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This is a workshop for people who do not have much experience of editing, but would like to help. | Many Wikipedia articles lack images, even though great images are available. This is a workshop for people who do not have much experience of editing, but would like to help. | ||
What will you learn? | What will you learn? | ||
* What Wikipedia's image library, Wikimedia Commons is. | * What Wikipedia's image library, Wikimedia Commons is. | ||
* How to | * How to organise images on Commons | ||
* How to create and alter categories | * How to create and alter categories | ||
* How to add images to Wikipedia | * How to add images to Wikipedia | ||
* How to add captions | * How to add captions to images | ||
* When we have lots of relevant imagse in Commons how to show this in Wikipedia | |||
* How to add image descriptions for blind people and those using text readers | |||
* Projects that would benefit: Commons, Wikipedia, Wiki loves Monuments (one of our big problems with WLM in the UK is that we have so many images from the Geograph that have yet to be processed, so we don't really know what monuments we still lack images for. | * Projects that would benefit: Commons, Wikipedia, Wiki loves Monuments (one of our big problems with WLM in the UK is that we have so many images from the Geograph that have yet to be processed, so we don't really know what monuments we still lack images for. | ||
Success criteria: volunteers participate and start editing. | Success criteria: volunteers participate and start editing. | ||
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wikimedia.org.ukMany Wikipedia articles lack images, even though great images are available. This is a workshop for people who do not have much experience of editing, but would like to help.
What will you learn?
- What Wikipedia's image library, Wikimedia Commons is.
- How to organise images on Commons
- How to create and alter categories
- How to add images to Wikipedia
- How to add captions to images
- When we have lots of relevant imagse in Commons how to show this in Wikipedia
- How to add image descriptions for blind people and those using text readers
- Projects that would benefit: Commons, Wikipedia, Wiki loves Monuments (one of our big problems with WLM in the UK is that we have so many images from the Geograph that have yet to be processed, so we don't really know what monuments we still lack images for.
Success criteria: volunteers participate and start editing.