Wikicite/grant/WMFr/MoocWikidata

Project summary

Project Name

Mooc Wikidata

Start/End dates

Summer 2020 - 2021

Amount requested (and the currency you wish to receive it in)

8 420€

Amount requested (in US$ equivalent)

10 000$

The people

Contact person name/Wikimedia username

Amélie Cabon WMFr (Allow other users to email her ) Mathieu Denel WMFr ( Allow other users to email him)

Contact person e-mail address

amelie.cabon@wikimedia.fr

mathieu.denel@wikimedia.fr

Organisation (optional)

Wikimedia France

Project participants

Who is working on this project. For each member of the team, please describe any project-related skills, experience, or other background you have that might help contribute to making this idea a success.

Wikimedia France is the French chapter, created on October 23, 2004, which works for the free sharing of knowledge through Wikimedia projects (Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, etc.) . It works on e-learning and volunteer training since 5 years. The association developed the WikiMOOC, an e-learning programm dedicated to Wikipédia. This successful project has gathered 5000 registrants each year. The competence of the WMFr’s employees in management of this type of projects will be precious for its success. Mathieu Denel, education manager at Wikimedia France these last 6 years will lead this project. He is the main contact in France for all subjects related to training.

Wikimedia DE accepted to advise Wikimedia France in the pedagogical writing of this training course. As the main developer and host of Wikidata, they are the best able to guide us. Léa Lacroix (Community Engagement Coordinator WMDE) et Georgina Burnett ( Wikidata/Wikibase partnership manager WMDE) have paid hours dedicated to the project. They are a source of proposals in the creation of exercises.

5 volunters engaged in the working group are all contributors from Wikidata. Most of all organize workshops on Wikidata. They are all competent in Wikidata’s contribution, each one with a little speciality :

- Vigneron - experienced contributor, trainer on Wikidata, SPARQL, etc.

- Benoît Prieur – multiproject contributor : Wikidata, Wikipédia, Commons, OpenStreetMap

- Georges Fodouop - Wikimedian in Residence Wiki Loves Women - Cofounder, Wikimedians of Cameroon User Group

- François de Dijon – contributor on Commons and Wikidata

- Harmonia Amanda – highly productive contributor on Wikidata, trainer Wikidata, expert in pedagogy

The project

Description

Describe the project or event.

Wikidata is a multilingual and collaboratively edited knowledge base hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, as Wikipedia. It is one of the most active projects of the Wikimedia movement, with about 14,000 active editors in April 2020 (which puts it in third place, after the English Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons), and it is quickly becoming a central pivot in the web of data. In June 2020, atop the Wikimedia projects, more than 30 external tools reuse its data, and more than 280 research papers have been published about it. But how this website is functioning remains largely unknown. Wikidata allows the centralization and structuring of knowledge in an open and collaborative way, based on the Wikipedia model. The site is modifiable by any Internet user, but the contribution obeys a certain number of principles and rules.

MOOC Wikidata project aims to create an online training course open to all (or "MOOC") to allow anyone interested, to contribute to Wikidata. Indeed, if Wikidata is becoming a central point of the data web, and one of the most active Wikimedia projects, it is also a difficult project to approach for novices, and it seems important to us therefore to propose an adequate training through a MOOC similar to what has been done for Wikipedia with Wikimooc.

The first four weeks will present the principles and operating rules of Wikidata. Throughout the program, a team will be available to answer participant's questions. Each week, practical exercises will allow for the evaluation of the students' knowledge and skills.

Over 6 weeks of training, the project foresees that the last two weeks will be dedicated to concrete practical cases and specific publics. One will be dedicated to the use of Wikidata by GLAM partner.

This fifth week will be designed for cultural professionals and allow them to learn how to carry out mass imports and how to use strategic tools. The skills acquired at the end of this week of training will be :

- introduction to SPARQL, open-refine, mix and match...

- the creation of a cartography.

- the enrichment of Wikidata and their own database.

- study open-content policy from other institutions.

Finally, the last session will be directed to experienced contributors who wish to go further. This last week will be about Wikidata technical tips, how to maintain them, and how to take over from another volunteer : QuickStatement, Mix'n'match, SPARQL, QueryService and other massive tools.

Work in progress : We are looking to sanction the acquired skills at the end of the training, but do not know yet if it will be in the form of a diploma, a skill certificate, or any such thing. Why shouldn't wikimedian's skills be personally and professionally valued ?

Motivation

Why is this project needed? What will it solve or improve?

