UWE Wikipedia event

On 14 June 2016, the University of the West of England, Bristol is hosting a day event around Wikipedia and Wikimedia. It will include hands-on training with Wikipedia-editing and an overview of how Wikipedia and its sister projects are making knowledge and culture freely and openly available. No prior knowledge of wikis or Wikipedia is assumed.

In a nutshell

• When: 10am to 3pm, Tuesday 14 June. Lunch is not provided but there is a café in the building.
• Where: Room 3S705, S Block (on the left of this map), UWE Bristol Frenchay Campus, Bristol. Nearest train station: Bristol Parkway
• What: A free interactive public workshop

Contacts

• Institutional contact: Dr Vivien Rolfe vivien.rolfeuwe.ac.uk
• Trainer: Dr Martin Poulter, Wikimedia UK volunteer m.l.poulterbris.ac.uk

Programme

• Wikimedia overview: how we're making digital media, text, data and educational materials free and open for the world
• Under the bonnet of Wikipedia: the quality scale and other tools to explore how Wikipedia articles evolve
• Wikipedia as a peer community (including how to make sure your changes to Wikipedia are accepted, plus advice for expert contributors)
• Hands-on editing using the new, simpler interface

In addition to Wikipedia editing using the Visual Editor, we looked at

• Histropedia interactive timelines based on Wikipedia and Wikidata (try entering a phrase that is a Category on Wikipedia, e.g. Age of Enlightenment)
• Educational assignments on Wikipedia: Brochure | Course tool (look at past courses) | Education noticeboard (here you can request permission to create course pages)
• Wikimaps Warper (click an image, scroll down to the button, click it, then select "Preview" to get the cool cross-fade effect)
• Wikidata Reasonator (tool for exploring what Wikidata knows about a topic, including timelines, family trees etc. Many millions of topics)
• Wikisource (hundreds of thousands of out-of-copyright texts, including laws, biographies, poems, novels...)