If anyone is looking for slide material for a broad introduction to Wikidata, the deck from yesterday's New York City Wikidata workshop is available at http://www.slideshare.net/_emw/up-and-running-with-wikidata. 

There were at least 15 participants (with only a week's notice beforehand), and lots of interest in Wikidata.  Wikimedia NYC is a great crowd!

Miscellaneous notes:

• Someone with a big collection of NYC civic / community / OSM data wanted to know how to get information into something like Wikidata.  I recommended a separate Wikibase deployment and loading it there, and searching for existing ontologies.
  
  
• Someone wanted a way to edit Wikidata using only keyboard shortcuts.  It looks like https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Tools#Keyboard_shortcuts is the best we've got in that regard.  A nice-to-have: keyboard shortcuts baked into the UI, noted via HTML title attributes that display on hover (like the search box at upper right).
  
  
• Wikidata Game: classifying humans in native language was easy, making claims about sex/gender was not
  
  
• "Why can't we just import all infobox data right now?"  A discussion about general vs. specific properties (e.g. "Products"), linguistics, etc. followed.  Somewhat of a microcosm of longer-running discussions on Wikidata.  Nevertheless, larger-scale creation of properties for infobox parameters would probably be worthwhile.
  

Eric