Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women's History/NIMR2013

Possible agenda:

Ed started the discussion by saying


 * I'd be very happy to go on first - introduce our team, WM, WP and try to get from our newcomers what they would like to achieve with their day.
 * I'd also be happy to get the ball rolling with developing a "cut and paste" biography template (or adapt an existing one) that our trainees could use as a model to fill in the details. And I'd be happy to talk about some of the particular issues around bios, especially BLPs.

Richard has suggested:
 * In terms of an introduction presentation, I think we'll need some nice visuals to avoid bombarding people with numbers. Too many and they'll bounce straight off.


 * For example: http://wikistream.inkdroid.org/ is a good visualisation of the nature of Wikipedia. I think showing people a constant stream of edits brings home the reality that Wikipedia is constantly edited better than raw numbers which become a bit abstract when you have large numbers. (Idea nicked from Andrew Gray)

Agreed - the visual component is very important. We need to grab their attention right from the start and aim to get them enthusiastic about the idea of editing WP, rather than worrying too much about trying to cover all the tools they might need (with only 85 minutes to play with, we have no hope of that anyway).

Now this sort of thing is probably too full on, but Jason Silva's "performance philosophy" approach and use of visuals is impressive: http://vimeo.com/38260970

I'll do much more on this tomorrow. Edwardx (talk) 20:52, 15 July 2013 (UTC)


 * I would be happy to include a brief clip of http://wikistream.inkdroid.org/. But maybe it would be a good idea to have a pre-recorded back-up, just in case there are issues with their interent connection. Do we have to worry about that sort of issue anymore? Edwardx (talk) 11:42, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Feedback from the organiser
"Just to let you know, the edit a thon at NIMR yesterday was a major success with 20+ editors and over 100 at Athene Donald's talk. Press coverage and Twitter traffic were great, just a few small lessons we can learn, but it all bodes extremely well for the RS event!" - Mel Nunn — Preceding unsigned comment added by Daria Cybulska (WMUK) (talk • contribs) 12:18, 6 August 2013 (UTC)