ilooy 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]]
Hello,
I presented "MediaWiki as a collaborative tool" using Wikipedia as an
example. Auditors were professional from education / training , or came
from companies that either sale collaborative tools or use them (like
lotus notes).
I briefly presented the concept of wiki (everyone can edit, edit are
instantly available, no moderator ...). Explained that a project use it
to build a free encyclopedia (wikipedia) and that despite a lot of
objections it works.
You will probably have to read several time:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Replies_to_common_objections
Comparing wikipedia to the linux kernel helped me a lot ('it will never
works', 'we can trust that').
Basicly it was:
1/ introducing the wiki system
2/ examples using wikipedia (how to view, edit, save a page, talk)
3/ giving a table of some objections and our answers (like vandalism is
fight by having 20x more people willing to fix them)
4/ Questions / answers
cheers,
--
Ashar Voultoiz - WP++++
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hashar