Hi,
A couple of days ago, Wikimedia CH ran a campaign for the International Museums day which
was based on data that had been ingested into Wikidata a couple of years ago from the
museums database maintained by the Swiss Museums Association:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CH/Museum_Day_2018
And as a «would be» example, of course Wiki Loves
Monuments<https://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/>g/>. I’m writing “would be”, because
Wikidata wasn’t there yet when the contest was run for the first time in most countries.
Had it been there, we would have ingested the data into Wikidata and run the contest based
on this data instead of ingesting the data first into Wikipedia before harvesting it into
an external monuments database. I believe that in the meanwhile, parts of the contest are
run directly on the basis of Wikidata.
Cheers,
Beat
From: GLAM [mailto:glam-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jean-Philippe Béland
Sent: Dienstag, 15. Mai 2018 17:23
To: Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public] <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [GLAM] Success stories of data dumps into Wikidata
Good day,
Do any of you have success stories of data dumps, especially from governmental sources,
into Wikidata that have been used to create something useful after that, especially on
Wikipedia?
Thank you,
Jean-Philippe Béland
Vice President, Wikimedia Canada