Martin, agreed. I am attending because while I evangelise about Wikidata,
fielding the questions about it is very theoretical for me and sometimes
lacks context.
The more experience I get, the better I can push this.
S
On 24 March 2014 15:51, Martin Poulter <infobomb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'd highly recommend other volunteers attend this.
Wikidata's a very
exciting project and it's evolving rapidly, but the interface is different
from other Wikimedia wikis. Not harder, just different. Even if you're
familiar with both wiki editing and databases, there are new skills to
learn. Then again, because it's a different interface, it puts newcomers
and experienced wiki contributors on a more equal footing.
Since attending last year's workshop I've made some, but not a lot of,
edits to Wikidata, but I am in a much better position to explain and
evangelise Wikidata to researchers, librarians and academics.
To those of us involved with it professionally, it's obvious that
machine-readable linked data is centrality to what the web is meant to be
(including in Sir Tim's design), and plays an central role in making
knowledge *freely* available, including freeing up knowledge in other
databases. This isn't at all clear, though, to the vast majority of the
population who don't have those nerdy jobs, and that includes the vast
majority of Wikipedians. So I think it's good for Wikipedians to
familiarise themselves with Wikidata (or DBPedia) as a concrete example of
what the semantic, machine-readable web can be: to think of the web as
interlinked data, not just interlinked documents.
Magnus' Reasonator is a thing of beauty and an educational joy - it's
definitely worth spend some time playing with it. Even better to speak to
the man himself!
On 24 March 2014 15:26, Katie Chan <katie.chan(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
Do you want to learn more about Wikidata
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/>?
On Saturday 26 April, Wikimedia UK is organising a one day workshop
focusing on Wikidata, its tools ecosystem, and what you can do with it.
More details and registration can be found at <
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wikidata_workshop_2014>gt;.
Regards,
Katie
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