Find
Great Courses
Create
a Course

This course will become read-only in the near future. Tell us at community.p2pu.org if that is a problem.

Contribute to Wikipedia using Open Access Media

This challenge is for the uninitiated Librarian-cum-Wikipedian.
You'll learn how to edit and then take the challenge of improving one article from our trove of Open Access Content.
You'll do this by taking following some interactive videos, and then editing Wikipedia.
The easiest way to tangibly contribute to Open Access Week.

P Time it should take to complete:
2 hrs

Start Challenge View Tasks

Wikimedia Commons [Oct. 17, 2012, 4:21 p.m.]

video

OBSERVE

clippings from

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Welcome

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:First_steps

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:FAQ

DO

Your task is to add categories to 3 media files on Commons. Log in to commons (enable global log-in if necessary). The easiest way to add or modify categories is to use HotCat which, by default, needs to be enabled in Preferences.

Open Access Wikipedia Challenge

Wikimedia Commons [Oct. 17, 2012, 4:21 p.m.]

OBSERVE

DO