Everything you wanted to know about Wikipedia but were too afraid to ask

What is Wikipedia? How does it work?

Liam Wyatt of Wikimedia Australia will introduce us to “free-culture”, its relationship to copyright and the role of Wikipedia in the information commons.

This is a practical session for both readers and potential editors.

Liam will give us a guided tour of the major elements of Wikipedia that are useful to readers (e.g. discussion pages, editing guides and finding “featured quality” content) before getting into the basics of editing Wikipedia pages.

We will find articles relevant to Mosman and the region (Liam recently curated this great article on Artists’ Camps) and learn how we can get involved with “wikiprojects” (most notably wikiproject-Australia and wikiproject-Sydney).

This will be a fun session that will challenge and inspire!

(If you have a laptop, bring it along.)

Free but please RSVP online.

Presented as part of the Social Media Mob – Mosman. Questions? Email webteam@mosman.nsw.gov.au.

About Liam

Liam Wyatt is a historian, podcaster and museophile. He is the Vice President of Wikimedia Australia and last year convened the GLAM-WIKI conference. He was formerly the Multimedia Coordinator at the Dictionary of Sydney. He won the UNSW University Medal in History 2009.

Photo of Liam Wyatt by Gnangarra published under a Creative Commons 3.0 licence

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Comment by Bern on March 7, 2010 at 5:48pm

watch this video first! Steven Walling - Why Wikipedians are the Weirdest People on the Internet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEkF5o6KPNI

Comment by Jane B on March 5, 2010 at 9:45am

Wow Bern I can't wait - is there room for a devil's advocate?