Dear All,
There is a series of opportunities/events coming up where we would love to have your help. Please see below for details, or get in touch with me with any questions. Many thanks - I hope many of you will be able to attend and help.
- *Imperial College Wikipedia Society* is having their first social on Tuesday 16 October at 6:30pm at the Union pub (near the Imperial), London. Feel free to pop in if you want to say hello.
- *Black History Month*http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Black_History_Month,_2012 Wikipedia training day Friday 26 October, London To coincide with Black History Month, Wikimedia UK in conjunction with The Equiano Centre http://www.ucl.ac.uk/equianocentre/, UCL is organising an event on 26 October in London. The event will explore some of Black Culture histories and work on adding the information to Wikipedia (including biographies on some of the figures of African and Asian heritage living, travelling or working in Britain at this time). Please sign up on the page if you are able to help with Wikipedia *training* on the day ( http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Black_History_Month,_2012). Some participants will be members of various Black Culture organisations so it will be a great networking opportunity as well.
- *Train the Trainer*http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Training_the_Trainers/October_eventweekend 27-28 October, London There are a couple of spaces available at our free training event for *anyone helping at Wikipedia training workshops, or even only just thinking of getting involved in that*. http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Training_the_Trainers/October_event
- *Association of Medical Research Charities* conference Tuesday 30 October, London As a part of AMRC's public engagement event there will be a talk on Wikipedia at 11am-12:30pm. A person leading it has attended a Wikipedia workshop a couple of months back that our volunteers have run and would like to take the relationship forward. They are tailoring the content to their audience, so they would like to lead the workshop, but having one volunteer to help out with *facilitating* (especially if familiar with the WikiProject Medicine) would be great. Let me know if you are available by 15 October.
- *Ethical Properties Wikipedia workshophttp://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ethical_Properties_Wikipedia_Workshop/November_event * Thursday 1 November, 11am-4pm, London We are having another relaxed training session for some volunteers and staff from the charities based in the Wikimedia UK's building. If you are able to attend as a *trainer* to help with this relaxed 1-1 Wikipedia introduction day, please do sign up on the page ( http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ethical_Properties_Wikipedia_Workshop/November_...) or let me know.
- *Girl Geekshttps://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Girl_Geek_Dinner/Manchester_November_2012 * editing day Sunday 25 November, whole day, Manchester As a followup from the event we have run last year, we are putting up a friendly meeting with the Manchester Girl Geeks. The details are being confirmed but we will focus on teaching the attendees how to edit, and with time permitting do the editing with the topics that the participants will be interested in. A couple of *trainers* joining us would be great - if you are interested please sign up here ( https://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Girl_Geek_Dinner/Manchester_November... )
- Don't forget the London http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London/62, Coventry http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coventry/4 and Cambridgehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/16 Meetups in October as well!
Looking forward to hearing back from you.
All the best, Daria