Wikipedia and images workshop/October 2012

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Wikipedia photo library workshop - In a nutshell Where?: Mozilla Spaces, 101 St. Martins Lane, Suite 300, London WC2N 4AZ When?: Monday 1 October 2012, 2pm-6pm Point of contact: Daria Cybulska or WereSpielChequers. Also 0207 065 0994 or email daria.cybulskawikimedia.org.uk Attendance: Free. Participants were encouraged to bring own laptops.

Summary of the event

Many Wikipedia articles lack images, even though great images are often available. This was a workshop for people who do not have much experience of editing, but would like to help.

What did we learn?

• What Wikipedia's image library, Wikimedia Commons is.
• How to organise images on Commons
• How to add images from Commons onto Wikipedia
• How to add captions to images
• When we have lots of relevant images in Commons how to show this in Wikipedia
• How to add image descriptions for blind people and those using text readers

Attendees

• Sha951
• GreenSpangle

Further help

Contact the trainers present on the day

• WereSpielChequers
• Leutha (Leutha)

Contact the Wikimedia UK office

daria.cybulskawikimedia.org.uk, 0207 065 0994

Useful links to get you started on Wikimedia Commons

• Commons:First steps
• Commons:Categories - not over-helpful; try S.5.1 "Categorization tips"

and Wikipedia

• Wikipedia tutorial - A step by step guide to basic article editing
• Help:Contents/Editing Wikipedia - Eek, my head is starting to hurt! Too much choice.
• Wikipedia:Simplified ruleset - general principles; read before you start, not when you get stuck.

Feedback from the event

Sample feedback: Just a quick note to ask a favour - could you pass on my thanks to the trainers who led the learning session on Wikimedia. I came away quite inspired!