User:Juandev/LDW24/Wikidata for Beginners

= Wikidata for Beginners =


 * Author: Ing. Jan Lochman
 * Project: Wikiversity
 * Event: Love Data Week 2024

What is Wikidata?

 * Secondary cited database from Wikipedia family

More reading: d:Wikidata:Notability.
 * 1) Data from Wikipedia
 * 2) Data from another notable free databases --> Creative Commons 0 1.0
 * 3) Data linked from existing items

Ways to contribute data

 * manual item by item
 * (semi)programmatically from the user – (harvest template.py, openRefine)
 * programatically from the institution – donations and sharing data
 * shared via Wikibase, Wikibase cloud

Item creation showcase

 * --> 2 examples
 * system will guide you

Register/login and start contributing

 * Register/Login
 * List of scientific articles to contribute to Wikidata
 * Google Scholar

Way data are stored

 * RDF model

See this example online.

Ways to get data

 * one by one from the site
 * SPARQL via Query tool
 * Query Helper, Query Builder

And getting data

 * Query service
 * Cities around the world
 * English-written scientific papers by Albert Einstein

About me

 * long time wiki contributor
 * background in live sciences and information science
 * Wikidata should have every book and every scientific article
 * Zotero plugin to load citations from Wikidata

Practice

 * Come back later, pick some articles from the list, and contribute them to Wikidata (this link will be active for about 55 days)
 * if you have questions, ask at Wikidata:Project chat, or send me an email at janlochman in gmail.com