UWE Wikipedia event
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On 14 June 2016, the University of the West of England, Bristol is hosting a day event around Wikipedia and Wikimedia. It will include hands-on training with Wikipedia-editing and an overview of how Wikipedia and its sister projects are making knowledge and culture freely and openly available. No prior knowledge of wikis or Wikipedia is assumed.
In a nutshell
- When: 10am to 3pm, Tuesday 14 June. Lunch is not provided but there is a café in the building.
- Where: Room 3S705, S Block (on the left of this map), UWE Bristol Frenchay Campus, Bristol. Nearest train station: Bristol Parkway
- What: A free interactive workshop
Contacts
- Institutional contact: Dr Vivien Rolfe vivien.rolfe
uwe.ac.uk - Trainer: Dr Martin Poulter, Wikimedia UK volunteer m.l.poulterbris.ac.uk
Programme
- Wikimedia overview: how we're making digital media, text, data and educational materials free and open for the world
- Under the bonnet of Wikipedia: the quality scale and other tools to explore how Wikipedia articles evolve
- Wikipedia as a peer community (including how to make sure your changes to Wikipedia are accepted, plus advice for expert contributors)
- Hands-on editing using the new, simpler interface (There's a guide to the new visual editor in Wikipedia's help pages)
- In addition to Wikipedia editing using the Visual Editor, we looked at
- Histropedia interactive timelines based on Wikipedia and Wikidata (try entering a phrase that is a Category on Wikipedia, e.g. Age of Enlightenment)
- Educational assignments on Wikipedia: Brochure | Course tool (look at past courses) | Education noticeboard (here you can request permission to create course pages)
- Wikimaps Warper (click an image, scroll down to the "View the georeferenced map in the Wikimaps Warper" button, click it, then select "Preview" to get the cool cross-fade effect)
- Wikidata Reasonator (tool for exploring what Wikidata knows about a topic, including timelines, family trees etc. Many millions of topics)
- Wikisource (hundreds of thousands of out-of-copyright texts, including laws, biographies, poems, novels...)
- Also mentioned but we didn't get around to
- Map visualisations with Wikidata (and other kinds of query are shown on that page)
Accounts
- New accounts
- Other accounts
- w:User:John bristol had been inactive for seven years; just five edits prior to that
- w:User:Vivrolfe
- One other trainee had to leave early and her computer was very slow so I think she only just created her account before leaving
Evaluation
Six trainees in total; three women, three men. All attendees filled in evaluation forms.
1= Not satisfying/ useful. 5= Very satisfying/useful.
- The workshop in general
5 5 5 5 5 5 Mean: 5.0
- Content
5 5 5 5 5 5 Mean: 5.0
- Trainers
5 5 5 5 5 5 Mean: 5.0
- Materials available
5 4 5 5 5 4 Mean: 4.7
- Your confidence to edit Wikipedia
5 4 5 5 5 4 Mean: 4.7
- Your understanding of Wikipedia
5 4 5 5 5 5 Mean: 4.8
- Comments
- I personally needed this 5 hours - I've left several shorter workshops confused. This has been superb.
How likely are you to continue editing?
5 5 5 5 4 [one blank] Mean: 4.8
- Comments
- Yes- much more confident now. I needed to see a demonstration.
Please write three words/expressions which describe this workshop for you
- Useful, inspiring, rewarding
- Inspirational, friendly, clear
- Confidence-building, full of possibilities, supportive
- Empowering, illuminating, inspirational
- Informative, interactive, useful
- Useful/ relevant, interesting, pedagogically inspiring
Tell us at least one thing that would have improved this workshop for you
- I can't think how!
- [rest blank]
- Very enlightening. Great, thank you!
- Thanks
- This was excellent. Very informative + engaging.
- Martin was fabulous and most generous in coming to help us.
- [rest blank]