Dear Mary, 

Thanks so much for this question! It's a great one as more people might have been through the same doubt. 

WikiLearn is a platform that was built in a way any user can follow up on the courses without having to ask for permission, authorization, or a notice.

With this OpenRefine course, the process is the same. It's a self-paced course, so you just need to register with your Wikimedia account and start to go through it. You should be able to start here.

In case you're still not able to access it, please, let me know the username you used for the registration and I will check with the technical team.

By the way, at the end, you will receive a certificate. For that, you need to make sure to complete all assignments, watch all videos, and check (green check marks) all the pages. When completed, you will be able to download the certificate, with your name and date. In addition, we also provide a template for a badge that you can add to your user page on Meta-Wiki. This is also at the end of the course.

If you have any questions or find any difficulties in the process, let me know and I can support you.

Best,
Giovanna

Giovanna Fontenelle (she/her)

Program Officer, Culture and Heritage

Wikimedia Foundation 


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De: Mary Mark Ockerbloom <celebration.women@gmail.com>
Date: ter., 4 de jun. de 2024 às 01:20
Subject: [Wren] Re: Launch of the course "OpenRefine for Wikimedia Commons: the basics"
To: Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network <wren@lists.wikimedia.org>


Hi Giovanna,
I wanted to take the online OpenRefine course to get a sense of whether it was suitable for me to recommend to others.  I tried to sign up on the webpage, but I haven't heard anything back.  Did you receive anything?
Many thanks, Mary Mark Ockerbloom

On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 7:01 AM Giovanna Fontenelle <giofontenelle@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello!

We are happy to announce that there is now a free and publicly accessible course on the learning platform, WikiLearn, on how to upload and edit files on Wikimedia Commons using OpenRefine: OpenRefine for Wikimedia Commons: the basics. 

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 online course is available at any time, for free. Anyone with a Wikimedia account can enroll with the click of a button. It can be followed at your own pace, with computer-graded exercises. A certificate is awarded at the end to those who complete the course.

The training is suitable for Wikimedians, Wikimedia affiliate staff, and partners (e.g. GLAM staff and Wikimedians in Residence). Accomplishing the course should take an average of 6 to 8 hours.

This course was developed as part of the Wikimedia Foundation's training and sustainability grant to OpenRefine. It is currently available in English and can be easily translated into other languages (more about the translation process here and here). Translations for this course in French, Spanish, and Portuguese are being worked on and will be available very soon.

Please, feel free to share this course with people you think might be interested in learning more about OpenRefine or Wikimedia Commons, who are part of your network, in groups, social media, or any other places.

Thank you!

Best,
Giovanna & Sandra

Giovanna Fontenelle (she/her)

Program Officer, Culture and Heritage

Wikimedia Foundation 

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