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

=WIKIPEDIA'S VOICE=

Minutes of the day
The program moved on to the next task which was for talk sessions.
 * The meet-up officially commenced at 10:50am with opening prayers by Danidamiobi
 * Everyone got to introduce themselves stating their names, class/levels, something interesting about themselves and why they love Wikipedia. This introductions was moderated by Danidamiobi
 * After introductions, few minutes was devoted to pairing up of people with laptops, phones and connecting to the Wikipedia Wifi
 * There was a warm-up exercise where everyone got to go through the Wikipedia's featured article of the day _______. Everyone went through the talk-page, categories it belonged to, and also the edit history.
 * Danidamiobi took everyone through a brief summary on the functions of the different options/attributes available on the side bar of the main page.
 * By 11:32, Haylad gave a talk session on Neutral Point Of View(NPOV). This session ended by 1:07pm.
 * There was a brief lunch break which ended by 1:28pm.
 * By 1:29pm, MaryamOke commenced a talk session on Copy-Editing. She explained topics like; What is copy-editing?, why does Wikipedia need copy-editing?, How to copy-edit. Then everyone took an exercise on copy-editing as regards punctuation marks, styles, numbers and dates. Then she also spoke on the importance of copy-editing to Wikipedia.
 * By 1:57pm, MaryamOke rounded up and Teemah_24 took questions from the audience which was duly answered
 * By 2:03pm, a general questions and answers section was conducted by Danidamiobi.
 * Finally, the program came to an end by 2:32pm with closing prayer conducted by IdrisUmarFarouq.

Minutes of the day

 * 10:00-10:58am: Expecting guests and participants.
 * 10:58am: Program officially commenced with opening prayers by MaryamOke in the Muslim way and Haylad in the Christian way.
 * 11:02am: Introduction session began with everyone saying their names, class/levels, how wikipedia has helped them and how they plan to improve Wikipedia. This introductions were moderated by Haylad
 * 11:10am: The activities of the day commenced with Teemah_24 delivering a talk on the Five(5) Pillars of Wikipedia.
 * 11:20am: Haylad gave a brief summary on the Pillars of Wikipedia and responded to a couple of questions raised.
 * 11:25am: Timmylegend gave the audience a talk on Notability and Verifiability.
 * 11:50am: Timmylegend concluded his sessions and there was a brief question and answer session which he also moderated.
 * 11:55am: Haylad gave the audience a session on The Other part of Notability and Verifiability and also took another session of question and answers.
 * 1:05am: Danidamiobi took the floor and enjoined everyone to relax.