University of Oxford Department of Zoology Wikipedia training 2012

Basics

• Date: Friday 7 December, 11am-5pm
• Venue: Oxford, OX1 3PS, http://www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/contact
• Cost: Free
• Twitter hashtag: You can communicate with us on @wikimediauk
• Participants: Wikipedia newcomers, post-graduates and researchers from the Zoology department. 10-20 participants.
• Registration: Peter Holland <peter.holland@zoo.ox.ac.uk>
• Any questions: leave a note on the talk page

Topics for the workshop

Topics that could be touched on are:

• How to edit
• Policies and issues for academics
• Avoiding bias and claimed conflict of interest
• Consensus and engaging with the community using peer review and WikiProjects
• Other projects beyond Wikipedia, multiple languages and (inevitably) handling copyright releases
• Assessing public impact from a research funding point of view

This is an initial list resulting from the discussion with Peter, and could be changed on the day.

Venue

• Oxford, OX1 3PS, http://www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/contact
• IT suite with computers and internet

Participants

Attendees

It will save time if you create an editing account at Wikipedia before you arrive for the session. If you haven't yet created an account, please go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page and click 'Create account' at the top right corner. This is a quick procedure that does not need any detailed personal information; although it is advisable to give an email address, to enable the retrieval of forgotten passwords! If you need help you can wait till the workshop.

Once you have created an account, please write it down below:

Trainers

• Harry Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts?