ᱠᱟᱹᱢᱤᱥᱟᱲᱟ ᱑ (ᱥᱤᱧᱚᱛ)/en

The Santali Wikipedia (Incubator) community is coming together to organize their first workshop on March 11. The event will have a hands-on workshop for the new contributors, and a meet up for the existing ones.

Venue and time

• North Odisha University, Baripada, Odisha, India
• March 11, 2018 at 10 AM

Background

The Santali Wikipedia has been in the Incubator for over years. Today, there exist ᱑᱑,᱐᱘᱓ articles out of 260 are written in Ol chiki, the standard writing system for the language which is also used in the Indian states of Odisha and West Bengal for text book and other publications. As the community is growing bigger day by day, a workshop is being planned to organize to discuss how more people can be educated about the project who can eventually bring it to a live Wikipedia.

Organizers

• Ramjit Tudu
• R Ashwani Banjan Murmu
• Subhashish Panigrahi, Odia Wikimedians User Group
• Jnanaranjan Sahu, Odia Wikimedians User Group
• Sailesh Patnaik, CIS-A2K
• Ansuman, Odia Wikimedians User Group

Participants

To be updated post event

Report

Fagu Baskey, the most active editor of Santali Wikipedia during the time of recording shares his experience from the first ever Santali Wikipedia workshop in India at the North Odisha Universiry, Baripada, Mayurbhanj, Odisha. In this interview with another Santali editor Ashwani Banjan Murmu, he shares his plans for growing the Santali Wikipedia community by organizing more outreach sessions, and collaborating with editors dispersed across eastern India.

Some of the contributors of the Santali Wikipedia, which is currently in the Incubator, reached out to us seeking help in organizing a workshop. Three editors including two administrators worked with three active Santali Wikipedians from Odisha, and organized a workshop at the North Odisha University, Baripada, Mayurbhanj, Odisha. With support from CIS-A2K this workshop brought together nearly 30 new contributors. Though it was challenging—to teach all the new editors about the input tools, and basics of Wikipedia—all in one session, there was quite some productive engagement. The community that is currently spread across India, Bangladesh and Nepal are sharing resources with each other, to reach out to more people, and bring the project out of Incubator. Odia Wikimedians User Group was fortunate to contribute a little part in enabling this.

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  Group picture

Resources

• Presentation for the workshop
• Digital assets for printing and other such purposes
• Tutorial for new editors