Dear Max I was thinking about a similar idea, but aimed to spanish speakers librarians. A kind of "Wikipedia for dummies" or for dummies librarians....
You say a mini-course, but perhaps it's better name it as mini-use cases: how-to do a pair of frequently needed task in library context. How-to insert a cite of a just-released local monograph? How-to update a bio of an academic of your university? How-to .... Tomás Saorín http://www.um.es/gtiweb/wikipedialab 2012/10/4 Klein,Max <[email protected]> > Open Access Week is upon us,**** > > I have been brainstorming about how to do something large for Wikipedia > Loves Libraries this Open Access Week. One such idea that I’ve discussed > with Creative Commons is to construct a mini-course on P2PU (peer to peer > University).**** > > For an example of such a pre-existing short form course see: > https://p2pu.org/en/schools/school-of-webcraft/sets/webmaking-101/**** > > ** ** > > The way I imagined it would be a 4 parter:**** > > **1. **Learning about talk, history, and users.**** > > **2. **Learning about wikitext, citations, infoboxes,**** > > **3. **Challenge, add citations and infoboxes,**** > > **4. **Extra challenge, upload to wikisource.**** > > ** ** > > Is there anybody else that would want to help construct or promote this > course for the end of October? Or have any input on using the site, format > or content?**** > > ** ** > > Best,**** > > Max Klein**** > > Wikipedia in Residence**** > > [email protected]**** > > +17074787023**** > > ** ** > > _______________________________________________ > Libraries mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries > > -- __ Tomás Saorín
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