Wikipedia:Wikipedia Workshop for Women in Mumbai

Wikipedia–Wikimedia Workshop
Mumbai, India

Wikipedia Women Workshop

10 a.m. ,
Sunday, 4 November 2012

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Summary

The Wikipedia Workshop for Women aims to equip its participants with the rudiments of contributing to Wikipedia, and to introduce Wikipedia as an encyclopaedia and a concept to them. The workshop is free of cost and open to all women.

About the workshop

The day-long workshop intends to address the difficulties and challenges faced by women while contributing to Wikipedia and editing its pages. Participants will interact with women Wikipedians. This will provide them an opportunity to learn about Wikipedia in a bias-free, women-only environment.

Wikipedia has become an invaluable destination for millions of Internet users seeking information. However, only a small fraction of Wikipedia’s legion of volunteer editors is female. The large gender gap among editors reflects the gender-oriented disparity in the content of Wikipedia’s articles. This workshop, which will be the first of its kind in Mumbai, would address this concern, and also mark the start of a series of such workshops and women-centric training sessions.

Important information

• As the workshop involves hands-on learning about making contributions to and editing Wikipedia, participants are required to carry a mobile device (laptop, netbook, or tablet).

• We are using the English-language Wikipedia to instruct participants. Before attending the workshop, register on Wikipedia using the Create account link, if you don't have an account already.

• The venue has free Wi-Fi.
• Lunch is on us.

Date and Venue

• Date: 4 November 2012
• Day: Sunday
• Start Time: 10.00 a.m.
• End Time: 4.30 p.m.
• Venue: B 105 Conference hall, Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Wadala
• Maps: Vidyalankar Institute of Technology at the institute's website.

Getting there

From Wadala

• From Wadala road railway station (Harbour Line), walk towards the flyover in the direction of Panvel. (A walk of approx 3 minutes)
• From the start of the flyover, board BEST Bus route number 110, which terminates at Vidyalankar Institute of Technology. (A bus ride of approx 5 minutes)

From Dadar

• From Dadar railway station (Central line and Western line), walk towards Plaza Theatre. (A walk of approx 5 minutes)
• Or board BEST Bus route number 110,from Dadar Railway station. It terminates at Vidyalankar Institute of Technology. (A bus ride of approx 10 minutes)

Schedule

• Session 1: Introduction of all organisers and participants
• Session 2: Participants split into groups
• Session 3: Hands-on editing by participants
• Session 4: 'Why edit Wikipedia?'
• Session 5: 'Adding references to Wikipedia articles'
• Session 6: The concept and practice of 'Notability' in Wikipedia
• Session 7: 'Facts about Wikipedia'
• Lunch break
• Session 8: Session on the Wikimedia Commons
• Session 9: Hands-on session on 'Uploading photos to the Commons' (Group activity)
• Session 10: Quiz time
• Session 11: Women Wikipedians share their experiences

Head home and edit Wikipedia!

Report

A day well spent

Group photo of participants with volunteers

The Wikipedia Workshop for women, held on November 4, 2012 at Vidyalankar Institute of Technology (VIT), Wadala, was indeed a success.

The Wikipedians people who volunteered to organise the workshop are Aditi Juneja, Anshuman Fotedar, Bishakha Datta, Harriet Vidyasagar, Karthik Nadar, Krutikaa Jawanjal, Moksh Juneja, Netha Hussain, Netra Parikh, Nikita Belavate, Noopur Raval, Pradeep Mohandas, Pranav Curumsey, Rohini Lakshane. All discussions and planning done while organizing this workshop for women paid off. More than 70 women participants attended the workshop.

The workshop started with a short introduction after which the participants promptly moved on to learning how to edit Wikipedia which was though by the present on ground volunteers. The participants were divided in groups and every group had to create a new article which wasn't already available on Wikipedia. In the process, women interacted with the volunteers, asked question regarding Wikipedia. Every group at least had added introduction to the new article.

