One place where Wikidata has been very good for task list automation has
been biographies. See for example this automated list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Technology/Tas…
Reports are these are made possible by the existence of these articles on
other language Wikipedias, as well as Wikidata entries that are created for
other reasons. To this end they’ve been very helpful in identifying gaps in
our knowledge of what’s out there to write about.
Right now if you want a list like that one, you can… wait for it… edit a
specific configuration page on Wikipedia and add the SPARQL query you want
to generate the report for. Not a very satisfying answer, is it. But is it
the kind of list you’re generally looking for? Or are you looking for
something else? In the long run, I plan on building reports such as these
into the CollaborationKit extension that Jan linked to earlier (demo at
https://wpx.wmflabs.org/w/index.php/Main_Page). If I know specifically what
is needed, that would be helpful.
(There’s also ListeriaBot, run by the world famous Magnus Manske, but I
don’t know how that works.)
On February 7, 2017 at 2:18:08 AM, Erika Herzog aka BrillLyle (
wp.brilllyle(a)gmail.com) wrote:
Hi Sandra/Spinster,
Yes! This is exactly what I was envisioning.
How does the query build this table -- and can it include stubs and other
blue linked articles that still need development? Both blue and red links?
I'm sorry I didn't take a more active part in the Community Wishlist
Survey. I would have strongly advocated for this. A need for task list
automation is something that I have been made aware of only recently via
the Black Lunch Table Project. It is a great opportunity to be pro-Wikidata
-- to get more people involved in Wikidata from the Wikipedia side, I
think.
Best,
- Erika
On Feb 6, 2017, at 3:46 PM, Sandra Fauconnier <sandra.fauconnier(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
I suggested something with, I think, similar functionality for the
Community Wishlist Survey last time; got many supports but it didn’t make
the top. Is this what you’d like to see as well, Erika?
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Categories/P…
In the Dutch gender gap project on nlwiki we have similarly daunting task
lists. Our working group is pro-Wikidata, we use it to inspire our task
lists, but I’m sure that appropriate tools would make our workload there
much lighter.
Here’s an example of something that comes close - an auto-updating list of
important female visual artists who don’t have articles on nlwiki yet, a
list generated from Wikidata - but it would be so great if we could add
columns to suggest translations from other language Wikipedias, for
instance, and if such lists would be easier to generate and create, also by
non-Wikidata-or SPARQL-savvy people.
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiproject/Gendergap/Kunst/Vrouwel…
Best, Sandra/Spinster
On 5 Feb 2017, at 09:51, Brill Lyle <wp.brilllyle(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Wikidatans,
Inspired by the Zika corpus project at WikiCite 2016,[1] I wanted to see if
it was (a) possible and (b) practical to set up an automatically updating
table (ideally for use in Wikipedia but pulling from Wikidata) that would
allow the Black Lunch Table Project initiative on Wikipedia to automate and
customize their Task List -- which is somewhat massive.[2]
Heather Hart from Black Lunch Table holds editathons all over North
America,[3] and I think they will be intersectional with some of the other
Wikipedia initiatives. So for events in places like North Carolina or New
Orleans, it would be helpful for her to be able to pull artists from those
communities. And for Art+Feminism in March, it would be helpful for her to
be able to pull artists who are female-identifying.
We set up some categories as a way to granulate a possible SPARQL query:
- Wikipedia category:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Visual_artists_of_the_African_diaspo…
- Wikimedia Commons category:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Visual_artists_of_the_African_d…
Wikidata item:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28654190
Right now the task list is approaching 1,000 entries, and I assume the task
list will only grow as it is a crowdsourced list. It is understood that
obviously not all entrants are notable, and many are at mid-career levels,
so even a stub might be stretching it to be on Wikipedia. But a solid
percentage are definitely notable and are deserving of pages.
I was also thinking that this sort of functionality would be helpful for
other initiatives -- maybe also Art+Feminism -- so this process might be
transferrable for others too.
Goal: To automate the task list process somewhat.
And at minimum would be a good Wikidata project.
I think that even exploring the possibilities here has been very fruitful
and illustrative of Wikidata's functionality for both myself and
Heather/Black Lunch Table Project. I think it might also provide very
positive outreach for others as well.
Best,
- Erika
[1]
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData/Wikidata…
[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Black_Lunch_Table/Lists_of_A…
[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Black_Lunch_Table/Event_Arch…
*Erika Herzog*
Wikipedia *User:BrillLyle <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BrillLyle>*
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