Erika,
Well, any authority record for each event could capture location, date, and links to the
invitation and any generated products externally to wiki worlds. Would that not be
constructive in the context of establishing wikidatan notability?
On Jan 6, 2018, at 10:42 AM, Brill Lyle
<wp.brilllyle(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi LeadSongDog,
Yes that is an article that is part of the press list that the Black Lunch Table has
generated
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Black_Lunch_Table/Press
Again, not a huge fan of using refs to justify an outreach initiative. Plus would it be
necessary to use this ref to justify including Wikidata entries as BLT? I guess I am
confused as to the need to reference things, where to reference things, and how that would
work exactly. References to establish notability on Wikidata seems like a nightmarish
requirement with the current interface. I would much prefer to use established identifiers
via VIAF and other sources to establish notability.... It builds notability on top of
established library science canons, and provides disambiguation, etc. Sorry I'm
obsessed with this stuff, so I digress....
I am not sure an authority control item -- I understand this conceptually but what form
does it take in practical terms? -- will provide a solution to the problem these various
outreach efforts are requiring.
An authority control item for each editathon might be a large set of "dirty
data" on Wikidata, wouldn't it? I think the idea was to use something
lightweight, already existing, and efficient to provide a SPARQL query/Listeria task list
-- and not impinge on existing metadata significantly.
Having a Wikimedia project-centered maintenance (for lack of a better word) property
might be a solution, too. But I think this is the issue that came up in the main
discussion and why catalog was suggested by consensus, because a maintenance project for
the WikiWorld would be a somewhat big step organizationally to implement, I think?
Apologies, I defer to Gerard's expertise and knowledge-base on this.
Best,
- Erika
Erika Herzog
Wikipedia User:BrillLyle
On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 4:45 AM, LeadSongDog
<leadsong(a)webname.com> wrote:
Erika,
You might consider using
https://www.artsy.net/article/the-art-genome-project-why-are-all-the-black-…
as a ref. There must be something usable there.
From what I've seen it seems that BLT is principally a series of informal meetings,
only some of which pertain to the editathons. Each meeting has distinct constituency and
subject. As such, each could in principle get its own authority control, as for a
convention. The individual artists attending may often already be so described, but as
they may edit pseudonymously one must be careful to avoid outing.
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