GLAMcamp London/September 2012/Boiling down concepts/Wikifying conferences

Preparation

• Papers and posters should indicate - instead or in addition to keywords - the top 3 (or so) most relevant Wikipedia articles that would be useful to understand the matter of the conference contribution
• Abstracts - or even the full papers - should link to Wikipedia articles when concepts come up first

During the conference

Talks/ poster sessions

Presenters

• should be encouraged to highlight or at least mention the top 3 (or so) Wikipedia articles relevant to their presentation
• should be encouraged to use materials from Wikimedia projects, or to make their own materials available under a Wikimedia-compatible license, perhaps even uploading directly to Commons

Audience

• should be encouraged to check existing Wikipedia articles (especially the ones highlighted by the presenters or in the abstracts) and Commons categories for quality, quantity, illustration etc.
• should be encouraged to communicate these articles and a rough evaluation by way of social media
• should be encouraged to get back to the presenters with specific questions related to improving/ starting these articles
• should be encouraged to document the event by audio, video or otherwise and to make these materials available under a Wikimedia-compatible license, perhaps even uploading directly to Commons

Organizers

• should encourage above behaviour

Booth

• Works best with PR materials and/ or interactive demo like http://wikistream.inkdroid.org/ or http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/index.html

Post-processing

• Follow-up on ideas for large-scale or longer-term collaborations between the wiki and research community

Other

• Lanyards
• Kiwix
• Banners
• Sponsorship