Thanks, Ziko. That's really interesting and sounds like an effective way of getting
them started.
I'm curious what kinds of problems people contact you about when they start editing
for real?
On Apr 12, 2012, at 1:45 PM, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
Hello,
Myself, I have a presentation which shows a basic wiki principle; I
noticed that showing the same thing onwiki would make me jumping too
much from page to page.
Showing Wikipedia functionalities then onwiki I call "Wikipedia
surfing" (version history, talk pages etc.).
If it is a workshop with the intention to make people edit then I
create a "pseudo encyclopedia" on user subpages. That's a number of
simplified Wikipedia articles with hardly any markup. From article to
article, the complexity and amount of wikisyntax grows. The newbies in
groups of 2 correct the language and content (I put in some errors for
them).
I prefer that because editing real WP makes people anxious, and I want
to be undisturbed with the newbies.
Kind regards
Ziko
2012/4/11 Heather Ford <hford(a)ushahidi.com>om>:
Have a quick question for some work I'm doing
on Wikipedia literacy:
What resources are folks using to teach others how to edit Wikipedia? At Wikipedia
Academies etc?
Thanks in anticipation :)
Best,
Heather.
Heather Ford
Ethnographer: Ushahidi / SwiftRiver
http://ushahidi.com |
http://swiftly.org
@hfordsa on Twitter
http://hblog.org
_______________________________________________
Wikimedia-l mailing list
Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Unsubscribe:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
--
-----------------------------------------------------------
Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland
dr. Ziko van Dijk, voorzitter
http://wmnederland.nl/
Wikimedia Nederland
Postbus 167
3500 AD Utrecht
-----------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
Wikimedia-l mailing list
Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Unsubscribe:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l