Certificating Training/Knowledge

Certificating training

History

Wikimedia Italia

Method

References

List of knowledge trainers should have.

For everyone

• The CC BY-SA licence, the Creative Commons licences, the OpenStreetMap licence, the difference and compatibility between the different licences, the fact that free licences to be open access must always allow modification and all uses including commercial, the concept of open access.
• How and where to notify of activities with schools, universities and courses. How to manage the creation of multiple accounts during a work session
• Difference between Wikipedia, Wikimedia, Wikimedia projects, Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Italia, OpenStreetMap and OpenStreetMap Foundation
• Trademark management, what is allowed and what is not
• Codes of conduct (universal code of conduct, conflicts of interest, paid editing etc)

For Wikipedia

General presentation of Wikipedia

• Wikipedia pillars
• Neutral point of view
• Sources and Verifiability of sources
• Encyclopaedic relevance
• What it means Writing an encyclopaedia
• and what it is not: What Wikipedia is not, Promotionality, Conflict of interest, and contribution for hire

How to contribute to Wikipedia

• Choose the Username
• How it works and when to use draft
• What the perfect entry looks like and how to write a good entry
• Visual editor, wikitest and markup images
• How to use the Main_pages
• Some knowledge related to the templates

How to involve students on Wikipedia

• Guidelines for teachers (it)
• Guidelines for tutors (it)
• Examples of other educational activities that do not involve editing Wikipedia (it)

For Wikidata

General presentation of Wikidata

• Semantic web
• Relevance (notability)
• Elements (Q) and properties (P)
• External identifiers

For OpenStreetMap

• Basic elements of OpenStreetMap.
• Types of mapping and their purposes.
• The OpenStreetMap community and where to find help.
• Remote mapping, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and Tasking Manager.
• Mapping of buildings for humanitarian purposes.
• Field mapping, FieldPapers and OSMAnd.
• Mapping house numbers.
• Use of OpenStreetMap data.
• Creation of customised maps with Umap to narrate the territory.
• Indirect forms of mapping.
• Street Level Imagery, collecting information through photos. Mapillary and KartaView.

In Italian https://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Certificazione_formatori/Elenco_conoscenze