User:Paul W: Difference between revisions

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My name is Paul Wilkinson and I live in Blackheath, London.

I started editing Wikipedia in October 2003 (on the English Wikipedia, I am Paul W.

I was formally accepted as a member of Wikimedia UK in February 2011.

I have also written about the CIPR, PR and Wikipedia during development, with Wikimedia UK, of the CIPR's first guidance notes (published June 2012), then an update published in 2014 (in guiding PR people in their use of Wikipedia, I stress I am first and foremost a Wikipedian).
In April 2012 I arranged for a volunteer (Andy Mabbett) to facilitate a workshop at the Institution of Civil Engineers, followed by a GLAM Editathon at the ICE in July 2013.
I was a volunteer at a Women in Architecture editathon at the Architectural Association in London in October 2015.
In June 2016, at the request of Wikimedia UK, I gave a talk to staff at a London-based marketing/PR agency outlining key principles of Wikipedia.
In July 2016, I attended a Wikimedia UK 'Training for Trainers' weekend - as a result....

I am an Accredited Wikimedia UK trainer. My accreditations are:

If you would like me to run or attend a training event, please feel free to contact me using the information on this page.

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-My name is Paul Wilkinson and I live in Blackheath, London in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, though I have previously lived in other parts of London (including Kingsbury - where I was born - St John's Wood, Kilburn, Islington, Mile End, Kennington and the Maze Hill district of Greenwich), in Leicester and in Nantwich, south Cheshire.
+My name is Paul Wilkinson and I live in Blackheath, London.
-I started editing Wikipedia in October 2003 (I am [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Paul_W Paul W]; the first page I created was about Greenwich Park), and have drifted away from time to time, only to find myself drawn back for sometimes quite intense periods of editing. My edits total passed the 10,000 mark in May 2009.
+I started editing Wikipedia in October 2003 (on the English Wikipedia, I am [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Paul_W Paul W].
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