Wikipedia
–Edit-a-thon
Introduction
to Wikipedia:
Wikipedia is a free online
encylopedia that aims to allow to anyone to edit any article and create them.It
is largest and most popular general reference work on the internet.
Edit-a-thon
Wikipedia Edit-a-thon is an event which people to work
together in person to build the content on a wiki. Edit-a-thon is a special
type of meet up focus on specific encylopedia topic and is a great way to
attract new Wikipedians.
Implementation
In our school we are conducting essay
competitions to childrens for various festivals. From that we had found students
having very good proficiency skills in tamil.
We are selected 20 children from school to edit in Wikipedia.
Miss.Sindhuja ,Wikipedian from Pondicherry Wikipedia Community had taken a session on how to edit the
article on 07.11.2016
Session
Comprises of the following things:
1. Introduction to Wikipedia
2. History of Wikipedia
3. How Wikipedia helps to understand
particular concepts with recent updates.
4. How to create an account and edit
the article.
Outcome:
Edit-a-thon
improve the encylopedia and can be a great way to help new wikipedians learn to
edit.
It helps to
improve the students proficiency skills .
It is an
opportunity to improve the quality of Wikipedia by a
Students
edited some articles , related to education software such as Tux paint,
Stellarium etc.
Its helps
to edit/extend the articles in various languages.
Collaborative
learning activities done at the workshops.
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