Wikipedia:Meetup/Wikipedia's Voice, Wikimedia Fan Club, University Of Ilorin.

Event status: ✅

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Metric of activities can be accessed here

Wikipedia Voice will be a two-day training event where student members will be enriching their experience and skills as Wikipedians as they engage in training sessions, help improve Wikipedia articles and engage in Wiki related activities and discussions.

The training seeks to align the new stream of emerging editors with the community policies and practices that have kept Wikipedia's standard.

Experienced members of the club will give brief talks about Neutral Point Of View, Weasel words, Puffery etc using the slides and experience gotten from Asaf's training/meeting at Abuja.

Event details

 * Location: Kibis Restaurant, Faculty of Arts, University of Ilorin
 * Date: Wednesday 15th and Thursday 16th, August, 2018.
 * Time: 10am - 2pm daily

Day 1 (August 15th, 2018)

 * Wikipedia Basics Opening Excercise* (10am-10:20am)

Task 1(10:20am-11:30am) Tutorial
 * Neutral Point of View (NPOV) Tutorial- Haylad

Task 2 (11:35am-12:05pm) copyediting- MaryamOke
 * We would be learning about the importance of copyediting to Wikipedia to the grammatical voice of Wikipedia and Wikipedia:How to copy-edit.

Task 3 (12:10pm-1:00pm) Hands-On Task 4 (1:05pm-2pm)
 * We would be editing articles that are logged on Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit
 * Editathon contest: Create-an-Article Get-A-Gift
 * Brief tutorial on the Verifiability and Notability and article creation.
 * Questions and Answers, refreshments.

Day 2 (August 16th, 2018)

 * Wikintroduction (10am-10:15am)

Task 1 (10:20-11:30am)
 * Introduction to Wikimedia Commons: How its images and their guiding standards help amplify Wikipedia's Voice
 * Continuation of Discussion on Notability and Article Creation.- Timmylegend
 * Editathon contest: Create-an-Article Get-A-Gift

Task 2 (11:35am-12:25pm) Teemah_24
 * Wikipedia Voice: Five pillars
 * Discussion on problems faced while editing and solutions
 * 24 questions exam

Task 3 (12:30-2pm)
 * General Discussions
 * Questions and Answers
 * Inauguration of new executives
 * Refreshments.

Task 4''

What to bring
Kindly bring your internet enabled phones and laptops. If you do not already have a Wikipedia user account, you may want to create one before you arrive (you can do so here).

Certification
Requirements for certification for this training include:
 * Attendance for the two days
 * Must score at least 50% in the 24 questions exam

Registration
Kindly register for the event here