Here's the (3-hour) footage of the detailed Wikidata tutorial delivered today:

on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Gentle_Introduction_to_Wikidata_for_Absolute_Beginners_(including_non-techies!).webm

on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVrAx3AmUvA

the slides: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_-_A_Gentle_Introduction_for_Complete_Beginners_(WMF_February_2017).pdf

It covers what Wikidata is (00:00), how to contribute new data to Wikidata (1:09:34), how to create an entirely new item on Wikidata (1:27:07), how to embed data from Wikidata into pages on other wikis (1:52:54), tools like the Wikidata Game (1:39:20), Article Placeholder (2:01:01), Reasonator (2:54:15) and Mix-and-match (2:57:05), and how to query Wikidata (including SPARQL examples) (starting 2:05:05). 

Share and enjoy. :)

   A.

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 6:44 PM Asaf Bartov <abartov@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Some of you may have not yet embraced Wikidata.  *All* of you know others who haven't. :)

This is another opportunity to hear my "Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners" talk (a version of which I gave at the Wiki Indaba in Accra last month).  It will also be recorded and available on YouTube and Commons afterwards.

This will take place tomorrow, in about 16 hours.  Details below.

Cheers,

   A.

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Rachel Farrand <rfarrand@wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 4:35 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners [including non-techies!]
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>

Please join for the following talk:

*Tech Talk**:* A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners
[including non-techies!]
*Presenter:* Asaf Bartov
*Date:* February 09, 2017
*Time: *19:00 UTC
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Tech+Talk%3A+A+Gentle+Introduction+to+Wikidata+for+Absolute+Beginners+%5Bincluding+non-techies%21%5D+&iso=20170209T19&p1=1440&ah=3>
Link to live YouTube stream <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVrAx3AmUvA>
*IRC channel for questions/discussion:* #wikimedia-office

*Summary: *This talk will introduce you to the Wikimedia Movement's latest
major wiki project: Wikidata. We will cover what Wikidata is, how to
contribute, how to embed Wikidata into articles on other wikis, tools like
the Wikidata Game, and how to query Wikidata (including SPARQL examples).
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