Having done with the basic editing, a general presentation on Wikipedia was given by some of the volunteers. This was followed by question and answers regarding the same. By this time, it was already 1.30pm, so the lunch was announced. After having lunch, the participants got back to their seats. Pretty much everybody stayed back post lunch. Moksh continued with teaching how to edit Wikipedia. This time it wasn't it in groups though. "References" and "Notability" were the main topics that were covered in this session.

Anshuman and Karthik then proceeded with teaching photo uploads on Wikipedia. Quiz was conducted towards the end and Wikipedia-Tshirts were given as prizes for giving right answers. Karthik, then also showcased the winning images of Wiki Loves Momunents 2012 India. The long day came to an end with an overwhelming response and a call for organizing many such activities. The feedback received was positive. The participants enjoyed the workshop.

We are thankful to everybody who made this event a great one. Thanks to all the volunteers. Special thanks to Moksh and Karthik who went out of the way to get everything arranged before hand at the venue, to Netha and Noopur for making it to the workshop and for working hand in hand with the Mumbai Community, to Srikanth Ramakrishnan who constantly stayed in touch for online help.

Special thanks to whole Vidyalankar team. Vishwas Deshpande, Founder of Vidyalankar, who gave us an opportunity to to do the Mumbai's first Wiki Workshop for Women at Vidyalankar. Milind Tadvalkar (Director) and Seema Shah (Principal), Jayprakash Kurmi and Vivek and the complete IT Team at VIT, Mahesh from Canteen for an awesome Pav Bhaji for Lunch. Another thanks to Netra Parikh, for giving us enough place at her office, Pinstorm, for all out pre-meetings. Thanks to all.

Participants

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1. Vaishnavi sawant
2. Alaka Vasant Kumar
3. Sarmistha Neogy
4. Priyal Thakkar
5. Himani Chandra
6. Priya Singh
7. Neha Singh
8. Urmi Sharma
9. Saswati
10. Sunita Jha
11. Shweta Kumar
12. Arundhati Pol
13. Vasudha Patil
14. Gargi Keluskar
15. Harinivaidyanath (talk)harinivaidyanath
16. Parinita Kothari
17. Nidhi Chopra
18. Noopur28
19. Nikita Belavate
20. Harriet Vidyasagar
21. Vijayam Raghunathan
22. Mayuri Naik
23. Krutikaa
24. Roopa Barua
25. Aditi Juneja
26. Netra Parikh
27. Charmy
28. Bishakha
29. Rohini
30. Netha
31. Preeti Mittal
32. Bhawana sahu
33. Rekha Navin
34. Keyuree Dave
35. Suchita Shetty
36. Janshay (talk)Janshay
37. Shashikala
38. Supriya Thigale
39. Tanupareek (talk) tanupareek
40. Bandna Kalra
41. Silkesha Thigale
42. Sangeetha
43. Dhanashree1411
44. Jehnavi
45. Vandana Srivastawa
46. Shweta Mishra
47. Kashbi Patel
48. Afsha Walele
49. Anandita Rao
50. Komal.satpute22 (talk)Komal.satpute22
51. Ankita Chaurasia
52. Sourendra Kumar Das (sourendra.das@gmail.com)
53. Natasha Bhavnani
54. Aanchal Arundati
55. Urbashi
56. Seena Prashanth
57. Dini Herill
58. Kiran Chawla
59. Anshu Tanwani
60. Mansi Joshi
61. Shrutika Singh
62. Shilpa Mazumder
63. sIKU
64. Sonal Kamble
65. Swaneet Bhatia Arora
66. Sheereen Joshi
67. Prerna
68. Rajni Chaudhary
69. Sangeetha Ail
70. Tanvi Mhatre
71. Boo Iyer (talk)Boo Iyer
72. Tulika Dutta
73. Ruchi Patel
74. Snehal
75. Bhavika
76. Manisha Barve
77. Namrata Soni
78. Gouri Chandavarkar
79. Reshmi Pillai Menon
80. Kruttika Pokale
81. Priyanka Hodavdekar
82. Mahafreed
83. Urooj Kazi (talk) Urooj Kazi
84. Ashalataa
85. Akanksha Nehra
86. Richa Dubey
87. Madhavi Kunte
88. Namita Dube
89. Pramita Dubey
90. Vishesh Dube
91. Geeta Dube
92. Yogita Kukreja
93. Shital Shekde
94. Shubhii Kushwaha
95. Sudha Radhakrishnan
96. Amrita upadhyay
97. Sailee Paralkar User:Sailee5
98. Shilpa Gaikwad
99. KavitaSheregar
100. Dianne Earl
101. dhanashree JInde (dhan99)
102. asha karande
103. Suchita Jain
104. Sumita Jain
105. Bharathy Acharya [User: AngelBharathy]
106. Patil Dipali
107. Neha Jha
108. Priya Kumbre

