Use a SPARQL query, to discover more about the book.
Greetings!
Do take a look at the Workshop Storyboard below.To create a personal sandbox page, you will need to register an account. It's quick and free, and has many benefits.
Alternatively, you may practice in Wikipedia's communal sandbox. This does not require creating an account, but is regularly reset and does not include preloaded examples of Wikipedia markup.
Teach Wikipedia (Workshop Support)
editHi there. My desk is full of fun teaching and support resources. They are for you to play with in your sandbox!
Session 0 | Pre-Workshop
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| 2 | • Read about the Template:Five pillars of Wikipedia or • Listen to me on boarding Prof Cronjé onto Wikipedia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 5 | I've been collecting pretty pictures for my page.
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Session 1 | Let's Fix It
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| 1 | My Home Page | How to create a user page | |
| 2 | My community, tribe or clan | How to add categories | |
| 3 | My conversations | How to talk, connect, compliment | |
| 4 | My knowledge | How to add a reference |
Session 2 | Build it Better
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| 1 | Creative Commons Audio / Intro to Creative Commons | Creative Commons Visual Notes | Sharing with CC |
| 2 | Community of practice | Emergence | |
| 3 | Building a community | Creating Badges | |
| 4 | Projects | Create a user page or add a category to an uncategorized article | |
| 5 | Make Categories | Create a category to arrange uncategorized articles |
Session 3 Sandboxes, drafts and stubs
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| 1 | Creating a draft post in 10 steps💻 |
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| 2 | Creating Tabs with a template | ||||||
| 3 | OpenVerse for images💻 |
Session 4 Opening up the Data
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| 1 | Get onto Wikidata | ||
| 2 | Beome familiar with Wikidata Tools | ||
| 3 | Decide on your next steps | ||
Session 5 Graphical Thinking
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| 1 | Wikidata, another way of arranging information | ||
| 2 | Thinking in knowledge graphs | ||
| 3 | Discovering more about knowledge graphs | ||
Wikimedia SA Edit-A-Thon June 16 Soweto Uprising
editMy editor of the day is ST:SANKOMOTA |
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Youth Day Edit-a-thon
editWikimedia South Africa (Q18559855) is hosting a Soweto Uprising edit-a-thon on Monday June 16, 2025
To commemorate Youth_Day, the Wikimedians in South Africa (WMSA) are hosting an edit-a-thons to help document and preserve the story of the 1976 Soweto Uprising.
- Monday, 16 Jun · 10:30 – 14:30
- My slot: 12:30 - 14:30 16 June 2025
- Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/zua-cpvk-its
Event information
edit- Who should participate:
- Everyone! No Wikipedia editing experience is necessary; there will be tutorials and experienced editors who will be happy to help. (If you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia, it's easy to get started with this guided tutorial.)
- Cost: Free (please register!)
Wikipedia was built by millions of ordinary people who decided to bring the sum total of human knowledge to the world for free. Join us on Monday June16 and ensure that our history is not forgotten.
Forum
editThis forum provides a place to:
- explore the ideas and your experiences with other educators;
- discover possible collaborators and partners;
- learn about social software;
- acquire new and relevant ICT skills;
- interact with our online community; and
- share and contribute your knowledge to the intellectual commons.
Please note: All session reports are accepted on the understanding that you agree to license your published work for others to share, disseminate and adapt, under a
Attribution: Attribution details
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Rough Notes (please ignore)
edit- If you do want to edit video's then this https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:VideoCutTool might be helpful
- If you want to upload videos then you will need to convert them. see
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Video2commons
- If you want to add someone notable to Wikipedia https://new-q5.toolforge.org/
- If you want to create a list, then check out this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikidata_list
- If you are looking to create a list with a query (like the one below) use SPARKL and look at code view.
This list is automatically generated from data in Wikidata and is periodically updated by Listeriabot.
Edits made within the list area will be removed on the next update!
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Page Curation
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Start your own Wikipedia
editRecognise each other
edit- Award a barn star
| The Eswatini Barnstar of Merit | ||
| This is to acknowledge all the effort that ZS Khumalo has put into developing their own capability in Eswatini. Much Thanks Derek J Moore (talk) 10:22, 27 May 2025 (UTC) |
- Thanks for joining
| Just to say thanks to you, Derek J Moore, for joining us at the Wikipedia Meet-up a few days ago! Hope you feel recharged and ready to edit! Derek J Moore (talk) 15:23, 28 May 2025 (UTC) |
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- Thanks for contributing
| Hello, Derek J Moore, so glad that you joined us at the Training Workshop a few days ago! Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I hope you like Wikipedia and perhaps you might join a meet-up to learn more? Or play around in the sandbox of Derek J Moore. |
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- Thanks for being present
- user sandbox
- Article of Good Merit
| The Good Article Medal of Merit | ||
| message Derek J Moore (talk) 12:28, 30 May 2025 (UTC) |
Transport Map
editTurn HTML into Markdown
editMaking a Map
editThis template takes two parameters:
|width=. The chosen value is 450 (pixels).|float=. Default value is right
This map is of Southern African Higher Education institutions that participated in SWiP
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A few SPARQL Query examples
editLibrary Geo-cordinates
editSELECT ?library ?libraryLabel ?coords WHERE {
SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],mul,en,fr". }
?library (wdt:P31/wdt:P279*) wd:Q28564.
?library wdt:P17 wd:Q258.
?library wdt:P625 ?coords.
}
SELECT ?library ?libraryLabel ?coords WHERE {
SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],mul,en,fr". }
?library (wdt:P31/wdt:P279*) wd:Q28564.
?library wdt:P17 wd:Q258.
?library wdt:P625 ?coords.
}










