Wikipedia:Wikipedia Workshop for Women in Mumbai

Wikipedia–Wikimedia Workshop
Mumbai, India

Wikipedia Women Workshop

10 a.m. ,
Sunday, 4 November 2012

WP:WWWM

Summary

The 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

The 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

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

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

From Wadala

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

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

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

A day well spent

Group photo of participants with volunteers

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 (sourendra.das@gmail.com)
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

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

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).[reply]
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)[reply]
Hope to see this kind of event across county. KuwarOnline ^Talk 18:23, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]

Share your experiences!

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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

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