Wikipedia:GLAM/PoliMi/2016

From 16 to 22 June 2016, an intensive course on Science, technology, society and Wikipedia for PhD students is running at the Polytechnic University of Milan (PoliMi), Italy, with the collaboration of Wikimedia Italia.

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Mission and goals

The course aims to provide some hands-on training in technical writing and, at the same time, to contribute to the general diffusion of scientific and technical knowledge. This will be achieved by engaging Politecnico's Ph.D. students in the production of new material (or improvement of existing material) for Wikipedia.^[1]

Attendees are PhD students in various science and technology degrees, in particular engineering, architecture and industrial design. Half of them will write articles in English, half in Italian.

Instructors

Teachers: prof. Guido Raos and prof. Chiara Castiglioni
Lectures (in English): Andy Mabbett, FRSA (WikimediaUK accredited trainer)
Tutors: Marco Chemello and Niccolò Caranti (Wikimedia Italia accredited trainers).

Program

Introduction to the course (Guido Raos)
- Motivations
- Language issues
- Criteria for final evaluation
- Practicalities

Wikipedia (Andy Mabbett)
- What is Wikipedia?
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Sister projects
- Mulitlingual features; translation policies
- Licensing and reuse
- Notability
- Avoiding plagiarism and copyright violation
- Page layout
- Page histories
- Diffs
- Watchlists
- Edit wars & other disputes
- Basic editing techniques (formatting; linking, etc)
- Source-code editor vs. Visual Editor
- Referencing and citations
- User pages
- ORCID identifiers
- Discussion (talk) pages
- Infoboxes & other templates
- Authority Control

Wikipedia in italiano (Marco Chemello e Niccolò Caranti)
- Italian copyright law
- Etc

Wikimedia Commons (Andy Mabbett)
- Purpose
- Editing interface
- Copyright & licensing
- Uploading – manual
- Uploading – wizard
- Uploading – bulk
- Categories
- Templates
- User pages
- Using media on Wikipedia
- Using media externally

Wikidata (Andy Mabbett)
- Purpose
- Differences from Wikipedia
- Licensing
- Identifiers
- Editing interface
- Configuration for multi-lingual editors
- Labels, descriptions and aliases
- Power tools & bots
- Use in third party sites (OpenStreetMap, etc)

Detailed page of the course - PoliMi

What we do

Each student will produce one complete Wikipedia article or more in English and/or Italian. The choice of the language is by the student.

As alternative to the creation of a new article (preferred choice), it is possible to produce extensions to one or more existing articles. The bare translation of an article is not considered sufficient.

The articles will be chosen during the first/second day in agreement with the teachers, and with the tutors' assistance.

New articles will be developed in individual sandboxes. The full articles have to be published by the morning of the last day of the course (June 22).

Additionally, every student should revise at least 3 articles.