User:KB938/sandbox

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

• Edwardx (talk) 14:07, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
• Andros.Sprecher (talk) 14:13, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Participants

• 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

Added to the Kilkerran Castle article on 17 February. Turned out to be the wrong Kilkerran Castle, but you'd have to check the geolocation closely to spot that

Photo removed: Edit summary, "Photo is of Bush Hill Gardens in EN2, not Winchmore Hill which is N21

• Image adding exercise
• how to build up a 100+ word Wikipedia expansion

3 March training

• Quick review of training to date
• Wikipedia:Training
• Wikipedia:Training/Newcomers
• Wikipedia:Training/For students

10 March training

• 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

• Monthly page views for any Wikipedia article
• Reftag - copy and paste a Google Books URL to generate a Wikipedia citation

Interesting pages on Wikipedia

• 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

• Top 1000 articles 2008-2014, and by year (Kim Kardashian, Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga have all "peaked")

Amusing pages

• List of unusual deaths - Entertaining?
• List of inventors killed by their own inventions - more of the same

External links

• Collaborative Text exercise
• Middlesex University

Image adding exercise

• Image adding exercise instructions

If you've not tried this yet, here are some Wikipedia pages without images where we have suitable images on Wikimdeia Commons.

Normal

• Kaimes
• Kennethmont
• Kenton Road
• Kerridge
• Keskadale Beck

Infobox

• Kenardington
• Kenchester
• Kennards House
• Kensal Town
• Kensworth
• Kentisbeare
• Kentra
• Kents Cavern

Bespoke welcome

We have a tailored welcome for this event, just post:

{{subst:User:Edwardx/WelcomeMED3040}} ~~~~ to the talkpage of any new accounts created for the event