Wikipedia:GLAM/British Museum/Ice Age art/training

Session 1, Sept 8, 2011

We will pretty much follow the tutorial here, and please by all means look through this in advance of the session. Please also read Wikipedia:Five_pillars , which sets out in a few hundred words the essentials of the principles behind editing. I would also like all participants to register an account, which involves giving no personal details whatsoever (email address optional). This could also be done beforehand.

As I said above, I hope everyone will be able to start an article in the session, or soon afterwards. Conveniently, there are at least seven notable Stone Age BM objects without articles, listed at the project page: Wikipedia:GLAM/BM/Ice_Age_art (the red ones) - but of course you could choose any suitable subject. There are also poor photos by me of many of these ready to use. But please don't start a new article with your first few edits - this is a common path to difficulties. A quick look at

Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_style_editing_from_May_2010 will produce articles needing simple style edits, mostly by non-native speakers, that are good for practice. At its simplest, you just need to hit "edit" at top right, type your changes, then hit "save" at the bottom.

Oxborough Dirk is a very short article on a BM object that will do as an relevant example and rough pattern.

If you have any relevant printed source material, please bring it to the session; we can use the BM online material to start with, but there is little point in just regurgitating a Highlights entry. Jill's "Swimming Reindeer" Objects in Focus book for example.

If there are any questions in the meantime, please let me know (or if you have to drop out for any reason). Otherwise I'm looking forward to meeting you all on Thursday afternoon, Johnbod (talk) 11:44, 8 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

New accounts registered

+1 I've not recorded.

Session 2, October 7, 2011

Now booking for BM staff and volunteers: please contact Matthew Cock at the BM initially. Will be in the Moser Room in the afternoon, at 3.15 for 1hr 15mins. Johnbod (talk) 22:50, 8 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]