Sounds great.  Very much like what we are thinking.

On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Andrew Gray <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Charles Matthews and I ran a workshop a little while ago which had
> something like the fortune cookie idea.
>
> First, we demonstrated basic Wikidata editing (adding/changing
> statements) as part of a discussion on the data structure - properties
> and items, item versus text properties, etc.
>
> After this, we gave everyone a numbered slip with a Wikidata query (in
> WDQ form) on it - mostly of the type "claim[X] and noclaim[Y]". Then
> we got them to load up pre-filled Autolist links (all numbered and
> ready), pick a couple of entries from the list, and try to fix
> whatever was missing. (There was an unintended detour at this point
> into how to interpret WDQ queries - people got the idea pretty fast
> that these were one set of items missing particular values)
>
> Queries we used were things like "people with no nationality" (though
> "people born since 1600 with no nationality" would have worked
> better), "people with no occupation", "buildings that don't have a
> 'located in' value", etc.
>
> This got people making small edits very early, ensured that we had a
> fresh supply of "missing cases" to work on (because the lists were
> generated from scratch), and prompted a lot of very good questions for
> discussion, people starting to hack the queries to find more specific
> topics, etc. I was really quite pleased with the way it worked.
>
> Andrew.
>
>
> On 4 December 2015 at 17:38, Benjamin Good <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Thanks All!
> > (and especially to Lane for by far the best complement I've received,
> maybe
> > ever..)
> >
> > Will get back to you with the final product and some news about the
> > meeting..  Andra Waagmeester had a great idea that unfortunately we are a
> > bit late to implement.  Fortune cookies to pass out where each fortune
> is a
> > single wikidata edit that the recipient is encouraged to make..  Would
> love
> > to see that play out someday.
> >
> > -Ben
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 6:51 AM, Lane Rasberry <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Benjamin,
> >>
> >> It might be helpful for you to get confirmation that there are no
> >> excellent polished Wikidata tutorials in existence.
> >>
> >> The good tutorials are made by people who know Wikidata, like the one
> EMW
> >> shared, but EMW is not a graphic designer and made a practical
> presentation
> >> rather than a corporate scripted slideset.
> >>
> >> Your "poof it works" article is the state of the art.
> >>
> >> <
> http://sulab.org/2015/10/poof-it-works-using-wikidata-to-build-wikipedia-articles-about-genes/
> >
> >>
> >> It is all very casual and everything understates how important and
> >> revolutionary Wikidata is. I still show your article to lots of people.
> Of
> >> all the Wikidata narratives I have read I like yours the best.
> >>
> >> yours,
> >>
> >> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Benjamin Good <[email protected]
> >
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> The gene wiki people are hosting a tutorial on wikidata in Cambridge,
> UK
> >>> next Monday [1].  In the interest of making the best tutorial in the
> least
> >>> amount of preparation time.. I was wondering if anyone on the list had
> >>> content (slides, handouts, cheatsheets) that they had already used
> >>> successfully and might want to share?  We are assembling the structure
> of
> >>> the 90 minute session in a google doc [2], feel free to chime in there
> !
> >>> And of course everything we generate for that will be available online
> as
> >>> soon as it exists.
> >>>
> >>> cheers
> >>> -Ben
> >>>
> >>> [1]
> http://www.swat4ls.org/workshops/cambridge2015/programme/tutorials/
> >>>
> >>> [2]
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dSgm90SbQBpHqEMa17t5zQL0PB2waIKD3LKTPPknmcY/edit#heading=h.m19y528ldds8
> >>>
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