I've been teaching WD as part of my 2 academic courses for the past two
years. I had one 1.5 hour session dedicated to it, where I introduce ways
of contributing and ways of using the data. Their task is usually to add
info regarding the Wikipedia articles they wrote to WD. Students usually
really
Hi,
I am preparing an elective course on Wikidata as part of a summer
school (some bare-bone background at
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/FSCI_2017 )
and am looking for examples of previous or ongoing coursework
involving Wikidata.
Thanks for any pointers,
Daniel
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GerrardM, and All,
Building on your approach, and concerning Celtic Knot, and the Celtic
languages/WUaS wiki schools, for example, here -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic_language and
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Cromarty_dialect_of_Scots_language (in
the main Languag
Hoi,
For me it is simple; I have written an outline for a Wikipedia class [1].
That helps by writing stubs when there is not much there. Similarly you can
take any subject found in an newspaper, decide if it is important enough
and add items or add labels in Wikidata. Almost any article in a newspa
Thanks, Ewan, Delyth, Gerard and All,
Having studied at the University of Edinburgh in the School of Celtic and
Scottish Studies, and being familiar with its Professor of Gaelic Wilson
McLeod's (http://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/wilson-mcleod - among so many others)
focus on regenerating Scots' Gaelic -
Hoi,
Another approach to supporting minority languages in combination with
Wikidata is adding labels to the language involved. At a Wikimedia
conference I did an experiment with a speaker of a South African language.
We used a popular SA politician [1] as an example and added labels to all
the stat
