Wikipedia Education Program/MENA/CA Training
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Time & location: January 17-18, 10 AM - 4 PM; location to be confirmed
- Topics:
- Expectations of workshop
- Questions & concerns about Wikipedia
- Joining Wikipedia
- Editing as a user vs. anonymously
- (Create note-taking page with group)
- Ask Campus Ambassadors to take notes on that page collaboratively for the rest of the training
- Creating a new article, not creating duplicates of existing articles
- How to choose a good subject to edit
- Interacting with the community
- Recent changes & watchlists
- Where to find policies & procedures
- Neutral point of view, verifiability, what Wikipedia is & is not, copyright/plagiarism
- Writing style
- Model of a good article on the Arabic Wikipedia
- Uploading images (through Wikimedia Commons)
- The local community, meetups
- Presentation skills!
- For example: don't scroll too fast
- Interactive
- Discussions rather than just lecturing