Talk:Public outreach/Academy/Schedule

Case studies

Can I suggest using the Swine flu outbreak as a case study? This saw an article being written from scratch (en:2009 swine flu outbreak), the expansion of an existing page (en:Swine flu) and the improvement of an existing featured article (en:Influenza). This could showcase some of our best content, is relevant to public health and biosciences, and shows the ability of Wikipedia to reach huge numbers of the public with up-to-date information. TimVickers 16:14, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Yes, that's a great idea! I'll send a short note to the mailinglist (as not all of us might have this page on their watchlist). By the way: We also need to find a timeslot for you to present the results of Michael's and your study. Any suggestions? --Frank Schulenburg 16:22, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

That would fit best under "motivation" as it deals with why Wiki is so important. I could then move *seamlessly* :) from the results of our historical study to the influenza case study, which would bring the dicussion right up to date. TimVickers 16:30, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Inspiring young scientists

One powerful reason to edit Wikipedia, I think, is to inspire young people to become scientists. One of the more interesting collaborations I have seen to this effect is at en:Quark). The FA push was largely begun by (I think) en:User:Anonymous Dissident), who I believe is about 14 years old, but the article is being refined by a group of editors, among whom is en:User:Markus Poessel, a physicist at the Max Planck Institute (he contributed significantly to the featured articles en:Introduction to general relativity and en:General relativity). The chance for real scientists to teach willing and able students, who will be the scientists of the future, does exist on Wikipedia. (I know teaching is a secondary interest to research, but perhaps it does deserve a passing mention!) Awadewit 14:55, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

New Schedule

Since we have several different presentation styles and strengths we'll need to intentionally set tone and manage flow. The revisions are intended to go with: Inspiration; focus on common mission; understanding of Wikipedia culture; Persuasion - people use WP to access health info; Basics - general how to approach editing - what it is to edit; Basics - what are the big picture systems of internal policing and governance -> Afternoon: focus on skills building at differing levels.Jennifer Riggs 17:50, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

If 10:00am - 10:45am is to be a coffee break, which might not be the best place (right after the introduction) could we shrink it to 10:00am - 10:30am? Then I could have 30 min for talk and discussion. TimVickers 20:37, 2 July 2009 (UTC)