JISC DI team training workshop

What: A one-day workshop for the Digital Infrastructure team of the JISC to include Basic Wikipedia training and a discussion of some topics selected by the trainees.

Where: JISC headquarters, Brettenham House near the Strand, WC2E 7AE. Entrance is opposite Waterloo Bridge. Nearest tube stations are Charing Cross and Embankment.

When: 10am-4pm, Monday 8th October 2012

Travel expenses for the trainers will be met by the JISC, and lunch will be provided.

Trainers

• Martin Poulter
• Charles Matthews
• Edward Harding

Outline programme

This session will involve hands-on editing and improvement of Wikipedia, but, given the interests of the audience, a large proportion of it will be about how Wikimedia functions as a set of communities, how the projects work behind the scenes and how they relate to each other.

Trainers should turn up around 9.45. Event begins with coffee at 10.00 for a 10.30 start.

• Introductions
• Wikimedia's mission and the Five Pillars of Wikipedia (Martin)
• The Wikimedia projects and how they work together, especially how Commons and MediaWiki (and soon Wikidata) provide an infrastructure for the other projects. (Martin and Charles)
• Exercise: quality on Wikipedia. FAs and GAs. (Martin)
• Topics for group discussion (All)
  • Using Wikimedia as an outlet for suitable open educational resources created by other projects, in accordance with Wikimedia's mission
  • Making links to open-access versions of cited research papers
  • Bots and human-bot collaboration
  • The book tool

• Lunch

• Handling disagreements: Bold, Revert, Discuss. Consensus and why Wikipedia isn't a democracy.
• Basic editing and interaction with other users
• Look at article histories, user contribution lists and watchlists
• Article improvement (on an article related to each user's personal interest, or a random article)
• Getting help
• Finish at 4pm