Webinars | Panhellenic Student Competition “Wikipedia Challenge: Become A Contemporary Encyclopedist” | 8 Webinars that will write history...

In the context of the Panhellenic Student Competition “Wikipedia Challenge: Become a Contemporary Encyclopedist” which focuses on the events and people of the 1821 Revolution, we offer interactive online webinars for the preparation of school teams – an induction to the world of the largest digital encyclopedia for secondary-education students and teachers from Greece and abroad.

The webinars aim at familiarizing participants with Wikipedia, its culture and principles, but also with practical issues that a Wikipedia user in the making will encounter entering this digital environment: choice of sources, copyright issues, and appropriate wording, among others. They also offer the opportunity to develop digital and research skills, enriching their knowledge in the subjects of history, language, and literature.

Wikipedia is a unique ecosystem with active players. Surviving in such an environment presupposes collaboration, critical thinking, emotion control, and a good knowledge of its tools.

The Wikipedia Webinar Series will offer students-participants important tools needed for the new world they are about to enter. They will introduce them to the art of collaborative writing, enabling them to write entries that will make history.

Webinar Program

Thursday 18 November | 18:30-20:00

Introduction to Wikipedia: participatory culture, main principles, exploring the website, creating an account, personal work space

Thursday 25 November | 18:30-20:00

Main pillars of writing, creating a new page, Visual Editor

Thursday 2 December | 18:30-20:00

Free content and rights, Visual Editor (part 2), writing styles, online speech etiquette

Thursday 9 December | 18:30-20:00

Uploading multimedia, discussion pages, history, recent changes, interaction rules, polite disagreement

Thursday 13 January | 18:30-20:00

Clarification pages, labels, moving and merging an entry, categories, information box, amygdala hijack

Thursday 20 January | 18:30-20:00

Reasonable use permit, Wikidata, control of emotions

Thursday 27 January | 18:30-20:00

Blocking, diffs, multiple accounts, trolling, critique

Thursday 03 February | 18:30-20:00

Completing the skills needed for participation, bullying, emotion, clarity of thinking

To find out more about the Panhellenic Competition, register for the encyclopedia entry-writing marathon and prepare along with your team for success. You can register your participation at the educational platform Classroom of Onassis Foundation.

Information

Τ. 210 3713000

E-mail: education@onassis.org

Credits

President and Founder of the Wikipedia Society Schools Association in Greece
Manos Kefalas

The competition is realized by Onassis Foundation and Onassis Library in the context of the Protovoulia 1821–2021, in collaboration with the General State Archives, Open Technologies Alliance, PostScriptum and Wikipedia Community Schools Association, Greece, with the support of National Documentation Centre (EKT), with the approval of Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs and under the auspices of General Secretariat for Greeks Abroad and Public Diplomacy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Collaboration Partners

National Historical Museum, Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, Gennadius Library, The Library of the Hellenic Parliament, National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation, National Bank of Greece Historical Archive, Benaki Museum, V & M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music, Faltaits Museum