Dear all,
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 https://wdqs-tutorial.toolforge.org/. 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 keren@wikimedia.org.il, 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 https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/10/21/the-query-service-tutorial-for-wikidata-an-interview-with-dr-keren-shatzman-from-wikimedia-israel/ .
Happy Wikidata Birthday ๐
Revital Poleg
Executive Director, WMIL
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- TOR- vs. ?ukaszGarczewski (WMPL) (masti)
- Announcing the Wikidata Query Service Tutorial (Revital Poleg)
- Re: Announcing the Wikidata Query Service Tutorial (Shani Evenstein)
- Re: Announcing the Wikidata Query Service Tutorial (Asaf Bartov)
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) Message-ID: e33d2f4e-788e-50db-2a7e-5b0d92a28fb7@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
?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
Message: 2 Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 22:43:35 +0300 From: Revital Poleg revital@wikimedia.org.il To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the Wikidata Query Service Tutorial Message-ID: <CA+8pE=GH8KBcC9iaht= XYSM4iuENgV_VVhGb_KN+q7U+u8OnDg@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
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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On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 1:33 PM Revital Poleg revital@wikimedia.org.il wrote:
Dear all,
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 https://wdqs-tutorial.toolforge.org/. 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 keren@wikimedia.org.il, 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 https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/10/21/the-query-service-tutorial-for-wikidata-an-interview-with-dr-keren-shatzman-from-wikimedia-israel/ .
Happy Wikidata Birthday ๐
Revital Poleg
Executive Director, WMIL
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Today's Topics:
- TOR- vs. ?ukaszGarczewski (WMPL) (masti)
- Announcing the Wikidata Query Service Tutorial (Revital Poleg)
- Re: Announcing the Wikidata Query Service Tutorial (Shani Evenstein)
- Re: Announcing the Wikidata Query Service Tutorial (Asaf Bartov)
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) Message-ID: e33d2f4e-788e-50db-2a7e-5b0d92a28fb7@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
?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
Message: 2 Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 22:43:35 +0300 From: Revital Poleg revital@wikimedia.org.il To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the Wikidata Query Service Tutorial Message-ID: <CA+8pE=GH8KBcC9iaht= XYSM4iuENgV_VVhGb_KN+q7U+u8OnDg@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
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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