User:KB938/sandbox

Middlesex University MED3040 is a collaborative editing training event taking place at Middlesex University from 1-3pm on 10 and 17 February, and 3 and 10 March 2015.

Trainers

 * Edwardx (talk) 14:07, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Andros.Sprecher (talk) 14:13, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Participants

 * PD428 (talk) 14:18, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
 * GeorgiaBrk (talk)
 * Mowiki2905 (talk) 14:13, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Monikamdx 14:16, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Kirsteintherese (talk) 14:14, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Awreade (talk) 14:13, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Yasigol (talk) 14:14, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Jt651 (talk) 14:13, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Camne89 (talk) 14:15, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Gretabagd (talk) 14:16, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Jiapingcai (talk) 14:18, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
 * MZ2k15 (talk)
 * Becsnasc22 (talk) 14:22, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Bashbee (talk)
 * Anamaria2605 (talk) 13:30, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Sifakaradeniz (talk) 13:31, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Ashlove05 (talk) 13:36, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Bewarwick (talk) 13:36, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Heysams (talk) 13:37, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Akwikiright (talk) 13:40, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Thissmileyface (talk) 13:27, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
 * JR746 (talk) 13:29, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Thuhangtrinh (talk) 14:01, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

17 February training

 * Image adding exercise
 * how to build up a 100+ word Wikipedia expansion

3 March training

 * Quick review of training to date
 * Training
 * Training/Newcomers
 * Training/For students

10 March training

 * Brief overview of what we've done in weeks 1-3
 * Training/For students The four modules should take about one hour to complete. We might look at a few today; please try the others at home.
 * User:Edwardx/sandbox/MED3040 Copy this into your sandbox. We will try to fix these article introductions.
 * User:Tony1/How to improve your writing Plenty of great advice from a professional editor.
 * Redundancy exercises We will try a few.
 * Spot the ambiguity Some are ambiguous, some are not - we will try a few.
 * Advanced editing exercises We will try a few.

A few useful tools

 * Monthly page views for any Wikipedia article
 * Reftag - copy and paste a Google Books URL to generate a Wikipedia citation

Interesting pages on Wikipedia

 * Top 25 Report - 25 most viewed articles on English language Wikipedia in the last week
 * Statistics - a huge range of statistics about Wikipedia

More numbers

 * Top 1000 articles 2008-2014, and by year (Kim Kardashian, Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga have all "peaked")

Amusing pages

 * List of unusual deaths - Entertaining?
 * List of inventors killed by their own inventions - more of the same

Image adding exercise
If you've not tried this yet, here are some Wikipedia pages without images where we have suitable images on Wikimdeia Commons.
 * Image adding exercise instructions

Normal

 * Kaimes
 * Kennethmont
 * Kenton Road
 * Kerridge
 * Keskadale Beck

Infobox

 * Kenardington
 * Kenchester
 * Kennards House
 * Kensal Town
 * Kensworth
 * Kentisbeare
 * Kentra
 * Kents Cavern

Bespoke welcome
We have a tailored welcome for this event, just post:

~ to the talkpage of any new accounts created for the event