A wikidata workshop organised at SUPSI in Switzerland 6-9 February 2017. This workshop is developed in the frame of the project Wikipedia Primary School.
Overall question How to identify knowledge gaps on the Wikimedia projects?
which knowledge is missing on the wikimedia projects from Africa?
which knowledge is missing from the South African primary school curriculum (please refer to our selection of articles/topics)?
Hypothesis
Wikidata is the best tool to trace what is available on the wikimedia projects.
By comparing data from wikidata and other data it is possible to define the knowledge gaps on the wikimedia projects.
Outcome Visualisation of a knowledge gaps in the wikimedia projects.
Skills to gain during the workshop:
uploading content on Wikidata
extrapolating data from Wikidata
confronting data from Wikidata and other databases
visualizations based on Wikidata
Visualizing Knowledge Gaps - SUPSI workshop on Wikidata - Lefleat Comparison between people born in Africa and Europe with an article on Wikipedia Women born in Africa with an article on Wikipedia according to Wikidata
Location
Atelier of Master of Advanced Studies in Interaction Design, Building A, level -1.
University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland SUPSI
Campus Trevano, Canobbio, Switzerland
Contacts
Leading the workshop: Dr. Serena Cangiano, Giovanni Profeta
Participants: Marco Lurati, Fabian Frei, Giovanni Profeta, Dr. Iolanda Pensa, Florence Devouard (online), Michele Mauri (Tuesday).
Thanks for the Wikidata Q&A to Jens Ohlig, Software Communication Strategist, Wikimedia Deutschland.
Thanks for the workshop at the museum to Ilario Valdelli, community manager Wikimedia CH.
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch with Ilario Valdelli to plan the Wikipedia workshop Thursday 9 February at the Natural History Museum of Lugano - promoted by Wikimedia CH and SUPSI in the frame of a project of the Laboratory of visual culture
13:30 - 16:30 Q&A wikidata Berlin session with Jens Ohlig (Wikimedia Deutschland, Software Communication Strategist)
9:00 - 11:00 Making or refinement (at the same time workshop of Ilario Valdelli at the Natural History Museum of Lugano - promoted by Wikimedia CH and SUPSI in the frame of a project of the Laboratory of visual culture)
11:00 - 12:30 Presentation
14:00 - 17:00 Refinement, documentation and reporting.
Open Archival Data Hackathon will take place on 9 June 2016 at the State Archives of the Canton of Zurich (Winterthurerstrasse 170). http://make.opendata.ch/wiki/glam:2017-06
Tutorial by Asaf Bartov
3-hour Wikidata tutorial. It covers what Wikidata is (00:00), how to contribute new data to Wikidata (1:09:34), how to create an entirely new item on Wikidata (1:27:07), how to embed data from Wikidata into pages on other wikis (1:52:54), tools like the Wikidata Game (1:39:20), Article Placeholder (2:01:01), Reasonator (2:54:15) and Mix-and-match (2:57:05), and how to query Wikidata (including SPARQL examples) (starting 2:05:05).
