Warm up to Wikipedia!

Come along and learn about the whys, wherefores and joys of Wikipedia editing over two hands-on sessions. There will be opportunities to discuss using Wikipedia to engage with the community (including using Wikipedia edits as an altmetric) while also navigating some of the pitfalls.

Computers will be available, or bring your own laptop.

Note that there are two parts to this workshop:

Part 1: Thursday 31 July, 10.00-12.00
Part 2: Thursday 7 August, 10.00-12.00.

Be prepared to complete some homework between parts 1 and 2!

About the presenters

Steve Bennett is a research technologist within ITS Research Services with a long personal association with Wikipedia. Since 2005, he has written several hundred 'stub' articles, made thousands of article edits, and uploaded hundreds of photos taken around the world. He helped shape some of Wikipedia's early policies and guidelines and for several years was an active moderator of the Wikipedia mailing list.

Steve has worked in the tertiary research sector since 2008, supporting researchers in all disciplines with technology and research data management projects at ANDS, VeRSI and now ITS Research Services at the University of Melbourne. An open data enthusiast, Steve has contributed extensively to projects such as Open Street Map and Wikipedia and he is the driving force behind Melbourne’s DataHack meetup group. He has run mapping workshops for the University of Melbourne and Deakin University and his mapping projects have featured on the ABC and The Age.

Helen Morgan is a research fellow in the eScholarship Research Centre at the University of Melbourne. She has significant experience at working in collaborative research teams using digital technologies, with particular emphasis on building resilient contextual information frameworks, exploring the challenges and requirements of mapping cultural heritage in digital/networked environments and the transfer of knowledge between researchers, memory institutions and the community.

Helen has worked as exhibition designer and collaboratively as information architect on the Australian Women’s Archives Project’s online Register since its inception in 2000, and most recently on the Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. She is currently a Chief Investigator on the Australian Research Council funded ‘The Trailblazing Women and the Law Project’ (2012-15).