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Wikipedia workshop
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Sphingonet Wiki workshop - In a nutshell
Where?: Merton College, Oxford, OX1 4JD
When?: Wednesday 10th July 2013, 1pm-6pm,
with an informal meetup afterwards
Point of contact: Daria.Cybulska
wikimedia.org.uk, 0207 065 0994 for Wikimedia
UK, Luc.Henry epfl.ch for Sphingonet Merton College
Photos from the day: Here, summary blog post
here (http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/07
/sphingonet-and-wikipedia/).
Contents
1 Sphingonet Wiki workshop - In a nutshell
2 What is it?
3 Trainers
4 Attendees
5 Agenda
6 Wikipedia articles created or edited during the workshop
What is it?
Sphingonet a European network of PhD-candidate and post-doc researchers focusing on
Sphingolipids. Part of their activities is outreach work. As a part of the training offered to the
network's members, we have organised an introduction to open science, with a focus on Wikipedia.
Sphingonet had a meeting in Oxford in July and so the afternoon of 10th July, before the main
meeting, was focused on how Wikipedia works, and how to improve it with the attendees' specific
knowledge - the audience is PhD students, postdoc and professors. The people on the network came
from c. 10 different countries (UK, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland), so there was a
potential to work on translating various Wikipedia articles.
The main goal of this event was to make a significant contribution to the quality of Wikipedia
scientific content in Sphingonet--related topics. The workshop took place in Oxford, on the afternoon
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of Wednesday the 10th of July 2013. Majority of the attendees were familiar with Wikipedia editing -
but before the event, the attendees received information to prepare them for training. The hope is for
the attendees to continue contributing to Wikipedia after the training.
As a preparation, the attendees were asked to identify 2-3 topics and corresponding sources they
wanted to focus on during the training, with the intention to improve relevant articles by the end of
the day. The topics were mostly focusing on specific proteins or enzymes.
Trainers
1. Toni Sant :: WP talk page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:ToniSant) - simplified help!
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ToniSant/help) - lead
2. Richard Nevell - support lead
3. Brian Kelly
4. Daria Cybulska
Attendees
All new to Wikipedia, 5 women.
1. Nlebesgue3583
2. Tatman37
3. Hoeglinger
4. Augustinus Galih
5. Luc Henry
6. Galbus
7. Davidebertoldo
8. Fay.prifti
9. Acolaco
10. Bcab1
11. Jainamrita
This event also provided an induction opportunity for the newly appointed Wikimedian in Residence
at the National Library of Scotland. Attendees in this regard were:
1. Triptropic
2. ACrockford
Agenda
The workshop included information on common mistakes researchers make when editing Wikipedia,
and how to improve articles with illustrations.
The afternoon was divided into two parts, led by each of the trainers:
Toni Sant presented an introductory session about Wikipedia and sharing knowledge on the
Internet. This was followed by a practical session of Basic Wikipedia training.
Tea/coffee break
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Richard Nevell discussed ways to contribute to Wikimedia other than by writing encyclopedia
articles (e.g. sharing images; rendering structure data in visual form; giving research a suitable
licence). This part of the workshop also included a Q&A and more hands-on Wikipedia
editing, which in essence lead into an editathon of pages relevant to Sphingonet members.
Wikipedia articles created or edited during the workshop
1. Wikipedia:Ceramide_Phosphoethanolamine_Synthase
2. Wikipedia:Acid Sphingomyelinase
3. Wikipedia:S1PR1 - expand
4. Wikipedia:Membrane contact site - expand
5. Wikipedia:Hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type I
6. Wikipedia:Photoactivatable probes
7. Wikipedia:Dihydroceramide desaturase
8. Wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphorylation#Detection_and_characterization -
expand
9. Wikipedia:EThcD
10. Wikipedia:O-6-methylguanine-DNA_methyltransferase
11. Wikipedia:Green_fluorescent_protein
12. Wikipedia:Snap-Tag
Also:
1. Wikipedia:Marion Cameron Gray
2. Wikipedia:Myrtle Corbin
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This post was written by Richard Nevell.
On 10 July, four trainers from Wikimedia UK travelled to
Oxford to meet a group of doctoral and post-doctoral
researchers. The idea of helping the group learn to edit was first
floated in February this year by Luc Henry. As with many of
the charity’s events, a lot of planning and preparation went on
behind the scenes, and Luc put in a lot of effort and helped with
follow up. Myself, Toni Sant, Daria Cybulska, and Brian Kelly
delivered the training.
Sphingonet is a programme for early career researchers
investigating sphingolipids, bringing together people from five
different countries. The group’s funding is provided by the
European Union’s Marie Curie Actions research fellowship Daria Cybulska helping people learn how to edit
programme. Part of Sphingonet’s work includes outreach
activities, and few methods have potentially as much impact as
editing Wikipedia. The new Wikimedian in Residence at the National Library of Scotland was also there. It was an
opportunity for her to see a training session in progress, see what worked and what didn’t, in preparation for her own
activities. Hopefully we left a good impression! Brian had attended a recent editathon about Queen Victoria’s journals, and
wanted to get more involved with introducing people to editing.
As this was a group of researchers, the main role of the trainers was to explain the technicalities of editing and helping
people get to grips with the user, rather than how to identify a reliable source. There were challenges, such as teaching two
streams, one with the visual editor and one using wikicode, but on that sunny day in Oxford with a friendly and eager
group it was easy to overcome. Soon enough they were editing with ease, though question about the copyright on diagrams
of chemical formulas tested the trainers’ knowledge to the limits!
Chatting with attendees on a one-to-one basis there was real enthusiasm for Wikipedia and its potential. It is second nature
for people to turn to the website when quickly looking something up, and they felt it was important that such a high profile
website should be high quality. Importantly, feedback suggests that people really wanted to keep editing. And with the
researchers being multilingual, there’s always the chance they may edit Wikipedia in other languages. Only time will tell if
they stick around, but hopefully that day in Oxford helped more people understand how Wikipedia is made, what goes into
it, and what people can do to improve it.
Tags: Editor training, Sphingonet, training
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