Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Archive/A course on Wikipedia similar to ones on Coursera or EdX
A course on Wikipedia similar to ones on Coursera or EdX
Not a technical proposal
- Problem: Learning about the intricacies of Wikipedia is difficult for a new editor and sometimes the process is discouraging and very slow. Navigating Wikipedia policies, guidelines and essays takes time, and mistakes by new editors increases the workload of older editors. Also, learning about Wikipedia can be made more fun, structured and efficient through such an online course for Wikipedia like the ones on Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/) or edX (https://www.edx.org/). A proper course with videos, quizzes, interactive elements, the history of Wikipedia and basic help navigating wikipedia for future editors, how the largest volunteer community in the world works, how things are resolved on controversial topics, so many things can be covered sequentially. The course can cover the whole of Wikipedia as well as WikiMedia, Commons, Wikidata etc and how all the other Wikis are part of the larger Wikipedia universe.
- Who would benefit: All new editors, prospective editors and for those just curious about wanting to know more about Wikipedia itself. It would also provide an educational platform for teachers across the world to teach their students about Wikipedia in a more thorough and structured way.
- Proposed solution: A course on Wikipedia on Coursera or Edx.
- More comments: I know that Wikipedia – The Missing Manual and WP:The Wikipedia Adventure exists. But The Wikipedia Adventure would need to be expanded and updated extensively to cover this idea, it also doesn't cover the other wikis. I understand that there are other more experienced editors who help clear things out when there is a confusion related to how Wikipedia works, Talk pages are there as well as the TeaHouse etc.
- Phabricator tickets:
- Proposer: DiplomatTesterMan (talk) 02:58, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
Discussion
- This doesn't seem like a technical wish. --Izno (talk) 16:10, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
- Opps, sorry. I read the intro page more carefully. This isn't technical. I've shifted this to Village Pump. Thanks. DiplomatTesterMan (talk) 11:20, 11 November 2018 (UTC)