Commons:Wikimedia Commons Academy

Wikimedia Commons Academy is a training program designed to help editors to improve their skill and learning related to Wikimedia Commons, so that they can contribute to Wikimedia Commons in a better way.

User:Yann is the founder and one of the trainers of the program. In the first stage, we'll enrol a limited number of Wikimedians from India in this program (as it is in pilot stage). Most of the training//discussion will take place on Wikimedia Commons (each participant will have a dedicated training subpage such as Commons:Wikimedia Commons Academy/Example (where "Example" is a username)

Who should join

• Editors who have at least some experience to work on Wikimedian Commons (at least 500 edits on Wikimedia Commons and 50 uploads)
• Editors who want to learn more about Wikimedia Commons
• In an attempt to bridge the gender gap, we'd like to ensure at least 40% female participation

Topics covered

Each training can be customized according to the participants' need, however, these are some of the topics to be covered in general

• Copyright
• Free licenses and Creative Commons licences
• Policies and guidelines of Wikimedia Commons