That's one of the things I'd love to work on. In order to do successful outreach we need to have supportive documents that can be used and/or given away during the sessions. These documents need to be well thought and structured and should be inclusive of various aspects one needs to know about Wikipedia. In my opinion, a deck of documents that should be readily available to anyone who wants to do an outreach are:
1. Presentations. These presentation should be in different modules and the presenter should be able to choose a presentation from the deck depending upon the nature of the audience, topic of discussion during the session etc.
- Basic introduction to Wikipedia
- Editing basics
- Why contribute to Wikipedia?
- Neutral point of view
- Notability
- Manual of Style
- Referencing
- Avoiding copyright violations / plagiarism
- Introduction to Wikimedia Commons
2. Leaflet/brochure that can be given away to the participants. These leaflets can also be used in other outreach programs: like exhibitions, trade fairs etc.
3. FAQs that can either be handed over to the participants in the session or can be mailed to them as a follow up.
We should make sure that each of these documents have just the right amount of information - too much of information can be confusing and too little information might not be sufficient for a newbie.
I'm sure we have made some of these documents in the past. We need to update them and collate them in a common place. I can track down some of the old documents pertaining to these topics and share it with you all. We can then collaboratively start working on this deck step-by-step. Please let me know if this sounds good or if you'd prefer to work on this in any other way?
Nitika