Parkinson's UK Wikipedia training

Parkinson's UK Wikipedia training - In a nutshell Where?: IT training room in Tuition House, 210 Borough High Street, London SE1 1JX [1] When?: Thursday 11 October 2012, 10am-4pm Point of contact: Daria Cybulska. You can also call 0207 065 0994 or email daria.cybulskawikimedia.org.uk How do I sign up?: If you are a member of Parkinson's UK, please contact Clare Allen (callen@parkinsons.org.uk). If you are a Wikimedian interested in running the training session, please sign up below.

A one-day, free, hands-on training event for Parkinson's UK staff in improving Wikipedia, arranged in cooperation with Wikimedia UK. Attendees are asked to bring their own laptops and to register a user account on Wikipedia in advance. This is a quick procedure that does not need any detailed personal information; although it is advisable to give an email address, to enable the retrieval of forgotten passwords!

Parkinson's UK expectations are to learn how Wikipedia actually works, what is the etiquette of contributing. Ideally they would like to lean how they can improve Parkinson's related topics, but it's important that their expectations are managed - they need to be aware of the strict requirements surrounding contributing to medical topics.

Attendees

If you have a laptop, please bring it in with you.

It will also help if you create an editing account at Wikipedia before you come in on Thursday. If you haven't yet created an account, please go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page and click 'Create an account' at the top right corner. If you need help you can wait till the workshop.

Here is a provisional list provided from Parkinson's UK. If you have created an account, please email it to me; or if you can write it down below.

1. Clare Allen - marketing
2. Emily Frost - marketing
3. Claire Bale - research
4. Katie Le Blond - research
5. Manuela Volta - research
6. David Morgan - digital
7. Ezinda Franklin-Houtzager - digital
8. Jill Davis - media
9. Lucy Greenwood - policy and campaigns
10. Sarah Williams - policy and campaigns (TBC)

@Trainees: If possible, please bring a couple of books that you think would make interesting sources.

Agenda

Suggested topics and scheme

• 10am start and set up; Introduction of participants
• 12:30pm -1:30pm lunch
• 4pm finish

* Attendees who already have some Wikipedia experience and would like to cover particular topics, please list them here:

Trainers

Please sign up below if you are able to attend.

• Gordo (talk)
• Richard Symonds (talk) (If needed)
• RexxS (talk)

Information for trainers

For any queries please contact Daria Cybulska (daria.cybulskawikimedia.org.uk), 0207 065 0994

Expenses will be reimbursed for the trainers, lunch is provided by Parkinson's UK.

The venue is an external room booked by the charity (and not a meeting room in their office) [2]. It is an IT room with computers. Flip chart and a projector are included. The capacity of the room is 12 (including trainers). The computers in the room have an Internet connection, but the wireless for additional laptops may be unstable.

Trainees will be asked to bring a laptop (just in case) and also create a Wikipedia account in advance, but some may not do so. Daria will circulate an email to all participants about a week before the event.

There have been issues (also) with the Parkinson's UK page on Wikipedia in the past - something to bear in mind.