Wikidata:Wikidata for Education/Campaign
The Campaign component of the Wikidata for Education program is being led by Wikimedia Ghana User Group, one of this project's partners. This campaign seeks to close the content gap between the curriculum data uploaded to Wikidata and its corresponding Wikipedia articles. This campaign will be organised in English and two other Ghanaian Language Wikipedia.
This campaign will ensure that Wikipedia articles have a great structure according to the curriculum information and data model. Also, this campaign seeks to make the respective Wikipedia entries reflect the indicators from the curriculum and make it easily readable by students in that class brackets.
Activities[edit]
Activity 1.3.1[edit]
Coordinate an overarching multi-part campaign that improves content in at least two subject areas: English and at least 1 local language. The subject areas should include at least one internationally-relevant curriculum topic and one culturally or nationally specific curriculum topic area.
Activity 1.3.2[edit]
Organize at least 3 or more content drives for each subject area we select that engage, on average, at least 30 people per event who make meaningful content edits over the course of 6 months and continue to close knowledge gaps around curriculum-aligned content.
Social Studies campaign[edit]
The Social Studies Campaign is the first campaign to be run as part of the campaigns for this project. We held our first workshop for English Wikipedia editors on May 6, 2023. In total, 28 participants joined this workshop made up of Librarians, Teachers, Tech enthusiasts and writers. This was the first workshop in the series of workshops to be had during this campaign.
| Date | Activity | Description |
|---|---|---|
| May 6, 2023 | Social Studies Campaign | We organized the first English Wikipedia campaign on the Social Studies Curriculum. We had 28 editors who improved 53 Wikipedia articles which was linked to the curriculum data. |
Science and computing campaign[edit]
The Science and Computing campaign was the second English campaign we ran for this project. The good thing about this campaign is that we were also about to edit some of the articles using the Simple English Wikipedia platform. We had about 19 editors join us for this session.
| Date | Activity | Description |
|---|---|---|
| August 19, 2023 | Science and Computing Campaign | We organized the second English Wikipedia campaign on the Science and Computing Curriculum, both on English Wikipedia and Simple English Wikipedia. We had 19 editors who improved and created about 53 Wikipedia articles which was linked to the curriculum data. |
Ghanaian Language Campaigns[edit]
We started engaging the Ghanaian language Wikipedia communities about the possibility of further participating in the Wikidata for Education Campaign. We started the conversation with the Twi Wikipedia Community, and the process to start the campaign with this community is in motion.
Twi Language Campaign[edit]
We held our first Twi Wikipedia training workshop for the 7 leaders of the Twi community in Accra, Ghana, on July 1, 2023.
| Date | Activity | Description |
|---|---|---|
| July 1, 2023 | Twi Language Campaign | We organized the first Twi Training for its leaders for the campaign. We had 7 editors who improved 69 articles from both Wikipedia and Wikidata on the Twi Wikipedia. |
Ga Language Campaign[edit]
We held the first Ga Wikipedia campaign on the 5th of August, 2023, for the Ga community. The Ga Wikipedia is in Incubator, so this campaign was very unique. We had our second Ga Wikipedia campaign on the 26th of August 2023, and we had about 19 people join this session. In total we were able to translate about a 19 articles from English to the Ga Wikipedia which is in incubator using the learning outcomes from the curriculum.
