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]]
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
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 21:18:33 -0400, ilooy ilooy.gaon@gmail.com wrote:
I'll be doing a presentation on Wikipedia for the McAuliffe Conference and the NHAWLT Teachers' Conference in the coming weeks....
Some resources you might find helpful:
An outline of the presentation Jimbo and I did in London earlier this year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jimbo_Wales/BBC_talk
Notes from a presentation Anthere made (in French): http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Anthere/table_ronde
Some of Jimbo's slides: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jimbo_Wales/BBC_talk_slides.
The text of a short presentation written by User:Ppareit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Presentation.
Angela.
http://www.wikiservice.at/upload/ChristopheDucamp/DocForum81.ppt
The original powerpoint.
Angela a écrit:
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 21:18:33 -0400, ilooy ilooy.gaon@gmail.com wrote:
I'll be doing a presentation on Wikipedia for the McAuliffe Conference and the NHAWLT Teachers' Conference in the coming weeks....
Some resources you might find helpful:
An outline of the presentation Jimbo and I did in London earlier this year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jimbo_Wales/BBC_talk
Notes from a presentation Anthere made (in French): http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Anthere/table_ronde
Some of Jimbo's slides: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jimbo_Wales/BBC_talk_slides.
The text of a short presentation written by User:Ppareit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Presentation.
Angela.
Hi,
I did some presentations in German (and got used to it ;-) - I am collecting things like that at
http://wikipedia.de/Wikipedia:Vortr%C3%A4ge
Angela wrote:
I'll be doing a presentation on Wikipedia for the McAuliffe Conference and the NHAWLT Teachers' Conference in the coming weeks....
Some resources you might find helpful:
An outline of the presentation Jimbo and I did in London earlier this year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jimbo_Wales/BBC_talk
Notes from a presentation Anthere made (in French): http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Anthere/table_ronde
Some of Jimbo's slides: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jimbo_Wales/BBC_talk_slides.
The text of a short presentation written by User:Ppareit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Presentation.
Angela.
I also created http://wikipedia.en/Wikipedia:Presentations
Greetings, Jakob
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,
The first of the two conferences went quite well. I only ran into a couple of problems and these could perhaps be solved for the next conference.
It was held at Wentworth-by-the-Sea in Newcastle NH, right next to Rye and Hampton Beach... the place was gorgeous! And the facilities were awesome, the AV folks there were very helpful in getting the equipment all connected and very accomodating.
However the costs were pricey, an internet live connect went for $150. A live AV support person was $500 for the day... I didn't need an AV person but even so, they were helpful anyway... no charge for getting the connectors and making sure I was ok to start the presentation, they were very helpful indeed and very friendly!
All in all I presented on Friday and Saturday and the headcount totals were over 100 educators, school admins and staff from Northern New England area.
The presentation on Wikipedia was well received... the major objection, or should I say concern, is the question that "how can Wikipedia content be accurate without 'experts' writing the articles?"
My response is that the articles could be checked against other online ecyclopedia content and thus one could be reassured of the quality of content. Also that there are safeguards like 'peer editing' and 'npov' which help make the articles both accurate and non-biased, or as much as a npov objective can guarantee.
If there are other good points to counteract this objection I'd be interested in putting this into the next presentation... although for this next one at McAuliffe Center Tech Conference I'll have a fraction of the time I had at the NHAWLT presentation.
One of the problems I ran into was that I lost 'mousage', I lost the mouse pointer, when I projected the laptop screen. I used two different projectors and also tried an attached USB mouse instead of the glidepoint.
But the instance of MediaWiki running on the Linspire laptop was flawless of itself... a really good example of how powerful and yet easy to use and learn to edit the wiki engine is...
OpenOffice was very handy as a presentation tool. I used the suggested presentation from French and edited it and thinned it down for the time I had to work with... I also used the screen shots of the different language Wikipedias (that was done around February)... And I incorporated the Alexa charts to compare with Britannica, Groliers, Ecyclopedia.com and refer.com so as to give some idea of Wikipedia's growth and expansion.
I also briefly explained some of the other sister projects and highlighted why the wiki software lends itself so well to collaborative projects...
The next conference is in December.
With thanks to all who helped get me get MediaWiki running on Linspire and also those that gave me good suggestions on what to say during the presentation!
Best regards, Jay Bowks [[w:en:User:ILVI]]
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 18:42:54 +0200, Ashar Voultoiz hashar@altern.org wrote:
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]]
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