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

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Wiki Hatch is a meetup organised by the Wikimedia fan club, University of Ilorin. It is a meetup organised to recruit new members to the club with focus or emphasis on students in their first year of academic studies. 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: May 23rd and 29th, 2019.
 * Time: 2pm and 10am respectively

Day 1
Task 1 Task 2
 * Neutral Point of View (NPOV) Tutorial - Alaafiabami Oladipupo
 * Basics of editing Wikipedia Tutorial - Alaafiabami Oladipupo
 * Editathon contest: Create-an-Article.-Alabi Bolaji

Task 3
 * General Discussions
 * Questions and Answers
 * Refreshments.

Day 2
Task 1
 * Verify and Notability - Alaafiabami Oladipupo
 * Editathon contest: Create-an-Article-Alabi Bolaji

Task 2
 * Discussion on problems faced while editing and solutions

Task 3 (12:30-2pm)
 * General Discussions
 * 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).

Registration
Kindly register for the event here|