Wikimedia

Analyze the user documentation of Wikidata and propose improvements

Wikidata is a sister project of Wikipedia, that stores structured and machine readable data, just like Wikimedia Commons stores media files.

Wikidata has a lot of documentation pages, that help users to understand what is Wikidata, how it works, how to reuse the data, how to edit data. This documentation can definitely be improved. To start this work, we need a review of the documentation pages, to understand what is already good, what is missing, what is to improve.

If you already have an account on any Wikimedia project, skip step 1.

  1. Create a user account and then a subpage "User Documentation" of your user page, similar to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:yourUsername/User_Documentation (replace "yourUsername" with your actual username)

  2. Find the help pages on Wikidata.org! Make a list of all pages you find. Note: we will stay on the user level, not the technical level. All documentation related to code will not be analyzed.

  3. Make a list of what, in your opinion, could be improved in the documentation. Missing information, unclear sentences... You don't have necessarily to propose a solution, just list what is wrong.

  4. Make a list of what you like in the existing documentation, and that should be kept that way (or improved anyway).

Task tags

  • wikitext
  • wikidata
  • user documentation

Students who completed this task

Ivan Sucgang

Task type

  • chrome_reader_mode Documentation / Training
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2016