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. 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@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