Wikipedia and images workshop/October 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?: Monday 1 October 2012, 2pm-6pm Point of contact: Daria Cybulska or WereSpielChequers. Also 0207 065 0994 or email daria.cybulskawikimedia.org.uk Attendance: Free. Participants were encouraged to bring own laptops.

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 did we learn?

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

Attendees

Sha951
GreenSpangle

Further help

Contact the trainers present on the day

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.

Feedback from the event

Sample feedback: Just a quick note to ask a favour - could you pass on my thanks to the trainers who led the learning session on Wikimedia. I came away quite inspired!