University of Oxford Department of Zoology Wikipedia training 2012

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Basics

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

Topics for the workshop

Topics that were suggested by Peter:

• 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

Venue

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

Trainers

• Harry Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts?
• Charles Matthews (talk)

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.