Wikivoyage:Basic workshop for Indian Wikimedians

Basic workshop for Indian Wikimedians

Basic Information

 * Date: 29 August 2020 (Saturday)
 * Time: 18:00 hrs IST/ 12:30 hrs UTC
 * Duration: 2 hours (approx.)
 * Place: Online
 * Platform: Google Meet https://meet.google.com/kyn-cbwx-stb
 * Language: The workshop will be conducted in English
 * Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/envoy2020

Resource Persons

 * 1) Rangan Datta
 * 2) Gizza (tentative)
 * 3) Ground Zero (talk)

Objective
Train Indian Wikimedians in Wikivoyage to develop the India related articles not only in English but also in their local language.
 * Target Participants: Experienced Wikimedians with basic knowledge of Wikipedia (any language) and Wikimedia Commons editing. Editing knowledge of Wikidata will be an added advantage but it is not necessary
 * Topics:
 * 1) Introduction to Wikivoyage, how does it differ from Wikitravel
 * 2) Difference between editing Wikipedia and Wikivoyage
 * 3) Classification of Wikivoyage articles (country article, region article, city article, itinerary, phrasebook, airport, etc.)
 * 4) Districtification, which is the process of dividing a country into different regions and sub-regions
 * 5) How to use map images from Commons for districtification
 * 6) Usage of interactive maps
 * 7) Connecting information from Wikidata with Wikivoyage

Registration

 * How to register: Please fill out this Google form before 28 August 23:59 IST. Participants will be selected based on Wikimedia contributions and experience.

Participants Feedback
Serial No. 1
 * 1) Participant's User name:
 * 2) Please summarize your experience in this training in 2-3 sentences?
 * 3) Was the workshop too technical?
 * 4) Have you implemented the things you have learned in the workshop in your regional Wikivogage (if yes, provide details)
 * 5) Do you want more workshops in wikivoyage?
 * 6) Rate the workshop on a scale of 1 - 5 ((where 1 means the lowest and 5 means the highest),
 * 7) Signature:

Serial No. 2
 * 1) Participant's User name:
 * 2) Please summarize your experience in this training in 2-3 sentences?
 * 3) Was the workshop too technical?
 * 4) Have you implemented the things you have learned in the workshop in your regional Wikivogage (if yes, provide details)
 * 5) Do you want more workshops in wikivoyage?
 * 6) Rate the workshop on a scale of 1 - 5 ((where 1 means the lowest and 5 means the highest),
 * 7) Signature:

Mentors Feedback
Hi Rangan, the link that you sent me is not working so I will post my feedback here.


 * 1) User:DaGizza
 * 2) I think it was a wonderful initiative and excellent way to introduce Wikivoyage to so many new, prospective editors. For future presentations, the structure and order of the presentation may need to be tweaked to make it more useful for new editors going forward.
 * 3) I would say that the first half in particular was too technical. My suggestion is to start with what is Wikivoyage, why does it exist and the first type of edits that should be taught is adding basic content. Like a sentence to Understand (and explaining that citations are not used here). Then how to add a listing. And finally more technical things like making maps for regions. Starting off with region maps was a dive into the deep end of the pool.
 * 4) I haven't implemented anything so far into a regional Wikivoyage but I may soon.
 * 5) I support having more workshops. The more you have, the more people will feel comfortable editing here.
 * 6) 4 out of 5
 * 7) Gizza ( roam ) 00:57, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

I echo DaGizza's comments. Well done. It seemed that the participants were getting a lot out if it. Starting with basics and working up to more complicated matters might be a good approach if you run another workshop. It looked like you had a good turn-out of interested people, so I think it would be worth repeating. Ground Zero (talk) 01:21, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

Note:Both the feedbacks have been copy-pasted from talk page

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