Wikimedia France works for the free sharing of knowledge through Wikimedia projects (Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, etc.) To fulfill this objective, it has set itself three missions:

- Increase content (in quality and quantity) and for this, it organizes edit-a-thons and workshops, it helps with digitization and uploading. In this perspective, it signs partnerships with organizations with various social objects (museums, universities, local authorities…

- Animation of communities interested in Wikimedia projects and to this end, it supports contributors in their individual or collective projects, by offering human, financial and material resources. • The increase in skills of target audiences and for this, it offers training for educational actors, the general public and volunteers on different themes such as the uses of Wikipedia in the classroom, contribution to Wikimedia projects.

- Responding to a need of the community through the creation of pedagogical supports is perfectly in line with the mission of the association. This MOOC (a free online course open to all) aims to take its participants behind the scenes of the largest open knowledge base in the world: understand how it works, its rules, discover its community, the way its content reliability is guaranteed, etc.

These courses will also allow volunteer and partners to learn how to contribute to Wikidata themselves: modify and create items, interact with other contributors, work collaboratively… At the end of MOOC, they will be able to contribute to Wikidata in an autonomous way. The more we are, the more knowledge will be open-access!

In addition, this Mooc is part of a global project in 2021: Wikimedia wants to become a true reference in open-content policy in France. The association plans to create national report, label and support dedicated to GLAM. Specific modules from the MOOC will contribute to this target. The Mooc project will be introduced during the "Journées Culture et Numérique" by Wikimedia France : a professional event dedicated to wikimedia's project and cultural actors.

Activities

Tell us how you'll carry out your project. What will you and other organizers spend your time doing? What will you have done at the end of your project? Duration of the course : 6 weeks

Wikimedia France will call upon the services of a specialist in writing educational content in order to guarantee the accessibility of the training.

Language: We want to do it at least in French and in English, and, depending on the funding we can secure, release all quizzes and text material in other languages.

This is a short planning

September2020 - May 2021

Step 1 :

• Create summary and targets.
• Content production
• Translation in english

Step 2 :

• Identify speakers
• Interviews and video editing
• Build a team of volunteer referents, in charge of mooc animation

Step 3 :

• Create communication support
• Promote the MOOC : media, communication plan, partners... from February.

Spring 2021

Step 4 :

• Launch the MOOC on https://formations.wikimedia.fr/ This platform is intended to list all the training tools developed by the wikimedia chapters.
• Training volunteers

Measures of success

What are criteria you will define success for your project, and how do you intend to measure for them? What are your targets for these measurements? There will be different degrees of success :

1. Sensitive - MOOC Wikidata aims to build awareness to Wikidata : How does it work, how is it used and what is its impact… We measure it with the number of people subscribing to the MOOC.

Target : 500 people

2. Training – Participants should improve and learn about the value of open knowledge. We will observe the rate of people who have completed training.

Target : 20%

3. Engage – Thanks to foundation tools, we will observe the rate of participants convert into contributor, and contributor managing new projects thanks to the MOOC. That information will be identified at the time of private exchange.

Community

Who is your target audience for this project, and how will you ? How will you engage the community you’re aiming to serve at various points during your project?

The course is aimed at anyone who wishes to discover how the largest open knowledge base in the world works and/or learn to contribute to help share knowledge with as many people as possible: students, researchers, professionals in any sector of activity, or even retired people.

This Wikidata discovery course will require no prior knowledge. In particular, it will not be necessary to have advanced knowledge in a specific field, nor a particularly developed general culture. Nor will it be necessary to have advanced computer skills.

The Budget

How you will use the funds you are requesting? List bullet points for each expense. (You can create a table or link to a separate (public) document if needed.

Global Budget

Topic	Amount	Ressources	Amount
Wikidata MOOC - Global		APG (1)	14 000 €
Production and captation	3760 €	Wikicite (2)	8 420 €
Manage content	4 000 €	Private Partner (3)	10 340 €
Integration	7000 €
Hosting	7000 €
Communication	4000 €
Specific programm
Widget & content (GLAM week)	3000 €
Captation	500 €
Promotion	1000 €
Widget & content ( Tech week)	2000 €
Captation	500 €
Total	32760 €		32 760 €

(1) APG : Wikimedia Foundation support setting up a multilingual e-learning platform online and the basics of Wikidata MOOC.

(2) Wikicite : participation to funding the Wikidata MOOC GLAM programm. It includes captation and developpement of that week and a symbolic participation to the uploading process.

(3) Private Partner : includes financial participation from patrons or sponsors.

COVID risk assessment (for in-person events)

If the project is for an in-person event, you must complete the risk assessment tool and checklist, and provide a link to copies of these documents here. Events must not include any international travel, and must follow all applicable local health guidelines.

The whole project is prepared and produced online. Participants will not require to come into contact.

Feedback

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Please provide links below to where relevant communities have been notified of your proposal, and to any other relevant community discussions.

• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:MOOC
• mailing on tech@wikimedia.fr
• mailing discussion@wikimedia.fr
• post on Bistro

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