Wikipedia Awareness In Akko

WIKIPEDIA AWARENESS IN AKKO is a month-long project fully funded by the nonprofit arm of Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation. Its primary objective is training of 50 persons from Akko community on contributing to Wikipedia and its numerous sister projects. The project will be the first in the community, channeled towards helping the community to be abreast of the mechanism of Wikipedia and its attendant benefits and also to have a solid footing in the Community through encouraging and engaging the participants to actively participate in the project. It is also aimed at creating the first ever Akko Wikimedia Community.

Action Points

Create awareness on Social media.
Collection of Interested Participant data
Teach participants how to access and create a Wikipedia and Wikidata account.
Introduction to Wikipedia and Wikidata.
Introduction to Wikipedia and Wikidata project tools.
Introduction to Wikicommons
Practical hands-on and edithathon on how to create and edit Wikipedia articles.
Practical hands-on and edithathon on how to edit Wikidata items.
Practical hands-on and edithathon on how to upload images to Wikicommons.
Discussions about the specific challenges of editing Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikicommons.

How to participate

Sign in or Create a New Account on Wikipedia.

Enroll on the Outreach Dashboard to track your contributions].

Sign up in the participants section on this page.

Attend the physical events on the .

Venue:

Participants

To participate you need to sign up on the participants section and join the [ https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Akko/Wikipedia_Awareness_in_Akko/home] to track your contributions. To add your name, edit this section and type '#~~~' below without quotes.