Bristol Wiki Academy 1

When: Saturday 19 March 2011
Where: Room 1.06, Merchant Venturers School of Engineering, Woodland Road, University of Bristol, BS8 1UB

Invitation

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Presenters/ facilitators

• Wikipedia:User:SteveVirgin
• Wikipedia:User:MartinPoulter
• Wikipedia:User:Woodsy (Steve Woods)
• Wikipedia:User:RodW
• Wikipedia:User:Sadads (Alex S)
• Wikipedia:User:Victuallers (Roger Bamkin)
• Wikipedia:User:William Avery

Note for presenters

• We will get a room with a networked Windows PC and Powerpoint. Presenters should bring slides on a USB stick. We will make the slides available online afterwards. Use of slides isn't mandatory: talk through the relevant WP pages if that's more informative.

Aims

The focus of the day is on thinking strategically about mutual benefit, not so much the process of editing. However, we hope the event will drum up interest in subsequent events where people are trained to edit and contribute.

Attendees will:

1. understand the aims of Wikimedia UK and how they overlap with those of their own organisations;
2. understand the diversity of value created by the Wikimedia projects (not just the encyclopedia);
3. think of specific things their organisation or group can do
   1. Join an edit-party to be trained up?
   2. Enter a cultural partnership?
   3. Engage with a specific activity such as QR codes or Spoken Wikipedia?
   4. Apply for microgrants?
   5. Host a Wikipedian-in-residence?
4. have a sense of a community with a common goal
   1. find people interested in a wider event to train people in using WP
   2. create interest in an ongoing series of Bristol meetups

Note for guests

It's not compulsory, but consider bringing with you something you think should be "on" Wikipedia or its related projects. It might be a book with some interesting information, a photograph, a document or a physical object that we can photograph. If suitable, we will try and get it onto the relevant Wikimedia project during the day.

Agenda

Morning session

• Welcome and aims of the day - Steve V
• Introducing Wikimedia - Martin
• The Five Pillars of Wikipedia and audience exercise - Alex

  Slides

  The Five Pillars

• Improving Wikipedia: article assessments and Wikiprojects - Rod

  Wikiproject Bristol and Wikiproject Somerset

  Wikipedia's article assessment FAQ

• Wikipedia as a social web site - Martin

  Slides

• Sharing images - William

  Upload form on Wikimedia Commons

  Photographs of listed buildings in Bristol

• Panel

Lunch

Thanks to the University of Bristol for providing free food to back up our gift of free knowledge.

Afternoon session

• Maximising the educational benefit of Wikipedia - Alex
• Creating a watchlist - Martin
• MediaWiki: a free platform for collaboration - Steve W
• GLAM sector partnerships - Alex
• Wikipedia in public spaces: QR codes & engagement with Derby Museum - Roger
• Group discussion and one-to-one assistance

Handouts and materials

• Martin printing some outreach materials
• Steve V bringing pens and notepads
• Attendees are welcome to join in the SimpleWeb Ideas Board

Coverage and commentary

• Martin was interviewed in a five-minute item for BBC Radio Bristol at 7.25 on the morning of the event.
• Write-up by Rod Ward
• Write-up by Steve Woods
• Watching the Wikipedians, blog post by Matt Jukes of the Medical Research Council
• The attendees agreed on the hashtag #briswiki for Twitter and blog commentary about the event.

Attendees

Add yourself here if attending. Other attendees are registering by email (m.l.poulter@bris.ac.uk), but are not listed here for privacy reasons.

• Wikipedia:User:ProductBox (Michael Corbett)
• Wikipedia:User:Jukesie