Draft:Archive/2024/WikiService

Welcome to the "School of WikiService", part of the service community. The School of WikiService is a content development project where participants create, develop and organize learning resources about how to productively contribute to Wikimedia Foundation projects. The School of WikiService is under development, but it aims to develop resources for learning about all the fundamental wiki editing tasks that help Wikimedia projects grow and thrive. Learning resources of the School of WikiService are modular, but some basic learning resources should be utilized and mastered before attempting to utilize other more advanced resources.

Interested users
If you want to help develop the School of WikiService, please click here and list yourself and describe how you plan to contribute to this content development project.

To do

 * 1) Anyone who can help choosing a better name for the project is welcome to discuss it on the talk page
 * 2) Our user template needs the attention of someone familiar with template work (instructions on that page)
 * 3) Anyone who wants to volunteer to begin writing course material, please do so, and be bold! Go ahead and design your own modules - even altering the curriculum - on areas you have experience in. Remember to make assignments/quizzes level appropriate in terms of difficulty.

Recommended preconditions

 * You should know how to edit wiki pages, and tested this in a Sandbox.

Qualifications

 * Main page: Levels

Upon completion of your course program, you will be able to display your qualification on your home wiki, in the form of either a banner or userbox. The WikiService Academy runs a simple level-based learning system. You can attain higher levels of qualification through further study and examinations. A full list of qualifications levels can be found here

Further study
The following service-learning courses are invaluable to compliment your studies here, and will lead to higher qualifications.


 * 500 Leadership: is an ability to organize groups of editors in such a way that they accomplish clearly defined goals and are happy, while upholding the open-source, sociocratic and newcomer-friendly spirit of every wikimedia project.
 * 501 Dispute resolution: is the ability to resolve disagreements, whether as one of the parties to the dispute or as a mediating third party, in a fair and diplomatic manner, and to the satisfaction of all parties if possible.
 * 511 Technical support: Is the ability to answer technical questions related to hardware or software, raised on Help desk, Village pump (technical), Reference desk/Computing, discussion pages, other wikis, and Wikimedia's IRC channels; and do so diplomatically, concisely, thoroughly and with as few rounds of discussion as possible.
 * 601 Web law in the United States: includes an understanding of copyright, trademark and fair use law, as well as various free use licenses and the differences and compatibility between them. Also covers privacy, defamation and libel laws as they apply to Wikipedia.