Wikipedia and images workshop/December 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?: Tuesday 4 December 2012, 2pm-6pm Point of contact: Daria Cybulska or WereSpielChequers. You can also call 0207 065 0994 or email daria.cybulskawikimedia.org.uk Participants: were encouraged to sign up here. Attendance was free, refreshments included.

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 search for images in Wikimedia Commons
• How to add images to Wikipedia
• How to add captions and a description for blind people to images
• Projects that would benefit: Wikipedia

Attendees

If you are attending, please write your User name below - that will help us provide you with support in the future. If you don't have a user name, that's no problem, you can still attend.

• Andrew Wilson
• Csideras Christos

Further help

Contact the trainers present on the day

• WereSpielChequers
• Leutha (Leutha)
• RexxS (talk)
• HJ Mitchell

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.