Wikipedia:Presenting Wikipedia

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Presentations about Wikipedia

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of the Presenting Wikipedia project

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Overview
Understanding Wikipedia
Building an Audience
Creating Slides
Do's and Don'ts
Handling Questions
Transcripts & Feedback
Upcoming presentations
Archived presentations

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Links to pages providing information about

Gauging intended audience
Presenting Wikimedia projects; types of presentations; basic guidelines and advice
Finding free-content presentations others have given (slides, audio/video, transcripts, papers, other)
Answering questions (the traditional and the difficult)
Lists of Wikipedian presenters (those with experience; those who have presented on this topic before)
Lists of presentations (given by Wikipedians and others about the project)
Links to similar pages on other projects (notably Meta)
Upcoming and regular events at which Wikipedia would be welcome as a {booth, presentation topic} (see m:Calendar)
Policies and basics about the projects : where to find core pages, how to explain core values and practices
Do's and Don't's : don't vandalize as an example (and how to demonstrate vandalism by noting what is already going on), do demonstrate dynamic content, do touch on other languages and projects, don't focus disproportionately on conflict...