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
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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.