DRHA Conference 2014

Greenwich University in London

Wikipedia Editing Workshop - In a nutshell Where?: DRHA 2014 Conference - Greenwich University, London When?: Sunday 31 August - 2 September 2014 (precise date/time of workshop tba) Who can attend?: This event is open to all DRHA 2014 delegates Point of contact: Toni Sant

Contributing to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects provides researchers valuable skills of information literacy, in particular high quality writing skills, critical evaluation, and citation styles. It can also give students a sense of purpose in their academic work, and creates free content that can be developed by others, rather than merely consumed. Many universities are already assigning students to improve Wikipedia articles for credit, and national cultural institutions such as the British Library, British Museum, the Natural History Museum and the Science Museum, to name a few, have held a Wikimedian in Residence to ensure enhanced engagement with the world's most popular non-commercial online resource.

This workshop introduces the concept of editing Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects to DHRA attendees. The workshop also includes information on common mistakes researchers make when editing Wikipedia, and how to improve articles with illustrations.

The session consists of the following three sections, which roughly last one hour each:

• an introductory discussion about Wikipedia and sharing knowledge on the Internet.
• practical work based on Basic Wikipedia Training.
• an exploration of ways to contribute to Wikimedia other than by writing encyclopedia articles (e.g. sharing images; rendering structure data in visual form; giving research a suitable licence). This part of the workshop also includes a Q&A and more hands‐on Wikipedia editing.

Trainers

The workshop will be led by Dr Toni Sant. He will be assisted by WMUK volunteer trainers and/or Ambassadors.

Attendees

A list of attendee usernames will appear here after the event.