Wikipedia and images workshop/December 2012

Wikipedia photo library workshop - In a nutshell Where?: Mozilla Spaces, 101 St. Martins Lane, Suite 300, London WC2N 4AZ When?: Monday 4 December 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?: Here. Attendance is free, refreshments are included, if you have a laptop it would be helpful to bring it.

Summary of the event

This is a workshop for people who may not have ever edited Wikipedia, but would like to help. Wikimedia has acquired copies of some very large collections of photographs, some of which would make great illustrations for Wikipedia articles, and many Wikipedia articles which don't currently have any pictures could be illustrated using these images.

What will you learn?

• What Wikipedia's image library, Wikimedia Commons is.
• How to search for images in Wikimedia Commons
• How to add images to Wikipedia
• How to add captions and a description for blind people to images
• Projects that would benefit: Wikipedia

Attendees

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

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.