[Wikipedia-l] Has someone done a presentation on Wikipedia to a large group?

[Andrew Lih]

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 at 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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