Getting started with Wikipedia
- University of Edinburgh Tutorial: https://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wiki-basics/
- Editing Wikipedia (pdf booklet)
- What’s where on Wiki (pdf)
- Building a brilliant page (pdf)
- Video tutorial on Media Hopper: Wikipedia editing in under 25 mins. (playlist of 18 videos)
- Video tutorial on Media Hopper: How easy is Wikipedia’s new Visual Editor interface – 5 min walkthrough
- Wikipedia’s own tutorial using the (old) Source Editor – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure
- Wikipedia’s training library using the new Visual Editor interface.
- Wikipedia and Academic Research (pdf handout)
- Presentations by the University of Edinburgh’s Wikimedian in Residence.
- University of Edinburgh – comprehensive page of resources.
- Building a biography article (pdf) and simplified version (pdf).
- Draft biography article by way of exemplar.
- More one page handouts inc. how to move your article out of your sandbox.
- Adding infoboxes to Wikipedia (pdf handout)
Getting started as a Wikipedia Trainer/Course leader
- Lesson plan and accompanying slidedeck – How to conduct Wikipedia editing training. (TES.com)
- Lesson plan and accompanying slidedeck – Wikimedia Commons
- Instructor Basics – How to use Wikipedia as a teaching tool (pdf booklet)
- Example marking rubric (pdf handout).
- Wikipedia’s Program & Events dashboard (easy to use platform for managing assignments).
- Video tutorial on Media Hopper – How to use the Programs and Events Dashboard.
- Wikipedia and Academic Research (pdf handout)
- The TeachWiki folder of resources (Google drive)
- University of Edinburgh – comprehensive page of resources. Inc. subject specific handouts
- How universities are teaching with Wikipedia (pdf booklet)
- Case studies of Wikipedia in the Classroom course at the University of Edinburgh.
Getting started with Wikimedia Commons – the free & open media repository
Getting started with Wikidata – the free & open knowledgebase of structured linked open data
- University of Edinburgh online Tutorial – https://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wikidata-basics/
- Wikidata for beginners (pdf handout).
- Playlist of 65 videos on Media Hopper. Including:
- Video tutorial on Media Hopper – Wikidata SPARQL query tutorial
- Video tutorial on Media Hopper – Building SPARQL queries.
- Video tutorial on Media Hopper – QuickStatements: adding mass edits to Wikidata
- Video tutorial on Media Hopper – Adding manual edits to Wikidata – how to add statements with verifiable data and how to create items on Wikidata
- Video tutorial on Media Hopper – Mass edits on Wikidata – how to use Google spreadsheets and Quickstatements to add mass edits to Wikidata
Getting started with Wikisource – the free digital library
- University of Edinburgh Tutorial: https://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wiki-source/
- Playlist of 15 videos on Media Hopper.
- Condensed guide to Wikisource (pdf handout attached to this email) – needs condensed further.
Wikipedia Games
- University of Edinburgh Tutorial – Wiki Games
- Gamifying Wikimedia – learning through play (slides)
- Video tutorial on Media Hopper – Histropedia “the timeline of everything”
