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Instructional documents / Documents divers

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In English

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Item Audience Version Description Download
Beginner 2010-09-03, updated 2014-01-07 Welcome to Wikipedia is a reference guide to help you get started to contributing to Wikipedia. Using the guide, you will be able to create a Wikipedia user account, start editing, and communicate with other Wikipedia contributors. You will also learn how articles evolve on Wikipedia and how you can assess the quality of an existing Wikipedia article. Welcome to Wikipedia consists of 17 pages including a quick reference to help you to remember frequently used wiki markup commands. Designed for printing on standard B5 paper. (If you must use A4, print at 116%.) PDF (12 MB)
Beginner 26 July 2013 Illustrating Wikipedia: A guide to contributing content to Wikimedia Commons shows newcomers the basics of contributing to Wikimedia Commons and adding images to Wikipedia and other wikis. Designed for printing on standard B5 paper. (If you must use A4, print at 116%.) PDF (3.8 MB)
Beginner 26 November 2010 Evaluating Wikipedia article quality is a reference guide with specific steps you can take to get the most out of Wikipedia, as well as a look at how its quality system works. Designed for printing on standard B5 paper. (If you must use A4, print at 116%.) PDF (644 KB)
Beginner March 2014 2-page pdf handout on how to evaluate a Wikipedia article, with text adapted from the Wikimedia Foundation brochure "Evaluating Wikipedia brochure" but new layout PDF (272 KB)
Beginner Original version, 2010-09-03; Revised, 2013-01-09 This one-page Wiki markup quick reference helps you to remember the most frequently used wiki markup commands. PDF (127 kB)
Beginner October 2013 "Wiki markup quick reference" – an A4 guide to wiki markup PDF (1.9 MB)
Teachers November 2012 Brochure developed for the Wikipedia Education Program on how to use Wikipedia as a teaching tool in higher education classrooms. [1] (3 MB)
Teachers September 2013 "The Essentials: What to do before the term starts" is a brochure mailed to professors participating in the Wikipedia Education Program in the United States and Canada each term. [2] (400 kB)
Teachers June 2012 Wikipedia Education Program Case Studies brochure. Design by David Peters of Exbrook for Wikimedia Foundation. [3] (8,7 MB)
Teachers November 2012 A full-term sample syllabus that incorporates many of the best practices for running major Wikipedia assignments. [4] (2 MB)
Teachers December 2012 One pager describing the Wikipedia Education Program. [5] (94 kB)
Teachers December 2012 One page advice for students to help find articles to edit. (Wiki Education Program version). [6] (94 kB)
Teachers December 2012 One page guide for students to avoid plagiarism on Wikipedia. (Wiki Education Program version). [7] (121 kB)
Teachers December 2012 A one page guide to help students cite sources on Wikipedia. (Wiki Education Program version). [8] (127 kB)
Teachers December 2012 A handout for students participating in the Wikipedia Education Program that describes the types of images that can be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons and how to add an image to a Wikipedia article. [9] (106 kB)
Teachers December 2012 A guide to help students move out of their sandboxes. (Wiki Education Program version). [10] (187 kB)
Teachers December 2012 Handout for Wikipedia Education Program participants teaching them how to use talk pages [11] (88 kB)
Beginner November 2010 Introduction to free licenses helps you understand the basic concepts of free licenses. It explains the idea of free licenses, as well as terms like "CC-by-SA" and "public domain". PDF
GLAMs July 2014 How to work successfully with Wikipedia: A guide for galleries, libraries, archives and museums. Publ: Wikimedia UK. PDF (1.14 MB)
Beginner November 2010 This short handout explains why and how uploaded files (images) should be licensed. SVG image
Advanced September 2015 Free knowledge thanks to Creative Commons Licenses - Why a non-commercial clause often won‘t serve your needs. P. Klimpel - Publ.: Wikimedia Deutschland, iRights.info, CC DE, Wikimedia Belgium [12]
Intermediate april 2014 First published draft of the Systemic Bias Workshop Kit, part of the IEG project for systemic bias workshop development. User Keilana [13]
Advanced july 2016 In response to participant feedback, Art+Feminism convened a group of experienced community organizers - Alice Backer, Sheetal Prajapati and Marin Watts - to review our materials and methods, and to suggest changes to make the project as inclusive as possible. Source: 2016 Art+Feminism Diversity Review Committee. Authors: Alice Backer, Sheetal Prajapati and Marin Watts [14]

