This might be of interest to Wikisourcerors. (Apologies for cross-posting.)

----- Original message ----- From: Rachel Farrand rfarrand@wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners [including non-techies!] Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 16:35:27 -0800

Please join for the following talk:

*Tech Talk**:* A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners [including non-techies!] *Presenter:* Asaf Bartov *Date:* February 09, 2017 *Time: *19:00 UTC https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Tech+Talk%3A+A+Gentle+Introduction+to+Wikidata+for+Absolute+Beginners+%5Bincluding+non-techies%21%5D+&iso=20170209T19&p1=1440&ah=3 Link to live YouTube stream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVrAx3AmUvA *IRC channel for questions/discussion:* #wikimedia-office

*Summary: *This talk will introduce you to the Wikimedia Movement's latest major wiki project: Wikidata. We will cover what Wikidata is, how to contribute, how to embed Wikidata into articles on other wikis, tools like the Wikidata Game, and how to query Wikidata (including SPARQL examples).