A couple of obvious topics could be:

(1) Web Literacy - the ability to contribute to Wikimedia projects is a high-level transferable skill worth promoting. Remember that the skills required to contribute to Wikipedia, for example, include researching and collating sources, summarising, writing, and collaboration.

(2) Digital Inclusion - we have many people in the UK for whom English is not their first language. With so much of the internet delivered in English, there is a cultural bias toward English. Wikimedia projects have the capacity to allow people of varied backgrounds to contribute from their own cultural perspective and to help preserve their heritage. WMUK has experience working with both the traditional groups of Welsh and Scots, and also modern groups like the Asian, Polish, and Balkan communities. I'm sure you're aware of others.

In either case, a session could be made with a brief introduction to WMUK and the work we do, followed by a hands-on editing session to give participants a taste of what is possible. Round it out with an invitation to keep in touch with WMUK and join the Wikimedia editing community.

Obviously, those are just first thoughts, but I think we have such a good track record that it would be a shame if we couldn't put something together for MozFest.

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Rexx

On 29 June 2018 at 16:09 John Lubbock <john.lubbock@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:

Hello UK Wikimedians, Mozilla have issued a call for proposals for sessions at this year's Mozfest. I'd like Wikimedia UK to have a presence there, so if anybody has any ideas for sessions, why not let us know and we will see if we can support it?

https://mozillafestival.org/proposals

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