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WikiConnect is a proposed large-scale project that will connect Wikipedia with rural and those people who don't have direct access to Wikipedia.

Proposed works

These are the proposed works of the project—

Key points

  • Rural empowerment through Wikipedia
  • Medical student-teacher engagement
  • Community engagement and community creation if needed in new rural/remote area's

Initial talk

On 18 December 2014, during Swatantra 2014 event, at 10:15 pm, we met at the 8th floor of Classic Avenue for a get-together. There we discussed the following things.

The following Wikimedia/Wikipedia/CIS members participated in the day's discussion—

  1. Abhishek Suryawanshi (Chief convenor)
  2. Tito Dutta (Associate convenor, documentation maker)
  3. Abhinav Garule (Marathi Wikipedia)
  4. Parveer Grewal (Panjabi Wikipedia)
  5. Subhashish Panigrahi (Program Officer,CIS A2K)
  6. Santosh Shringare (Researcher, IIT Mumbai)
  7. Jeph
  8. Netha Hussain (Malayalam Wikipedia)
  9. Vishnu Vardhan (Program Director, CIS-A2K)
  10. Rahimanuddin Shaik (Program Officer, CIS A2K)
  11. Nageswara Rao
  12. Sudhanwa Joglekar (ex-President WMIN, FOSS member)
  13. Pavan SanThosh (Telugu Wikipedia)
  14. Syed Nisar Ahmed (Urdu Wikipedia)

During the interrupted conversation they discussed the following things—

  1. A large-scale project proposed by Abhishek Suryawanshi to connect Wikipedia to rural parts of India.
  2. Follow-up of India Community Consultation 2014

He proposed to to start work in 3 or so cities in India (like Delhi, Pune, Kolkata, Guwahati). In the brief keynote speech Suryawanshi discussed the necessity of spreading the power of knowledge/Wikipedia to the remote as well as rural parts of India. He told, he had participated in a similar small project a year ago in Pune. India, where his team hosted couple of workshops and Wikipedia Summit. He told, now he is interested to do it in a larger scale.

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