Thanks to everyone who responded on this thread.

I have started an onwiki page for this event and starting to work on content etc – see https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Exeter_University_July_2015 and edits there or comments on the talk page would be very welcome.

During/after the event I will also add the requested list of pages edited during the day.

Rod

From: wikimediauk-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediauk-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rod Ward
Sent: 15 April 2015 20:48
To: list, UK Wikimedia mailing
Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Advice re wp workshop - COI, BLP & ? Paid editing

I have agreed to do a workshop on behalf of Wikimedia UK on 15^th July and would appreciate some advice about the best ways to deal with topics around Conflict of Interest, Biographies of Living Persons and possibly Paid editing.

This will be at the University of Exeter and the expected participants are web people and possibly other comms people from universities in the south west of England. Their objective is to improve the wp articles on academics from their institutions (eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Academics_of_the_University_of_Exeter )

This was originally discussed with Daria in 2013 and then was going to be held in 2014 (Chris McKenna, HJ Mitchell, Martin Poulter etc were copied into the planning). I emailed various experts in March and added it to an email to Richard – but have not had any response from any of them

I have looked at:

· https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest

· https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons

· https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view

and feel reasonably comfortable with the content, but would appreciate any advice on the best way to get these across to this target group, as beyond basic editing I think these will be the most useful areas for the participants to engage with.

Rod