Look into coursework with a Wikidata component

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Very few relevant search results:

• site:wikiedu.org wikidata
• wikidata coursework

The most salient one is probably Task 5.3 in the Wikidata for Research proposal:

Task 5.3: Development of course materials (Lead UOC; all partners; Month 1-30) The goal of this task is to develop freely available materials that can be used in university courses and on Wikimedia platforms, so future skilled workers will make best use of the open-data infrastructure provided by Wikidata and other organizations. The intention is to provide materials for a number of different data usage scenarios. This might range from simple data retrieval to more complex treatments of data-sets like GIS and machine learning. The material will be available online, e.g. via Wikiversity, where UPS has organized such courses in the past. It will be kept up to date, and translated into at least two European languages in addition to English. It will be suitable for injection into graduate and postgraduate coursework, but also suitable for on-the-job-training. This task will be carried out in conjunction with WP2 (mapping), WP3 (integrating resources via Wikidata) and WP4 (Wikibase tools), since materials will be mostly designed from their respective outcomes. Teaching materials will be mostly in text form, adding some educational treatment and providing practical exercises and self-assessment tools. Specific tasks will be: compilation of source materials, writing, adding educational treatment, reviewing materials by consortium partners as well as the Wikidata community, editing, translation, and open publishing.

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Some more starting points:

• Mix'n Match
• machine learning to detect vandalism & good contributions
• inference (SQID-like) to improve data consistency
• clustering to help with author disambiguation
• data mining to extract main subject
• mine texts for sources of Wikidata statements
• build a pipeline for updating a set of properties on a set of items
• improve documentation
• improve Wikidata tours
• play around with Scholia or other Wikidata frontends and make suggestions for improvements/ improve them directly

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Some similar suggestions in https://medium.com/@ChristianKl/my-vision-of-a-possible-strategy-1ca09a53da02 .

[Daniel-Mietchen]

A list of potential activities for coursework is emerging at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikidata_curricula/Activities .

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Wikidata is now included in WikiEdu's strategy: https://wikiedu.org/blog/2018/06/26/wiki-education-announces-new-three-year-strategy/ (found via first link in this post).