En Français

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Document Audience Version Description Téléverser
Débutant Mars 2015. Version 4 Version française de Welcome to Wikipedia reference guideline. Attention : cette version est conçue pour un affichage à l'écran. Elle ne convient pas pour une impression professionnelle (version imprimable) mais passe très bien sur une imprimante domestique. [15]
Débutant 1 April 2014 Guide de la syntaxe Wiki. Aide mémoire pour la syntaxe wiki. [16]
Débutant Mai 2011 Version française du guide de la syntaxe wiki. [17]
Enseignants / Documentalistes Août 2013. Livret “Wikipédia en classe” à destination des enseignants et professeurs documentalistes du secondaire pour se lancer dans un projet de contributions à Wikipédia avec des élèves. Wikimédia France [18]
Enseignants / Documentalistes Février 2014 Présentation réalisée dans le cadre d'une formation d'enseignants en sciences expérimentales et en documentation. Dans cette présentation sont abordés : - les critiques les plus fréquentes des enseignants à l’encontre de Wikipédia - quelques repères historiques et chiffrés - les principes fondateurs - la galaxie autour de Wikipédia - la structure d’un article - des exemples d'activités pédagogiques - comment contribuer à Wikipédia en classe - le wikiconcours lycéen [19]
Enseignants / Documentalistes Septembre 2015 Présentation de l'usage pédagogique qui peut être fait de Wikipédia dans les établissements scolaires. Wikimédia France [20]
Enseignants / Chercheurs Mars 2013. Brochure à destination des enseignants-chercheurs "Utiliser Wikipédia avec vos étudiants - Études de cas" [21]
Intermédiaire/Avancé Septembre 2015. La connaissance libre grâce aux licences Creative Commons - Ou pourquoi la clause « pas d’utilisation commerciale » ne répond pas à vos besoins. P. Klimpel - Ed .: Wikimedia Deutschland, iRights.info, CC DE, Wikimedia Belgique [22]
Débutant Novembre 2010. Tutoriel de mise sous licence pour Wikimedia Commons,qui est incluse dans le nouvel assistant de téléversement. Version SVG colorée en français. [23]
Photographe débutant Septembre 2015. Guide photographique pour Wiki Loves Africa réalisé par Marc Brouillon, responsable création graphique à Wikimédia France. impression et format web
Wikimédiens, UserGroups, Chapters Juillet2015. Fiche pratique à destination des partenaires de WMFr indiquant la marche à suivre pour organiser un edit-a-thon. [24]
Wikimédiens, UserGroups, Chapters Juillet 2015. Fiche pratique à destination des partenaires de WMFr indiquant la marche à suivre pour organiser un edit-a-thon. [25]
Wikimédiens, UserGroups, Chapters. GLAMs Septembre 2015. Comment travailler avec succès avec Wikipédia - Un guide à l’usage des galeries, des bibliothèques, des archives et des musées. Auteurs:Neil Fletcher, Jonathan Cardy, Andrew Gray, John Cummings, Andy Mabbett, John Byrne, Wikimedia Belgique [26]

Resources arranged according to need

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Introducing the Wikis

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Teaching to learn With the great outdoors Reaching more people In all languages I'm a volunteer too
Dumisani Ndubane taking about his use of Wikiversity for electrical engineering Mike Cline talking about how he uses Wikipedia to extend his outdoor pursuits Veteran maths teacher, Poongothai Balasubramanian uses Wikipedia to extend her teaching Ganesh Paudel explaining how Wikipedia can be created in all languages Founder, Jimmy Wales explaining the beginnings, and his role today

Information about Wikipedia

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Welcome to Wikipedia Ten Simple Rules Introduction to free licenses Evaluating Wikipedia article quality The Wikipedia Cheatsheet
This 17-page guide covers creating a user account, editing basics, communication, and how articles evolve and are evaluated, and includes a quick reference to help you to remember frequently used wiki markup. This editorial from PLoS Computation Biology focuses on how to contribute effectively as an expert, and is great for setting expectations before students begin editing. This brochure helps you understand the basic concepts of free licenses, as well as terms like "CC-by-SA" and "public domain". This reference guide covers specific steps you can take to get the most out of Wikipedia, as well as a look at how its quality system works. This one-page quick reference helps you to remember the most frequently used wiki markup commands.

