Events/Event Template

EVENT TEMPLATE

insert event title here - In a nutshell Where?: insert location details here When?: date and time - from to Point of contact: who should attendees contact about the event- email and phone Twitter: @wikimediauk ( or a hashtag if created for this initiative) Cost: Free How do I sign up?: create an Eventbrite page and provide link or if event for existing editors provide a sign up section below

Join us for the event!

About the event

Promotional description of the event with any background info

For example see here or here.

How do I prepare?

• Sign up for the event
• Create a Wikipedia account - en:Special:UserLogin/signup
• Bring a laptop (wi-fi will be provided)
• Learn about editing if you like: w:en:Wikipedia:Tutorial, or Getting started on Wikipedia for more information
• Refreshments will be provided

Programme

if it's an informal session you wouldn't list much, but for a more structured day it helps to give an indication.

For example - wmuk:Society_of_Biology_Wikipedia_workshop#Agenda or w:en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's History/The Royal Society 2013#Agenda

Attendees

Please capture details here - usernames PLUS gender breakdown and experience of editing Wikipedia - can be non individual, so e.g. 60% of the participants were women

Trainers

with an identified leading trainer - a person who is likely to deliver most of the presenting and organise the content of the training. As a rule 1 trainer per 7 participants. You can include any special instructions for the trainers here - e.g. 'we only need 2 trainers for this event' or 'wifi and lunch for trainers will be provided'

Below is the list of trainers that will be present on the day.

Content created

here you would list a target list of articles to be created/edited if such existed before the event. Definitely list the articles edited during the event

Further outcomes

These could be blogs, further content created post event

Feedback

have the feedback from uploaded on wiki (Richard N!)

Further contact

For further information about the programme, please contact please give a contact person from WMUK office at xxx and please give a contact for the external person who we are working with to run this event at xxx. daria.cybulskawikimedia.org.uk, 0207 065 0994.

eventbrite for email contacts

link the page to the Wikimedia UK event list - https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Events

notes

other pages

https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event_planning_process

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programs:Evaluation_portal/Library

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/edit?eid=7255717045 - eventbrite example

gdocs

https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org.uk/document/d/1GbTw0lnxb6tjsvlxccj1mSs2ZujuQxlzRrux40AOpD4/edit - organiser tips

https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org.uk/document/d/1rE8_RcBF5c5fM3LZne-SpZJA6TG7MK5rzd4bIHGhQWY/edit - comms