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(a)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]]
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