Wikipedia and images workshop/June 2012

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Wikipedia photo library workshop - In a nutshell
Where?: Mozilla Spaces, 101 St. Martins Lane, Suite 300, London WC2N 4AZ When?: Thursday 28 June 2012, 2pm-4pm Point of contact: Daria Cybulska or WereSpielChequers - 0207 065 0994 or daria.cybulskawikimedia.org.uk

Summary of the event

Many Wikipedia articles lack images, even though great images are often available. This was a workshop for people who do not have much experience of editing, but would like to help.

What have we learned?

What Wikipedia's image library, Wikimedia Commons is.
How to organise images on Commons
How to add images from Commons onto Wikipedia
How to add captions to images
When we have lots of relevant images in Commons how to show this in Wikipedia
How to add image descriptions for blind people and those using text readers

We improved some categorization, especially working on diffusing images in the Commons Category:Fire stations in England to local sub-categories.
We started the article Malmesbury Market Cross on English Wikipedia.

Attendees

Attendance was free (registrations managed via Eventbrite), with refreshments and some laptops provided. We had 17 people registered, and 14 attended on the day.

Further help

Contact the trainers present on the day

WereSpielChequers
Harry Mitchell
(John Byrne) Johnbod (talk) 12:03, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
Fæ (talk)
Leutha (Leutha)

Contact the Wikimedia UK office

daria.cybulskawikimedia.org.uk, 0207 065 0994

Useful links to get you started on Wikimedia Commons

Commons:First steps
Commons:Categories - not over-helpful; try S.5.1 "Categorization tips"

and Wikipedia

Wikipedia tutorial - A step by step guide to basic article editing
Help:Contents/Editing Wikipedia - Eek, my head is starting to hurt! Too much choice.
Wikipedia:Simplified ruleset - general principles; read before you start, not when you get stuck.