<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 19-Dec-2011, at 9:50 PM, ansuman wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>It would be great if we can produce a common standard <b>Presentation/Brochure/Leaflet</b> (name it whatever suits)<b> </b>which includes all the important point,<b> "Why One should contribute to Wikipedia"</b> from the repository. </div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>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:</div><div><br></div><div>1. <b>Presentations. </b>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. </div><div><ul><li>Basic introduction to Wikipedia</li><li>Editing basics</li><li>Why contribute to Wikipedia?</li><li>Neutral point of view</li><li>Notability</li><li>Manual of Style</li><li>Referencing </li><li>Avoiding copyright violations / plagiarism</li><li>Introduction to Wikimedia Commons</li><div><br></div></ul></div><div>2. <b>Leaflet/brochure</b> that can be given away to the participants. These leaflets can also be used in other outreach programs: like exhibitions, trade fairs etc.</div><div><br></div><div>3. <b>FAQs</b> that can either be handed over to the participants in the session or can be mailed to them as a follow up.</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div>Nitika</div><div><br></div></div></body></html>