SchoolWiki lightning talk at Wikimania 2024: transcript

Key points

• SchoolWiki is a wiki of schools in Kerala, created and maintained by Kite, a special purpose company under the Kerala Department of Education.
• It has more than 170,000 articles and started in 2010, aiming for a single website for all schools in Kerala.
• Students and teachers edit school pages covering history, location, alumni, and academic and cultural activities.
• Each school page has a map and a school code that is linked to Wikidata through a property, giving a two-way connection.
• Student creative works such as stories, poems, drawings and digital magazines are captured on the wiki.
• The project documents the Kerala school arts festival by scanning and uploading students' artworks each year.

Chapters

1. 0:00What SchoolWiki is and who runs it
2. 0:46Home page, school pages and content
3. 1:41Maps, Wikidata links and student works
4. 2:47Documenting the school arts festival and magazines

Full transcript

0:00Hello everyone. I am here to present a project called SchoolWiki. SchoolWiki is a wiki of schools in Kerala, runs in the domain schoolwiki.it. SchoolWiki is created and maintained by Kite and is created with BNWiki 1.41. Kite is Kerala infrastructure and technology for education. It is a special purpose company under the Department of Education Kerala. Kite owns and runs SchoolWiki.in. There are 15,000 schools in Kerala. So, SchoolWiki has more than 170,000 articles and more than 2.5 million in it. SchoolWiki started in 2010.

0:46This is the home page of SchoolWiki. The website is completely in Malayalam. So, this is a translated version of the home page the content of the school wiki contains the information about the school and the activities in happening in school the idea is that to create a single website for all the schools in Kerala which can be edited by students and teachers So the content mainly about the school. The history, location, alumni activities, academic and cultural activities, etc. So this is the homepage of a school. It looks like a wikipedia article. There is details in the left side and the info box in the right side.

1:41so we are including a map of the schools at the bottom using the cartographer extension every school has a code so we are including that code into school wiki also we are linked all these codes into wiki data using a property called Kerala state school code that p7065 so we are included all the QA numbers into the info box of the corresponding schools so by this way we have a two-way connection between school wiki and wikidata so we are capturing a lot of activities in school like magazines festivals youth drawings all the stuff so We have lot of creative works done by students like stories, poems, drawings, digital works, etc. These are some of the pictures. This is the work happening in a school. So, this is it.

2:47And we are also capturing the school Kalosawam. Kerala school Kalosawam is an annual art and cultural competition in Kerala. Organized by the government of Kerala. There are 12,000 students participating every year in the state level. so we are documenting the art part of this school call also like painting stories poems cartoons posters etc we will scan the whole thing and upload into school wiki every year so this is the home page of a school call also these are some pictures and this is the behind the scenes happening in at the time of students are scanning the works and they are uploading the digital files into school wiki and they are creating templates and they are creating the appropriate pages using those templates this is these are the digital magazines

3:48captured in school wiki and the magazines are created by the students so school wiki is the largest repository of schools in Kerala edited by students and teachers. Thank you.

Source and licence

Recording: File:Schoolwiki Presentation lightning talk Wikimania 2024.webm by Ranjithsiji (2024-08-03), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. The transcript, summary and chapters on this page are shared under the same licence (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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