Interested but not sure

1. Pooja Lapasia
2. Nidhi Mahajan
3. Sonu Mewada
4. Arundhati Pol
5. Shweta
6. Shweta Kumar
7. Nikita Talreja
8. Pallavi Pareek
9. Chitra Natarajan
10. Asi87
11. Hiba Rizvi
12. Jyotsna
13. Ddyondi (talk)
14. Ketaki Pole
15. Krishna Bhaya
16. Neha Malhotra [Bangalore $]
17. Pratima
18. Smita Menon
19. Nikita Nathani
20. Sumitra Chatterjee
21. Radha Satam
22. Sheetal Sawhney
23. Dipali belvankar
24. Preeti R Mishra
25. Betty Kent
26. Ananthiedits
27. Arti Ganesh
28. Pia Sengupta
29. Nishita Khanna Saxena
30. Darshi Chovatia
31. Deepali
32. Suchita
33. Radhika
34. Divya
35. Beenu goyal
36. Pavithra K
37. RohiniJ
38. Chandita Mukherjee
39. Pallavi Grover
40. Divya Thabitha Doppala
41. P Aravinda
42. Chamanjit Mangat
43. Challa Sindhu
44. G Vijaya Swati
45. Humanaaz
46. Preeti Swaminathan
47. Reena Chakalakal
48. Siddhika Rane
49. Sharmistha Singh
50. Abha Mishra
51. Anuja Shenoy
52. Juhi Jain
53. Maansi Parpiani
54. Manashree Jani
55. Akriti Tokse
56. Sneha Menon

Best Wishes

1. According to estimates 80-90% of all editors are men. I had posted a note of concern on this matter on the Choupal of the Hindi Wikipedia during the occasion of Raksha Bandhan sometime back. I see this event as the materialisation of my long cherished desire. Hence I strongly support the event and convey my best wishes for its success. Hindustanilanguage (talk) 05:33, 30 October 2012 (UTC).
2. As a long time supporter of the movement, I'd love to help in whatever way I can. I hope this event is highly successful and we can get more women editors. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 12:47, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
3. Hope to see this kind of event across county. KuwarOnline ^Talk 18:23, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
4. Best Wishes. --Anupmehra 20:54, 30 October 2012 (UTC)Anupmehra talk
5. Can't wait to read the minutes and hear how it goes! Wonderful initiative! Jwild (talk) 16:50, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
6. WOW! 100 plus registrations. This is going to be an incredible workshop! Congratulations to everyone! A mailing list would perhaps help connect these new wikipedians. Best wishes! Arunram (talk) 07:57, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

Share your experiences!

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• It was a very wonderful experience. we got a lot knowledge & info about Wikipedia. Thanx to all! - Sailee Paralkar (User : Sailee5)
• It was very wonderful experiences. Thanks for giving information of wikipedia. Juhi Tejwani

Connect

• RSVP at the Facebook event page
• Wikipedia in Mumbai at Facebook
• Tweet with the hashtag #WWWM

External Links about the event

• http://www.techgoss.com/Story/5086S14-Wiki-women-@Mumbai.aspx
• http://hashonomy.com/link/wikipediawikipedia-workshop-for-women-in-mumbai-wikipedia-the-free-encyclopedia-706393/