Wikipedia:WikiConnect



WikiConnect is a proposed large-scale project that will connect Wikipedia with rural and those people who don't have direct access to Wikipedia.

Proposed works
These are the proposed works of the project—


 * Rural/North East India Remote Area Outreach
 * Dedicated conference/Wikipedia Summit for wikipedians
 * Medical college outreach
 * Indic Language Wikipedia Outreach in United States

Key points

 * Rural empowerment through Wikipedia
 * Medical student-teacher engagement
 * Community engagement and community creation if needed in new rural/remote area's

Initial talk
On 18 December 2014, during Swatantra 2014 event, at 10:15 pm, we met at the 8th floor of Classic Avenue for a get-together. There we discussed the following things.__NOINDEX__

The following Wikimedia/Wikipedia/CIS members participated in the day's discussion—


 * 1) Abhishek Suryawanshi (Chief convenor)
 * 2) Tito Dutta (Associate convenor, documentation maker)
 * 3) Abhinav Garule (Marathi Wikipedia)
 * 4) Parveer Grewal (Panjabi Wikipedia)
 * 5) Subhashish Panigrahi (Program Officer,CIS A2K)
 * 6) Santosh Shringare (Researcher, IIT Mumbai)
 * 7) Jeph
 * 8) Netha Hussain (Malayalam Wikipedia)
 * 9) Vishnu Vardhan  (Program Director, CIS-A2K)
 * 10) Rahimanuddin Shaik (Program Officer, CIS A2K)
 * 11) Nageswara Rao
 * 12) Sudhanwa Joglekar (ex-President WMIN, FOSS member)
 * 13) Pavan SanThosh (Telugu Wikipedia)
 * 14) Syed Nisar Ahmed (Urdu Wikipedia)

During the interrupted conversation they discussed the following things—
 * 1) A large-scale project proposed by Abhishek Suryawanshi to connect Wikipedia to rural parts of India.
 * 2) Follow-up of India Community Consultation 2014

He proposed to to start work in 3 or so cities in India (like Delhi, Pune, Kolkata, Guwahati). In the brief keynote speech Suryawanshi discussed the necessity of spreading the power of knowledge/Wikipedia to the remote as well as rural parts of India. He told, he had participated in a similar small project a year ago in Pune. India, where his team hosted couple of workshops and Wikipedia Summit. He told, now he is interested to do it in a larger scale.