Wikipedia Education Program/MENA/CA Training

Time & location: January 17-18, 10 AM - 4 PM; location to be confirmed

• Topics:
  • Expectations of workshop
  • Questions & concerns about Wikipedia
  • Joining Wikipedia
  • Editing as a user vs. anonymously
  • (Create note-taking page with group)
    • Ask Campus Ambassadors to take notes on that page collaboratively for the rest of the training
  • Creating a new article, not creating duplicates of existing articles
  • How to choose a good subject to edit
  • Interacting with the community
  • Recent changes & watchlists
  • Where to find policies & procedures
  • Neutral point of view, verifiability, what Wikipedia is & is not, copyright/plagiarism
  • Writing style
  • Model of a good article on the Arabic Wikipedia
  • Uploading images (through Wikimedia Commons)
  • The local community, meetups
  • Presentation skills!
    • For example: don't scroll too fast
    • Interactive
    • Discussions rather than just lecturing