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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Launch of the course "OpenRefine for Wikimedia Commons: the basics"
This is awesome ????????! Thanks for sharing.

Best,
Ruby

On Thu, 4 Apr 2024 at 11:47?AM, Ndahiro Derrick Alter <
ndahiroderric@gmail.com> wrote:

> Wow this is a great initiative .
>
> derrick
>
>
> On Thu, 4 Apr 2024 at 13:12 Joris Darlington Quarshie <
> billionairegenerations16@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thank you very much, Giovanna!
>>
>>
>> Best,
>> Joris.
>>
>> On Thu, 4 Apr 2024 at 11:02, Giovanna Fontenelle <
>> gfontenelle@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> We are happy to announce that there is now a free and publicly
>>> accessible course on the learning platform, WikiLearn, on how to upload and
>>> edit files on Wikimedia Commons using OpenRefine: *OpenRefine for
>>> Wikimedia Commons: the basics*
>>> <https://learn.wiki/courses/course-v1:Wikimedia-Foundation+WMF_GLAM001+2023/about>
>>> .
>>>
>>> OpenRefine <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OpenRefine> is a free
>>> data-wrangling tool that can be used to process, manipulate, and clean
>>> tabular (spreadsheet) data and connect it with knowledge bases, including
>>> Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons.
>>>
>>> This online course is available at any time, for free. Anyone with a
>>> Wikimedia account can enroll with the click of a button. It can be followed
>>> at your own pace, with computer-graded exercises. A certificate is awarded
>>> at the end to those who complete the course.
>>>
>>> The training is suitable for Wikimedians, Wikimedia affiliate staff, and
>>> partners (e.g. GLAM staff and Wikimedians in Residence). Accomplishing the
>>> course should take an average of 6 to 8 hours.
>>>
>>> This course was developed as part of the Wikimedia Foundation's training
>>> and sustainability grant to OpenRefine
>>> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine/Training_2023-24>.
>>> It is currently available in English and can be easily translated into
>>> other languages (more about the translation process here
>>> <https://studio.learn.wiki/meta_translations/discover_courses/> and here
>>> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutorial_on_how_to_translate_course_content_in_WikiLearn.webm>).
>>> Translations for this course in French, Spanish, and Portuguese are being
>>> worked on and will be available very soon.
>>>
>>> Please, feel free to share this course with people you think might be
>>> interested in learning more about OpenRefine or Wikimedia Commons, who are
>>> part of your network, in groups, social media, or any other places.
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Giovanna & Sandra
>>>
>>> Giovanna Fontenelle (she/her)
>>>
>>> Program Officer, Culture and Heritage
>>>
>>> Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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