I have been hoping to do more events that are focused on creating, editing
and using Wikidata queries SPARQL (
https://query.wikidata.org/). Slowly but
surely we are seeing edits to Wikidata at editathons here in New York City,
where we do a lot of editathons, but it's really not happening on a
consistent level of engagement.
I think to have a good Wikidata editathon, it would be necessary to make
sure there were multiple training sessions and a very specific task list /
scope of event. Probably the editathon -- and specifically conference
settings -- are somewhat non-ideal to what needs to be more of a focused
hackathon. At least this is my impression.
I would love to do an editathon with librarians to add and/or update
Authority control elements to Wikipedia / Wikidata. That would be very
rewarding, I think.
If there are suggestions to support and encourage events focused on
Wikidata, I am very interested to hear ideas.
- Erika
*Erika Herzog*
Wikipedia *User:BrillLyle <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BrillLyle>*
On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 1:58 AM, Tobias Schönberg <tobias47n9e(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi Loic!
That is of course unfortunate that it didn't work as planned. Maybe if we
can get more people signed up for Wikiprojects it would make it easier to
get more specialised sessions organised. Or even plan separate events.
Especially for free software it might also make sense to have a workshop
and booth at open source conferences. The data from Wikidata could be very
useful for example to the freedesktop initiative, so there would be a lot
of synergies.
-tobias
Am 21.08.2016 7:07 nachm. schrieb "Loic Dachary" <loic(a)dachary.org>
When the audience was asked for their preferences, I raised my hand and
happily declared "Contributing to the Software and FLOSS projects !". Much
to my surprise this was quickly dismissed: "we're only going to learn about
tools, we create groups to use and learn about tools, not to work on a
specific project". My interest for the Software project is known to both
Harmonia Amanda and Ash_Crow, to the extent that I discussed with them my
intent to recruit people to participate in the workshop for that particular
topic[3], well in advance. The focus of our interest was also made clear in
the participant list[4].
[3] 15 july 2016 <dachary> Ash_Crow: pour
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik
i/WikiConvention_francophone/2016/Programme/Atelier_de_
formation_%C3%A0_Wikidata nous serons au moins trois avec pour centre
d'intérêt
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Informati
cs/FLOSS et
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Informati
cs/Software . J'espère convaincre deux autres personnes mais c'est pas
gagné ... l'attrait des vacances...
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConvention_francophone/
2016/Programme/Atelier_de_formation_%C3%A0_Wikidata#
Participants_int.C3.A9ress.C3.A9s_.28inscrivez-vous_ci-
dessous_et_posez_d.C3.A8s_.C3.A0_pr.C3.A9sent_vos_questions_
.C3.A0_l.27organisateur_de_la_session.29