Wikipedia and images workshop/June 2012

Wikipedia photo library workshop - In a nutshell Where?: Mozilla Spaces, 101 St. Martins Lane, Suite 300, London WC2N 4AZ When?: Thursday 28 June 2012, 2pm-4pm Point of contact: Daria Cybulska or WereSpielChequers. You can also call 0207 065 0994 or email daria.cybulskawikimedia.org.uk How do I sign up?: http://wikiphoto-workshop.eventbrite.com/. Attendance is free, refreshments are included, if you have a laptop it would be helpful to bring it.

Summary of the event

Many Wikipedia articles lack images, even though great images are often available. This is a workshop for people who do not have much experience of editing, but would like to help.

What have we learned?

• What Wikipedia's image library, Wikimedia Commons is.
• How to organise images on Commons
• How to add images from Commons onto Wikipedia
• How to add captions to images
• When we have lots of relevant images in Commons how to show this in Wikipedia
• How to add image descriptions for blind people and those using text readers

Attendees

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Feedback

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Further help

Contact the trainers present on the day

Visit the 'Discussion' tab, and click edit to write your message to the trainer.

• WereSpielChequers
• Harry Mitchell

Contact the Wikimedia UK office

daria.cybulskawikimedia.org.uk, 0207 065 0994