Education/Countries/India/SVERI, Pandhrapur/Teacher Training 15-16 Dec, 2015

At SVERI(Shri. Vitthal Education and Research Institute), Pandharpur in collaboration with CIS-A2K, a teacher training workshop was organised on Dec 15 & 16 2015. This workshop intended as a introduction for the faculty into Wikipedia. Based on faculty response to the training, further Wikipedia activities will be organised in the institution for selected students who are interested in contributing to Wikimedia projects - primarily editing Wikipedia.

Program information

Event start date

15th December 2015

Event end date

16th December 2015

Details of the training program

Number of instructors: 2
Number of instructor editors: 2
Number of ~~students~~Faculty participants : 30
Number of volunteers: 2
Number of institutions involved: 3

Outcome of the program within one week

Total number of editors who editor made, at least, five edits in the previous month and were involved at any capacity (planning, executing, participating, etc.) during the project: 2
Total number of editors who created a new account for a project within two weeks before the beginning of the project. : 26
Total number of everybody involved, i.e. all people participating in the project — organizers, users, attendees, etc. : 50 (includes non participant faculty who were part of introductory speech)
Total number of images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons or added to Wikipedia articles or other Wikiproject pages : 9 images added to commons, ... images used in articles, ... existing images linked from commons to articles.
Total number of articles created or improved during the program : 43 created on wikipedia, 427 edits done in all.
Total number of bytes added to and/or deleted from Wikimedia project pages by a user cohort as part of this program implementation. : 295153 bytes added by 26 participants. (1386 on enwiki, 10829 on hiwiki, 6492 on knwiki, 4091 on metawiki, 272090 on mrwiki, 265 on wikidata)

Diversity metrics

Number of female instructors:0
Number of female ~~students~~ participant faculty:13
Number of female program leaders:0

Other learnings

(These will be updated soon)

Learning question: Did your work increase the motivation of contributors, and how do you know?
Learning question: Did your work improve teaching, and how do you know?
Learning question: Did your work increase learning, and how do you know?