Education/Countries/India/Christ University/CUWEP2018

Metrics

General program information

Event start date- June 2018
Event end date-March 2019

Education metrics

Number of instructors :1
Number of instructor editors:1
Number of students: 1300
Number of volunteers:2
Number of admins/sysops:3
Number of classes:30
Number of faculties:6

Global metrics

Number of active editors involved: 24
Number of newly registered users : 576
Number of individuals involved :
Number of media files uploaded :
Number of articles created or improved:
Number of bytes added/deleted :

Diversity metrics

Number of female instructors : 2
Number of female students : 593
Number of female program volunteers : 2
Number of female program leaders : 15

Participants list according to language

Certificate course

To increase the participation of students in the Wikimedia Movement, a Certificate course was introduced for the interested students of the University in 2016. The course helps the students to improve their knowledge of the Wikimedia movement and to help them understand how to contribute to Wikimedia projects in vernacular languages, helping them to learn basic digitisation skills in the local language.

This course has three major components. Introduction to the concept of what Wikipedia is, history of online encyclopedias and Wikipedia itself, using sources, choosing and drafting articles and moving articles to the main space etc. The next step is to teach how to edit and publish articles. Here, common templates, editing, and wikification of the articles, adding content such as tables and references, legal aspects, policies, and guidelines, tackling vandalism and tools for producing illustrations are dealt with. The third component is to orient/ help their classmates to their assignment.

This course is conducted after normal working hours, for 45 hours, and carries 2 credits for the academic records. In the last six months, 37 students enrolled for this course in Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi and Tamil languages.

The Wikipedia Certificate Course syllabus can be accessed here.

Internships

The internship activity was introduced by the CIS-A2K team at the Christ University which offers students to work with the staffs of the team and the Wikimedia community members to understand the broader Wikimedia movement. This gives an opportunity for students to have hands-on experience from the learning they had from the classroom programs.

This activity is mainly focused on the creation of articles in several languages and proofreading and validations of the folios in Wikisource. During this time students improve the quality of the articles and Improve the quality of the folios in Wikisource, which is created by the students during the regular assignments. It was conducted in the month of October and September. Students who have taken Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, and Sanskrit as their second language are given this opportunity which is very limited and hard to find.

Social Media Campaign

A social media campaign was started around September 2017 with an aim to encourage the students by highlighting their works, some of the best articles created or edited by the students. In the last six months, we have regularly posted articles on Twitter and Facebook.

This not only encourages the students but also gives an insight into the work done by the students as a part of the Education Programs activities. We found, sometimes, the students failed to understand the importance of WEP editing as a contribution to Open knowledge.

Social Media campaign started by CIS-A2K helped me to know that the article which I had created as a part WEP was used as Google doodle and I felt very happy at that time and also it helped me and my friends to understand the output of the work we do. —Guru Sharan, Educator at Christ University, Bangalore, India

Workflow of Wikimedia Education programme at Christ University
CIS-A2K Twitter presence in July–December 2018

Changes adopted


Year	Changes
2013–14	WEP was introduced to increase digital literacy
2014–15	The concept of Sandbox editing was made mandatory to the students. A peer review of the student's work was introduced to enhance the quality of the work. New methods were developed to evaluate the work done by the students. Understanding the challenges of writing in Indic languages on the internet, Wikisource was Introduced for the students.
2015–16	Certificate course was introduced for the students to increase the knowledge on Wikimedia movement. Concept of campus ambassadors was introduced. Wikidata editing was introduced to the students. The concept of the internship was started to increase the students understanding about Wikimedia movement.
2016–17	Starting a social media campaign. Improvement of the quality in the articles written was observed. Representation at the National Conferences. A timeline to make our work easier and to increase the participation of the community members.
2017–18	Conducting events out of the Wikimedia movement to enrich the students with new skills. Improvement of the quality in the articles written was observed. Involving the community members to verify the articles created by the students. Sussefully motivated the faculty members to do the evaluations.
2018–19	Adopting the new methodologies to promote the work done at Christ University in different global Wikimedia movement. Wikimedia community members reviewed the articles written by the students.

Time line

We follow the below timeline at Christ University to make our work easier and it will be helpful for us to increase the participation of the community members to take part in the WEP activities.

Odd Semester

Month	1st Semester	3rd Semester
June	Orientation on Wikidata, allotment of the Q numbers and students doing the activity	Orientation and Writing the text about women achievers in 20 lines ( work done in Sandbox)
July	Language correction and grading from the faculty	Language correction and grading from the faculty
August	-	-
September	Proofreading of text on Wikisource	Wikification of the article written earlier and adding image
October	Language correction and grading from the faculty	Language correction, Wikification, and grading from the faculty
November	Verification of the work done by the students from community members or CIS-A2K	Verification of the work done by the students from community members or CIS-A2K
December	Moving qualitative articles to the main namespace and updating it to community members	Moving qualitative articles to the main namespace and updating it to community members

Even Semester

Month	2nd Semester	4th Semester
November	Orientation and Writing the text on their user page	Orientation and Writing the text about their core subjects in 20 lines ( work done in Sandbox)
December	Language correction and grading from the faculty	Language correction and grading from the faculty
January	Internship activity for the students	Internship activity for the students
February	Wikification of their user page and adding an Image	Wikification of the article written earlier and adding image
March	Language correction, Wikification, and grading from the faculty	Language correction, Wikification, and grading from the faculty
April and May	Internship activity for the students	Internship activity for the students
June	Analysis of the work done by the students in this year and reporting to community members	Analysis of the work done by the students in this year and reporting to community members

Learning

To create more educators, student-community leaders, and alumni mentors.
To form new strategies on how to mentor and support every student.