I think your handbook is amazing! I’m looking forward to seeing the latest edition.

I have some materials that I’ve developed myself:

• my own general editing handbook that I’ve written, based off of my training materials for my students
• a special guide I wrote for writing children’s book pages (which also applies to other book pages)
• A presentation I gave last year for the Utah Library Association—directed towards library professionals. I give an example of adding an image to a page as a way to increase the amount of viewers.
• This isn’t meant to be public-facing, but I wrote up ideas for migrating a database to Wikidata for internal use in my library. At the end of the document, I summarized a lot of other projects on Wikidata in the “Resources and notes” section.

When Jamie Flood was collecting resources for the DPLA + Wikimedia working group a few months ago, she put them in this spreadsheet (see the “online resources” tab).

If I were getting into GLAM-Wiki stuff now, I’d want to know about structured data on Wikimedia Commons, what I can do with Wikidata, including SPARQL querying, and how to use OpenRefine to clean/transfer/donate data. I would also want to know what tools for documenting usage statistics of my work are still working (for instance, this morning it looked like the outreach dashboard was down?). I think recently Giovanna at WMF did an OpenRefine training—let me know if you’d like me to track that down.

-Rachel

From: Mary Mark Ockerbloom <celebration.women@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 7, 2024 1:08 PM
To: Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network <wren@lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Wren] Recommendations for UP-TO-DATE tools and training

Hello all,

What are the best tools and training materials you've found? Are they up-to-date? What do you recommend? 

Several years ago I wrote a Wikipedia Workbook for Vizcaya Museum and Gardens in Miami, which I am currently updating. The goal is an overview of the sorts of things that institutions can do with Wikipedia, Wikidata and Commons,  with links to useful starting points for staff such as tools and training materials.  Given that many of the Wiki interfaces and tools have changed over time, I am looking particularly for suggestions and updates. For example, many of the Art+Feminism resources are long gone. So what do you recommend?

Feel free to reply here or email me at celebration.women@gmail.com

I am happy to share the new edition of the workbook when it is ready.

-- Mary Mark Ockerbloom