Community Capacity Development/Materials

Below is a list of materials (mostly presentations) developed as part of the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Capacity Development program.

Core policies training

• Copyright and free licenses tutorial (Africa, 2018)
• Neutral Point of View tutorial (Africa, 2018)
• Verifiability and Notability tutorial (Africa, 2018; +some discussion of the African context)
• Conflict of Interest (COI) Workshop handout (WMCON 2016)
• Video tutorial on how to submit media to Wikimedia Commons using OTRS (Online module, June 2019)

Wikimedia programs and ideas

• Skill-building and a culture of experimentation for WikiArabia (WikiArabia 2019) + video
• 101 Ways to Contribute to Wikimedia: on untapped potential (CEE Online Meeting 2020)
• Libraries and Wikimedia: Natural Partners
• The Big Funnel -- Africa Growth Pilot phase two (video of presentation at Wikimania 2024 in Katowice

Social skills training

• Conflict Engagement for Humans (WMCON 2018)
• Conflict resolution: Collective Responsibility (Online Forum for Ukrainian Wikimedia Project Admins, 2021)
• Introduction to Facilitation (WMCON 2017)
• Partnerships for Wikimedians Part 1: Identifying and negotiating partnerships (WikiConference Ukraine 2018)
  • improved version (Wikimania 2019 Learning Days)
• Motivating and retaining volunteers (WikiConference Ukraine 2020)
  • video recording of above
• Public Speaking for Humans (Wikimania 2019 Learning Days)
• Effective Teaching for Humans (Wikimania 2019 Learning Days)
• Creative Thinking as Strategy (CEE Meeting 2022)

Communications and media relations

• Communications and media relations training slides (Brazil 2016)

Public talks

• Wikipedia: Reliability through Conversation (Sofia, 2016) (expanded from following talk)
• Wikipedia as Discourse (Wikiconference Czech Republic 2016)
• Wikipedia and Education (Ukraine 2016, emoji-only slides :))
  • Wikipedia and Education (Ukraine 2016, slides + notes)
• Wikimedia in the Service of Media Professionals (general-public outreach reader-education presentation slides)

Wikidata and modern tools training

• Asaf's Tools page

Wikidata

• Wiki + data = Wikidata, and why you should care (New Zealand, November 2018) + video recording on YouTube (7 minutes)
• Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners (I-II) (2 hour video; Istanbul, 2022)
• A Gentle Introduction to Querying Wikidata with SPARQL (I-II) (2 hour video; Istanbul, 2022)
  • video recording of 90-minute SPARQL tutorial (Singapore, 2023)
  • Asaf's Wikidata queries resource page
• Modelling our Languages with Lexeme (I-II) (2 hour video; Istanbul, 2022)
  • Documenting our Languages with Lexeme (slides; CEE Meeting 2022; Turkic Wikidata Days 2022)
  • 3-hour video tutorial on Lexeme (Let's Connect, 2023) (+Slides in English, French, Portuguese, Spanish)
  • Recording pronunciations with LinguaLibre and Wikidata Query Service - 15m extract from the tutorial, demonstrating how to record pronunciation audio files automagically
  • Asaf's Lexeme queries page
• Intermediate Wikidata tools and techniques (Porto, Portugal, 2020)
• OpenRefine + Wikidata = Magic (tutorial slides for OpenRefine beginners; not enough to learn from without the live demonstration, but linked here for people who have attended and may want to look up the slides) (Istanbul, 2023)
• OpenRefine + Wikidata = ~{Magic}~ (90 minute video tutorial; Wikimania 2024 in Katowice)

Older versions

• Wikidata: A Gentle Introduction for Complete Beginners (Estonia, November 2017) -- latest slides
• Wikidata: A Gentle Introduction for Complete Beginners (Wikimedia Foundation, Feb 2017)
  • video recording of this talk (3 hours long, with section markers)
• Video recording of 2-hour SPARQL tutorial (San Francisco, June 2018)
• Intermediate Wikidata tools and techniques (Wellington, New Zealand, Nov 2018.)

Program documentation

• Community Capacity Map Workshop (WMCON 2018)
• CCD preliminary research report (WMCON 2015)