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Summary
editThe Wikipedia Workshop for Women aims to equip its participants with the rudiments of contributing to Wikipedia, and to introduce Wikipedia as an encyclopaedia and a concept to them. The workshop is free of cost and open to all women.
About the workshop
editThe day-long workshop intends to address the difficulties and challenges faced by women while contributing to Wikipedia and editing its pages. Participants will interact with women Wikipedians. This will provide them an opportunity to learn about Wikipedia in a bias-free, women-only environment.
Wikipedia has become an invaluable destination for millions of Internet users seeking information. However, only a small fraction of Wikipedia’s legion of volunteer editors is female. The large gender gap among editors reflects the gender-oriented disparity in the content of Wikipedia’s articles. This workshop, which will be the first of its kind in Mumbai, would address this concern, and also mark the start of a series of such workshops and women-centric training sessions.
Important information
edit- As the workshop involves hands-on learning about making contributions to and editing Wikipedia, participants are required to carry a mobile device (laptop, netbook, or tablet).
- We are using the English-language Wikipedia to instruct participants. Before attending the workshop, register on Wikipedia using the Create account link, if you don't have an account already.
- The venue has free Wi-Fi.
- Lunch is on us.
Date and Venue
edit- Date: 4 November 2012
- Day: Sunday
- Start Time: 10.00 a.m.
- End Time: 4.30 p.m.
- Venue: B 105 Conference hall, Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Wadala
- Maps: Vidyalankar Institute of Technology at the institute's website.
Getting there
editFrom Wadala
edit- From Wadala road railway station (Harbour Line), walk towards the flyover in the direction of Panvel. (A walk of approx 3 minutes)
- From the start of the flyover, board BEST Bus route number 110, which terminates at Vidyalankar Institute of Technology. (A bus ride of approx 5 minutes)
From Dadar
edit- From Dadar railway station (Central line and Western line), walk towards Plaza Theatre. (A walk of approx 5 minutes)
- Or board BEST Bus route number 110,from Dadar Railway station. It terminates at Vidyalankar Institute of Technology. (A bus ride of approx 10 minutes)
Schedule
edit- Session 1: Introduction of all organisers and participants
- Session 2: Participants split into groups
- Session 3: Hands-on editing by participants
- Session 4: 'Why edit Wikipedia?'
- Session 5: 'Adding references to Wikipedia articles'
- Session 6: The concept and practice of 'Notability' in Wikipedia
- Session 7: 'Facts about Wikipedia'
- Lunch break
- Session 8: Session on the Wikimedia Commons
- Session 9: Hands-on session on 'Uploading photos to the Commons' (Group activity)
- Session 10: Quiz time
- Session 11: Women Wikipedians share their experiences
Head home and edit Wikipedia!
Report
editA day well spent
The Wikipedia Workshop for women, held on November 4, 2012 at Vidyalankar Institute of Technology (VIT), Wadala, was indeed a success.
The Wikipedians people who volunteered to organise the workshop are Aditi Juneja, Anshuman Fotedar, Bishakha Datta, Harriet Vidyasagar, Karthik Nadar, Krutikaa Jawanjal, Moksh Juneja, Netha Hussain, Netra Parikh, Nikita Belavate, Noopur Raval, Pradeep Mohandas, Pranav Curumsey, Rohini Lakshane. All discussions and planning done while organizing this workshop for women paid off. More than 70 women participants attended the workshop.
The workshop started with a short introduction after which the participants promptly moved on to learning how to edit Wikipedia which was though by the present on ground volunteers. The participants were divided in groups and every group had to create a new article which wasn't already available on Wikipedia. In the process, women interacted with the volunteers, asked question regarding Wikipedia. Every group at least had added introduction to the new article.
Having done with the basic editing, a general presentation on Wikipedia was given by some of the volunteers. This was followed by question and answers regarding the same. By this time, it was already 1.30pm, so the lunch was announced. After having lunch, the participants got back to their seats. Pretty much everybody stayed back post lunch. Moksh continued with teaching how to edit Wikipedia. This time it wasn't it in groups though. "References" and "Notability" were the main topics that were covered in this session.
Anshuman and Karthik then proceeded with teaching photo uploads on Wikipedia. Quiz was conducted towards the end and Wikipedia-Tshirts were given as prizes for giving right answers. Karthik, then also showcased the winning images of Wiki Loves Momunents 2012 India. The long day came to an end with an overwhelming response and a call for organizing many such activities. The feedback received was positive. The participants enjoyed the workshop.
We are thankful to everybody who made this event a great one. Thanks to all the volunteers. Special thanks to Moksh and Karthik who went out of the way to get everything arranged before hand at the venue, to Netha and Noopur for making it to the workshop and for working hand in hand with the Mumbai Community, to Srikanth Ramakrishnan who constantly stayed in touch for online help.
Special thanks to whole Vidyalankar team. Vishwas Deshpande, Founder of Vidyalankar, who gave us an opportunity to to do the Mumbai's first Wiki Workshop for Women at Vidyalankar. Milind Tadvalkar (Director) and Seema Shah (Principal), Jayprakash Kurmi and Vivek and the complete IT Team at VIT, Mahesh from Canteen for an awesome Pav Bhaji for Lunch. Another thanks to Netra Parikh, for giving us enough place at her office, Pinstorm, for all out pre-meetings. Thanks to all.
