Charles Matthews and I ran a workshop a little while ago which had
something like the fortune cookie idea.

First, we demonstrated basic Wikidata editing (adding/changing
statements) as part of a discussion on the data structure - properties
and items, item versus text properties, etc.

After this, we gave everyone a numbered slip with a Wikidata query (in
WDQ form) on it - mostly of the type "claim[X] and noclaim[Y]". Then
we got them to load up pre-filled Autolist links (all numbered and
ready), pick a couple of entries from the list, and try to fix
whatever was missing. (There was an unintended detour at this point
into how to interpret WDQ queries - people got the idea pretty fast
that these were one set of items missing particular values)

Queries we used were things like "people with no nationality" (though
"people born since 1600 with no nationality" would have worked
better), "people with no occupation", "buildings that don't have a
'located in' value", etc.

This got people making small edits very early, ensured that we had a
fresh supply of "missing cases" to work on (because the lists were
generated from scratch), and prompted a lot of very good questions for
discussion, people starting to hack the queries to find more specific
topics, etc. I was really quite pleased with the way it worked.

Andrew.

On 4 December 2015 at 17:38, Benjamin Good <ben.mcgee.good@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks All!
> (and especially to Lane for by far the best complement I've received, maybe
> ever..)
>
> Will get back to you with the final product and some news about the
> meeting..  Andra Waagmeester had a great idea that unfortunately we are a
> bit late to implement.  Fortune cookies to pass out where each fortune is a
> single wikidata edit that the recipient is encouraged to make..  Would love
> to see that play out someday.
>
> -Ben
>
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 6:51 AM, Lane Rasberry <lane@bluerasberry.com> wrote:
>>
>> Benjamin,
>>
>> It might be helpful for you to get confirmation that there are no
>> excellent polished Wikidata tutorials in existence.
>>
>> The good tutorials are made by people who know Wikidata, like the one EMW
>> shared, but EMW is not a graphic designer and made a practical presentation
>> rather than a corporate scripted slideset.
>>
>> Your "poof it works" article is the state of the art.
>>
>> <http://sulab.org/2015/10/poof-it-works-using-wikidata-to-build-wikipedia-articles-about-genes/>
>>
>> It is all very casual and everything understates how important and
>> revolutionary Wikidata is. I still show your article to lots of people. Of
>> all the Wikidata narratives I have read I like yours the best.
>>
>> yours,
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Benjamin Good <ben.mcgee.good@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> The gene wiki people are hosting a tutorial on wikidata in Cambridge, UK
>>> next Monday [1].  In the interest of making the best tutorial in the least
>>> amount of preparation time.. I was wondering if anyone on the list had
>>> content (slides, handouts, cheatsheets) that they had already used
>>> successfully and might want to share?  We are assembling the structure of
>>> the 90 minute session in a google doc [2], feel free to chime in there !
>>> And of course everything we generate for that will be available online as
>>> soon as it exists.
>>>
>>> cheers
>>> -Ben
>>>
>>> [1] http://www.swat4ls.org/workshops/cambridge2015/programme/tutorials/
>>>
>>> [2]https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dSgm90SbQBpHqEMa17t5zQL0PB2waIKD3LKTPPknmcY/edit#heading=h.m19y528ldds8
>>>
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