Hi Tom, Daniel, all,
There are already plans afoot here. :-) On the day before the conference, Martin Poulter's organising a Wikipedia Workshop for the Institute of Physics (which has obvious overlaps in terms of audience with this conference): http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Physics_Workshop and during the conference itself, Henry Scowcroft of Cancer Research UK is organising a session on "How are wikis being used to carry out and communicate science?" which I'm involved in - suggestions of people/groups to involve in that session would be most welcome. There's also a couple of other related elements in the works.
I'm mostly viewing this as an outreach activity, encouraging people to join in editing, rather than something that's community-focused (which editathons tend to be).
Thanks, Mike P.S. this follows on from WMUK's involvement in Science Online London 2009, where I gave a panel presentation on Wikipedia.
On 21 Jul 2011, at 16:42, Tom Morris wrote:
I've just been talking to Daniel Mietchen who is a Wikimedian in Residence for Open Science. This position has just been profiled on the Wikimedia blog, [1] and will be discussed in next week's Signpost.
He has suggested that Wikimedia UK could perhaps have an editathon or event around the Science Online conference in September in London.
In addition people may want to attend the event to represent Wikimedia UK. [2]
[1] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/07/20/joining-forces-with-open-science/ [2] http://solo11.eventbrite.com/
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