Wow, what an excellent tutorial! The detailed outline is really helpful for people who just want a reminder of syntax, and the embedded queries are great for trial and error.
I encourage everyone who hasn't yet learned how to query Wikidata to give this tool a try, and if you speak a language other than English or Hebrew, to contribute to translating this excellent resource! Kudos to Wikimedia Israel for the initiative and execution! A. Asaf Bartov (he/him/his) Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 10:44 PM 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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