Exeter University July 2015

Welcome to the event page for the wikimedia UK workshop for web and communication staff from universities in the south west of England
The event was at University of Exeter on the 15th of July 2015

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University of Exeter workshop - In a nutshell Where?: Expo lab 1 in the Forum, Streatham Campus, University of Exeter When?: 15th July, 09.30-16.00 Point of contact: Jenna Richards, University of Exeter Jenna.Richards@exeter.ac.uk or Rod Ward (volunteer for Wikimedia UK) rod@rodspace.co.uk Cost: Free/TBC. How do I sign up?: Email points of contact

Themes

University web and communications staff may wish to improve articles about academics in their institutions (or create new ones where they do not exist) and need to be aware of Wikipedia editing and policies on notability (academics), neutral point of view, copyright violation, biographies of living persons, conflict of interest and paid editing. The event will include basic Wikipedia training (it's really easy), and then help participants to examine relevant policies.

Academics with publications will often have ORCID identifiers which can be added see Wikipedia:ORCID

Draft timetable

• 09.30 Meet and networking (Jenna & Rod)
• 10.00 Introductions and overview of wikipedia (Jenna & Rod)
• 10.15 Editing basics - including looking at article history, talk pages and category structure (Rod)
• 10.30 Hands on exploration of relevant articles (All)
• 11.30 Coffee & networking
• 11.45 Discussion of relevant policies (NPOV, COI, BLP etc) (Rod)
• 13.00 Lunch & networking
• 14.00 Hands on editing (All)
• 15.30 Questions and discussion (Rod & all)
• 16.00 Close & farewells + evaluation

Possible articles for improvement / creation

Example articles from relevant institutions

• Christopher Frayling
• Colin Riordan
• List of University of Exeter people e.g. Steve Smith (academic)
• List of University of Bristol people e.g. Eric Thomas (gynaecologist)
• Fay Weldon
• Steven West

The category structure may also help to identify relevant articles

• Category:Academics of Bath Spa University
• Category:Academics of the University of Bath
• Category:Academics of the University of Bristol
• Category:Academics of the University of Exeter
• Category:Academics of the University of Plymouth
• Category:Academics of the University of the West of England
• Category:People associated with Cardiff University
• Category:People associated with Falmouth University
• Category:People associated with the University of St Mark & St John

Articles which have been edited as part of or in association with this workshop

• Camborne School of Mines
• Cardiff University
• Christow
• Scott Jurek
• Michael N. Schmitt
• Penryn Campus
• Perran Downs
• Steve Smith (academic)
• Teignmouth
• University of Exeter
• University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus
• St Luke's Campus
• Dianne Edwards
• Glynis Breakwell
• Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry

Please add your articles edited here

Participants

Please register your attendance in advance by adding your name below.

• Rodw & Rodw (training)
• Andy Dingley

• Allezbrown c
• css201 c
• Emily.Chapson c
• Jennijuniper c
• J150vsc c
• hme1680 c
• RogerRoger1979 c
• SallUEMS c
• Sarahwill240 c
• jtssis123 c
• Russ_t_uk c
• exetertraining1 c

Please add your username here

As there is the potential risk of accusations of Conflict of Interest, editors may wish to include a statement on their user page along the lines of:

I am (insert name). I work for (insert name of institution) as a Web officer (or similar title). Part of my role is to improve the wikipedia articles about academics of my employer. I have attended a workshop where policies about the Neutral point of view, Biographies of Living People, Conflict of Interest and Paid Editing were discussed. I am aware of potential conflicts in this area. If you see any issues with my editing please contact me via my talk page.

How Do I Prepare?

If you want to learn more about wiki-editing, please try these introductions :

• Beginners' Guide to Wikipedia
• Five Pillars of Wikipedia, philosophical guidelines
• Tutorial
• How to edit a page
• Cheat sheet
• Article development
• Your First Article (using the Article Wizard, if you wish)
• Manual of Style
• Citation templates
• Infobox templates
• Bookshelf, additional "getting started" resources

In addition to the general pages above there are some there are some which are likely to be more specific to this particular workshop:

• Username policy
• Plain and simple conflict of interest guide
• Terms of use/FAQ on paid contributions without disclosure
• notability (academics)
• neutral point of view
• copyright violation
• biographies of living persons
• conflict of interest
• paid editing.

We will discuss them during the workshop, but some familiarity beforehand would be helpful.

External links

• Travel details and campus maps