User talk:Robertsky/To-do

Hello Robertsky.

My name is Mervin, from the National Library Board. I have taken a look at your editing history and efforts for Singapore-related articles and have a few questions.

On 16 Nov (1030AM to 12PM), as part of a public event held at the National Library, we are trying out a new novel plan to run a basic workshop for public participants on learning how to edit Wikipedia articles with the objective of teaching about the importance of researching from credible sources (e.g. published books, archives, newspapers). Basically, we plan to get the participants to select which articles they can give a try at editing (in sandbox mode first to grasp the basics of researching and then citing).

After researching from the WikiProjects Singapore chain as well as the SGpedians' notice board, I would like to seek your advice on whether utilizing this list is the most efficient way of finding the Singapore-related articles to update and improve.

Any advice is appreciated. You may notice that my account does not have a comprehensive history of editing history. In my work, we have contributed in writing, editing and updating Infopedia articles, and we are hoping to explore furthering the efforts into Wikipedia with small steps.

In case you are interested in participating in the workshop, you can register at this following link.

Regards, MervinArchDrake86 (talk) 06:44, 11 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@ArchDrake86: you should put this invitation up in the SGpedians' notice board! I am signing up! As for the list of articles under Good Articles drive section on SGpedians' notice board itself, it needs to be updated in my opinion. Then again, there are plenty of articles that needs to be updated. There are many articles that had content not being renewed for a couple of years (i.e. the main Singapore article and the linked articles from there). Great work on the Infopedia articles, I use the articles there as a jumping point to rewrite content here. Fortunately or unfortunately, the copyright issue disallow direct copying into here, which actually does result in quite a few copyright reports when other editors resort to just simply copying. robertsky (talk) 06:58, 11 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Robertsky: Thank you so much for the enthusiasm! As this is a 'pilot' session, I do not plan to post it into the notice board as publicity yet as I want to respect the free nature of the Wikipedia community. However, if you have friends or know individuals who may want to give it a try, you can send the registration link to them as well. As we may have first-time editors of Wikipedia that day, I plan to design my workshop around using the Sandbox to let them grasp the basics of typing into the Wikipedia UI first. Is it okay if I were to get you to share some of your editing tips and guidelines during the workshop itself? Don't worry as we want to make it a fun and collaborative session. :) ArchDrake86 (talk) 07:10, 11 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]