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Daniel Mietchen

4 Jun 2017 4 Jun '17

12:59 a.m.

Hi, I am preparing an elective course on Wikidata as part of a summer school (some bare-bone background at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/FSCI_2017 ) and am looking for examples of previous or ongoing coursework involving Wikidata. Thanks for any pointers, Daniel

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Shani Evenstein

4 Jun 4 Jun

5:23 a.m.

I've been teaching WD as part of my 2 academic courses for the past two years. I had one 1.5 hour session dedicated to it, where I introduce ways of contributing and ways of using the data. Their task is usually to add info regarding the Wikipedia articles they wrote to WD. Students usually really like the WD Games. They also like things like Histropedia, the timeline tool. I know Andrew lee has also tried the latter that this year and created a session where his students creayed a timelines to explore something. Other than that, I'm unaware of other efforts to teach with WD, but since I'm also working on developing a separate elective about it, I'd love to see what you come up with. :-) Shani.. On 4 Jun 2017 03:00, "Daniel Mietchen" <daniel.mietchen(a)googlemail.com> wrote:

Hi, I am preparing an elective course on Wikidata as part of a summer school (some bare-bone background at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/FSCI_2017 ) and am looking for examples of previous or ongoing coursework involving Wikidata. Thanks for any pointers, Daniel _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata

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Federico Leva (Nemo)

10:29 a.m.

For a six hours course on Wikidata or more, I see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Workshop_Wikidata_SUPSI There was also recently something in eastern Europe but I forgot the details. For something a bit smaller, most Wikidata teaching WMIT does is for librarians, often as part of courses which mostly focus on Wikipedia and other sister projects. There were some specifically on Wikidata though, like: http://www.spaghettiopendata.org/content/wikidata-la-banca-di-conoscenza-li… http://www.aib.it/struttura/sezioni/toscana/2015/47168-wikidata-riuso-dati-… Nemo

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Daniel Mietchen

6 Jun 6 Jun

5:24 a.m.

Thanks for all the replies so far. @Shani: Certainly happy to interact over further planning. @Vojtěch: Can you send me a link to your course page(s)? One of the avenues I am exploring is the use of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Everything_is_connected , e.g. https://tools.wmflabs.org/everythingisconnected/index.html?board=Q0Q0Q1520/… . I tried to build something similar for the Zika corpus but did not yet get anything that would appeal to a Wikidata and/ or Zika newbie, so I built https://tools.wmflabs.org/everythingisconnected/index.html?board=Q3150+Q120… for my kids, who liked it so much that they wanted to build their own. I proposed to use poppies (Q130201) as a starting point, and they wanted to get to NYC (Q60), which resulted in https://tools.wmflabs.org/everythingisconnected/index.html?board=Q130201+Q3… . The process of building these puzzles is actually more instructive than solving them, but it's not yet simple to leverage Wikidata for the building process. Would be great to have some Wikidata games/ tools similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Six_degrees_of_Wikipedia#External_l… ... Cheers, Daniel On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 10:29 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:

For a six hours course on Wikidata or more, I see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Workshop_Wikidata_SUPSI There was also recently something in eastern Europe but I forgot the details. For something a bit smaller, most Wikidata teaching WMIT does is for librarians, often as part of courses which mostly focus on Wikipedia and other sister projects. There were some specifically on Wikidata though, like: http://www.spaghettiopendata.org/content/wikidata-la-banca-di-conoscenza-li… http://www.aib.it/struttura/sezioni/toscana/2015/47168-wikidata-riuso-dati-… Nemo

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Federico Leva (Nemo)

10:13 a.m.

Daniel Mietchen, 06/06/2017 05:24:

The process of building these puzzles is actually more instructive than solving them, but it's not yet simple to leverage Wikidata for the building process. Would be great to have some Wikidata games/ tools similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Six_degrees_of_Wikipedia#External_l…

I agree it's important to have something ready and engaging (or at least not frustrating) for course attendees to make some first edits quickly on Wikidata. I have tried the primary sources tool once, but mix'n'match/Wikidata game worked quite well with librarians. It's important to start with a task which is self-contained and understandable for the audience (nothing that requires checking dozen pages) and which doesn't require wrestling with the interface. For instance, I prefer to work on small Wikidata items because in the bigger ones it's so hard to miss the "add statement" button that I'm forced to babysit every attendee individually until their scrolling abilities reach biathlon level (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142082 ). Nemo

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Gerard Meijssen

11:28 a.m.

Hoi, For people who speak a language that is not well served label wise, set up Reasonator with Oauth and you can easily and quickly add missing labels. The effect is cumulative; any change affects every occurence. Thanks, GerardM On 6 June 2017 at 10:13, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Daniel Mietchen, 06/06/2017 05:24:

The process of building these puzzles is actually more instructive than solving them, but it's not yet simple to leverage Wikidata for the building process. Would be great to have some Wikidata games/ tools similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Six_degrees_of_Wikip edia#External_links

I agree it's important to have something ready and engaging (or at least not frustrating) for course attendees to make some first edits quickly on Wikidata. I have tried the primary sources tool once, but mix'n'match/Wikidata game worked quite well with librarians. It's important to start with a task which is self-contained and understandable for the audience (nothing that requires checking dozen pages) and which doesn't require wrestling with the interface. For instance, I prefer to work on small Wikidata items because in the bigger ones it's so hard to miss the "add statement" button that I'm forced to babysit every attendee individually until their scrolling abilities reach biathlon level (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142082 ). Nemo _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata

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Daniel Mietchen
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Shani Evenstein