I suggested something with, I think, similar functionality for the Community Wishlist Survey last time; got many supports but it didn’t make the top. Is this what you’d like to see as well, Erika?
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Categories/Programs_and_events#Article_tracking_tool_for_Wikiprojects.2C_edit-a-thons_and_other_campaigns.2C_based_on_Wikidata

In the Dutch gender gap project on nlwiki we have similarly daunting task lists. Our working group is pro-Wikidata, we use it to inspire our task lists, but I’m sure that appropriate tools would make our workload there much lighter.

Here’s an example of something that comes close - an auto-updating list of important female visual artists who don’t have articles on nlwiki yet, a list generated from Wikidata -  but it would be so great if we could add columns to suggest translations from other language Wikipedias, for instance, and if such lists would be easier to generate and create, also by non-Wikidata-or SPARQL-savvy people.
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiproject/Gendergap/Kunst/Vrouwelijke_moderne_en_hedendaagse_kunstenaars

Best, Sandra/Spinster



On 5 Feb 2017, at 09:51, Brill Lyle <wp.brilllyle@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Wikidatans,

Inspired by the Zika corpus project at WikiCite 2016,[1] I wanted to see if it was (a) possible and (b) practical to set up an automatically updating table (ideally for use in Wikipedia but pulling from Wikidata) that would allow the Black Lunch Table Project initiative on Wikipedia to automate and customize their Task List -- which is somewhat massive.[2]

Heather Hart from Black Lunch Table holds editathons all over North America,[3] and I think they will be intersectional with some of the other Wikipedia initiatives. So for events in places like North Carolina or New Orleans, it would be helpful for her to be able to pull artists from those communities. And for Art+Feminism in March, it would be helpful for her to be able to pull artists who are female-identifying.

We set up some categories as a way to granulate a possible SPARQL query:

- Wikipedia category:

- Wikimedia Commons category:

Wikidata item:

Right now the task list is approaching 1,000 entries, and I assume the task list will only grow as it is a crowdsourced list. It is understood that obviously not all entrants are notable, and many are at mid-career levels, so even a stub might be stretching it to be on Wikipedia. But a solid percentage are definitely notable and are deserving of pages. 

I was also thinking that this sort of functionality would be helpful for other initiatives -- maybe also Art+Feminism -- so this process might be transferrable for others too.

Goal: To automate the task list process somewhat.

And at minimum would be a good Wikidata project. 

I think that even exploring the possibilities here has been very fruitful and illustrative of Wikidata's functionality for both myself and Heather/Black Lunch Table Project. I think it might also provide very positive outreach for others as well.

Best,

- Erika







Erika Herzog
Wikipedia User:BrillLyle
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