Education/News/June 2019/The first Annual Report of VVIT WikiConnect
The first Annual Report of VVIT WikiConnect
Summary: VVIT WikiConnect is a college-based Wiki-club at Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology, located in the vicinity of Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. Starting academic year of 2018–2019, the club started off with its first full-fledged annual plan with a series of activities. The annual plan was supported through a rapid grant by WMF, and partly by CIS-A2K. This report speaks about the club's activities, organisation, impact achieved, lessons learnt, and relationships with various entities, during its first academic year.
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First batch of coordinators
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Wiki Advanced Training
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MediaWiki Training
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Telugu version of Wikipedia Tales; dubbed by VVIT WikiConnect
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Annual Meeting
Starting the academic year of 2018-2019 in July 2018, the first activity on the college campus was the Wiki Awareness Session. Students were given a broad of the movement, and various Wikimedia projects. The major focus projects had been Wikidata, English Wikipedia, and MediaWiki. Three workshops and a week-long editing campaign were conducted on Wikidata. The English Wikipedia Training Program resulted in creation of eight articles, and five of them were featured as DYKs on English Wikipedia's main page. An advanced training workshop was conducted by Asaf Bartov, during which the participants were introduced to some advanced tools on Wikidata, and also policy-related discussions on Wikipedia. Towards the end of the academic year, a Mini MediaWiki Training was organised. Several thematic edit-a-thons such as, 1lib1ref, Independence Day Label-a-thon etc. were conducted throughout the year. Activities for the year were concluded with the Annual Meet, during which a review of activities was conducted, and the new coordinators for the upcoming academic year were elected.
1.) 1Lib1Ref session 2.) Wiki Awareness Sessions |
3.) Wikidata Workshop 1 4.) Wikidata Workshop 2 5.) Wikidata Editing Campaign |
6.) Indian Independence Day 2018 Label-a-thon 7.) English Wikipedia Training Program |
8.) Meetup at Annamayya Library 9.) GLAM meetings in Amaravathi |
10.) WWWW 2018 Edit-a-thon | 11.) Hockey World Cup Edit-a-thon 12.) F1H20 Photo-walk |
13.) Wiki Advanced Training | 14.) 1Lib1Ref session 15.) Wikidata Workshop 3 |
16.) Mini-MediaWiki Training |
17.) Wikipedia Tales dubbing project 18.) Wikimedia Experience Survey 19.) STC19IN Onsite 20.) Annual Meeting |
Social Media channels or hashtags: vvitwikiconnect, vvit, wikiclub