Wikipedia and images workshop/October 2012

Wikipedia photo library workshop - In a nutshell Where?: Mozilla Spaces, 101 St. Martins Lane, Suite 300, London WC2N 4AZ When?: Monday 1 October 2012, 2pm-6pm Point of contact: Daria Cybulska or WereSpielChequers. You can also call 0207 065 0994 or email daria.cybulskawikimedia.org.uk How do I sign up?: http://wikiphoto-workshop2.eventbrite.co.uk/. Attendance is free, refreshments are included, if you have a laptop it would be helpful to bring it.

Summary of the event

Many Wikipedia articles lack images, even though great images are often available. This is a workshop for people who do not have much experience of editing, but would like to help. Please bring your laptop with you if possible.

What will we learn?

• What Wikipedia's image library, Wikimedia Commons is.
• How to organise images on Commons
• How to add images from Commons onto Wikipedia
• How to add captions to images
• When we have lots of relevant images in Commons how to show this in Wikipedia
• How to add image descriptions for blind people and those using text readers

Attendees

If you are attending, please write your User name below - that will help us provide you with support in the future.

• Sha951
• greenspangle

Further help

Contact the trainers present on the day

• WereSpielChequers
• Leutha (Leutha)

Contact the Wikimedia UK office

daria.cybulskawikimedia.org.uk, 0207 065 0994

Useful links to get you started on Wikimedia Commons

• Commons:First steps
• Commons:Categories - not over-helpful; try S.5.1 "Categorization tips"

and Wikipedia

• Wikipedia tutorial - A step by step guide to basic article editing
• Help:Contents/Editing Wikipedia - Eek, my head is starting to hurt! Too much choice.
• Wikipedia:Simplified ruleset - general principles; read before you start, not when you get stuck.

Feedback from the event

Sample feedback: Just a quick note to ask a favour - could you pass on my thanks to the trainers who led the learning session on Wikimedia. I came away quite inspired!