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

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Wiki Hangout and Transition is the last meetup of the semester organized by the Wikimedia fan club, University of Ilorin. It is a meetup organized to train members, have a review of the club activities for the academic session, recruit new members to the club, handover to new leaders for the next session, and a farewell to the graduating students. It will be a meetup in which student members will be enriching their experience and skills as Wikipedians 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.

Event details

 * Location: Kibis Restaurant, Faculty of Arts, University of Ilorin
 * Date: July 31st, 2019.
 * Time: 10am

Activities

 * Wikipedia Basics Opening Excercise

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

Task 2 copyediting- Teemah
 * 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).