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,