Wikimedia Australia/Wikimedia workshops

What: Series of distributed wiki* workshop weekends. Some people travel from each city to other city/cities and repeat workshops; others only happen in one city.

When: September 2008 (school holidays)

Where:

• Melbourne
• Sydney
• Perth
• Brisbane?
• Adelaide?
• ???

Who: Wikimedia editors (not really intended to introduce Wikimedia projects to outsiders)

Why:

• (attendees) Learn from each other
• (attendees) Meet each other, be better connected
• (presenters) Practice speaking, presentations, tutorials
• (WMA) Practice organisation :)

How: sheer bloody-minded obstinacy extensive carpooling and couchsurfing

What

Possible sessions:

• Free as in freedom
• What does the Wikimedia Foundation do?
• Australian copyright law 101
• Wikis in schools/education
• (en.wp) Administrator panel/discussion
• (en.wp) Arbitration 101
• Local Wikiproject reports (WP:MELB, WP:PERTH etc)
• Intro to Wikimedia Commons
• Intro to Wikinews
• Intro to Wikisource
• What does the future hold?

• (do we have Wikibooks/Wikiversity experts?)
• en.wp howtos: sourcing, templates?

When & where

• (School holidays)
• (When are uni holidays?)
• September calendar

• Melbourne: 20 September - 5 October
• Brisbane: 20 September - 5 October
• Sydney: 27 September - 12 October
• Adelaide: 27 September - 12 October
• Perth: 27 September – 12 October