Wiki Academy/Netaji Subhash Engineering College

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Date and Location

 * Date : 25th January,2012


 * Location : Netaji Subhash Engineering College


 * Directions:Find Us on Map

Agenda
WikiAcademy is the Half-Day workshop to sensitize participants about Wikipedia and to enable them to use and contribute to the sum of human knowledge.

Structure:
 * Theory: 1.5hour


 * Wikipedia History and Overview


 * Wikipedia Policies


 * Setting up computer for Indian Languages ( For participants interested in Indian Languages)


 * Internet Lab: 1.5hour


 * Browsing Wikipedia


 * Editing Wikipedia


 * Using the Sandbox

Schedule:

Objectives:


 * Get to know the fifth website in terms of highest page views
 * Acquire and share knowledge
 * Learn how to edit Wikipedia

Target audience and preferred language

 * Students of Netaji Subhash Engineering College.
 * Internet Users.
 * Wikipedia readers.
 * Wikipedia Contributers.

 Preffered language 

English, Hindi and Bengali.

Speakers/Facilitators

 * Jayanta Nath, Administrator, Bengali Wikipedia and Bengali Wikibooks, Bengali SIG Chair
 * Hisham Mundol, Consultant, Wikimedia Foundation India
 * Kalyan Sarkar, Kolkata SIG Chair

Discussion Forums
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Coordinators
destinykamal.bahety@gmail.com, Call at: 9674298412 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001337662437
 * Kamal Bahety

sbose78@gmail.com, Call at: 9433017458 ; Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shoubhik.bose
 * Shoubhik Bose

sucheta.ghoshal@gmail.com, Call at: 8981153387 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001018403952
 * Sucheta Ghoshal,

ayon5000@gmail.com, call at: 9830122434 , Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000663343057
 * Ayon Banerjee ,

shankhamita@yahoo.co.in , Call at: 9051820546 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1390243093
 * Shankhamita Choudhury,

