Wikipedia:Meetup/Invasive Species WikiThon

The Krakow Invasive Species Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, 27th - 29th January 2020

An Alien-CSI event to teach and discuss the use of Wikimedia for the dissemination and awareness raising of invasive species.

This is an invitation only event

Improving Wikipedia for the List of Invasive Alien Species of Union concern (https://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/invasivealien/list/index_en.htm)
Learning how to be better Wikipedians
Learning how we can teach Wikipedia to others at home
Learning what we can use Wikipedia for
Finding out how we can improve dissemination of knowledge on invasive species globally

When	What	Who
12:00 - 13:00	Registration and meet for lunch 🍞	Everyone
13:00 - 13:15	Welcome & logistics	Anna Gazda & Quentin Groom
13:15 - 13:30	An overview of the issue	Sofie Meeus
13:30 - 14:00	An introduction to editing on Wikipedia	Daniëlle Jansen
14:00 - 14:15	Choosing your target(s) for editing	Quentin Groom
14:15 - 15:30	Finding literature and webpages to provide evidence for your statements	Everyone
15:30 - 16:00	Tea Break ☕
16:00 - 17:15	First attempts at editing Wikipedia	Everyone
17:15 - 17:30	A roundtable on people’s experiences	Everyone

A continuation of the editing from day one and learning how we can use iNaturalist to support us

When	What	Who
09:00 - 09:10	Welcome to Day 2	Quentin Groom
09:10 - 10:00	Editing	Everyone
10:00 - 10:30	A short introduction to Wikidata	Daniëlle Jansen
10:30 - 11:30	Editing	Everyone
11:30 - 12:30	Photographing and trying iNaturalist outside	Anna Gazda
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch 🍞
13:30 - 13:50	Introduction to iNaturalist	Daniëlle
13:50 - 15:30	Continuation of editing	Everyone
15:30 - 16:00	Tea Break ☕
16:00 - 17:30	3 minute presentations What were you working on? Species, topic, language What did you learn about the subject? What tips have you got to share? What problems did you have?	Everyone

For COST invitees only A roundup of what we've learned and how we can progress this further

Trying to resolve the questions such as...

What are the challenges in getting invasion biologists and managers to edit Wikipedia?
What are the solutions?
How do we resolve disagreements within Wikipedia on invasive species?
How important is language to successful communication on invasive species?

When	What	Who
09:00 - 09:10	Welcome to Day 3	Quentin Groom
09:10 - 10:30	How can invasive species biologists be encouraged to edit Wikipedia?	Daniëlle & Quentin
10:30 - 11:00	Tea Break ☕	-
11:00 - 12:30	How will we communicate the outcomes of this workshop?	Quentin Groom