Training

There are many training resources available. Here are some of our favourites! We recommend working your way through the following videos and modules at your own pace.

More Than A Day: Wikipedia Training Videos

Wikimedian Caddie Brain, host of More Than A Day training videos

Wikimedia Australia partnered with Franklin Women and The Leadership Film to present More Than A Day, 10 easy to follow videos to guide you through creating a Wikipedia account and how to edit your first Wikipedia article.

• Chapter 1: Introduction to Wikipedia
• Chapter 2: Why Diversity and Representation is Important
• Chapter 3: The Principles of Wikipedia
• Chapter 4: Who to Add to Wikipedia and Why Notability is Crucial
• Chapter 5: Making a Wikipedia Account
• Chapter 6: Finding Your Way Around a Page
• Chapter 7: How to Edit a Current Wikipedia Page
• Chapter 8: How to Add a Reference
• Chapter 9: How to Create a New Wikipedia Page
• Chapter 10: Looking After Your Wikipedia Page

Introduction to Wikipedia: A Free Online Course

Australian Wikimedian James Gaunt has created this easy to follow self-paced online course.

An Introduction to Wikipedia: A Free Online Course Wikipedia can be edited by anyone. But it can be difficult to know where to start. To help you answer these questions and truly get started, there’s a new online course you can follow at your own pace called An Introduction to Wikipedia.

Wikimedia Training Library

The following external modules can be followed at your own pace. Just sign in with your Wikipedia or Wikimedia account to get started:

• Wikipedia Training Modules: Wikipedia essentials, basics, and how-tos
• Support and Safety: Keeping events safe
• Running Editathons and other Editing Events: Planning and leading your event
• Wikidata: An introduction to Wikidata, linked data, and running queries
• Learning and Evaluation: Creating campaigns and using the Dashboard

Wikimedia Core Curriculum

Want to help make Wikipedia more accurate and inclusive? The Wikimedia Core Curriculum is your starting point. This self-paced learning pathway introduces the key skills and principles for editing English Wikipedia with confidence and joining a global movement of knowledge sharers. The self-paced training follows the following pathway:

1. Module 1: Preparing to participate in Wikimedia projects
2. Module 2: The Voice of Wikipedia: Neutral Point of View
3. Module 3: Sourcing knowledge: Verifiability on Wikipedia
4. Module 4: Notability: The standard of inclusion in Wikipedia
5. Module 5: Copyright and free licenses
6. Module 6: Communicating on-wiki
7. Module 7: 101 ways to contribute to Wikimedia

Editing and help documents

Please duplicate and rename any documents before editing them. The more preparation, the better!

Edit-a-thon Checklist (PDF)

Australian Editing Guide

Editable suggested content spreadsheet

Art+Feminism Event Guide

Face-to-Face Workshop runsheet template

Online Workshop runsheet template

Create Your Event Dashboard

A dashboard will automatically collect data on what your participants achieved at your event.

Create the dashboard

Training on how to use the Dashboard

Useful links and resources for training

Six Fact-Checking Lessons for Kids This book was produced for the Co-Developing a New Approach to Media Literacy in the Attention Economy research project.

Become a Wikimedia Australia Trainer Wikimedia Australia offers support and training to become an accredited Wikimedia Australia facilitator.

Wikidata training

How to get started with Wikidata Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines. Launched in 2012, Wikidata acts as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary, Wikisource, and others.