Wiki Academy/Nandha Engineering College

Agenda
WikiAcademy is the Half-Day workshop to sensitize participants about Wikimedia projects 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 and other Wikimedia Projects


 * Editing Wikipedia, Commons and other sister projects


 * 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

Proposed Date and Location

 * Date - not yet decided

Target audience and preferred language

 * Engineering students
 * Tamil & English

Speakers/Facilitators

 * 1) TBD [To be filled by WM-IN]

Contact Persons at the Organisation

 * 1) Faculty: S. Kavitha, Dean, Department of ECE, Nandha Engineering College
 * 2) Student Coordinator: [TBD]

Volunteers

 * 1) Dineshkumar Ponnusamy - English, Tamil, Commons