Wow, impressive. Thank you for sharing this.
Additionally, I'm very interested to translate this into Macedonian. Please
share details about translation.
This will be very helpful and useful for smaller wikis as we have many
members with little knowledge into Wikidata.
Best,
Toni
Shared Knowledge
On Wed, 21 Oct 2020, 21:59 Asaf Bartov, <abartov(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Wow, what an excellent tutorial! The detailed outline
is really helpful
for people who just want a reminder of syntax, and the embedded queries are
great for trial and error.
I encourage everyone who hasn't yet learned how to query Wikidata to give
this tool a try, and if you speak a language other than English or Hebrew,
to contribute to translating this excellent resource!
Kudos to Wikimedia Israel for the initiative and execution!
A.
Asaf Bartov (he/him/his)
Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 10:44 PM Revital Poleg <revital(a)wikimedia.org.il>
wrote:
In 2019 Wikimedia Israel (WMIL) decided to
develop instructional material
for the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS). The background for this decision was
that we see audiences to whom we introduce Wikidata become especially
enthusiastic when we present the *Wikidata query service tutorial
<https://wdqs-tutorial.toolforge.org/> *, which offers quite a
unique feature within the landscape of information services available
today. This enthusiasm often dampens when audiences discover that querying
is not done using natural language but rather requires learning SPARQL.
We believe learning SPARQL is not rocket science, even for audiences with
no programming background. We created a step-by-step tutorial website to
give users an introduction and some basic lessons on how to use the query
service. While WDQS has a great Help section, this section might not be so
helpful to users who are new to Wikimedia platforms. We therefore built the
tutorial website on the WordPress platform which has a more familiar design
to most users. We believe this website will make the WDQS more accessible,
and hope this will be a way to expand Wikidata to new audiences.
Currently the site is in English but we are open for collaborations to
add the tutorial in other languages.
We are also keen to hear feedback from those involved in Wikidata
Outreach.
We hope you'll find it useful.
All the Best
Revital Poleg
Executive Director, WMIL
Revital Poleg
Executive Director, WMIL
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