Geological Society workshop

Where: The Council Room, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BG

When: Friday 30 March 2012, 10am-4pm

What: A one-day, free, hands-on training event for geoscientists in improving Wikipedia, arranged jointly between Wikimedia UK and The Geological Society. 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.

Trainers

• LoopZilla (talk)
• Charles Matthews
• Harry Mitchell
• RexxS (talk)
• Seddon (talk)

Attendees

• Mikenorton (talk) 09:08, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
• [[::User:Len Pollock|Len Pollock]] ([[::User talk:Len Pollock|talk]]⧼dot-separator⧽[[::Special:Contributions/Len Pollock|contribs]])
• [[::User:rjsuthren|rjsuthren]] ([[::User talk:rjsuthren|talk]]⧼dot-separator⧽[[::Special:Contributions/rjsuthren|contribs]])
• [[::User:Drusy|Drusy]] ([[::User talk:Drusy|talk]]⧼dot-separator⧽[[::Special:Contributions/Drusy|contribs]])
• [[::User:Dr R C Toon|Dr R C Toon]] ([[::User talk:Dr R C Toon|talk]]⧼dot-separator⧽[[::Special:Contributions/Dr R C Toon|contribs]])
• [[::User:TamsinWilkins|TamsinWilkins]] ([[::User talk:TamsinWilkins|talk]]⧼dot-separator⧽[[::Special:Contributions/TamsinWilkins|contribs]])
• [[::User:Metabole|Metabole]] ([[::User talk:Metabole|talk]]⧼dot-separator⧽[[::Special:Contributions/Metabole|contribs]])
• [[::User:pczmjh|pczmjh]] ([[::User talk:pczmjh|talk]]⧼dot-separator⧽[[::Special:Contributions/pczmjh|contribs]])
• [[::User:brianwhalley|brianwhalley]] ([[::User talk:brianwhalley|talk]]⧼dot-separator⧽[[::Special:Contributions/brianwhalley|contribs]])
• [[::User:gillyfrench|gillyfrench]] ([[::User talk:gillyfrench|talk]]⧼dot-separator⧽[[::Special:Contributions/gillyfrench|contribs]])
• [[::User:PatrickJBoylan|PatrickJBoylan]] ([[::User talk:PatrickJBoylan|talk]]⧼dot-separator⧽[[::Special:Contributions/PatrickJBoylan|contribs]])

Outline of programme

• Tune in to wifi (All)
• Wikipedia - a Very Brief Guide (Charles)
• Personal Introductions (All)
• Main Issues (discussion with Charles)
• Sandboxing an Article (tutorial)
• Hands-On Editing (All with tutors)

• Lunch

• Afternoon session: Hands-On Editing (continuing). At some point we'll break to set up a second discussion session (with Gordon and Charles); those who want to continue editing with tutor support will be welcome to do so, though.
• All good things have to come to an end.