Wikipedia:Meetup/Chennai/Chennai4

Summary
The Wikipedia academy in Kurukshetra 2012, Techno Management Fest organized in the College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, Chennai, Tamilnadu during February 1-4, 2012 with a join collaboration with UNESCO is an event to meet up, discuss, share experiences, reach out and advocate for Wikipedia and Wikimedia.

The meetups are intended to be structured as follows —Introductions, a few focused talks by Wikipedians to share experience / expertise followed by demos and open discussions on topics of common interest.

Pre-Academy discussions can be on the talk page please.

Date and Venue
Date: : Sunday, 04-February-2012 Venue: College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, Guindy Chennai - 600 032, India

Intended Audience
Anyone interested in Wikipedia (user, contributor or curious about it). Wikipedians from any part of India or the world and anyone who is interested in Wikipedia! Meetup is open to members of all Wikimedia projects and Wikipedians from all languages. All are welcome, and we are especially interested in seeing newcomers to join the experienced Wikipedians/Wikimedians. If you are interested in coming, please add your name below.

Getting there
View Map Location: College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai
 * Nearest Bus Stop: Gandhi Mandapam/Engineering College bus stop on Sardar Patel Road is just outside the gate and is accessible by all bus routes between saidapet and adyar
 * Nearest Railway Station: Kasturibai Nagar on the Chennai MRTS (1.5km), Guindy on South Line, Chennai Suburban (2.5km)

Agenda

 * Meet and connect: Introductions by Wikipedians.
 * Talks -- Surya Prakash
 * Introduction to Wikipedia
 * Introduction to MediaWiki
 * Introduction to Tamil Wikipedia / Wiki projects
 * Activity: How to edit Wikipedia
 * Discussions
 * Networking

Participants
To add your name, click "edit" on the right side. Then add your name and click "save page" button below the edit box. You are also welcome to attend the event without registering your name here.

Organizers

 * 1) Surya Prakash

Attended

 * 1) Surya Prakash
 * 2) Subha

Signed up

 * 1) Amarnath D
 * 2) Subha

Wishes

 * 1) --  ɑηsuмaη  ʈ ᶏ ɭ Ϟ

Announcements/Event Notices
Please list external links announcing the academy here.

Summary
An introductory session about "Introduction to Wikipedia" at "Kurukshetra2012", an international tech fest at College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai was attended by 2 wikipedians Subhashish and Surya and 45 students. This event was intended to bring awareness among students attending this fest about writing articles in the Wikipedia. Subhashish took the audience through a presentation explaining basics of Wikipedia, how they can edit Wikipedia, what they can edit in Wikipedia. Later on the students questioned about authenticity of articles edited by multiple editors and there was a discussion regarding that. Students also questioned if Wikipedia editing will help them to gain some qualities and certifications which will help them during their campus placements. There were also questions regarding Technical projects and questions regarding jobs at Wikimedia. There were curious folks who questioned abut the cause of blackout against SOPA and PIPA!

The questions asked by students had lot of valid points regarding notability and authenticity of Wikipedia articles, there is need for documentation of them in the form of FAQs, So, majority of the important questions and answers to them would be documented in the meta page of Outreach Program Handbook FAQ.

After the discussion Surya spoke about Tamil Wikipedia and the on going Tamil Media Contest.

Attendees socialized and had a group photo session after this session.

Twitter

 * Tweet with #WPMCH4 twitter hashtag http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23WPMCH4

Media coverage
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Photos
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