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.
Trainers
Feedback
From Peter soon after the event: Just wanted to say that the event went very well, and I got some good feedback. We succeeding in making some positive changes to pages on the day, and I even did another page today. Thanks again for helping set it up.