Some country-specific things to do on Wikidata: https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/?country=96
Wikidata by country stats: http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=290 On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:11 PM James Heald <j.he...@ucl.ac.uk> wrote: > Further to what Lydia has written, I have also had a session proposal > accepted for Wikimania: > > > https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Building_up_Wikidata,_country_by_country > > > Per the current schedule, it looks as if there is going to be a > "Wikidata morning" on Saturday in Room D: > > > 10 am -- Lydia > "State of Wikidata - giving more people more access to more > knowledge one edit at a time" > > (10:30 coffee break) > > 11:00 am -- panel, led by Lydia > "Ask Us Anything About Wikidata" > > All your questions about Wikidata will be answered. Editors and > the development team will be around to answer your most pressing > questions about Wikidata. > > > 11:30 am -- panel > "Building up Wikidata, country by country" > > What can national chapters and local Wiki-projects do to build up > Wikidata? > > This session will ask a panel from different countries what works > to build up awareness and skills, and how to deepen the quality of > Wikidata's coverage of a particular part of the world -- its people, > places, history, events, organisations, culture, and every other related > thing that ought to have a detailed comprehensive Wikidata item. > > * What face-to-face events work, to build up knowledge and an > active community? > * How to assess current coverage, identify priority areas, and > help groups to self-organise to improve them? > * Are there special 'tentpole' projects the country has > identified -- eg highlight focus areas, or particularly good data > sources to align or assimilate? > * What are the best tools and workflows to get things done? > > > (12:30 lunch) > > > I should stress that I proposed this session because these are questions > that I would really like to hear some thought about -- not because > they're questions I think I have any answers to! > > I had hoped we might have been able to build up some experience in the > UK, as to how to build up community structures to help editors to work > on things -- but it hasn't really gone forward here. > > On the other hand, I have been hugely impressed by some of the > initiatives that Dutch-language Wikipedia seems to have taken, that > people have mentioned in the last few weeks, to get people to make sure > articles they have worked on on nl-wiki are properly described on > Wikidata; and also what seems to have been quite an active and > successful community engagement programme by Wikimedia France. > > I'm sure there are a lot of other good tales to tell from other > countries/languages as well. > > So it would be great to have an idea of who might be likely to be going > to be at Wikimania in Mexico who could take part in this workshop/panel, > and present some of the things that have been going on -- and also > (whether you're going to be in Mexico or not), what other tales are > there, from different countries, that people should hear about ? > > > (for one thing, something I don't know, do we even know what information > has been harvested from Wikipedia categories for > people/places/things/events related to a particular country? And how > comprehensive that harvesting has been?) > > This session will only be as good as the community can make it, so it > would be really good to know what ought to be in it. > > > All best, > > James. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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