Wikipedia Workshop

Venue:
Blue 2
Information Technology Building
University of Pretoria
Hatfield Campus

Presenter information

Dumisani Ndubane has been an Activist (volunteer) Wikipedian for some years now since 2008; his home wiki is the Xitsonga Wikipedia which is one of the small language Wikipedias in South Africa. He has been involved with the Local Wikimedia Chapter since 2012 and served as its chairperson from the end of 2012 to the end of 2014.

He has a 10-year background in Electrical engineering and reticulation design and a registered technician with ECSA. Beyond my credentials, I enjoy reading books from time to time and tinkering with writing occasionally. Above all, I enjoy a good conversation!

His work

He works for the Wikimedia Foundation, as a Monitoring & Evaluation strategist. His role as part of the Learning & Evaluation team is to monitor, analyze, and share learning from affiliates and Program leaders in the global Wikimedia community. It is his wish to understand why community projects and initiatives work (or don't), this way we can direct our energy and collective resource wisely, in our pursuit of making "Knowledge accessible to everyone"

Information

During this workshop the participants will be introduced to the Wikipedia interface and how to edit Wikipedia articles. The workshop will create awareness about the value of experts to edit Wikipedia. The workshop will also cover the growth of Wikipedia in other official languages of South Africa. The workshop will finish off with a question and answer session.

Target audience:

You don't need to have any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented at the workshop.

Requirements:

Please bring your own device, this can be a laptop, tablet or even a phone.

Workshop #4: Wikipedia workshop