Mechanics of editing Wikipedia

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Starting a sandbox article Basic editing: bold and links How to use a watchlist How to use talk pages
How to start an a sandbox page to play around with wiki markup or start an article draft (2m 11s) How to use the most basic features of wiki markup to create bold text and links to other pages (3m 37s) How to use a watchlist to keep track of pages you are interested in or have edited (2m 10s) How to interact with other editors using talk pages, including article talk pages and user talk pages (2m 30s)
Basic editing: citing sources Citing sources with RefToobar Uploading files to Wikimedia Commons
How to add citations using "ref" tags (2m 3s) How to use the 'Cite' tool for inserting automatically formatted references (2m 24s) Uploading files such as images to Wikimedia Commons, using the upload wizard (2 min 48 sec)

Writing articles

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Article creation Article improvement Article assessments Article evolution
A demonstration, recorded live, of how to create a Wikipedia article (7 min 50 sec) A look at how to assess the shortcomings of an article and improve it (4m 22s) An exploration of the standard article assessment system, with examples of each quality level (11m 30s) A trip through the history of an article, from humble beginnings to Good Article status (6m 25s)

Workshops

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Brand and Marketing / Marketing et Communication

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Wikimedia Projects

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Communication Elements / Eléments de communication

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Videos (English)
Videos Share Your Knowledge. The videos address GLAMs and they have been produced in collaboration with the Africa Centre; the voices have been recorded in South Africa (including the voice of Francis Awinda Wikipedian in residence at the Africa Centre, from Kenya).

Posters

Comics / Illustrations

Others / Divers

Wiki Loves Africa

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2014

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2015

In 2016

Wiki Loves Women

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WikiFundi

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Other Wiki Events

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Online resources / En mode connecté

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Wikimedia

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Spots télévisés au Cameroun

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Analysing Wikipedia - videos/stats/animations

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  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEkF5o6KPNI : Why Wikipedians are the Weirdest People on the Internet (YouTube) – a humorous presentation by Wikipedian Steven Walling about the culture of Wikipedia and its editors.
  • http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/index.html Wikipedia Vision – an animated map that highlights live edits from users around the world as they happen, demonstrating the global nature of the project.
  • http://wikistream.inkdroid.org/ wikistream – a visualization showing a stream of edits to the most popular Wikipedia projects.
  • irc://irc.wikimedia.org/en.wikipedia Live feed of all edits – a feed that outputs every new change to English Wikipedia, demonstrating the pace of Wikipedia's evolution: 1–2 edits per second. Requires an IRC client to view.
  • http://stats.grok.se/ Wikipedia article traffic statistics – a tool for charting how many hits any given article gets, great for comparing different kinds of articles at different times, e.g., http://stats.grok.se/en/200903/Genetics Genetics (in the school year) vs. http://stats.grok.se/en/200908/Genetics (in the summer), or http://stats.grok.se/en/200903/Youtube (YouTube with weekend spikes) and http://stats.grok.se/en/200903/Simpsons (Simpsons with spikes when new episodes come out). Students can also use it to see how many people are reading their articles over the course of the class (and beyond).
  • http://www.manypedia.com Manypedia – a tool for comparing a specific Wikipedia page from a language edition Wikipedia (for example, English) with its equivalent page on another language edition Wikipedia (for example, Arabic), exploiting automatic translation and additional statistics about both pages such as number of edits and editors.
  • http://sonetlab.fbk.eu/wikitrip/ WikiTrip – a tool for visualizing the animated evolution in time of two kinds of information about the Wikipedians who edited the selected page: their location in the world and their gender.
  • http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/vis/ Mapping Wikipedia - World map visualisations of Wikipedia editing activity

Diversity

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More resources may be found at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipack_Africa_Resources