Wikipedia:Academy/India/2009/Mangalore 1

Department of Mass Communications and Al Madhyam of the St. Aloysius College, Mangalore in collaboration with Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore are holding a State-level Wiki-Academy in Mangalore on 22nd August, 2009. The one-day workshop will focus on the use of Indian languages in Wikipedia, editing and its application in academics. Registration is free. Register before 21st August for the workshop. Registrations are also open on the day of the event. Wikipedia editors will speak about the history of Wikipedia and its role in making information freely available to people in several languages. They will also provide hands-on training on editing and improving articles on Wikipedia.

Venue: Eric Mathias Hall, IT Block, St. Aloysius College, Mangalore

Date: Saturday. 22nd August, 9.00 AM.

Wikipedia is a free web-based and collaborative multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its name is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning "quick") and encyclopedia. Wikipedia's 13 million articles (3 million in English) have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone who can access the Wikipedia website.

Wikipedia Academies are public outreach events, usually lasting one or two days. They are designed to coach academics and other experts in how to contribute to Wikipedia, and to foster a positive impression of Wikipedia. Their main purpose is to increase the quality and – to a lesser extent – the quantity of articles in Wikipedia. Such Academies are normally staged as conferences for roughly 80–200 people. They often focus on encouraging contributions from a particular language, or to a specific field.

Schedule
Speakers
 * Hari Prasad Nadig
 * Prashanth NS

Bring your laptops with your internet cards
 * Introduction to Wiki, Wikipedia, Collectives and Collaboration. Talk/Presentation
 * Indian Languages on Wikipeda.. Talk/Presentation
 * Wiki: in Academic context. Talk/Presentation
 * Editing Wikipedia. Group activity/Hands-on training