Instructor Notes
Editing Wikidata items with learners
If you want your learners to edit Wikidata items in the real instance, note that participants need to be registrated in Wikidata for four days to be able to edit wikidata items. If they are not registered they can use the wikidata test instance
Organize your lesson with your instructors
If you do the lesson together with other instructors, it can be helpful to divide the individual sections of the lesson among themselves and thus create a schedule. This could look like this:
| Episode | Time | Content | Method | Teacher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 min | What is Wikidata? | Vortrag | Konrad |
| 1 | 10 min | Introduction into Interface | Live “Coding” | Rabea |
| 1 | 10 min | Wikidata Game | Spiel | Rabea |
| 1 | 2 min | Linking Wikidata with other Wiki resources | Demonstration | Rabea |
Here is the template for your schedule:
| Episode | Time | Content | Method | Teacher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 min | What is Wikidata | Presentation | |
| 1 | 10 min | Introduction into Interface | Live Coding | |
| 1 | 10 min | Wikidata Game | Game | |
| 1 | 2 min | Linking Wikidata with other Wiki resources | Demonstration | |
| 2 | 5 min | Concepts foundations | Presentation | |
| 2 | 10 min | RDF triple in work of a librarian | Exercise | |
| 2 | 5 min | RDF Triple Mae Jemison | Exercise | |
| 2 | 10 min | How Wikidata compares with other data sets | Presentation | |
| 3 | 2 min | Intro | Presentation | |
| 3 | 10 min | Create a new item | Live Coding | |
| 3 | 10 min | Add new statements | Live Coding | |
| 3 | 10 min | Questions | Discussion | |
| 4 | 2 min | Intro | Presentation | |
| 4 | Add references | Live Coding | ||
| 4 | Citations link in Wikidata | |||
| 4 | Norms | Presentation | ||
| 4 | Finding stable identifiers | Live Coding | ||
| 4 | Use cases for good practice | |||
| 5 | 10 min | What is SPARQL? | Presentation | |
| 5 | 10 min | How to query | Live Coding | |
| 5 | 10 min | Query on “The Meaning of It All” | Exercise | |
| 6 | Intro | Presentation | ||
| 6 | Bulk upload/harvests | |||
| 6 | Bulk edits | |||
| 6 | Bulk creation/harvesting | |||
| 6 | Performance | |||
| Feedback | 20 min | One up one down | Discussion |