Just a quick update to last week's message: We are delighted by the response to our announcement about the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) tutorial. We already received requests for collaboration to translate the tutorial into Italian, Macedonian and Indonesian!
If you want to know what is required to create the tutorial website in your language please contact Dr. Keren Shatzman, WMIL's project coordinator, who leads this project.
You can also read about the background and context in which the tutorial was developed in an interview with Dr. Shatzman, featured on the Wikimedia Foundation blog.
Happy Wikidata Birthday 🎆
Revital Poleg
Executive Director, WMIL
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Today's Topics:
1. TOR- vs. ?ukaszGarczewski (WMPL) (masti)
2. Announcing the Wikidata Query Service Tutorial (Revital Poleg)
3. Re: Announcing the Wikidata Query Service Tutorial
(Shani Evenstein)
4. Re: Announcing the Wikidata Query Service Tutorial (Asaf Bartov)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 19:02:23 +0200
From: masti <mastigm@gmail.com>
To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] TOR- vs. ?ukaszGarczewski (WMPL)
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?ukasz,
my?l?, ze warto by by?o, ?eby? edytowa?, w zakresie dyrektorskim, z
konta s?u?bowego, tak jak pracownicy czyli jednak ?ukasz Garczewski
(WMPL) a nie TOR.
Starzy wikipedysci wiedz?, ale dla czysto?ci edycji my?l?, ?e warto zmieni?.
masti
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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 22:43:35 +0300
From: Revital Poleg <revital@wikimedia.org.il>
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Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the Wikidata Query Service Tutorial
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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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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 22:52:50 +0300
From: Shani Evenstein <shani.even@gmail.com>
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Congrats, WM-IL! And right on time for Wikidata's 8th Birthday celebrarions!
Looking forward to integrating this tool in my academic courses this year.
Shani
On Wed, 21 Oct 2020, 22:44 Revital Poleg, <revital@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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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@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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