcofeminist	Marathi
2	User:Fredericknoronha	Konkani	11	User:Saileshpat	Odia
3	User:Gazal world	Gujarati	12	User:Shypoetess	Hindi
4	User:Gopala Krishna A	Kannada	13	User:सुबोध कुलकर्णी	Marathi
5	User:Info-farmer	Tamil	14	User:Sumita Roy Dutta	Bengali
6	User:KCVelaga	English	15	User:Thamizhpparithi Maari	Tamil
7	User:Manavpreet Kaur	Punjabi	16	User:Wikilover90	Punjabi
8	User:Marajozkee	Bengali	17	User:AVasanth (WMF)	In staff capacity
9	User:Pavan santhosh.s	Telugu	18	User:SGill (WMF)

Invited experts

S.No	Name	Expertise/Position
1	Col. Ashwin Baindur (retd.)	Veteran Wikipedian and an environmental activist. Previously served as a curator for a military museum.
2	Dr. Madhav Gadgil	Padma Bhushan Recipient, Government Of India,Renowned ecologist and the founder of the Centre for Ecological Sciences
3	Dr. Nanaji Shewale	Librarian, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics
4	Pradeep Rawat	Founder & Director, Rawat's Nature Academy
5	Dr. Shreenand Bapat	Registrar and Curator In-charge, Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute
6	Dr. Sunita Bharve	Senior Technical Officer (Librarian), National Chemical Laboratory

Program

Timings	Topic(s)/Session	Person(s)	Notes
Day 0 (4 Jan 2019)
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm	Day 0 gathering Introductions Briefing about the program Go around GIPE library
Day 1 (5 Jan 2019)
9:00 am to 10:30 am	Inaugural session (Welcome)
	Invited Talk 1 Importance of citations and future of references	Prof. Madhav Gadgil
	Invited Talk 2 Experience of building a library and making the community to use it	Pradeep Rawat
10:30 am to 11:00 am	Introduction to TWL Access to sources Local branches Source sharing Visiting Scholars and Library Interns Reference desks #1lib1ref	User:AVasanth (WMF)
11:05 am to 11:30 pm	Q & A Session + discussion
11:30 pm to 11:45 pm	<--Tea break-->
11:45 pm to 12:30 pm	Invited Talk 3 Present and future trends of library technologies Integration of Wikimedia projects Interaction between Wikimedia community and librarian community	Dr. Sunita Barve
12:30 pm to 2:00 pm	Wikimedia and Libraries in India for TWL’s programs Outside TWL; GLAM etc.	Group activity
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm	<--Lunch-->
3:00 pm to 4:30 pm	Previous session to be continued
4:30 pm to 5:00 pm	<--Tea break-->
5:00 pm to 5:30 pm	Visit to BORI rare books scanning centre Learning best practices about scanning and metadata
5:30 pm to 6:00 pm	Invited Talk 4 Experience of digitizing rare books How Wikimedians can make the best of this resource	Dr. Shreenand Bapat
6:00 pm	<--Break for the day-->
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm	Visit BORI manuscript section (Optional)
Day 2 (6 Jan 2019)
9:00 am to 9:45 am	Introduction to WikiCite	User:SGill (WMF) User:Pavan santhosh.s
9:45 am to 10:30 am	Invited Talk 5 GIPE Dig Lib How we can make the best use of it Possible collaborations Interactions between Librarians and Wikimedians	Dr. Nanaji Shewale
10:30: am to 10:45 am	<--Tea break-->
10:45: am to 11:45 am	Tools Demo of Inventaire and Explore Citation Hunt and its localization OpenRefine	User:AVasanth (WMF) User:KCVelaga User:SGill (WMF)
11:45 am to 12:15 pm	Book purchase program Case studies (Arabic & Punjabi) Should we do it? Yes or no (with reason) If yes, how	User:AVasanth (WMF) User:SGill (WMF)
12:15 pm to 12:45 pm	Knowledge Balance in Indian Wikipedias and role of libraries	User:Lahariyaniyathi
12:45 pm to 1:45 pm	Follow-up discussion and individual projects ideation	Group activity
1:45 pm to 2:30 pm	<--Lunch-->
2:30 pm to 5:30 pm	Open Session (Unconference) Library metadata Buddy system In-depth discussion about TWL Initiating Librarians-Wikipedians network ... anything else
5:30 pm to 6:00 pm	Closing and feedback