WikiForAll training program held in GRD College of Science

WikiForAll, an education training program was held in the Dr. G R Damodharan College of Science, Peelamedu, Coimbatore, on Feb 21 and 22. The event was supported by: Wikimedia Foundation in association with the Center for Internet and Society and Women In Tech collectives, India and the college. 
About 50 students and faculty members participated in the inaugural function and the event was held in a grandeur manner. 
The chief guest is Ms. K. Bhuvana Meenakshi from Coimbatore. She is a Socio Tech researcher and founder of Women In Tech collectives. Bhuvana is also a Wikimedian who does outreach works for helping more women participation in Open Source projects and she is the Program Manager of WikiForAll program. 
Another Chief Guest Mr. Ranjith Siji from Kerala is a long term Wikimedian and founder of a startup in Kerala. 
WikiForAll is one of its kind of program which is carefully designed out to fit for all students to help them learn about Internet, Web and MediaWiki (a technical project by Wikimedia Foundation). 
25 students have been selected in this first cohort from the GRD College of Science and will be given training for 3 months and based on their performance they will be given Internship projects to work on Wikimedia projects.  In the first event held on 21st and 22nd February 2025, the students learnt to develop websites using HTML, CSS and JS followed by getting introduced to contribute to Wikidata and other Wikipedia sister projects.