[Wikimediauk-l] Editing help

2011-05-14 Thread Brian McNeil
Piggybacking on the Wikipedia workshops stuff,... I've got an Australian university using Wikinews as a class assignment for final-year students. I could really, really do with an incredibly concise editing guide. They're not showing a lot of 'clue' when it comes to markup, filling in templates,

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Editing help

2011-05-14 Thread Chris Keating
Have a look at: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/BookshelfIn particular, the Welcome to Wikipedia booklet - it takes people gently through the basics of editing and has a handy quick reference guide. Obviously it's based on Wikipedia not Wikinews but

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Membership for Under 18s

2011-05-14 Thread Chris Keating
Yes, that is the case - at least it's what is on our membership form here: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/uk/6/6f/Wiki_UK_Ltd_membership_application_form.pdf http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/uk/6/6f/Wiki_UK_Ltd_membership_application_form.pdf Chris On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 11:54 AM,

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Editing help

2011-05-14 Thread Roger Bamkin
The other is the cheatsheet ... google will find it for you Roger On 14 May 2011 10:05, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote: Have a look at: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/BookshelfIn particular, the Welcome to Wikipedia booklet -

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Other Events - hackathon

2011-05-14 Thread Harry Burt
(resending this due to mailing list subscription quirks) This is something I'd like to attend. I run bots, have a Toolserver account and have submitted patches to the main MediaWiki codebase. Only problem for me may be the timing (I have exams). But that can be sorted later. Regards, Harry

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Membership for Under 18s

2011-05-14 Thread Thomas Dalton
It doesn't, however, say it on the electronic membership form (http://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/index.php?option=com_civicrmview=ContributionsItemid=57). That was an oversight on my part... On 14 May 2011 12:17, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, that is the case - at least it's

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Other Events - hackathon

2011-05-14 Thread Tom Morris
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 12:41, Mike Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: A hackathon in the uk would be great. My main worry with it would be having enough developers turn up at it, though. There are a lot of German mediawiki developers, which means that the events in Berlin are always

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Editing help

2011-05-14 Thread Brian McNeil
On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 12:21 +0100, Roger Bamkin wrote: The other is the cheatsheet ... google will find it for you Winner! A cheat sheet is like flypaper for lazy students. :D On 14 May 2011 10:05, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote: Have a look at: