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(a)wikimedia.org.il>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:
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(a)gmail.com>
To: wikimedia-l(a)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(a)wikimedia.org.il>
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
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