Re: [Wikimedia-SF] American Society of Cell Biologists on December 16th -- Wikipedia workshop

Hello all, User:Proteins, aka Bill W., is a Wikipedian and scientist who is running a Wikipedia-editing workshop at the American Society of Cell Biologists meeting on Dec. 16th in San Francisco. He is looking for help from the community and from experienced editors who would like to come along and help out in person. The plan is to meet up at 11am at the Moscone Center on the 16th, for lunch beforehand and then do the workshop. See below for a brief description of the plan; description with links is at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Proteins#workshop.21_and_stuff. There is also a link to the "practical tutorial" he plans to use on his user page. Bill has experience in leading groups through editing workshops (and he met many of us at Wikimania 2008), and the ASCB is his peer group, so I think the workshop will go well. He's looking for help from editors who can answer questions and help guide the scientists. This is a chance to work with a group of interested, very knowledgable subject experts who are Wikipedia newbies -- so if you have patience and experience with working with academics this is a great opportunity. If you're interested, please contact [[en:user:proteins]] directly. best, Phoebe ---------------------------- The workshop is scheduled to take place from 12:30-2;30pm on December 16th at the Moscone Center, which you might know is just south of Market St. in San Francisco, at 747 Howard Street. The organizers anticipate roughly 60 scientists, who will come with laptops, references, images and a cell-biology topic on which they'd like to write an article. Our mission is to help them do that within two hours: difficult, much? Tim and I sketched an introduction for the scientists here, which I believe Awadewit looked over. We also made a welcome page for them as well. Here's the ASCB advertisement, which is abstracted on the conference's main page. Tim Vickers had the idea of organizing online Wikipedians to help the scientists with copyediting and other wiki-specific issues, but I thought it would be also good to bring the two communities (scientists and Wikipedians) together, face-to-face, and let them work together and form better opinions of one another. The organizers agreed enthusiastically, and basically said the more the merrier, up to about 20 volunteers. There's a slight difficulty in getting the Wikipedians into the conference, since there's some security as is usual at scientific conferences. So the organizers very kindly offered to take all the Wikipedian volunteers out to lunch beforehand and to escort them personally through security to the workshop. That's why it's important that we all meet up together at 11am at the Moscone Center. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-SF mailing list Wikimedia-SF(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf