Hi all,
Wikimedia New York City will be hosting a Wikidata hackathon and beginners workshop this coming Sunday. This will be a good event to meet Wikimedians involved with cultural institutions, structure a bunch of data, and help new users.
If you're in the area, come!
When: Sunday, December 14,1:00 - 5:00 PM
Where: 55 Washington Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 Room 321 (BLIP Outpost)
Details and sign up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/December_Wikidata
Cheers, Eric https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Emw
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