Wikipedia:Workshop/DGCU Workshop 1

There will be a workshop on Wikipedia editing in DST Seminar Room, Department of Geography, University of Calcutta

Facilitators

 * user: Schwiki
 * user: Sujay25

Summary
The Wikipedia Workshop is a short-duration event where participants are introduced to the basics of Wikipedia. The workshop aims to equip its participants with the rudiments of contributing to Wikipedia, and to introduce Wikipedia as an encyclopaedia and a concept to them.

About the workshop
The workshop will cover the basics of Wikipedia in theory and practice. There will be a demo of editing Wikipedia pages, a hands-on Wikipedia editing session, and a questions and answers round.

Date and Venue

 * Date: 21st October, 2016
 * Day: Friday
 * Start Time: 2.00 p.m.
 * End Time: 4:00 p.m
 * Venue: DST Seminar Room, Department of Geography, University of Calcutta,35, Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata 700 019.
 * Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/KSCQZGo4YNw
 * Cost: This event is free of cost

Participants
Faculty and Students from the Department of Geography, University of Calcutta
 * Naba1224 (talk) 11:09, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Pritam11wiki (talk) 11:11, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 235oli (talk) 11:12, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Arindamsarkar (talk) 11:14, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Saheli Bhattacherjee (talk) 11:15, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Pradippatra (talk) 11:17, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
 * AHBhattacharyya (talk) 11:18, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Bhattacharya.ajanta (talk) 11:20, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

Outcome
The junior as well as senior research fellows and faculties from the Department of Geography, University of Calcutta participated in this workshop. In this three hour interactive session, basic topics like creating account, user page and editing in individual sandbox was performed.