Wiki For Senior Citizens Network/Meetups

Senior Citizens Network First Inuagural Meet-Up

We had our first Inaugral meet-up on the 5th of August with an introduction to the Wikimedia Foundation and the sister projects. The meeting/training/ emphasized on why volunteering for Wikimedia is an excellent way to spend retirement life. The trainings were designed to enable proper assimilation and to awaken and sustain their interest in contributing to the wiki projects. After the training on the basic norms of Wikipedia, the training continued on Wikipedia projects including English Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wiki commons. After each training, there was an edit a thon, and a competition that concentrated on edits to improve content on the project trained on and not to create new content. Throughout this process, the participants were guided by experienced editors. After the series of edit a thons and competitions, They were encouraged to continue editing and to participate in other programs like contexts etc