CIS-A2K/Events/Advanced Wikidata Training 2018

Advanced Wikidata Training 2018 or AWT2018 is a residential training workshop for experienced Wikidata editors in India to be conducted on 15-16 December 2018.

Advanced Wikidata Training 2018 (Q59699947)

Background and objectives

In India a few Wikidata trainings took place, notably User:Asaf (WMF)/2017 Technical trainings in India. After this training of Asaf, we saw several developments in India including formation of WikiProject India, a few label-a-thons, and Indian Independence label-a-thon. Now, we are trying to take the Wikidata experience in India to the next level.

The plan is like this:

actively working on Wikidata and
aware of basic Wikidata editing

will attend the training to

learn more about advanced Wikidata editing
plan future Wikidata activities in India

Trainer

Ijon (Asaf Bartov)

Who should join

Wikimedians in India who are—

very much active on Wikidata and contributing to Wikidata on a regular basis for months
aware about Wikidata structure, basic query and tools like reasonator, quickstatements etc (preferably actively using it)

Pluses

At least 10,000 edits on Wikidata till 1 November 2018 (we know that edits on Wikidata does not prove a lot of things, however this is the best criteria we have, as of now)

Details

Dates: 15 and 16 December 2018 (you must reach the venue by 14 December 6 pm for pre-event)
City: Mumbai
Venue: Grand Hometel Mallad, Mumbai

Registration

If you are an active Wikidata editor and eligible to participate in this workshop, please fill this form. The last date of showing interest is 4 December 2018.

Participants

Participants of the training

Pre-work

Querying Wikidata with SPARQL for Absolute Beginners

... more at c:User:Ijon/Talks

Download OpenRefine

Partcipants' feedback

If you are a participant during the event, please share your feedback. Write YOURUSERNAME below and start

Pages with the prefix 'CIS-A2K/Events/Advanced Wikidata Training 2018/Feedback' in the 'default' and 'Talk' namespaces:

Talk:

Etherpad

The Etherpad can be found here

Schedule

The following topics may be included. Final schedule will be prepared by 10 December after the detailed needs-assesment

Advanced Query
Advanced Wikidata tools
Lexeme
Content (database) donation for Wikidata
- Data massaging
- Tools for Sheets
- OpenRefine
Future Wikidata India plans (roadmap)

14 December: Day 0:

7 pm to 9:00 pm: Introduction, meet and greet, recheck the environment is set (such as downloading OpenRefine or required tools/softwares), general conversation on Wikidata such as recent global developement in Wikidata
9:00 pm: Dinner

15 December

9:00 am to 11:15 am: Lexeme: Introduction, contributing to Lexeme, and future prospects of Lexeme
11:15 am to 11:45 am: Tea
11:45 am to 1:30 pm: Intermediate SPARQL part 1
1:30 pm to 2:30 pm: Lunch
2:30 pm to 3:30 pm: Intermediate SPARQL part 2
3:30 pm to 4:00 pm: Tea break
4:00 pm to 6:00 pm: Tabernacle, Tools for Sheets, SQID
6:00 pm to 9:00 pm: free time (the meeting room should be open in this period so that we can practice things, of course this is optional)
9:00 pm: Dinner

16 December

Second day's event must end by 5:00 pm for logistical reason, as some of you would have flights in the evening, so starting a little early at 9:00 am might help

9:00 am to 11:00 am: Data Massaging 1: Introduction to OpenRefine
11:00 am to 11:30 am: tea break
11:30 am to 1:30 pm: Mix'n'Match and its automatic scrapers
1:30 pm to 2:30 pm: Lunch
2:30 pm to 4:30 pm: Wikidata in India: future
4:30 pm to 5:00 pm: tea break, group photo, farewells.

FAQ

Will travel and accommodation be taken care of?

Answer: Yes

How many participants would you select?

Answer: Around 8, as of now

Can I join for 1 day, instead of all the days?

Partial participation is not possible.

I am not in India now, may I join?

This is an event for Indian Wikimedians, for budget constraint we can't do this.

Support and safety

Suggested Wikimedia Foundation Support and Safety and Friendly space policies guidelines will be followed