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 6:43 PM Asaf Bartov <abartov@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hola!

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 Wikimania 2016).  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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