I am happy to write this blog post. Participating in an international conference for Wikipedians is a wonderful experience. It is more rewarding when the conference is for Wikimedians to discuss and contribute new ideas related to wikimedia and other free open source.
I got
scholarship to participate in WikiConference India 2016 Which held at
Chandigarh group of College, Punjab. It was held on Aug 5,6,7. During
this day I had a presentation on the topic Wikimediaas disciplinaryproject.
It was my first experience in my life as attending a national conference. Members from Bangladesh, Nepal, Israel, USA etc were participated in this conference.
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On
the first day, we began by an inauguration ceremony. Following to
that there was a Punjabi traditional cultural programme was there. It
was amazing.
There were sessions on hack
thone, Wikidata, Wikipedia Asian month, Wiki source and School wiki,
Taking Better Photographs Postcard Guide, many
other
topics which dealt outreach in Wikiprojects.
All
most all every session was a new learning experience. Mean while
there was a edit a thone competition. It was a tight competition to
create more article in regional language about Punjab. During the
conference days at midnight we were spending time to write maximum
article from our Hotel. I had written around 100 article during these
days. At last we got third prize in edit thon. English & Telungu
wikipedia achieved first and second prize respectively.
I
would like to express my sincere thanks to CIS
and Wik conference organising
committee
for granting me scholarship to attend my
first
Wiki India
conference .
After
the wiki conference we moved to Delhi and visited many important
historical places and captured hundreds of photos which will upload
to wiki commons in very soon days.
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