Hello everyone,

We are happy to announce the WikiLearn course on how to upload and edit files on Wikimedia Commons using OpenRefine. The course is available in several languages:

- In English (original): OpenRefine for Wikimedia Commons: the basics https://learn.wiki/courses/course-v1:Wikimedia-Foundation+WMF_GLAM001+2023/about - In Spanish / Español*: OpenRefine para Wikimedia Commons: conceptos básicos https://learn.wiki/courses/course-v1:Wikimedia-Foundation+WMF_GLAM001+2024_es/about - In French / Français*: OpenRefine pour Wikimedia Commons : les bases https://learn.wiki/courses/course-v1:Wikimedia-Foundation+WMF_GLAM001+2024_fr/about - In Italian / Italiano: Introduzione all'uso di OpenRefine per Wikimedia Commons https://learn.wiki/courses/course-v1:Wikimedia-Foundation+WMF_GLAM001+2024_it/about

OpenRefine https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OpenRefine is a free data-wrangling tool that can be used to process, manipulate, and clean tabular (spreadsheet) data and connect it with knowledge bases, including Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons.

This course was developed as part of the Wikimedia Foundation's training and sustainability grant to OpenRefine https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine/Training_2023-24 and is suitable for Wikimedians, Wikimedia affiliate staff, and partners (e.g. GLAM staff and Wikimedians in Residence).

This course can be easily translated into other languages (more about the translation process here https://studio.learn.wiki/meta_translations/discover_courses/ and here https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutorial_on_how_to_translate_course_content_in_WikiLearn.webm). More translations are on the way, including Portuguese, which will be launched soon.

All the versions of the course are available at any time for free. You only need a Wikimedia account and the course can be followed at your own pace, with computer-graded exercises. A certificate is awarded at the end and an average of 6 to 8 hours is needed to complete the course. In addition, for Wikimedians, we also provide a template for a badge, which you can add to your user page on Meta-Wiki -- this is also at the end of the course.

Please, feel free to share this course and its translations with people who speak these languages and who you think might be interested in learning more about OpenRefine or Wikimedia Commons.

Best, Giovanna

Giovanna Fontenelle (she/her)

Program Officer, Culture and Heritage

Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org/