Intensive course on research state of the art and Wikipedia for PhD students/Syllabus

Duration: from Monday to Friday
Modality: in presence, with the possibility of online participation; participation obligatory for 80% of the meetings
Language: English (and local language)
Total number of hours: 27


	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Objectives of the day	Introduction to the course. How Wikipedia works (principles and approach). How to edit Wikipedia (sandbox). Selecting the article(s) participants will work on.	How images and licenses work on Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. The importance of sources and references on Wikipedia and how to cite references. Participants start working on their article(s).	How data are provided on Wikipedia and Wikidata. Participants work on their article(s)	Participants work on their article and finalise it.	Participants finalise their article(s). Peer-review of the articles. Review of the articles by the Wikipedia trainer and the organiser.
Morning 9.30-12.30	Introduction to the course: objectives, programme (morning and afternoon), documentation, credits. Short description of the assignment, evaluation criteria and certificate. Wikipedia: project pages of the course, account, signature, pillars. Basic editing of your user page (writing a short description of yourself, not adding personal data, what is a red links, how to edit wikitext, how to create a link, piped link, edit summary, how changes are recorded on Wikipedia...). Discussion of article topics. Each participant presents the topic/articles he/she wants to focus on.	Feedback from the first day and questions. Images and open licenses - Wikimedia Commons. Group photo.	Wikidata: Wikipedia templates and data, structured data, structure of data on Wikidata, proprieties; the value and relevance of Wikidata.	Editing.	Group photo Cross review by the students Beginning of the evaluation by the lecturers
Afternoon 14.00-17:00	Review of Wikipedia existing articles related to the topic selected by each participant (adding articles and possible articles to edit on the personal userpage). Wikipedia sandbox: what is a sandbox. An example, by copying and pasting part of a Wikipedia article: adding bold, links, titles. The structure of an article: incipit, history, historiography of a topic...	References and sources (Marco Chemello). Relevant sources, how to cite a source.	Editing.	Editing.	End
Assignment	Identify your topic/article Take or bring a photo for tomorrow	Editing Register an ID ORCID	Editing	Finalising the article. Publish the article on NS0.