Submissions:2018/Introduction to Wikipedia for librarians

This submission has been accepted for WikiConference North America 2018.

Title

Introduction to Wikipedia for Librarians

Theme (optional)

Relationship Building & Support

Academic Peer Review option

No

Type of submission

workshop

Author

Merrilee Proffitt

E-mail address

proffitm@oclc.org

Wikimedia username

Merrilee

Affiliation(s) (optional)

OCLC Research

Abstract

Workshop that would gently introduce Wikipedia to librarians, using some of the tools and techniques developed in our Better Together training program. This is different than most training programs that dive right into learning to edit.

Length of presentation

3 hours (ideally this would be before the conference)

Special requests

Need a training room and some skilled Wikipedians to assist.

Preferred room size

20?

Have you presented on this topic previously? If yes, where/when?

I did a dry run of this at the Computers and Libraries Conference with about 10 participants. It was quite succcessful.

If you will be incorporating a slidedeck during your presentation, do you agree to upload it to Commons before your session, with a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license, including suitable attribution in the slidedeck for any images used?

I have a slidedeck and reworking images might be hard but I can try!

Will you attend WikiConference North America if your submission is not accepted?

Yes

Interested attendees

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1. Willing to volunteer if you need helpers for a large turnout. Gamaliel (talk) 18:52, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
2. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:35, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
3. Mozucat (talk) 01:36, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
4. Norwegianblue (talk) 19:58, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
5. Ronald Sexton (talk) 13:39, 17 October 2018 (UTC)
6. Shameran81 (talk) 02:43, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
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