Participants
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- Vaishnavi sawant
- Alaka Vasant Kumar
- Sarmistha Neogy
- Priyal Thakkar
- Himani Chandra
- Priya Singh
- Neha Singh
- Urmi Sharma
- Saswati
- Sunita Jha
- Shweta Kumar
- Arundhati Pol
- Vasudha Patil
- Gargi Keluskar
- Harinivaidyanath (talk)harinivaidyanath
- Parinita Kothari
- Nidhi Chopra
- Noopur28
- Nikita Belavate
- Harriet Vidyasagar
- Vijayam Raghunathan
- Mayuri Naik
- Krutikaa
- Roopa Barua
- Aditi Juneja
- Netra Parikh
- Charmy
- Bishakha
- Rohini
- Netha
- Preeti Mittal
- Bhawana sahu
- Rekha Navin
- Keyuree Dave
- Suchita Shetty
- Janshay (talk)Janshay
- Shashikala
- Supriya Thigale
- Tanupareek (talk) tanupareek
- Bandna Kalra
- Silkesha Thigale
- Sangeetha
- Dhanashree1411
- Jehnavi
- Vandana Srivastawa
- Shweta Mishra
- Kashbi Patel
- Afsha Walele
- Anandita Rao
- Komal.satpute22 (talk)Komal.satpute22
- Ankita Chaurasia
- Sourendra Kumar Das ([email protected])
- Natasha Bhavnani
- Aanchal Arundati
- Urbashi
- Seena Prashanth
- Dini Herill
- Kiran Chawla
- Anshu Tanwani
- Mansi Joshi
- Shrutika Singh
- Shilpa Mazumder
- sIKU
- Sonal Kamble
- Swaneet Bhatia Arora
- Sheereen Joshi
- Prerna
- Rajni Chaudhary
- Sangeetha Ail
- Tanvi Mhatre
- Boo Iyer (talk)Boo Iyer
- Tulika Dutta
- Ruchi Patel
- Snehal
- Bhavika
- Manisha Barve
- Namrata Soni
- Gouri Chandavarkar
- Reshmi Pillai Menon
- Kruttika Pokale
- Priyanka Hodavdekar
- Mahafreed
- Urooj Kazi (talk) Urooj Kazi
- Ashalataa
- Akanksha Nehra
- Richa Dubey
- Madhavi Kunte
- Namita Dube
- Pramita Dubey
- Vishesh Dube
- Geeta Dube
- Yogita Kukreja
- Shital Shekde
- Shubhii Kushwaha
- Sudha Radhakrishnan
- Amrita upadhyay
- Sailee Paralkar User:Sailee5
- Shilpa Gaikwad
- KavitaSheregar
- Dianne Earl
- dhanashree JInde (dhan99)
- asha karande
- Suchita Jain
- Sumita Jain
- Bharathy Acharya [User: AngelBharathy]
- Patil Dipali
- Neha Jha
- Priya Kumbre
Interested but not sure
edit- Pooja Lapasia
- Nidhi Mahajan
- Sonu Mewada
- Arundhati Pol
- Shweta
- Shweta Kumar
- Nikita Talreja
- Pallavi Pareek
- Chitra Natarajan
- Asi87
- Hiba Rizvi
- Jyotsna
- Ddyondi (talk)
- Ketaki Pole
- Krishna Bhaya
- Neha Malhotra [Bangalore $]
- Pratima
- Smita Menon
- Nikita Nathani
- Sumitra Chatterjee
- Radha Satam
- Sheetal Sawhney
- Dipali belvankar
- Preeti R Mishra
- Betty Kent
- Ananthiedits
- Arti Ganesh
- Pia Sengupta
- Nishita Khanna Saxena
- Darshi Chovatia
- Deepali
- Suchita
- Radhika
- Divya
- Beenu goyal
- Pavithra K
- RohiniJ
- Chandita Mukherjee
- Pallavi Grover
- Divya Thabitha Doppala
- P Aravinda
- Chamanjit Mangat
- Challa Sindhu
- G Vijaya Swati
- Humanaaz
- Preeti Swaminathan
- Reena Chakalakal
- Siddhika Rane
- Sharmistha Singh
- Abha Mishra
- Anuja Shenoy
- Juhi Jain
- Maansi Parpiani
- Manashree Jani
- Akriti Tokse
- Sneha Menon
Best Wishes
edit- According to estimates 80-90% of all editors are men. I had posted a note of concern on this matter on the Choupal of the Hindi Wikipedia during the occasion of Raksha Bandhan sometime back. I see this event as the materialisation of my long cherished desire. Hence I strongly support the event and convey my best wishes for its success. Hindustanilanguage (talk) 05:33, 30 October 2012 (UTC).
- As a long time supporter of the movement, I'd love to help in whatever way I can. I hope this event is highly successful and we can get more women editors. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 12:47, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
- Hope to see this kind of event across county. KuwarOnline Talk 18:23, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
- Best Wishes. --Anupmehra 20:54, 30 October 2012 (UTC)Anupmehra talk
- Can't wait to read the minutes and hear how it goes! Wonderful initiative! Jwild (talk) 16:50, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
- WOW! 100 plus registrations. This is going to be an incredible workshop! Congratulations to everyone! A mailing list would perhaps help connect these new wikipedians. Best wishes! Arunram (talk) 07:57, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
Share your experiences!
editPlease share your experiences and sign using "~~~~"
- It was a very wonderful experience. we got a lot knowledge & info about Wikipedia. Thanx to all! - Sailee Paralkar (User : Sailee5)
- It was very wonderful experiences. Thanks for giving information of wikipedia. Juhi Tejwani
Connect
edit- RSVP at the Facebook event page
- Wikipedia in Mumbai at Facebook
- Tweet with the hashtag #WWWM