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

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 1:58 AM, Tobias Schönberg <tobias47n9e@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@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/wiki/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_Informatics/FLOSS et https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Informatics/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