Instructor Notes

Editing Wikidata items with learners

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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

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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