Attending

 * 1) Sucheta Ghoshal
 * 2) Shankhamita Choudhury
 * 3) JNUI CHATTOPADHYAY
 * 4) Prantik Mukherjee
 * 5) Yati Sagade
 * 6) Ayush Agarwal
 * 7) Soumya Sinha
 * 8) basit seraj
 * 9) Dwaipayan Kundu
 * 10) aditya nath
 * 11) Sougata Das
 * 12) Sujan Chakraborty
 * 13) TAPAS NATH PAUL
 * 14) Aditya kumar jha
 * 15) ASHISH KUMAR
 * 16) SUMIT NANDI
 * 17) Sayantani Sensharma
 * 18) Kaushik Basak Chowdhury
 * 19) Nirmalya Dhar
 * 20) Pratip Aditya
 * 21) milap mukherjee
 * 22) md ali mejar
 * 23) Subhamay Ghoshal
 * 24) RAJEEV
 * 25) Asit Krishna Deva
 * 26) MURCHHANA
 * 27) Pradeep Kumar Singh
 * 28) Atanu Ghosh
 * 29) ANURAG MANDAL
 * 30) PRAKASH KUMAR SINHA
 * 31) Ankita Agasti
 * 32) ALOK KUMAR
 * 33) Sneha Bhattacharya
 * 34) vikash kumar
 * 35) Debjeet Sarkar
 * 36) Shoubhik Bose
 * 37) sushant kumar
 * 38) Shiv shankar
 * 39) Saurabh Suman
 * 40) debanjan kundu
 * 41) dwaipyan paul
 * 42) Shamik Ray
 * 43) Tanuj Kar
 * 44) rajarshi mukherjee
 * 45) PRIY RAHUL MISHRA
 * 46) Puja Singh
 * 47) Amit Kumar Pandey
 * 48) Ranjan kumar singh
 * 49) SOUVIK BAGH
 * 50) Somdut Dey
 * 51) Sandeep Joy
 * 52) Kunal Gaurav
 * 53) Arindam Sarkar
 * 54) SURANJAN GANGULY
 * 55) debanshu roychoudhury
 * 56) Debangika Chakraborty
 * 57) NAYANIKA SEN
 * 58) VIJAY KUMAR
 * 59) Rohon Ghosh
 * 60) Abhishek kumar
 * 61) Arijit Bhattacharjee
 * 62) MANU BAJPAI
 * 63) Sourya Dewan
 * 64) KAMAL BAHETY
 * 65) Vishal Anand
 * 66) TAPOMOY BHOWMIK
 * 67) SNEHA MUKHERJEE
 * 68) Shukla gupta
 * 69) DEBASHIS SAHA
 * 70) Mrityunjay Kumar Ray
 * 71) Bhaswar Dutta Gupta
 * 72) Arindam Sarkar
 * 73) chandra shekhar kumar
 * 74) Shivam Guha
 * 75) Sougata Satpati
 * 76) DEVAMRITA BISWAS
 * 77) Ravi Shankar Mishra
 * 78) Moazzam Iqbal
 * 79) Rahul anand
 * 80) DEVAMRITA BISWAS
 * 81) Sombuddha Banerjee
 * 82) Srinjoy Das
 * 83) Ayon Banerjee
 * 84) ARUNAVA MITRA
 * 85) angshuk dutta
 * 86) sushant kumar
 * 87) santanu jana
 * 88) suprit raj
 * 89) Sujan Banik
 * 90) BIKESH KUMAR SINGH
 * 91) Suvam Koley
 * 92) Rubel Bhattacharjee
 * 93) Diptyajit Das
 * 94) Nirnoy Dass
 * 95) SOUVIK BISWAS
 * 96) Mayukh Saha
 * 97) Ravi kumar
 * 98) TITHI BANERJEE
 * 99) SAYARI ROY
 * 100) Soumaydeep Chandra
 * 101) SOUMYADEV GUHA
 * 102) Preetha Mukherjee
 * 103) arindam dutta
 * 104) sourav baul
 * 105) ABHAY BHUSHAN
 * 106) Raghabendra Nath Das
 * 107) Arpita Bhunia
 * 108) archan sarkar
 * 109) Baidyanath Dutta

Attended

 * 1) Sucheta Ghoshal
 * 2) Shankhamita Choudhury
 * 3) Prantik Mukherjee
 * 4) Sougata Das
 * 5) Tapas Nath Paul
 * 6) Ashish Kumar
 * 7) Sumit Nandi
 * 8) Sayantani Sensharma
 * 9) Nirmalya Dhar
 * 10) Pratip Aditya
 * 11) Milap Mukherjee
 * 12) Rajeev
 * 13) Pradeep Kumar Singh
 * 14) Atanu Ghosh
 * 15) Anurag Mandal
 * 16) Ankita Agasti
 * 17) Alok Kumar
 * 18) Sneha Bhattacharya
 * 19) Shoubhik Bose
 * 20) Debanjan Kundu
 * 21) Shamik Ray
 * 22) Puja Singh
 * 23) Souvik Bagh
 * 24) Somdut Dey
 * 25) Sandeep Joy
 * 26) Kunal Gaurav
 * 27) Debanshu Roychoudhury
 * 28) Debangika Chakraborty
 * 29) Nayanika Sen
 * 30) Vijay Kumar
 * 31) Rohon Ghosh
 * 32) Kamal Bahety
 * 33) Sneha Mukherjee
 * 34) Bhaswar Dutta Gupta
 * 35) Shivam Guha
 * 36) Devamitra Biswas
 * 37) Ravi Shankar Mishra
 * 38) Sombuddha Banerjee
 * 39) Srinjoy Das
 * 40) Ayon Banerjee
 * 41) Angshuk Dutta
 * 42) Sushant Kumar
 * 43) Santanu Jana
 * 44) Suprit Raj
 * 45) Sujan Banik
 * 46) Diptyajit Das
 * 47) Nirnoy Dass
 * 48) Tithi Banerjee
 * 49) Sayari Roy
 * 50) Soumaydeep Chandra
 * 51) Soumyadev Guha
 * 52) Preetha Mukherjee
 * 53) Sourav Baul
 * 54) Abhay Bhushan
 * 55) Raghabendra Nath Das
 * 56) Baidyanath Dutta
 * 57) Taniya Saha
 * 58) Abhra Layek
 * 59) Manish Kumar
 * 60) Ravi Ranjan
 * 61) Aamna Najmi
 * 62) Md. Sharib Kausher
 * 63) Ankit Sinha
 * 64) Avishek Mitra
 * 65) Kundan Kumar Sharma
 * 66) Sruti Dey Sarkar
 * 67) Rituparna Sarkar
 * 68) Soumi Talukdar
 * 69) Roshni Roy
 * 70) Payel Lakhotia
 * 71) Sanchita Basak
 * 72) Soumik Dutta
 * 73) Abhishek Kumar Singh
 * 74) Rajan Bhardwaj
 * 75) Subodh Kumar
 * 76) Gaurav Bose
 * 77) Rajeev Kumar
 * 78) Indrajeet Singh

