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• Dr. Netha Hussain, Wikipedia Education Collaborative, Wikipedia Education Program India
• Ananth Subray Programme Associate, CIS-A2K
• Dr. U.B. Pavanaja Secretary, Karavali Wikimedians User Group

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Program Information

Nashik Team in January 2015

Wikipedia as a resource for education

Wikimedians in India have been working towards creating learning material for schools and Universities.

• Hindi wikipedia education program
• Malayalam Wikipedia Education Program is a program aimed at creating articles on Malayalam Wikipedia with collective inputs from teachers and students from selected schools in Kerala.
• Offline Wikipedia for Indian schools is the project aimed at compiling Wikipedia articles for reference for high school students in India.
• IT @ School project created a repository of information on schools in Kerala using Wikipedia as a resource. Articles written by school children on school wiki are edited and converted into Wikipedia articles.
• Wikipedia for Rural India is a program for familiarizing Wikipedia to people living in remote villages of India.
• Med-GLAM gallery for teaching pathology according to Indian medical school curriculum.
• CIS-A2K has partnerships with educational institutions in India.

Wikipedia India Education Program Participants Celebrating Wikipedia Anniversary

• Wikipedia Student Association is a program designed and rolled by Kravali Wikimedians User Group in colleges.

Learning by creating content for Wikimedia

Several Indian Universities and schools have attempted to integrate Wikipedia into education.

• India Education Program pilot for students and teachers from Pune.
• Wikipedia Education Program at Christ University: Students at Christ University in Bangalore have been editing Wikipedia as an assignment during their coursework.
• Wikipedia in Tech Education : Engineering students from SKP Engineering College work on topics related to language computing and MediaWiki under the guidance of an expert faculty.
• Wikipedia Education Program at SVERI, Pandharpur
• Wikipedia Education Program at ALC, Vijayawada
• Wikipedia Education Program at St. Aloysius College, Mangalore
• Wikipedia Education Program at B K Shah Medical Institute

Research on Wikimedia

Several researches have studied about various aspects of Wikipedia by interviewing Wikimedians.

• Creating knowledge, mapping the nature of content and processes on the English Wikipedia, by Sohnee Harshey, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.
• Wikipedia in India: Past, present and future by Gautam John
• Oral citations for Wikipedia, by Shiju Alex, Achal Prabhala

Conferences for student Wikipedians

• Wikividyarthi-Sangamam, a mini-conference for school students contributing to Malayalam Wikipedia was conducted as a part of the annual gathering of Malayalam Wikimedians in 2013.
• Education track at WikiConference India, on 7 August 2016.
• Wikipedia and Cochrane Symposium 2014
• Wikipedia Summit Pune - Mini Conference by Students from Pune University.

Projects and proposals related to education

• Wikipedia as a pedagogical tool (IEG project): Identify effective instructional strategies that can leverage Wikipedia in education.

Education in news

• India launches National Repository of Open Education Resources, Wikimedia India, 15 August 2013
• Wikipedians vow to revive school wiki, Deccan Herald, 22 December 2015
• Social Media Helps Regional Wikipedia Communities In India, "Business 2 Community", 28 July 2012