Wikipedia:Meetup/ Wiki Hangout; Wikimedia Fan Club, University Of Ilorin

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Wiki Hangout is the first meetup of the semester organized by the Wikimedia fan club, University of Ilorin. It is a meetup organized to introduce, train, and reorgonize memmbers in order to have have a solid start to the club's activities for the new academic session. It is an event primarily meant to recruit new members to the club and introduce new leaders for the new session. It will be a meetup in which student members will be enriching their experience and skills as Wikimedians as they engage in training sessions, to create articles on Wikipedia and also help improve Wikipedia articles and engage in Wikipedia 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 high so far.

Event details

 * Location: Bukatee restaurant, University of Ilorin
 * Date: January 27th, 2023.
 * Time: 4 PM

Activities

 * Wikipedia Basics Opening Excercise

Task 1 Tutorial
 * Neutral Point of View (NPOV) Tutorial- Major Lyte

Task 2 copyediting- James Moore200
 * 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 Hands-On Task 4
 * 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.

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).