[Wikidata] Instructions for how to create Wikidata Tours now available

Hi all For those of you who use and teach Wikidata you may know Wikidata Tours are a really great way to learn about aspects of Wikidata, however there are a small number of tours and until now no clear way to create them. Navino Evans and myself have created a comprehensive guide on how to

[Wikidata] Improving Wikidata documentation for different types of user

Dear all Over the past year or so I've been working quite a lot on Wikidata documentation and have been thinking more about how these individual documents link together to allow different kinds of people to understand and contribute to Wikidata. To help with the community's understanding and

Re: [Wikidata] Action plan for improving the data import process

Hi all We turned it into an RFC, please take a look https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/ Mapping_and_improving_the_data_import_process Thanks John On 13 December 2017 at 11:55, Navino Evans wrote: > Hi all, > > Following on from a session I

[Wikidata] Wikidata page for data publishers including overview of open data and publishing best practices

Hi all I'm putting together a page on Wikidata that provides an overview of open data, information on database rights and best practices for publishing open data. I often meet people from organisations who produce data and want it to be reused but have a lower level of data literacy and don't

Re: [Wikidata] Turning Lists to Wikidata

We have been doing this for the Wiki Loves Monuments Wikipedia list articles, here is some info https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_WLM https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_WLM/Mapping_tables

Re: [Wikidata] Deletion nomination of Template:Cite Q on English Wikipedia

tributors to Wikidata > about legitimate concerns from other projects that have arisen out of test > integrations, that there is a need to do more to address. > > -- James. > > > > On 23/09/2017 22:18, john cummings wrote: > >> Hi all >> >> I'm puttin

Re: [Wikidata] Deletion nomination of Template:Cite Q on English Wikipedia

Hi all I'm putting aside time next week to write up an information page on Wikidata for contributors to other Wikimedia projects who want to know more about/may have concerns about reusing Wikidata on other projects. I hope this will help people having the same discussions over and over and allay

Re: [Wikidata] Deletion nomination of Template:Cite Q on English Wikipedia

OK, I was unsure how much overlap in general information there would be between different implementations on different projects but I guess its quite a lot :) 2017-09-21 10:37 GMT+02:00 Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de>: > On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 10:31 AM, john

Re: [Wikidata] Deletion nomination of Template:Cite Q on English Wikipedia

of > Commons, but this new "Wikidata state of affairs conversation" (if you can > call it that) is pretty much the same problem. > > On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Lydia Pintscher < > lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 8:46

Re: [Wikidata] Deletion nomination of Template:Cite Q on English Wikipedia

Lydia, I would be happy to help work on your suggestion, which page do you think this info should be added to? Should it be a new page or info added to an existing one? Thanks On 21 September 2017 at 01:22, Dario Taraborelli wrote: > Jane – I think you hit it on

Re: [Wikidata] Which external identifiers are worth covering?

I guess this question for me is how do we do this in practice? How do we make sure Wikidata stays up to date/synced with external databases we think are important? On 7 September 2017 at 20:51, Marco Fossati wrote: > Hi everyone, > > As a data quality addict, I've been

Re: [Wikidata] Data import hub, data preperation instructions and import workflow for muggles

r options to consider: > * Curated import/sync via mix'n'match > * Batch-based import via QuickStatements (also see rewrite plans at > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/quick_statements2 ) > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 3:11 PM john cummings <mrjohncummi...@gmail.

[Wikidata] Data import hub, data preperation instructions and import workflow for muggles

Dear all Myself and Navino Evans have been working on a bare bone as possible workflow and instructions for making importing data into Wikidata available to muggles like me. We have written instructions up to the point where people would make a request on the 'bot requests' page to import the

Re: [Wikidata] Authority control help

Hey Erika One suggestion, add a step before creating a new item on Wikidata of searching for an existing item, it may be an item exists but isn't linked to Wikipedia. Thanks John On 5 August 2016 at 19:50, Brill Lyle wrote: > I created a pretty rough, but hopefully

Re: [Wikidata] Info box proposal

I think its important to make a distinction between what is easiest and what people are used to. Perhaps thinking about what new users would find easiest might be helpful. Here is an example of a well developed infobox on English Wikipedia, I think that the knowledge needed to edit this is an

Re: [Wikidata] Possibility of data lock

I guess the issue may be different for Wikipedia and Wikidata in that the size of the community to number of items/articles is very different. I don't know what the solution is but the current situation doesn't seem to work, I spent at least 40 hours (+ Nav's time) to import the 670 items and the

Re: [Wikidata] Possibility of data lock

I have been experiencing something similar although I would not call it vandalism, just changing things that are official statistics to something that is not and merging items that are not the same thing. I have recently been importing information on the UNESCO Biosphere Reserves to Wikidata with

Re: [Wikidata] Geospatial search for Wikidata Query Service is up

Wonderful, can you tell me if there are any plans to expand the functionality to include other shapes that don't correspond to a geographic border, central point or a box? E.g a user can draw a shape. Thanks John On 11 May 2016 at 11:08, Magnus Manske wrote: >

Re: [Wikidata] first media info entity \o/

 On 28 April 2016 at 12:20, Jane Darnell wrote: > What will this mean for Property P18 exactly? Will the object of that > property become a Mediainfo entity instead of a Commons file? > > On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Lydia Pintscher < > lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de>

Re: [Wikidata-l] [Multimedia] Inclusion criteria for Wikidata items for paintings, engravings, illustrations, manuscript folios, photographs, old postcards, etc ?

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