Congrats, WM-IL! And right on time for Wikidata's 8th Birthday celebrarions! Looking forward to integrating this tool in my academic courses this year.
Shani On Wed, 21 Oct 2020, 22:44 Revital Poleg, <revi...@wikimedia.org.il> wrote: > In 2019 Wikimedia Israel (WMIL) decided to develop instructional material > for the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS). The background for this decision was > that we see audiences to whom we introduce Wikidata become especially > enthusiastic when we present the *Wikidata query service tutorial > <https://wdqs-tutorial.toolforge.org/> *, which offers quite a > unique feature within the landscape of information services available > today. This enthusiasm often dampens when audiences discover that querying > is not done using natural language but rather requires learning SPARQL. > > We believe learning SPARQL is not rocket science, even for audiences with > no programming background. We created a step-by-step tutorial website to > give users an introduction and some basic lessons on how to use the query > service. While WDQS has a great Help section, this section might not be so > helpful to users who are new to Wikimedia platforms. We therefore built the > tutorial website on the WordPress platform which has a more familiar design > to most users. We believe this website will make the WDQS more accessible, > and hope this will be a way to expand Wikidata to new audiences. > Currently the site is in English but we are open for collaborations to add > the tutorial in other languages. > We are also keen to hear feedback from those involved in Wikidata > Outreach. > > We hope you'll find it useful. > All the Best > Revital Poleg > Executive Director, WMIL > > Revital Poleg > > Executive Director, WMIL > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >
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