Hi Richard, I haven’t done this before but would love to shadow anyone doing so if there’s an opportunity.
Best wishes, Colette From: Mayokun Akinyemi via Wikimediauk-l <[email protected]> Sent: 01 May 2026 12:23 To: UK Wikimedia mailing list <[email protected]> Cc: Mayokun Akinyemi <[email protected]> Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Re: Looking for a Wikidata volunteer CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Hi Richard, I would be happy to help. Regards, Major Lyte On Fri, 1 May 2026 at 11:44 AM, Richard Nevell via Wikimediauk-l <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hello everyone, Recently I’ve been talking to Dr Kate Dorney of the University of Manchester. As part of her ongoing research, Dr Dorney has compiled a dataset of Black theatre performances in Manchester. Are there any volunteers who would be interested in importing the data to Wikidata? The data is currently in an Excel spreadsheet and is well structured. It will likely involve creating some Wikidata items as well as updating some which already exist. In a preliminary stage I mapped the fields to Wikidata and didn’t spot obvious gaps. I think that OpenRefine<https://learn.wiki/courses/course-v1:WikimediaFoundation+WMF_GLAM001+2024/about> would be a good tool to use for this work. If you would like to be involved with this project, please let me know and I can share the data I have and the field mapping, and I’ll put you in touch with Dr Dorney. Kind regards, Richard -- Dr Richard Nevell (he/him) Programme Manager My name is pronounced like this<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_Nevell_-_pronunciation_-_2025-04-02.wav> [https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4yYAovNdhZtZoB5bGiRYLeEJ6G-Uk-B6t06NdL64vRtd1C9jJ8QZjzXK8i0D-MiWJ_XazEloq197wkd]<https://eu-west-1.protection.sophos.com/?d=wikimedia.org.uk&u=aHR0cHM6Ly93aWtpbWVkaWEub3JnLnVrL2RvbmF0ZS8=&i=NjVhZmE0ZjY3MDExZmY1Y2Q3NDE3YmE2&t=SnBrSTNoaDFMclhMYlMwM3lSVUdjZnpCcGdaOHd6czdWZXgyYkZqdkNpVT0=&h=8fccd8223f5d4243bcfbba7149ef4c47&s=AVNPUEhUT0NFTkNSWVBUSVbRkzX60XhdflFMY3yVTMkg2fen9gf5_3BooWWD8VWz7w> Wikimedia UK is the national chapter for the global Wikimedia open knowledge movement. Wikimedia UK is a Registered Charity No.1144513.Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Office: Wikimedia UK, ℅The British Library, Level 4, Room 46018, 96 Euston Road, <https://www.google.com/maps/search/96+Euston+Road,%C2%A0+London,%C2%A0+NW1+2DB?entry=gmail&source=g> London, <https://www.google.com/maps/search/96+Euston+Road,%C2%A0+London,%C2%A0+NW1+2DB?entry=gmail&source=g> NW1 2DB<https://www.google.com/maps/search/96+Euston+Road,%C2%A0+London,%C2%A0+NW1+2DB?entry=gmail&source=g> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk<https://wikimedia.org.uk/> Disclaimers apply - full details at www.lambeth.gov.uk/email-disclaimer<https://www.lambeth.gov.uk/email-disclaimer>
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