Middlesex University MED3040 is a collaborative editing training event taking place at Middlesex University from 1-3pm on 10 and 17 February, and 3 and 10 March 2015.
Trainers
edit- Edwardx (talk) 14:07, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
- Andros.Sprecher (talk) 14:13, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
Participants
edit- PD428 (talk) 14:18, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
- GeorgiaBrk (talk)
- Mowiki2905 (talk) 14:13, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
- Monikamdx 14:16, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
- Kirsteintherese (talk) 14:14, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
- Awreade (talk) 14:13, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
- Yasigol (talk) 14:14, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
- Jt651 (talk) 14:13, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
- Camne89 (talk) 14:15, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
- Gretabagd (talk) 14:16, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
- Jiapingcai (talk) 14:18, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
- MZ2k15 (talk)
- Becsnasc22 (talk) 14:22, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
- Bashbee (talk)
- Anamaria2605 (talk) 13:30, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
- Sifakaradeniz (talk) 13:31, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
- Ashlove05 (talk) 13:36, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
- Bewarwick (talk) 13:36, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
- Heysams (talk) 13:37, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
- Akwikiright (talk) 13:40, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
- Thissmileyface (talk) 13:27, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
- JR746 (talk) 13:29, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
- Thuhangtrinh (talk) 14:01, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
17 February training
edit3 March training
edit- Quick review of training to date
- Wikipedia:Training
- Wikipedia:Training/Newcomers
- Wikipedia:Training/For students
10 March training
edit- Brief overview of what we've done in weeks 1-3
- Wikipedia:Training/For students The four modules should take about one hour to complete. We might look at a few today; please try the others at home.
- User:Edwardx/sandbox/MED3040 Copy this into your sandbox. We will try to fix these article introductions.
- User:Tony1/How to improve your writing Plenty of great advice from a professional editor.
- Redundancy exercises We will try a few.
- Spot the ambiguity Some are ambiguous, some are not - we will try a few.
- Advanced editing exercises We will try a few.
A few useful tools
editInteresting pages on Wikipedia
edit- Wikipedia:Top 25 Report - 25 most viewed articles on English language Wikipedia in the last week
- Wikipedia:Statistics - a huge range of statistics about Wikipedia
More numbers
editAmusing pages
edit- List of unusual deaths - Entertaining?
- List of inventors killed by their own inventions - more of the same
External links
editImage adding exercise
editIf you've not tried this yet, here are some Wikipedia pages without images where we have suitable images on Wikimdeia Commons.
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editInfobox
editBespoke welcome
editWe have a tailored welcome for this event, just post:
{{subst:User:Edwardx/WelcomeMED3040}} ~~~~ to the talkpage of any new accounts created for the event