engage: Wikipedia and Wikimedia for public engagement
If you have a digital photograph of a building in Oxford, whether on a USB drive, a digital camera (with USB cable) or online on a site such as Flickr.com, please bring it along. Before attending please create an account on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount&returnto=Main+Page
How does Wikipedia, for no money, document a city, a category (such as “Grade II listed building”) or a concept (such as “religious practice”)? It uses online tools to identify actions and divide them between volunteers. We will explore this process, using photographs of Oxford as an example.
Date: 28 February 2017, 12:30 (Tuesday, 7th week, Hilary 2017)
Venue: 7-19 Banbury Road, 13 Banbury Road OX2 6NN
Venue Details: Thames Suite
Speaker: Dr Martin Poulter (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Organising department: IT Services
Organisers: Dr Ylva Berglund Prytz (University of Oxford), Alun Edwards (University of Oxford), Bodleian Libraries (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: tel@it.ox.ac.uk
Host: Dr Ylva Berglund Prytz (University of Oxford)
Part of: #OxEngage Engage
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Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://oxford.imparando.com/accessplan/clientinput/course/coursebooker.asp
Cost: Free
Audience: Members of the University only
Editors: Laura Wilkins, Alun Edwards