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- How to use the platform France université numérique (FUN)
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[video]
- MOOC General presentation
- Scheduling (mainly live sessions)
- Progress, evaluation, certification
- Communication tools between learners and teaching staff: forum, direct exchanges on Wikipedia [one of the main focus of this MOOC], video live sessions, etc.
- Link to the FAQ and to en:Wikipedia:Be_Bold
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The five pillars & the Wikipedia movement (theoretical background), registration (practical background)
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[video]
- General introduction to Wikipedia and the fundamental principles (FP):
- 1st/2nd FP : Defining what Wikipedia and an encyclopedic article is about (sum of knowledge on a specific subject written in a neutral way)
- 4th/5th FP : Wikipedia is written by volunteers without any restrictions other than the collaborative procedures
- 3rd FP : Overview of what free license publishing is on wikipedia (especially from an author's point of view)
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- Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement history
- How the Wikimedia movement operates: Wikimedia Foundation as host, wiki (Mediawiki) as technology, donation-based funding, no advertising
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[Interactive tutorial] + [video]
- GuidedTour howtos.
- Registration on Wikipedia: account creation, setting preferences (language, notifications, mail, time zone)
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First insight of what contributing is about (practical part)
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[video]
- General interface overview
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[Interactive tutorial]
- Articles interface: interwiki links, talk page, other links (history, edit links)
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[video]
- VisualEditor (VE) and wiki markup introduction
- Introductory layout with both tools (wiki markup & VE): italic and bold
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[Interactive tutorial]
- User interface overwiew: user page, talkpage, draft, user contributions
- Creating your own userpage
- Writing a message to somebody on a talkpage
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[Interactive tutorial]
- First edits on draft with VE.
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Advanced contributions : histories, watchlists, visual editing
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[video] + [Interactive tutorial]
- Article history and watchlists
- When and how to revert an edit with the page history
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[Interactive tutorial]
- Practising:
- a) Reverting a mistake in the sandbox (draft)
- b) Finding & Publishing a previous draft version
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[video] + [Interactive tutorial]
- Focus on the layout, "wikification" (with VE):
- When and how to add internal links (≠ EL)
- Adding sections and subsections
- How to access VE helpguide
- Adding an internal link on talkpages (with wiki markup)
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Sources and references
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[video]
- Viewing sources in articles
- Verifiability, no original research.
- Copyright violation and plagiarism
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[video]
- Different types of sources:
- Primary sources (and their limits)
- Secondary sources
- Applying these principles on Wikipedia
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[Interactive tutorial]
- Trick: creating several drafts
- Adding sourced contents:
- adding a footnote citing a source;
- reusing an existing footnote citing a source
- modifying an existing footnote
- deleting an existing footnote
- adding section and template needed to display all footnotes
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Question and answer session with 3 members of the teaching staff.
Transfer of all discussions from the FUN (MOOC platform) forum to the Wikipedia forum.
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[video]
- User's status (IP, registered users, sysops, bureaucrats, oversights)
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[Interactive tutorial]
- Using an article talkpage
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[Interactive tutorial]
- Other community spaces (Village Pump, RfD, elections, polls, wikiprojects, etc.)
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[video]
- Table and basic structure of an article, encyclopedic style
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[Interactive tutorial]
- Adding categories and portals with gadgets
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Question and answer session with 3 members of the teaching staff.
Creating the first article
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[video]
- A) How to find the subject of your first article
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- D) Sandbox article creation
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Asking for proofreading
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| Onglet
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[Interactive tutorial]
- Asking for proofreading on a dedicated page
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Question and answer (focusing mainly on homework topic "creating an article" ) session with 3 members of the teaching staff.
Using Wikimédia Commons to insert images
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[Interactive tutorial]
- Commons advanced exploration
- Add an existing Commons file on Wikipedia
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[Interactive tutorial]
- What kind of files can be uploaded on Commons
- Uploading a file on Commons
- Choosing a license
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Optional : Editing [ sourcecode ]
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A) Basic wiki markup (reminder) and advanced wiki markup:
- Reminder: bold, italic, internal link (new: anchors with
#)
- New: section headings, EL, bullet lists, pictures
- New: footnotes tags: ref, ref name, ref group
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B) Advanced presentation of templates:
- Templates goal
- Templates operation (template namespace, documentation, parameter and value notions)
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C) Examples (3) of useful templates
For each template example: goal + how to use it
In addition: how to get information and learn to use a specific template
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- Submitting the practical exercice plus peer evaluation plus explanation of the marking scheme
Until Saturday night of the 6th week.
Question and answer (essentially about peer evaluation) session with 3 members of the teaching staff
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[video]
- Overview of other Wikimedia projects
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Actual contributing examples
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[video]
- Different types of contributor and ways of contributing : article writing, proofreading, maintenance, live patrol, projects, IRL actions like edit-a-thons, national chapters, etc...
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[Interactive tutorial]
- How to publish your draft (renaming)
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