User:SantoshiTiwari

Santoshi Tiwari
संतोषी तिवारी

-Proposed a Bid for Nashik along with community for WikiConference India 2016.

- Working on Wikipedia's Nashik Page.

- Working on Kumbathon article.

- Leading an event in Nashik called "Wiki takes Nashik".

-Taking an initiative to start "Wikipedia Club Nashik".

-Working to create more pages related to health and Women in architecture.

Kumbhathon Event in Nashik
Kumbhathon, a Seven days awaited event, was being conducted in Nashik. It contains many different projects, out of which, " Wiki Takes Nashik" is the Mega project, the team is working on updating Nashik's page at its best.

Aim:
 * Involve as many school and college students as well as teaching staff.
 * Spread awareness about the Wikipedia community and about how to contribute to it.
 * Enhance Nashik's Wikipedia page and provide Wikipedia users more information about Kumbhmela.
 * Uploading of the pictures of Nashik to give the readers the look and feel of the various aspects of the city.

Achievements till Day 3:
 * Connected students and teaching staffs from Purushottam English School, one of the largest schools in Maharashtra in the initiative.
 * Foundation of team, the students from different backgrounds.
 * Presented the planned structure about "Wiki updates Nashik" initiative before the panel of corporate experts.
 * Fruitful discussion with Abhishek Suryawanshi about how to take the initiative forward and create a Nashik Wikipedian Club.

Day 4 at Kumbhathon :
 * Conducted the Wikipedia Awareness drive at Bytco College in Nashik Road, asked Students to submit a paragraph with references and be a part of " Wiki Takes Nashik " Campaign.
 * Team did a field work and went to different shops and Vendors to spread the Wikipedia campaign drive.
 * Worked on Wikipedia Nashik's page.

Day 5,6,7 at Kumbhathon :
 * Uploaded photos related to Nashik.
 * Interaction with different Nashik's corporate people and Government related to data collection and awareness camp.
 * Around 10,000 kb data added to Nashik Page.
 * Sudden increase in traffic.
 * Raised to 2000 page views per day.
 * Had an Interview with Nashik's Local Newspaper Sakal about the progress of the team and further plans.

Further Activities
A general meeting conducted at Pune on 8th Aug,2015 for further planning of the Wikipedia activities in Nashik. Various ideas and further road map of activities to be conducted in Nashik for data gathering and editing were discussed.

Meeting of all members to be held on every 2nd Sunday of the Month. Documentation of all the activities. Broad topics for activities. Health to be focused on as key issue for data. More data creation and updating on Local Languages like Marathi and Hindi. Initiative: Sanskrit language to be introduced. Involve as many editors to create new pages and do quality writing.
 * Points Discussed :
 * Execution :
 * Projects to be targeted:
 * Pages Related to Health.
 * Women related pages like Women Entrepreneur.
 * Along with Text writing, engage people for working on Photos, audio and visual contents.
 * Start “Wiki Club Nashik”, wherein the people can join for different activities, learn how to edit and do quality writing and enhance the page.

Wikipedia Club Nashik
Club activities will include:
 * Lead fun Wikipedia Orientation workshops
 * Periodic Interesting Field Trips to various places (Multiplexes,theaters,car factories,blood banks, etc)
 * Increase Content on Languages like Hindi and Marathi Wikipedia
 * Engage in collaborative editing to improve quality of articles
 * Conduct tours like ''Wikipedia