Wikipedia talk:Workshop

Beefing up the workshop project

We did a generic workshop in Washington, DC in January, one unconnected to another project like GLAM or Ambassadors. We followed a very detailed agenda, complete with links, and learned how to make the next one even better. We intend to do more and decided that En.Wikipedia, rather than WikimedaDC or http://wikimediadc.org, would be the best place to put the structure we had in mind. This was both because we're training En.Wikipedia editors who will be using all En.Wikipedia formatting and because any generic structure we put together could be used by others on En.Wikipedia in the future, be they members of chapters, meetups, Wikiprojects, or whatever. So here's what we have in mind and will boldly start quite soon:

• WP:Workshop (i.e., the main page): would include and introduction and overview page, links to other Wikimedia/pedia training resources]
• WP:Talk _Workshop general program feedback, discussion
• WP:Workshop/Sample one-day workshop with generic sample outline with links to resources
• WP:Workshop/Sample short workshop with generic sample outline with links to resources
• WP:Workshop/Sample edit-a-thon with generic sample outline with links to resources
• WP:Workshop/Sample exercises with several sample exercises to be copied to sandboxes and worked on during the workshop
• WP:Workshop/Past workshops for an overview of past workshops with notes/links about information workshop organizers want to share.

Other issues that we did not quite discuss and/or finalize after deciding to come here are:

• Should we allow workshop organizers who so choose create a page for their planning and detailed agendas here? For example: WP:Workshop/February2012NewbiesinBoston or WP:Workshop/February2012WomeninNewYorkCity or WP:Workshop/March2012RetiredFolksinPittsburgh. Assumedly we'd encouraged readers to create a subpage off a chapter, meetup, Wikiproject or individual trainer's page, as they prefer. But it seems like this should be an option as well.
• Should we add more sample workshops as they are developed based on specific interests or issues, for example WP:Workshop/Closing the Gender Gap for women's workshops dealing emphasizing those issues; WP:Workshop/Training forAdvocates, where those with strong POVs (political/religious/scientific/etc.) receive extra training in WP:NPOV, WP:COI and WP:Dispute resolution; WP:Workshop/Graphics-Videos; WP:Workshop/AdvancedTechnicalIssues, etc. as such workshops are created. If they never get past the discussion phase, or are obviously problematic workshop proposals/formats/etc., they always can be deleted.

So that's the plan. Any comments? CarolMooreDC 05:29, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

All of that sounds good to me. Kirill ^{[talk] [prof]} 01:46, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

OK, as you will see taking it slow. Archiving first with reports on this page, as has been done on at least one wikiproject. And then a short main page with current and future projects.

Of course I put both the outline and the report for the Jan 12 event on the talk page. Would be too confusing to put the agenda/outline on the "red" project page and leave the report on the talk page? Or is this an indication each workshop SHOULD be a subpage of Wikipedia:Workshop? Just discovered Wikipedia:Project namespace and will have to study more. Thoughts? CarolMooreDC 04:20, 15 February 2012 (UTC)CarolMooreDC 05:03, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

I don't think it would be particularly confusing; but if we are going to put things on subpages, then I think it makes sense to have both the materials and the reports for a particular workshop located on that workshop's subpage. There's something to be said for keeping materials and comments separate, I suppose, at least in the sense that it will make it slightly easier for people preparing workshops to collect existing outlines. Kirill ^{[talk] [prof]} 05:12, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Ok, I made the change. Hopefully we understood each other correctly. ;-) Put three pics on front page cause a picture tells tens of thousands words! CarolMooreDC 05:40, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Other workshop project

I came here looking for workshops history/in progress, and since the page is still warm, I take this opportunity to say hi and point out we are doing workshops as well at Wikimédia France (of course) and I've just been working on a Wikipedia:Wikimédia_France/Workshop_banner, which can be of use to you as well. This banner was designed for our current doctoral students workshop, but you can reuse the code to make one of your own. --Ofol ^(t) 16:26, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Great. Feel free to add a link to your main project to the trainings list section for those who may be multilingual and can learn from what you are doing. If we get a few more we can create a "Workshops in other languages" section. Banner is a good idea and we'll have to come up with something. CarolMooreDC 17:26, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Putting up other workshop models

I've revamped the One Day Workshop (4 plus hours) from lessons learned at the Feb 25th DC workshop. If people have tweaks to that, or even whole other models of workshops that worked, feel free to create another page with an appropriate title and link it from the main page. I see some Indian wikipedians are busy and have been linking to their workshops as they go. CarolMooreDC 17:55, 2 April 2012 (UTC)