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

• We improved some categorization, especially working on diffusing images in the Commons Category:Fire stations in England to local sub-categories.
• We started the article Malmesbury Market Cross on English Wikipedia.

Attendees

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Feedback

Many thanks to everybody that attended the event. We would love to have your feedback on the workshop - please visit the page here to tell us what you thought of it.

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
• (John Byrne) Johnbod (talk) 12:03, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

Contact the Wikimedia UK office

daria.cybulskawikimedia.org.uk, 0207 065 0994