Wiki Academy/P S R Rengasamy college of engineering for women, 2011

A Wiki Academy was conducted on January 20,2012 at P S R Rengasamy college of engineering for women, Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu.

Date and Location
January 20,2012 and Punita arora FOSS Lab, P.S.R.Rengasamy College of Engineering for women, Sivakasi

Target audience and preferred language
Students of Computer Science and Information Technology engineering.

Speakers/Facilitators

 * 1) Sohan Maheshwar

Contact Persons at the Organisation

 * 1) Faculty: A.Chidambaresan, Staff coordinator ,
 * PSRR FOSS CLUB, P S R Rengasamy college of engineering for women ,
 * Sevalpatti,Sivakasi. Mobile :09944236897
 * Mail: chidambasakthi@gmail.com
 * 1) Student Coordinators: Miss A.L.SOLAI, Miss P.Shyamaladevi

Volunteers

 * 1) S.Rajeshwari
 * 2) C.Shamli

Participants
The participants of this WikiAcademy mostly consisted of 2nd and 3rd year students in the Computer Science and Information Science streams from PSR Rengaswamy Engineering College.


 * 1)   Solaialagappan
 * 2)  Rajeswari
 * 3)  Shamli
 * 4)  Shyamala devi
 * 5) Chithirai Meenakshi
 * 6) N Nandhini
 * 7) MS Manjula
 * 8) S Suganya
 * 9) R Vellankanni
 * 10) R Thilagavathi
 * 11) R Indradevi
 * 12) K Suganthi
 * 13) P Nithya
 * 14) B Rajalakshmi
 * 15) K Malathi
 * 16) V Karthiyayini
 * 17) S Priyanka
 * 18) V Chitra
 * 19) M Nivetha
 * 20) T Meera
 * 21) Divya N
 * 22) C Vinodhini
 * 23) M Anusaya
 * 24) S Rahmath Reslin
 * 25) H Prasanna
 * 26) S Kavitha
 * 27) M Sathya
 * 28) P Krishnapriya
 * 29) S Muthunareeswari
 * 30) S Aswini
 * 31) M Ramya
 * 32) R Vinothini
 * 33) M Mahalakshmi
 * 34) MS Lakshmi
 * 35) G Santhi
 * 36) G Sruthi Chithra
 * 37) A Nagoor Meera
 * 38) T Vaadaamalar
 * 39) R Mohanapriya
 * 40) S Umamaheshwari
 * 41) S Vijaylakshmi
 * 42) M Muthusarasvathi
 * 43) S Renganayaki
 * 44) M Gayathri
 * 45) S Kamala Saraswathi
 * 46) M Deepa
 * 47) R Jenipa
 * 48) K Banupriya
 * 49) S Krishnnakumari
 * 50) G Aruna
 * 51) R Lakshmi
 * 52) M Jeyalakshmi
 * 53) M Mithila
 * 54) M Renukadevi
 * 55) J Maheshwari
 * 56) R Badmapriya
 * 57) K SuriyaLakshmi
 * 58) KR Indira
 * 59) A Dhivyabharathi
 * 60) A Kayalvizhi
 * 61) Shanthi AM
 * 62) Gowri S
 * 63) C Vijayarani
 * 64) V Sangleshwari
 * 65) J Ramya
 * 66) R SobanaDevi
 * 67) S Parameshwari
 * 68) R SriVaishnavi
 * 69) B Janani
 * 70) J Mariselvi
 * 71) M Arunadevi

Introduction
The first Wiki Academy in P.S.R.Rengasamy College Of Engineering was organized by the Wikimedia chapter and co-hosted by P.S.R.R FOSS Club, CSI-Student Branch of PSRRCEW ,Miss R.Bhuvaneswari,HOD/IT, Mr.A.Chidambaresan, Staff Coordinator / P.S.R.R FOSS Club, Mr.R.Kesavamoorthy CSI-Chapter Incharge, student volunteers A.L.Solai,P.Shyamaladevi,A.Divya,Preethi P.Ramanujam,C.Shamli,S.Rajeswari volunteered for conducing the event. The academy started at 9.30 AM with a formal inauguration by Dr. K.Ramasamy,Principal/PSRR who introduced the agenda of the Wiki Academy to the audience and inaugurate the Wikimedia Academics of P.S.R.R College.Mr.Sohan Maheswar, member, Wikimedia india Chapter gave a small talk about the main agenda of the academy and talk about the nature of the event, few details about Wikipedia, WMF and Chapter and foundation are trying to do in India. He answered questions raised by the audience. The Main Highlight of this workshop is that around 68 members signed up and attended the event. All the participants are women and they are all very much interest in creating pages and editing.

How to Edit Wikipedia
Sohan Maheswar explained basics of Wikipedia, how it is edited by millions of volunteers, how Wikipedia is exclusively encyclopedic and kind of articles and notability of articles in Wikipedia, how Wikipedians communicate and form community, and organization of Wikimedia foundations and active projects. Then he took the audience through active editing by signing up, searching for articles, choosing articles to create. Then he demonstrated about creating an article by using the Edit toolbar, citing the text by searching the web and uploading and adding pictures in articles.

Photos
More photos at: https://picasaweb.google.com/115110124972949612876/CSIStudentBranch_WorkshopOnPublishingArticlesInWikipedia?authuser=0&feat=directlink

Future plans if any
A google group has been setup with the intention of building and collaborating Wiki Articles. To start off, the students have agreed to cleanup and improve the existing Sivakasi wiki article.