Vatican library and Bodleian library July 2015

This was a 2½ hour workshop led by Martin Poulter in his capacity as Wikimedian In Residence at the Bodelian Libraries. It was hosted by Oxford University's Social Science Library on 7 July 2015.

The attendees were three staff from the Vatican Library and four from Bodleian Digital Library Systems and Services in Oxford University. A lot of them were in one way or another responsible for collections of digital material, and a purpose of the event was to get them thinking about Wikipedia and Wikimedia as platforms for sharing content.

They were given an overview presentation, covering content-sharing on Commons, book transcription on Wikisource, and Wikidata with demonstrations and exploration. We then explored basic Wikipedia editing and made some test edits in user space. Each participant was given an Editing Wikipedia booklet, a wiki code cheat sheet and a "prescription pad" from which to request follow-up activities.

Evaluations and reflections to come.