A review of the Wikipedia workshop
Wikipedia Writers' Workshop as part of the Swiss Archive Day 2017
That active participation in Wikipedia can be not only a meaningful, but also an entertaining activity - this was the experience of the 20 participants who gathered in the Iron Library on 9 June for a Wikipedia writing workshop. On this day, the Swiss Archive Day, archives throughout Switzerland opened their stores to visitors. Other Wikipedia workshops also took place on this day in Basel, Bern, Zurich and Zug.
Ulrich Lantermann of Wikimedia Switzerland gave an introduction to editing Wikipedia articles. Afterwards the New Wikipedians immediately got to work and created new Wikipedia articles. Products of the Wikipedia writing workshop are for example
In the inviting premises of the Iron Library, participants were given the opportunity to work in a concentrated and cooperative manner with the rich holdings of the GF Corporate Archives and Iron Library. The beautiful summer weather allowed the Wikipedians to fortify themselves with sandwiches on the meadow in front of the Iron Library at midday, and then to delve further into Wikipedia until well into the evening.
Ulrich Lantermann summarized the purpose of Wikipedia with the slogan "Knowledge is good, free knowledge is better". A more beautiful motto could hardly have been found for the writing workshop in the Iron Library.