Wikipedia:Presenting Wikipedia

This is a new project page to provide recommendations to individuals giving Wikipedia--based presentations to a live audience. The purpose is to make each presentation as accurate, convenient to assemble, and as high--impact as possible. As a secondary purpose, this project page will coordinate efforts to upload transcripts, audio, and/or video of useful presentations. A Wikimania 2006 workshop is in the works.

Participants

 * GChriss
 * Sj
 * Linuxbeak

Links to pages providing information about
 * Gauging intended audience
 * Presenting Wikimedia projects; types of presentations; basic guidelines and advice
 * Finding free-content presentations others have given (slides, audio/video, transcripts, papers, other)
 * Answering questions (the traditional and the difficult)
 * Lists of Wikipedian presenters (those with experience; those who have presented on this topic before)
 * Lists of presentations (given by Wikipedians and others about the project)
 * Links to similar pages on other projects (notably Meta)
 * Upcoming and regular events at which Wikipedia would be welcome as a {booth, presentation topic} (see Calendar)
 * Policies and basics about the projects : where to find core pages, how to explain core values and practices
 * Do's and Don't's : don't vandalize as an example (and how to demonstrate vandalism by noting what is already going on), do demonstrate dynamic content, do touch on other languages and projects, don't focus disproportionately on conflict...



Links to policy and meta pages
 * Projects : Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons
 * Events : Wikimania, CEBIT, 21-23CCC, ...
 * Community subsets : WikiProjects, committees, groups, major user-groups
 * Policy clusters : WP:5P, &c.

General links about wikis
 * Wiki, Ward Cunningham, MeatballWiki
 * Twiki, MoinMoin wiki, ...

Many of these pages don't yet exist and need to be created.