Like the previous years [1][2] CIS-A2K is planning for a capacity building activity for the Indic-language Wikimedia communities this year. This 3-4 day event, that is planned to be organized in Bengaluru, will include several parallel training sessions. The general sessions will broadly include:
- How to conduct Wikimedia outreach (workshops, GLAM activities, edit-a-thons)
- Ways to groom new contributors
- Advanced Wikipedia editing and Wikipedia policy and guidelines
Similarly, the MediaWiki training will include:
- MediaWiki - installation, analysis, understanding
- Working with MediaWiki
- How bots work on Wikimedia projects with an emphasis on pywikibot
- Bug triage, bug life cycle, raising a bug, fixing a bug
- General overview of FOSS, Openness, social media, Copyright, Creative Commons
We are looking forward to nominate yourself or nominate any other member of your community to participate in this event. We will be selecting the participants based on the community recommendation. We are looking forward to hearing your inputs on the program design and anything in particular that you would like to see.
Please note that the Wikimedians who have not attended the previous iterations of this training will be given more preference.
You can learn more about the event here.
Footnotes
Thanks. -- CIS-A2K (sent using MediaWiki message delivery (उलयात) 15:33, 29 एप्रील 2016 (IST))