Hi Tom,

There's only one way to find out. http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Skillshare

WSC

On 3 February 2012 16:56, Tom Morris <tom@tommorris.org> wrote:
On 3 February 2012 16:40, WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think we could speed that up by a wiki skills event somewhat as Tom Morris
> detailed, but maybe more one to one sessions. I've taught people hotcat and
> catalot using my netbook in various meetups in pubs and pizza parlours. One
> of my suggestions for wikimania was a skill sharing lounge where people
> could teach each other various tools, and I suspect that such a session
> would be a useful and popular event for the office. The difference between
> categorising on commons with and without catalot is quite staggering and if
> we can encourage more editors to use such tools the categorisation backlog
> will be seriously dented.
>

I'm wondering if anyone wants to join in with a proposal to have one
Wikimania session in DC as a skills sharing thing? Or how we would
convince the Wikimania organisers that we need less pontificating and
more training? ;-)

--
Tom Morris
<http://tommorris.org/>

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