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The WikiThon group under the European bison (wisent) head in the entrance hall of the faculty of Forestry, University of Krakow. 2020-01-28. 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 Goals: 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 Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_run_an_edit-a-thon Before arriving: Get a Wikipedia account. Get an iNaturalist account https://www.inaturalist.org/home Add the iNaturalist app to your mobile phone Day 1: Monday 27th January 2020 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 Day 2: Tuesday 28th January 2020 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 Day 3: Wednesday 29th January 2020 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