On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Lane Rasberry <[email protected]> wrote:

> Max and others,
>
> I would participate in developing this. I think if I were to do this I
> would want some other people to look with me and talk with me about what
> training materials already exist in any form. I also am having problems
> knowing what to do when people ask for these kinds of learning programs and
> this sort of course may be a good resource.
>
> Also, why use this platform? What other options are there for platforms?
>

P2PU is probably a good platform for this type of thing, as that project
has a bit of a grounding in the Free Culture community.

Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)


>
> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Tomas Saorin <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> 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****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
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