Hi Charles,Thanks for taking the time to try to understand the issues that are being raised here.- Wikipedia initiatives need a unique identifier in Wikidata they can use on Wikidata to tag items to their initiative -- and most importantly run SPARQL queries on-- I don't think a Q number will work for this purpose, though I'm not sure-- Whatever solution will allow for this functionality that the community can come to consensus on would be used--- We are not tied to catalog in any way except it has worked as a solution for our scenario--- Catalog was suggested to us with consensus. But if there's a better option that meets this need, we will use that one- Wikipedia initiatives can then add location and date to the SPARQL query for specific events that can generate an event-based task list Listeria table- Wikipedia can also run SPARQL queries by geographic data (place of birth, residence, place of death, etc.) to find, within its tagged items, a suggested list of pages to work on for that geographic location- Wikidata is key because it is possible to create Wikidata items that don't yet exist on the various language Wikipedia. Wikidata allows organizers to create a scaffolding where notability is the ongoing, over-arching goal, so that new Wikipedia pages in various languages based on this Wikidata scaffolding can be easily created. This also makes Wikidata part of every single outreach event, which to me seems a logical, forward-moving, innovative thing, as this does not typically happen at most editathons. If I see librarians at editathons I "target" them specifically because they typically understand identifiers, Authority control, and the value of VIAF. This again is done to establish and improve notability. I would assume that a significant portion of my 10,000 manual edits on Wikidata are identifiers that I pull from VIAF.
Here's an example entry, for the children's book illustrator Carole ByardThe Wikipedia editathon was held at the Brooklyn Museum last summer and was connected to a museum exhibit there.- BLT-tagged items might logically include attendees of events but typically that is not the case
- BLT-tagged items are typically curated with the assistance of the institution hosting the event, who have expertise in the local and regional artist community, and can provide BLT with a list of underrepresented visual artists from the African diaspora. It is often difficult for this population to have even local or regional coverage in press and scholarly works, so this curation is even more important. Heather and Jina (who founded BLT) will then vet this list and create Wikidata items, tagging them as BLT, location, date (to add to a Listeria task list) and begin the process of establishing notability on Wikidata in preparation for Wikipedia articles- BLT is a two person outreach initiative made up of Heather (a visual artist) and Jina (an artist and professor). They have minimal grant funding for the Black Lunch Table project from outside sources that they list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/ There is a studio assistant who is updating Wikidata items. Gerard did the first heavy lifting pass, and I have assisted with the editathon task lists. But that's it.Black_Lunch_Table/About - Wikipedia is just one part of the BLT project
- This Listeria task list model is being used in various projects-- Plants And People (New York Botanical Garden and various Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries participate in this initiative): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: Meetup/PlantsAndPeople/Lists_ of_Articles -- Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Colección_ Patricia_Phelps_de_Cisneros/ Tasks -- Women of Rock Oral History Project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Women_ of_Rock_Oral_History_Project/ Tasks Also using this idea:-- Women in Red-- 100 Women BBC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GerardM/100_Women_-_BBC -- quite a few by Jane023 :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category: Lists_based_on_Wikidata& pagefrom=Jane023%2FBiosphere+ reserves#mw-pages All of this information is helpful in providing context. But really, the question is whether or not Wikidata is okay with integration into Wikipedia outreach. Is Wikidata a sacrosanct island of pristine metadata that is intended only for scientific scholarly research queries, trivia, etc. Or is Wikidata flexible and willing to engage with the various projects in new and exciting ways?- Erika