I have agreed to do a workshop on behalf of Wikimedia UK on 15th July and
would appreciate some advice about the best ways to deal with topics around
Conflict of Interest, Biographies of Living Persons and possibly Paid
editing.
This will be at the University of Exeter and the expected participants are
web people and possibly other comms people from universities in the south
west of England. Their objective is to improve the wp articles on academics
from their institutions (eg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Academics_of_the_University_of_Exeter
)
This was originally discussed with Daria in 2013 and then was going to be
held in 2014 (Chris McKenna, HJ Mitchell, Martin Poulter etc were copied
into the planning). I emailed various experts in March and added it to an
email to Richard - but have not had any response from any of them
I have looked at:
*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest
*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons
*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view
and feel reasonably comfortable with the content, but would appreciate any
advice on the best way to get these across to this target group, as beyond
basic editing I think these will be the most useful areas for the
participants to engage with.
Rod