Wiki Academy/Cochin University of Science and Technology

A Wiki Academy was conducted on January 5, 2012 at Cochin University of Science and Technology campus, Kochi, Kerala.

Date and Location
January 5, 2012 at Computer Lab, Department of Computer Applications, CUSAT

Target audience and preferred language
Students at CUSAT

Registered Members

 * 1) Ditty Mathew - dittyvkm@gmail.com
 * 2) Santhosh Kumar Gopalan - san@cusat.ac.in
 * 3) Kumar Vimal-kmrvimal@gmail.com
 * 4) Moosa Mehar M.P - meharmp@gmail.com
 * 5) Pradeepraja- pradeepraja@in.com
 * 6) Ligi Mariam George- ligigeorge1989@gmail.com
 * 7) Arsha Vijayan- aarshavs@gmail.com
 * 8) Eldo P. Elias- eldope@gmail.com
 * 9) Sheeba- sheeba.asi@gmail.com
 * 10) Jayakumar - jayanmadhavan@gmail.com
 * 11) Radhakrishnan- pmrk@cusat.ac.in
 * 12) Tony Thomas -tonythomas88@gmail.com
 * 13) Binitha K S -ammu.binitha@gmail.com
 * 14) Sunil M J - smjsmj1@live.com
 * 15) Sheena Mathew
 * 16) Shilparamesh- shilparamesh123@gmail.com
 * 17) Meenumathew- meenumathew@gmail.com
 * 18) Neethurosemathew- neethurose@gmail.com
 * 19)  - raghutv@gmail.com
 * 20) Anoop Jose - anoopcjose@gmail.com
 * 21) Dr. Radhakrishnan P M - pmrk@cusat.ac.in

Speakers/Facilitators

 * 1) Anilkumar KV
 * 2) Sivahari

Contact Persons at the Organisation

 * 1) Faculty: G Santhosh Kumar, Dept of Computer Science
 * 2) Student Coordinator:Ditty Mathew, Ph: 09446582918, email:dittyvkm@gmail.com

Participants

 * 1) Rijin S
 * 2) Dwijith R A
 * 3) Ajith Kumar
 * 4) Ashim Kumar
 * 5) Anas P A
 * 6) Thanooja M K
 * 7) Sarvajeet
 * 8) Sreejith P C
 * 9) Rajeev K
 * 10) Poorvank Bhatia
 * 11) Pallova Prasoon
 * 12) Rahul Ranjan
 * 13) Soumya R
 * 14) Anoop Vazhayil George
 * 15) Ramkumar R
 * 16) Mini U
 * 17) Santhosh Kumar M B
 * 18) Rajeesh Rajagopal
 * 19) Dr M S Jayakumar
 * 20) Ashish Kumar
 * 21) Aswathi K
 * 22) Hari Krishnan T V
 * 23) Jabir V
 * 24) Krishna P S
 * 25) Neethu Iype
 * 26) Sachith K N
 * 27) Shilpa M P
 * 28) Viji T V
 * 29) Ditty Mathew
 * 30) G Santhosh Kumar
 * 31) Kumar Vimal
 * 32) Moosa Mehar M P
 * 33) Pradeep Raja
 * 34) Ligi Mariyam George
 * 35) Arsha Vijiyan
 * 36) Sheeba L
 * 37) Simily Joseph
 * 38) Radhakrishnan
 * 39) Tony Thomas
 * 40) Binitha K S
 * 41) Sheena Mathew
 * 42) Shilpa Ramesh
 * 43) Meenu Mathew
 * 44) Neethu Rose Mathew
 * 45) Remya A R
 * 46) Binu V P
 * 47) Ancy Zachariah
 * 48) Sheena S
 * 49) Mithin Mohan
 * 50) Eby Jose
 * 51) Karthik Sivadas
 * 52) Mithun P
 * 53) Binoy Balu
 * 54) Abdul Shukoor K T
 * 55) Hrishikesh t T
 * 56) Farhan Hassan
 * 57) Kirtana Muralidharan
 * 58) Nishanth Samuael Fenn
 * 59) Rajeesh P
 * 60) Muhsin N P
 * 61) Rajalakshmi V R
 * 62) Anilkumar KV
 * 63) Sivahari

Custom brochure for the event
Brochure for the event

Report
61 people participated in this wiki academy. Dr K V Pramod(HOD Department of Computer Applications) welcomed the participants. Anilkumar K V provided an overview of Wikimedia India Chapter and Wikipedia. Sivahari took the practical session of editing Wikipedia. Anilkumar and Ditty helped the participants during the session. Then an open discussion was took over by Anilkumar. This discussion covers the authenticity in wikipedia and policies taken in wikipedia. Then Ditty took a session on Integrating OpenStreetMap to Wikipedia which made participants to know about OpenStreetMap and this integration process setup.

Photos
More photos are at Commons:Category:Malayalam wiki studyclass - Cusat 05 January 2012

Future plans if any

 * 1) To start a new model wiki project in Malayalam wikipedia to integrate it with Openstreetmap