I've done a number of presentations about WP. Depending on whether you have a 'net connection or not, there are different things to do.
* Screen shots of WP's pages help to illustrate the wiki concept. Start with a page relevant to your audience and shows off WP's strengths. (For example, I use [[Octopus card]] for locals here.) Show the history page, the "Edit this page" button, and what wiki markup looks like.
* Show WP's growth against WP's competitors, such as Britannica and Bartleby. The Alexa graph helps illustrate this. See: http://tinyurl.com/49pyb
With a live Internet connection:
* Find something relevant to create live in front of the audience. When blogger Dan Gillmor and I were at the civic journalism conference earlier this year, he talked about Wikipedia on a panel, and I immediately created the entry for [[Participatory journalism]] right before the audience.
* Show the #enrc.wikipedia IRC channel, which has a live display of Recent Changes.
Good luck.
-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 21:18:33 -0400, ilooy ilooy.gaon@gmail.com wrote:
Hi fellow Wikipedians,
I'll be doing a presentation on Wikipedia for the McAuliffe Conference and the NHAWLT Teachers' Conference in the coming weeks and was wondering if anyone else has done a presentation to a large group... what features would be good to highlight... and what seems to work well with a group that has not heard much about the project yet.
If you have some ideas as to what might be good points to bring out please let me know. I appreciate any insights you may offer on this subject.
with sincere regards, Jay B. [[w:en:User:ILVI]] _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l