Society of Biology Wikipedia workshop
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A one-day, free, hands-on training event for Biology Online Media Group and other related organisations in improving Wikipedia articles on Biology, arranged in cooperation with Wikimedia UK. Attendees are asked to bring their own laptops and to register a user account on Wikipedia in advance.
The aim is to train a group of people from within the Society so that in the longer term they can cascade their skills down to anyone else interested in improving the relevant Wikipedia articles.
Attendees
If you have a laptop, please bring it in with you.
It will also help if you create an editing account at Wikipedia before you come in on Thursday. If you haven't yet created an account, please go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page and click 'Create an account' at the top right corner. This is a quick procedure that does not need any detailed personal information; although it is advisable to give an email address, to enable the retrieval of forgotten passwords! If you need help you can wait till the workshop.
If you have created an account, please email it to me; or if you can write it down below
- LauraUdakis
- lucyh
- mimitanimoto
- Bella.wills
- Sara Ellis
- your username here
Agenda
Suggested topics and scheme (please edit as you feel suitable):
- 10am start and set up; Introduction of participants
- Wikipedia, Commons, WikiProjects
- Basics of Editing
- User space: user page; talk page; sandbox; edit summaries
- Practical work - 1-on-1 and small group work (beginners: sandbox // advanced: Biology articles)
- Plenary discussion - making and editing articles
- 12:30pm -1:30pm lunch
- Sources, referencing, WP:V
- WikiProject Biology
- Practical work - 1-on-1 and small group work (improving and creating Biology articles)
- Plenary discussion - What's next; Help!
- 4pm finish
- Attendees who already have some Wikipedia experience and would like to cover particular topics, please list them here:
- Biology articles that are missing:
- Recommended sources for those articles:
Trainers
- Charles Matthews
- RexxS (talk)
LoopZilla (talk)- KTC (talk)
- Harry Mitchell
- User:Leutha
- please add your name here
Information for trainers
- For any queries please contact Daria Cybulska (daria.cybulska
wikimedia.org.uk), 0207 065 0994. - Expenses will be reimbursed for the trainers, lunch is provided by the venue.
- Once you arrive at the venue at the arrive at Charles Darwin House conference centre contact Rebecca Nesbit on 0207 685 2554 or 07866 423525.
- The room has a flip chart, projector and a wi-fi network. It has a capacity of about 20.
- There is no parking
- Trainees will be asked to bring a laptop and also create a Wikipedia account in advance, but some may not do so. Daria will circulate an email to all participants about a week before the event.
- Most of the attendees will be Comms people linked with Biology Online Media Group, but there may be some Biology scientists as well