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:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Visual_artists_of_the_African_diaspo…
- Wikimedia Commons category:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Visual_artists_of_the_African_d…
Wikidata item:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28654190
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
[1]
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData/Wikidata…
[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Black_Lunch_Table/Lists_of_A…
[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Black_Lunch_Table/Event_Arch…
*Erika Herzog*
Wikipedia *User:BrillLyle <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BrillLyle>*