Wikimedians in Chennai are getting together for an editathon to improve articles in ornithology and other aspects of nature around them. The two day workshop will be aided by User:Shyamal User:Shankar_Raman User:PJeganathan Neethidoss (For Tamil Wikipedia) The workshop will be both in English and Tamil.
Part of the facilitation will include helping identify and obtain reliable sources, learning to structure an article, paraphrase, cite and otherwise polish up articles that the participants choose to improve (we have a long menu of articles to choose from).
Partners: WikiProject Nature and conservation in India Madras Naturalists' Society
Date and Venue edit
Date: Saturday, 27-January-2018
Time: 10:00 AM IST to 05:00 PM IST
Date: Sunday, 28-January-2018
Time: 07:00 AM IST to 03:00 PM IST
Venue :
Post Graduate Research Institute in Animal Sciences (map)
Kattupakkam,
Konathi Village Main Road,
Potheri, Kattankulathur,
Tamil Nadu 603203
Getting there edit
Post Graduate Research Institute in Animal Sciences is situated in Kattankalathur and near to Potheri Railway Station
Self-learning links edit
- A tutorial on Wikipedia
- Create an account now
- Evaluating Wikipedia articles
- Wikipedia editing cheatsheet - PDF
- Adding references in Wikipedia Help:Referencing_for_beginners Using Zotero
- Some copyright basics slides Choosing a license
Agenda edit
Day 1 (27-January-2018) :
Morning :
- Session on history, philosophy and social dynamics of Wikipedia
- Session on basics of researching and editing
Afternoon :
- Hands-on editing on a few topics we choose
Day 2 (28-January-2018) :
- Short session on copyrights, licensing, Wikidata and Wikimedia commons
- Uploading media based on certain topics
- Editing based on the media uploaded
Working Lunch will be provided for confirmed participants on both the days.
Topics edit
- To be decided
- Suggested by Tamil Wikipedians - remove red links from list
What to Bring Along edit
- Your laptop
- Any reference books relevant to the topics you want to edit
- Photos / Media to upload to [commons.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Commons]
- Camera
Intended Audience edit
Anyone with an interest in birds and natural history who routinely seeks information and reads up on the subject.
Registration edit
The event has limited seats for participation.Hence, attendees are requested to fill this registration page.
Participants edit
Participants - please register yourself on well in advance and enter yourself below. If you are logged in, you only need to click on the edit link next to this section and type # ~~~~ at the end of this list. Welcome to !
- Shyamal (talk) 07:21, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
- Subbush (talk) 07:22, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
- PJeganathan (talk) 08:03, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
- Shankar Raman (talk) 12:53, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
- Raghu-bhanu (talk) 06:35, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
- Alpharajarajan (talk) 12:21, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
- Neethidoss (talk) 12:35, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
- Venkyvet (talk) 07:09, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
- Arunprasath G (talk) 07:14, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
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- Romiomoirangthem (talk) 07:33, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
- Sajithamahendran (talk) 05:05, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
- Sreekumar Chirukandoth (talk) 09:04, 28 January 2018 (UTC)