Wikipedia Challenge/Setswana
The Setswana Wikipedia Challenge will take place Oct 17th through Nov 31st 2011, in campuses in Botswana.
Curriculum for Training edit
What is Wikipedia/Wikimedia? edit
- provide a broad overview of Wikipedia and Wikimedia including:
- Wikimedia Vision
- Funding and running the projects
- the community (all volunteers!) and culture of Wikipedia.
- why should i contribute/edit wikipedia?
Principles of Wikipedia, Policies and guidelines edit
Elaborate the principles of Wikipedia including:
- non infringement with copyright and plagiarism
- Good faith collaboration, respect and civility
- Neutral point of view
- No Original Research
- Verifiability
- Notability (assuming the list of topics is given in advance, this can be mentioned very briefly)
Introduction to Editing: the interface edit
A hands on demo to the participants about the inetrface and functionality on Wikipedia including:
- The user account
- talk pages (user and article)
- communal discussion pages (including one for the competition, to be set up)
- watchlist etc.
Intruduction to Editing: Wiki Markup edit
A practical demonstration to the participants about the wiki markup. I suggest each participant have a printed version of the markup notes
Beyond Editing edit
explore some of the other ways participants can contribute to wikipedia other than editing: The handout you came with to Kenya should be handy and a resource