Africa Growth Pilot/Online self-paced course

This page describes phase two of the Africa Growth Pilot experimental program by the Wikimedia Foundation.

Goal

In this phase the project team is co-creating, in consultation with the editing communities, a comprehensive online course introducing complete newbies to the Wikimedia ecosystem, and specifically to the core policies of English Wikipedia, with the aim of preparing course graduates to edit English Wikipedia competently and confidently.

The plan

The course will be hosted on the WikiLearn platform, will be self-paced, including computer-graded comprehension questions, and will be accessible to anyone with a Wikimedia account at any time ("open enrollment").

The curriculum

The course consists of several modules, intended to be taken in order:

Course modules

Number	Module name	Module description
0	Introduction to this course (landing page)	slides with content for this module, to be presented in a single landing page.
1	Preparing to participate in Wikimedia projects	Anatomy of a wiki page, basic editing of user page and sandbox, talk pages.
2	Neutral Point of View	A tutorial on the Neutral Point of View core policy, or: how to write in Wikipedia's Voice
3	Verifiability	A tutorial on the Verifiability policy, or: how to cite the facts we put on Wikipedia, and how to find reliable sources.
4	Notability	A tutorial on the Notability policy, or: how to determine whether it is acceptable to write an article about a particular topic.
5	Copyright and free licenses	A tutorial on traditional copyright and free licenses from a Wikimedia perspective.
6	Communicating on-wiki and dealing with feedback	Using talk pages, watchlists, pings, seeking mentorship or help, escalating conflict.
7	101 ways to contribute to Wikimedia	An introduction to the variety of ways one can contribute to Wikimedia beyond writing encyclopedia articles, including sibling projects

The timeline

TBD.

Feedback and questions

You can reach the project team at comdevteam@wikimedia.org.