Evangelists
Evangelists are the prime-movers. If you are passionate about Wikipedia, tell us ASAP how you wish to contribute to the community.After all, the 5th busiest website in the world runs merely on passionate people contributing to the trove of knowledge !

Report
Prior to the official start of the workshop, Hisham Mundol and Jayantha Nath checked out the arrangements in the OS and System Programming lab. After we were all set, students who had been waiting outside filled up the lab and within a span of 20 mintues, 80 passionate young learners were sitting in the lab. It was a spectacle to see students boot their computers to the Wikipedia homepage in their Firefox browsers.

Hisham Mundol kicked off the workshop by appreciating the passionate work of the coordinators who along with Phoenix ( the official tech club of NSEC) had made the necessary arrangements for the workshop. He started proceedings with a flurry of mind-boggling questions like “Who writes Wikipedia articles? “, “Why doesn’t Wikipedia collapse?”. The introductory session yielded great enthusiasm which set the stage for the 3-hour Wikipedia learning and editing session. Statistics were given to the students and they include : “Wikipedia, the 5th most visited website” and” India is the 6th greatest contributor to Wikipedia (in terms of funds)”.



The workshop continued with the “Anatomy of a Wikipedia article”. “Let it be” (Song by Beatles) was used as a reference.

There was an unexpected glitch when users were blocked from creating new user accounts (only 6 were allowed). After some debugging, we realised the exception of the 6-accounts-per-IP address had been added for an incorrect IP Address. The issue however remained unsolved.

The session progressed with Jayantha Nath explaining ”How to edit Wikipedia”. Students edited some articles and ran the “Show preview” feature. Doubts related to the Wiki markup was discussed.

Jayantha Nath explained the significance of references and how to add them.He and Kalyan Sarkar discussed the state of Bangla Wikipedia and that a lot of regular contribution was necessary to make it grow, considering the low ratio of Bangla Wikipedia articles and Bengali speakers in the world.

Hisham Mundol discussed how important NPoV (Neutral Point of View) is while writing/editing a Wikipedia article. He also discussed why bloggers are not always great Wikipedia editors.

Topics and issues like: “Do not argue that corporations are criminals, even if the author believes it to be so.”, “‎Do not copy-paste to Wikipedia what I got from somewhere else.” were discussed extensively.

Hisham continued explaining the identification and significance of reliable and unreliable sources. Then he moved on to demonstrating how to add articles in the user space without actually publishing it. We learnt that Wikipedia enhances writing and research skills. Moreover, Editing Wikipedia helps you to learn to analyse situations neutrally.

The rigorous yet fun session ended with the distribution of Wikipedia badges and stickers. We concluded the session by felicitating the speakers with bouquets and souvenirs.