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:It's a paper for the Education committee meeting. [[User:Charles Matthews|Charles Matthews]] ([[User talk:Charles Matthews|talk]]) 12:43, 24 February 2014 (UTC) | :It's a paper for the Education committee meeting. [[User:Charles Matthews|Charles Matthews]] ([[User talk:Charles Matthews|talk]]) 12:43, 24 February 2014 (UTC) | ||
::Thanks, Charles. That makes sense. I'm wondering whether it would be better to mark the page to indicate the fact that it's a paper for discussion at the committee meeting to address the sort of questions I asked more directly for anyone who doesn't bother to come to this talk page. --[[User:Toni Sant (WMUK)|Toni Sant (WMUK)]] ([[User talk:Toni Sant (WMUK)|talk]]) 14:43, 24 February 2014 (UTC) | |||
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Purpose of this page
Is the purpose of this page to help trainers know what handouts are available? Or for WMUK to consider having/creating new handouts? Or both? --Toni Sant (WMUK) (talk) 16:37, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
- It's a paper for the Education committee meeting. Charles Matthews (talk) 12:43, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks, Charles. That makes sense. I'm wondering whether it would be better to mark the page to indicate the fact that it's a paper for discussion at the committee meeting to address the sort of questions I asked more directly for anyone who doesn't bother to come to this talk page. --Toni Sant (WMUK) (talk) 14:43, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
Hard copy or electronic handouts?
Casual trainees may have different needs from university students. I say this from my own personal experience working with both. Casual trainees seem to prefer being given a hard copy handout while university students (particularly those on multiple session training programmes) opt for PDFs. I use a number of PDFs during my training, mostly with students in a classroom setting where training is offered over multiple sessions. These include:
- Welcome to Wikipedia (available in print or online)
- Using talk pages
- Wikimarkup cheatsheet (available in print or online)
- Advice for choosing articles) aka DOs and DON'Ts
- Evaluating Wikipedia article quality
- How to get help
- Referencing on Wikipedia
I also use the following tool quite extensively with my students:
And there are a number of Wikipedia policies/guidelines that I also point them to, including:
- w:en:Wikipedia:Notability
- w:en:Wikipedia:Verifiability
- w:en:Wikipedia:Manual of Style
- w:en:Wikipedia:Contributing FAQ
Would this sort of information be better placed on this page rather than the talk page? --Toni Sant (WMUK) (talk) 16:53, 19 February 2014 (UTC)